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After reading and listening to the information posted about PLN's, one word remains with me. BALANCE. Yes, that's the word for me. I currently have four e-mail accounts, along with accounts on Facebook, Twitter, SKYPE, a ning or two, follow a few blogs, etc. I even had a blog of my own for awhile, a teacher blog of sorts. I work on various computers (four actually) and a Blackberry, have numerous flash drives with various bits and bytes of information, and have programmed three ipods.…

Today I was able to use a very cool program, that allowed me to web my friends and my family. This super easy-to-use webbing program is called Kidspiration. Kidspiration is very neat and user friendly program. It would be a great program for a lot of ages. From first grade all…

Please help a great group of middle school students who are learning about social media and trying to make a difference in the world for just one day! Visit our website or Facebook page and take the survey/pledge to turn your lights off on March 12th, 2010! Help us through your Facebook friends, blogs and twitter to spread the word to anyone and everyone you know!!

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Last week in Educational Technology we learned about various different programs that we may one day use in our own classrooms. One of the programs, "Kidspiration", helps students brainstorm by creating their own customized webs and outlines. For today's assignment, we were to create a web that contains at least 5 family members and 5 friends. We identified each person with either a picture or one of the symbols provided on Kidspiration. After creating the web, we wrote an outline of the web…

Which one of these categories do you fall into when you are participating in discussions? …

By Alix E. Peshette

Cross-posted from the Impetuous Geek…

This past week in Ed. Tech we got to work with various kinds of children’s computer software programs. It was definitely my favorite class so far! One of the types of software programswe got to work with was Kidspiration. Kidspiration is a children’s computer program that aids children through offering various computer activities based on subjects such as reading and writing, math, science and…

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There was a monastery in Greece that was built on top of a very steep precipice. The only access was by a basket on a long rope, pulled by a monk on top. A visitor riding up to the top looked at the aged rope and asked his host how often the rope was replaced. The monk thought a moment…

Kidspiration (preview by clicking here!) is a tool tha can be used to make brain webs on a computer. It is great for children who cannot read because Kidspiration can have sound and verbally tell a child what a picture or word is supposed to mean. After playing with Kidspiration, I realized how beneficial it could be to lower end elementary school kids as well as upper elementary students. A teacher of lower elementary children could use…