All Blog Posts Tagged 'education' (330)

GUIYANG PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHINA

What’s it like to go to elementary school in China? I was able to witness a primary school. Like the high school, students wore uniforms and worked as a seamless member of a larger group. Again, the students were fully engaged and on task. Again, the teacher controlled the learning environment and used a projected PowerPoint to aid in her instruction. Like the high school, students waited for the bell to ring and the teacher to formally begin class. Students laid their heads on the desk and… Continue

Added by Dr. Kari Stubbs on January 7, 2009 at 1:36pm — No Comments

Goals for January

To introduce our schools to various projects and competitions students can do using technology tools. Am going to enter the video comp with MIT. Any other suggestions?

Added by Alexis Krysten on January 6, 2009 at 1:06pm — 2 Comments

Should Technical Education be on the "cut list?"

There was an article in the Wichita Eagle this morning talking about the discussing the budget crunch their school district faces. They are anticipating that there will be programs that must be eliminated. Currently, technical education does not influence the individuals making these decisions. The Bush administration has been trying to eliminate funding to… Continue

Added by Donnie Smith on January 5, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Online eLearning Education and Children's Self-esteem Issues - By Lance Winslow

By Lance Winslow

There simply is not enough information available on the synergies or detriments that online eLearning will have on our children psyche. Especially limited are issues of the children's "self-esteem" and self-confidence building using these eLearning educational systems. When the Online Think Tank recently brought this subject up at a small meeting many diverse opinions emerged.

Below are some of my… Continue

Added by Lance Winslow on December 31, 2008 at 3:19am — No Comments

President Elect Links Ed Tech to Growing Our Economy

Obama Links Ed Tech to Economic Growth reads the December 3, 2008 Digital | Directions article. Those of us involved with education and technology have been chanting an ed-tech mantra for quite some time, having identifed it as the hook to engage and challenge 21st century students. We have experimented with various applications in our classrooms, trying to involve our students with their own education, and ultimately… Continue

Added by Gary Latman on December 29, 2008 at 10:49pm — No Comments

Guiyang Experimental High School #3, China

The first school that we were able to tour was a high school. Students at the high school begin their day by reciting political readings to help them pass tests. After these readings, students register for school for the day and go to the playground for morning exercises. Students are required to exercise. During the school day, students have four classes that are 45 minutes long with a 10-minute break between each. Between second and third classes, they have a 20-minute break for a whole… Continue

Added by Dr. Kari Stubbs on December 27, 2008 at 10:43am — No Comments

Turbocharge your Google Searches with Lumifi

I was reading about the Washington DC social media and technology scene and ran across this cool search application called Lumifi. It allows you to search and break down your subject, so you aren't restricted as much to the first 10. (check out the Global Warming demo) It allows you to "drill down" to more results in a very easy fashion. Also other academic research applications for teachers and students, although these are aimed more at the… Continue

Added by Nathan Ketsdever on December 23, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX)

The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.

The key to MLX is it being a place for exchange of ideas. Anyone from anywhere can browse and search the warehouse. Each "package" is represented by a descriptive "packing slip" that… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on December 9, 2008 at 7:12am — No Comments

Professional Development In Education: What's Your Ideal?

This post will be used in a graduate level class I am teaching focused on 21st century learning tools. If interested, please use the comment feature below this post to answer the following knowing that what you write may be used in this class. Thanks in advance to all contributors

* As a teacher, what is your actual experience in the area of Professional Development?

* What is your ideal? What do you seek from Professional Development?

* How can/might Web 2.0 tools assist…

Added by Andrew on December 6, 2008 at 6:05am — 4 Comments

Book the Time

I'd love to begin a movement that would culminate in the spring called the Book the Time Campaign: getting as many people as we can to read aloud to a child or many children. Then we could have one day, in March or April, that is the culmination of those efforts, with lots of celebration for the importance of reading aloud in a child's life. Would anyone be interested in joining in and figuring out how to make this happen? I love the idea of it being worldwide!!! I could ask my wonderful… Continue

Added by Pam Allyn on November 28, 2008 at 6:54am — 3 Comments

Online Collaboration

http://www.yourdraft.com/create_page.php?key=xEzAX1n8qb2h9QUwf8nLt8dZQh6On3

Tell me what you think!

