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The idea of Green Schools has advanced so far beyond what we used to think of - recycling, turning off the lights, etc. Now we are looking more at the ideas of sustainability - cultural, social, economic, and resources. This opens up so many…
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Hope to see this group grow. Seems like an important topic. Been blogging about this for a while at www.ed4wb.org Am trying to get a class up at running at www.plearn.net (centered around sustainability issues) Cheers.
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I'm having issues with the link - has it moved?
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Kate Fanelli commented on J Harrington's blog post 'Teaching is suposed to be fun.....'
I know it's been a good day when kids complain that their heads hurt. I tell them "Good, that means you're learning something" or "Good, that means I'm doing my job." I liked your post. It gave me pause to think…
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Teaching is suposed to be fun.....

..... where has all the fun gone in teaching?My classes were rigorous .... I had the students working.....today these digital kids have so much energy ... I figured ou tthe hard way I have to use energy to my advantage or else they're a fast moving train that's 'bout to run me over.I was talking to a teacher friend the other day and we were reminiscing ...... we had both been reading and talking to other folks .... all we were hearing ....from many different sources .....was about the pain of…See More
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I have used this free resource in my biology class for the last three years. Students like it. They work using case studies to learn science concepts wand do it at their own pace. Set up a free account and view projects at WISE - http://wise-demo.berkeley.edu/.

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Teaching is suposed to be fun.....

Posted on March 26, 2009 at 10:19am 2 Comments

..... where has all the fun gone in teaching?



My classes were rigorous .... I had the students working.



....today these digital kids have so much energy ... I figured ou tthe hard way I have to use energy to my advantage or else they're a fast moving train that's 'bout to run me over.



I was talking to a teacher friend the other day and we were reminiscing ...... we had both been reading and talking to other folks .... all we were hearing ....from many different… Continue
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I am interested in working with all teachers to support them in using 21st century teaching methods and ideas to educate the digital learners in classrooms today. My web site is http://educationrebel.com and my blog is below. Thanks, Jack
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Okay to Bailout Wall Street but not K-12 Education - huh?

Posted on September 21, 2008 at 9:10pm 0 Comments

The news about covering the gushing wounds of greed on Wall Street is common news around the globe. Just how much are the taxpayers – you and me – going to pay in the name of stabilizing the financial markets?



"We're talking hundreds of billions of dollars - this needs to be big enough to make a real difference and get at the heart of the problem. "This is the way we stabilize the system." Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson



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At 9:02pm on January 16, 2009, JackJack said…
Hi J. I was wondering if you and your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to.

You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
At 8:23pm on December 27, 2008, Alyshia OlsenAlyshia Olsen said…
Hi,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'connecting content and technology' groun, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, 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. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

Our project, titled Alight Learning, 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.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com
At 8:33pm on December 8, 2008, Mark CruthersMark Cruthers said…
Hi J,

Wiziq is a virtual classroom that is pretty much a state-of-the-art virtual classroom. It is web based.

Cick on these links:

Wiziq virtual classroom

about Wiziq

Wiziq's blog

I also recommend you take a look at authorstream's web based power point presentation platform.
At 2:26pm on December 6, 2008, Mark CruthersMark Cruthers said…
Hi J,

Have you ever used Wiziq's virtual classroom in your online educaiton initiatives?
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At 7:36pm on January 14, 2008, Vincent MespouletVincent Mespoulet said…
Hi ! Thank you for your message about environment. I'll give you more infos about what we do about Education to Environment:
1. Save the Planet Project: this is a european Comenius Project with partners in Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia and... France. We'll prepare it for next schoolyear. I have a preparatory document about it (in english but translation in english is bad, let me some time to improve it !). Comenius Projects are specific to the European Union. But i know that thera are now Comenius Mundus. I have to check this info
2. we're just running discussion on my ning about environment with an american school at Buffalo, N.-Y. to copare american and european policy. You can join us if you are interested
3. I'll join your Green Schools Group inside Classroom 2.0
Have a nice day !
At 5:02pm on January 14, 2008, Lucy GrayLucy Gray said…
Hi Jack -

Sure, come on over the Global Education Collaborative Ning and post about your work! http://globaleducation.ning.com !
At 12:06pm on January 13, 2008, Esther Lojo-EscalanteEsther Lojo-Escalante said…
Hi Jack! There are many resources that you can find on: http://www.teachers.tv/, at least to me it has been of great help. Of course they are different solutions depending on the age of the students, and the subject to teach.
About virtual games, Liam O'Donell kindly shared this with me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcaE5NwfgUA .
There are also some links below the discussion "Does the current educational system kill creativity?" posted on the forum. Hope they help!
 
 
 

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