What’s your favorite children’s book (besides Harry Potter)? If you have a few minutes, please go to my new Vaestro channel and tell us about it.
Vaestro is a new, free, online service that lets anyone set up a channel where people can have an asynchronous voice discussion. You don’t need to sign in or subscribe; to leave a comment, just go there and take part. All you need is a microphone. I just used the tiny pin hole microphone on my iBook and it worked quite well.
To add your comment, click on the reply button, then click the record button and start talking. Don’t worry; you get to listen to your recording before it is posted. It is up to you to delete or approve it.
If you experience technical difficulties, anything from the site being blocked by your school’s filters to the URL not working, please post me a comment here. I’m asking all of your to be my guinea pigs before I release the link to my students. Thanks for you assistance.
Hi Susan
I found your blog today and I was suprised to see that teachers are so much into web technology (especially the Web 2.0 technologies). I think it’s great that you and your colleagues make use of it. I remember my school days and we actually had a teacher back then who said (quote): “The Internet will go as fast as it came”. Well, I’d love to see that teacher again sometime…
Anyway, since you guys are familiar with web technologies I was wondering if you might be interested in Pageflakes. It’s a personalized start page (yes, I know, there are quite a few out there). However, it’s not just a start page for a single user but also for teams and groups. I thought it might be an interesting tool for you and your colleagues to create shared pages where you add note modules, tasks and todo lists, shared contacts, schedules and news feeds. It’s quite simple – just go to http://www.pageflakes.com, get a free account and then setup your own, personalized page. You can then either leave it in “private” mode, or change it to “shared” (invited teacher colleagues can use and edit it) or “publish” (everyone can see it, but only you can edit it).
Please feel free to contact me if you have any suggestions or questions. I look forward to hearing from you.
With best wishes and good luck in Singapore
Tegan Harris