Added by Jesse Peters on November 27, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Update: Pixton for Schools

I just received an update from Clive over at Pixton about their very popular Pixton for Schools product. Due to the current economic climate and the limited budgets available to teachers, Pixton has decided to level out the cost to be $1 USD per student per month.

This discounted price makes Pixton for Schools equally accessible to classrooms, large or small. Remember that you can easily embed a Pixton comic into a wiki, blog or website. So why not grab your free PBwiki and use…

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Added by Derek Baird on November 18, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Collection of Online Business Courses

Here is a quick list of free online business courses.. will add more as I find them.

U.About - Free email business courses

Business Spanish - speak and write business and conversational Spanish

Business week - Courses From Tech to Business

Learn That - Free business tutorials…

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Added by Mike Johns on November 11, 2008 at 5:12am — No Comments

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PRESENTATIONS: Human Body

Online portfolio, resume or CV? Create it here for FREE.

Podcasting in Education

Creating and using Webquests in Education

And, yes, these have all been added to the Teacher Toolbar. What?! You don't have the Teacher Toolbar?… Continue

Added by Ellen on October 29, 2008 at 12:47pm — No Comments

One-Hour Workshop on Web 2.0 for the Classroom and Virtual School

I need to have my head examined. I got so excited over the Web 2.0 tools we discussed in class and the few more that I stumbled on that I volunteered to conduct a one-hour workshop at my school in two weeks. We just had a week-long virtual school after the terrorist attack on Marriott hotel, and the teachers were wondering if there were other ways to make virtual school more interactive and interesting, especially for elementary students.

So I prepared a list, went through it with… Continue

Added by Antoinette Go on October 23, 2008 at 11:30pm — 4 Comments

Pixton for Schools: Learning with Comics

Last week I attended the Innovative Learning Conference (ILC) in San Jose, California. Despite what seemed like a very light turnout, it turned out to be a great conference experience. The educators attending ILC were engaging and it gave me a chance to meet up with some of my social networking pals in real life. I also had the opportunity to see some really good presentations.

Like most conferences there was an exhibition hall with lots of vendors touting their goods and services as… Continue

Added by Derek Baird on October 21, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Our Blog Has Launched!

Thanks everyone for waiting patiently. Our blog, Teacher Created Tips, is now live. :D

View it here: http://www.teachercreated.com/blog.

New entries will be posted 2-3 times a week. Subscribe to the RSS feed on the blog to keep up-to-date.

Thanks!

Teacher Created Resources…

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Added by Teacher Created Resources on October 21, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

How Boys and Girls Learn Differently

At a primary school Manning, a small town 65 miles east of Columbia, South Carolina, second grade teachers Holly Garneau and Anna Lynne Gamble are convinced that segregating elementary-age boys and girls produces immediate academic improvement—in both genders.

Eager to capitalize on their past progress, the two created a teaching plan for the upcoming semester. The kids will be in a coed environment for homeroom, lunch, and recess, then divide up for four hours each day to learn… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on October 17, 2008 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

My 5 Reasons Why I Choose To Go In New Zealand

A journey to a thousand miles is one of the situation which we can meet our success in life. For me, If I will given a chance to visit a certain country, for sure I choose New Zealand. Why? Because of many reasons I have to fulfill my dreams to go in New Zealand. One of my reason is, I want to see the breath taking beauty of natures there, Second, I want to see and experience the hospitality of people around the country, third one, I want to learn the culture of New Zealand, fourth, I want to… Continue

Added by studynz2008 on October 8, 2008 at 1:26am — No Comments

Idea for an interactive timeline project based on the series of events related to our current economic crisis

To help me understand the complexity of our economic crisis, I decided to search for information from the past that might have contributed to the current set of events. The Celestial Economic Sphere, DataViz for the Finance Biz, Truthiness, Behavioral Finance & Greed is the title of the post (long) that I wrote in response to the economic crisis.

As I dug up material for my post, it occurred to… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on September 27, 2008 at 12:23pm — 6 Comments