Baltimore Orioles in Educ. Technology
Nov 22nd, 2006 by Mr. Higgins
The Basic/Advanced Training Keynote by Alan Levine at the K12 Online Conference was an open box to me because it didn’t send a message to me, it made me click on the links contained on the keynote post. Is this a bad thing? Absolutely not, because I realized the power of tools like SlideShare, Writely, and Flickr. The idea of a thin client Web 2.0 machine is beyond the scope of many people, but I can officially envision this happening. I imagine that space and bandwidth would be the issue. There would still be a need for those systems based applications; however, education could adopt thin clients for the students and have them link to local network storage.
If a student wanted to write a paper on the Baltimore Orioles, he or she could log onto writely or any other online word processing website. Once done with the assignment, the student could then submit the work online to the teacher or post on their blog. The teacher could then keep a bloglines or deli.cio.us account that allows for easy access of this content. This is something that administrators don’t have a concept of because content filtering is more important in their eyes.
