November 2008 Blog Posts (108)

Læringsteori for digitale læringsarenaer

I dette innlegget vil jeg si litt om læringsteorier i forbindelse med digitale mapper og elevens portefølje. Det er fordi jeg mener portefølje-/mappemetodikk «lever» som kameleonen. Metodikken er foranderlig og oppstår stadig i nye utgaver, samtidig er den styrt av en viss systematikk. Bestemmende for om mappene skal være individuelle eller mapper som grunnlag for samarbeid og samarbeidslæring, ligger i hvilken pedagogikk som utøves på skolen, i klasserommet eller på nett.… Continue

Added by Tor Arne on November 8, 2008 at 8:19am — 2 Comments

Classroom2.0 Conference

CLASSROOM2.0 Workshop - November 7, 2008

DigitalVaults is a site suggested by Lucy Gray, who organized this conference.

The guest speaker was Steve Hargadon, who created Classroom2.0 for educators to use as a social and collaborative network. The theme of this conference is using… Continue

Added by Gary Latman on November 7, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

MY Teaching Philosophy!!!

Teaching Philosophy

My decision to become a science teacher did not occur without deliberate soul-searching. After four years in the media literacy and technology reform, my heart led me to live with my dream of becoming an eight (8th) through ninth (9th) grade science. Essentially, I feel there is nothing in this world more imperative than helping students to explore and advance themselves in science. However, the effort and the supports to battle interruption, building… Continue

Added by Raynolds Kusi on November 6, 2008 at 8:46pm — No Comments

Simple Open Source Wikis

I love MediaWiki. It is the engine of the Wikipedia and a great environment to work with.

That being said, it is more complex to install and administrate than many web 2.0 platforms.

Can anyone recommend a simpler free and open source wiki that is easier to install and administer?

I'm not interested in hosted solutions--just open source that one could run on shared server space.

Added by Steve O'Connor on November 6, 2008 at 6:29pm — 3 Comments

Web 2.0 Directory

Hi everyone, I have recently produced a directory of free web-based tools that can be used in the classroom. I have almost 200 tools listed with short reviews and example screenshots. I am currently on a study break from school funded by the Farmington Institute, Oxford. It has been great to have the time away from the classroom to see what is available out there and I have been amazed at how powerful some of these tools are. Anyway, feel free to use the website to search for tools you may want… Continue

Added by Darren Walker on November 6, 2008 at 6:35am — 2 Comments

Mindmaps

Here are some informations taken from the EFODL conference in Charleroi (Belgium) and presented by Jean-Luc Deladrière from Hanabi...

He based his presentation on the fact that we can very well learn while playing and mindmaps offer, to his opinion a fun way to learn. He uses mindmaps with teenagers as well as adults in school or in a professional context. He states that results are… Continue

Added by Pierre-Etienne Chausse on November 6, 2008 at 1:29am — No Comments

Plan B for Web 2.0 Presentation

I have close to ten Web 2.0 tools to present in 50 minutes. This should be alright if the Internet is fast at school. But it wasn't when I checked yesterday. So here I am, adding more slides with screenshots just in case I won't be able to download fast enough.

Well, this is Plan C. Plan B is to download all the sites before the presentation, and minimize the screen.

The tools I will be presenting, with examples by teachers and students… Continue

Added by Antoinette Go on November 6, 2008 at 12:21am — 1 Comment

Understanding Money...

... is understanding better the actual financial crisis. We have never talked so much about money since we've been told that we could lack some soon.

But do you know how money really works? Do you know the mecanisms behing money creation? We often believe that money is created by country states but it is only partly true. Most of it is created by banks, using debts to do so.

To understand money matters, here is a… Continue

Added by Pierre-Etienne Chausse on November 5, 2008 at 9:02am — No Comments

The Power of Community

For many, today is a joyous occasion, one that bring the promise of change and the hope of prosperity. I am thankful that my voice and my vote mattered and that it is still a freedom that I have, regardless of the turnout. I will support my president. Like no time in our history, has the power of the Internet, Web 2.0 and technology in general had an impact on bringing out the power of community. So many came out and so many voiced their support with such tools as… Continue

Added by John Costilla on November 5, 2008 at 8:32am — No Comments

Can You Export Your IE Favorites to Magnolia

I'm doing th Web 2.0 presentation with an elementary computer teacher. But he's going to present first and focus on sample lessons for the elementary teachers. When my turn comes I'll be giving examples for the middle and high school teachers. We met today, and I was disappointed that he had been having problems accessing the PowerPoint and Word files I uploaded to Google Docs -- some problems with Internet speed at school or maybe the firewall and pop-up blockers, who knows.

