Just subscribed to Gliffy for the princely sum of $20US and am very impressed with this online concept mapping application.
I have been looking for a low cost alternative to Inspiration and have experimented with a number of them, and found Cmap to be excellent, and free.
However Gliffy has a significant advantage in being an online application with very good tools is a very polished product. There is a collaborate function…
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Added by John Travers on July 24, 2007 at 8:44pm —
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I just discovered this blog via a blog entry on Will Richardson blog.
Added by Warren Lind on July 24, 2007 at 8:24pm —
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I work with Tracy Weeks in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Tracy issued an invitation to our department to dive into this new technology and gather information about how students engage with changing technologies. As a curriculum specialist, I feel it is important to experience the world of our students so I can guide teachers to provide learning situations that are real for our students. I appreciate having colleagues that are willing to join in the research.
Added by Darlene Ryan on July 24, 2007 at 8:11pm —
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Added by Carlos Toledo on July 24, 2007 at 3:26pm —
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Thanks to Greg Farr for pointing me to this site. I have invited a bunch of people from my district to join. I am hoping we can take this social networking journey together and that be learning what it means to be a part of a social network, we can come to better understand:
- Why our students like being in them
- How they might be used in schools
- How they might transform education
I am so excited!
Added by Tracy Weeks on July 24, 2007 at 10:09am —
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I just finished a summer coursee in Web 2.0 technology and I have to say that I find it very exciting. There is so much information but I am trying to narrow down a couple of ideas to use in m math classes. Has anyone out there used blogging an a math class? Or any class for that maatter?I have found a couple of classes which use it and I'm intrigued. My students love to use messenger, facebook etc so it's not really a big step to move to blogging, it's just that they would have something…
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Added by Bridget Perry-Gore on July 24, 2007 at 5:29am —
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Added by Kirsten Carter on July 23, 2007 at 9:30pm —
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At http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=cabrini+connections you can view some of the videos created by Cabrini Connections teens and volunteers over the past 10 years. In these you can hear our teens talking about how they value Cabrini Connections.
This is a non-school, volunteer-based tutor/mentor program, where most activities start after 6pm when business volunteers are available to be tutors, mentors,…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on July 23, 2007 at 7:54pm —
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Added by Kevin Sandridge on July 23, 2007 at 7:46pm —
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A Crane Alights in Eugene, Oregon
There's the germ of a collaborative learning project in here somewhere...
Several months ago the Flickr blog profiled "The Paper Crane Project", a flickr group. Ambitious host Eshu promised to fold and send a paper crane to one thousand people anywhere in the world. All they had to do is agree to send her a photo of the crane in its new home. My crane arrived July 19. It's beautiful!
The photographs…
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Added by Jane Krauss on July 23, 2007 at 3:19pm —
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On July 17, I facilitated a workshop on Data Driven Decision Making at the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN)
CTO Clinic in Santa Clara, CA.
The presentation was based on three years of interviews with educators
in school districts around the country. My analysis is available as
white papers, case studies, and articles through the CoSN
Data Driven Decision Making Initiative. To…
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Added by Karen Henke on July 23, 2007 at 2:33pm —
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You are cordially invited to explore the July-December issue of MidLink Magazine http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink the award-winning magazine for students ages 8 - 18. If you're looking for ideas for your upcoming year, you’ve come to the right place!
Please email the teacher/editors of the projects below you would like
to participate in with your students! You
and your students are sure to get inspired…
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Added by karenklieg on July 23, 2007 at 1:24pm —
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There was a really rich forum discussion thread about teachers and
social networking on this ning site. This blog post is kind of a repeat
of my post to this forum discussion, but I feel pretty strongly about
the issue:
http://classroom20.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A7964
Here's the thing that Will doesn't really bring into the discussion.
Look at the psychology of a young person. It's all about the
"friends".....the more "friends" the…
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Added by Nadine Norris on July 23, 2007 at 11:30am —
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A very interesting comparison of MySpace and Facebook in an essay from this blog, http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/06/24/viewing_america.html
From the writer:
"Hegemonic American teens (i.e. middle/upper class, college bound
teens from upwards mobile or well off families) are all on or switching
to Facebook. Marginalized teens, teens from poorer or less educated
backgrounds, subculturally-identified teens, and other non-hegemonic
teens continue to be drawn…
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Added by Nadine Norris on July 23, 2007 at 8:54am —
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Though I've been a
blogger for two years now, I have just learned about Classroom 2.0. What a great social networking idea!
Among other things this summer, I have been very busy learning about technology as it might apply to education. Here are some things I have learned thus far --
Wikis: I first saw the Common Craft video on wikis in May. This coincided with family tragedy, for my mother-in-law suffered a…
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Added by Donna Hebert on July 22, 2007 at 8:07am —
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I'm working to promote international collaborations between educators.
Over the last week I've put up a site where educators can register for
what I've been calling the
International Educators Collaborative.
It's still a little vague what that means because the more I talk to
educators about it the more the idea starts shift and come into greater
focus. My real purpose is to establish a means for educators to use the
web…
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Added by Jared on July 21, 2007 at 2:31pm —
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I am new to using a social network...my friend Julia told me about NING and she's on Library 2.0.
Now that I look at my id, I hope no one thinks I'm about abuse! NOT! (even tho' I feel that way sometimes!) I teach middle school business and computer applications classes.
Anyone got any ideas on how to handle these hormonal monsters?
Have any of you used MySpace to reach these kids?
Added by Elizabeth on July 21, 2007 at 12:06pm —
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So, I've learned a lot about viruses this past week. Who knew that viruses, adware and spyware were mutually exclusive but similarly symptomatic? My laptop picked up something at camp--and no not band camp. Though that whole idea and a recent comment from a pastor at church got me thinking about people that use computers for porn (if you're not following my tangents the American Pie movie is running through my mind while I contemplate a unit I taught to a health class in the Reading…
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Added by Lee Ann Spillane on July 21, 2007 at 7:44am —
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I've posted this on my own blog (http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/) but thought readers here might also be interested.
Here are my picks for the posts where I highlighted the Top Ten websites for the month of July. These are the ten best new (at least to me!) sites for assisting English Language Learners and their teachers.
They are not, however, listed in any particular…
Added by Larry Ferlazzo on July 21, 2007 at 12:19am —
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