August 2007 Blog Posts (173)

Changing your Mindset - Part 2

Blogging with a Growth Mindset

As you know from my last post, I just finished reading Mindset by Carol S. Dweck. In Mindset, Dr. Dwecks explains her work on the "fixed" versus "growth" mindset. A

person with a fixed… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Davis on August 7, 2007 at 10:46am — No Comments

Helping!

I spent this past week (July 30 - Aug 4) with 175 teenagers helping fix houses that were impacted by Hurricane Rita in Lake Charles, LA 2 years ago. There is still plenty of work to do, but we made a dent.

Check out my podcast --- http://kirchner.podomatic.com/

Added by Jim Kirchner on August 7, 2007 at 9:22am — No Comments

Summer Academy #2 and #3

Our Summer Academies around the state went very well (despite the day we had to teach blogs/wikis without the Internet!). Here are some of the great project started by our teachers from Wellston and North Union.

Added by Lauren on August 7, 2007 at 9:14am — No Comments

Embrace Digital Age - Newspapers told!

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22203572-5012062,00.html

The article is another reflecting the impact, the net and in particular social networking tools are having on business practices globally.

Another reason maybe to ensure on campus access to the tools, environments and experiences, that I believe must integrated into formal learning at all levels globally.

Jacinta

Added by Jacinta Gascoigne on August 7, 2007 at 8:37am — 2 Comments

"Crash of the Internet 2007" ... millions of Blogs lost.

This is a very serious

notice that may affect your Blog(s) ...... (or not)

Did you see the TV News report on the "Crash of the Internet 2007" ... millions of Blogs lost.

I've put a copy of the 3 minute TV news report…

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Added by Shamblesguru (Chris Smith) on August 6, 2007 at 9:43pm — No Comments

First Day of Technology Training

This is our second year of training teachers who are receiving laptops. This year had our teachers group themselves voluntarily into two sections, medium and medium-plus. Last year they were grouped by department/division. While last year they were with their colleagues, this year they are with teachers who are at the same level (with regard to technology) as themselves. The teachers seem to be more comfortable, and it is great to see people from different divisions and departments making… Continue

Added by larryk on August 6, 2007 at 6:29pm — No Comments

2.0 moving across post-secondary

cross posted from http://newlearning.ning.com

Some see the advent of Web 2.0-style tools in the classroom heralding a shift in everything from education theory to how schools are built. The

bottom line: traditional lecturing may be on its way out, said Claire

Schooley, an analyst at Forrester Research who follows learning trends

at universities and corporations.

From:

Web 2.0: Big app on…

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Added by Sharon Betts on August 6, 2007 at 11:43am — 2 Comments

Getting Civic Investment's right

I encourage you to read the articles written by Suzanne Morse of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. She's created an ACT NOW wiki that offers good advise for anyone who wants to see community problems solved. I contribute to this wiki because this provides good ideas for how businesses, churches, schools, etc. could be… Continue

Added by Daniel Bassill on August 6, 2007 at 11:02am — 1 Comment

Business Week Reports: The Future of the 3D web

My $.02 -- this article is a long one, a decent read, so Ill re-cap

http://tinyurl.com/279mq4

"It feels like the early days of the Internet," says Steve Prentice, a vice-president at Gartner Research (IT ). Gartner estimates that by 2011, 80% of Internet users and major companies will have

avatars, or digital replicas of themselves, for online work and play.

I agree... very… Continue

Added by Rich White on August 6, 2007 at 10:45am — No Comments

Technology and Science

I have long held the belief that "Students who actively do Science learn and love the subject!" I also am a firm believer that along with inquiry and experimentation there needs to be a sharing of information. I have set a goal to change how information is shared this year by implementing more Web 2.0 into my lessons. I have a strong opinion that after students have learned through inquiry, they naturally want to share this information with others. I hope to provide a positive report on both… Continue

Added by Glen Westbroek on August 6, 2007 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Robotics for elementary

Thanks to generous people in CR20 I am gathering resources and learning about robotics. http://mindstorms.lego.com/ http://www.stager.org/lego Robotics Resources for Educators Using Programmable LEGO Materials I also found (on Jen Wagner's blog) a fun little site to create and save characters. I'll use the one shown…

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Added by JoNelle on August 6, 2007 at 9:27am — No Comments

Repetitive Technology Syndrome

This entry first appeared in my Byte Speed blog on January 2, 2007:

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Tim%27s%20Blog/B12E195D-7014-447A-988C-12E9EBECBAB8.html

"In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint," Negroponte wrote in an e-mail interview. "I consider that criminal, because children should be making… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 6, 2007 at 8:17am — No Comments

Jazz Up your Clurriculum Podcast

Hi everyone.

