[LM_NET] June FNO - The Biography Maker 2.0

[Jamie McKenzie <fromnowon@EARTHLINK.NET>]

 From Now On
The Educational Technology Journal
Vol 14|No 5|June|2005

This month's full issue can be found for free on line
at http://fno.org There are two articles and a cartoon.

1. Questions of Import: Introducing Biography Maker 2.0
By Jamie McKenzie
http://fno.org/jun05/bio.html (Full text below.)

McKenzie demonstrates how this newly revised online resource
can convert trivial pursuit and mere fact gathering into research that
matters. Biography Maker is at http://fno.org/bio/biomaker.htm

2. Singular Displeasure:
Technology, Literacy and Semantic Power Plays
By Jamie McKenzie
http://fno.org/jun05/singular.html

McKenzie argues that the use of the singular narrows the menu and
steers purchasing as well as curriculum development in directions that
may be more profitable for politicians and business leaders than for
students and schools. He urges us to consider technologies and
literacies instead.

3. The June Cartoon: How Many Smart Boards?
How many smart boards does it take to change
a light bulb?
http://fno.org/jun05/juncartoon.html

Joining a long list of tools and toys that vendors have claimed
will transform learning and classrooms, Smart Boards are all the
rage with visionaries while many teachers are still figuring out
what good are the toys of the previous decade.



Jamie McKenzie
Editor, From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal
http://fno.org
Editor, The Question Mark
http://questioning.org
mckenzie@fno.org
360-647-8759
500 15th Street
Bellingham, WA 98225

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