Last December, I announced my contribution to Part I of the Technology & Social Media (Special Issue) of in education journal. I am now pleased to announce that Part II of this Special Issue is now available, featuring nine academic articles and an edited book review. Acknowledgments are made in the Editorial, but I do want to thank, once again, all of those individuals (e.g., editors, reviewers, authors, readers) who helped make this issue a success.
Jordan (a former student of mine) and I were briefly interviewed for a short CBC piece about Twitter. It is interesting to see the increased interest in the service by mainstream media, especially in the past several months.
Additionally, here’s an older piece from the CBC (March 2002) that discussed the implementation of highspeed Internet in every Saskatchewan school (was quite a big deal at the time). While there is a shared focus in the two pieces around connectivity, there is certainly a shift in what this means. In 2002, the focus here was in retrieving content/information. Now, the focus is much more on establishing human connections and social interactivity.
– @pcwoessner sent me to David Jakes’ excellent Digital Storytelling resources.
– @CherylDoig offered Jason Ohler’s resources.
– @lloydcrew sent me to the Images4Education site, and a great article by Bryan Alexander and Alan Levine.
– @cheritoledo offered a link to the Center for Digital Storytelling.
– @clintlalonde sent me to his long list of Delicious bookmarks tagged as digitalstorytelling.
– @plowenthal linked to a techheds podcast on digital storytelling.
– @sammora sent me to the resources at Montclair Public schools and their digital authoring initiative.
– @MagistraM led me to Langwitches blog and the various resources offered there.
– @bcdtech offered her Diigo list/digital storytelling category.
– @jorech sent me his Wikispaces page with a long list of resources.
– @shyj offered her list of Delicious bookmarks tagged on the subject.
– @barbaram sent Krystal her wiki of resources on storytelling and other activities.
– MtnLaurel offered her Diigo collections of resources.
Again, sorry if I missed anyone or screwed up any of the links. Do let me know.
This is one of my favourite uses of Twitter. Through the generosity of educators, it can be easy to gather a substantial list of educator-recommended resources on topics like this. And, I’m happy that through this post, I can give back a little to my network.