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The Check is in the Mail

[The Paperless Chronicles Part II]

Since the beginning of man’s earliest attempts at communication, there have been MISSED-communications. Throughout the ages we have become excellent at making up excuses for our missed and mis-communications. Some have become so common, they have actually become clichés - such as “the check is in the mail.”

Missed…

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Added by Greg Farr on August 8, 2007 at 8:21am — 1 Comment

Ning! MySpace is dead. Long live social networking.

Ning! Myspace is dead.! Long Live Social Networking.

A great article and one that in the most part I have to agree with. I am finding Ning to be my tool of choice when it comes to professional networking and would use it with my learners happily.

Myspace still has it's place however within the arts and business in particular now. If you are teaching anything that has a business aspect, then I feel it is important to at least…

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Added by Jacinta Gascoigne on August 7, 2007 at 10:35pm — No Comments

I love using primary sources in the classroom. When I was designing my students' blog site header I found tons of pictures of "old" classrooms. When I was a kid (in the mid-50s) there were 35 student…

I love using primary sources in the classroom. When I was designing my students' blog site header I found tons of pictures of "old" classrooms. When I was a kid (in the mid-50s) there were 35 students in my elementary classes. I've had people tell me than in their parochial elementary classes there would be 50 students! When I first started teaching in 1971, I had 36 fifth graders in my class and didn't think a thing about it. Hard to believe…

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Added by Nancy Bosch on August 7, 2007 at 9:07pm — 4 Comments

Planned District Middle School Conference

I am excited ... for the first year that I remember, my district will be holding a Middle School Professional Development day prior to the start of this school year. The keynote will be given by Jack Berckemeyer - Assistant Executive Director of the National Middle School Association. I received the agenda in today's snail mail. The Breakout Sessions look to be quite good - there are 31 choices. Of these choices, nine focus on technology and/or 21^st… Continue

Added by Glen Westbroek on August 7, 2007 at 4:04pm — No Comments

My Living Textbook

I'm getting very excited about the potential of my living textbook. The textbook contains hundreds of questions designed to promote discussion about current events. I'm hoping that other bloggers will send me suggestions as to how I can continuously improve this living textbook. One idea that I came up with this morning is including a question from a different newsmaker every day. We'll see how this work.

Added by Andrew Pass on August 7, 2007 at 12:16pm — No Comments

The Future is mobile & immersive

The best case to be made might for this belief might be what Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have

to say .. their products literally move every tech market… Continue

Added by Rich White on August 7, 2007 at 11:19am — No Comments

Changing your Mindset - Part 2

Blogging with a Growth Mindset

As you know from my last post, I just finished reading Mindset by Carol S. Dweck. In Mindset, Dr. Dwecks explains her work on the "fixed" versus "growth" mindset. A

person with a fixed… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Davis on August 7, 2007 at 10:46am — No Comments

Helping!

I spent this past week (July 30 - Aug 4) with 175 teenagers helping fix houses that were impacted by Hurricane Rita in Lake Charles, LA 2 years ago. There is still plenty of work to do, but we made a dent.

Check out my podcast --- http://kirchner.podomatic.com/

Added by Jim Kirchner on August 7, 2007 at 9:22am — No Comments

Summer Academy #2 and #3

Our Summer Academies around the state went very well (despite the day we had to teach blogs/wikis without the Internet!). Here are some of the great project started by our teachers from Wellston and North Union.

Added by Lauren on August 7, 2007 at 9:14am — No Comments

Embrace Digital Age - Newspapers told!

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22203572-5012062,00.html

The article is another reflecting the impact, the net and in particular social networking tools are having on business practices globally.

Another reason maybe to ensure on campus access to the tools, environments and experiences, that I believe must integrated into formal learning at all levels globally.

Jacinta

Added by Jacinta Gascoigne on August 7, 2007 at 8:37am — 2 Comments

"Crash of the Internet 2007" ... millions of Blogs lost.

This is a very serious

notice that may affect your Blog(s) ...... (or not)

Did you see the TV News report on the "Crash of the Internet 2007" ... millions of Blogs lost.

