Digital Story Telling

This is probably my favorite discovery so far.  I an guarantee that my students will read any comic strip I put in front of them.  I cannot make the same claim about an article, so the power of this means of communication is very real.  I look forward to finding my first opportunity to use these.

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RSS Feeds

Being a heavy Google user, I used to have a Google Reader profile.  However, it was discontinued so I checked out the Feedy.com offering and am generally happy with the way it displays my feeds.   Although I can see the power of having all your news and feeds in one place, I still prefer to subscribe via email to any website I wish to follow.

Wiki's

Here is a link to my Wiki.  Wiki's can be very helpful for collaboration and are much more efficient than email except that there's no push-notification.  There's not a clean way to notify all users thatsomething has been edited.  Actually, you can set it up to notify everyone when something is edited, but then you get over-notified.  Another challenge is buy-in.  You've got to make sure that all planning members understand the technology and are willing to keep in the discussion.

Additional Web 2 Resources

I recently used CrocDoc to peer edit the program for my Senior recital.  I would never have found all these corrections.  The final project was spotless due to crowd sourcing the editing.

Web 2.0 Applications

My Delicious Acount

A sample Google Doc of mine