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A bit new but always on the look-out to expand my horizons

A bit new... at this Classroom 2.0 but I'm always looking for new ways to learn. Most recently I am trying Pageflakes and trying to view more blogs and listen to more podcasts. As Wes Fryer has suggested, we all need a "yoda" from whom we learn. The very cool thing is, is that our yodas don't need to be in our local vicinity with all the techology available. Thus the world is flat. So here are my yodas...... Will Richardson, Wes Fryer, Alan November, Marco Torres and #1 David Warlick.

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Added by Ann Zimmer on July 20, 2007 at 6:47pm — 3 Comments

Classroom 2.0 was a great find!

I've only been on Ning and Classroom 2.0 a few days and already I have enough new ideas to try, concepts to consider, and preconceived notions to rethink that I'll be busy for months!

Also...very cool to come across so many of the people behind some of my favorite ed tech blogs. I've been exposed to some great new ones too. This is the kind of desire for learning/thinking/questioning/sharing I hope I (and all of us) can inspire in students as well as fellow educators who less than…

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Added by Adina Sullivan on July 20, 2007 at 10:39am — No Comments

iPhone First Thoughts

So I actually don't have an iPhone. What can I say, the perils of having a work phone linked to an exchange server that's used for 99% of my calls. However, my wife has one... so I get a lot of chances to play with her new tool.

In a word... WOW! The ease of us is amazing. Like the Wii, the idea of gestures and movements to control a device is both natural and easy to learn.

However, the biggest thing for me is what an incredible tool this will be in the classroom. I'm… Continue

Added by Ted Lai on July 20, 2007 at 8:15am — 1 Comment

Web 2.0 in Education Workshop Ongoing Starting Monday, July 23!

Hey, all,

Visit the blog http://webtoopointoh.blogspot.com and keep an eye on the wiki my workshop participants July 23 through 27 populate with the evidence of their week-long foray into the world of Web 2.0.

Over the week, David Warlick, Chris O'Neal, Peggy Sheehy, and hopefully our own Steve Hargadon (where are ya, Steve!?) will chat over Skype (Peggy plans to IVC her own workshop with ours) with the participants informally.…

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Added by Scott Merrick on July 20, 2007 at 6:12am — 2 Comments

new person

Just thinking about the last quarter-year or so, I learned so much. I've been learning all sorts of new stuff through collaboration with a colleague

about how to begin a learning center. Got even more into CR2.0, this great

philosophical and techie educational network with the bunch of

idealistic-thinking, forward-moving colleagues. Learned how to build

larger bases in networks, learned to connect networks (such as CR2.0

with Facebook). Learned, learned learned.… Continue

Added by Connie Weber on July 20, 2007 at 6:05am — No Comments

Quote 7/19/07 #2

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

Maybe this is where 2.0 comes into play. If we teach them in an interactive, collaborative way then maybe we can put them on course for using the learned knowledge and skills into positive and valuable use in the world.

Added by Adina Sullivan on July 19, 2007 at 11:31pm — 5 Comments

I'm Hooked!

Now that I'm going back to the classroom after 6 years, I am finally starting to use all the amazing Web 2.0 tools out there that I have just heard/seen people talk about over the years as the Executive Director of Illinois Computing Educators (ICE). I have to admit that I'm hooked, and I'm am getting more and more excited to start my new job as a Technology Integration Specialist at Wilmette Junior High School in… Continue

Added by Beth Burke on July 19, 2007 at 10:42pm — No Comments

Quote 7/19/07

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

I've decided to use this blog space (at least for now) to include the words of others I think are useful to think about, whether as something to aspire to or as something to avoid. This one, of course, is something I try to keep in mind each day. Teaching students to THINK is…

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Added by Adina Sullivan on July 19, 2007 at 7:10pm — No Comments

New Stuff

Well, since mid-June I have been blogging along (laubsblog) and learning fast...as a career educator (33 years) I have been guided (dragged is more like it...) into the field of Educational Technology by well meaning mentors (Darren Draper, most noteworthy...) and awakened to the possibilities of ALL technology...sheesh...am I learning fast. But, even though it is boggling my mind, I love teaching enough… Continue

Added by Russ Lauber on July 19, 2007 at 12:13pm — 3 Comments

Imbee - social network for elementary school students and teachers

Quite a few members of classroom 20 are wondering about the possible use of ning in the classroom.

