Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged netvibes
Celebrating Teachers – Jim Fitzgerald
Apr 24th
As I mentioned in my last post what I love about this COETAIL program is it allows me to see education across the grade levels.
Earlier this week I was in Jim Fitzgerald’s Higher Level Year 1 IB English Class (11th Graders), where students were working on a Semester Long Unit on Ekphrasis.
Students are using their blogs as a way to document their learning (creating e-portfolios). We have a few teachers in the high school using blogs with students and I had an opportunity yesterday to chat with them in Mr. Fitz’s class about their blogs.
You have to love an English teacher who More >
A Portal to Media Literacy
Aug 21st
Watched this video from Michael Wesch today….suggest you do the same.
Netvibes.com in the classroom
Aug 19th
Netvibes.com has been my aggregator of choice for years now. So much so that thinking of changing to another platform at this point makes my head spin. I’ve tried Pageflakes.com for a time and even Google Reader/ iGoogle. To each their own and I’m obviously a netvibes guy. Last summer I wrote a post comparing different aggregators as I was thinking there might be something better.
Today thought I wanted to take Netvibes one step farther. While in Shanghai the 5th grade teachers there set every student up with an account and was able to push content to them by sharing whole tabs of More >
The wheels are spinning at SAS
Apr 16th
We all know what happens when you get administrators that understand this Web 2.0 stuff. Shift happens!
Andy Torris a good friend of mine, fellow Gourmet Geek, and oh yeah Deputy Superintendent at our school has the wheels a spinning on what Web 2.0 can mean for a school community.
We had a great conversation starter today. What Andy and I really need is a day or two to talk through how this stuff will/can work….and we both believe it can.
“I know there is power in Twitter!” he says has he starts talking about the Twitter account he set up for our school. We have some More >
My aggregator of choice
Jul 9th
Pat Kennedy left a comment yesterday on the RSS in Plain English post.
Which aggregator is conducive to a classroom environment Bloglines or Google Reader? Organizing feeds by disciplines is important to me. Are they advertisement free?
There are a lot of great aggregators out there finding one that is right for you and your students is like shopping for a computer. You need to check out the options and see which one ‘fits’
Bloglines: A great ad free RSS reader. Easy to use and set up and I believe the easiest place to get people started when first learning about aggregators and RSS. More >
