April 2007 Blog Posts (185)

My Forays into Classroom 2.0

A confession: I am still a newbie.

"I come from the Batman era, adding items to my utility belt while students today are the Borg from Star Trek, assimilating technology into their lives."

The following links are to… Continue

Added by David Truss on April 3, 2007 at 12:04am — No Comments

spirited

I would like suggestions on a short, but sweet, proper use agreement for using with my students on their cell project. These students are pretty "spirited" or as a good friend likes to say, "all horsepower, no steering wheel". I really want to set them up for success and I know that they can easily outsmart the school's attempts to keep them in line on the internet. I've done basic research with them on the internet, but now I really want to shift classroom content more and more onto the… Continue

Added by Shawn Moore on April 2, 2007 at 9:06pm — 1 Comment

After 35 years in the classroom

This is my 35th year of teaching social studied in York, Pennsylvania. The last fifteen years I've been teaching Advanced Placement U.S. history. I've seen educational reforms come and go, and none of them have changed much if anything in teaching and learning. It seems now that the reform will be from the bottom up. With the web 2.0 tools becoming available at an increasing rate, the way teachers teach and the way students learn are beginning to change for the first time in my career. Kids are… Continue

Added by Dave Ehrhart on April 2, 2007 at 6:09pm — 3 Comments

Free New Goodies From PBwiki

I got an email from PBwiki and figured this would be a good place to share. If you don't know, PBwiki offers ad-free wiki hosting for educators.

More information can be found here...

http://pbwiki.com/edu.html

http://educators.pbwiki.com/

They are offering… Continue

Added by Aaron Slutsky on April 2, 2007 at 8:08am — 2 Comments

Happy Birthday, Blogs!

I picked up this item in my 'gator from Doc Searls.

For those who thought that blogging was something new, ten years ago today, Dave Winer started blogging.

Despite the date today, I believe this is the real birthday of blogs.

Some will dispute this -- there's no acknowledgement of Dave Winer in the Wikipedia entry, for example… Continue

Added by nlowell on April 1, 2007 at 10:10am — 3 Comments