May 2010 Blog Posts (76)

The Usual Suspects

This is a strange post to be putting up in a ning with so many members.

In my own locale, Greece, the number of educators who engage in dialogue with other educators aroung the globe is really far too small for comfort.

And yet, this may be true in the smaller local settings in which each one of you find yourselves; I read comments like this often enough on twitter and educators' blogs to know that it is not only a local…

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Added by Marisa Constantinides on May 6, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Take Attendance Using Your Smartboard

A few months ago, I came across a blog…

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Added by Shelley Reichert on May 5, 2010 at 7:38pm — No Comments

eLearningToday.TV | Building a PLN as an Educator

To view the show notes, click here.

Added by Amanda Kenuam on May 5, 2010 at 7:42am — No Comments

Grab student's attention with cellphones in the classroom

Use cellphones in the classroom for:

TxtMeBox - to have students formulate questions about the chapter
Poll Everywhere - to check for student understanding
iPadio - to create a podcast…

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Added by Lisa Durff on May 5, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Social networks in class

Hi, I'm Valeria and I'm new here.
I'm an Italian student undertaking my MA in Education at the University of Warwick (UK). I'm currently working on my final dissertation about the use of social networks in the language classroom and I'm looking for someone who has already used or is using them.
I hope someone can help me.

Added by Valeria on May 5, 2010 at 5:11am — No Comments

Jeopardy Game...

This one is an old one but a great one. I use Jeopardy Powerpoint in my classroom all the time. It's really simple and great for a review. I put students into pairs and ask them to play against each other keeping score. Then I email the Jeopardy game to them. Or you can play it as a classroom with you running the program and splitting the class.

The one I attached I used in my classroom after doing a unit on Emailing. I had prizes (candies) for the winners. Kids loved it and the… Continue

Added by Nicole Painchaud on May 4, 2010 at 7:19pm — 1 Comment

New Ning Plans: The Good, The Bad, and the Unknown

As they had promised, today Ning announced a new strategy for their host-your-own social networking service. The following notes are from my reading of the blog announcement, the similar announcement page, and the new FAQ. They are not definitive and are subject… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on May 4, 2010 at 3:16pm — No Comments

New Mutt-i-grees Curriculum

Come to Yale this summer July 19-21st to participate in an exciting 21st

Century Conference for educators. Yale will debut an exciting new K-12

Mutt-i-grees Curriculum which incorporates Social Emotional Learning and

can be easily integrated into any classroom. Cesar Milan (the Dog

Whisperer) and his wife Ilusian Milan... (who generously support this

new curriculum) will be present. To find more, or register for this

wonderful opportunity visit the conference web… Continue

Added by Vanessa on May 3, 2010 at 9:28pm — No Comments

On a roll - Prezi....

I've been teaching Prezi, the presentation software to my students in Grades 8 - 12. I have also been teaching it to my fellow colleagues. And this is what I've been handing out to them to help them get started. The presentation program is fun, excellent for concept mapping as well as just plain image mapping. Students have the ability to put an order to their thoughts at the end of the presentation instead of worrying about what should come next after each slide on the slide show. This lets… Continue

Added by Nicole Painchaud on May 3, 2010 at 7:57pm — 3 Comments

FaceBook and it's security

Thinking of teaching Facebook to my Grade 10 students in my Information Technology class this coming year. It's not a "if you can't beat them, join them" idea. It's more of I need to teach them the safety of the Internet and with Facebook always being used (inside school and outside if we're all truthful about this), then we need to think about teaching the students about the new privacy setting that been created on it.

This video by…

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Added by Nicole Painchaud on May 3, 2010 at 7:51pm — No Comments

Learning about Moodle – a leading open source LMS

I think it’s time I became more informed about this increasingly popular Learning Management System.

I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about Moodle, a widely used free, open source, public domain courseware application, for the last year…

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Added by Kelly Walsh on May 3, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Dreamweaver

Now that I'm writing webquests for uni I thought I'd buy Dreamweaver - It's going for about $140 at the australian store (academic version)

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayEduConditions&store=OLS-EDU-AU&nr=1

The non-academic version is about $450.

Added by Juan O'Shea on May 3, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

May 2: Buddha's Birthday

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Added by Eric Snyder on May 2, 2010 at 5:18am — 2 Comments

Highway Run

Highway Run How Life would prefer to be.

http://bellsouthpwp.net/t/t/TTPANTO/journey/HighwayRun/

Added by Thomas T. Panto on May 2, 2010 at 3:00am — No Comments

Forums to enhance Jewish education through blended learning

To facilitate communication amongst Jewish teachers and teacher educators on how to enhance Jewish education through blended learning see these websites:…

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Added by Richard D. Solomon, Ph.D. on May 1, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

When The Classroom Lacks Walls

How do you see to it that your classroom studies are authentic? I'm a fan of immersion. For the past decade my Midwestern Marine Biology class has included a week long field study to the coral reefs and mangrove communities of either The Bahamas or the Florida Keys. This field study is conducted with chartered sailing yachts as a base of operations. This allows the maximum amount of time on and in the water. Many of my students make their first trip to any ocean as a member of this… Continue

Added by Sean Nash on May 1, 2010 at 10:55am — No Comments