February 2009 Blog Posts (194)

Black History Month

In honor of Black History month Remix America has posted videos of influential figures from the Civil Rights Movement as well as African Americans who helped break down the racial barrier. In addition, check out the blog on tennis legend Arthur Ashe who helped desegregate the tennis world. So check out Remix America this Black History… Continue

Added by Erika Johansson on February 6, 2009 at 2:25pm — No Comments

Assignment 2-what have I learned?

I really enjoyed the article about digital immigrant vs. digital natives. I am happy to report that I am a digital immigrant. I am not that old, I graduated high school in 1992. In my computer class, we entered code on a monitor that only showed in green font. After countless hours of code writing, I would hit execute, and magically, a happy face would appear on the dark monitor and wink at me. Thankfully we have come a very long way since then.

Students in my class today have always known… Continue

Added by Tyler on February 6, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

TeachPaperless

Please come on over to www.teachpaperless.com and see what's going on. The blog is sort of a journal of my thoughts and experiences running a totally paperless classroom.

Added by Shelly Blake-Plock on February 6, 2009 at 1:25pm — No Comments

Semiotic Account of Multimodal Texts- Oh My!

First of all, my friend who works a CWRU was able to obtain Huey's book for me! Yea! Secondly, I have to say that this class has really sparked an awareness of all of the media and means of communication I have available to me. I have been taking more advantage of my phone (especially texting), chatting, online social networks, e-mail, blogs and You Tube (and the likes) than ever before. I figure I better if I want to be ready to teach in a year and a half! Also, I have found that all of this… Continue

Added by Ariella Epstein on February 6, 2009 at 1:13pm — No Comments

NETBOOK TIME

Well, as all of you in Victoria probably already know, 1:1 computing is here, in the form of the government's Netbook trial. My school happens to be one of the 300 and something that have been chosen to participate and as the head of IT in the school I can honestly say I am excited, to say the least.

I have sussed out the software package and reviewed the computers themselves and I think this may be a big coup for those of us who believe the future is not the future any more, but the now.… Continue

Added by Chris Hebbard on February 6, 2009 at 3:58am — No Comments

Shambles Termly Newsletter Feb 09 now online

This is to confirm that the 20th termly "Shambles" Newsletter from The Education Project Asia is now available online.

- designed for International School Communities across S.E.Asia.

(now with a worldwide readership)

It can be viewed online at

http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/february2009

Topics this term include:

- New on Shambles : YouTube, TeachersTV, Obama, Periodic… Continue

Added by Shamblesguru (Chris Smith) on February 6, 2009 at 1:39am — No Comments

eGovernment IT of the Future Must Include eEducation Initiatives - By Lance Winslow

By Lance Winslow

As eGovernment IT initiatives link Federal, State and Local Governments the systems will grow. One of the main objectives of a State Government is to make sure that education is taken care of, thus any future net-centric government IT initiatives must include education at the local level and perhaps allow for standardization of some material into bite size educational 3D Virtual Reality clips available to all… Continue

Added by Lance Winslow on February 5, 2009 at 9:56pm — No Comments

ebooks

1.5 million cellphone ebooks are available for download from Google. Access to knowledge is changing at the speed of light. If knowledge is power then many of us should be deified during this life time. The sheer amount of information at our finger tips pushes our realities over the edge and into the what President Obama spoke of throughout this campaign. Welcome to the knowledge economy, too late we can't hit the breaks now. What ever you do, make sure fear doesn't paralyze you,for every… Continue

Added by Don Robinson on February 5, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Technology Savvy Students

Students in today’s classes are more capable of using technology than any students in the past. Is this a good thing? Should we as teachers modify our classes to address their capabilities? I would consider myself a digital immigrant. I am capable of using most technology if given a bit of time to figure it out. But I am fully aware that most students are more capable than I am. Should I alter what I do to address the student’s strengths? If I do that I'm not teaching to my strengths. There are… Continue

Added by Randy on February 5, 2009 at 5:22pm — No Comments

Teaching in the Digital Age

I found the article on Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants quite interesting because I feel very uncomfortable about my immigrant status. Going through college I was at the beginning of the email age and even though that was not too long ago I feel as though everything has quickly passed me by. In my district there is an administrator in central office that used to do several in-services a year at my school about different topics. He always talked about integrating computers, ipods, cell… Continue

Added by Charlie Nimz on February 5, 2009 at 12:59pm — No Comments

Day 4 - 28 Days of Twitter: "What I learned on Twitter Today"

This is a meta-find, and a gem. Because what I found on Twitter today was a blog post by @cljennings explaining her "learning curve" with Twitter -- how she just didn't 'get it' at first, how she was determined to try it but was unsure how to find people to follow, or how to make it meaningful... and then how it all came together. The post is entitled, aptly,… Continue

Added by Shelley Paul on February 5, 2009 at 12:30am — 1 Comment

Flickr Help needed

Good morning from Beijing.

