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The daunting Multiple Intelligences Inventory Test

I took the MII and had a mixed reaction to the results. Although I would agree with most of the peaks, some of them did not seem to describe me. First of all, here are my results:

Linguistic: 42

Mathematics: 39

Visual/Spatial: 31

Body/Kinesthetic: 47

Naturalistic: 42

Music: 41

Interpersonal: 45

Intrapersonal: 35

The MII confirmed many things about me. I learn best when I'm able to move around and interact with the world around me. When I… Continue

Added by Angelina Trumpore on February 1, 2010 at 12:15pm — 1 Comment

Interactive Whiteboards Becoming Multilingual

Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to share with you this story, by District Administration, about our online SMART Board course that is now becoming multilingual. Bonjour and Hola to the teachers that will soon be using those new versions of our course.

Happy Learning!
Mrs Blossom

Added by Mrs. Blossom on February 1, 2010 at 11:33am — No Comments

eSchool News has commented on my SMART Board Course for teachers

I’m really excited that eSchool News has commented on my SMART Board Course for teachers. Check it out:
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/01/29/fetc-2010-training-consulting/

Happy Learning,
Mrs. Blossom

Added by Mrs. Blossom on February 1, 2010 at 11:31am — No Comments

Sharing my Notebook Lesson Plans

Hey Everyone,

I’ve developed some notebook lesson plans for various subjects that I’d like to share. There are 88 lessons across various subjects for you to download, hopefully you will find them useful. Just select the subject and download the notebook file. When you click on the lesson plan page scroll to the bottom to see the file.

As I make more lessons I’ll upload them!

Happy… Continue

Added by Mrs. Blossom on February 1, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

MI Inventory Results

After taking the MII and seeing the results, I was a little surprised. My interpersonal was just two points higher than my intrapersonal score, and I thought they would have been switched. Linguistics was my lowest score, which really surprised me. And my highest score was music. I definitely wasn’t expecting that. Aside from that, my results didn’t really surprise me much.

My top three results (highest to lowest) were music, mathematics, and visual/spatial. The music result threw me off… Continue

Added by Chelsea Havens on February 1, 2010 at 7:48am — No Comments

Free screencasting – easy; free video editing – not so much

My quest for free tools to combine video clips to produce tutorial clips hasn’t yielded the desired results, but I’ve learned plenty along the way.

This is the final post in a series focused on creating video tutorials using free applications. Over this last week I’ve attempted to fill in the “missing piece” in the video production tool set I’ve been trying to put together – the editing application (a tool to let me combine video clips, trim them if needed, and… Continue

Added by Kelly Walsh on February 1, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Make 'em do what they mandate us to do and watch what they mandate morph.

How can anyone be expected to manage a situation that they do not really understand?

And how can anyone really understand a situation unless they are actually in that situation?

It is for this reason that I believe ALL school administrators should be required to teach at least one class in K-12 schools.

Yep, the Principal needs to teach a class.

The Vice Principals need to teach a class.

The Superintendent and their cabinet of decision-makers… Continue

Added by Alan Sitomer on February 1, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Open Source Voice and Vision Enabled Tutorial Software

Equip a computer with a webcam and a headset microphone and it can watch and listen to a student while delivering audio and visual instruction.

One open source project developing these capabilities is Open Allure DS, a dialogue system written in Python.

The idea is to have as natural and as immediate a connection between a student answer and the instructional response as… Continue

Added by John Graves on January 31, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Multiple Intelligence Inventory

Who am I? What is it that I do well? How do I best express myself? How do I learn well? These questions are ones many people come across at some point in their lives. Whether it be continuously on their mind or just a passing thought, there is still the desire for it to be answered. Yesterday, I sat down at my computer to take the Multiple Intelligence Inventory(MII) for a class in which I am currently… Continue

Added by Kylee Michelle Gephart on January 31, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

BLOG TOPICS BY TAGS

Hello! I created a ning network just two months ago and my students and I really like it. Now we are all trying to add TAGS in each post so that we can all visit previous posts that are relevant to our tasks. I find tags a bit awkward. They are case sensitive and they appear differently “song” SONG” . Also, they don´t appear in alphabetical order and it takes time to find the tag you are looking for.

