Thank you so much for your replies! Marie G: what a great idea! I usually write the well behaved kids names in a book and tell them I am reporting all the good/bad behaviour. I use name cards on their desks so that is a good way to know who is beh...
Idea 1: Bring in a video camera and if they act up... go through the motions of filming them. When they ask what you are doing... which I would imagine should happen fairly quickly tell them you are going to show it to their regular teacher who wi...
You are a saint--I would be screaming like a banshee or ripping some kid's arm out of the socket. Thanks to people like you who do what people like me could never do.
The easiest trick that works at every grade level is the following... If the class is mostly talking and not following directions find the most quiet and cooperative student and write his or her name on the board. Students will recognize that this...
I'd appreciate any wonderful tips or advice anyone can offer. As a sub teacher I am often told by the staff that the kids always play up more with sub teachers. With this in mind, I start the class off with rules and consequences and expected beha...
I'm adult educator and have recently moved into school teaching (business education/ICT) as well as some work in the primary sector. Currently working as a relief teacher so covering the whole spectrum of K-12. I love emerging technologies, Web 2.0 tools and the potential they have for learning.
Does anyone else incorporate music in their classes? Research has identified that it has so many benefits for learning such as improved attention, concentration, motivates. Using music to welcome students to the class, during movement (get them up and moving rather than sitting at desks), during group time etc: Make learning fun: music and movement
At 11:42pm on December 29, 2008, Mark Cruthers said…
Hi Marie,
With your interest in Emerging Technology and Web 2.0, 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.
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!
Hi Marie, welcome and thanks for joining my group DigiSkills.
I´ld like to recommend my new video about m-learning in my notebook-class.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15FwYPwsvbE
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