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We live in a world hurtling toward the future. While I was sleeping (focused on creating what I thought would be a cutting-edge middle school biotechnology curriculum) the world of education was being transformed by innovative collaborations of educators across the globe with:
- WikiSpaces allows teachers and students to collaborate on educational projects across the globe, an award-winning example is The Flat Classroom Project
- Edublogs provides teachers with a free blogspace. An examplary blog for keeping up with the latest instructional technologies is The Infinite Thinking Machine
- SlideShare allows you to share powerful educational presentations like the Shift Happens slide show shown above.
- Google Presentations allows multiple authors to create dynamic presentations online, A collaborative Google Presentation on Using Google Presentations
- DivShare provides unlimited storage for creating a repository of instructional multi-media.
- FlashMeeting is for video conferencing with other educators across the globe. This free web-based tool also automatically archives your conversations for asynchronous review.
The following is a TeacherTube video on the same topic. It contains the same content as the slideshow, but provides more thought provoking questions for teachers, parents and school administrators.
Download Video: Posted by mcleod at TeacherTube.com.
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