Barbara

Female

Nashville, TN

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
K-12, Private School
Website
http://globaleducation.ning.com/profile/BarbaraPowell
Favored IM Account
iChat
Skype Account
rockmomanov
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account
http://www.futureofeducation.com/profile/BarbaraPowell
About Me
Hey everyone, my name is Barbara Powell. I teach computer and creative writing classes, and I am the Technology Integrator for middle school at a private school in Nashville, TN. I also direct our middle school literary magazine and teach students layout and design. Teaching is somewhat new to me. I have worked in advertising, at an art museum, and at a film school.

I am always seeking new ideas for ways to use and explore technology in the classroom. I currently use blogs, video chat, webquests, Quia games, and just about every iLife program (we are an all Mac school). I am looking forward to being a part of this network :-)

Comment Wall:

  • Martha Lackey

    Hi Barbara! I just joined web 2.0 and I am really excited about learning more about how to use it with my little 1st graders. Are their any good websites with tutorials on how o use web 2.0? My district is just moving forward with web 2.0 We are a MAC district so please share any tips on how to get started.

    Jan 28, 2009

  • Martha Lackey

    Barbara,thanks for the tips on using Kidspiration. This is a program that I would like to use more with my little ones and your ideas have already got my wheels turning. I would like to use Inspiration for more writing. I am very familiar with both of these programs. Chat with ya later.

    Jan 28, 2009

  • Martha Lackey

    Yes our laptops have cameras. Thanks for the website and I have bookmarked on my computer. Here is my classroom web page that you can visit:

    www.lackeym1@me.com or you can get to by going to my school website on my page. Just follow these steps:

    Go to Homework Online link (has a book pic)
    Select J.A. Vitovsky
    Select 1st Grade
    Select Martha Lackey
    Look for the blue link under my parents Welcome greeting and that should take you to my web page. Hope to keep chatting....we had a district shut down due to ice storm that came through but I have loved it getting to know my new colleagues!!

    Jan 28, 2009

  • James Edward Charles Webber

    Barbara
    how do you ning or wwiki

    http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/?wpcmp=educp1&t=anon

    hope it helps
    James

    Jan 28, 2009

  • Bobby

    Let's get a video up in 2.0 of the devil dog ....!

    Jan 28, 2009

  • James Edward Charles Webber

    Andrew Pass
    on here can possibbly help

    http://www.pass-ed.com/Living-Textbook.html

    James

    Jan 29, 2009

  • Mark Cruthers

    Hi Barbara,

    With your interest in new Education Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.

    Jan 31, 2009

  • Jack

    Hi Barbara. I was wondering if you have students or educator contacts who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

    Jan 31, 2009

  • Ian Dickinson

    Hi Barbara- you were correct with the New Zealand thing, I'm a Brit living abroad. As for the brocolli, it's an analogy for my vision of school values!

    Feb 16, 2009

  • Jeff Beard

    Barbara,
    The teacher ed students that I teach just completed an assignment where we created wiki WebQuests. Check it out and see what you think. Also, check out and comment on some of the conversations on my classroom 2.0 homepage.

    Feb 22, 2009

  • Jeff Beard

    Barbara,
    We cover website evaluation, as a teacher verifying good sites to use, as well as to educate their students how to evaluate sites. Therefore, do you mind if I share your WebQuest with my students as an example? This is great! Also, I really like the aesthetics of the Zunal better than the QuestGarden and Filamentality WebQuest authoring and hosting tools. Have you used QuestGarden or Filamentality? If so how does Zunal compare as far as usability and features?

    We have experimented some with those, but decided this semester to experiment with wiki WebQuests. The idea was to become better with using wikis (we are doing some research with wikis) while learning about WebQuests. This was the first exposure to both for these teacher ed seniors. I think that they did a nice job and they did these from scratch in a week. The response from the students was positive as well as those that have looked at them.

    Thanks for your feedback!
    Jeff

    Feb 23, 2009

  • Jeff Beard

    Thanks, I will send them there to look at it and let you know what they say! I think that it is difficult for students to figure out the fake ones and probably better that they can't in some ways as it really emphasizes how easy it is to make a really “good” fake site. Yes, Please sent me a student sample, that would be great!

    Feb 24, 2009