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Digital Abyss Still thinking about a new Blog title.......... However in my quest for a new title, I have been eFlipping through the top 100 educational blogs and came across this one : Information abyss – in the era of global education Are we as educators balancing on the edge?  I spend many an hour at home just going through the web finding resources, ideas, and internet hyper-activity, to enhance the teaching and learning experience of my classes, through Moodle, Wikispace, Google Sites, etc. I do wonder though sometimes, when I look at my students, they look at me and wish for a chalk-and-talk lesson....  I started my Wikispaces for my students of IB Design Technology because resources were woefully limited, and I wanted to allow the students to be able to recap and review their learning outside of the classroom. 4-5 years later I now continue updating the Wikispaces with over 100,000 hits a year, and also add new resources for our school's Moodle platform, which I helped

New Blog title: Still thinking......... Updating and combining my blogs in a hope to make it more managable. So now you can check out widgets, online software the main idea is to pass on anything I think might be usefull to fellow educators, and basically are free... or nearly. Here is a chance to look at some of the free software that I come across in my weekly trawl of the widgits and freebies. Using some original examples of work created using the software, and a brief synopsis of their main features you too can become an avid digital interfacer. Want to know the top 100 Educational Blogs http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs Wednesday's Widgits is being overhauled Here is a site for my fellow teachers who wonder what widgits are??? No worries they don't bite, Its a way of adding interactivity to your VLEs (that's Moodles or Wikis in more normal speak) Enjoy and try them out, include them in your interactive teaching materials. Let me know