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Mind Map: Pedagogía 2.0 - MindMeister

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Intense Debate

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Cómo utilizar RSS, consejos, utilidades y definiciones.

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Kazivu.com - Social video Bookmarking

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Second Brain - All Your Content

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Support Blogging! » Educational Blogging

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How to backup Google Docs and Spreadsheets ?

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Generation YES Blog

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Cbox · About · Free Tagboard and Chat Widget for your Site

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Dangers of Second Life
5 Replies

Interesting article about Second Life and the potential harm that may comes towards children. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca Continue

Started by David Kapuler. Last reply by Asher Idan 44 minutes ago.

Lost Generation - A great video for the classroom

I love the simplicity of this! Continue

Started by David Truss 48 minutes ago

SmartBoard or Promethean
23 Replies

Does anyone have experience with both Promethean and SmartBoard to compare the two? Our school has dipped a toe in the water and is wanting to go much deeper, therefore we're looking for further in... Continue

Tagged: promethean, iboards, smart

Started by Leigh Newton. Last reply by Danny Nicholson 1 hour ago.

Let's share links to our blogs!
183 Replies

I recently came across a few long-standing blogs that never crossed my path during my Google searches, and I was thinking that a Classroom 2.0 discussion about blog-sharing might be helpful, since ... Continue

Tagged: blog, sharing, networking, blogging, collaborating

Started by Lynn Marentette. Last reply by David Truss 1 hour ago.

Making Youtube Videos Clearer

I wrote this blog entry (at TeachEng.Us) about how to make you tube videos clearer by adding html code at the end of the url. I have found it helpful for classroom purposes. Ben Davis Continue

Tagged: blog, technology

Started by Ben Davis 3 hours ago

Writers Needed at TeachEng.us (lifehacker for teachers)

As I have mentioned before, I would welcome anyone who might be interested in contributing ideas about writing in the classroom to TeachEng.Us. The site, as I have visioned, is supposed to be a lif... Continue

Tagged: blog, lesson, writing, teaching, plans

Started by Ben Davis 3 hours ago

Looking for a website...

A few months ago, I found a website that showed Spanish langugage newspapers, but as you hover with the pointer, definitions of words would pop up over the text. I guess I didn't bookmark the site,... Continue

Tagged: translation, spanish, materials, resources, web

Started by Amy Lenord 5 hours ago

Book Recommendations for Gifted Readers 4-6
17 Replies

I noticed the book recommendation discussion posted by Carolyn Foote so I thought I'd throw out another challenge---I need novels for gifted readers (grades 4-6; reading levels 7-12+) There are sev... Continue

Tagged: books, gifted, elementary

Started by Nancy Bosch. Last reply by ddeubel 5 hours ago.

REAL Web 2.0 -- Voice / Video Connecting
4 Replies

I'm a big proponent of using voice technology to foster language learning. Much more effective, in this multi modal format than the quiet self reflective reading/memorizing. Also a great way for st... Continue

Tagged: chat, language, conferencing, efl, video

Started by ddeubel. Last reply by ddeubel 5 hours ago.

A Song for Students: 'Not on the Test'
8 Replies

I'm curious what your thoughts are on the "Not on the Test" song? Do you think our focus on standardized testing is causing our brightest students not to "think?" Continue

Started by CC Long. Last reply by Kate 7 hours ago.

Smartboard or Promethean Whiteboard
8 Replies

I was recently reading another posting that mentioned the Promethean board. What is the difference between them and which is easier to use? Thanks for the help.

Started by Kate. Last reply by Brett Graham 10 hours ago.

Mandate Against Professional Blog URLs in Email Signature
19 Replies

Apparently I prompted a mandate by the NYC DOE that no employee can have their blog url in their email signature. I find this particularly upsetting because as the PD manager for the Office of Inst... Continue

Tagged: bloggging, administration, aup

Started by Lisa Nielsen. Last reply by Sylvia Martinez 11 hours ago.

Faculty Meetings
27 Replies

How important, would you say, is incorporating Web 2.0 tools into monthly faculty meetings? My gut says that we should practice what we preach, (if that is what we are preaching) but I sometimes st... Continue

Tagged: education, meetings, web, 2.0, faculty

Started by Brad Davis. Last reply by David Colon 11 hours ago.

Help needed for videocasting
6 Replies

I am new to audio/video podcasting and I am looking for editing software. We use PCs. What are you using? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tagged: podcasting, software, editing

Started by Scott Wagner. Last reply by Maryanne Burgos 13 hours ago.

finding more wikis
9 Replies

Hi- Right now I am college to be a schoolteacher .I just did my first Wiki not that long ago for a class. I thought that it was a great idea. I have never heard of Wikis before this. Does anyone kn... Continue

Started by Rachel Alpern. Last reply by Maryanne Burgos 13 hours ago.

