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Teach 21st Century Skills with Scratch!

Thanks to Wes Fryer for his tip about Scratch, a new freely downloadable programming language based on Sqeak that will allow your students to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- all poised to share across the Web! Now we're talking!

According to Mitchel…

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Added by Kevin Sandridge on July 28, 2007 at 11:06am — 1 Comment

Websites Step Up!

Web Sites Step Up

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22044686-11869,00.html

Thought you may all be interested in this article.

Jacinta

Added by Jacinta Gascoigne on July 28, 2007 at 8:37am — 3 Comments

Good for our politicians in Australia but banned from educational institutions and stakeholders - Interesting

MP's flock to myspace

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22062159-11869,00.html

Interesting. How can it be that myspace is seen as an important feature of current political campaigns in Australia, yet the same politicians endorse the banning or blocking of access to such tools/sites in educational institutions nationwide?

I am most confused:)

Added by Jacinta Gascoigne on July 28, 2007 at 8:35am — No Comments

Blogathon for Charity, live 7/28/07

Have any of you visited the web site of Blogathon 2007 at http://www.blogathon.org/ ? More than 500 bloggers have signed up for a 24 hour marithon to raise money for their favorite charities. I just learned about this so I'm not included, but I'm going to follow this and see how the idea might apply to the work we all do of helping kids connect with technology, elearning, mentoring and expanded adult support.

If you're participating in…

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Added by Daniel Bassill on July 28, 2007 at 8:09am — No Comments

Okay, so scare the parents and educational policy makers - now let's whack the teachers on the head!

Teacher Video Hits Net.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21994648-11869,00.html

I just came across the article above - they will stop at nothing!

When was the last time you saw a good news story about social networking tools/sites in the public media fora?

Added by Jacinta Gascoigne on July 28, 2007 at 7:50am — 3 Comments

Well, our "Web 2.0 for Us" workshop (thus renamed in its PowerPoint title slide 10 minutes before the first minute of the first day's work) is completed, but after some enthusiastic shareshare from t…

Well, our "Web 2.0 for Us" workshop (thus renamed in its PowerPoint title slide 10 minutes before the first minute of the first day's work) is completed, but after some enthusiastic shareshare from the 10 participants the last hour or so of the weeklong experience, I'm hopeful that like all good discussions, it may well never end...

Steve Hargadon, Classroom 2.0's creator and longtime advocate of free and open source software for…

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Added by Scott Merrick on July 28, 2007 at 6:11am — No Comments

Social Networking Tools - Parents, Children, Siblings, Together Again!

Social Networking Tools - Parents, children, siblings, Together Again!

By JinxieTheCat

Playtime Update from Gadget Girl and her Family of Believers - Social Networking Tools Really do…

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Added by Jacinta Gascoigne on July 28, 2007 at 12:40am — No Comments

What is happening in your country?

Hi All,

I am just a little curious as to what is happening outside Australia, with regards to the freedom of access learners have to social networking tools, whilst learning within an institution (physical).

2007 has seen an increase in negative publicity related to myspace and youtube in particular. I do not have the statistics, but from my searching it appears that a fear campaign began in late 2006 and continues still. A campaign to scare parents…

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Added by Jacinta Gascoigne on July 27, 2007 at 11:40pm — 2 Comments

Information Overload

Wow! It seems as though I am going to need a couple more months of summer to be able to finish sorting through the handouts, ideas, and examples that I have received in the last 4 days. After spending 2 days at the State Reading/Math Academy and another 2 days at the MACE/MTI conference, I am pretty much exhausted.

I have so many ideas that I want to try out in my classroom, but don't know where to start! I guess I will just pick one or two ideas and give it a whirl! :)

Added by gmmiller on July 27, 2007 at 11:36pm — 1 Comment

MTI-Bonner Springs, KS

I am so excited about some of the things I learned at MTI the past 2 days! Classroom 2.0, Lulu.com, zamzar.com, more on Moodle, and so much more! WOW! Thank you to everyone who presented and shared what THEY are DOING in their own classrooms. So many plans, so much to do!! =)

Ta-Ta for now!

