Web Sightings for June 2009

Here are 10 sites that caught my attention this past couple weeks:

1. Edutopia’s Digital Generation Project presents several video portraits of young students from around the U.S. who are using digital media to learn, communicate, and socialize in new and exciting ways (See  below).  There are also videos featuring Howard Gardner, Henry Jenkins, and other leaders . . . → Read More: Web Sightings for June 2009

Blueberries & The Florida Highwaymen

It was a beautiful Sunday here in North Florida today and I spent part of it on two short excursions: one to pick a bucket of blueberries at a nearly organic blueberry patch with my wife Sue, and the other to visit a local art fair where I stopped by a tent featuring work by some . . . → Read More: Blueberries & The Florida Highwaymen

Instructables – a Collaborative “How-to” Site

The tutorial is a very popular format for delivering instructional content over the Web. Online tutorials come in many forms, from simple text-based lessons with visual illustrations to those that use multimedia features to present material and actively engage the learner. Instructables.com, from the people at Squid Labs, is an example of the former.

If . . . → Read More: Instructables – a Collaborative “How-to” Site

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