March 2009 Blog Posts (259)

Teaching Visions of Hope & Possibility: National TEL.A.VISION Day is Friday

National TEL.A.VISION Day is this Friday and will have a live segment from the National Youth Leadership Council conference in Memphis, TN...as well as a 24 hour internet broadcast with dozens of vision videos created by youth.

What is TEL.A.VISION? It's a new Web 2.0 platform that inspires youth to create and share visions of hope and possibility through personal "vision videos" of their dreams, hope and aspirations (think about the platform one they… Continue

Added by Steve Borsch on March 18, 2009 at 2:32pm — No Comments

Grants for out of school STEM programs and underserved students

I'm looking for grants to help fund my program. If you have any questions, please share.

Added by Braska Williams Jr on March 18, 2009 at 10:59am — No Comments

Looking for a Few (Thousand) Good Photos

I have created a group on Flickr for sharing photos that students and teachers can use in VoiceThread and other applications.

How great would it be to have 1000’s of pictures in a group pool, search able by tag, that you… Continue

Added by Karen Montgomery on March 18, 2009 at 10:33am — No Comments

Media-new for me

Ok-it's spring break and I've been up since 6 a. m. Not because I couldn't sleep, just because I like to get up early. I've spent the last 3 hours messing around with web tools I haven't had time to play with when school's in session. Yes, I think I am a nerd. But that's ok. I've been called worse.

The first type of media I started on this morning was Glogster. It's going to take a little bit more for me to get used to it. I set up an account for each of my 100 students. So now I'm… Continue

Added by Klista Lawyer-Reynolds on March 18, 2009 at 7:30am — 3 Comments

Acceptable Use Policies

Tonight in class, Mr. E passed out a 2007 news article from USA Today. The article talked about a seventh grade substitute teacher, Mrs Julie Amero, and how she used a computer in the classroom. Mrs. Amero was accused of browsing adult content while teaching the classroom. Well that is what the law is saying. According to the USA Today article, Mrs. Amero stepped out of… Continue

Added by Matthew Davidson on March 17, 2009 at 8:32pm — 1 Comment

A Tale of Two Pieces (Audience Awareness)

Entering Activity: Students will answer a sponge question asking them to identify who the audience of their reflective piece is going to be and what format the piece will take.

Anticipatory Set: Students will copy the agenda and I will collect homework.

Teaching and Learning: I will go over with students the importance of making your audience clear and ways we can do this (letter format, essay format). We will discuss what audiences need to know in the reflective… Continue

Added by Amanda Addison on March 17, 2009 at 7:45pm — 1 Comment

Audience Awareness

Entering Activity: Students will make a list of three possible audiences they are considering for their reflective piece.

Anticipatory Set: I will go over with students today’s agenda – that we will be having a discussion about possible audiences for our pieces and we will be doing some reflective writing in response to the yellow sheet questions.

Teaching and Learning: I will teach students that the Letter to the Reviewer that used to be included in the… Continue

Added by Amanda Addison on March 17, 2009 at 7:33pm — 1 Comment

Class Notes for 3/17/09

1. The web and how to organize things on the web

2. Get to the point where you are not just consumers but also to get to be contributer

3.How do you play it safe?

the web has much to offer

with so much to offer how do you organize all that data all that content into chunks of info that are useful to you in your profession?

Organizing information:

in the "old" days we would organize info into folders then into folders and… Continue

Added by Erin Freese on March 17, 2009 at 6:23pm — No Comments

Internet Literacy

I am using Alan November's terrific website to review Internet Literacy with my Grade 5 students.
Questions such as...........
How do you find the owner or publisher of a Web site?
and
What clues in a Web address might indicate you are on a personal Web site?

Here is the link to Alan's Quiz: http://novemberlearning.com/resources/information-literacy-resources/i-information-literacy-quiz/

Added by Francine Cornelius on March 17, 2009 at 9:41am — No Comments

Call for Submissions: Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry Deadline: 17 April 2009

Call for Submissions: Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry

(http://www.gylphi.co.uk/poetry)

Deadline: 17 April 2009

Editors:

Professor Robert Sheppard (shepparr@edgehill.ac.uk) Edge Hill University

Dr Scott Thurston (S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk) University of Salford

Reviews editor:

Piers Hugill (phugill@soton.ac.uk) University of Southampton

Publisher:

