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Time, Space, and a Whole New Mind

I love this space...the whole existence of Web 2.0! For me, it was heartwarming to come to this space this morning and see the pictures of my very good friends whom I work with on a daily basis and especially those who have moved on to other districts :) How cool is it to "hang out" with all the new "connections" I'm creating both in person and virtually? To quote… Continue

Added by Karla Murray on April 21, 2007 at 9:30am — No Comments

Approach

This week a colleague of mine taught a one hour class on Movie Maker and Photostory to the teachers in my district. I found her approach interesting and effective, so I thought I'd share it. She had the teachers bring in pictures. Most of them brought in personal stuff (grandkids, family vacations, etc). Then she taught them how to use the program. She never mentioned how the programs might be used in the classroom, and led the discussion so that the teachers were talking more about how they'd… Continue

Added by tcoffey on April 21, 2007 at 8:27am — 1 Comment

Feds to eliminate tech funding?

Cross-posted at The Blog of Ms. Mercer

Okay, now that I have your attention, I’ll point you to this post http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/04/20/margaret-spellings-is-under-fire/ from guest blogger Scott McLeod on Wes Fryer’s “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” (not faster than the average 6 month old if Spellings has her way, I guess).

Scott lists all…

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Added by Alice Mercer on April 21, 2007 at 7:46am — No Comments

I'm going to be famous!

Okay - I have to admit to the real reason I'm so excited about Web 2.0. I want to be famous. Okay, maybe only among a couple hundrend school teachers - but it's a start. Today I got an e-mail from Steve Hargadon asking me to podcast a quote from my blog entry for a keynote he is giving. How cool is that.

When I was in college I wanted to be an actress. I gave up that dream, but now I have a… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Davis on April 20, 2007 at 10:13pm — 3 Comments

Looking for international connections

I am looking to find teachers that are interested in collaborating with primary school classrooms through the use of a blog or a wiki. We study continents in our First Grades and I'd love to communicate with a classroom on a different continent to share photos, classroom events, and our culture.

Added by Sue Collins on April 20, 2007 at 1:09pm — No Comments

Current project

I don't teach that much anymore so I have no idea ábout the extent to which I would use Web 2.0 tools if I had a full timetable. At the moment I have a very small class of colleagues wanting to upgrade their English. We started with a lot of oral work with them recording various job related exercises such as what would our answering machine message be in English. Then we changed gear and started putting more emphasis on written work.

I have been very fortunate in that I was talking…

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Added by Anne Fox on April 20, 2007 at 7:05am — 3 Comments

OpenLearn wins top prize at IMS Global Learning Consortium's Learning Impact Awards

Hi,

I just wanted to share the great news that OpenLearn has won the IMS Global Learning Consortiums' top prize this year!!

Full press release below:

Vancouver, British Columbia – 19 April 2007…

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Added by Stuart Brown on April 20, 2007 at 1:24am — 1 Comment

Dinking around

Well I got the Puppy Linux working on my old Aptiva AMD 2 machine. It works great. I was really impressed how fast it works. I need to take it home over the weekend and try it on the internet (don't have network access at school for personal machines). Moodle seems to be doing well. A few teachers are digging in but not as eagerly as I'd like. One of the instructional coaches is doing great at loading her site with all kinds of links to state standards stuff. I hoped she would.

Added by Clifton Dancy on April 19, 2007 at 12:24pm — 1 Comment

Wrong Number

Warning, what you are about to read is nothing but my own ramblings about being an administrator.

I want to write. I feel I need to get some of this out but I’m not sure even how to begin and when I look at the suffering in other places I know it is insignificant. Yet, even with that knowledge, I feel

really lousy because of my mistake.

My mistake involved me dialing a wrong number and leaving a message for

a parent to call me about an incident with their child. I…

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Added by Kelly Christopherson on April 19, 2007 at 9:12am — 2 Comments

Test Sites, Real Sites

INITIALLY I JOINED NING just to test it for demo and training purposes. My real blog is at ClappingTrees. I also have an elearning portal is at NETCoach Asia and a wiki called Asia Social Media Directory (ASMD). The ASMD lists (and thus increases readership for) all bloggers and social network "activists" in Asia.

