Web 2.0 Projects: A Call for Information

I am trying to get a handle on what sorts of projects people are doing with their classes. Some of this information may find its way into the new edition of Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web.

So, please take 5 minutes to complete this very simple form. Thanks!

In their own words: Coming of Age contributors talk about their chapters

Contributors to Coming of Age explain what they would like the reader to gain from reading their chapter(s).

There are some great nuggets of wisdom in these snippets of conversation. I have listened to this now several times, and each time I hear something I never heard before!

This is going to be added to, so watch this space.

Countdown to NECC: A podcast about Coming of Age 2.0

The trouble with Skype is that you just cannot get any work done, what with friends popping up all day and night. Still, it has its compensations. Last night Elaine and I had a great chat with Shawn Wheeler. We chatted about our house and where we live, and then I waxed lyrical about the forthcoming 2nd edition of the Coming of Age book. It is going to be published, I promise!

Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web, came out just over a year ago and was intended to help teachers who had heard about Web 2.0 stuff (blogging and all that) to dip their toe in the water. That edition consisted of about a dozen contributors and was downloaded at least 60,000 times (I stopped keeping track after that) and almost won an award. The 2nd edition is much expanded, and I give some details in this podcast.

If you missed the first edition, it's still available, it's still free, and it's still here: http://www.ictineducation.org/db/web2

If you'd like to keep up with the developments on this new edition, and maybe even read some previews, then join the Coming of Age community at http://comingofage.ning.com.

And if you're visiting NECC next week, then do stop by the Coming of Age poster session, where you'll be able to say "Hi" to Peggy George and myself, leave your business card or sign up to be sent more information, and say how much you loved the first edition by speaking into a microphone and contributing to a podcast .

There's also a Birds-of-a-feather session where you can say how you'd like the project to develop. I've already had some great ideas presented to me, and I myself am busy planning the next iteration (I must be a masochist!).