It's still true that I have finished the More Things program.
Thanks to Ann at Metronet, I have functional access to Web Junction. I will explore and post.
Below is a link to Digital Generation: Educators. a blog dedicated to education and the electronic classroom. Vicki Davis is featured in the video at the top of the page. She's Cool Cat Teacher on her own electronic classroom blog. I follow her on Twitter, and I follow her blog posts via Google Reader. She's at the top of my list of favorites discovered via the More Things program.
The first item under Sage Advice gives the essence of what I think Web Junction does.
"My students have taught me a lot about technology, but one of the most important is that over use of one-on-one educational software can be drowning, isolating, and frustrating for them. They challenged me to continually seek for the perfect formula that takes advantage of the power of multimedia software but at the same time stimulates hands-on and collaborative learning, and develops their group and social skills."
Collaborative learning is the direction I would emphasize by taking Web Junction, and the More things on a Stick learning program, to the wider community. Keep the Web Junction itself for the professional library community, as Digital Generation has done for educators.
Collaboration between like-minded interests - libraries, historical societies, museums, artists, environmental educators, loggers, miners, meteorologists, supply chain management specialists. You name it, and there is a resource in the community that wants to participate.
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-educators
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