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Yes, this does make much more sense. Thanks for explaining.
It sounds like it has potential, but you'd have to work closely with history teachers K-6 and 9-12 to make sure you aren't creating huge gaps in concepts that need to be taught, but aren't…
Dean... everyone on this site who has a personal blog is about to link it to this thread (no matter how good the blogs actually are!). Be ready for hundreds of replies!
Have the students already mastered the SKILL of taking notes with pencil and paper? You can't move to step 3 until you've reached step 2.
Also, the keyboard on an iPod Touch is fairly hard to get used to. Not all your students are going to be techy…
I think your ideas are noble. Redesigning a curriculum is an inspiring challenge. But at the same time, I'm not the kind of person who immediately jumps up and says, "Go for it - sounds great - don't let anyone tell you no!" like many of the people…
Use Screentoaster to capture your video/audio, then store it on their servers or download it to your computer for editing. You can also use Embedr to make video playlists for free.
Why blind copy the administration? I say put the admin right in the "To:" field. The parent should know that the there are others who are witnessing their stupidity.
I also recommend EasyBib... as long as you're using MLA style. I use it to help my 7th grade students with their research reports.
True... but the ratio of time spent finding the photos vs. the time spent dealing with the terminology is too heavy with the photos. Finding 8 letters in the context of their community would take a considerable amount of time for the average seconda…
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- At 3:30pm on January 16, 2009,
Steve Hargadon said… - Thanks for your note on the essay-writing spammer. I end up having to ban two or three of those guys/gals a week. What a pain. I missed that you, but have banned it now.
- At 1:56am on December 27, 2008,
Evan Morikawa said… - Hello,
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Evan Morikawa. I am a 20 year old student from Olin College of Engineering (near Boston). I am a part of a group of six Olin students who are taking a year off to pursue interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, which brought us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! I found you in a search for "middle school" on Classroom2.0, and since our project is specific to middle schools and uses new learning technology, I thought you might be interested. Our company is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. We hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, individualized learning, goal setting, reflection, and effective feedback and evaluation. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools and individual teachers will want to use to improve their students' learning in and out of the classroom.
Our team is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs.
Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, check out alightlearning.com, or do anything you like!
Thanks,
Evan Morikawa
evan.morikawa@students.olin.edu
- At 5:27pm on December 22, 2008,
Larry Ferlazzo said…
- Chris,
Thanks for the kind words! How should I describe you when I list your choice in my blog?
Larry
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