July 2008 Blog Posts (106)

The Circle Song Project

Click on the link to hear the The Circle Song Project songs.

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Added by Lorraine on July 18, 2008 at 3:00am — 2 Comments

China Tomorrow Education Foundation Focused On Rural Education

Beatrice Pang, Vice President China Tomorrow Education Foundation (CTEF), talks with Dennis Su, President CTEF, at the 2008 Seattle International District Chinatown Summer Festival.

Based on Mercer Island (WA), CTEF is a "non-profit 501(c)(3) charity organization, whose mission is to build schools and libraries to improve China's rural education."…

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Added by Jack Olmsted on July 17, 2008 at 6:07pm — No Comments

Free alphabet chart available

A free alphabet chart is available in PDF format for download at www.uskoob.com
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Find it in the free stuff tab on the home page or as a hi rez jpg in the photos
Lots of other goodies their

Enjoy!

Added by Uskoob on July 17, 2008 at 8:49am — 2 Comments

Learning something new.

While at NECC and EduBlogger Con, I must say that I was completely overwhelmed by what is going out there in the ed tech space. There are so many leaders in our schools and classrooms who are doing amazing things. Web 2.0 tools are simply tools, but what I learned and observed by the many folks at EduBlogger was something that seemed to be revolutionary. We are truly seeing examples of our classrooms and teaching practices change as a result of teachers embracing new instructional strategies,… Continue

Added by John Costilla on July 16, 2008 at 2:55pm — No Comments

Classroom 2.0 Book Store

A big thank you to David for creating the Classroom 2.0 Book Store. He's taken all of the books listed in the conversations about our favorite children's books from the… Continue

Added by Michelle TeGrootenhuis on July 16, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Radio Head's Laser Video

While not a huge fan of the song this video is really cool made entirely of… Continue

Added by David Kapuler on July 16, 2008 at 8:06am — No Comments

GreenbushGrid (Opensim Island) 3rd-4th grade robotics camp (After their Mindstorm work)

Kids will be on the GBGrid tomorrow building virtual robots after a few quests - should be fun

Added by Rich White on July 15, 2008 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Canova, V12's dual-screen multi-touch notebook of the future, possibilities for use in UDL environments and educational games.

Here is a link to one of my recent posts.

V12's Dual-Touch-screen Canova: Multi-touch could support applications for universal design, education, and assistive technology.

The notebook will be larger than the new OLPC's.

Added by Lynn Marentette on July 15, 2008 at 8:11am — No Comments

Just added an interesting video

An interesting video made by a year 7 student for the national history challenge was added to www.uskoob.com I know its Aussie history but am amazed at what Students can create.

Added by Uskoob on July 14, 2008 at 10:26pm — No Comments

Who knows the Suzanne in other languages?

I want to find and collect a lot of songs by Leonard COHEN that sing in other languages.

I love exploit in my work VoiceThread. Here is Suzanne by L.Cohen. Please try sing this song!

Maybe you know this song in other languages?

Plein Ecran / Full Screen >>

Suzanne in English, French, Italian, Hrvatski & Russian!

Suzanne English Lyrics… Continue

Added by Gražina Likpetrienė on July 14, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Hi every one

Wow what a great site this is I'm really encouraged to see it so active and vibrant. I am building a site similar for teachers called www.uskoob.com still in its infancy but it great to see what it might become with active members....I think that social networks are great in sharing ideas techniques and resources.

Added by Uskoob on July 14, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Not easy to do

I have been trying multiple avenues to connect with people from around the world. I have not been successful yet. I am new to this though. What I would like to do is have conversations with people from around the globe and I would like my students to do this as well. As I began to travel outside of Pittsburgh, I found young people from around the globe who are travelling, working, and experiencing the world. I would have never done this as a young adult and I wish that I would have. The… Continue

Added by Keith Gephart on July 14, 2008 at 9:44am — No Comments

Watch out for ronil it's a spammer

Watch out for messages from ronil- it's a spammer with a link to some nasty email theft agent. Nice people these spammers.

NEVER CLICK ON ANY OF THE LINKS FROM A SPAMMER!

Added by Peter Carlson on July 14, 2008 at 9:09am — No Comments

Crafts for Children during Christmas

I FOUND A GREAT SITE FOR CHRISTMAS IDEAS. HERE IS JUST A SAMPLE.

Paper chains

You need different colors construction paper, scissors and glue. Cut pieces 15 sm long and 1 sm wide. Then glue the ends of the strip and put the next through the first one. Make the chain as long as you want.

Handprint Tree

You need green paper, yellow paper, glue and small pieces of other colors paper. All… Continue

Added by Santa on July 14, 2008 at 7:12am — No Comments

Editing Content

Since re-establishing my classroom website I've discovered what a pain it is to transfer (css) files. I began to just copy html code from one file to another but... Unfortunately, the old style sheets are coming with the copy and its to cumbersome to avoid. So, I'll be starting all html code fresh. Maybe I'll even dabble in a little xhtml?

Any suggestions out there on rebuilding a website?

Added by Peter Carlson on July 13, 2008 at 8:53pm — No Comments

We Had a Blast at NECC!

Hi everyone, just a quick thanks to everyone who came by to see us at NECC. We had a great time, and are energized by your enthusiasm. We're still on the road -- if you're at the AP conference in Seattle on July 16th, please come say hello!

Added by NBC Learn on July 13, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

More imaging frustrations and success

No luck the tablets still wouldn't boot just that stupid blinking underscore. I tried booting the XP CD with the same results -- blue screen of death about hardware error. Went home frustrated at 8pm having spent 11 hours in the building.

Next day started googling ZenWorks Imaging and other associated phrases. Got on Lenovo forumn, they made mention of using the -IB switch on ghost if the imaged computers don't boot. Did more research trying to find out what the equivalent of the -IB… Continue

Added by Kevin Stachowski on July 12, 2008 at 2:14pm — 2 Comments

The Duck and the Devil

There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm.

He was given a slingshot to play with out in the woods.

He Practiced in the woods, but he could never hit the target.

Getting A little discouraged, he headed back for dinner. As he was Walking back he saw Grandma's pet duck.

Just out of impulse, he let the slingshot fly, hit the duck Square in the head, and killed it. He was shocked and grieved.

In a panic, he hid the dead duck… Continue

Added by Harish Rajpal on July 12, 2008 at 9:42am — No Comments

Can't Believe My Babe has a Belt-Sander! A Heartfelt Message for my Daughter

Yeah, well, this post isn't exactly "Classroom 2.0" material, but it's what's on my heart this evening. Yep, that's my "baby" with the belt sander! She's been a busy girl this week getting projects ready to take to the local 4H Youth Fair. That's a pallet table she's working on in the picture. She took an old pallet and made a really cute painted table out of it. She's hoping we can FIT the thing through the door, around the corner, up the stairs, around… Continue

Added by Michelle TeGrootenhuis on July 11, 2008 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Tech Documentation Blog

Blogging is something that up till now never really caught my interest. I really don't read other people's blogs, so I guess I never thought of writting one. However, as I'm sitting here in the tech office at my school at 7pm on a Friday night after struggling with creating a ZenWorks image of the student tablet that actually works, it occurs to me that it would be good to document some of these experiences in case I find myself in the same postition.

ZenWorks imaging has never… Continue

Added by Kevin Stachowski on July 11, 2008 at 5:06pm — 1 Comment