November 2008 Blog Posts (108)

sound proposal

SOUND GROUP PROPOSAL

Members:Andre Harris, Clark Marquis, Bailey Chase, Bryan Ciolan, Zachary Pruitt, Thomas Richmond, Chad Randolph, Frank Cass, Dustin Caza, Chrystal Robinson, Samantha Justice, William McDonald, Jeff Pare, Alyssa Hamera

Have you ever heard of a car that doesn't rev up? It's called an electric car, and that is what we are building currently as a huge CPC project. With this car we can basicly do anything with it, so as the Sound Group we plan on going above and… Continue

Added by jeff pare on November 14, 2008 at 10:56am — No Comments

11.14 World Diabetes Day

This is url for this press release send it to all your local Media.

Thanks Santa

http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200811/1226353061.html

Christmas is not about a holiday. It’s a Spirit that gives without retort, loves without having to be loved and giving more to those who have less.

For_Immediate_Release:

United States of America (Press Release) November 10, 2008 --… Continue

Added by Santa on November 14, 2008 at 8:37am — No Comments

Best Search Engines, Reference Websites, Science & Math Sites

Here are a few more "The Best..." lists:

The Best Science & Math Sites -- 2008

The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners

The Best Reference… Continue

Added by Larry Ferlazzo on November 13, 2008 at 7:26pm — No Comments

What Makes a Good Project?

What Makes a Good Project? is a new article about how teachers can take project-based learning to the next level.

Added by Sylvia Martinez on November 13, 2008 at 4:55pm — 1 Comment

Interactive white boards and teaching the fine arts

Is there anyone out there who has experience with, or can put me in touch with a fine arts teacher (sculpture in particular) who has made use of interactive white boards? Thanks!

Added by Linda Mercer on November 12, 2008 at 11:46am — 4 Comments

Firewall your lunch.

How many times have you gone to the work refrigerator only to find your lunch taken by a co-worker? Don't worry about hiding your lunch bad any longer. You can use the low tech approach to firewalling your food in the teacher's lounge...…

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Added by John Costilla on November 12, 2008 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

WORDLE: Diigo Bookmark Group

A new Diigo Bookmark Group has started. The group is focused on ways to use and collaborate those uses for WORDLE. There is a WORDLE Diigo Bookmark Group Widget.

Join and contribute to the conversation.

Added by samccoy on November 11, 2008 at 9:12pm — No Comments

Care to Moodle your Google (GDocs that is)?

moodle your google

Learn the basics of GDocs collaboration in ths week long fully facilitated online class. Learn a bit about G-Docs, get introduced to Moodle based online learning, and have some fun!

It's a simple search puzzle to find us: Use Google to search with these keywords:…

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Added by Dennis O'Connor on November 11, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Collection of Online Business Courses

Here is a quick list of free online business courses.. will add more as I find them.

U.About - Free email business courses

Business Spanish - speak and write business and conversational Spanish

Business week - Courses From Tech to Business

Learn That - Free business tutorials…

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Added by Mike Johns on November 11, 2008 at 5:12am — No Comments

Online Teaching: Opportunities & Challenges

There is a lurking teacher in each one of us. Does it sound familiar? Well to be honest this is true but with a rider – If you are teaching for the sake of hobby or for sharing some other knowledge then its fine. However, if you are a teacher and want to teach your subject online & get paid for it then I am afraid you will have to train yourself in the art of teaching online. Remember if anyone is ready to pay you by the hour he or she is looking for their money’s worth. It’s like any other… Continue

Added by Alfajri Alwis on November 11, 2008 at 1:57am — No Comments

Have you used Wordle yet?

Last week my colleagues and I had a retreat to discuss scholarship and research We used many collaborative tools such as our wiki to collect data and ideas, but we also used wordle.net. Wordle allowed us to take our typed notes, paste them into Wordle.net, then create a word cloud that displayed the frequently used words. Here's a sample:

It was very eye opening to see which key words we used over and over and reflect on how those… Continue

Added by Randy on November 10, 2008 at 6:53pm — 1 Comment

Web 2.0 may not be FREE, but listen to your community.

"Just discovered five minutes ago that Edublogs.org has all of a sudden decided to force Kontera Content Links upon all its blog users. So here's what my blog looks like now-- and all my students' blogs."

from…

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Added by John Costilla on November 10, 2008 at 8:25am — 14 Comments

Education Podcast Network

I'm so glad I'm taking an online course on Web 2.0 tools. I never realized sites such as Classroom 2.0 offers so many great ideas for using these tools and integrating technology in the classroom.

While doing an assignment on podcasts I learned about the Education Podcast Network. Using Google Reader I subscribed to WIT (We Integrate Technology) and learned more. An interview about Global Explorers led me to their site in Wikispaces, which made an excellent example for my Web 2.0… Continue

Added by Antoinette Go on November 10, 2008 at 5:30am — No Comments

Nov 10 Readings: Fishman; Carrigg, Honey & Thorpe

The key theme in these two readings seems to be the necessity of making sure that collaboration between those planning scaling and those implementing scaling.

I'm really glad we read these two pieces, especially Carrigg, Honey & Thorpe. These provide concrete examples of how to get a reform to work. They also answer my previous question of "can schools be retrofit?" The answer now seems to be "yes, but with a long-term plan that emphasizes ground-up scaling with local… Continue

Added by Cathleen Randall on November 9, 2008 at 9:10pm — No Comments

Level 2 Research: Using Video for Voice

This Activity had students take a basic speaking activity...Topic: "What is fun?" based on a textbook activity Unit 10.

1.Teacher focused fun activities were listed on the board....

2.Students working in pairs, created their own 'Top 10" List of Fun Activities.

3.Next they discussed and shared their activities with other class members walking around the room and seeing who had the same activities.

4. Step 4 was the teacher bringing out e camera and… Continue

Added by Maggi Carstairs on November 9, 2008 at 7:20pm — No Comments

Film School for Video Podcasters

My session for the K12Online Conference, Film School for Video Podcasters, is now online. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to download for your iPod or to watch on your computer.

The sixteen minute presentation is a series of short vignettes framed by a film noir detective story in which I play the detective (of… Continue

Added by Mathew Needleman on November 9, 2008 at 5:19pm — No Comments

Heekya as an educational tool

Heekya as an educational tool

I left a comment on a great blog, Morse's Code , who then wrote a great post about Heekya and it's potential as an educational tool. Read the post here:

Heekya which is an digital storytelling tool that allows people to create stories that happen in real life. You can use it as a digital scrapbook or you can add to stories that are… Continue

Added by DavidAdewumi on November 9, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Student Paperwork reduction Act of 2008

http://nomorepaper.pbwiki.com/

“If a classroom or homework assignment has a digital equivalent, then the student shall complete the assignment without the use of paper.” StRIP-A 2008

When I walked through campuses and see student work I’m amazed at the enormous use of paper. Everything is on paper.

Paper reports.

Paper pictures.

Paper graphs.

Everything is paper.

I remember back in… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on November 9, 2008 at 12:57pm — No Comments

Multi-Touch Interactive Desk from Durham University

Originally posted on my blog

Yesterday I visited Durham’s Technology-Enhanced Learning Research group who had invited me to see their multi-touch interactive desk that hit the headlines recently. It was in fact my Mum who sent me a newspaper clipping about the device and following my TeachMeet presentation Dr Liz Burd invited me to visit.

It is always thrilling to see… Continue

Added by Tom Barrett on November 9, 2008 at 7:57am — No Comments