Last evening I had the fun time of interviewing 4 Virginia educators about their experience building the island in Second Life for the Virginia Society for Technology in Education. Within the video, I appear as Sebastien Lucero.

Watch the video here (Quicktime).

On Tuesday, May 5 from 6:30 PM onwards, Wikispaces is hosting a wiki webinar, led by a high school teacher in Alabama on how she uses a wiki in her classroom.

To participate in this free event, sign up. If you secure approval from me, I will award re-certification credit if you would like to participate on your own time. Leave a comment on this blog post once you have secured your Elluminate ticket number from the link above.

More than ever, we need to turn a critical eye to what we find online. The UCBerkeley system has some information that might help.

I always think back to hearing James Surowiecki speak at a NECC conference about his research for his book, the Wisdom of Crowds. There’s “intelligence” in looking at what the “hive mind” comes up with. That works towards our advantage when going online.

Websites that take multiple opinions are great because they put this power to work. The best advice I have for those who conduct online research (and who doesn’t?) is to look wide for your answers. When you find multiple sources pointing at the same or similiar answers, that’s a good sign. The question is: how many is enough?

I have put together a selection of summer classes focused on technology integration. You can find a list of descriptions and sign-up via our wiki. Our shortest class is a one-day session on adding multimedia content to your blog, and our longest session is a 9-week online class on Internet safety, copyright, and ethics.

I have also put together a “working policy” or guidelines for our technology classes in one place. This document outlines our 1-course requirement for teachers. If you have further questions, please let me know and I will add them to this document.

Newsweek had an interesting story about the U.S. Military using Apple’s iPhone OS for doing things like defusing bombs through iPhone-controlled robots and tracking video from drone airplanes.

Over the past month I’ve deployed three iPod touches to teachers in the county–as an experiment–to see what they could do with the device. We didn’t have the budget the Army had for deploying customized applications, but with all the thousands that are available, you’re bound to find something that you can use.