Awhile back I wrote about EtherPad, a web tool that allows for simultaneous, realtime text editing. At the time, accounts for the service were being restricted due to overwhelming popularity of the tool. I revisited the site recently while working with a group of educators and and was pleased to discover that accounts are not required anymore! They have made it so easy now that all you have to do is click a button and a [...]

You may have noticed a new link at the top of this blog – Videos. I recently created an account with YouTube and created a few playlists. Currently there are two choices if you mouse-over the Videos link. The first playlist will consist of videos that I find interesting or thought-provoking. The second list is a compilation of all the great videos created by the folks at commoncraft. I hope you enjoy the selections I [...]

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There are a lot of exciting things that can be done with Google Docs, and one of them is the ability to easily enter and share data for analysis and evaluation. Here is one simple example. Let’s say that we have a science lesson in which we ask students to measure the growth of plants. We first create a form in Google Docs to capture the desired data. Here is a sample form that students [...]