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Keyboarding - Dead or Alive?

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Deb replied to Deb's discussion 'Keyboarding - Dead or Alive?'

Thanks for your reply S. Lister. It is very difficult to find unbiased research in this area. Computer companies want to sell computers, software companies want to sell software, academics want to publish articles,…

Feb 7, 2011

Deb replied to Deb's discussion 'Keyboarding - Dead or Alive?'

Hi Grace, I've seen lots of cool things in newsletters and at conferences. Too often I have followed up to find that the cool and innovative idea is executived on a very limited basis and does not seem to have lasting value. As for…

Feb 7, 2011

Grace Gorman replied to Deb's discussion 'Keyboarding - Dead or Alive?'

Just saw something in a newsletter that said in 5 years almost all kids will have smart phones and will be doing most of their work that way. They have successfully learned to "thumb type" at rapid speeds and teaching them…

Feb 6, 2011

Keyboarding - Dead or Alive?

Hi All,I have worked in technology education for 25 years. I started out as a business education teacher and eventually evolved into a technology educator - initially probably more out of a desire to survive and have a job than out true love and understanding of technology. During the past 25 years, I have had the opportunity to teach all grade levels - K-adult. I have seen the attitude toward teaching keyboarding go from "it's essential" to "why are we spending millions to use a computer as…See More

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Suzanne replied to Deb's discussion 'Questions about SchoolCenter school web management tool'

We have been using SchoolCenter for the past 6 years. Click on the link below to view the "Hot Potato' sample quizes and to see embedded google docs and even a google form/

Feb 13, 2010

Deb replied to Deb's discussion 'Need help with Google for Education'

We have our own domain and the kids have all their accounts within this domain. My issue is that from within the domain, you do not have access to certain features. Personally, I would like to be the one to decide what features they have access to…

Feb 6, 2010

Sean Martinson replied to Deb's discussion 'Need help with Google for Education'

Hi Deb, here's a link to what I found out. It helped and we are now using the Apps in our school. http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/legallity-of-using-google-apps?xg_source=activity I'm not sure how they choose the apps for…

Feb 5, 2010

Deb replied to Deb's discussion 'Need help with Google for Education'

I am revisiting google apps for an 8th grade end of the year project. I like wondering how they decide what to include and exclude from the suite. I would like to include the new Custom Search Engine feature but once again, this feature is not…

Feb 5, 2010

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About Me: I have taught computer skills to every grade level from K - adult for the past 21 years. I started my career as a business education teacher and hope to retire from my current technology education facilitator role in about 4 years. I have a degree and teaching certificate in business education and a master’s degree in instructional technology. Upon retirement, I hope to work as a consultant or on the college level. I also have New Jersey certifications in elementary education and supervision.

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At 5:49am on February 6, 2010, Deb said…: When I tried to login using a domain account, the google system would not accept it; however, it can be done with a personal gmail account and then you can generate code to paste on a site within your domain. I can do it but to explain this to teachers an yet an extra step, is a pain.

At 3:13pm on February 5, 2010, Alix E. Peshette said…: Deb,
I don't know why you can't create a custom google search engine with a google school domain. Have you looked through the Google help section on this?

-Alix

At 5:22pm on April 22, 2009, Jack said…: Hey no worries, Deb. The video contest is over, but MIT was so happy with the results that we're now running another contest. This time, instead of making videos, we're asking kids to make their own custom flashcards. Submission due date is 5/22. Check it out here: brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules. Perhaps your colleagues/students would be interested?

At 1:46pm on January 31, 2009, Jack said…: Hi Deb. I was wondering if any of your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some other educator contacts you could direct me to. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

At 4:40pm on December 29, 2008, Alyshia Olsen said…: Hi Deb,

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 'e-learning and online teaching' 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 a competition for startup funding 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 3:59am on November 11, 2007, Kevin Jarrett said…: Hi Deb! I just noticed your comment from June 4th! Did I not get back to you? If so, I am so sorry! :( How can I help? Your question was about Susan's Classroom 2.0 map.

At 7:37pm on August 12, 2007, Dennis O'Connor said…: Deb, I'm beating the drum for a new group on e-learning: http://classroom20.ning.com/group/elearning

Join?

Den

At 7:59am on June 19, 2007, Matt Miller said…: Deb, I've programmed in CF since 2001. I've built a bunch of apps for the school district I work for, the biggest of which was a content management system for teacher/classroom websites. We have retired that system and replaced it with a 3rd party system (CF too!) called FinalSite, but at its peak, my little home grown system sported about 7000 teacher/classroom pages for about 475 staff.

Im trying to learn the "new ways" of using CF (Flex, etc.). Im happy to bounce ideas!

At 5:22pm on June 7, 2007, Georgina Farmer said…: Hi Deb,

Thanks for your reply. I will do as you suggest today. It's getting late-ish over there. Sleep well . . . and maintain the rage!

Cheers,
Georgie

At 4:38pm on June 7, 2007, Georgina Farmer said…: Hi Deb,

Lovely to meet you too and Tommy (my 4-year-old Australian Terrier) says hi to Mandy. He is the apple of my eye; feisty, intelligent and he makes me laugh. I am an Australian too and I posted a response to your Teaching Keyboard post yesterday and was looking forward to a response or two when I woke up this morning, but there were none. Has your post closed, should I not have put my special offer at the bottom, is it a holiday in the US? I am so eager for feedback on what I said

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