We are 10 days into the Chinese New Celebration with only 5 days to go. Why do I mention that? Because it has been relatively quiet at nights except for the 5th and the 10th nights when fireworks again burst on the scene. Now we just have to wait for the 15th day (night) for the Lantern Festival which marks the official end of the celebration with another round of hours of fireworks until around midnight. Then there will be blessed peace again.… Continue

Added by Heather Davis on February 4, 2009 at 8:33pm — No Comments

Digital Age-Are we stifling our students with the lack of technology we know and use?

"Are we stifling our students with the lack of technology we know and use?" Many of our students know how to use much more technology than we do. Technology has changed so much since I was in high school. I remember when I took computer programming and we wrote programs for huge computers. The teacher was the only one who actually ran the computers that we wrote the programs for. Today, many of our students could teach us a thing or two about computers.

In the article, “Digital… Continue

Added by Michelle on February 4, 2009 at 7:26pm — No Comments

Information Fluency Online Classes Start Feb. 9

Power-Searching In a Web 2.0 World

| 4 weeks | $99

This is a 4 week overview class suitable for beginning, intermediate, and advanced searchers.

We use discussions, open-book quizzes, interactive glossaries, and learning games to teach information fluency.
You will learn to search, evaluate, and ethically use online…

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Added by Dennis O'Connor on February 4, 2009 at 3:59pm — No Comments

Second Life and Smartboards

Just getting ready to navigate second life on a smartboard. Has anyone done this as part of a lesson in the classroom?

Added by Tim Foster on February 4, 2009 at 8:41am — 2 Comments

New Literacies

I am looking for some advise on how to engage my grade one students in some form of new (non traditional) form of literacy. I am thinking about podcasting and blogging, but I have never tried either before. Any suggestions as to how I can keep it simple for both myself and my 7 year old students?

Added by Valerie F on February 4, 2009 at 8:07am — 2 Comments

Live @ TCEA with Only a Mobile Phone

I will be headed to TCEA this morning to connect and meet up with friends and colleagues at the Texas education technology conference. Using my mobile phone and Qik, I will live feed and capture small segments and share here throughout the day. Feel free to join in or preview recorded sessions. I will also be sharing pics using Flickr and Twitter to post status updates. My goal is to see how much content can be captured all from the use of my mobile.

Links to… Continue

Added by John Costilla on February 4, 2009 at 6:45am — No Comments

more basic help with fronter

in our school we have CRAs - curriculum resource assistants. They are responsible for uploading content in fronter here's some help files created to train them in uploading and linking content in fronter.

check out the content on my online resource file

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=5bc60c38bac1901591b20cc0d07ba4d26cc86fdd2780989d

Added by Abe on February 4, 2009 at 5:29am — No Comments

Day 3 - 28 Days of Twitter: Teachers Who Share

Today was a rich Twitter day -- lots of things to explore, but I'm just going to share one, a blog post from Dean Shareski, entitled "Teachers Who Share." I think transparency of practice, a willingness to be open, to take calculated risks, to share process and product, struggles as well as successes, to question and reflect "out loud," may be the most important aspect of this "networked learning" we're learning… Continue

Added by Shelley Paul on February 3, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

All Children Can Learn!

I just returned from the Leadership Alabama Education retreat. It was held in Mobile and began on Thursday afternoon. It concluded today (Saturday at noon). The highlight of the retreat for many was the visit to George Hall Elementary School. George Hall's students come from generational poverty. But, that doesn't hold them back. In fact, the vast majority of George Hall students are performing academically at the highest levels. According to Jim Williams, Executive Director of the Public… Continue

Added by Cathy Gassenheimer on February 3, 2009 at 9:31am — No Comments