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Dana Buchanan replied to Leslie Witten's discussion 'To Stay VHS/DVD or Go Digital: The Audio-Visual Collection' in the group Librarians
Our school uses all three. The teachers have slowly been introduced to streaming video's. So they are too busy, too scared or they don't have the smartboards and such to try the digital materials. Currently the teachers are using mainly…
Leslie Witten commented on Nathan Koenecke's blog post 'Net Generation Education Project'
I also participated in the NetGen Ed Project as an advisor for the students from St. Paul the Apostle School. I am the school librarian and I had the privilege of witnessing the transformative power of this flat classroom project. This type of…
Neil Stephenson replied to Leslie Witten's discussion 'iLife Learning' in the group Mac Classroom 2.0
Hi there,
Hi there - just joined Classroom 2.0 and am excited about the possibilities! I've been an apple 1:1 teacher for three years - and love using their products. If you're interested, I've got a blog where I'm sharing how I…
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Leslie Witten replied to Leslie Witten's discussion 'iLife Learning' in the group Mac Classroom 2.0
Hi Celia,
So interesting but not surprising that bullying is more prevalent that predators. I teach my 5th-7th grade students about how to be safe online and we touch upon both topics. I think I'll be delving deeper into bullying with them…
Christina Glover-Lawson replied to Leslie Witten's discussion 'iLife Learning' in the group Mac Classroom 2.0
This software is extremely easy to use and the kids love creating their projects using all of the applications. I am amazed at what they come up with and the motivation to research a topic, organize it into an iMovie presentation and present to…
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- St. Paul the Apostle School
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- I am a teacher-librarian for a K-8 Catholic school in Los Angeles, CA. I love exploring 21st century education paradigms, using technology, and working with educators to create learning environments that integrate the two.
Comment Wall (26 comments)
- At 6:08am on August 16, 2009,
Donnie Smith said… - Leslie,
Thanks for your response. Have a great school year! Donnie
- At 4:54pm on March 30, 2009,
Marcia Bengry Alessi said… - It's just that when you're over fifty, you simply cannot remember your identity :) and so you recreate what you think it was over, and over, and over .... AT least the pic is the same ... just added that, only picture I have of myself .. got it off my son's facebook, and then promptly cut him out ...
- At 11:28am on March 29, 2009,
Marcia Bengry Alessi said…
- Hey, there!
- At 7:55pm on January 24, 2009,
Jack said… - Hi Leslie. I was wondering if you have any high school contacts who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
- At 10:57am on December 28, 2008,
Tim Bedley said… - Hi Leslie,
It's great to hear that you want to learn more about constructivist teaching methods, power teaching, etc. I will give you a few links to get you on your way. Let me know if you have any questions. God bless you!
Tim
http://www.youtube.com/user/tbed63
http://www.learnercentereded.org/newsl_info.html (read the archived newsletters and sign up for their newsletter emails.)
http://www.timbedley.com
- At 10:15pm on December 27, 2008,
Mark Cruthers said… - Hi Leslie,
With your interest in 21st Century Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
- At 10:10pm on December 27, 2008,
Alyshia Olsen said… - Hey Leslie,
Thanks for the advice-it's much appreciated. The group is on winter break right now for the most part, but we'll be up and running again in January, and you might hear more from me then! Feel free to e-mail me or comment back if you have any more thoughts.
Alyshia
- At 8:47pm on December 27, 2008,
Alyshia Olsen said…
- Hi Leslie,
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' group, 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 10:22am on October 7, 2008,
David Kapuler said… - You might find this site useful for beginner readers, http://tarheelreader.org/
- At 12:03pm on September 18, 2008,
Ian Grove-Stephensen said… - > I am right in assuming the administrative set up is extensive initially
What??? Do you think we are monsters?
Seriously, it's very easy. If you have your kids' names in a spreadsheet, just paste it in and off you go. Very few teaches put their whole school on up-front. People put classes on as they need them. We designed the system to support ad-hoc adoption; even if two teachers wind up putting the same students on twice, the system will soon sort it out. We figured that if we want to empower classroom-level teachers, we must keep every decision within their remit.
> as teachers ...create/find assessments,
The search tools need work, but they are not bad. You can usually find suitable assessments quite quickly if they are there. Creating new content is more work, although quite often you can just pick up and modify something that is there already. Sometimes you will find that if you start a new authoring project, other people will find it and join in, so in general you don't have to do all the work yourself. Unless you want to - some authors prefer to work in isolation and we try to support that too.
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