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Are you LinkedIN?

Classroom 2.0 is one of my single best resources for networking with tech-savvy educators. So, I started thinking about those other tools where I interact with and learn from folks.

Connected through LinkedIN?

I must confess LinkedIN was my first venture into online networking. While the community is made up of far more business minded folk than teachers, the education sector is ever-growing.

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Added by Ellen on December 20, 2008 at 8:02pm — No Comments

Read the Words

Just added this great resource to the Teacher Toolbar.

What?! You don't have the FREE Teacher Toolbar (listed among Jane Hart's BEST eLearning Tools in Education)?

Take a look and download it here: http://professionallearningboard.ourtoolbar.com…

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Added by Ellen on December 20, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

The Pros and Cons of Social Networking in Education

As a follow-up to the lesson I described in my last post, Mr. Magadance and I facilitated a student debate about the pros and cons of social networking in education.

In “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” Michael Wesch demonstrates how… Continue

Added by Honor Moorman on December 20, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Create your own Word Clouds

Time to have a look at Wordle

Added by Hans Feldmeier on December 20, 2008 at 5:47am — No Comments

A Look Back at My China Experience

Ni Hao

哈罗

Anyone can fly to China and climb the Great Wall. Only a lucky few can journey to a remote village and walk hand-in-hand with the precious children who live there. Only a few can laugh and delight in doing the hokey pokey in a tiny village at the base of a mountain surrounded by happy young faces.

This journey opened my heart and my mind. The world IS a global village. There are things that my children and I can do to make the world a… Continue

Added by Dr. Kari Stubbs on December 19, 2008 at 2:15pm — 6 Comments

Christmas Day Around the World: 25 December

Christmas Day Around the World 25 December by Maggi Carstairs

Get your own…

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Added by Alfajri Alwis on December 19, 2008 at 5:06am — No Comments

Getting started ~ putting knowledge into practice

Following the excellent Weaving Technology conference that was held in Wagga, NSW, Australia last October I composed a few ideas regarding the thought or process or getting started with technology in the classroom.

I blogged about these ideas here on my main blog ~ Watershed.

Essentially, when starting out with technology in the classroom I feel it is useful to keep the following three rules of thumb in mind...

1. Choose… Continue

Added by John Larkin on December 18, 2008 at 2:00am — 2 Comments

Learning Before Growing

Today was a reassuring day that proved my point that ife isn't as black and white as it seems. In our AP English class we have been getting grades not expected for an "ACE student". Our essays are being "destroyed" and our teacher has little to no experience when dealing with kids who can't get it through their head that its all about the learning process that the class is going under. That the grade you get isn't the most important thing. True it will reflect your achievement in the class, but… Continue

Added by Hector Guzman on December 17, 2008 at 11:08pm — No Comments

Breaking the Mold and Accepting New Ideas

A few weeks ago we were given the assignment of writing an essay about the English-only movement and what its affect would be on people in America today. The idea of making English the only spoken language in America baffled me. I felt that the idea neglected the civil rights of the people. That English is not the only language spoken in the world. Languages like Chines, Spanish, and Hindi consume more than 2/3 of the Earth's population.

What right do we have to say that if you're an… Continue

Added by Hector Guzman on December 17, 2008 at 11:01pm — No Comments

The Open Writing Space

[cross-posted from K12 Open Ed]

I've been thinking about creating a high quality curriculum resource that is open and have focused in on writing as a subject matter. Why? First and foremost, I love writing and think it has the ability to transform lives. Beyond that, it transfers to all other subject areas and grade levels, and success in writing is correlated to success in many other endeavors. Writing is fun and rewarding. Technology can… Continue

Added by Karen Fasimpaur on December 17, 2008 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

MERRY CHRISTMAS

ENJOY CHRISTMAS AND LIGHT UP YOUR COMPUTER WITH SANTA'S FIREPLACE AND THE CHRISTMAS MUSIC FROM THE NORTH POLE RADIO STATION

