For Teenagers Nationwide, It’s New York and It’s 1904. Inspired by a film about newsboys, girls weave web sites full of lodging houses and local color. [New York Times: Technology]
This is a such a cool socio-technical creation; another way to reinvent the past and focus our interest in it. Tim Berners-Lee could not have foreseen such things. I dug around and found several of the sites described (but not linked) in the article: Hemstead, Newsies: The Lodging House, and Carnegie Hill. Surely there’s a way to channel this energy towards educational goals?
Today was my scheduled session on Tapped In and as usual it took half the day to prepare. I’m getting smarter about these sessions, though, by trying to make sure that there’s some residue at the end that I can build on.
The topic was Tricks and Tools for Spiffier WebQuests and I used the opportunity to update some of the tools I’ve used in the past and add a few new ones. I organized the chat around this new page, and now I’ve got a place to store things like this as I encounter them in the future. I had a small but appreciative crowd for the session.
Tomorrow I’m off to Tyler, Texas.