http://mcgrail.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:48:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear Readers! For this semester, my ongoing reflection on literacy and technology connections has been posted on my two course blogs: EDRD 7360 and EDRD 8550. Please visit these blogs and join our conversations. http://mcgrail.edublogs.org/2007/02/25/blogs-to-visit/ In a recent article, Cuban argues that university professors are slow in adapting 1-1 laptop technology in creative and innovative ways as appropriate for the content they teach. More specifically, he reports that higher education faculty tends to use a wide range of technologies for productivity purposes, such as preparing ... http://mcgrail.edublogs.org/2006/11/29/technology-integration-in-higher-education/ In exploring the potential of educational blogs for the classroom use with pre-service teachers in one of my methods courses, I have recently noticed a difference in the perceptions of the role and functions of blogs in educational settings that my students and I have. While I see educational blogs ... http://mcgrail.edublogs.org/2006/09/30/writing-on-educational-blogs/ Today more and more students use certain nascent technologies, such as the Internet, gaming software, video conferencing, web pages and weweblogs (“blogs”) to communicate and read and write, both at home, and in outside-school settings. The challenge for us teacher educators – who are technological “immigrants”—is to provide our younger, ... http://mcgrail.edublogs.org/2006/08/10/hello-world/