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Have you tried Flipping The Classroom? Tell us about it and have your story featured on EmergingEdTech!

Reverse Instruction, or “Flipping The Classroom” is a great way to leverage education technology and the idea has gained a lot of attention recently thanks to high-profile advocates like…

I'll be presenting November 19th! "Using 3D Virtual Worlds in International Schools." OpenSimulator, Second Life, Quest Atlantis, Unity/Jibe.

http://bls.wab.edu

It's online! I'll be presenting November 15th, 0900 UTC +8 Beijing Time. "Global 3D Virtual Student/Teacher Community."

http://globaleducation.ning.com/

While researching the differences between Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and Digital Bloom's Taxonomy, I first thought of my lesson plan on "Re-cancellations."

As background, I teach employees how to make specific changes to health insurance policies.  When coverage under a policy is no longer needed, a cancellation is processed and unused premium is refunded to the insured.  Sometimes a refund is sent to the insured and later a payment the insured made for coverage is returned as…

The past 21 years, I have taught about half of the subjects covered in most public schools:  French, humanities, English, mythology, creative writing, math, physics--you get the picture.  Maybe this is why I've always been disappointed to see the way that most public schools compartmentalize learning.  Why don't we do things like integrate math, writing, physics, art history, and aesthetic design as students replicate Leonardo da Vinci machines and inventions?  Most likely, this is because…

Problem number one with trying to be technologically awesome is that I didn't know the difference between a Mac and a PC until last year, which I think can help all of you understand how well I know my way around listservs, blogs, and social networking sites.  The biggest struggle for me throughout this process has not been learning how to use so many new devices and resources but…

Using Classroom 2.0's profile I'm reminded of why Facebook and Google+ hold such attraction for people. It's essentially an advertising board for yourself and everything you're interested in. It allows you to collect all the things that catch your interest throughout the day when no one else is there to see it with you then make sure your friends and acquaintances have a chance to be in on it too. Given that kids and teenagers especially love talk about themselves, schools are…

http://youtu.be/O5UKTeUxakw

My own philosophy of education relies on being eclectic.  My philosophy of education takes elements of TRPS (Teaching Proficiency through reading and story telling) Dr. Gardners Theory of Multiple Intelligences. I love combining different teaching methods. Specifically, I love combing the Grammar Translation Method, that is based on having students translate texts based on grammar rules, The Direct…

Honestly, I have never heard of Ning.  I can understand the usefulness as far as networking and learning from peers.  But, it may take me awhile to become a regular user.  I have been a Facebook user for many years and it is a habit to "check my page" several times a day.  Could Ning become as addictive?  Maybe...

The following attachment is the file with my Bloom's comparison chart and the information about my lesson.

EDTC%20601%20Week%202%20Activity%203%20%20Project%20%20Investigating%20Bloom%27s%20Taxonomy.docx

Henry

Our students have actually been far ahead of us as teachers in the world of social networking. A powerful tool that creates instant connection and access to resources from all over the world, social networking has long been in the hands of our students. Since schools have been slow to embrace social networking, students took to self teaching themselves about this new technology. Unfortunately, the majority of students taught themselves to utilize social networking for social and…

We try utilizing some of these podcasts in my 2nd grade classroom.  Some of them are used as a whole class, and then others are used on individual student laptops or iPods.

CNN Student News (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=179950332)

Available through the iTunes store or…

Here is my Wiki Wordle!

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4321762/Wiki

<a href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4321762/Wiki"

Here is the link for my Blog Wordle.  I'm not sure that the first will work so i've included the second one.

<a href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4321752/Blogs"

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4321752/Blogs