I've put a copy of the 3 minute TV news report…

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Added by Shamblesguru (Chris Smith) on August 6, 2007 at 9:43pm — No Comments

First Day of Technology Training

This is our second year of training teachers who are receiving laptops. This year had our teachers group themselves voluntarily into two sections, medium and medium-plus. Last year they were grouped by department/division. While last year they were with their colleagues, this year they are with teachers who are at the same level (with regard to technology) as themselves. The teachers seem to be more comfortable, and it is great to see people from different divisions and departments making… Continue

Added by larryk on August 6, 2007 at 6:29pm — No Comments

2.0 moving across post-secondary

cross posted from http://newlearning.ning.com

Some see the advent of Web 2.0-style tools in the classroom heralding a shift in everything from education theory to how schools are built. The

bottom line: traditional lecturing may be on its way out, said Claire

Schooley, an analyst at Forrester Research who follows learning trends

at universities and corporations.

From:

Web 2.0: Big app on…

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Added by Sharon Betts on August 6, 2007 at 11:43am — 2 Comments

Getting Civic Investment's right

I encourage you to read the articles written by Suzanne Morse of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. She's created an ACT NOW wiki that offers good advise for anyone who wants to see community problems solved. I contribute to this wiki because this provides good ideas for how businesses, churches, schools, etc. could be… Continue

Added by Daniel Bassill on August 6, 2007 at 11:02am — 1 Comment

Business Week Reports: The Future of the 3D web

My $.02 -- this article is a long one, a decent read, so Ill re-cap

http://tinyurl.com/279mq4

"It feels like the early days of the Internet," says Steve Prentice, a vice-president at Gartner Research (IT ). Gartner estimates that by 2011, 80% of Internet users and major companies will have

avatars, or digital replicas of themselves, for online work and play.

I agree... very… Continue

Added by Rich White on August 6, 2007 at 10:45am — No Comments

Technology and Science

I have long held the belief that "Students who actively do Science learn and love the subject!" I also am a firm believer that along with inquiry and experimentation there needs to be a sharing of information. I have set a goal to change how information is shared this year by implementing more Web 2.0 into my lessons. I have a strong opinion that after students have learned through inquiry, they naturally want to share this information with others. I hope to provide a positive report on both… Continue

Added by Glen Westbroek on August 6, 2007 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Robotics for elementary

Thanks to generous people in CR20 I am gathering resources and learning about robotics. http://mindstorms.lego.com/ http://www.stager.org/lego Robotics Resources for Educators Using Programmable LEGO Materials I also found (on Jen Wagner's blog) a fun little site to create and save characters. I'll use the one shown…

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Added by JoNelle on August 6, 2007 at 9:27am — No Comments

Repetitive Technology Syndrome

This entry first appeared in my Byte Speed blog on January 2, 2007:

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Tim%27s%20Blog/B12E195D-7014-447A-988C-12E9EBECBAB8.html

"In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint," Negroponte wrote in an e-mail interview. "I consider that criminal, because children should be making… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 6, 2007 at 8:17am — No Comments

Jazz Up your Clurriculum Podcast

Hi everyone.

Sorry I have been so quiet. Summer vacations, kidney stones, kids with broken wrists...it has been quite a summer.

Anyway, will be getting going soon. In the meantime, here is a podcast on a really cool program called "Jazz Up Your Curriculum With Video Conferencing"

Here is the podcast:

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Pod%20Speed/EC05FADD-7486-41FE-B633-701E73A076D6.html

The podcast is a reflection session with the ten… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 6, 2007 at 8:09am — 1 Comment

A infinite number of blogs?

How many blogs is too many blogs? I really like the look of this Ning community, but I'm not quite sure how I will deal with yet another blog to write! How do other people deal with that? I assume most of you are already blogging elsewhere, so do you write stuff here too? I think I'd be splitting my energy a little too much if I started seriously doing that.

For those that might not know, I also write a blog over at www.betchablog.com, which is… Continue

Added by Chris Betcher on August 5, 2007 at 6:27am — No Comments