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Next week - live blogging from Longfellow Middle School on Nick News visit

Hi all,

We got some exciting news a few weeks ago - Nick News with Linda Ellerbee picked one of our longtime GenYES schools for a profile in a series about education. They were intrigued by the students mentoring teachers and all the local and global student projects.

The camera crews are due to show up on Monday, April 17 at Longfellow Middle School in Hill City, Kansas. I've added an eighth grader, Theresa, as a contributor to the Generation YES… Continue

Added by Sylvia Martinez on April 17, 2007 at 5:42pm — 4 Comments

One Laptop Per Child and Generation YES

Cross posted from the Generation YES blog...

I was recently asked to do a guest blog on the OLPC News website (not affiliated with the OLPC project.) OLPC News tries to be an

“independent source for news, information, commentary, and discussion”

of the OLPC project. Although it skews towards skepticism, they do try

to… Continue

Added by Sylvia Martinez on April 17, 2007 at 12:41pm — No Comments

Web 2.0 Experiment - The Digg Effect

As you may know, I've been doing quite a few experiements with various

web 2.0 tools (Pageflakes, Netvibes, yourminis, Grazr, Dapper etc), and

in the next week or two I want to do an experiment with Digg - I'm

going to put up a story about openlearn and the top ten popular units,

to see how many people visit the site go on to continue to learn from

our free materials.

If you have a digg account would you be willing to digg my experimental

story? I… Continue

Added by Stuart Brown on April 17, 2007 at 12:18pm — 1 Comment

2.0 Sounds Cool

Hello everyone,

I'm very intrigued by this whole Web 2.0, Classroom 2.0 movement and I'm here to see what others are doing so that I can try new things. I'd also love to share the things I'm doing.

I've heard about teaching using iPods and cell phones. Come on. Is anyone out there using those for student learning? If so I'd love to hear what you're doing.

Al G.

Added by Alfonso Gonzalez on April 17, 2007 at 11:22am — 3 Comments

Hmm...

So first blog post...not much to say. 36 days left until school is out for the summer....I start my masters this summer...and the wedding in 4/5/08. That's all for now.

Added by Michael Seiler on April 17, 2007 at 11:19am — No Comments

Web 2.0: A Personal Learning Renaissance

(Cross-posted on www.SteveHargadon.com)

Yesterday, on the Classroom 2.0 social network, Elizabeth Davis posted:

"Following and reading blogs, participating in ning, contributing to wikis,

writing in my blog, I haven't thought… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on April 17, 2007 at 11:15am — 3 Comments

So sad...

I'm just so sad for all the people who were killed and injured at Virginia Tech today. I ache for the families who got an unimaginable phone call today. I'm so, so sorry for everyone involved.

Added by Sylvia Martinez on April 16, 2007 at 11:22pm — No Comments

Blog is here.

See my ongoing blog here: http://robdarrow.wordpress.com
Is there anyway to integrate my blog with ning?

Added by Rob Darrow on April 16, 2007 at 6:12pm — 1 Comment

I Taught My Teen Well!

My 14-year-old daughter noticed that I was using my real picture on this group and said let me know that she didn't think it was a smart thing for me to do, considering what I've been telling her. That's why I have a new image made with Photoshop filters. It's nice to know that my kids listen to me once in a while.... for seconds at a time.

Of course, there are pics of her on Facebook taken by her friends and anyone can copy and save them! I've made sure that she's enabled…

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Added by Shayne Train on April 16, 2007 at 5:57pm — No Comments

Webcast: Peer Tutoring

April 17, 2007 - 4pm EDT, 2pm MT, 12pm PST "Peer-Tutoring! When Do We Want It? Now!"

A free, live webcast will be broadcast from the 15th Annual National Tutoring Association conference in Denver, CO. This session will offer case studies on successful peer-tutoring via preparatory and summer transition programs at high school and college campuses, featuring integration with NCLB (No Child Left Behind). Panelists will share proven strategies for building support for…

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Added by Nalini Lasiewicz on April 16, 2007 at 5:11pm — No Comments

Students can say anthing they want!

