Beverley E. Crane

Cran is an example of a writer in educational technology who focuses on enhancing teaching and learning through technology rather than standing back to admire the glitz or worship of the software or network potential. A good example is her first main chapter on blogging in the language arts. She introduces the tool, then demonstrates the process of using blogs in an I-Search project. She teaches not only podcasting, but how to use it in a history class studying immigrants and emigration. We learn how to create wikis to stimulate both individual and collaborative writing activities across the curriculum with a full chapter devoted to digital stoty-telling. She devotes a chapter to using various Google tools and another chapter on working with ELL students. We recommend this book for its usefulness. Each chapter can be used in a professional development session where teachers are introduced to a technology, but more importantly develop ways to use that technology in their classrooms to boost leering. For the intermediate user of web 2.0 tools, the value here is a range of ideas that may not have occurred to us before. Highly recommended.… (altro)