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Announcing Spring 2009 issue of Journal for Computing Teachers

The spring 2009 issue of JCT is now available at http://tinyurl.com/ma2wf9.

JCT is a K-12 oriented online periodical where the emphasis is teaching about computing. JCT is published under the auspices of the Special Interest Group for Computing Teachers (SIGCT) in the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The primary mission of SIGCT is to enhance precollege computing instruction.

For your planning, the submission… Continue

Added by John Thompson on June 23, 2009 at 2:45pm — No Comments

Teacher2Teacher Conference – Canada 2010

Just a little bit of advance notice, and some exciting news for me! If you are in or near Alberta, Canada next March then I will be speaking at the Teacher2Teacher conference on 18th and 19th March 2010.

I’m very excited about it since I don’t get to do too many conferences abroad plus I have a real soft spot to Canada (I’m actually heading to Calgary for my Summer holidays later this year). My Canadian friends have advised me to bring my thermals as it may be rather chilly in… Continue

Added by Danny Nicholson on June 23, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Google Squared in the Classroom

Google have recently rolled out a new twist on their search engine in their continued bid for world domination – Google Squared.

Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter ’square’ of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web and producing them in spreadsheet format. You can then add additional columns and rows to this grid of information (if more info is available)

read more at the Whiteboard Blog…

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Added by Danny Nicholson on June 23, 2009 at 1:18pm — No Comments

Powerful Images to Give Lessons Punch

One of the benefits of having an Interactive Whiteboard in the classroom (or even just a data projector) is the opportunity to display full colour high quality images instead of grainy acetates or posters. With a powerful image you can really add some “punch” to your lesson. Put images up while students are coming into the room – use them as part of a lesson starter – stimulate questions.

Read the rest of this entry at The Whiteboard Blog…

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Added by Danny Nicholson on June 23, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Teaching Technique-Call and Response

Teaching Technique-Call and Response

This is not a NEW Idea. But I have not seen it used in Public Schools. It worked marvelously

for me. I encourage all teachers to give it a try. It Works!

First a little history of the concept.

You have probably seen (on TV) an army group marching, whereas the leader calls out a verbal

command and the entire group responds with some verbal reply.

You have seen a football and/or a basketball team get in a circle,… Continue

Added by William Lambert on June 23, 2009 at 12:41pm — No Comments

Using Second Life for Educational applications

The 3rd part in a series of posts looking into the use of Virtual Worlds in Education

After spending the last two weeks researching what’s going on with the use of Virtual Worlds in education related applications, I came away feeling that Second Life (abbreviated ‘SL’ from here forward) is by far the predominant tool in this (and… Continue

Added by Kelly Walsh on June 23, 2009 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

How do you use Web-based curriculum mapping at your school to help develop and assess constituent satisfaction?

In my research, There are many layers involved in Web-based curriculum mapping. I haven't found any dangers or reasons why parents might have concerns for their childrens' safety. I see it as a way to enhance the relationship with parent and keep community aware of local curriculum and national policies.

Added by Robin E.Ruiz on June 22, 2009 at 7:35pm — 3 Comments

Your Ninja Skills are Strong Young Grasshopper...

Please visit my new blog and my latest post below:

http://wlingle.edublogs.org/2009/06/21/your-ninja-skills-are-strong-young-grasshopper/

Thanks for letting me share,

Bill

Added by wlingle on June 22, 2009 at 4:46pm — No Comments

GradePad: The Free NECC Version

We submitted the free NECC version on Friday to Apple and we are very excited about this. It should be available on June 28th.

It includes the ability to make an unlimited number of groups and people within groups. As a conference attending tool, it includes 5 rubrics to assess an exhibit, a presentation, a meeting, an encounter, and a workshop.

You can send your assessments to any email address and you can submit your assessments to the gradepad.com site for tallying. To… Continue

Added by Mike Palmquist on June 22, 2009 at 8:48am — No Comments

New Resources Added to Web-Based Sources and Print References on Mentoring Jewish Students and Teachers June 22, 2009

Shalom Colleagues and Friends,

This is a collaborative post. We invite you to submit web-based and print references on mentoring Jewish students and teachers. We want this listing to be as complete and helpful to our readers as possible.

