BLOGS, WIKIS, PODCASTS, AND OTHER POWERFUL WEB TOOLS FOR CLASSROOMS (THIRD EDITION) - BOOK REVIEW

Authors

  • Ricardo Merante PhD researcher, Department of Information Studies, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v0i0.4

Keywords:

blogs, wikis, podcasts, web tools

Abstract

Will Richardson graduated as Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Ohio University, Athens, OH in 1980 and Master of Arts (Teaching), College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, in 1983. He is a very active presence on the web; he has both a Twitter and YouTube channel and a highly ranked edublog on Weblogg-ed. Richardson is now an independent presenter and owner of Connective Learning, LLC. He promotes the implementation of Read/Write technologies in K-12 classrooms. He is also an advocate for school reform which encourages the integration of technology in learning. He was also recently named to the National Advisory Board for the George Lucas Education Foundation. Along with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, he is co-owner of Powerful Learning Practice, a company that delivers job-embedded, year-long professional development to schools worldwide around the pedagogies of Web 2.0 tools. District Administration magazine publishes a quarterly column by Richardson titled The Online Edge. Will Richardson has been part of a panel presentation at the 2006 Milken Global Conference and has given presentations all over the world.

 

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References

Will Richardson, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (Third Edition), Corwin, 2010

Corwin http://www.corwin.com/books/Book234187#tabview=title

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Richardson

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Published

2017-03-16

Issue

Vol 1, No 1 (2015)

Section

Book reviews

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