August 2007 Blog Posts (173)

Anastasia Goodstein on Totally Wired Teens

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Added by Steve Hargadon on August 1, 2007 at 8:27pm — No Comments

Tough Choices or Tough Times

There does seem to be some evidence that shows US schools are starting to lose competitive edge internationally.

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swiftly rising number of American workers at every skill level are in

direct competition with workers in every corner of the globe. While our

international counterparts are increasingly getting more education,

their young people are getting a better education as well. American

students and young adults place anywhere from the middle to the… Continue

Added by Jared on August 1, 2007 at 5:01pm — No Comments

YouthLAB Launches and You Are Invited to Participate

Beginning July 23rd, I am launching YouthLAB and would love for you to check in at our site which is www.youthlab.net. We are doing online collaborative cinema and global exchange. I think it contributes to the growing knowledge about the power of WEB 2.0 to spark learning, civic engagement and cross-cultural understanding using their own digital native cultures.

Please read more below and check in to the site - www.youthlab.net

We are beginning to learn what it means to… Continue

Added by Mindy Faber on August 1, 2007 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Slideshows, 2.0 way

I gave a try to the slidy slideshow solution, to publish a slideshow directly in the browser, using web 2.0 technologies (in fact, strictly javascript -- see also S5, by Eric Meyer). The result is not bad at all... at least when viewing it on my large screen mac.

Check out for yourself: CoP001 -- Cognitive Psychology: A… Continue

Added by Marielle Lange on August 1, 2007 at 3:26pm — No Comments

Reality Check...

Draper gave me a virtual dope-slap (if you don't listen to Car Talk

with Click and Clack-The Tappet Brothers on NPR Saturday and/or Sunday

mornings, you're DEFINiTELY spending too much time on Twitter) a

couple of weeks ago concerning the reality(ies) of not only supplying

our STUDENTS with the technical support they need, but the TECHNOLOGY

SUPPORT to keep it up and running...as a 'novice' Techno-Weenie on… Continue

Added by Russ Lauber on August 1, 2007 at 1:28pm — No Comments

Bienvenue chez moi. Comment ca va?

Remember Billy Crystal in "When Harry Met Sally"? Well, I have decided that for the rest of the day, we are going to talk like this...See? You hear him, don't you? Waiter..say it with me...there is too much pepper in my paprikash...but I would be proud to partake of your...pecan piieeeeeee...pecan piiiiieeeeee...say it with me...would you like to go...to the movies with me tonight...? No, no, not for to repeat, for to respond...

Added by Scott Schneider on August 1, 2007 at 12:49pm — 3 Comments

Oh, the Photos...

The young lady is my daughter, the absolute LOVE of my life...she's giving a swimming lesson here, because at one time she was one of the fastest of her kind on the face of the planet, and the dolphin would do well to listen carefully...the other is my summer 'hobby'...building Adirondack furniture...and this is not ordinary stuff, folks...I drive to Beaver, Utah (3 hours south...) and have the LOGS sawn up individually and planed to 1" thickness 200 to 300 board feet at a time, then I drive it… Continue

Added by Russ Lauber on August 1, 2007 at 12:26pm — No Comments

A New Online School Learning Community

I just heard about a new online learning community – available gratis to secondary and middle schools outside the UK (and for a small fee within).…

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Added by Reuven Werber on August 1, 2007 at 11:33am — 5 Comments

Student Email

How are you using student email accounts at your school?

Added by Jeff Smith on August 1, 2007 at 10:15am — No Comments

Google (kinda) gets its way in spectum debate for wireless internet.

As posted on July 22nd here .. and now being reports by almost every tech news site online [WSJ Story | New Scientist] yesterday the FCC did in fact "vote to shake up the US wireless market on Tuesday by approving rules for a big… Continue

Added by Rich White on August 1, 2007 at 10:05am — No Comments

A Cool Summer

Among my summer vacation activities, (submitting my dissertation proposal to Bar-Ilan University, planning integration of tech environment for next school year, doting over my new granddaughter - Yifat, spending…

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Added by Reuven Werber on August 1, 2007 at 7:49am — 2 Comments

Portaportal-Online "Favorites" What are your favorites?

Hello All,

This message is especially for my Northview community! For those of you that are new or returning to our school, I want to share a great resource we have started developing. The site is www.guest.portaportal.com/northview ! When you get to that site you will find folders for every grade level and each subject. This list has been developed by all the teachers…

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Added by Mrs. Deines on August 1, 2007 at 7:20am — No Comments

21st century classrooms

I’ve just returned from a week of holidaying and relaxing. I was away from access to all technology and that was good. I enjoyed not going through my gmail, RSS feeds, email, Classroom2.0, twitter, blogs

and online information. Now that I’m back, I’ve spent time sifting

through these and getting caught up which, to my relief, really wasn’t

nearly as difficult as I expected it would be.

Before I left, I wrote a post about being able to partake in BLC virtually and…

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Added by Kelly Christopherson on August 1, 2007 at 12:05am — No Comments