y like Plurk much better - my PLN has grown immensely and the people in my Plurk PLN are all linked to education in some manner. It's much more of a community in nature where Twitter is more "in the moment" type of network.
I agree with Meg H about Zoho, I've used it for a few years now and I wish I could convince more of our admin group to use it as it has so many great features - equal to any of the google apps.
As an administrator who uses social networking quite extensively, you need to explore how it will benefit the communication between people. There are so many ways that these networks can help us but there needs to be a mindset change - it's about time many administrators moved forward in the use of technology and social networking and using tools to assist them in communicating with parents, students, teachers and other administrators.…
d course i am looking to bring more project based learning in. I am looking to utilize web 2.0 tools. The students who take this course will meet one period a day for half of the school year.
I am considering creating projects that will utilize one or more of the following tools:
a. a digitial story on a global or controversial issue.
b. Scratch - As an intro to programming
c. A Hyperlinking Narrative
d. social bookmarking
e. Rss feeds and feed aggregators
F. Collaboration using wiki's.
G. Podcasting & Audacity
h. Creating google earth tours
i. Webpage Design
j. Internet Safety, Information Literacy
I would love to here about your experiences, project ideas or current curriculum.…
articles, apps and resources we come across every week.Classroom Management
5 Tips for Classroom Management with Mobile Devices
Finding Ways to Nguyen Students Over: Classroom Management
27 Tips for Effective Classroom Management: An Infographic
A Fun Way to Assess Your Class, Have a Good Laugh, and Build Everlasting Rapport (a must-read!)
Video: “Start Small Before Moving Big” is Good Classroom Management Advice
Classroom management – Keep a Little Behavior from Becoming a Big One
Reading and Language Arts
Reading Comprehension: Paper or Screen?
Common Warning Signs of Dyslexia in Children Pre-K to Grade 2
Readers Save the World: An Infographic
Beyond the Book: Infographics of Students' Reading History
Nurturing Literacy: Tips and Resources For Developing Lifelong Readers
Into the Book: a Reading Comprehension Resource for Elementary Students and Teachers
Meeting the Goose (a must-read!)
Technology in the Classroom
No More MOOCs: Pay Attention to Beyonce
Google Improves Image Search Tools Menu
10 Apps to Help Teach Your Kid a Foreign Language
Google Archive of Newspapers
Paper Rater: A Free Online Grammar Check, Plagiarism, Spelling, and More
ThingLink Helps You Create and Discover Rich Images
40 Ways to Learn Music Online For Free
Four Questions to Ask Before Using an Ed. Tech Tool
Random Links
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New Resources On The Ukraine Crisis
Becoming a Barbie
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Five Best Meal Planning Apps
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ing information to this text as they find it, so that the text will reflect the passions of the teachers, as well as, the basic curricula guidelines. This will allow students to have interactive information from which they can build their own understandings. We will see the use of something similar to an iPod or nano being used to transfer notes and information. I believe that laptops will decrease in price and become standard just as textbooks were in the past. We will also see the wider use of wireless with students having access to a school network from which they will access their information. Wikipedia will grow but so will the use of more "contained" information areas. Google apps will be replaced, I believe, with online desktops specific for the school. This will allow students access to the required information plus relevant calendars, RSS feeds and other information all in one place. I am starting to look at such a thing for the classes that I teach which use online information. At this time, with the difficulty transferring from home to school, online desktops may provide a way for students to avoid the email, attach, download problem. This, I believe, will start shortly with companies like Google, Zoho, DOD and eyeOS making better and better online products and the cable is getting better. So, I believe that we will eventually move away from the large textbooks to an online version just because of the ability to edit what is posted. This will mean that the teacher becomes less responsible for knowing everything, becaue that is impossible, and more responsible for being able to enhance the understanding of the student. Thus, teachers will still need to have a good understanding of the basics of their area of study and be able to point students in a number of directions but they will not be the keepers of knowledge.…
ate web tools for use in school. They used the tools and wrote a brief summary of how they thought it could be used in school. Some of the tools they found buggy or cumbersome- we had a 5 minute rule- if you couldn't figure out the basics in 5 minutes- find a new tool to check out...since as you know the list of new tools is endless.
I am going to focus on some basics- google notebook, google tools in general and then turn them loose to discover the tools on my list and add their own. My only assessment last year was their completion of the evaluations of the tools, but I plan to try to do more with it this year as I have started a ning for 7-9. I am thinking that this project will be ongoing and in lieu of evaluating a certain number of tools they will be evaluated on their use of tools in their work on the ning,
I did list a few applications- like jing, but generally tried to stay away from anything that had to be downloaded or installed since that causes some issues and delays in the lab and I also wanted them to be able to work on this at home as well- and some apps like skitch are platform specific.
This year I really want to try to get away from the cool tool idea and stress how this can enhance, dare I say, transform, their learning. I am working hard to get other teachers involved in using the ning and allowing the kids more freedom in how they learn.…
ored in a long line. I apologize if I missed the post on my suggestions. So, if you get this, one thing you could try would be using Google Apps. There are drawbacks (creating Gmail accounts) and positivies (nothing to download, use at home), but that would be up to you and your district. I don't disagree with what everyone else has said about the open source software. It is also a very good resource.
About your curriculum: Why would you create specific lessons to know how to use Word, etc.? Why not team up with your teachers, find an assessment or lesson they are doing, and teach the kids how to use the computer program/software during that assignment? You will hopefully get help from the classroom teacher, plus you are teaching them the computer skills. Too many times, computer skills are thought to be an extra topic, which is why it never gets "top billing." Use it with something that is already going on in your school.…
Added by Josh Allen at 11:12am on October 31, 2007
r after about 10 years in the classroom.
In the past couple of years I began to see the need for our teachers to expand the strategies they have to deliver, evaluate, and refine the content of the courses they teach as well as helping students to become more active in the learning process. I guess to help teachers to become true facilitators of learning and not the sole provider of learning.
I began to hear about blogs, wikis, google apps, podcasts, and some of the content delivery systems like Adobe Captivate, Adobe Presenter, and the Adobe Connect Pro.
As a result of my wife’s classes in Library Science and working with her, I have embarked on this journey into the world of Web 2.0.
I have come to this blog in hopes of exchanging ideas are working together in making some of these visions I have a reality at our school.
I am beginning to see that my visions are a bit behind the times as many of you have done this for quite awhile.
Thank you
Bernie Preston…
ellos. I've been a gradeschool teacher most of my life here in my country and have become an online teacher at the higher ed since 2007. It was quite a struggle adjusting to the online world. Last year, I've started to comfortably navigate the web after spending a few years in my unive's community site and playing around with Google apps. Ever since I've become part of the WizIQ community/platform, I have finally moved around other sites to learn virtually and the experience has become most interesting. I am here to learn more of course and largely to observe how this community operates to give me new and fresh ideas when it comes to encouraging other teachers in the Philippines to maximize what the Web 2.0 has to offer. I hope to sustain my attention for a year here at Classroom 2.0, amidst all other work which needs to get done. Thanks for having me.…