List of Web-based References

http://www.avi-chai.org/Static/Binaries/Publications/Experience%20Speaks_0.pdf Read Godsoe, Bethany et al. (2007) Experience Speaks: The Impact of Mentoring in the Classroom and Beyond. NY: AVI… Continue

Added by Richard D. Solomon, Ph.D. on June 22, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

About me

Hi~

My name is Samverus Tung, -57 years old this year, people in Tainan City.

Birthday: September 19, 1952

School Record: Chung-Yuan technical college department of mechanics

Specialty: The reverter product and metal product 3D designs

The ACAD drawing from 1986 until now

SOLIDWORKS to study the machine tool design from 1997 until now

Pro-e&i-deas from 2000 until now

Works Record:

1979~1983 machine tool design

1984~1993 hand-make… Continue

Added by samverus tung on June 22, 2009 at 7:36am — No Comments

Record Software Tutorials with Voice-over Narration

Some screen recorder like DemoCreator enables users to create narration-based software presentations with ease. Here we will learn how to use DemoCreator's advanced audio capabilities to add and edit audio in your movies. This screen recorder provides 3 ways to add the audio to the screen recordings: record sound at capture time, record sound at preview time, import audio file to the screen…

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Added by Tim on June 22, 2009 at 2:39am — No Comments

More on digital textbooks

ABC has a very comprehensive story on the Gov. Schwarzenegger's plan to switch to digital textbooks. For those into ed tech, it is a story to follow.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Economy/story?id=7827997&page=1

Added by Steve Tanksley on June 21, 2009 at 7:08pm — No Comments

Featured student blog: meet Ann

Cross-posted at Fireside Learning and ThinkTime.

Many teachers shy away from contemporary music. Why? It could be because their own teachers did the same.

That quote comes from Ann, an aspiring music educator at the… Continue

Added by Jennifer Koch Lubke on June 21, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Ready to get started...

One of my twin daughters is now all married... and all the family is gone. So - now I can get started on learning more about blogs, wikis and other such things that I've heard about but have never really used. When I took five of our Odyssey of the Mind teams to World Competition in Ames, Iowa - I "blogged" our trip on Facebook. I took tons of pictures and wrote about the days activities. It was a lot of fun - but parents were forced to sign up with Facebook in order to follow the blog. I would… Continue

Added by Candace Townsley on June 21, 2009 at 4:56pm — No Comments

Possibilities 2.0

"Give me potential or give me death."

~yep, my version of Patrick Henry's stuff

Now that I think of it, I probably could have just entitled this one “2.0″ because this is now what this phrase means to me. I’m not going to go off… Continue

Added by Sean Nash on June 20, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Hand-Held Learning

Added by Kevin on June 20, 2009 at 6:18pm — 3 Comments

25 Days of Christmas Tour 2009

Dear Sir/Madam. I am writing to you to offer you the opportunity to be involved with the Greatest Historic Event to hit the Cities of America this Christmas.

Our organization Santalivenow (website http://www.santalivenow.com :-America’s No 1. Christmas website) is planning a Christmas Tour to visit 25 Cities in 25 days of December this year supporting the Children’s Charity… Continue

Added by Santa on June 20, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Improve school communication with P2 for Wordpress

I've worked in a tiny middle school with nine classrooms and 180 students and I've worked in a large middle school with four floors and just under one thousand students. In both schools, communication was an issue. How do you make everyone aware of everything? Administrators can get on the public announcement system every time something comes up—but that wears on everyone's patience relatively quickly and if I'm in the bathroom or out getting a cup of coffee, I still didn't get the… Continue

Added by Steve Kinney on June 20, 2009 at 4:56am — No Comments

1st Post on Classroom 2.0

Hi everyone,
I am supposed to create a Classroom 2.0 account and link this page from Appalachian State University WEB 2.0 Tools classroom profile. I hope I read the assignment correct!

Bye for now.

Iris

Added by Iris Hilton on June 19, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments