Eric’s started a great discussion on creating a "killer EdApp." Be sure to follow along in the comments — some smart folks are chiming in over there. If you’re into PLE or CMS, you should certainly HOO (head on over). We sure can acronymize, can’t we, fellow educators?
As for me, I don’t want one killer app. There’re a bunch of things that I want to do (and that I want my students to do), and I’ve found that the better a tool gets at doing everything, the less useful it is at doing some things. Moodle‘s great for assignments and forums. But its wiki’s weak, and so is the blog. But Elgg‘s great for blogging, and Drupal‘s not bad.
One big strength of RSS and XML and the coming Semantic Web is the ability to personalize content. One of the hardest things about teaching is finding the line between individual expression and centralized standardization.
Why recreate the classroom when we don’t have to?
I want options, not one tool for everyone. #
Bud the Teacher
Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
There are so many cool tools out there at our fingertips now & every time you go back to them they have new features. What to use – decisions, decisions. I sometimes think if i knew when i started out what i know now what tools would i choose to use? I know for sure it wouldn’t be one but a selection of the best. It is something that i could be fully occupied in just checking them all out. I’ve got stacks of things in delicious waiting for me to find the time to play with them. I did a presentation last week about my blog as my personal learning environment & i created a map of everything that sits in behind it or have used to support it in one way another & i was staggered when i put it all down. A heap of cool tools there – sure maybe a couple are blog bling you know who cares what i’m listening to or what the time is. Have a look – i challenge other edubloggers to undertake this exercise. Pass it on – tagged with cooltools
http://www.stratford-primary.school.nz/home/rachelj/bloggingon.htm
Sorry can’t work out how to make my link live…