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Technological Advancement bridging curriculums

Recently, my Technology students with the use of Claymation, teamed up with the English and Language Arts students and animated Romeo and Juliet. It was a tremendous success. In all, there were over a dozen scenes with different facets of how the students interpreted the classic drama. Once the ELA students develop their scenes, with the use of construction paper and clay, the Technology students took pictures with the use of digital camaras. Once the… Continue

Added by lisa c weber on June 7, 2008 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

Open Office

I have not used Open Office a lot in the past, but have recently begun doing so. In using it on Windows, I am finding it to be very buggy. Is that others experience or is it just me?

Added by Karen Fasimpaur on June 6, 2008 at 5:21pm — 2 Comments

Greetings from Classroom 2.0 Blog

So this is how it might work, I can blog here and have this appear in my Blogger Blog feed.
If i've dome tihs right you should seeeing this is my blogger page!!!
Fun experiments...G

Added by Gavin McLean on June 5, 2008 at 6:30pm — 2 Comments

News from The International NanoScience Community

- 1...2...3 Start! Now we start our partnerpage in German deutsch.nanopaprika.eu

- We change our philosophy and open from today all the pages of our network. Now you can add your "My page" link to your webpage, blog.... Now everybody can know who is who in nanoscience

- 720 members on The International NanoScience Community…

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Added by Andras Paszternak on June 5, 2008 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Presentation Notes: Think.com - Bismarck TNT Conference

The show linked here does not include narration but you will find the notes below my contact information.

The address of the wiki with all the notes and the slideshow is http://thinkoef.wikispaces.com

Contact:

Suzanne Shanks, MA

Classroom Teacher,

Technology Integration Coach

PO BOX 8256

Colorado Springs, Colorado

On Think.com: Ms.… Continue

Added by L. Suzanne Shanks on June 4, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Summer 2008

Well, I'm finally back in the groove of classroom 2.0. I'm working with the South Central Kansas Writing Project yet again this year and adapting to changes. We have decided to consolidate our technology applications and will be using a ning network instead of a separate site for wikis, blogs and photos. This way I will become more familiar with the technology and be more of a proponent of its use in the classroom.

I am also working for a short time for our Extended School Year… Continue

Added by Teralyn Cohn on June 4, 2008 at 9:40am — No Comments

Free Tech Assesment anyone??

Hello everyone! I've been trying to convince my boss to let me give away our new product, SimpleAssessment: Student Technology Proficiency, FREE to all districts at NECC. They think I'm crazy. I think it's a great idea.

I'm creating a report to prove to them why I think this idea is so amazing - mostly, they don't think districts would want to participate. I would love to include comments in my report about what actual tech coordinators/curriculum directors think about… Continue

Added by Lisa on June 4, 2008 at 8:04am — 1 Comment

Web 2.0 Tools

Recently I´ve created a small video about some Web 2.0 tools and the development of Web 0.5 to Web… Continue

Added by Hans Feldmeier on June 4, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

Student Email Accounts

We are considering allowing our fifth grade students to have gmail accounts next year in order to take advantage of google apps. Please let me know if any of you allow this and if so, does your school have an acceptable use policy or permission form that goes along with it? We do not want to be responsible for their accounts; we want them to use the email for educational purposes only. Thanks!

Added by karenklieg on June 4, 2008 at 3:31am — No Comments

EdTech Conference in Hawaii

Aloha!

The Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, Hawaii is sponsoring an EdTech Conference for Hawaii teachers. Our featured keynote speakers are Will Richardson and David Warlick. We hope to build upon this year's conference and eventually open it up to all teachers. Please visit our website at:

http://blogs.ksbe.edu/edtechconference/

Mahalo (Thank you!)

Added by Alan Tamayose on June 3, 2008 at 1:39am — No Comments

Connecting students around the globe

I have a vision where students connect with their peers from around the world. Why? Because it's interesting. It's challenging to create global friendships, across cultures and across seas. And it's interesting to learn what other are studying. Even the very precise studies, like math, are not exact all over the world. Sometimes you need help figuring out a problem and someone from across the world, who studied it in a different way, will offer that different angle that opens your eyes. This is… Continue

Added by Or-Tal Kiriati on June 3, 2008 at 1:21am — 1 Comment

New beginnings...

Well here we are, it's taken a while, but it looks like I've found something to supersede my blogspot page. This is the first post so far, hopefully as I build and experiment with my classroom 2.0 page it will develop a bit more!

Added by Gavin McLean on June 3, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments

Slidecast: Building Community with Ning

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Added by Jack Olmsted on June 2, 2008 at 7:37am — No Comments

Slidecasts: digifolio

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Two years ago, I made it a requirement that all the students in my… Continue

Added by Jack Olmsted on June 2, 2008 at 7:24am — No Comments

Multi-Language Keyboard

Gate2Home is an online, onscreen keyboard emulator. What's so great? Now you can type characters in Spanish, Japanese, Hebrew and many more!

Great for language learners and native speakers enabling writing in many languages from any computer in the world!

This site even solves traditional problems such as a need to change keyboard language at internet places (these… Continue

Added by Ellen on June 1, 2008 at 10:40am — No Comments

3D Printing: Sketch Furniture by FRONT

I'm really jazzed about 3D Printing!!! I've been thinking of the implications for Art Therapy and Education.

"Motion Capture is a technique that translates motions into 3D-files. Motion capture is mostly used for animations in movies and computer games. Front have used the technique to simply record the tip of a pen when they draw pieces of furniture in the air. Rapid Prototyping is a technique that materialises 3D-files. A laser beam… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on May 31, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

My new year

With the end of May comes the ending of another year. I find myself making resolutions, plans and changes for the future both personally and professionally. This summer I'll be taking classes, making time for me and redesigning the curriculum to be more project based units of study. In the week that I've had off I've been helping with conference organization, proposals for speaking engagements and yes brainstorming. I've collected 57 ideas so far that need exploring, and hopefully I'll find… Continue

Added by Teresa Morgan on May 30, 2008 at 8:41pm — No Comments

Redemption

Four years ago, a tall but rather skinny member of my robotics team stepped into the playing arena to compete in the finals of the 2nd National Robotics Olympiad which was held at the Alabang Town Center. It took the boy a couple of hours to assemble his lego robot. His robot will compete in the finals of a maze event.

And now it’s crunch time! It was a tense moment for all of us. It was the first time for us to join in the Robotics Olympiad. We didn’t even expect to reach the finals… Continue

Added by Roxan Cosico on May 29, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Tech Byte: Telling Stories With Google Maps

Everybody's Using Google Maps to Tell Digital Stories - And Not Just in Geography Class.

Tech Bytes LogoThis week's Tech Byte gives you a chance to try a taste of a great, free online resource for making map(s) which tell a digital story.

Below is an excerpt from an excellent tutorial by Technology Integration Facilitator Silvia Tolisano from her blog "Langwitches." She is an amazing blogger who has written quite a few other excellent tutorials about edtech. I hope that… Continue

Added by L. Suzanne Shanks on May 29, 2008 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

Learning Live Online

I'm still chuckling about last night's Second Life session. Jane Krauss asks audience members to raise their hands and what do I do? Jump up and down. Ah well, I'm new, a newbie as they say and I have a lot to learn in Second Life and in the Web 2.0 world. Everyone begins somewhere, right? I'm glad that I can laugh about it--and share the funny stories with the teacher next door to me at school, Tim.

Today I participated in a… Continue

Added by Lee Ann Spillane on May 28, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments