February 2009 Blog Posts (194)

Mid-South Regional Job Fair to Promote Diversity in Independent Schools Saturday, February 21

If you're in the region and this looks promising to you, please attend!

Added by Scott Merrick on February 10, 2009 at 6:55am — No Comments

Digital Native or Digital Immigrant?

Without a doubt, I am a digital immigrant. An infant digital immigrant, at that. I'm not afraid of technology, so I have that going for me, but every time I think I am becoming a toddler or maybe even a child, I find a whole new area I didn't even know exsisted. I liken it to a child who has had that first piece of candy. It is sweet and delicious and I can't imagine anything better, but then I find the candy section at a small convience store. Look at the choices! I can hardly wait to try… Continue

Added by Lisa Bates on February 9, 2009 at 7:12pm — No Comments

WEB LOG 3

The question deals with how can one control one's perception with a picture?There is always that processing of ongoing assessment. We talked about constraint.

Added by SHELDON SMITH on February 9, 2009 at 3:51pm — No Comments

WEBLOG3

Weblog 3

Reflections on readings in regards to project tomorrow

Students are so involved in the way they communicate with each other, the pop worlds text messaging and myspace. Students have so many ways and avenues to communicate.

Notes about Chapter 4

Tagging is all about using words to categorize and describe content. As a result of fact, a new term, folksonomy, was coined as a result of the practice of tagging in an online environment.(Braun) Tagging enables… Continue

Added by SHELDON SMITH on February 9, 2009 at 2:28pm — No Comments

Free Document Download and Upload...

I came across this interesting site while browsing... It offers uploading, storing and downloading all sorts of document on the site. You may share your document with the others and also get to share other's document if they are useful!

"Docstoc is the premier online community to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides the platform for users and businesses to upload and share their documents…

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Added by Yan Hughes on February 9, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

First blog post...

Here to find colleagues energetic about web 2.0!!

Added by Scott Angstadt on February 9, 2009 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Free Web Site Generators

I have been looking into various free web site generators and have not found one yet that I am overly satisfied with. I would like the site to have a lot of different capabilities such as being able to add sound files, esthetically pleasing and so on. If anyone know of a great web site generator please let me know. I don't mind if I have to spend a small annual fee, but I think it would be great to use with my students.

Added by Sandy on February 9, 2009 at 7:03am — 2 Comments

My TCEA Review

The theme for the 2009 TCEA convention in Austin was "Accelerate Technology," obviously a play on the racing industry. So it was off to the race track for me. As I made my way down the isles of the exhibit hall, it was less acceleration and more of the same — clickers and… Continue

Added by John Costilla on February 9, 2009 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

Black History Month Lesson Plans

In honor Black History Month, the Knowledge Essentials team has created a series of free lesson plans on Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, School Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement.

You can find these lesson plans and activity sheets, along with our entire repository of open educational resources, over on our Knowledge Essentials page on LearnHub!

Added by Amy James on February 9, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

Teaching in the Digital Age

Wow, this was some great information. The videos were very interesting and enlightening at the same time. I have not started my teaching career officially yet, but I have been substitute teaching at the Derrick Thomas Academy. The article that we read by David Warlick was very informational as well. I never thought about podcasts being used for teaching. It is obvious now to me that it can be very useful. The entire article will be useful for me in the future. It just amazes me the technology… Continue

Added by Ryan M Smith on February 8, 2009 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Weblog 3

Well I thought I would make comments as I read the assignments.

Chapter 4: I have seen on some websites that I visit, people "tagging" their photos/content. When Braun takes the opinion this could help literacy, I thought it absurd (I still need a bit more convincing). I continued to read on and try to follow her examples and feel nothing but old. I visited the websites discussed for clarification and quickly realized . . . I need someone nearly half my age to explain. I continue to read… Continue

Added by Kelly Roath on February 8, 2009 at 8:31pm — 1 Comment

Teaching in the digital age!

