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Flickr OK?

Just a random question maybe someone can take 10 seconds and answer.

I am starting my first 2.0 project, and my 4th grade students will be recording themselves reading poetry. I am going to use Microsoft Photostory to add some images. Is Flickr a safe place to get images? It seems like we could download from their creative commons section. From my own browsing, there doesn't seem to be any content that is inappropriate, but I want to be sure. I don't want to mess up my first…

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Added by Matt Kish on April 26, 2007 at 9:43am — 4 Comments

School 2.0 vs. Clear National Trends?

The question is: how do national trends we recognize in education policy interact with the (r)evolution we envision for schooling?

This post has been forming in my head for a while now.

Really, it's inception came about because I read Tough Choices at about the same time I began to involve myself in the school 2.0 conversation. I did that by:

beginning my exploration of the blogosphere,…

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Added by Jeremiah Patterson on April 25, 2007 at 11:27pm — 2 Comments

My entry to Classroom 2.0

I mostly blog through my blog at http://blog.hintonweb.com, but I thought I should at least add an entry here and perhaps I will blog some as well. I have enjoyed being part of the community thus far. I'm cautiously optimistic as to what can come of it. There seem to be some really great, smart people here and so hopefully we'll be able to taken advantage of that synergy. I'm been most interested by some of Kevin Jarrett's stuff thus far and have also… Continue

Added by Brett Hinton on April 25, 2007 at 5:32pm — 2 Comments

Not Much of a Blogger

Nope... never have been... don't know if I ever will be. But hey... who knows what the future will bring?

Added by Jeff Cooper on April 25, 2007 at 5:27pm — No Comments

If I had a dime every time.....

My last post What will we do with these LD teachers? has brought a few comments that have me thinking, again, about technology use. When I first wrote my piece, I was really saying it tongue-in-cheek in a response to something I read on a discussion forum

at Ning that read:

I would argue that time is NOT the issue. We all have the same…

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Added by Kelly Christopherson on April 25, 2007 at 11:57am — No Comments

Classroom 2.0 technonlogies

Here at my school we have a blank slate, so to speak, in regards to technology. We are trying to put together a "Wish List" of technology in our classroom. I am a big thinker but I also know that there are a lot of even "Bigger Thinkers" here. I know we won't get everything on the wish list but I don't want to miss anything. Please help me compile a list of the most "cutting edge" technology that has, or could have, an applied use in a Project Based Classroom for teachers and students. What…

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Added by John Franke on April 25, 2007 at 11:43am — No Comments

Well, I am in the process of inviting friends and just trying to figure out how to fit this one into things. I have a WordPress blog off my website (cyndidannerkuhn.info/wp) and like it, but in my ex…

Well, I am in the process of inviting friends and just trying to figure out how to fit this one into things. I have a WordPress blog off my website (cyndidannerkuhn.info/wp) and like it, but in my exploring this moring I think this might be very useful for conversations and with my students. I be adding more things the next few days, so keep an on on me!!!

I am looking forward to getting to know and learn form more educators around the world. What fun!!!
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Added by Cyndi Danner-Kuhn on April 25, 2007 at 11:33am — No Comments

The Web 2.0 and School 2.0 Connection

I gave the keynote address to the CVCUE meeting

in Fresno this past Saturday, and prepared a presentation on why Web

2.0 is going to be so important to education. When I was driving home I

made a connection that I hadn't fully made before: that the transition

between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is very similar, if not almost… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on April 25, 2007 at 1:02am — 8 Comments

Reflecting on Educational Technologies

The past couple of weeks have been a study in contrast and application. I've been working with a teacher-student teacher team conducting research in a public school head start classroom. I've watched my student teacher work with 3, 4, and 5-year olds. These preschoolers are using Fischer-Price digital cameras to identify patterns in nature, and within the classroom. These students are in the morning session. Afternoon session pre-schoolers are learning the same content but without the use of… Continue

Added by Lynne Wolters on April 25, 2007 at 12:12am — 5 Comments

Here I am!

Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm a tech coordinator for a middle school. I'm trying to juggle podcasting, blogging and wiki-ing with the "old" technologies like PowerPoint, video-creating and (ho hum) word processing (in two different languages - we're a bilingual school). Like all of you, I find it overwhelming and incredibly intoxicating at the same time.

Right now my personal interest is focused on presentations that I'm making at a national conference this summer: podcasting,… Continue

Added by Debbie Harris on April 24, 2007 at 9:16pm — No Comments

Bad blogger!

