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Election Webquest: Meet the Candidates

Started Aug 25

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karenklieg started a discussion called Election Webquest: Meet the Candidates Aug 25

karenklieg added the blog post 'ELECTION PROJECT: MEET THE CANDIDATES--JOIN!!' Aug 25

karenklieg added the blog post 'Student Email Accounts' Jun 4

karenklieg added the blog post 'Looking for Virtual Participants for Poem in Your Pocket Day - April 17th' Apr 5

karenklieg replied to the discussion Video conferencing anyone Mar 27

karenklieg replied to the discussion Video conferencing anyone Mar 18

karenklieg replied to the discussion Introductions Mar 18

karenklieg added the blog post 'MidLink Magazine Seeking New Teacher/Editor' Feb 14

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Hometown:: Albertson, NY

School / Work Affiliation: Searingtown School/Herricks SD

About Me:: I am a library media/educational technology specialist at a K-5 school in Long Island, NY. I am also a teacher/editor for MidLink Magazine, http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/, and an adjunct instructor for Long Island University in their graduate educational technology program. I teach a lot of educational-technology professional development courses and spend a lot of time on my laptop before the birds wake up. I am also a member of the TeacherLibrarian ning - http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/profile/karenklieg. And I have so many user names and passwords these days that I now keep a stickie on my laptop to help my overloaded brain remember them!

Blog:: http://kkliegman.wordpress.com/

Website:: http://www.herricks.org/webpages/KKliegman/index.cfm

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ELECTION PROJECT: MEET THE CANDIDATES--JOIN!!

I have created a webquest for upper elementary-middle school classes called "Meet the Candidates." This is an award-winning project, updated for the 2008 election, with web 2.0 tools incorporated. The project is available at: http://eev.liu.edu/KK/election/meetthecandidates/index.htm Your students will learn about candidates and elections as they participate in this timely project by working in teams to research platforms and policies, develop marketing plans, or plan for public awareness campa… Continue

Posted on August 25th, 2008 at 2:45am — No Comments (Add)

Student Email Accounts

We are considering allowing our fifth grade students to have gmail accounts next year in order to take advantage of google apps. Please let me know if any of you allow this and if so, does your school have an acceptable use policy or permission form that goes along with it? We do not want to be responsible for their accounts; we want them to use the email for educational purposes only. Thanks!

Posted on June 4th, 2008 at 2:31am — No Comments (Add)

Looking for Virtual Participants for Poem in Your Pocket Day - April 17th

April 17th is POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY. The idea is simple: have your students select a poem they love during National Poetry Month then carry it with them to share with other students on April 17. We are looking for elementary classrooms to SKYPE with our school for our Poem… Continue

Posted on April 5th, 2008 at 2:00am — No Comments (Add)

MidLink Magazine Seeking New Teacher/Editor

MidLink Magazine, is looking for a new teacher/editor to join us! I have been an editor for 7 years and the experience has been so valuable! Our chief editor is Brenda Dyck, an amazing innovative educator from Canada who writes for Education World and who is the recipient of several major awards. New MidLink Editor will be added to the existing team of editors this spring. This is our call for submissions of applications which are due by March… Continue

Posted on February 14th, 2008 at 3:01am — No Comments (Add)

Boy, I've Been Busy!

Fourth through Sixth Grade Teachers-
If you are looking for a social studies/technology integrated project to do with your class, please look at the projects I have posted, ready to begin the first week of October. I just finished editing them, and they are ready for registration. Any teacher wanting to take part in any of these projects, leave me a message or email me.

There are various opportunities for sharing and collaborating with these projects. Here… Continue

Posted on September 15th, 2007 at 12:29pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 12:56pm on January 19th, 2008, Blanca said…: Karen!!!! I found you! How awesome is this NING?! Going to put in a proposal for using this in the classroom for one of the coming conferences. You in? I've got another tech director too using it with admins. Catch up with you soon. Your projects are AMAZING! When do you sleep? ;)

At 6:18pm on August 20th, 2007, JoNelle said…: Karen- Your On the Trail project is impressive- great work! I have 4th/5th grade students and teachers in my lab . This will be great learning experiences for all. Perfect for my plans of introducing Web 2.0 tool to this group. Thanks!

At 12:58pm on July 18th, 2007, Adam Dugger said…: Well since I like to keep low key.. the only nose displayed will be that of the car... hope you are having a great summer!

At 7:51am on July 18th, 2007, Christine Southard said…: Thanks for the MSG pics. I have some online on my Classroom 2.0 page. Go check them out. :)

At 2:52am on July 18th, 2007, karenklieg said…: Thanks Christine! haha. Did you see the pics from MSG?

At 10:19am on July 17th, 2007, Christine Southard said…: Love your new pic. :)

At 8:58am on June 2nd, 2007, Kevin said…: Welcome to classroom 2.0!

At 3:34am on June 1st, 2007, Lisa Parisi said…: Welcome, Karen. We have some great discussions here! Glad you're going to be a part of it!

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