September 2008 Blog Posts (107)

Can I get a status update?

It seems that in today's Web 2.0 society, we are open and willing to share just about anything. Sometimes, we even share the most meaningless information via our status updates, especially in the world of Twitter, Facebook and of course in this blog here as well.

So here are a few posts… Continue

Added by John Costilla on September 8, 2008 at 8:08am — No Comments

Just got my first student Voki assignment!

Assigned my second year French class a one-minute speaking assignment which they then emailed to me. This is so exciting!

Added by Karen Maginnis on September 7, 2008 at 9:40pm — 4 Comments

Welcome

Welcome, parents and students to Mrs. Spence's Classroom Website. Keep checking back for new updates. I will post documents such as the weekly newsletter under the Important Information heading. Any other information, I will post in the Blog, so check back often!

Added by Ashley Spence on September 7, 2008 at 1:37pm — No Comments

Online Courses in Information Fluency!

Search Help, Evaluation and Digital Ethics for School, Business and Home

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Next session starts September 22, 2008 (4 Weeks $99)…

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Added by Dennis O'Connor on September 7, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Multimedia and Music: Remix, Reuse

Cross-posted from The Impetuous Geek

By Alix E. Peshette

Technology has expanded many of the traditional ideas of how students can show evidence of learning. So, it’s no surprise that many students elect to create multimedia presentations. Images, video, narration and sound tracks are combined to produce an engaging product. Naturally enough, students often share… Continue

Added by Alix E. Peshette on September 7, 2008 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

LIve Streaming from SLCC in Tampa!

Hey all, i'm streaming in two places all day from Tampa, FL at the Second Life community conference. Visit my SL blog at http://scottsecondlife.blogspot.com for all the urls, plus SLurls for the inworld streams from the veodia.com feed.

Cheerio!
Scott

Added by Scott Merrick on September 7, 2008 at 8:44am — No Comments

Pop Fly

A fun collection of songs for young children:… Continue

Added by Lorraine on September 7, 2008 at 6:00am — No Comments

Getting ready to present Ning to world language teachers next Saturday....

Well, I'm getting ready to finalize this presentation for the Southern Arizona Language Symposium......I said I could present on Ning and am now feeling anxious about it. I want to split the time between professional development and student applications, and leave time for hands-on exploration. I always overplan these things [sigh.] Well, I guess it's better to have to cut out than to fill in, eh? Will check back in later. Off to walk the… Continue

Added by Karen Maginnis on September 6, 2008 at 10:34pm — No Comments

3 Weeks In

Well, it's been over a month since my last blog post. After the 7 Tablet Pickup Days we went right into 7 three hour Tablet Orientation sessions. We got the DyKnow server up and running in time for the third orientation session. A week after the last orientation session was the first day of school. DyKnow has been fantastic it's been a lot of fun to teach with. It really keeps the students engaged. More later, I'm tired...

Added by Kevin Stachowski on September 5, 2008 at 8:52pm — No Comments

Web 2.0, The Faculty Meeting- Let the Games Begin!

My personal goal for the year is to expose as many teachers to as many web 2.0 tools that I can. I will use this blog to chronicle my efforts and, hopefully, share more successes than failures. My ultimate motivation is to have the teachers use the technology, reflect on it, and find ways to implement them into their classrooms.

We started our journey in the opening faculty meeting of the year. We began with (actually we began with pretty dry administrivial housekeeping, after that)… Continue

Added by Brian Carter on September 5, 2008 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

New Online Presentation Tool

Service 280 Slides is a brand new tool to create presentations online. If you are a Mac user like me - something is like Keynote!?

Added by Hans Feldmeier on September 5, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Under construction

This site is currently under construction.

Please visit my main homepage: good.edublogs.org

Added by Carol Good on September 4, 2008 at 8:03pm — No Comments

115 Smiles

Here is one of my favorite paintings by Bren Bataclan. The mural in our school hallway is a collaboration between the third graders and Bren illustrating the third grade curriculum. Next week he is going to leave 115 of his smile paintings in NYC on September 9, 10th. If a person finds the painting there is a note on it that says, 'This painting is yours to keep if you promise to smile at people more… Continue

Added by Lorraine on September 4, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

All the buzz... Google Chrome

Google has introduced a new Web browser, called Chrome, which is directly targeted at going head-to-head in the browser market with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The move takes the…

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Added by John Costilla on September 4, 2008 at 6:28pm — No Comments

Believe in...

I've seen the video of Dalton Sherman, the 10 year old speaking to incoming teachers this year in Dallas. He's an amazing speaker, but I have more to say on the subject... as usual!

Read my post Believe in…

Love your thoughts either here or there...

Sylvia

Added by Sylvia Martinez on September 4, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Voice Thread

So I am looking for great tools to use with my 7th grade tech class. I have been thinking about project ideas for voice thread. I was wondering if there is anyone who is already using this and what type of success you are having?

Added by Carine on September 3, 2008 at 10:21pm — 1 Comment

You (yes, YOU) should present at a conference

Ever thought about presenting at an education technology conference? Here are some ideas - and how to include your students.

You (yes, YOU) should present at a conference

Sylvia

Added by Sylvia Martinez on September 3, 2008 at 3:51pm — No Comments

New Wiki for German speaking Comenius folks

Since one week I am working to create the structure of a new wiki for German speaking folks: Comenius Dialog. Okay, waiting for some improvements to start.....

Added by Hans Feldmeier on September 3, 2008 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Oh... The places we go.

According to comScore, a Web data tracker, Americans spent 302 billion minutes online last month. That's 6,760 lifetimes at 85 years apiece.

So where do we spend all this time?

Checking e-mail is the most popular online activity for the 221 million North American adults online, according… Continue

Added by John Costilla on September 3, 2008 at 9:56am — No Comments

Grade 4 Children are Fantastic

Today I decided to ask my Grade 4 students what they wanted to learn about in IT and about computers. I thought I would start small in an area I am working on myself and see what they wanted rather than doing what I think they want or should know.

I got the idea from a small homework assignment I gave them this week about our class website. Bookmarking was something I asked them to do with our site and most of them indicated they didn't know how to do that but wanted to learn to do… Continue

Added by Heather Davis on September 3, 2008 at 8:25am — No Comments