Questions that arise are mostly connected to security and privacy.

There is a social network for school children, their parents and teachers, http://www.imbee.com

The blurb from the site claims this:

imbee is designed to provide parents with visibility of their child's activities on imbee. You have easy to use tools to guide…

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Added by SusanTsairi on July 19, 2007 at 6:13am — No Comments

iPhone Tips

Hey All,

While the iPhone may have some limitations, there are some great websites keep iPhone users happy.

http://appmarks.com
Gives you a whole new iPhone Menu

http://app.getleaflets.com
Gives you another iPhone Menu

These are just two of the better ones that I've seen out there, if you know of anymore please let us all know.

-Ciao

Added by John Gulick on July 19, 2007 at 12:51am — No Comments

Gender issues and the digital divide

Hi,

I am doing a class project on the Digital Divide for my grad school

program in education. This is a huge topic, so I narrowed it down

to looking at gender issues and technology use in the classroom.

I am interested in how gender plays a role in student interest in using

technology (if at all), but I am looking for any other related issues

as well.

If any of you have any insight to research in this topic, or… Continue

Added by Courtney Kiley on July 18, 2007 at 4:47pm — No Comments

Integrating technology into education

This was a rather long forum post I made that I thought might do better as a blog post.

I think the biggest disconnect with teachers comes when a technological medium requires too much time to understand or maintain. That's

probably part of the enthusiasm behind social networking; you have a

profile page that says who you are and then you can go about

communicating with people who are online in real time. It's simple and

requires no technological knowledge or… Continue

Added by Jared on July 18, 2007 at 4:21pm — No Comments

BOOOYAH!!!

I couldn't think of anything to use as a post title, so I figured I might as well use that battle cry. It just elicits feelings of excitement and hunger, although most likely confused and misguided.. haha!!!

This year my class and I will be working with our school's library media specialist on a research project involving the native american tribes of New York. We are looking for a class (preferably 4th grade) to coordinate with. This promises to be a lot of fun!

I also plan on…

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Added by Adam Dugger on July 18, 2007 at 1:57pm — 2 Comments

Seven More Sites Now Zotero Compatible

We are excited to announce that we've added support for seven widely used sites. Users can now automatically capture references from the following sites:

NASA ADS

Engineering Village

ERIC: Education Resource Information Center

SPIE Digital Library…

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Added by tjowens on July 18, 2007 at 1:32pm — No Comments

MS - Instructional Technology

I have been accepted into the MS - Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology Program and SUNY Albany. I'm not sure exactly what to expect but am looking forward to the course study. I'll be taking classes part time starting in the spring of 08. The classes will be on-line and during the summer. I read somewhere that anyone interested in instructional technology needs to take several classes on line to get the feel for on line learning. These will be my first online courses. I'm… Continue

Added by Scott Beiter on July 18, 2007 at 12:16pm — 2 Comments

My pic

Sorry if my photo is annoying! I am playing with photo booth on my mac. It's so much fun!

Added by karenklieg on July 18, 2007 at 7:09am — No Comments

Looking for Collaborators!

Anyone interested in participating in a place-based storytelling project I am creating? This will be a research project for a fourth grade class studying Native Americans. My class will be focusing on New York State tribes; I am looking for other classes from the original colonies area. The project will incorporate:

research about the tribes
podcasting
locating and placing each tribe on an interactive Google map, with links back to podcasts and perhaps a…

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Added by karenklieg on July 18, 2007 at 4:19am — 4 Comments

incorporating video

I will be working on an interesting multimedia presentation and I was wondering if anyone knows of some copyright friendly sites that would allow students to download educational videos in order to incorporate parts of the video into MovieMaker. We can't access Youtube in our district, so that is not an option.

Thanks so much,

Chris

Added by Chris Clementi on July 17, 2007 at 11:06pm — 4 Comments

The E-learning Journey

From what seems like very humble beginnings and the excitement of seeing power point for the first time, I am now amazed at the amount of resources that we have the potential to use in our classrooms.

In the institution that I work in we use the Blackboard system and are currently running at what I believe is version 6.2?

The uptake from teaching staff has been limited and I think there is still the fear that if you download information into the space you may not ever be able…

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Added by Jo Norris on July 17, 2007 at 7:11pm — No Comments