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Getting Started in Classroom 2.0

Ready to start regular blogging. Have been dabbling
here and there. How many blogs shall I mainatin? It's time to make one
of my blogs my edublog. Which shall it be? Then feed it to other
like-minded communities I follow....hmmm. Too many services to choose
from.

Added by Madeline (Slovenz) Brownstone on May 19, 2007 at 7:45am — No Comments

Early morning thoughts

Hi All,

4:00 AM seems to be my natural creative time. This morning, as I woke from a sound sleep, realizing it was Saturday and there was no reason for me to be up, I began thinking about my purchase order for next year.

Along with the usual markers, post-it pads, and fun-tak for the walls, I began thinking about subscriptions - online subscriptions. Were there sites I wanted to use but needed to pay for? Groups I wanted to join that weren't free?

And then I realized,…

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Added by Lisa Parisi on May 19, 2007 at 6:11am — 2 Comments

End of the year

Like many of you, I am busy getting everything together for the end of the year and the inevitable drudgery of testing. In NC, we now have a Science end-of-grade test for 5th and 8th grades. I have inevitably changed some of the approaches I have used in an effort to cover the broad, shallow curriculum that we have and to try and prepare my students for the test. It is a little soul crushing, this testing protocol that seems so de rigeur these days...

Usually at this time of year I… Continue

Added by Shawn Moore on May 18, 2007 at 8:09pm — 2 Comments

Presentations of Learning

I’m sitting at Pleasantview Academy, a project-based learning charter school, watching a presentation of learning by students here. The kids are showing multimedia projects, websites and . The kids have archived their learning in these presentations and are sharing them with parents and teachers and it is fun to watch them nervously showing them to the audience. There was the history of the Hutchinson salt mines, The history of the railroad, math and statistics form the recent trip this class… Continue

Added by Kevin on May 18, 2007 at 6:25pm — 1 Comment

Cool Tools - Open Source and Freeware

By Alix E. Peshette

I love Open Source and Freeware! As a past junior high computer science teacher, I was always looking at software prices and multiplying them x 34 workstations. Even the least expensive software took a pretty large bite out of the department budget. I spent a lot of time researching, installing, testing and using…

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Added by Alix E. Peshette on May 18, 2007 at 3:23pm — 5 Comments

Left handed gloves

I've lived in Kansas for over 17 years. As a child, my family was mobile and I saw much of the country. I attended schools too numerous to list from Texas to Pennsylvania and I have some idea that people may think differently in places other than the wheat state. One morning I got out of bed and went to an estate sale. A friend had asked me to go and some part of me must have been curious, nostalgic or something. Whatever the feeling was, it was sufficient to get me dressed and driving to the… Continue

Added by Kevin on May 18, 2007 at 1:00pm — No Comments

The Kansas experience..

I drive a lot, many people at ESSDACK do. As we log the miles there is much time for thought. Outside of the numerous cell phone conversations managing the events that will necessitate the next long drive, the time in the seat is largely wasted. I listen to audio books on a range of topics to try to use the parts of my mind not engaged by the challenges of driving. The world of the highway and these audio books, fuse for me as my mind seeks to integrate new understandings. When my synapses are… Continue

Added by Kevin on May 18, 2007 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Blogging with students requires biting your [digital] tongue

Cross posted with my Pair-a-Dimes Blog.

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In my last post about my Science Alive wiki, I mentioned that our Renaissance Fair Project was starting, (here…

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Added by David Truss on May 18, 2007 at 3:39am — 2 Comments

I ♥ riddles!

Don't know about anyone else, but I am addicted to Weffriddles. If you haven't tried it yet, I totally recommend it. You will be addicted! Each page is a riddle and you have to figure it out in order to get to the next page/riddle. I am on level 36. I've been stuck on 36 for days now, but I just can't stop!

http://www.weffriddles.com

Added by Amy Clay on May 17, 2007 at 11:31pm — No Comments

[ Draft ]

hello?

