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Why Choose Wikis over Google

The Marketplace

For the last number of years educator's have been turning to wiki platforms to create collaborative spaces. The ease of use, access, and availability of wikis have made them a favourite option for teacher's hoping to create an online space to share with their students. But Google has quickly become an increasingly popular choice for use among educators, especially for district-wide implementation - a corporate,… Continue

Added by Meg H on March 21, 2010 at 8:19am — 1 Comment

ECOSYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTIVISM IN K-12 OPEN SOURCE EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL REALITY & VIRTUAL WORLDS

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Added by Rich White on March 20, 2010 at 2:10pm — No Comments

Using Technology with Kids

I remember when I started teaching and my third grade team told me that our kids practice keyboarding in computer, I was amazed. I guess I hadn't thought about kids learning to type that young because I was not taught keyboarding until high school. Then it dawned on me that of course they need to be able to type early on in this day and age. The different activities we complete and educational websites we visit in class are so much more effective than when I was in school. I know our advanced… Continue

Added by Roxanne Warner on March 20, 2010 at 12:24pm — 2 Comments

"Here Comes Everybody"

After reading the first three chapters in our book, "Here Comes Everybody," it left me with a few thoughts to ponder. One point that intrigued me was reading about how professionals of any kind are valuable during ordinary times, but become invaluable during revolutionary times (p. 69) because professionals are always concerned with threats to the profession. The book discussed scribes vs. the printing press. I had never really contemplated that the technology of the printing press completely… Continue

Added by Roxanne Warner on March 20, 2010 at 12:10pm — 5 Comments

March 20: Today is... First Day of Spring 2010

Vernal (Spring) Equinox - 1:32pm EDT

Added by Eric Snyder on March 20, 2010 at 5:41am — No Comments

Barriers to technology integration: Hello! It's NOT always the teacher!

I recently posted about a classroom teacher's story about barriers to technology integration in her history class, a "classroom for the future" http://bit.ly/9HMf9Y From my post, you can link directly to the teacher's M.Ed. thesis, which provides a good first-person insight about the barriers she faced in her attempts to effectively integrate a rich assortment of technology in her classroom.

Here is just one the examples from the…

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Added by Lynn Marentette on March 19, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Do you want to be inspired?

Are you in the mood to be inspired? Take a look at this video

Welcome to the Future

Added by Carol E. Kubota on March 19, 2010 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Call for Nominations: 2010 Totally Wired Teacher Award

The Totally Wired Teacher Award, sponsored by Dell, is inspired by Ypulse.com founder Anastasia Goodstein’s book, Totally Wired: What Teens & Tweens Are Really Doing Online, and the challenges she observed when teachers tried to integrate technology into their public school…

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Added by Derek Baird on March 19, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

How To Choose Educational Software

Dr. Ethan Cancell of Brockton Public Schools in Massachusetts gives tips on how to choose educational software and what features to look for… Continue

Added by Kimberly Hulbert on March 19, 2010 at 12:55pm — No Comments

Finalists Cram for Race to Top Presentations

"With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in-person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.… Continue

Added by Kimberly Hulbert on March 19, 2010 at 12:45pm — No Comments

PART TWO - Use Music to Inspire and Connect with Students

This post was originally on The Freshman Transition Network.

Recently I posted about ways to use music in the classroom and a list of specific songs that can be used. This post is a follow up to that earlier… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on March 19, 2010 at 9:38am — 4 Comments

Shifting Expectation of the School Institution

After a brief conversation yesterday with my Mentor Teacher (MT), I discovered the purpose of my teaching career. Granted, teaching kids is always the reason teachers get out of bed each morning, but there has to be some over-arching drive to anyone's professional career. Film makers want an Oscar, music artists want a Grammy, executives want to become CEOs, but what do teachers want? The education system is too flawed to be content… Continue

Added by Joe B. on March 18, 2010 at 1:25pm — 1 Comment

2010 MACUL Conference

The MACUL, Michigan Association for Computers Use in Learning, took place in Grand Rapids, Michigan on March 10-12, 2010. It was the first conference that I had attended that was for teachers who use computers to further the learning of their students. It was great. I learned about so many e-learning tools and came away very excited to try some of the tools. I would like to share some very useful websites with you.…

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Added by Carol E. Kubota on March 18, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Web 2.0 vs. e-learning… reflection

Previous statement… Posted yesterday.

“…the proposed research will not focus on the concepts of e-learning since I consider a fundamental difference between the learning practices and methods within web 2.0 social networks and the instructional nature

of e-learning methods. The concept of e-learning will however be

discussed and partly analyzed to emphasize the unique nature or learning

within web 2.0 social networking…

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Added by Gudmundur Bogason on March 18, 2010 at 4:11am — No Comments

BEST REGARDS!

Muitas outras imagens e figuras para o Orkut aqui

BEST REGARDS!
SUSANA MARCOS

WWW.DELCUERPOELARTEYLAPSICOLOGIA.NING.COM/PROFILE/SUSANAMARCOS

Added by Susana Marcos on March 17, 2010 at 5:14pm — No Comments

THANKS IN THIS THREE GREAT YEARS!

WONDERFUL AND CONGRATULATION !!
KISSES SUSANA MARCOS.

Added by Susana Marcos on March 17, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

On the Radio: Students Interview Authors

As part of our student interview series, Lucy Hurston—author, college professor, and niece of Zora Neale Hurston—will discuss her aunt’s work with Jennifer Hubbell and her English class at Marymount High School in Los Angeles.

Join us on March 25 at 5pm EST.

Added by diane burrowes on March 17, 2010 at 3:07pm — No Comments

Character Poster

For this week's assignment in Educational Technology, I had to make a character posters using Microsoft Office's Excel program. My character poster included a picture of me as the background and a word that describes me along with its definition - both displayed somewhere on the poster.

To make the poster on Excel, I zoomed out to view the page at 25%, so that I was able to see the page lines (the…

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Added by Katelynn Johnston on March 16, 2010 at 6:50pm — No Comments

Inspiration: a Propelling Power that Urges Man to Dream

Inspiration is the inner encouraging power that can push man to the limit of their abilities as they pursue their own goal in life. It is the inner basis of reach the desired achievements. We all know that a man with inspiration either from external or internal, could lead to the passion of a great character. When a man reaches the point of doing things with passion consistently, there comes the attitude in the level of integrity. But how can we reach the goal in life if we do not have… Continue

Added by Lance Ruch on March 16, 2010 at 5:50pm — No Comments