October 2008 Blog Posts (121)

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Added by Dennis O'Connor on October 10, 2008 at 7:41pm — No Comments

A New Bag Of Tricks

What a busy first week it has proven to be, but all the same its been highly enjoyable especially when trialing some new tools in my classes. So here they are....

www.classtools.net

Very simple little site that allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a flash. Although it is hardly the most polished of perfect application, it does produce some really engaging content. It also lets you embed your creations into web pages or blogs for easy… Continue

Added by Jarrod Robinson on October 10, 2008 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments

What will be coming next?

Old dogs and new tricks, I remember Legos but not ones that moved on their own or with commands. After a two day training I am so excited about using them in my classroom. I called my mom and told her she shouldn't have ever stopped buying Legos for my brother, she said "I knew it was on the job training, but they just got too expensive." I had to realize quickly that she was right. Kits cost $250 each and they suggest to only have 2 students… Continue

Added by Teresa Morgan on October 10, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Free Wikieducator Workshops

Join me on Wikieducator for a free online workshop to find out how you can use Wikieducator to collaborate and share content worldwide.

For those who are unfamiliar with Wikieducator: WikiEducator is a community of learning rsources supported by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) for the development of free educational content.…

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Added by Dr. Nellie Deutsch on October 10, 2008 at 3:44pm — No Comments

YouTube x 4

Who doesn't like 80's music? Okay, the song is a little cheesy, but take a look at this in 4 x YouTube HD! We've all see a lot of YouTube in our time, but this is really cool and probably very time consuming. Four YouTube Videos running simultaneously to form one video. Click play at the top to have them auto synced. I wish I would have thought of this...…

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Added by John Costilla on October 10, 2008 at 1:55pm — 2 Comments

Flat Classroom Conference Invitation

Hello from Doha, Qatar

Qatar Academy are proud to be the host of the first Flat Classroom Conference: Leadership Workshop and Student Summit to be held January 24-26, 2009 in Doha, State of Qatar. This conference has been kindly sponsored and supported by HSBC Bank.

The Flat Classroom Project is a global, collaborative project using Web 2.0 tools for… Continue

Added by Julie Lindsay on October 10, 2008 at 4:54am — No Comments

Social Networks are a lot of work

The software is not that hard to use (especially ning - soo easy) so I thought it would not be too much work to put up one of my own. Turns out that getting that critical mass of users to keep the site going is a lot of work. We have had two false starts and finally our algebra teacher site looks like it is building some momentum. Who knew it would be this hard?

Added by Brian Foley on October 9, 2008 at 11:28pm — 3 Comments

Elementary Tech Teachers SMARTBoard Tech Lessons?

Elementary Technology Teachers teach how-to.... and integrate technologies. We must spend time teaching how to use software and hardware so that students can apply tech skills in other areas. In our struggle of encouraging everyone to integrate SMARTBoards and other IWBs, I find that we do not have many of the tech How-To... lessons for the IWBs. SmartBoard and Promethean lessons for curriculum topics are springing up all over, but we still cannot ignore the basic technology knowledge needs.… Continue

Added by JoNelle on October 9, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Building a network of non-school tutor/mentor programs

This is a map of the Chicago region showing concentrations of poverty and locations of poorly performing schools (according to state information). Our aim is that people use these maps to focus attention, and resources, on neighborhoods where non-school volunteer- based tutoring, mentoring, arts and/or technology programs might help keep kids safe, model different careers and aspirations than might be modeled in a high poverty area, and help… Continue

Added by Daniel Bassill on October 9, 2008 at 1:45pm — 2 Comments

"...and I quote."

As I was reading through a series of blogs from my Google reader, I came upon this post (Steve Jobs' 10 Secrets to Building a Huge Empire) by Manish Pandey, a tech enthusiast and blogger. It basically goes on to talk about notable quotes from Steve Jobs and how they… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 9, 2008 at 11:17am — 2 Comments

4 typical questions about inserting music to PowerPoint

As a PowerPoint expert, I often receive a lot of PowerPoint question about sound. Here I pick out four typical questions and supply a solution for each question. Hope it helps you at the process of creating PowerPoint presentation.

All the solutions below is taking PowerPoint 2007 for example. PowerPoint 2003 is similar with it.

Question 1 -- How to insert multiple music to PowerPoint?

Solution:

Steps: Insert a Sound File ( let the sound play… Continue

Added by SunnyY on October 9, 2008 at 10:25am — No Comments

Around the World NOW

This is a presentation that I produced for a recent online conference, outlining various ways in which educationalists and their classes can connect to the globe.

Around the World…

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Added by Anne Mirtschin on October 9, 2008 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

Edusim Alpha 06 - virtual world for the classroom interactive whiteboard: Ready for Download

Latest version and video tutorials are here: http://edusim3d.com

Cheers,
Rich
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Added by Rich White on October 8, 2008 at 8:11am — No Comments

School 2.0

Chris Lehman shares some of his ideas about the schools that we need. All kids should be able to collaborate, create, present and… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 8, 2008 at 6:27am — 1 Comment

Superstruct - Play the Game, Invent the Future

Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential.

So come and… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on October 8, 2008 at 4:08am — No Comments

My 5 Reasons Why I Choose To Go In New Zealand

A journey to a thousand miles is one of the situation which we can meet our success in life. For me, If I will given a chance to visit a certain country, for sure I choose New Zealand. Why? Because of many reasons I have to fulfill my dreams to go in New Zealand. One of my reason is, I want to see the breath taking beauty of natures there, Second, I want to see and experience the hospitality of people around the country, third one, I want to learn the culture of New Zealand, fourth, I want to… Continue

Added by studynz2008 on October 8, 2008 at 1:26am — No Comments

Online Postcard Exchange using Google Maps

Please join our K-12 Google online Postcard exchange project. This

project was started this month by my school in Beaverton, Oregon. We

invite you to participate in our collaborative Google Map project (see URL below).

It is open to classrooms of ALL ages and any location. The main goal

of this project is to share famous landmarks, locations, or unique

aspects of your home state or region.

Go to my website to learn more about the… Continue

Added by Colette Cassinelli on October 7, 2008 at 9:42pm — No Comments

Bad at Blogging

I'm not very good at this blogging thing. I think you're supposed to do it more than once a month.

The tablet program is going well. I'm grateful for all those schools that did one-to-one programs before we did. We definitely learned from your successes as well as your pitfalls. Thanks!

I wish I could get the students to treat their tablets as well as the teachers do. I have to bite my tongue not to yell at them when I see them carrying the tablet by the… Continue

Added by Kevin Stachowski on October 7, 2008 at 8:06pm — 1 Comment

Hard policy questions about student blogging

I have been having some interesting discussions in the last couple weeks about a challenging, but important, policy question for you: Should all student blogging (in a school environment) be moderated?

I invite you to think about this and post your comments here. Thanks for the discussion.

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[cross-posted from Mobile Musings]

A question… Continue

Added by Karen Fasimpaur on October 7, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Livestation

Today's blogs slant towards video, so in that spirit, a great tool for teachers or anyone is Livestation. A great way to integrate video in the classroom.

Livestation is without a doubt one of the most impressive collections of live television viewing for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. The reason being that the number of choices for… Continue

Added by John Costilla on October 7, 2008 at 8:27am — No Comments