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Blogging and Reverse Research

By Alix E. Peshette

Cross-posted from Ed Tech Gold Rush

One of the benefits of my position as a technology training specialist for a school district is that I get to indulge my passion for research. When I say research, I’m not talking about facts and figures, case studies and long-term research projects. I love to research the how-to’s, what’s new and…

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Added by Alix E. Peshette on September 23, 2007 at 2:58pm — 2 Comments

The World is Flat- Up Close and Personal

Would love to hear your thoughts on the three take aways I list in my most recent post on techLEARNING. The post is my reflections from a recent visit to Shanghai, China where I presented at the Learning 2.0

conference. http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2007/09/the_world_is_flat_up_close_and.php

Shanghai might surprise you-…

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Added by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on September 23, 2007 at 2:14pm — No Comments

2 Equal Earth Days

Isn't this image a great example of what excellent teachers do best?

Today is the Autumnal or Fall Equinox, one of 2 Equal Earth Days during our orbit around Sol. All over… Continue

Added by samccoy on September 23, 2007 at 10:54am — 1 Comment

Smile - You're 'Out of the Box!'

This note went out from a teacher at one of my project schools to another one this past Friday:

"To realize what happened with the kids during this project is awesome. Now I understand - the light has dawned. I did less work and kids did more work without complaining and learned more than I would have ever dreamed possible - on so many levels. Okay; now I am hooked - teach me how to use this stuff."

I was so lucky to see this unfold in her classes on Thursday. Students (Junior… Continue

Added by Linda Loder on September 23, 2007 at 10:24am — No Comments

Bad Education System In Bangladesh

You will be unhappy to know that, we are too much sleepy about our education system. Now, I’ll give you an exclusive example also horrible.

In Bangladesh some stupid writer published their IT related text books for higher secondary level and text books which is authorized by education board and maximum student also take it as a scope and only for the A+ and I faced only one lab practical entire my…

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Added by OPEN GIGA on September 23, 2007 at 9:30am — No Comments

Web 2.0 for Administrators

I have been thinking lately about how Web 2.0 could enhance the lives of administrators and principals. Administrators are busy, overwhelmed with practical tasks required to keep the school functioning smoothly. What can Web 2.0 add? Here are my answers. Please help me by adding yours.

1. Blogging - administrator blogs can reflect on daily tasks or larger issues. They can also be a way to communicate to students, parents, the community.

2. Wikis - how often do you need to work…

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Added by Marian Thacher on September 23, 2007 at 1:41am — 2 Comments

Teaching is an Art

I’ve now begun the book study I’m doing with my two inductees; The Art and Science of Teaching by Robert

J. Marzano. The book study and attendant assignments, reflections, and journal

articles are structured to cover some important topics early in the year, like

goal-setting, instruction and assessment. However, it leaves…

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Added by L. Suzanne Shanks on September 22, 2007 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue

I wrote an article for my http://tutormentor.blogspot.com blog referring to an article written by a couple of health researchers. I'm not sure how good my comments are, but I encourage you to read the article by Nicholas Freudenberg, Dr.PH and Jessica Ruglis. You can find the link on my blog.

The writers provide statistics that show how the drop out problem is most severe in the nation's biggest cities. Since members of Classroom 2.0 come…

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Added by Daniel Bassill on September 22, 2007 at 5:28pm — No Comments

"Top Twelve" Posts in September

I couldn’t narrow it down to a “Top Ten” of the best posts from my blog (http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/) this month. So here are the “Top Twelve:”

* Home Computers & English Language…

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Added by Larry Ferlazzo on September 22, 2007 at 12:48pm — No Comments

FACE Board Meeting

Today we are meeting and discussing the online places we can provide to members.

Added by FACE on September 22, 2007 at 9:53am — No Comments

Learning through humour

Lots of material can be helped into the brain through humour, rhyme and music. I've just put up a few videos from Monty Python and Tom Lehrer. I've also linked to Flanders and Swann's "First and Second Law". Imagine - a song about the laws of thermodynamics! Tom Lehrer also has put the periodic table to music, and there is a splendid (copyrighted) flash animation of it here. And even Lehrer's "I'm spending Hanukkah in Santa Monica" is… Continue

Added by Ian Carmichael on September 22, 2007 at 8:08am — No Comments

Video Games: Friend or Foe

I little background here. I am 35 years old and I have grown up playing video games. I have had them all from PONG to Playstation to the Wii. I will always enjoy playing video games and am not ashamed of it. My 4 year old son also love playing video games (we do curb him playing time of course) and he is quite good at them. He is restricted to the Disney genre for obvious reasons and he plays the interactive learning computer games as well. He has gotten quite good at these games and is very… Continue

Added by Brad Davis on September 22, 2007 at 7:37am — No Comments

Educating the Net Generation

Net Generation students were born into the age of information technology. Their attitudes, expectations, skills and learning styles reflect their environment - which contrasts our own upbringing.

From my personal experience as an educator, I've outlined what I believe are the 7 key traits of the Net Generation:

1. Connected

Net Gen expect instant access to information. If they need to know something, they will Google it. They also need connectivity to their… Continue

Added by Chad Outten on September 22, 2007 at 3:24am — 1 Comment

Social Networking in Education

According to a recent US study by the National Schools Board Association, 96% of students aged 9-17 years, who have internet access, use social networking tools. The study was comprised of 3 surveys, an online survey involving 1277 students, an online survey of 1039 parents, and phone interviews with 250 school district leaders who make internet policy decisions. The study identified that students spend on average 9 hours per week… Continue

Added by Chad Outten on September 22, 2007 at 3:21am — 1 Comment

Collaborative learning in programming

I've been trying to construct a situation where many groups (in school) are working together to create an service, system or application for the Internet.

If you are interested in taking a risk where our pupils (my pupils are on secondary high-school/college level)will learn programming (PHP and MySQL) together I would be more than enthustiatic.

Please send me an email if you are interested!
lero01(at)utb.nynashamn.se

Added by Lennart on September 22, 2007 at 2:48am — No Comments

Friday's Test

I had to take in my language arts class today. I think I did pretty good. This test seemed a lot easier than the other ones. I knew exactly what I was doing on every part. I don't know if it was easier or if she just made it that way, but either way I liked it. I think and hope I made an A.

Added by dgambrell on September 21, 2007 at 3:31pm — No Comments

No Title

Yesterday was a long day at school as per it was parent teacher day. The day was spent going over graphic organizers and homework. The rest of the evening until 7 I worked on my lesson plans for the next two days. Not being an official teacher even I was nervous about meeting the parents. My cooperating teacher was kind enough to introduce me as I have a role in the classroom. There weren't too many parents who came as my cooperating teacher says that many know the drill. After that night I… Continue

Added by Jacqueline Marien on September 21, 2007 at 2:31pm — 5 Comments

Phenology: What's Up With That?

Phenology - What Is It?

Phenology - Where Is It?

Phenology - Who Cares?…

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Added by samccoy on September 21, 2007 at 12:02pm — No Comments

What does Barry Manilow have to Do with Educational Technology?

The answer is here:

Here is the post

Click on "Blog"
Click on "Technology in the Fine Arts: Music Making"

I hope that this might stimulate a larger discussion.

Enjoy.
Tim

Added by Tim Holt on September 21, 2007 at 10:34am — No Comments

Music, Drama and Technology

So I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to integrate technology into teaching music and drama to young children. I have found a couple good websites about interactive piano and other things but let me know if you have any interesting programs or websites that you have run across.

Added by Sara Van De Velde on September 21, 2007 at 8:16am — No Comments