On the other hand, I asked my students to add tags to their posts but that is going a bit… Continue

Added by Delia Bakaikoa on January 31, 2010 at 12:50pm — 1 Comment

Marzano's Strategies

I have found Robert Marzano's nine strategies to be very interesting! The one I chose to focus on was 'summarizing and note-taking.' There were a lot of very interesting websites relating to this area of Marzano's. I like how he points out that taking notes 'verbatim is the least effective way. When I think back to when I was in high school and college, I always took too many notes word-for-word and it made it so hard to study for test because I didn't even know where to start :S I also agree… Continue

Added by Melissa Loetscher on January 31, 2010 at 11:19am — No Comments

3rd grade Science

One of my goal this year is to use our video conferencing equipment. The school year is half way over and so I really need to get on this. We are taking a science experiment though the whole process and would like to incorporate that in presenting to another class. I know people get really creative. I just am new to this and need ideas and a class to connect with!

Added by Karen Teegarden on January 31, 2010 at 11:05am — No Comments

Apple iPad vs.the Lenovo U1 Hybrid

from my Library Media Tech Musings Blog

Anyone who knows me knows i'm a Mac grrl.... from way back. From my first apple classic, apple IIe,… Continue

Added by gwyneth jones on January 30, 2010 at 9:01pm — No Comments

Generating and Testing a Hypothesis

I am studying the effectiveness of students generating and testing hypothesis. Should they be deducted or induced by the teacher?Thoughts?

Added by Chad Ackerson on January 30, 2010 at 2:08pm — No Comments

Technology in the classroom this week

This week was kind of a crazy week. Several teachers in the school scheduled time on Wednesday to use Cover It Live with students. If you haven’t used it before, it is one of the coolest ways to have a class discussion in a digital format.

Anyway, Wednesday was also the day of the iPad release. Because of this, there were several different news sites and blogs using Cover It Live to discuss the new computer and watch Steve… Continue

Added by Jeremy Kaiser on January 30, 2010 at 11:44am — No Comments

Open source, cross-platform PhoneGap uses HTML & Javascript to create iPhone apps.

Open source PhoneGap lets you create iPhone & cross platform applications using HTML & JavaScript http://bit.ly/cdiOIA

I'm not sure if PhoneGap plays well with iPad.

Added by Lynn Marentette on January 30, 2010 at 11:23am — No Comments

Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook

In an attempt to compete with more open social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook’s management made an important and very controversial decision in December to change the privacy settings for the popular social networking site. MORE...

Added by Shawn Roner on January 30, 2010 at 9:39am — No Comments

The Perfect E-Storm

This week we discussed the "Perfect Storm" which was written by Dr. Curtis J. Bonk. It was a very interesting article. I will post my thoughts on the article.

The first storm was introduced as "Emerging Technology". There is so much"innovative learning technology" emerging everyday that it is really hard to keep up with the new. My experiences so far in the Assessment Class is that there are some many really useful sources that can be used to assess the students in the real world… Continue

Added by Carol E. Kubota on January 30, 2010 at 7:39am — No Comments

Meet Kelly Kovacic -- California's 2010 Teacher of the Year and National TOY Finalist

Last week I was part of an amazing banquet where we honored the 2010 California Teachers of the Year in Sacramento. Big kahunas were all over the place. State senators. Educational policy makers from the Department of Ed. And of course, the inimitable State Superintendent of Public Education in California, Jack O'Connell. (Being a part of this crowd is like being a part of my only real Skulls and Bones Society -- aside from this ning, that is... LOL!)

The point is, okay, I… Continue

Added by Alan Sitomer on January 30, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

Searching for Marzano "Effort and Recognition" teaching Strategies

Jan. 29th, 2010

I have recently started researching Robert Marzano's teaching strategies and I would like to find teachers who have used Effort and Recognition in their classrooms. I would like to learn more on the subject from educators who have practiced using this stategy.

Added by Rebecca Donelson on January 30, 2010 at 3:07am — No Comments