Came back from vacation down to Yellowstone last night. A big thanks to Wes for guestblogging. As expected, he did an outstanding job and of course manage to post some great stuff. Looking back at our holiday, there were a number of ways technology was used to create a better vacation. Wiki. We travelled with another family and used a wiki to plan out the details....

I am becoming convinced that all, or at least most, of the professional development sessions we participate in as educators and share with others should be organized via linked wikis. Dean did a great job modeling this last month in his multi-day digital storytelling workshop. I attempted this in June when I shared several workshops with teachers in College Station,...

Tim Wilson discovers a wikipedia citing tool. As with http://citationmachine.net/, wikipedia offers many formats and flavours for your choosing. Here’s an example for Moose Jaw: Bibliographic details for “Moose Jaw” Page name: Moose Jaw Author: Wikipedia contributors Publisher: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Date of last revision: 10 March 2004...

I’ve set up my wiki for my digital storytelling workshop on Monday and Tuesday. I really struggled with the format, the tools and the pedagogical approach. The format: How many activities/projects can be done in 2 days? I know many workshops will focus totally on one project. They’ll spend much of day one setting the stage for digital storytelling and...

My workshop which I’ll be delivering on Monday, is now posted as a wiki. It’s not exactly the way I want it but I hope my participants will help shape it up.  Feel free to make any changes or suggestions.

This NY Time article explains why wikipedia has chosen to protect some 82 articles and semi-protect another 179. Essentially in response to constant vandalism and disputes. I like they way they handle things and have stated these articles will not always stay protected. Seems a bit like taking the ball away from kids at recess when they’re not playing nice....