I received an e-mail from one of my lists - Safekids. In it was a blurb about a case in which a court ordered that a middle-school student who was put on probation for criticizing a principal on Myspace in an "expletive-laden entry " has the right of free-speech. Earlier, a judge had declared the remarks obscene. The court of appeals found that her remarks were protected as political speech "under both the state and federal constitutions because they dealt with school policy" and said that…

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Added by Shayne Train on April 16, 2007 at 3:33pm — 2 Comments

All blogs are not created equal...

I've been thinking about the difference between this blog space and the blog that I have just started for my school. I think the answer is audience. On my school blog I have to be very careful about not going too fast. The audience for that blog includes a lot of people who are very new to Web 2.0. I don't want to overwhelm them with information. They also consist of people who are not reading a lot of other blogs. So it is appropriate to repeat… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Davis on April 16, 2007 at 2:15pm — No Comments

Presentation on EAST and the Distance Learning Center

Since I began "lurking" in the bloggosphere last semester (making an occasional post), my mind is frequently occupied by Classroom 2.0 issues. A few of us inspired our Grad school advisor to begin a blog for one of her other classes; we also spent a few nights explaining blogs to some seasoned teachers. We did enough public speaking to realize that we did not have enough teaching experience to tell teachers how to get around the red tape. I began to lament over the fate of education in…

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Added by Ash on April 16, 2007 at 2:06pm — No Comments

Puppy Linux

Friday, I read Steve Hargadon's Blog about using Puppy Linux on a computer at home. So the wheels started spinning. I'm a Mac user but have an old Aptiva in the basement. So my current project is to see how Puppy works on the old machine. Lot's of families in my district can't afford computers and it's been my dream to see usable machines in their hands. So I'm trying this out. Wish me luck.

Added by Clifton Dancy on April 16, 2007 at 8:17am — 1 Comment

My blog is...

I do my best to blog over at my blog http://lostjohns.blogspot.com. You can catch the latest feed via the RSS feed below. Thanks

William Bishop (Bill)

Added by William Bishop on April 15, 2007 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

There they were, just a walkin' down the street

On my blog I have a regular piece that I write which tries to introduce different people to others in the blog world. I have been doing this for about 2 months and just finished my 9th person. I thought I'd continue this here, putting my entry here so that people could access that blog. As we try to find people to communicate and share ideas, I found that it was very difficult to do that at the start and I didn't have too many people visiting my blog. However, I began to visit and comment on… Continue

Added by Kelly Christopherson on April 15, 2007 at 10:14pm — No Comments

Bursting the 2.0 Bubble

So, recently I read E.D. Hirsch's The Knowledge Deficit. Hirsch (Core Knowledge Reading Program) is know as being a heavy proponent of phonics, but this book goes further in advocating a knowledge heavy curriculum (You can always look it up...or can you)?. Not only that he suggests the curriculum… Continue

Added by SparklingDrift on April 15, 2007 at 10:00pm — No Comments

The Good Teacher

I was doing research tonight for a Moodle class I am teaching and I ran across the tale of The Good Teacher. It was pleasant to read, (keeping in mind that I was up to my eyeballs in software documentation) and it reminded me that even in a 2.0 world we need to continue to use good pedagogy in our classrooms.

Added by Teacher K on April 15, 2007 at 8:12pm — No Comments

Web 2.0 is making me smarter - or at least making me think more!

Following and reading blogs, participating in ning, contributing to wikis, writing in my blog, I haven't thought this much in years. It truly is an amazing phenomenon. I feel so intellectually alive. I'm inspired and challenged constantly. The blogs I read lead me to question and explore new tools and Websites. I haven't written this much since I was in school. It is all so exciting and energizing. For me, classroom 2.0 could just be about my… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Davis on April 15, 2007 at 7:02pm — 1 Comment

Classroom 2.0?

I guess I need to acquire some friends, and start some dialogue. This is my first experience with a social networking site, so I am a little uncertain about the whole thing. Am I cool enough? Insecurities aside, this is me trying something new. That's been the fun part of my new foray with technology: I'm taking little risks, and I love it.

As I search for a job for the fall, my mind wanders back to all of the blogs I've read in the past six months. Weblog-Ed and 2 Cents Worth (and… Continue

Added by Ash on April 15, 2007 at 2:33pm — 3 Comments