A Great Read

I have to be honest and say that I was overwhelmed at the amount of online content I found on Blogs and their use in schools as educational tools. I started my online investigation and quickly pasted many hours reading and found I had come out with new knowledge but no hard copy. I have a bad habit of logging too many hours searching and investigating things on the web, if I don't put in to practice the things I have learned quickly I forget them and next week or month will again log huge hours investigating the same topic. So I decided to go old school and visited the book store. I picked up a great book titled Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for the Classroom

written by Will Richardson. This book is an easy read (I read half of it in emergency with my sick 2 year old, and the other half in emergency two days later with my sick baby...). Richardson is able to demystify words like "blog", "wiki" and "aggregator". The book guides you through how Web tools can generate exciting new learning formats, and explains how to apply these tools in the classroom to engage all students.