Download your free THE SANTA STORIES TO SHARE WITH YOUR STUDENTS

Added by Santa on December 17, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Effects of blogging, wikis, and social networking on education

I am trying to gather a list of resources, especially those based on research, which support the use of blogs, wikis, and social networking and it's positive effects on education. I am trying both build a case for the use of these tools, as well as provide a thoughtful and reasoned approach to safety issues, content management, and some effective safeguards and bets practices surrounding their use. Any help would be appreciated.…

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Added by Scott on December 17, 2008 at 9:30am — 5 Comments

The Branding of a School by Lance Winslow

When it comes to education and parent piece of mind image may mean more than you think. Having happy and satisfied parents sure beats having obstinate and hostile ones. Anyone who has been involved in education for any long period of time knows very well how important it is to have the children and parents onboard with the school and staff.

This is where a little bit of solid branding will go a long way to helping build the… Continue

Added by Lance Winslow on December 17, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Share your great writing tips

Writing teachers can turn their favorite teaching tricks into gold in a contest aimed at gathering best practices for teaching writing in the classroom. The contest rewards the best ideas submitted by teachers as judged by their peers. Now through January 1, 2009, teachers who submit tips at http://contest.thewritingteacher.… Continue

Added by John Costilla on December 17, 2008 at 7:48am — No Comments

Building Personal Brand

"Interactions + Feelings = Brand"

Products are brands, Celebrities are brands and even ordinary people are building their own brand with Web 2.0. Influence and interactions can catapult your brand. David Armano provides a very practical overview of building your own personal brand leveraging social media.

5 Tips for Branding… Continue

Added by John Costilla on December 17, 2008 at 7:23am — No Comments

Asimov's 'The Fun They Had' - How much longer and how do we avoid the pitfalls?

I remember reading The Fun They Had in the 6th grade and thinking how fantastic and unreal it seemed. Having just re-read it (do it; it'll take you less than 3 minutes) I'd say Asimov was right on the money, what with all the talk of singularity and this Web 2.0 stuff. But he was off a hundred and fifty years or so in just how long it would take for computers to… Continue

Added by Patrick Kutkey on December 16, 2008 at 8:50pm — 1 Comment

www.zoho.com

Hello Anyone,

Is there anyone out there that is using www.zoho.com in there classroom? I am trying to use this website in my resource classes to work on Ohio Graduation Test practice questions. Anyones in put on this website would be helpful.

Thanks,
Luke

Added by Luke Cripe on December 16, 2008 at 8:20am — No Comments

My Learning Life

Here’s the plan I want to create for my kids. I want to develop a framework that supports them as learners online. It is a living resource and evidence reference about ‘how I like to learn’. This is always a work in progress, and is created, edited and used by them, teachers and us.

Will it have a long tail? Absolutely. In the case of Mr7 it begins as a support – to help him and his teacher negotiate how he sees learning. We are I guess lucky in that we are able to ‘talk teacher’ and… Continue

Added by Dean Groom on December 16, 2008 at 4:25am — No Comments

NICE Mini-Conference 2009

Attention Chicago area ICE members.
Mark your calendars!
The annual NICE Mini-Conference will be held on January 31, 2009 at Stevenson High School.

Session topics geared towards K-12
- VoiceThread
- Comic Life
- Blogging
- Google tools
- iWorks
and much more!

Visit the NICE website for more information http://chapters.iceberg.org/nice/

Added by Mary Ann on December 15, 2008 at 3:06pm — No Comments

Classroom 2.0

Im excited about joining my first official social network, classroom 2.0. There is so much information here it will take awhile to figure it all out:) There is so much you can find just reading posts!!

I haven't decided if Im going to blog regularly here since I have a classroom blog, tidertechie.edublogs.org. I am trying to limit the incorporation of 2.0 elements to a manageable load:)

Added by Lisa Dick on December 15, 2008 at 10:42am — No Comments