I have learned that I am and immigrant. There is a whole world out there that I have not explored, but so far in this class I am seeing it for the first time. There is so much that teachers can use from other teachers. Using this site, I have found new friends and they have responded to a lot of my questions. I have created a Facebook account, join delicious, made a wiki, and much more. Teachers must learn this new technology if we want to teacher our students the tools they need for the new… Continue

Added by Brett Mohr on February 8, 2009 at 7:31pm — No Comments

Teaching the Current Supreme Court to AP Government Students

What Students Should Know About Our Court

This blog originally appeared in Hippocampusgovernment.blogspot.com on February 8th, 2009 and is republished here with their permission. To see hyperlinks and learn more about Hippocampusgovernment click on the above hyperlink.

When I meet with other AP Government teachers and we discuss the Judiciary and the Court, the topic always seems to come up of how much of the current… Continue

Added by Ric Vix on February 8, 2009 at 6:40pm — No Comments

What is Blue Schools all about?

First blog, first blog. This provides you with an overview of our Blue Schools project.

Jason Brodersen - proud dad, husband, kite surfer, scientist and VW bus driver - and I founded Blue Schools mostly because we believe in place and problem-based learning and the ability of students to make positive change. I am an educator working at a middle school in Larkspur, CA. We are in the very late stages of forming our CA non-profit and in the early stages working with our first pilot… Continue

Added by Andy Boone on February 8, 2009 at 5:02pm — No Comments

Free President's Day Lesson Plans

It's almost President's Day and we've created a series of free lesson plans that you are free to use and share it with your colleagues.

To see all of our lesson plans, check out our repository of open educational resources over on our Knowledge Essentials page on LearnHub!

Added by Amy James on February 8, 2009 at 3:14pm — No Comments

My Living Textbook

I woke up in the middle of the night last night thinking about my Living-Textbook. This is a website that contains hundreds (maybe dozens maybe thousands, I'm not sure) of questions that I developed related to newspaper articles. I haven't been keeping this up to date, but all of the sudden I thought of a really interesting quote that I just put up on the living textbook: "Yesterday's Current Events Questions are Today's Critical Thinking Questions. Great Essay Prompts!! Wonderful ways to… Continue

Added by Andrew Pass on February 8, 2009 at 10:41am — No Comments

I er ENCUENTRO VIRTUAL EN VIVO VIA INTERNET INTER-REDES! MARKETING DE SERVICIOS PROFESIONALES!

ENCUENTRO VIRTUAL EN VIVO VIA INTERNET LANGUAGE SPANISH

DIFUSION DE SERVICIOS PROFESIONALES,

ACTIVIDADES PARA OBTENER CLIENTES

UTILIZANDO LA WEB.

Hora: febrero 18, 2009 de 5pm to 7pm BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA LOCAL TIME

Ubicación: ON LINE

Tipo de evento: en, vivo, via, internet

Organizado por: Alberto Elisavetsky

PRESENTACION DR ALBERTO ELISAVETSKY

ROGAMOS DIFUNDIR LA ACTIVIDAD

INSCRIPCIONES EN… Continue

Added by Alberto Elisavetsky on February 8, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Network Challenge

Random Acts of Kindness Week 2008: February 11-17, 2009 http://www.actsofkindness.org/ what will your classes do?

I challenge you to: (ideas from the website)

1. Welcome Winter Gloves

Purchase a pair of winter gloves for someone in your community.

2. Set up a Custodian Appreciation Day and have students clean classrooms for the custodian. Make a banner or card telling your custodian how much he is appreciated.

3. Create a bulletin board where kids write their… Continue

Added by Durff on February 7, 2009 at 5:33pm — No Comments

Online Safety

There are three things I teach learners never to put online:

1. their name
2. their photo
3. their location

We, in parentis loci, should not be doing these either. Learners in my rooms choose and use screen names and avatars. We will say the city and town and country of our school for collaborations but not our street address.
Alec Couros' recent post http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1203 puts this reason in perspective.

Added by Durff on February 7, 2009 at 12:55pm — No Comments

Mission Organization

I'm getting rid of my teacher's desk this week.

I've TRIED to manage without a "reading table" for a year and a half now and I just can't get past the PSYCHOLOGICAL need for one. I'm in the middle of my second year teaching fifth grade after twelve years at second grade, and I just can't go another day with out that kidney-shaped fixture in my classroom.

I tried meeting with fifth grade groups around my rectangle table, but that just is not conducive to get… Continue

Added by Michelle TeGrootenhuis on February 7, 2009 at 9:33am — 1 Comment