March 2009 Blog Posts (259)

Web Adventures on Toolbar!

These web adventures as they're called by Rice University are interactive games about science in the following areas:

Forensics

CSI: The Experience

Infectious Disease

Solve Medical Mysteries

Alcohol & Alcoholism

Solve an Alcohol-related… Continue

Added by Ellen on March 14, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Can teacher of the year be sacked?

That's what happened to Debbie Winsteen, California's Teacher of the Year!

Added by Octávio Lima on March 14, 2009 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

rawr

Added by Megan on March 14, 2009 at 2:16pm — No Comments

Classroom 2.0 on PalmBreezeCAFE

PalmBreezeCAFE is our school district's EdTech TV show. We broadcast on local cable and post on YouTube as well as other social video sharing sites. On last week's segment of PalmBreezeCAFE, I showed how to "roll your own" social network with Ning. Classroom 2.0 was used as an example. I've already received nice feedback from folks who are enjoying it. Feedback is welcome and If you have any ideas for future… Continue

Added by Lee Kolbert on March 14, 2009 at 6:17am — No Comments

A sample poem to depict a daily life of sav students

My day as a student

Wake up at six

Wash hands and face,

Drink a cup of tea

And play with the mess.

When sun comes up

Mom calls for meal

Have rice with soup

Then run to school.

School is temple

Wisdom is praised,

Teachers are respected

For their aid.

School bell rings

Assemble in the ground,

Pray for the good day

Polite, happy and sound.

Learn many subjects

Languages,… Continue

Added by Govinda Prasad Panthy on March 13, 2009 at 10:49pm — 2 Comments

Technology Integration

Do you feel that technology integration is a necessity in today's classrooms? Why or why not?

Added by Sara on March 13, 2009 at 7:08pm — No Comments

What They Want

I have only been able to ask one parent and one student what they would be looking for if I were to create a website for the students I tutor. The student, who was not feeling well, simply said, "I don't know". Even if she were feeling well, I'm not sure she would have given me much more input. Her mother, on the other hand gave me LOTS of input. To begin with, she told me that she would like to see pictures and tidbits about the other students I tutor. She said it would be interesting to see… Continue

Added by Ariella Epstein on March 13, 2009 at 4:35pm — No Comments

Blooms Taxonomy & Web 2.0

In a recent post from Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org by Miguel, he shares this pretty cool pyramid — Bloom's Taxonomy Triangle and DigiGogy.

This concept and alignment really is quite interesting and complex at the same… Continue

Added by John Costilla on March 13, 2009 at 11:26am — No Comments

With so much knowledge, how do you sort through it and share it with your students, peers, parents and community?

I've browsed the 200 pages of introductions over the past year and it's amazing all of the great ideas that are here. I share some of these on my own Tutor/Mentor Connection web site so that volunteers and students in non-school tutor/mentor programs might use these just as often, or perhaps more often, than do kids in inner city schools.

The… Continue

Added by Daniel Bassill on March 13, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

New Liberal Arts

One of the conversations developing in cyberspace is the need to address "the new liberal arts", what it is to be socially, culturally, spiritually aware in the 21st century. As I have tried to follow this dialogue I have begun to sense the very strong need by young people for relevance. Young people spend vast portions of their lives in places that don't exist, but yet do. In these places they are not constrained by physics as we know them, nor by the need for mutual self interest. Part of… Continue

Added by gerry davis on March 13, 2009 at 10:27am — No Comments

IAGC Gifted Ed Digest for Week of March 16-22

Illinois Association for Gifted Children (IAGC)

http://www.iagcgifted.org

The IAGC Gifted Education Digest for the Week of March 16-22 is available at http://www.k12tlc.net/gt/03162009.htm

(If this link does not work for you, please copy the URL and paste it in the address line of your browser.)

Your GUEST User Name is GIFTED (all caps) and no password is required.

