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June 28, 2005
Don't Surf the Web, Serve the Web
Right now I'm sitting in on Tom March's NECC session. He's showing off some blogs created in classroom, with students having a more authentic learning experience by interacting with the online public. Quoting Al Rogers, he said, "Don't surf the Web, serve the Web." (Reminds me of Stephen Collins' old battle cry, Give Back to the Net.) Use Web tools to create student excitement alive, embracing authentic activities that can actually make a difference, like running an online news wire about child slavery or the extinction of frog species.
Tom's now showing how easy it was to buy a domain name for his son and setting up a space for him to create his own content. The site is scottyjensen.com - not sure if anything is live yet. Seems like a no, but maybe by the time you read this it'll be different.
It's a nice size crowd here - about 250 people. Not bad for a conference with more than 300 concurrent sessions over the next few days.
Posted by acarvin at June 28, 2005 09:24 AM
