February 2009 Blog Posts (194)

Web 2.0

This is a very interesting class!

Added by Danyelle Hillman on February 12, 2009 at 4:06pm — 1 Comment

Picture

I wish I had a picture that I could upload.

Added by Brandy Smothers on February 12, 2009 at 4:06pm — No Comments

This is cool!

Added by Wendy Willingham on February 12, 2009 at 4:05pm — No Comments

This blog has been stagnant for awhile so I decided I'd better update it. I was reminded to do this after a few students decided to Google me while we were in the computer lab. I was actually a bit embarrassed that they would see out of date information. Thankfully, I try to keep my online presence middle school appropriate.

Added by Scott Beiter on February 12, 2009 at 12:57pm — No Comments

Remembering Lincoln

Happy Birthday, Honest Abe!

Check out Remix America's latest blog post on Lincoln!

ASSIGNMENT IDEA: Today, encourage your students to remix a campaign commercial for Abraham Lincoln (or Jefferson Davis!) on the Remix America software!

Added by Erika Johansson on February 12, 2009 at 12:43pm — No Comments

A Lesson on Learning

I have a grandson (actually, three grandsons and three granddaughters, but I digress already...) Grandson in the middle attends school in a large city district in another state. He called his Grandpa and me last Friday night on his own initiative; I don’t think his parents even know that he called us. He was just missing us, he said.

During the conversation, of course I had to ask how school was going. The boy just sighed. “It’s OK, but it’s getting hard. We’re practicing for the… Continue

Added by Linda Loder on February 12, 2009 at 8:23am — 3 Comments

Results of Twitter Poll "If you could change your job title, what would it be?"

Yesterday, @eduinnovation and I were discussing the idea of changing job titles on Twitter. As a result of that discussion, I posted the question: “If you could change your job title, what would it be?” as a Twitter poll. The following are responses that were given. No requirements on job title were given. Below are the responses from all who participated. I enjoyed reading and contemplating the ideas behind each… Continue

Added by Glen Westbroek on February 12, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

http://mshsncc.blogspot.com/

Hi everyone!
This is my favourite blog coz NCC is my passion. NCC stands for National Cadet Corps, which is an activity in the Co-Curricular Programme in my school. Students sign up to be in this activity and the commitment is for four years in a secondary school education. The blog gives information on the activities and training programme the students go through weekly.

Added by jennifer joy on February 12, 2009 at 12:11am — No Comments

Another update on Cell Phone Use

In an attempt to help students prepare for college I did not provide them with a study guide. Instead I created points in the lesson where we stopped and discuss what would be good questions over the material covered. About the third day I used polleverywhere.com and simply ask students to text me questions. Then I open the screen on the projector so as the questions came in the class as a whole would answer them.

I saw several benefits here. 1) Students got to share what they… Continue

Added by Alan Beam on February 11, 2009 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Edubloggercon - WEST at CUE & Edublogger Meetup at CLMS

Every year at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), a group of educational bloggers (or edubloggers) gathers for a full day "unconference" where the sessions and topics are decided by the participants. It's an exciting and high-energy social learning experience.

A west coast version of the edubloggercon takes place each year at the CUE conference in Palm Springs. Steve Hargadon, Jen Wagner, and I have begun talking about planning the event. Please add your name to the… Continue

Added by Mark Wagner on February 11, 2009 at 10:59am — No Comments

Clickers and Mobi

We have started to invest in student response clicker systems. The CPS clickers by Interwrite have come to the top our list. It is plug and play rf system and they integrate with Examview (which they own). We have some Interwrite interactive white boards, which are great, and some Interwrite Pads. I absolutely love the clickers. If I was back in the classroom, this would be a piece of technology that I would have to have. The ability to formative assess and track progress is a very valuable… Continue

Added by Bob.Snyder on February 11, 2009 at 7:22am — No Comments

Screencasts - Effective Technology Training in Enterprises

We had the rapid technology development of new mobile devices and platforms, virtualization, cloud computing, and more. But we also met the serious financial crisis in 2008. In enterprises, more and more people are upgrading their OA systems and products with new technologies. Nowadays high quality and low cost training of new technology is what enterprises looking for.

When an enterprise is going to adopt the new software product or a new system to provide them higher productivity… Continue

Added by Tim on February 11, 2009 at 5:48am — No Comments

Research

I am currently conducting some research on educator sites/resources and I would very much appreciate you all taking a few minutes to complete this survey for me http://tinyurl.com/aphjrz

Thank you in advance and I will post the results of my research once it is completed. Feel free to pass along to your colleagues as well

Added by Kenneth Shelton on February 10, 2009 at 8:39pm — No Comments

Remember when things were simple because Futlz won't let me use "Blast From The Past"

Tonight Mr. E made me recall technology that I used while growing up. The first thing that came to my mind was the good old Gameboy by Nitendo. I remember that I received the handheld gaming device as a birthday gift. I want to say that it was my sixth birthday. At the time, it was the coolest, new toy to have, mainly because you could play a game and move from place to place. I believe the Gameboy was the first game system to go portable. Besides the Gameboy, I also received the game… Continue

Added by Matthew Davidson on February 10, 2009 at 6:34pm — 1 Comment

San Jose Digital Media Course

San Jose Digital Media Conference

June 22nd-25th at the San Jose Museum of Art

The San Jose Digital Media Course is a unique course designed for educators to experience 21st Century Learning in a real world setting. Participants work collaboratively to create vodcasts (video podcasts) of art exhibits from the San Jose Museum of Art.

CEUs and Graduate Credit available

More information is available at… Continue

Added by Tammy Stephens on February 10, 2009 at 6:18pm — No Comments

21st Century Learners

Engage Me!

A video production by students and teachers at Robin Hood Primary School, Birmingham, England.

Engage Me!

Added by Rohan Craig on February 10, 2009 at 3:20pm — No Comments

Budget Cuts and Technology

Like many districts everywhere we are in the midst of a budget reduction, 9.3 million this year and about the same again next year. We are actively pursuing alternate ways to train teachers that don't require face to face or time out of the classroom. We have Blackboard and that works well but we are also looking for a low cost (free is really what we need) way of video conferencing with a small groups of teachers. I tried out Dimdim today with some success and some failure. The desktop sharing… Continue

Added by Bob.Snyder on February 10, 2009 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

Obama in Indiana

I've just posted a new set of discussion starters about President Obama's trip to Indiana yesterday. Here it is:

The Washington Post is running an article entitled, “Obama Returns to

Campaign Tactics to Push Stimulus Bill.” The article begins,

“President Obama took his campaign for a massive new economic

stimulus package to this hard-hit corner of Indiana Monday and urged

Congress to pass a bill ‘immediately’ to avoid the prospect of a

‘deepening disaster.’”… Continue

Added by Andrew Pass on February 10, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Some thoughts on the virtual classroom

I've just recently started teaching on-line using the WizIQ website. Some of my chemistry students expressed an interest in spending some time outside of class preparing for the SAT II Chemistry subject test that is coming up in May. I thought it would be a great opportunity to try on-line teaching.

I've only taught a couple classes so far, but I've spent considerable hours researching and attending others' online classes at WizIQ.com. I've read several articles where people claim… Continue

Added by Cameron Brown on February 10, 2009 at 7:17am — No Comments

A Different Differentiated Instruction

Granted this 9 year old prodigy comes from a background of technology know-how. His father is a chief technology officer at technology firm and writes iPhone applications. But what astonishes me is that this kid has taken… Continue

Added by John Costilla on February 10, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments