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Bienvenidos!

I am looking forward to this year. There have been many changes and there are definite challenges ahead of me, but I am able and ready to take them on. I have new energy. I'm going to use TPR more than ever. It is now coming to light how useful and needed it is.

Added by Ingrid Nathan on August 16, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Blogging in Education Today, part 3 (Student Blogging)

Continuing our multi-part series on the use of blogs in education today, we look at various examples of Student blogging efforts.

Over the last two weeks we’ve looked at various ways in which today’s teachers are using blogs. This week we continue our review of the educational blogoshpere by looking at…

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Added by Kelly Walsh on August 16, 2010 at 4:28am — No Comments

Building the perfect nest?

In my years in education, first as a student, then as a preservice teacher and finally in the classroom, I saw a lot of nest builders. People who sought to build the perfect place for kids to grow. Too often the nest was completed before the chicks arrived..

I remember it like yesterday and it wasn’t one classroom but most of the elementary schools I attended from Texas to Tennessee and… Continue

Added by Kevin on August 14, 2010 at 6:38pm — 1 Comment

Your pencil can reach the world...

On December 14th 2008 I posted the Great White Shark video into the ocean of Youtube and wondered if anyone would ever find it, much less watch it. After uploading the video I went back to my regular work and almost forgot that my shark was lurking out there where anyone in the world could see it. Recently I got an email from Youtube, offering revenue sharing for the Great White Shark video.

By this time I had many videos on Youtube and… Continue

Added by Kevin on August 14, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Can I move to the cloud?

In using the iPad for the past few weeks, one of my missions has been to discover the answer to the frequently asked question: Can that thing replace my laptop? I still travel with both the iPad and my 17in Macbook Pro but I’m seeking to fly “iPad solo” soon. There are still things I need that I haven’t figured out how to do with the iPad alone. I Use iWeb to build and maintain my websites and I cannot interface without the design and… Continue

Added by Kevin on August 14, 2010 at 4:46pm — No Comments

Wings

Flying today is increasingly iffy proposition. I mean, what with the economy and the reality that companies and entities are cutting staffs to the bare bones of functionality, what might the maintenance challenges at airlines look like? I look out the window and think about the complex moving parts that must work to keep this craft in the air and I am reminded of our school systems and their challenges to keep flying on dwindling staffs,… Continue

Added by Kevin on August 14, 2010 at 4:43pm — No Comments

Can powerful, new devices work on your network?

Tim Holt is one of the air traffic controllers of technology at El Paso ISD and as such spends a lot of time exploring new software, devices and approaches to serve his 4500+ teachers, 64,000 students on over 48,000 computers across a very large school district. I recently asked him his thoughts about implementing iPods and iPads within his system and his thoughts have been illuminating as I've explored the idea of using these tools within school systems.

Apple's system is a closed… Continue

Added by Kevin on August 14, 2010 at 4:36pm — No Comments

Graduation is NOT the endzone!

I like sports metaphors to make points and I often use one about a quarterback throwing the ball to where the receiver is going to be, rather that where they are standing at the snap of the ball. My point is that as educators we must throw education to where our learners are going to be rather than where they are when the class bell rings.

I believe that many of us are too focused on graduation as a sort of educational end zone. We see the kids score their touchdown in their cap and… Continue

Added by Kevin on August 14, 2010 at 4:34pm — No Comments

Cutting Budgets

The soap at the Hershey lodge in Hershey PA is missing it’s middle. Since most people waste the middle anyway, they just eliminated it altogether.

These are the hardest times I’ve ever seen in education in terms of budgetary limitations. Good people and programs are being cut all over the country and witnessing this is painful… Continue

Added by Kevin on August 14, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Word Clouds

I have by now written two or three blog posts on this great tool and I wanted to share them here as well as some other great posts by colleagues who have written some great stuff on word clouds.

My original post was…

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Added by Marisa Constantinides on August 13, 2010 at 10:49am — No Comments

Facebook as an Instructional Technology Tool

Can the wildly popular social network be used constructively in the classroom? This student’s story says it can.

Yesterday, student Kristen Nicole Cardon submitted a comment in response to my post 5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies in…

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Added by Kelly Walsh on August 13, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

5000 Grant

Ok here is the story. My principal just informed me I have 5000 to spend in my science classroom. I already have a model classroom ( projector, doc camera, audio, 4 computers). Where to go from here? 6th grade Science Objectives: Biomes, Symbiosis, Solar System, Weather, Climate, Electricity, Circuits, Energy. SO I need to suggestions on Good, Proven classroom software or other tools. Thanks Looking forward to what you have to say.

Added by Robert Capes on August 12, 2010 at 9:29am — 3 Comments

Moving Beyond the Tools:

This is also cross-posted on Speed of Creativity

My name is Beth Still and my blog is Nebraska Change Agent. I was honored when Wes invited me to guest blog during his absence. This post is cross-listed on my…

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Added by Beth Still on August 12, 2010 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

Moodle Server

Happy days,

I just setup our test Moodle server.

If you want to know more about Moodle checkout www.moodle.org.…

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Added by Juan O'Shea on August 12, 2010 at 1:30am — 2 Comments

A video with some suggestions about how to use YouTube in the classroom

I think this video has some interesting ideas I wish services like YouTube existed back when I was in school and that they could have been used in some of the ways suggested in this…

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Added by Rudy on August 12, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

Blog moved to website

Hi! Please check out my new blog which I have combined with my website. You can see it at http://www.mrstg.com .

Added by Michelle TeGrootenhuis on August 11, 2010 at 12:44pm — No Comments

Instructions for LiVE

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Added by Mau Buchler on August 10, 2010 at 6:47am — No Comments

Why YOU matter much more than you think...

Educators are constantly using their energy and resources on others. Their students are their number one priority, and consequently educators

are always filling the buckets of others. Educators dedicate

their lives to the development and growth of others...but wait, who

fills the buckets of educators? Who is there to tell the educators they

are doing a great job, and if they need anything somebody will always

be there… Continue

Added by Justin Tarte on August 9, 2010 at 5:58pm — No Comments

Blogging in Education Today (part 2 in a series)

This week we’re learning about teachers using “classroom blogs”

Last week we started this series examining the current state of blogging in education by looking at how today’s teachers are using blogs. Our first post focused on teachers blogging about various experiences and ideas, with the intended audience essentially being other…

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Added by Kelly Walsh on August 9, 2010 at 1:50pm — No Comments