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Churches ask: WWJD (in 140 Characters or Less)

US churches use Twitter to reach a wider audience

"Pastors in Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their congregation about Twitter, which allows users to send messages to each other which are no longer than 140 characters. Of the church's 900 adult members, 150 are now tweeting."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5274071/US-churches-use-Twitter-to-reach-a-wider-audience.html

Added by Zack Dowell on May 5, 2009 at 2:10pm — No Comments

Teaching Professor Conference in June

I am presenting a paper at the teaching professor conference this June in washington D.C. and I am wondering if anyone is planning to attend.

Added by Mary Hricko on May 5, 2009 at 9:24am — No Comments

May is Finally Here!!

We just completed our NSBA site visit. It was a lot of work but also fun. The teachers and students at the site schools did a great job. Students enjoyed showing their talents and skills. I learned a great deal from the visiting particpants. Ready for the next adventure.

Added by Mitzi Comeaux on May 5, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Facebook courses

I am currently trialling a Facebook Course for HE students to experience Web 2 technologies. I have set up the course, but a student has joined as an administrator, which is not a problem at the moment as I am trialling this. However, it would be a problem if students are able to alter schedules and assessments if the course went live! Does anyone know how I can take this students off and prevent it happening again?

The other problem I have is that I wanted to link to the course from… Continue

Added by fiona turner on May 5, 2009 at 6:57am — No Comments

Let's Build a Library in Nepal

I have created a Facebook group to help a fellow Classroom 2.0 teacher in Nepal. His name is Govinda Panthy. I have never attempted anything like this before. If you have any suggestions, please help.

Added by Patrick Kutkey on May 4, 2009 at 8:22pm — No Comments

Light Up the World

As part of our Making a Difference program my grade 5 class has decided to become involved in raising money and awareness for the Light Up the World Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing energy efficient lighting to 3rd world countries not connected to the power grid. We are working in conjunction with another class in Ontario, Canada and we have kicked off our efforts by creating… Continue

Added by Mike Poluk on May 4, 2009 at 8:05pm — No Comments

Calling All Cars! Calling All Cars! I Need Some Advice From My Posse!

I need advice from my posse and I need it right away!

I've been asked to speak to a group of college profs in about 10 days. They want to hear about no more than FIVE emerging technologies that support online learning.

This is a wonderful opportunity to make an impact on the hearts and minds of people who can make a real difference in the ways their students interact with them online. The trouble is, we all know there… Continue

Added by Meri Walker on May 4, 2009 at 7:11pm — No Comments

TEACH LIFE’S LESSONS lesson 2

TEACH LIFE’S LESSONS lesson 2

Marketable Skills PLAN B

An education is essential. It is a key that opens doors. It tells potential employers that you are trainable and that you can endure and complete assigned tasks.

Sadly, it does NOT guarantee employment. (I wish it did) Even a job in today’s world is not enough. There is NO “job security”. It does not exist as it once did. In right to work states (The one in which I reside) you may be fired for… Continue

Added by William Lambert on May 4, 2009 at 2:43pm — No Comments

Make Wise Ed Tech Decisions with ARRA Funds

Are you ready to allocate Recovery Act funds in ways that will stimulate teaching and learning?

The Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd) has many resources to help your school, district, and community work together to invest these funds wisely. Use these decision support tools to start a conversation and integrate your technology purchases into your core reform goals, and share this information as a flyer with colleagues.…

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Added by CITEd on May 4, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Student Generated Videos For Flashcards

FunnelBrain enables students to create review materials using rich media including videos. After clicking on below URL, you will see how a group of AP Biology students used FunnelBrain to

create review materials including video questions and answers for Environmental Laws and Treaties and Embryonic Development and The Brain.

This is a… Continue

Added by Joe on May 4, 2009 at 1:02pm — No Comments

Collaborative Documents

[This is part 2 of a short series on Collaboration & Brainstorming Tools on www.EmergingEdTech.com, where I blog every week about the use of emerging internet technologies in education. Please stop by and check out a topic of interest today!]

This week in our investigation of collaboration and brainstorming tools, we’re checking out collaborative document editing tools. Last week we took a brief look at some mind mapping/idea… Continue

Added by Kelly Walsh on May 4, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Making Your Own Math Quiz Is So Easy

MathandFlash.com published an article about making math quiz with QuizCreator recently, which catches most educators' eyeballs.

As mathematics is used throughout the world as an essential tool in many fields, including natural science, engineering, medicine, etc, every math and science instructor will teach algebra and geometry with a lot of symbols, Greek letters and formulas. To improve the math knowledge and ability, students… Continue

Added by Tim on May 4, 2009 at 4:59am — No Comments

Shambles termly Newsletter

Shambles termly Newsletter .. only 3 a year ... for k-12 educators http://tr.im/kpvx

Added by Shamblesguru (Chris Smith) on May 4, 2009 at 4:53am — No Comments

Juggling Blindfolded While Walking a Tight Rope

Juggling Blindfolded While Walking a Tight Rope: A Full-time Teacher's by Nellie Deutsch

Get your own…

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Added by Mark Cruthers on May 3, 2009 at 7:13pm — No Comments

Best Sites on Torture,Holocaust,Swine Flu, Choose Your Own Adventure

Here is a new batch of "The Best.." lists:

The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust

(http://tinyurl.com/crnyjb)

The Best Sites Sites For Discussing The Morality of Torture

(http://tinyurl.com/dyx249)

The Best Resources For Learning About World Malaria Day

(http://tinyurl.com/d84sdh)

The Best Online Examples of My Students’ Work

(http://tinyurl.com/d82b98)

The Best Sites For Learning About The Swine Flu… Continue

Added by Larry Ferlazzo on May 3, 2009 at 11:06am — No Comments

American Choppers builds an "Intel" Bike!

I'm enjoying the American Chopper TV show tonight. They are designing an Intel bike today. It has the Intel logo in many locations along with some great paint job work that look like chips. It has a Quad "V Twin Motors" delivering a LOT of power. The guys are impressed with the results and said they want to put it on a magazine cover! There is even a "computer inside!" The computer is called a "Switchback." This… Continue

Added by Glen Westbroek on May 2, 2009 at 9:09pm — No Comments

Back again, with link to posts about interesting and emerging technologies....

I've been busy for the past two months- my dad had complications from surgery and was in the ICU for quite a while, and now I am catching up with work.

At any rate, I thought I'd link to some of my recent blog posts:

Gaze system developed by IT University of Copenhagen provides a low-cost means of interaction with computers via large screen displays…

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Added by Lynn Marentette on May 2, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Of Cancer & Community: Win a 10min audio production

Author and librarian Bridget Zinn had an eventful February. She found an agent for her YA novel, she got married and she was diagnosed with stage four cancer. Mark met Bridget at the second annual KidLit Conference last fall. We were shocked and saddened by her bad news.

Hospital bills are high and… Continue

Added by Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast on May 2, 2009 at 7:01am — No Comments

Haptic History - Humanistic Fabrication

Friday afternoon mindblow - exciting and visceral ideas about experiencing/interacting with/interpreting history:

http://digitalhistoryhacks.blogspot.com/2008/11/few-arguments-for-humanistic.html

Turkel, William J. Digital History Hacks: Methodology for the Infinite Archive (2005-08). [Weblog.]

Added by Zack Dowell on May 1, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Differentiated Instruction

I am in the process of coaching a special education teacher to help one of her students to gather information from Fast Plants http://tinyurl.com/dcdt4w to create a project to show what she knows about plants and share it her third grade class. I will be updating this process.

Added by Marianne Shibly on April 30, 2009 at 8:51pm — No Comments