"Hi Jonathan, thanks very much for sharing your link.
I have a couple of colleagues in the newest school in our district who are looking at purchasing a class set of iPod Touches (or more) for their school. I've been funnelling all the research…"
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Best Tech For Listening Centers?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Alexander (Sandy) McDonald Feb 4, 2010. 5 Replies 0 Likes
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Alexander (Sandy) McDonald replied to Alexander (Sandy) McDonald's discussion Best Tech For Listening Centers?Alexander (Sandy) McDonald replied to Alexander (Sandy) McDonald's discussion Best Tech For Listening Centers?"That is a great point Janine, thanks for the reply.
Personally, I believe the future, at least for secondary school, is student-owned devices. Until then however, matching what is used in the class to what is used at home makes pretty good sense to…"
Jonathan Wylie replied to Alexander (Sandy) McDonald's discussion Best Tech For Listening Centers?"You may like this article I wrote on The Advantages of Using an iPod Touch in the Classroom for Education"
Janine replied to Alexander (Sandy) McDonald's discussion Best Tech For Listening Centers?"I have found that when you match up with technology the kids have access to outside of school, the potential for change, growth, extended learning, and some real benefits to mobile technology seems to expand exponentially. Changing your system would…"
Alexander (Sandy) McDonald replied to Alexander (Sandy) McDonald's discussion Best Tech For Listening Centers?"Perhaps answering my own question a bit....but here are some options I found.
mp3 listening center:
https://www.schooloutfitters.com/catalog/product_info/pfam_id/PFAM3814/products_id/PRO11498
cd/cassette listening…"
Alexander (Sandy) McDonald posted a discussionBest Tech For Listening Centers?
Hello everyone! I was approached by a teacher in another school who is considering purchasing a number of iPods, or similar devices, to distribute through their K-6 school for classroom teachers to use as listening centers. Her idea would be to install audio files to accompany the books kids are reading. I'm not sure that is the best technology available, as we use the Califone listening centers and CDs which are fairly robust, not prone to walk off, etc. We also make use of the internet at…See More
Alexander (Sandy) McDonald commented on Glen Westbroek's blog post Using Wordle Effectively"These are great strategies for using Wordle, thanks for sharing them. Here are a few I've used and/or seen:
1. Two years ago I was the first principal of a new K-9 school. We had no time as a staff, and did not know our students/parents,…"
Alexander (Sandy) McDonald replied to Scott Schaeffer's discussion Email and Free Web 2.0 tools"I try to avoid anything where it is mandatory kids sign up using an account or enter their email address. There have been occasions where I needed an individual student to use an account-based 2.0 application. In those instances, I logged them in…"
Alexander (Sandy) McDonald replied to Jan Mostert's discussion Mobile"Whoops, sorry Jan, just remembered about this other thread on the topic of cell phones in class. Check this thread out: http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/cell-phones-in-the-classroom-2
Cheers
Sandy"
Alexander (Sandy) McDonald replied to Jan Mostert's discussion Mobile"Hi Jan.
I can think of two ways off the top of my head...
ONE - If you have a twitter account, and the students can access and subscribe, on their mobile they can follow you when you tweet what the day's homework is.
TWO - if you let the…"
Alexander (Sandy) McDonald replied to Rachel Rolfsmeier's discussion Reading Levels. How do you find them?"In our district most schools use guided reading resources and techniques to develop reading skills in our elementary students. For assessing their reading we use the DRA (developmental Reading Assessment) but are more and more moving over to the…"
Alexander (Sandy) McDonald replied to Steve Hargadon's discussion Introductions"Hi! I'm new and currently find myself fascinated by the concept of CHANGE in our educational system. It is easy to see the impact emerging technologies are having on all aspects of society outside of school. It is not so easy to see how we are…"
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