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The purpose of the IAGC Gifted Ed… Continue

Added by IAGCGifted on March 13, 2009 at 9:27am — No Comments

Connecting All Language Learners and Teachers

http://call4alllanguages.ning.com/ is a Language Forum for sharing CALL sites, program and Collaboration Proposals. Here's one for any interested language teachers employing CALL and wanting a means to study it using a CMS: I write to invite you to invite you and anyone on your staff to use my co-researcher's course content management system to manage your classes and to conduct research together.

The site (http://www.ituzi.net) is a Moodle-based system that includes hundreds of… Continue

Added by John Paul Loucky on March 13, 2009 at 7:05am — No Comments

Use Technology to create your own simulated Television Channel

You can buy software for less than $50.00
Wheras you can place edcational videos pf your students performing task(looking good)
This can bring an excitement to your class

the software is www. easyFLV.com

you can get this

click here

Added by William Lambert on March 13, 2009 at 6:04am — No Comments

Procedural Reading - Workplace Documents

Entering Activity: As students enter, they will get either a green or pink sheet. This sheet has 10 multiple choice questions over a selection in the procedural readings we are doing this six weeks. I will assign three rows to do the first five and three rows to do the second five.

Anticipatory Set: Students will copy today’s agenda and we will go over the answers to the sponge to review with the students the selection we read.

Teaching and Learning: I will go… Continue

Added by Amanda Addison on March 13, 2009 at 5:48am — 1 Comment

Take your pick of innovative ideas at Wisconsin education conference: Project Based learning, digital technology, games and learning, and more . . .

Interested in any of the following mini conferences near Milwaukee on April 20 and 21st?

(Number 2 seems interesting to me.)

The Wisconsin Charter Schools Association is hosting their annual conference in Waukesha at the Country Springs Hotel (about 20 minutes west of Milwaukee). I have to say, they have put together a pretty interesting conference, and they promise that all the sessions will be interactive.

Go to www.wicharterschools.org for registration… Continue

Added by Cindy Zautcke on March 12, 2009 at 8:28pm — No Comments

TeachPaperless nears 125 posts in just over five weeks...

TeachPaperless roars towards 125 posts in the days leading up to the Ides of March!

Recent discussion includes: 21st Century Skills, Tech Camp, Interactive Digital Storyboarding, and Online Texts. Come join the discussion.

TeachPaperless: Helping Teachers Create Paperless Classrooms

Added by Shelly Blake-Plock on March 12, 2009 at 7:21pm — No Comments

AlphaBoxes/Reflection

Entering Activity: Students will respond to sponge question that asks them to identify one way in which they have grown as a reader, writer, listener, or speaker.

Anticipatory Set: I will go over today’s agenda and tell students that we will be sharing our sponge activities so that we can give each other ideas.

Teaching and Learning: During today’s class, I will teach student the five areas of literacy. I will also teach them what it means to… Continue

Added by Amanda Addison on March 12, 2009 at 7:55am — 1 Comment

7 Guidelines for Educators

Wes Fryer shares his flickr set @ CoSN 09.

This was one image I found noteworthy.

My favorite is... ' reinvent yourself as a teacher, professor or educator."

With all the emerging technologies and Web 2.0 practices, as educators, we can and should embrace the inevitable.…

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Added by John Costilla on March 12, 2009 at 6:35am — 1 Comment

Different Way to Teach English Online

Maggi Carstairs has been conducting series of English lessons on WiZiQ Public Classes. She uses interesting methods to make her classes more fun and interesting. Like this on coming up from her, she is teaching English while teaching how to cook. I wanted to share here perhaps you feel interested on her methods and do the similar ones.…

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Added by Alfajri Alwis on March 12, 2009 at 4:03am — No Comments

Interested in e-Learning for Gifted & Talented Students across 18 Schools 230 students

e~TASC (Electronically Thinking Actively Southern Classes)

I am the maintainer of an Internet Virtual Network & Wiki Space of 230 students Ranging from Kindergarten age 5 to Year 9 15 years old.

If you are interested in viewing or have students who would like to join in or simply view and participate in a more 'Global ' curriculum Please contact me .

I would need to strictly assess your bona fide teaching interests and standing before I can set up a guest account. Be that as… Continue

Added by John Galvin on March 12, 2009 at 2:56am — No Comments