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Professional Development for Teachers

Dear All,

We are a community of ESL teachers willing to continue updating our knowledge on CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). The purpose of this yahoo group is to share all the courses, training workshops or any kind of professional development with other ESL Teachers.…

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Added by Jennifer Verschoor on June 18, 2007 at 11:45am — No Comments

Starting Out

Hi, just checking out my blog... so I have something to put in my profile about my blog address.

Added by Mark Arnold on June 18, 2007 at 9:04am — 2 Comments

Stepping Up to the Buffet

Hi Classroom 2.0'rs-
I just posted something on my blog with my two cents about the gender imbalance in educational technology leadership. Love your thoughts too!

Sylvia

Added by Sylvia Martinez on June 17, 2007 at 11:33pm — 2 Comments

Carly Needs Your Help!

Carly needs some advice on her summer reading. Why don't you head over and see if you can help her out?

Added by Nancy Cavillones on June 17, 2007 at 8:48pm — No Comments

Intro

I currently teach third grade. I have also taught first and fourth and have been an Instructional Technology Coordinator in a middle school. I feel technology integration is imperative in today's classrooms. I'm interested in learning more about Web 2.0 and its uses in the classroom. I look forward to learning more from around the world and across this great country of ours.

Added by LindaMycko on June 17, 2007 at 6:38pm — No Comments

Ning'in it.

The word for the day is "glam." Use it today at least three times.

Added by Ross on June 17, 2007 at 11:02am — No Comments

Connectivism

I am a very happy user of moodle as a VLE - my first love was WebCT and then moodle stole my heart. I am now starting to explore different learning theories to better understand how to design effective pedagogical materials for use within the VLE etc. I came across george Siemens connectivism "A learning theory for today's learner". Ref: http://www.connectivism.ca

Here is the conclusion from his…

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Added by bruce nightingale on June 17, 2007 at 9:36am — 5 Comments

Who is invited to the buffet?

I recently posted an article based on the question I asked in the Forum about "Who are You?"

Here is the opening.

If you would like to read it all, check it out on my Byte Speed Blog site.

Enjoy.

Tim…

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Added by Tim Holt on June 16, 2007 at 9:21am — 3 Comments

VoiceThreat

I was just trying out VoiceThread and wondered if I could embed it here:

Added by Kevin H. on June 16, 2007 at 4:27am — 2 Comments

Summer Academy 2007

Next week will be the first of three Summer Academies around the state of Ohio. North Fork, Wellston, and North Union school districts will be our hosts again this summer. It is a VERY full schedule, but our goal is to differentiating for our teachers throughout the week in hopes that everyone will get something out of it. We are trying out a new approach this year… Continue

Added by Lauren on June 15, 2007 at 10:38am — No Comments

Renewal

This looks to be a year of renewal for me. For the last 17 years I have taught various subjects to the MR population. When school started this past year I knew that I needed a change. I no longer felt the excitement that I used to feel. Thus started my year of self questioning. Thoughts went through my head that made me question whether or not I should stay in the field at all. I have some serious concerns about special education. But that will be for another discussion. After considering a…

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Added by Melisa Kifer on June 15, 2007 at 9:52am — 4 Comments

The Power of Technology

This morning, before school began, Christine Southard and I decided to try out our new webcam. So Christine sent out an SOS asking for friends to help us play and we got a great response. We spoke first with Ginger, who graciously turned on her camera even though it was early morning in Kansas (You looked fabulous, Ginger). We played around with the camera and had fun. Then David J. checked in from Texas. At this point, after we figured out how to get David into our call, we realized the…

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Added by Lisa Parisi on June 15, 2007 at 8:31am — 5 Comments

Will this replace Blogger?

The first question that I have is whether this service will replace Blogger for professional blogs. While many professionals are hesitant to use MySpace as their professional blog, Ning is likely to result in less hesitation.

At this point, I still love my Blogger sites, but with Blogger lagging so far behind other applications in the social tools and structures, I wonder how long I'll remain happy with them.

What do you think?

Dan

Added by Daniel Craig on June 15, 2007 at 1:27am — 2 Comments

Apple Educational Resources

I hope you might find the following links useful

http://www.apple.com/uk/education/
http://www.apple.com/uk/education/resources/

Added by osde8info on June 14, 2007 at 11:32pm — No Comments

Entry #1: Tech Thinking

I've decided to use this blog to journal about technology and Web 2.0 tools in my classroom. As a mentor for the Florida Digital Educators grant program I am expected to conduct action research in my classroom. I plan to use these musing and posts to gather my thoughts and process my experiences toward that end. My apologies to any readers who wander by... this is truly going to be a working place for me... a work in progress that I can later shape.

What is technology integration?… Continue

Added by Lee Ann Spillane on June 14, 2007 at 5:42pm — No Comments

Technology "Unplugged"

I hope that in this space I will be able to share some information about technology.

Added by Kirsten Carter on June 14, 2007 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Campus Improvement Plans - Let's Get Real

[cross posted at www.shannonprincipal.edublogs.org]

Let’s be honest, there are only two reasons we write Campus Improvement Plans.

Reason Number One, because we are required to by Central Administration. How many Campus Improvement Plans have been written in the past few years? How many reams of paper, administrative hours, even valuable teaching time has been lost meeting, reaching consensus,…

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Added by Greg Farr on June 14, 2007 at 3:15pm — No Comments

Showdown at Bloggybottom

[cross posted at www.shannonprincipal.edublogs.org]

What are the top 10 inventions of history?

Take your pick…here’s Encyclopedia Britannica's Greatest Inventions.

It’s fun reading…I mean, afterall, WHO considers the bikini an “invention”? Anyway, we can always narrow down the lists by imposing some purely…

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Added by Greg Farr on June 14, 2007 at 3:14pm — No Comments

A New Chapter

I am completely convinced, that just like anything else in our lives, used properly, social networking can be the absolute best thing for our students. Let me illustrate:

A wonderful honor student I know...okay, my daughter is going to college next year. Throughout high school, she has been going on the internet to visit her friends websites. Early in high school it was Xanga sites. Later, they used myspace, and most recently facebook has taken over. My daughter dutifully visited her… Continue

Added by Nadine Norris on June 14, 2007 at 9:53am — 2 Comments

Hello all!

Hi all. I'm a Houstonian (Texas, USA) living in Ankara, Turkey with my wife and two

sons. I help coordinate the International Baccalaureate program and

develop other projects for a large Turkish private school. Those "other

projects" at times include instigating more integration of ICT

(especially Web 2.0) in education. I guess an indicator of my success

is that I have nearly 30 students listed as my fans on del.icio.us… Continue

Added by Tom Hemingway on June 13, 2007 at 1:25pm — No Comments