Comments for Web 2.0 edu http://web20edu.com Enhancing education with technology Fri, 11 May 2012 16:55:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Presenting student video projects without a headache by Kristi Lonheim (@lonheim) http://web20edu.com/2012/05/10/presenting-student-video-projects-without-a-headache/#comment-834 Fri, 11 May 2012 16:55:58 +0000 http://web20edu.com/?p=1336#comment-834 Some nice adapting. Glad you were able to see them all. I have used the watch through the webcam trick before. I will remember the QuickTime fix. Thanks!

]]> Comment on 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects by mrkaiser208 http://web20edu.com/2011/04/16/fake-facebook-templates-and-pages-for-student-projects/#comment-820 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:37:49 +0000 http://web20edu.com/?p=869#comment-820 I used Myfakewall with few classes, but I never did get it to work properly. A better bet, even with a few problems in the recent past, would be to use Fakebook.

]]> Comment on 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects by EM http://web20edu.com/2011/04/16/fake-facebook-templates-and-pages-for-student-projects/#comment-818 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:15:21 +0000 http://web20edu.com/?p=869#comment-818 Anyone know how to contact Myfakewall? I can’t upload pictures and can’t contact them because the code (so i’m not a scammer) can’t be seen on any computer I’ve used. Thanks

]]> Comment on 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects by mrkaiser208 http://web20edu.com/2011/04/16/fake-facebook-templates-and-pages-for-student-projects/#comment-815 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:26:00 +0000 http://web20edu.com/?p=869#comment-815 I just checked the site this morning, and it looks to be running again. With online apps, you just have to go with the flow sometimes, especially on smaller sites that are run by smaller companies. Hope it works out so your classes can find their work.

]]> Comment on 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects by Belinda http://web20edu.com/2011/04/16/fake-facebook-templates-and-pages-for-student-projects/#comment-810 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:32:47 +0000 http://web20edu.com/?p=869#comment-810 Hmmm…ok maybe not! I checked the site this morning on my desktop and had access to them, but not when I checked on my laptop, which I usually use. :( A friend said something about my desktop’s cache???

]]> Comment on 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects by Belinda http://web20edu.com/2011/04/16/fake-facebook-templates-and-pages-for-student-projects/#comment-809 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:21:14 +0000 http://web20edu.com/?p=869#comment-809 Just checked the site…it’s back up and running!! Thank God! Even better, my students’ work is still there. I guess it was just a lapse of payment or something???

]]> Comment on 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects by mrkaiser208 http://web20edu.com/2011/04/16/fake-facebook-templates-and-pages-for-student-projects/#comment-808 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:17:34 +0000 http://web20edu.com/?p=869#comment-808 That is not good at all. I just presented this tool at a conference a week ago, and it was working great. I guess that is the problem with online apps. Sometimes they just don’t work. I have tried to contact the guy who made the Fakebook page, but I have never been able to get a hold of him. From the looks of it, he quit paying the company that was hosting the site, and the site was taken down.

You can still do similar projects. They just won’t be hosted online. Check out the other links in this post for some other resources.

]]> Comment on 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects by Belinda http://web20edu.com/2011/04/16/fake-facebook-templates-and-pages-for-student-projects/#comment-807 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:33:12 +0000 http://web20edu.com/?p=869#comment-807 So…anyone know what’s up w/Fakebook, well the classtools.net site? I had been using it w/my GT students. It was working fine yesterday, but today it says the site has been suspended. Too much to hope that it’s just some sort of Friday the 13th joke?

]]> Comment on 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects by dunaganbits http://web20edu.com/2011/04/16/fake-facebook-templates-and-pages-for-student-projects/#comment-799 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:29:28 +0000 http://web20edu.com/?p=869#comment-799 Reblogged this on dunaganbits and commented:
Great post Mr Kaiser 208. Thank you.

]]> Comment on Academic rigor vs. student engagement by mrkaiser208 http://web20edu.com/2012/04/02/academic-rigor-vs-student-engagement/#comment-765 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:02:51 +0000 http://web20edu.com/?p=1296#comment-765 Ashley,
I appreciate your comments. I agree that we can learn great things when we face “difficult, challenging, or uncomfortable” situations. However, do these situations have to make learners feel bad? At the end of these learning opportunities, students need to have a positive outlook on life. I fear that all to often, teachers think about how rigorous an activity is with little thought for the final outcome of the assignment. Sure, state standards have been met, but do the students come out of the assignment with an increased desire to learn? Too often, they do not. They finish an assignment never wanting to touch a book again.

Honestly, I am not against rigor. I am just trying to point out that we need to start looking at the purpose of what we do in the classroom. I like the word “engaging” because it connotes positive learning opportunities, hopefully opportunities that foster habits of life long learning.

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