So I'm spending my Classroom 2.0 time trying for more meaningful interactions than speaking into space here, hoping that folks my buzz by. I'm not an anemone that sits still and waits for floaters to pass. Am I the shark, patrolling, looking for morsels? Sometimes. Sometimes, I'm just a little krill, gathering phytoplankton to survive...

So if you want to drop a line, please do so, but most of my limited time will be dedicated out in the discussions, I hope! :) See you there!

Added by Ginger Lewman on April 24, 2007 at 8:50pm — No Comments

Hi, Folks!

I'm new to Classroom 2.0, but not to the concept behind it. I don't plan on blogging here, but I am enjoying the conversations. If you would like to check out some of my blogs and wikis, please visit the links in this post.

huffenglish.com: My blog for educators.
Mrs. Huff's English Classes: My blog for my students.
Room 303…

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Added by Dana Huff on April 24, 2007 at 7:32pm — No Comments

Finding jobs - Trailblazer or Path Follower?

This is something that I have been thinking about for the past few days - I am passionately invested in learning about how to optimize learning in the classroom. I believe that we can completely change and improve the way that students learn by making some major changes in education - just one of those changes is using some of the new web 2.0 tools that we are all familiar with.

So, as I was searching the internet last weekend, I came across a school that has a job opening in the same… Continue

Added by Matt Kish on April 24, 2007 at 7:21pm — 3 Comments

What would you pay $50 USD to get?

I was asked by the Texas Computer Education Association, Strategic Open Source, Special Interest Group (TCEA SOS SIG) to discover (and report) on what products and services teachers would deem valuable and beneficial enough that they would rush to join our group.

The cost of membership is:

TCEA Membership: $30.00

SOS SIG Membership: $20.00

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Total Cost to Join: $50.00

It is important that we learn exactly what teachers would spend…

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Added by Joseph Chmielewski on April 24, 2007 at 2:48pm — No Comments

Halo 2 and your 3rd period class

Sylvia and I have been emailing back and forth about video games, mostly because I've been bugging her. My vision, unfulfilled so far, is to have my students create a working video game simulation of The Grapes of Wrath.

Why?

First, a slew recent books have convinced me that video games represent an evolution in thinking about motivation and how we learn. Steven Johnson's… Continue

Added by SparklingDrift on April 24, 2007 at 12:12pm — 3 Comments

Hello Classroom 2.0

I've just been directed to this page by the 'Grumpy Old Teacher' blog. I'm intrigued? I'm an ex-primary teacher but now employed by a ICT company as part of a managed ICT service. My role is to provide educational support to help transform T&L through the use of ICT as part of the BSF (Building Schools for the Future) initiatitive being funded by the UK government. Part of my remit is to develop, train and support schools in their use of Web 2.0. I am a personal 'blogger' (Yahoo 360) but… Continue

Added by Val Juneman on April 24, 2007 at 9:34am — No Comments

Is it time?

Tonight I learned yet more about the “crisis” we face in education. We have only introduced a small slice of the “big picture”. The one all of us write about collectively and passionately in this space in the Blogoshpere.

Are we powerful enough in our own districts, when our social networks fail us, and they will fail us like everything else does, can we survive longer than our opponents who are of such forceful voice?

I hope I am not disappointed this time. I loved this… Continue

Added by Karla Murray on April 24, 2007 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

About Vision...

This post started out as an e-mail reply to my own message about an idea to create a space for "shared dialog" in our district. I called my idea "Thursday Morning Tech Talks". I know, it should/could be more creative but I don't think I created the mental model I have of these sessions because I had this reply from one of my most creative team-teachers:

"Sounds good on paper- like staff meetings? Logistically it probably wouldn't be good for our staff meeting as we have to watch… Continue

Added by Karla Murray on April 24, 2007 at 6:57am — No Comments

Still haven't converted over to RSS... watch this!

I ran across this great video this morning (on a blog in my RSS reader) for those of you who aren't using RSS yet... now's the time. Get on board!

Click To…

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Added by Jeff VanDrimmelen on April 24, 2007 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

tired today

I added a discussion question/request to the main discussion forum, so if you're interested, go check it out...

Integrated Project Based Learning? http://classroom20.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A7598

I also posted some thanks and ideas to Ben Davis's discussion about www.Bubbl.us, which is a pretty cool collboration tool for web graphic organizers.

Otherwise, I think I'm done for today. *yawn*

Don't forget to throw some cool tool ideas my… Continue

Added by Ginger Lewman on April 23, 2007 at 10:31pm — No Comments