Added by Mrs. Deines on July 27, 2007 at 10:30pm — No Comments

The experience of a newbie edublogger... (this is my metablog space)

For starters, this is my first blog post at the Classroom 2.0 Ning space.

In total I have made very few blog posts elsewhere, mainly in the context of reporting about an oversees trip on which I took students in March this year. But I have started my very own CleverLearning blog that will hopefully build over time to be a reflective space for me and possibly a learning space for…

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Added by Jason Hando on July 27, 2007 at 9:37pm — 2 Comments

Changing Your Mindset - Part One

(Cross posted from my school blog)

I just finished reading Mindset by Carol S. Dweck. I am so excited about this book that I don't know where to begin. In Mindset, Dr. Dwecks explains her work on the "fixed" versus… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Davis on July 27, 2007 at 6:48pm — 1 Comment

New to Classroom 2.0

I am new to Classroom 2.0. I just found out about the site at the Mid-Atlantic Handheld and Emerging Technologies Conference that was held this past week at Salisbury University. I hope to be able to utilize this site for professional development and personal insight.

Added by Ron Siers on July 27, 2007 at 6:34pm — 1 Comment

Creditable 2.0 sites

I recently asked a professor how to cite a wiki, podcast and blogs and she sent back a scathing retort that I should not even entertain the idea of using any of these resources as valid sources for any of my papers that I was writing. It thought this was very interesting and rather, how should I say some what prejudicial towards tools that are being used on the Internet.…

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Added by Peggy Soong Yaplee on July 27, 2007 at 5:57pm — 1 Comment

Keyboarding Skills

I am a new CONNECT/Technolgy teacher for middle school students and I am needing ideas for teaching keybording basics to students. This is SO BORING, I know....but a requirement at my school. Any good ideas, resources, games, etc... ???

Added by Katie Mathews on July 27, 2007 at 3:33pm — No Comments

Firing Up As I Write - Looking foward to many adventures in the online worlds of now and tomorrow!

Dear All,

I will be posting frantically over the weekend. If not I may well explode.

I would like to ask at this point, if your educational institutions and/or workplaces, blocking access to social networking tools OR embracing emerging worlds, staff working/learning alongside learners, for learners.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Added by Jacinta Gascoigne on July 27, 2007 at 2:32pm — No Comments

My Summer "Vacation"

I guess these are the things I call a vacation:

I started my summer teaching a course with two colleagues in my district on Learning and Teaching with Technology. We have taught courses along this theme for 15 years, but this was the first year with a web2.0 focus. We followed that with the whirlwind experience of NECC07 and that has continued through blogs, twitters, webcasts and into Second Life. This week I have been with 21 educators at the University of Southern Maine in Alice Barr's… Continue

Added by Cathy Wolinsky on July 27, 2007 at 1:43pm — No Comments

Toondoo doo it again!

rajendran

Wanna…

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Added by SusanTsairi on July 27, 2007 at 8:59am — 3 Comments

Call for "Getting to Know You"/ First Week of School Activities

Hello all! Figured I'd try reaching out to the Classroom 2.0 network for this one. A co-worker of mine is in charge of providing new teachers at our school with some handy "Getting to Know You" / First Week of School activities for Middle School-aged students. It's always a challenge finding things this age group will gravitate to. Often, they have one foot in elementary and one foot speeding towards....oh, Age 21!

I welcome any ideas/mini lessons any of you care to… Continue

Added by Kevin Sandridge on July 27, 2007 at 7:30am — No Comments

Have you seen the spedubloggers?

In my google searches: "special ed teacher + blog" and "specialneeds +

blog," I'm not finding as many results as I expected for special

education teacher blogs. It seems there aren't many special education teachers

in classroom 2.0 either. Where are they? Where are they hiding? Are

they afraid to discuss what's going in their classrooms via blogging?

Are they turned off by the technology? Do they have access to the

technology? Being a special… Continue

Added by Christine Southard on July 27, 2007 at 5:58am — 1 Comment