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Okay to Bailout Wall Street but not K-12 Education - huh?

The news about covering the gushing wounds of greed on Wall Street is common news around the globe. Just how much are the taxpayers – you and me – going to pay in the name of stabilizing the financial markets?

"We're talking hundreds of billions of dollars - this needs to be big enough to make a real difference and get at the heart of the problem. "This is the way we stabilize the system." Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson

I understand why the Bush leadership is doing this… Continue

Added by J Harrington on September 21, 2008 at 10:10pm — No Comments

How to get instant feedback from your students

Occasionally you come across a tool that gets you excited, gets you flowing with ideas and this next one certainly fits the criteria

www.polleverywhere.com

Once signing up for a free account this website allows you to create online polls using a multiple choice format. Within a few minutes you will have created your first poll, ready for download via a PowerPoint slideshow document.…

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Added by Jarrod Robinson on September 21, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

The finished product

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dg65p5tg_0ch7q94hp

This is the presentation that my Y13s made on wave-particle duality. It was a great collaborative effort and we all had a good time. Yay! for my students.

Of course, they are now doing their student appraisals of my teaching, so I will probably have to rescind all interesting learning opportunities and make them doing boring textbook work in… Continue

Added by Gwyneth on September 21, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

PBWIKI- Have you tried it? I am loving it!

Added by Carine on September 21, 2008 at 6:01pm — No Comments

Information Overload: Clay Shirky

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.

Added by John Costilla on September 20, 2008 at 7:26am — 1 Comment

Yes We Can Build That.

I really love this image that I saw from a presentation @ Web 2.0 Expo NY by Jason Fried (37signals), High Order Bit. You can view his presentation here.

I believe this is the Homer's car that he designed when he wanted everything in… Continue

Added by John Costilla on September 20, 2008 at 7:25am — No Comments

Web 2.0 Expo—State of the Web

B reaking news from the Web 2.0 Expo: What’s new? Nothing really! Social media continues to mature, and that means the market for social…

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Added by John Costilla on September 20, 2008 at 7:24am — No Comments

Upcoming Meebo IM Platform

Next weeks, Service Meebo will roll out a new chat window.

Meebo Community IM on Flickr from Meebo on… Continue

Added by Hans Feldmeier on September 19, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

More than Online Tests, Get Values from Your Assessment Results

To measure learning performance in a flexible approach, many instructors have successfully implemented online tests and exams with e-learning authoring tools. Theoretically instructors would obtain all test items and responses in detail, and generate analysis report of scoring statistics for effective teaching and learning. However, due to the lack of system-based tracking support or tech knowledge, most instructors are muddled by these enormous raw data of test results from participants.… Continue

Added by William Peterson on September 18, 2008 at 9:18pm — 1 Comment

Jog the Web - Great Possibilities for Language Class

So, my Netvibes feed for all CR20 Blog posts had a thread about interactive white boards in which this website was discussed - JogTheWeb.com.

You can compose a tour of web sites, with comments on the bottom. I was thinking this could be great in a language classroom - kids go find some sites based on a certain criteria, read them, post why the apply to the criteria in the comments, or maybe a summary, and then present it to the class (or link… Continue

Added by Karen Maginnis on September 17, 2008 at 10:37pm — No Comments

How to Use PowerPoint to Improve Teaching

This article from: http://www.answerbag.com/articles/How-to-Use-PowerPoint-to-Improve-Teaching/8e35e7a9-b8e6-ab0c-e477-6a38e5c8a97b

Things You’ll Need:

PowerPoint software

Step 1:

Put your opening activity or warm-up on PowerPoint instead of the overhead. As students share their responses, add them to the next slide.

Step 2:

Prepare lectures in PowerPoint. Adding pictures and short video clips makes the presentation truly… Continue

Added by Sabrina Fu on September 17, 2008 at 9:48pm — 1 Comment

Learning to use

Well I took the plunge and have signed up for a classroom 2.0 account
I'll have to see if I can learn how to use this and make it a valuable tool for me

Added by Kathleen Fredricks on September 17, 2008 at 8:07pm — 1 Comment

Introducing Three New Teen Bloggers

(cross posted from my blog)

The three students in my Web 2.0 Computer Applications course have been blogging since the beginning of September. Over the course of the last three weeks, they have learned about Blogger,… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Davis on September 17, 2008 at 7:44pm — No Comments

Textmapping: Worth the Work! (Teaching Nonfiction Text Features)

I'm a big fan of textmapping (check out the site www.textmapping.org) which is the brain child of a Mr. Dave Middlebrook. The process is a lot of work and takes some time to set up, but it is SO worth it! I've used this technique to teach nonfiction features the past couple of years. Here's how the process works.…

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Added by Michelle TeGrootenhuis on September 17, 2008 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments

Christmas Games For Elementary Age Children

Christmas Games Elementary Age Children

If you're planning a Christmas party for a group of elementary-age children, there are a myriad of really fun games you can include. Be sure to have lots of prizes and take lots of pictures because some of the games can be silly!

To get the kids moving around, start with the "fill the stocking" game. In this game, create teams so there are at least 3 people and no more than perhaps 6 people on each team. Have a stocking for each… Continue

Added by Santa on September 17, 2008 at 10:14am — 2 Comments

Wikipedia and Its Use in Education

Wikipedia is being used by all levels of students in education. Many people wonder how this free online information service affects the subject knowledge of students.

This also raises questions about the accuracy of the information in Wikipedia, since the database of information has been placed online by the general public and not from a source such as Encyclopedia Britannica.

The reality is that Wikipedia has been accessed heavily by Internet users. Out of… Continue

Added by David Wetzel on September 16, 2008 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

Two great lessons with ICT today

First period, Y13 Physics. I gave them a presentation template in googledocs, with the main summary headings so they wouldn't go too far off topic. Then, I got them to research and find answers and summarise them and enter their results into the presentation. We had three laptops in the room between six of us, so some people were using the internet while others used books or summarised the ideas that the people using the internet were coming up with. Sadly, no one else had a gmail account, so… Continue

Added by Gwyneth on September 16, 2008 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

The Vendee Globe Skippers

http://tinyurl.com/5l3ug6

http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/5598/The-thirty-2008-2009-Vendee-Globe-skippers-present-in-Paris.html>

It was very exciting for… Continue

Added by Lorraine on September 16, 2008 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

Testing

Testing 1, 2, 3...

Added by Cathy Tran on September 15, 2008 at 1:39pm — No Comments

Starting Voice Thread

Well after many nights reading about Voice Thread and looking for lesson ideas, an idea finally came to me. My 7th grade class is going to look at the website 20 questions and try it out. This will be a lot of fun for the students. I feel this will be a great intro to voice thread. After we play the game, I will then have the voice thread on my wiki for them to discuss their findings. How does the computer know what you are thinking? I will have my students create their own icon using a draw… Continue

Added by Carine on September 14, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments