April 2007 Blog Posts (185)

Campus Technology Planning, Part 1 – Fly Fishing and Establishing a Vision

Cross-posted at Bump on the Blog

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before around here, but one of my real passions in life is fly fishing. Living in the desert southwest doesn’t really allow me the opportunity to go as often as I’d like, but with rivers like the San Juan, Red, Cimarron, and Conejos within a day’s drive, a quick get away isn’t too difficult. I was introduced to fly fishing nearly ten years ago by a…

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Added by Brian Grenier on April 18, 2007 at 10:04pm — No Comments

Coming in the middle....

This is a GREAT teaching tool! It amazes me when I think about the knowledge and "design" of this space called Classrooom 2.0 and I would iike to presonally thank those who have been involved in it's creation.

I'm excited about what is happening in our district right now! Among some great "tipping points" is the possibility of passion to learn with our teacher learning initiative. My question: Can they sustain the momentum?

One thing we are doing this summer: We have two… Continue

Added by Karla Murray on April 18, 2007 at 9:14pm — No Comments

Taking Off

I've just started testing Ning. There still needs some enhancements, but it's a great place to socialize, learn and share. Great possibilities for the classroom or just to pursue professional development. I'll keep playing around to have a better perspective on where I want to head with it.

Just found this great site that I guess this is the place to keep it registered, "25 Web 2.0 Apps to Help you Learn". Nice collection of applications!…

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Added by Carla Arena on April 18, 2007 at 8:49pm — No Comments

Scenes from a Blog

Thought you guys might like this graphic portrayal of the "verbal jousting in the life cycle of a blog post." Could this be us in the future? I think I've seen this happen in blogs out in the "real" world!

Scenes from a Blog

It apparently ran on the editorial page of the NY Times 4/7/07. I happened to find it on a search for something… Continue

Added by Sylvia Martinez on April 18, 2007 at 6:17pm — 1 Comment

Conference Presentation

Today, Friday, April 13th, I did a presentation at Lehigh University for a middle school conference . Our session was about "Simple Tech Tools for your Classroom". An hour was much too short. My collegues, Meg and John offered tips about podcasting, science projects, geography lessons, unintedstreaming.com, SmartBoard lessons, and how our school structures tech classes. Meg showed her powerpoint lessons, with UnitedStreaming videos embedded into the slides. As the building tech teachers, John… Continue

Added by Robin Martin on April 18, 2007 at 11:19am — No Comments

Finally

I have now come to the conclusion that I hold far too many blog accounts and am going to limit myself to bloglines,my school blog and classroom 2.0, There is so much out there to try out it is tempting to try everything that web 2.0 has to offer.

I have now finished the majority of inservice training I had planned to offer, things like digital video,blogging,SMART Board, and webquests and am now embarking on the final two, Moodle and wiki and video conferencing. It is difficult to get…

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Added by Jennifer Garcia on April 18, 2007 at 9:11am — No Comments

An English/L.A. Work Product

I just posted a sample work product demonstrating the way that students might use Web 2.0 to interact with text. I"m going to continue to interact with this product and try to enhance it over time. I"d be grateful for any feedback and suggestions. The link is: http://pass-ed.com/Blog41907.html

Here's a quick question: How much does the fact that I developed the product on my website and not on a wiki deter from the quality of it…

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Added by Andrew Pass on April 18, 2007 at 6:39am — No Comments

well, thats something!

Without even having posted my profile or any activitites here in this site, a few have requested being my friend. Wow. Thats a great welcome! Thanks for that!
barbara

Added by barbara buchegger on April 18, 2007 at 1:02am — No Comments

Chaos vs Coherent

Cross posted on The Thinking Stick

My Superintendent last week:

“I’ve learned that there is a fine line between chaos and coherent.”

This statement has been replaying itself in my head now for a week. Maybe because I’m feeling my life is on the chaotic side of that line at the moment.

However, I’ve also been reflecting at where we are in education and where we are trying to go. Where does… Continue

Added by Jeff Utecht on April 18, 2007 at 12:22am — No Comments

Checking out the group

OK, now that was fun. I just went through the members list and invited as 'friends' everyone I knew either from prior work experiences, or from reading their blogs quite religiously!
Looking forward to the sharing and the learning!