Added by duncan on May 17, 2007 at 2:17pm — 1 Comment

Summertime Planning

I am impressed by how many educators have signed up for haiku LMS

in April and May. One would think that teachers are busy dealing with

the yearend push and summer vacation plans. I’m… Continue

Added by Allen on May 17, 2007 at 12:22pm — 5 Comments

NECC workshop resources

Excuse multiple crossposts -

Julene Reed and I are teaching a workshop at NECC on global

collaboration, and I've set up a series of resources to demonstrate

during this class. I hope that these resources will live on as people

become interested in sharing resources used to teach global awareness

concepts. Please consider jumping in and joining any of these groups.

Some of them are already seeded with material, but others are just

getting started.… Continue

Added by Lucy Gray on May 17, 2007 at 10:56am — 1 Comment

Middle of May

For teachers, the middle of May is about getting ready for finals, grades, and that eternal vacation.

For those of us in administration (at least the technology part of it), the middle of May is about budgets, upgrades, and that eternal stretch of time when we can walk into the schools and fix something without being distracted by questions from teachers.

Not that I mind the questions, it helps keep me in touch with where each faculty member is in terms of technology use. It… Continue

Added by wallowamichael on May 17, 2007 at 9:17am — No Comments

Hello from a new member!

Hi everyone,

As I wrote in my member profile, I'm an English teacher living and working in western Japan (Toyama City). I'm extremely interested in Web 2.0, and am currently involved in researching its applications for teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). At our school, the Toyama College of Foreign Languages, I am in charge of our video production lab, a task that puts me in a room filled with some excellent toys (HD digital camera, recording equipment, iMacs, and all the… Continue

Added by Jerry Talandis Jr. on May 16, 2007 at 6:23pm — No Comments

....am introducing WEB 2.0 to our faculty next week May 25th

,,,anyway have any ideas on the best approach to this..any good resources you can point me to....

Added by don buckley on May 16, 2007 at 1:05pm — 2 Comments

5 Goals x 2

I’ve been tagged by Lynn over at Learning. Goals - what do I have? Actually, I had to go Donald Taylor’s blog to see what he did. This led me to Ev Nucci’s blog where I found a series of very well explained goals. For those of you new into blogging, this is how you find new ideas and things…

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Added by Kelly Christopherson on May 16, 2007 at 9:36am — No Comments

Exploring Second Life with K-12 Students in Mind

Hi 2.0'rs!

I've been spending some time in Second Life. Here's my first post about it.

I "get" the collaboration possibilities, but fear overhype about the educational potential (like proposed math manipulatives, physics sims, etc.)

I'd love input, especially about the math/science/programming… Continue

Added by Sylvia Martinez on May 16, 2007 at 6:09am — No Comments

Apple Blossoms and new principals

As I was on my way to school this morning, I was admiring all the trees in blossom. I especially like the trees with the bright pink

blossoms - I think they’re an apple tree but I’m not really sure.

Anyway, I had a team meeting and really should have been hurrying to

get there but I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take a few

moments to slow down and appreciate the beauty of the trees. Now,

a few years ago, I wouldn’t…

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Added by Kelly Christopherson on May 15, 2007 at 9:33pm — 1 Comment

Recent conversations..

Tim Holt spoke with me yesterday on skype for my podcast and was great fun to speak with. He has been the tech admin for El Paso schools for 22 years and has a lot of insight about changing schools. His Blog "Byte Speed" has a lot of resources and thinking to share.

I spoke with Terry Eis Yesterday. Terry is taking the helm of a new charter school in Haysville Kansas and has much experience in the vinyard of doing whatever it takes to prepare kids for success. That conversation is… Continue

Added by Kevin on May 15, 2007 at 8:06am — No Comments

Looking for Global Partners!

One of the things that I do is help coordinate a global collaborative learning project run by the Israeli Ministry of Education. The project which teams Israeli High School classes with classes abroad will be going into its fifth year next year. This year we teamed 24 classes from 17 Israeli school with classes from 12…

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Added by Reuven Werber on May 15, 2007 at 2:30am — No Comments