Gylphi: Arts and… Continue

Added by Gylphi Limited (Anthony Levings) on March 17, 2009 at 6:12am — No Comments

David Mitchell Conference 2009, University of St Andrews, 3-4 Sept., Call for Papers, Deadline 6 April

CFP: David Mitchell, 3rd-4th September 2009, University of St Andrews

Keynote: David Mitchell

David Mitchell is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary writers, author

of four novels with a fifth forthcoming: his first novel, Ghostwritten

(1999), won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was

shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award; his second, number9dream

(2001), was shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction; his

third… Continue

Added by Gylphi Limited (Anthony Levings) on March 17, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Getting technology into the mainstream

I have been talking for a while about the need to get technology integration more into the mainstream of curriculum discussions. Technology shouldn't be a separate subject or another thing to implement -- it should be one of the tools we use to accomplish our curriculum goals.

One way to move this to the mainstream is for experts like all of us to present not only at technology conferences, but at curriculum conferences.

Another way to do this is to get involved in… Continue

Added by Karen Fasimpaur on March 16, 2009 at 6:09pm — No Comments

Blog 6

Blog Entry 6

To facilitate the research and design of your web 2.0 class web site, please interview your colleagues, students, their parents and, if possible, your principal about what to include in a course web site. If your school or district has a technology integration specialist, arrange to interview him or her.

Your summaries and discussions of these interviews are to inform the discussion topic of a next blog entry.

Parents

Parents want access as to what… Continue

Added by SHELDON SMITH on March 16, 2009 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Audience/ Who Wants (or Needs) to Know?

Entering Activity: Students will make a list of three possible audiences they are considering for their reflective piece.

Anticipatory Set: I will go over with students today’s agenda – that we will be having a discussion about possible audiences for our pieces and we will be doing some reflective writing in response to the yellow sheet questions.

Teaching and Learning: I will teach students that the Letter to the Reviewer that used to be included in the… Continue

Added by Amanda Addison on March 16, 2009 at 5:47am — No Comments

72 Researching Teams Concluding Landmark 2009

Kidlink 2009 at http://www.kidlink.org -- In the Challenge group and the Primary group, we have come to the end of three weeks of scouring the world for famous landmarks. Now it's time for the big list: naming the actual locations, the mystery answers to student-written clues. But the trick in questioning....all questions must be of the form answerable by Yes or No, which makes the detective work even more complicated. The crafting of the clues was step one of the mind challenge: staying with… Continue

Added by Terry Smith on March 15, 2009 at 7:08pm — No Comments

Student count days

Why aren't student count days held during the Halloween party and Valentine's party days? If they truly want an accurate count...I don't think I've ever had a student gone on those days.

Added by Jason Kornoely on March 15, 2009 at 6:39pm — No Comments

I'm a Candidate for the Member At-Large Officer Seat for the SIGILT Board!

Exciting news! I'm on the ballot for the Member At-Large Officer seat on the ISTE Special Interest Group Innovative Learning Technologies (SIGILT) Board! This is a seat I’d love to have the opportunity to fill. Voting is from now until April 10th and is open to all ISTE members.

If you are an ISTE member you can vote here:… Continue

Added by Katie Christo on March 15, 2009 at 4:07am — No Comments

Merit-based pay an Obama inititiative

I just read this article from edweek that discusses President Obama's educational intitiatives. Certainly merit-based pay is something many of us dedicated, motivated educators get excited about, but I think the devil is in the details here...Of course I want to make more money and have my work recognized, but I have trouble seeing how this type of program would work. What criteria will be… Continue

Added by Cameron Brown on March 14, 2009 at 8:34pm — 3 Comments

WiZiQ public session-Social Networking and Education in the 21st Century with Nellie Deutsch

Social Networking and Education in the 21st Century by Nellie Deutsch

Get your own…

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Added by Mark Cruthers on March 14, 2009 at 8:13pm — No Comments

IL Gifted Convention Call for Proposals - due may 15

IAGC CONVENTION

February 7-9, 2010

Chicago Marriott Downtown

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2010

DUE MAY 15, 2009

Once again we will be returning to the Chicago Marriott Downtown for

an energizing convention from February 7-9, 2010. We invite you to

consider presenting at the next convention. Presentations are needed

in the areas of program development, subject area topics, and/or

social emotional issues. In order to provide a variety… Continue

Added by IAGCGifted on March 14, 2009 at 6:40pm — No Comments