Sorry I have been so quiet. Summer vacations, kidney stones, kids with broken wrists...it has been quite a summer.

Anyway, will be getting going soon. In the meantime, here is a podcast on a really cool program called "Jazz Up Your Curriculum With Video Conferencing"

Here is the podcast:

http://web.mac.com/timholt/iWeb/Byte%20Speed/Pod%20Speed/EC05FADD-7486-41FE-B633-701E73A076D6.html

The podcast is a reflection session with the ten… Continue

Added by Tim Holt on August 6, 2007 at 8:09am — 1 Comment

A infinite number of blogs?

How many blogs is too many blogs? I really like the look of this Ning community, but I'm not quite sure how I will deal with yet another blog to write! How do other people deal with that? I assume most of you are already blogging elsewhere, so do you write stuff here too? I think I'd be splitting my energy a little too much if I started seriously doing that.

For those that might not know, I also write a blog over at www.betchablog.com, which is… Continue

Added by Chris Betcher on August 5, 2007 at 6:27am — No Comments

Pupils inform teachers how to work on Web 2.0 Tools

Linda, Sandra, Basti and Tobi from our Notebook class (grade 8) showed on two days several hours long altogether 16 teachers, which they learned at the computer for instruction. They practiced particularly intensively with webquests, mindmapping et cetera. This was a

successful attempt, which one should absolutely… Continue

Added by Hans Feldmeier on August 5, 2007 at 2:03am — No Comments

Technology in the Classroom

Since the beginning of the school year is near, I have been searching for innovative ways to work with my students using technology as a way of conveying information. I have been researching tools like Moodle, Blogging, Whiteboard, Podcasting, etc. I am at a loss at this point. There are so many interesting ways to include technology in instruction. Let's face it - technology is vital in our classrooms if we truly want to prepare our students for life after graduation and there is so much of it… Continue

Added by Stacy Strickland on August 4, 2007 at 8:26pm — 5 Comments

"The Achievement Gap" and culture

This week I'm writing a series on technology and "The Achievement Gap" on my social desktop.

This is the second part of the series which takes concepts introduced by

"The Achievement Gap" and puts them into a larger cultural context.

Administrators and educators in the United States are faced with

balancing federal mandates like the "No Child Left Behind Act" and

state concerns… Continue

Added by Jared on August 4, 2007 at 5:36pm — 2 Comments

Looking for Killer English projects

I am looking for some killer projects using technology that will allow students to go deep into one subject and kill several state standards with one stone, so to speak. I had lots of luck with a dual credit English composition course through the University of Missouri /Kansas City the last couple of years, but I wish I had given them more to work with. Basically, we were studying the 60's student protest era, and their assignment was to become experts on one event--Kent State… Continue

Added by Ms Maxwel on August 4, 2007 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Jumping Onboard !

I feel I'm only now getting my feet wet with Web 2.0 technologies and I'm already hearing rumbles of people whispering Web 3.0 plans. Even though I've been in the technology area of education for nearly 10 years now, I still get those moments where I feel the "angst" of the classroom teacher. That being, "given the time available to me, is it really worth trying to keep up with these new ideas?" Thankfully, it's something I enjoy and look…

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Added by Scott Besterman on August 4, 2007 at 12:37pm — No Comments

Just a thought - how about you teach my students and I teach yours.

I just posted the beginnings of an idea (on my very dormant blog), if you have the time I am interested to know what you think.

The beginnings of an idea, "teach my students and I'll teach yours".

Teachers create and publish online 1 collaborative distance learning "project" - this could be achieved by opening different groups on ning, imbee, haiku, edu20 etc.
Individual students would…

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Added by SusanTsairi on August 4, 2007 at 10:30am — 3 Comments