At first, I thought I couldn't link to… Continue

Added by clappingtree on April 19, 2007 at 6:40am — No Comments

Campus Technology Planning, Part 1 – Fly Fishing and Establishing a Vision

Cross-posted at Bump on the Blog

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before around here, but one of my real passions in life is fly fishing. Living in the desert southwest doesn’t really allow me the opportunity to go as often as I’d like, but with rivers like the San Juan, Red, Cimarron, and Conejos within a day’s drive, a quick get away isn’t too difficult. I was introduced to fly fishing nearly ten years ago by a…

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Added by Brian Grenier on April 18, 2007 at 10:04pm — No Comments

Coming in the middle....

This is a GREAT teaching tool! It amazes me when I think about the knowledge and "design" of this space called Classrooom 2.0 and I would iike to presonally thank those who have been involved in it's creation.

I'm excited about what is happening in our district right now! Among some great "tipping points" is the possibility of passion to learn with our teacher learning initiative. My question: Can they sustain the momentum?

One thing we are doing this summer: We have two… Continue

Added by Karla Murray on April 18, 2007 at 9:14pm — No Comments

Taking Off

I've just started testing Ning. There still needs some enhancements, but it's a great place to socialize, learn and share. Great possibilities for the classroom or just to pursue professional development. I'll keep playing around to have a better perspective on where I want to head with it.

Just found this great site that I guess this is the place to keep it registered, "25 Web 2.0 Apps to Help you Learn". Nice collection of applications!…

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Added by Carla Arena on April 18, 2007 at 8:49pm — No Comments

Scenes from a Blog

Thought you guys might like this graphic portrayal of the "verbal jousting in the life cycle of a blog post." Could this be us in the future? I think I've seen this happen in blogs out in the "real" world!

Scenes from a Blog

It apparently ran on the editorial page of the NY Times 4/7/07. I happened to find it on a search for something… Continue

Added by Sylvia Martinez on April 18, 2007 at 6:17pm — 1 Comment

Conference Presentation

Today, Friday, April 13th, I did a presentation at Lehigh University for a middle school conference . Our session was about "Simple Tech Tools for your Classroom". An hour was much too short. My collegues, Meg and John offered tips about podcasting, science projects, geography lessons, unintedstreaming.com, SmartBoard lessons, and how our school structures tech classes. Meg showed her powerpoint lessons, with UnitedStreaming videos embedded into the slides. As the building tech teachers, John… Continue

Added by Robin Martin on April 18, 2007 at 11:19am — No Comments

Finally

I have now come to the conclusion that I hold far too many blog accounts and am going to limit myself to bloglines,my school blog and classroom 2.0, There is so much out there to try out it is tempting to try everything that web 2.0 has to offer.

I have now finished the majority of inservice training I had planned to offer, things like digital video,blogging,SMART Board, and webquests and am now embarking on the final two, Moodle and wiki and video conferencing. It is difficult to get…

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Added by Jennifer Garcia on April 18, 2007 at 9:11am — No Comments

An English/L.A. Work Product

I just posted a sample work product demonstrating the way that students might use Web 2.0 to interact with text. I"m going to continue to interact with this product and try to enhance it over time. I"d be grateful for any feedback and suggestions. The link is: http://pass-ed.com/Blog41907.html

Here's a quick question: How much does the fact that I developed the product on my website and not on a wiki deter from the quality of it…

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Added by Andrew Pass on April 18, 2007 at 6:39am — No Comments

well, thats something!

Without even having posted my profile or any activitites here in this site, a few have requested being my friend. Wow. Thats a great welcome! Thanks for that!
barbara

Added by barbara buchegger on April 18, 2007 at 1:02am — No Comments

Chaos vs Coherent

Cross posted on The Thinking Stick

My Superintendent last week:

“I’ve learned that there is a fine line between chaos and coherent.”

This statement has been replaying itself in my head now for a week. Maybe because I’m feeling my life is on the chaotic side of that line at the moment.

However, I’ve also been reflecting at where we are in education and where we are trying to go. Where does… Continue

Added by Jeff Utecht on April 18, 2007 at 12:22am — No Comments

Checking out the group

OK, now that was fun. I just went through the members list and invited as 'friends' everyone I knew either from prior work experiences, or from reading their blogs quite religiously!
Looking forward to the sharing and the learning!

Added by Linda Loder on April 17, 2007 at 8:46pm — 1 Comment