I hope all is well. So, here’s the question: How can we use Magopop effectively to promote critical thinking about important ideas. I’d love to get involved in some collaborative projects to develop high quality activities using tools like Magopop to promote high quality learning while at the same time enabling students to fulfill standards.

Check out my new “Living Textbook” which will be continuously added to: http://www.Pass-Ed.com/about.html

http://www.togmag.com

It enables you to create a mini-magazine consisting of up to six screen of text, photos, audio or video. These magazines can be downloaded to a cell phone for the price of a multimedia download. Your cell phone must be java enabled. Unfortunately, the site has just made the news here in the UK, as a teacher overheard students discussing a video download on “how to make a joint” available from the site. Although this has now been removed, the site has already been put on the banned list for many schools, despite the fact that you cannot view the downloads on the site, only create them. I’ve recently blogged on this story, see:
http://advisorymatters.naaceblogs.org/2006/12/21/tocmag-or-not-tocmag/

Unfortunately, Tocmag does not have an ‘education’ category to tag downloads – perhaps there should be one to redeem itself?

Je suis un partisan du M-learning. L’idée d’apprendre où que l’on soit me séduit. Il suffit d’un peu d’imagination pour trouver des endroits plus agréables qu’un banc d’école. La technologie, à commencer par le livre, a toujours cherché …

Here’s to looking into the future… Happy Holidays everyone!