Added by Linda Loder on April 17, 2007 at 8:46pm — 1 Comment

Next week - live blogging from Longfellow Middle School on Nick News visit

Hi all,

We got some exciting news a few weeks ago - Nick News with Linda Ellerbee picked one of our longtime GenYES schools for a profile in a series about education. They were intrigued by the students mentoring teachers and all the local and global student projects.

The camera crews are due to show up on Monday, April 17 at Longfellow Middle School in Hill City, Kansas. I've added an eighth grader, Theresa, as a contributor to the Generation YES… Continue

Added by Sylvia Martinez on April 17, 2007 at 5:42pm — 4 Comments

One Laptop Per Child and Generation YES

Cross posted from the Generation YES blog...

I was recently asked to do a guest blog on the OLPC News website (not affiliated with the OLPC project.) OLPC News tries to be an

“independent source for news, information, commentary, and discussion”

of the OLPC project. Although it skews towards skepticism, they do try

to… Continue

Added by Sylvia Martinez on April 17, 2007 at 12:41pm — No Comments

Web 2.0 Experiment - The Digg Effect

As you may know, I've been doing quite a few experiements with various

web 2.0 tools (Pageflakes, Netvibes, yourminis, Grazr, Dapper etc), and

in the next week or two I want to do an experiment with Digg - I'm

going to put up a story about openlearn and the top ten popular units,

to see how many people visit the site go on to continue to learn from

our free materials.

If you have a digg account would you be willing to digg my experimental

story? I… Continue

Added by Stuart Brown on April 17, 2007 at 12:18pm — 1 Comment

2.0 Sounds Cool

Hello everyone,

I'm very intrigued by this whole Web 2.0, Classroom 2.0 movement and I'm here to see what others are doing so that I can try new things. I'd also love to share the things I'm doing.

I've heard about teaching using iPods and cell phones. Come on. Is anyone out there using those for student learning? If so I'd love to hear what you're doing.

Al G.

Added by Alfonso Gonzalez on April 17, 2007 at 11:22am — 3 Comments

Hmm...

So first blog post...not much to say. 36 days left until school is out for the summer....I start my masters this summer...and the wedding in 4/5/08. That's all for now.

Added by Michael Seiler on April 17, 2007 at 11:19am — No Comments

Web 2.0: A Personal Learning Renaissance

(Cross-posted on www.SteveHargadon.com)

Yesterday, on the Classroom 2.0 social network, Elizabeth Davis posted:

"Following and reading blogs, participating in ning, contributing to wikis,

writing in my blog, I haven't thought… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on April 17, 2007 at 11:15am — 3 Comments

So sad...

I'm just so sad for all the people who were killed and injured at Virginia Tech today. I ache for the families who got an unimaginable phone call today. I'm so, so sorry for everyone involved.

Added by Sylvia Martinez on April 16, 2007 at 11:22pm — No Comments

Blog is here.

See my ongoing blog here: http://robdarrow.wordpress.com
Is there anyway to integrate my blog with ning?

Added by Rob Darrow on April 16, 2007 at 6:12pm — 1 Comment

I Taught My Teen Well!

My 14-year-old daughter noticed that I was using my real picture on this group and said let me know that she didn't think it was a smart thing for me to do, considering what I've been telling her. That's why I have a new image made with Photoshop filters. It's nice to know that my kids listen to me once in a while.... for seconds at a time.

Of course, there are pics of her on Facebook taken by her friends and anyone can copy and save them! I've made sure that she's enabled…

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Added by Shayne Train on April 16, 2007 at 5:57pm — No Comments

Webcast: Peer Tutoring

April 17, 2007 - 4pm EDT, 2pm MT, 12pm PST "Peer-Tutoring! When Do We Want It? Now!"

A free, live webcast will be broadcast from the 15th Annual National Tutoring Association conference in Denver, CO. This session will offer case studies on successful peer-tutoring via preparatory and summer transition programs at high school and college campuses, featuring integration with NCLB (No Child Left Behind). Panelists will share proven strategies for building support for…

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Added by Nalini Lasiewicz on April 16, 2007 at 5:11pm — No Comments