K-8 Computer Lab Teachers
165 Replies

Hello. I am not sure if there is a discussion out there for computer lab teachers yet. If not, I would like to start one so we can bounce ideas and resources off each other. I spent my first year t... Continue

Tagged: lab, computer, labs

Started by Jeremiah Olson. Last reply by Ruth Glenboski 16 hours ago.

What sites/apps does your school block?
1 Reply

Currently, our school is pretty much wide open to what the students can do at school with their personal laptops or on school computers. They chat (often in class), download music, movies and video... Continue

Started by Derwin Kitch. Last reply by CC Long 16 hours ago.

Looking for other high school classrooms to participate...
1 Reply

My students have just started their Be the Change Blogging Project. We are looking for other high school students to visit and/or comment. We would be glad to reciprocate on any blogging projects y... Continue

Tagged: blogging, blogs

Started by J Black. Last reply by Annabel Harris 1 day ago.

Note Taking Software
1 Reply

I am looking for a good note taking program to replace Microsoft One Note. I love One Note and use it all the time. I just got the Asus EeePC and it runs on Linux. I want a note taking program that... Continue

Tagged: note, eeepc, basket, taking, linux

Started by Minda Pengelly. Last reply by Paul Anderson 1 day ago.

Community Service Video

The district I work for has academic teams that participate in the Future Problem Solving International (FPSI) program. One category of the competition is Community Service and our 5th-grade team w... Continue

Tagged: comminity, exercise, education, service, pe

Started by MMaxwell 1 day ago

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Blog Posts

Not just for Robots

Hi guys this will be my Robotics page.

Posted by Roxan Cosico on May 11th, 2008 at 9:10pm — No Comments (Add)

Content vs Stuff that actually matters

Is it important to know stuff? Of course it is but how does knowing stuff help when looking through thousands of lines of computer code because a program crashes without any error messages? How can knowing stuff help you manage a financial crisis at your company? If I read Shakespeare, will that allow me to work effectively in a team to brainstorm ideas to improve productivity of my company's manufacturing line? By the way, two of the members live in China and one lives in Europe and we collabo… Continue

Posted by Thomas Gaffey on May 11th, 2008 at 6:24pm — No Comments (Add)

Coming Soon to the Teacher Toolbar

The newest additions to the Teacher Toolbar include: Number Nut Microsoft PopFly game creator Zoeybot a kid safe search engine

Posted by Ellen on May 11th, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Digital immigrants or digital natives? A discussion of digital competence… A spectrum, not a dichotomy!

My new Classroom2.0 friend Jan Smith commented on my recent blog (re)post and I thought I would add the post here since it was a Classroom2.0 discussion that prompted the post in the first place: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Amy Capelle has started a very in… Continue

Posted by David Truss on May 11th, 2008 at 12:38pm — No Comments (Add)

A Content Portal is Born – MOFET JTEC

Last week a project that I have been working on for the last few months went live - The MOFET JTEC Portal - a professional content portal for all those involved in Jewish education in Israel and the Diaspora.

The MOFET JTEC Portal is a user… Continue

Posted by Reuven Werber on May 11th, 2008 at 4:00am — No Comments (Add)

Mother's Day

Thanks to Classroom 2.0, I added Voicethread to my list of options in creating Mother's Day greetings this year. Students drew an image in Kid Pix, saved it as a jpeg and put it into the shared folder. Then we put the images into voicethread and each child recorded a mother's day greeting. Mothers were given the URL to the voicethread and invited to comment on their child's work. To include a sample of the voicethr… Continue

Posted by Lorraine on May 10th, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments (Add)

The Future (of Education) Is Now (For Some)

Intrepid Flame says things I think:
How can we slowly encourage people (teachers) to understand that the future is here with a sense of urgency, but at the same time not allow them to become defensive?
This is almost exactly the point of this blog and Another Brick In The Wall.

Posted by Andrew on May 9th, 2008 at 2:20pm — No Comments (Add)

My UGA Instructional Design Graduate Studio Term Web Project - Alternative Energy

Please everyone have a look at my Alternative Energy website and Studio Term project. I'm grad student in Instructional Design (M.E.D.) Program at Univ. of Georgia at Athens. http://fredzidd.myweb.uga.edu/EDIT/6190/project/ I'm working on adding wiki/blog link to the site over the summer (section ideas, and topics suggestions solicited). Fred Z.

Posted by Fred Zimmerman on May 9th, 2008 at 7:18am — No Comments (Add)

Where to start with web2.0

I was asked to present at a conference for regional teachers in SW Victoria, Australia today. The conference was called "It is a digital thing" and was held at Deakin University in Warrnambool. My topic was 'where to start with web2.0' so I am sharing the powerpoint presentation that I spoke along to, for any interested parties. Please note that these are my personal opinions and based on my relatively brief experience in its use.
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Posted by Anne Mirtschin on May 9th, 2008 at 2:53am — 2 Comments (Add)

Another one!

this is my second test for today!

Posted by Jess McCulloch on May 8th, 2008 at 7:26pm — 3 Comments (Add)

 
 

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