But we… Continue

Added by Antoinette Go on November 5, 2008 at 5:37am — No Comments

SANTA'S STORIES COME TO LIFE

a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/4538698">SANTA'S STORIES COME TO LIFE

Please share with your students if you like.

I bet you have all heard of Santa Clause, in fact I know you have because of all the millions of letters I receive each year from you all, but I imagine that most of you do not know very much about where I live and all of the creatures who live with me in the North Pole and help me make Christmas so special.

I was concerned… Continue

Added by Santa on November 4, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Online "Handout" For Presentation

With two more days left before my presentation at our school I told my husband I need to prepare the handout tomorrow. He suggested instead that I put my handout online, so teachers can easily click on the links, rather than type the URL themselves.

I said, "What a great idea!"

But now I'm not' sure if I want to post it on my wiki, blog, or create a regular web page. I even considered Google Documents, but realized there are teachers who don't have Gmail… Continue

Added by Antoinette Go on November 4, 2008 at 8:47am — 3 Comments

PLN - 86 slides or less

If you want to get up to speed on Web 2.0 professional learning tools and resources in 86 slides or less, preview Cliotech's slideshare presentation. Unbelievable that she was able to capture all of this... reminds me of the song, "We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel. You can download the presentation at… Continue

Added by John Costilla on November 4, 2008 at 7:37am — No Comments

5 Ways to Put PowerPoint Presentation on Web

I'd like to thank all CLASSROOM 2.0 users to supply me lots of useful ideas about how to upload my presentation on web at http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/649749:Topic:164929. Based on these useful ideas and some related data, now I summarize 5 methods about how to put PowerPoint presentation on Web below, hope these methods really help the one who want to share their presentation on… Continue

Added by SunnyY on November 4, 2008 at 2:05am — 2 Comments

Web 2.0 in Education: Wiki and Wikieducator

In this brand new series on using Web 2.0 Tools and Social Networks, Nellie Deutsch would introduce Wiki and WikiEducator.

Wiki: A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:

* planning of education projects… Continue

Added by Alfajri Alwis on November 4, 2008 at 1:57am — No Comments

The 4th Way For Education

If you haven’t seen the Nokia video on YouTube , you really should take a look. In the video Nokia shares the idea they call the “Fourth Screen.”

The…

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Added by Rob Jacobs on November 3, 2008 at 9:33pm — No Comments

Favorite and NOT SO Favorite Classrooms

I typically start my morning hour checking email, Google Reader, and Stumble. I came upon this post and thought I would share. As teachers, we sometime wonder about today's students and how they learn or behave differently from when we were kids. It's no questions that today's students are very different and very "… Continue

Added by John Costilla on November 3, 2008 at 7:45am — 3 Comments

Feeds

My friend Ryan once told me, "it's all about feeds." This was probably 2 years ago and we were talking about Web 2.0 things and the semantic web--ideas which like cloud computing are a stretch for my imagination, even now. I understand more about feeds, but I'm no expert. When I subscribe to a feed, content is delivered to me or more specifically to my reader. My reader, in my case, Google Reader, brings all of my feeds together in one spot:… Continue

Added by Lee Ann Spillane on November 3, 2008 at 4:42am — No Comments

Introduction

I am a high school Math teacher at an alternative high school. I am currently implementing the use of a SMART Airline Slate into my classrooms and increasing the use of interactive technologies for learning. My students have been given baseline tests for their Math skills and they have evaluated the use of technology within the school. I will continue to update the progress of the interactive technology integration in the Math classroom each week on this blog.

Added by Kirsten Warner on November 2, 2008 at 10:50pm — No Comments

Additional thoughts from Disrupting Class

Should computers be the focus of all activity? They can certainly connect people in far distant place, and provide curriculum that local sources are not able to provide. (This is the "why AP is good" argument.)

What about socialization ?? Children socialized to computers are not socialized to each other!

There are subtle social cues that one learns only from in the flesh interaction. Let me let you about the 18 year olds who "invade space"!

Education is a PUBLIC GOOD.… Continue

Added by Cathleen Randall on November 2, 2008 at 8:54pm — No Comments