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Wikis in the classroom: a reflection.

Cross posted with my blog.

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Well here it is, my completed Science Alive Wiki.

After…

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Added by David Truss on May 15, 2007 at 12:33am — 4 Comments

10 days and counting

Well, we've got approximately 10 days of school left. I am one of the lucky few who will have a few extra hours of time since my seniors have left the building. I plan to use that time to consolidate my resources and downsize from 2 classrooms to 1. I don't have to float classrooms anymore! I will be firmly ensconced in the Classroom of Tomorrow for all of my classes next year. What a relief. I will be teaching a new curriculum to the seniors next year and plan to use a few of those hours…

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Added by Teralyn Cohn on May 14, 2007 at 7:45pm — No Comments

BHAGAVADGITA SLOKAS IN VIDEO BOOK FORM

Respected Educators of Classroom 2.0,

We request all of you to visit

http://www.esnips.com/web/gita-english-wmv…

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Added by M. SESHAGIRI on May 14, 2007 at 4:24am — No Comments

sample of video book

I SINCERELY REQUEST ALL EDUCATORS AT CLASSROOM 2.0

TO VIEW MY VIDEO IN CLASSROOM 2.0

AND READ THE SUGGESTED STEPS TO FOLLOW TO CREATE SUCH A VIDEO.

FROM URL: http://one-task-at-a-time.tripod.com

- SESHAGIRI

Added by M. SESHAGIRI on May 14, 2007 at 3:23am — 2 Comments

Langwitches Blog

You can find all my blog posts at http://www.langwitches.org/blog.
Hope to see you there!

Added by langwitches on May 13, 2007 at 2:09pm — No Comments

New ITM Post on Google Co-op

For those of you interested in using Google's custom search tool, Google Co-op, I have a new post up at the Infinite thinking Machine on this topic:

http://www.infinitethinking.org/2007/05/teachers-often-bemoan-their-students.html

If you have rolled your own search engine, please consider posting the url to it in the comments section of this blog posting!

Thanks,

Lucy

Added by Lucy Gray on May 12, 2007 at 8:10pm — 2 Comments

Technology is cool, but teachers are cooler

These are the words printed on the back of my Tom Snyder Productions t-shirt. When I worked for this educational software company providing professional development for teachers, we ended all of our workshops with this quote. I think the sentiment expressed in these word is essential to keep in mind as I continue on my Classroom 2.0 journey.

It is easy to be critical of the teachers that are still living in a Web 1.0 or… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Davis on May 12, 2007 at 7:18pm — 4 Comments

Classroom Adventures with Audacity

By Alix E. Peshette

In last few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure to spend time working with 5^thand 6^th grade teachers and students in their school computer lab. This school is in the first year of an EETT grant (Enhancing…

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Added by Alix E. Peshette on May 12, 2007 at 5:15pm — No Comments

Meeting our Changing World

Around here we keep wondering why it is taking so long for all the teachers out there to begin to utilize technology in their teaching repertoire. Why don't they take advantage of the great teaching and learning opportunities that cutting edge technology makes available to them? Why don't they make the effort to enter the 21^st Century,…

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Added by Reuven Werber on May 12, 2007 at 2:08pm — 2 Comments

Too small for web20

A few years back after being slim all my life, I gained weight rapidly, and in the space of a year went from being average to outsize. Buying clothes became torture, In fact after trying on outfit after outfit I generally went home with the first thing I tried on in my bag, or worse still, hot, flustered and depressed, without making a purchase at all.

While I love the possibilities opened up by Web20, I feel like that outsize me on one of those doomed to fail shopping…

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Added by SusanTsairi on May 12, 2007 at 1:28pm — 5 Comments

thoughts on a Saturday morning

I can see the benefits of blogging, of course, but as noted in other posts, I just prefer to have interactions with either creating or responding to posts. That being said, today I find myself with a need to talk out loud to any/every/no one.

We're nearing the end of the inaugural year of the face 2 face portion of our charter school. I'm in charge of the direction of this branch (we also have a virtual school--I'm actually inbetween working out and showering up to do some in-home… Continue

Added by Ginger Lewman on May 12, 2007 at 9:27am — 4 Comments

How Technology is Transforming the Classroom at North Shore

On Thursday morning, Tom Doar, our Head of School, wandered into the library where I was getting ready to help work with our fifth graders on their iMovie project which I wrote about last week. He told me:

On Tuesday evening, at a meeting of the strategic plan committee chairs, Pam Whalley, our Lower School Head stated that the accessibility to technology has changed the way that teaching and learning are done in the classroom, especially in the last three years. Teachers…

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Added by Vinnie Vrotny on May 12, 2007 at 9:01am — No Comments

Check out my blog

http://k5tech.edublogs.org/

Added by Margie Brown on May 12, 2007 at 7:42am — 1 Comment

Audio Adventures with Audacity

By Alix E. Peshette

I’ve been on an interesting learning curve lately, nailing down the intricacies of Google Earth, YouTube and…

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Added by Alix E. Peshette on May 11, 2007 at 9:59pm — No Comments

Cryptic Commentary: moving forward, finding the locality

During this phase of learning the new forms of communication and connection with Web 2.0, I find myself expanding and contracting, expanding and contracting. To what degree is it good to reach out? To what degree is it important to stay local?

How large should the web be? Who gets to paint the web? Through what eyes is the web seen? Is it the size of a garden-spider's web, an ocean fisherman's net, a constellation of stars? I can't get the proportions right. They keep… Continue

Added by Connie Weber on May 11, 2007 at 6:49pm — 2 Comments

Why are we doing this?

Today I had an interesting conversation today about using technology in the classroom and in the school and in the school division. Now, I’m very interested in moving the use of technology along beyond just a

minor few looking at some technology use in classrooms. I would like to

have it front and center in our division where we are looking at how to

build the skills of the teachers and create learning opportunities for

teachers and students. Right now, it is no more than…

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Added by Kelly Christopherson on May 11, 2007 at 6:11pm — No Comments

Planning for Leadership

"Well that went off without a hitch" commented one of the parents today as we were finishing our first attempt at an afternoon with community and students being together. "Community Day" was a great success as 50 community members joined 100 of our students for an afternoon of games, activities and cookie decorating followed by a talent show with many of our student showing off their many talents. It was a great afternoon, to be sure, but it was so great because the group of teachers organizing… Continue

Added by Kelly Christopherson on May 10, 2007 at 11:24pm — No Comments

Innovation. embrace the new.

A must read article on an idea for a new network and conference for Innovation in Education:

http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2007/05/learning_dna_pe.html

Anyone interested???

Added by Carolyn Foote on May 10, 2007 at 9:47pm — 1 Comment

Vannevar Bush's Vision

In 1945 Vannevar Bush, an inventor and engineer, coined term 'trails' in his seminal essay entitled 'As We May Think'. Mr. Bush conceived of a product he called the Memex, which would enable a user to create a trail of linked and annotated pages. The idea was to annotate pages while you research a topic. Each note would be linked to the next note in the trail. Trails would be used to share your knowledge, the result of your research and with a dash of your insight.

I co-founded a… Continue

Added by John OHalloran on May 10, 2007 at 4:45pm — 3 Comments

I teach in the 20th century

Living in a small town certainly has its advantages. But one of the disadvantages of this small town is that it is still in the 20th century. Our garden walls are so high, nothing can get in. (Can anyone help me remember where the garden wall illustration came from?) Ning came across my readings while at home, and I would love for it to become a part of my professional development during school hours. But I teach in the 20th century.

Added by David James on May 10, 2007 at 4:07pm — 2 Comments