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20 October 2008
K12 Online Conference Kicks Off Today
One of the most transformative conferences for me, over the past two years, is the K12 Online Conference (k12onlineconference.org). It began last Monday, with the posting of the Stephen Heppell’s keynote conversation, “It isn’t the 20th Century Anymore, So Why Should We Teach Like As Though it Was“. Some of you heard refered to as [...]
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15 October 2008
Web 1.5 + Inspiration = A Product Worth Watching
One of the tools that I have and enjoyed is Inspiration. I have used this product since 1989, when a forward thinking local school system purchased it for its teachers and I had to train them on how to use it. I have always been a visual thinker, which is one of the reasons that [...]
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21 September 2008
Election Resources from Google
From the Google Teacher Newsletter:
All around Google (and all around the world), there is buzz which is quickly turning into a roar about this November’s election. Google has teamed up with the National Student/Parent Mock Election to get students of all ages as excited as we are about the November U.S. elections by bringing into [...]
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19 September 2008
First NICE Meeting of the Year
The Northern Illinois Computer Educators (NICE) are hosting their first meeting of the year on Tuesday, September 23, 2008. The meeting will be held from 4:30 to 7:00 pm (Dinner from 4:30 – 5:15 ish , Presentation 5:15 – 6:30 ish) at Lyon Elementary School in Glenview, IL. Lyon is located at the corner of [...]
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19 September 2008
Next Generation Teaching and Learning Conference – October 13
The University School of Milwaukee is hosting a conference, the Next Generation Teaching and Learning Conference, on Monday, October 13th from 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. on their lovely campus.
The conference will be keynoted by Alan November (novemberlearning.com). I do not know the topic of his keynote on this day, but in the past, his [...]
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17 October 2007
Top Language Web 2.0 Tools
I am highlighting a group of tools that I have found on a blog post by Richard MacManus, who writes a blog called the Read/Write Web. In a a post called the top Spanish Web 2.0 Apps from August 2006, he highlights the following applications which I think may have application in our classrooms:
Tagzania [...]
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16 October 2007
Gabcast – Podcasting using a Phone
One of the highlights that I have listened to at the K12 Online Conference is a presentation by LizKolb on the use of cell phones as data acquisition tools in the classroom. Two of the new tools that she highlighted were Gabcast and GCast. After setting up accounts at each site, they allow you [...]
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10 October 2007
Create Portable Documents
If you want to share various documents with students, you have to be concerned whether or not the students will have the application and the correct version of the software that you used to create the document. This is especially important when sharing SMARTBoard notes or tablet inkings on Moodle or with others via email.
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8 October 2007
K12 Online Conference Begins
The K12 Online conference kicked off today with the posting of the Pre-Conference Keynote by David Warlick. There is both an audio and a video component of the presentation. ( http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=144). On Monday and Tuesday, there is a live chat that you can participate in ( http://davidwarlick.com/k12onlinekeynote_chat/signin.php ) and on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m., there [...]
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7 October 2007
Global Project – Flat Classroom
This idea comes from Kim Cofino, who is the Elementary 21st Century Literacy Specialist at the International School in Bangkok, Thailand. On Monday, Kim posted an idea on her blog, always learning, on Monday, October 1st entitled Collaborative Ideas Number 3: Creating a Flat Classroom Project. In this post, Kim shares:
Our goal is to enable [...]
