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Google My Maps has Serious Educational Potential

I am absolutely mad about Google MyMaps. Check out the collectively authored map my YouthLAB groups did in Chicago and Barbados at www.youthlab.net! They researched the slave routes, the Barbados youth located the African countries and regions where their ancestors came from and placemarked those. They even added in diary journal entries from enslaved passengers across the Middle Passage.

Then they incorporated their own family migrations, located their neighborhoods, embedded photos… Continue

Added by Mindy Faber on August 24, 2007 at 10:13am — No Comments

Call for participation in online experiment in educational materials

Do you have an interest in mathematics education?

Do you support open access and reuse of educational materials?

Would you like a gift certificate to Amazon?

Many hands make light…

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Added by Turadg Aleahmad on August 23, 2007 at 2:08pm — No Comments

Getting To Know You!

Want a project that can incorporate high or low technology?
Want to integrate your curricula, by starting a simple PBL opportunity?
Want exciting, educational afterschool PBL extensions?

Leni Dolan, a colleague at the TappedIn campus, and an experienced teacher-leader, can collaborate with you to meet these goals… Continue

Added by samccoy on August 23, 2007 at 1:46pm — 1 Comment

Couldn't Pass Tech Security!

I wrote this summer about my plans to use a Ning network in my digital photo class. I created the network, making it private and disabling the ability of members to invite other members. No photo would be posted until I approved it. However, our tech department could not approve it because of the inappropriate networks within Ning. They said that my network was secure enough but there is no way to keep the students away from the inappropriate content in some of the other… Continue

Added by Melisa Kifer on August 23, 2007 at 4:53am — 4 Comments

Your PSP could get a whole lot more interesting - Google ready to invade telco turf, bid on 700MHz spectrum in 2009

Google ready to invade telco turf, bid on 700MHz spectrum.

(via arstechnica.com)

Because the 700MHz has such desirable spectrum propagation characteristics, it's also much cheaper and easier to roll out a network with excellent coverage than it is to do so with higher-frequency technology. Making broadband access cheap and affordable means more people come online, and more people are able to make use of Internet services-exactly the sort of thing Google…

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Added by Rich White on August 22, 2007 at 5:46pm — No Comments

Insert $9.99 for Video

From my latest Blog Entry on Byte Speed.

"I don’t think we do any type preparation for things like that. We love to show kids the benefits of technology, and how wonderful it is, but we rarely show them the downside. We show them how the Internet…

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Added by Tim Holt on August 22, 2007 at 5:39pm — No Comments

You Can’t Cuddle Up with a Computer »

[an addendum to the Paperless Chronicles] [don't miss Part III posted below]

I love Greg Bicknell’s statement, “You can’t dogear computer…

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Added by Greg Farr on August 22, 2007 at 3:02pm — No Comments

Learner Permits - Let’s Go for Our First Flashdrive »

[The Paperless Chronicles Part III]

We spent today getting flashdrives ready for the staff. When the staff reports to work for the first time on Monday they will receive one piece of paper with instructions for the week. One of the instructions is about…

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Added by Greg Farr on August 22, 2007 at 2:50pm — 1 Comment

Back in the Saddle...

Well, summer's over, and it's time to ratchet up the educational energy
level to classroom teaching mode, again. After constructing and
conducting our faculty first days Professional Development Days
activities, based on this summer's Professional Learning Community
Institutes, it's good to be back...I LOVE this gig, and can't imagine
ever doing anything else...well, I guess I never really have.

Added by Russ Lauber on August 22, 2007 at 1:03pm — No Comments

Monarch Migration Magic in Many Worlds

One of the ways to connect the real world with the virtual world, is by collaborating with others who do this on a daily basis. One of the most established online groups that continue to develop ways for online teacher and student participation among the entire digital population is the Monarch Watch program. …

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Added by samccoy on August 22, 2007 at 12:43pm — 2 Comments

My son Zane begins his homeschooling journey using social networking tools and technologies

A brief update on my son's progress, this week - the week he has begun his learning journey at home.

Zane has created a blog amongst other things, just in a few days this week. It was all new to him, although he did say, that creating his blog was similar to setting up his myspace, which he did ages ago on his own.

You will find updates on his blog as he goes along.

http://zanegomularz.blogspot.com/

I would like him…

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Added by Jacinta Gascoigne on August 22, 2007 at 8:30am — No Comments

Commercially yours

I have noticed a trend, probably because You Tube makes it easy to do, of adding commercials into keynotes, staff developments, presentations,

etc.

For instance, I have added Apple's classic "Think Different" commercial in a variety of trainings over the years.

Recently, my Superintendent added an ad into a presentation to administrators about constructing an airplane in flight.

I have also seen the famous "Elevator" comercial… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 22, 2007 at 8:25am — No Comments

Adding Value to Student Learning

This blog entry originally appeared on my Byte Speed Blog Site on April 30, 2007. Enjoy.

ADDING VALUE TO STUDENT LEARNING

About a year ago, there were a series of inservices in my district from a company called INOVA. This company was hired to help the district teach teachers how to look at data in a more meaningful way. While the… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 22, 2007 at 8:23am — No Comments

Web 2.0

Welcome to my first post, dedicated to my current vision of Web 2.0, and how I might use it in teaching middle school.

Web 2.0 is the "read/write" web, the interactive web. It's called 2.0, according to Wikipedia, the ground-breaking, interactive, editable online encyclopedia, because this new environment includes technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, and social networking sites that imply a significant change in web usage. Visit… Continue

Added by Peter Goetz on August 21, 2007 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Introducing the concept of Web 2.0 in the classroom

Today I had students back in the classroom as we began another school year. As part of our discussion, I explained my vision of how they could contribute to the global knowledge of material we learn in class this year. There were smiles on each student's face and a lot of excitement as they realized what I was asking them to do. Our first attempt will be to have them involved in creating Podcasts that explain what they have done as they complete science experiments. I hope this new form of… Continue

Added by Glen Westbroek on August 20, 2007 at 6:02pm — No Comments

Examinations and accountability

When will the exam boards catch up with all of this... and how do we move forward while still having to address a results agenda ??

Nobody on this Earth cares what I did in my 16+ exams.... why do we use it now to such an extent???

Added by dave garland on August 20, 2007 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Connecting networks

I've seen many people write about how much they are learning from each other in this forum. I'd like to introduce you to the Web heads network, which is an international group of educators who share ideas and help each other develop uses of technology in education.

You can find them at http://www.webheads.info/

Added by Daniel Bassill on August 20, 2007 at 3:59pm — No Comments

Did You Know?

A thought provoking video.

http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com

Added by Cory Plough on August 20, 2007 at 1:50pm — No Comments

Major Zotero Update: Release Candidate Launches

We are excited to announce the launch of Zotero Release Candidate 2. This release adds many new features.

Zotero now offers full-text indexing of PDFs, adding your archived PDFs to the searchable text in your collection.

Zotero's integration with word processing tools has been greatly improved.

The MS Word plugin works much more seamlessly and we now support… Continue

Added by tjowens on August 20, 2007 at 8:36am — No Comments

A Fascinating Forecast of the Future of Education

On The Sausage Machine I wrote (in English! - not 100% correct, I presume) about an interesting interactive map created by Knowledge Works Foundation and the Institute for the Future: Map of Future Forces Affecting Public Education. While writing, I came to the conclusion that my learning blog in Dutch has so many links to American experts, institutes and associations: the US as a trendsetter for 2.0?…

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Added by janien on August 19, 2007 at 4:37pm — No Comments