EastBaySchools.Net

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EastbaySchools.net is being created to support my research into the potential use of Open Source tools in K12. As the former editor of Web Techniques Magazine during the Internet boom, I've learned much about the interworkings of the Net, and wish to bring some of that expertise to the classroom. I've written a few editorials on Open Source, while at Web Techniques, and more recently, about the potential use of the net as an enabling tool. I am also a contributing author to O'Reilly's Programming PHP

A few projects that I am currently working on:

The Yollege.com social network for college kids
http://yollege.com
(How I spent my fall and winter 2008, wrestling drupal/panels2 into submission...)

Moodle sites for teachers in K12
http://moodle.eastbayschools.net

A google earth based collaborative authoring environment, including
video synchronization:

http://gearth.eastbayschools.net

A redesign of Canyon Middle School's web site, using Drupal as a

This paper was an exercise in website evaluation (Something we did, and wrote much about during the days of Web Techniques Magazine)

What makes this evaluation interesting (if at all), is the realization that it isn't so much the tools of Open Source projects, as much as the process, that can be of most benefit to K12 education.

While software developers have been quick to realize the potential of online collaboration as a powerful means of getting their work done, and have modelled the process in web sites that support open source projects, teachers are only beginning to realize this potential.

A presentation to California State University EastBay's master's of education technology EDUI 6200 on the use of Google Earth in K12 education.