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For the month of March, a group of educators and lifelong learners will be picking a

"Tweet of the day"

and Re-Tweeting it with the tag:…

I spent Friday morning with 22 student teachers and a couple teachers from my school. My goal was to introduce them to the world of web2.0, wikis, and del.icio.us. Well 2 out of 3 ain't bad- I didn't really get into delicious beyond an introduction. That aside, I think this group of future teachers really understood my point that education is changing and our teaching needs to change too!…

I've bounced some digital immigrant/native ideas around a few times. Now I have one more…

Cross-post with my 'Pair-a-Dimes for your Thoughts' blog.

We are influenced by so many things in our lives. Identifying what has a significant influence on us can be difficult. Here are two things that I believe can be categorized as most influential... and they both happened Monday.

1. Fifteen year old Kristine wrote a very influential blog post…

(Cross-posted with my blog)

Below is a Halloween Scavenger Hunt I did on a (private) Ning Network that I created for a class Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) project I am doing in my two Planning 10 classes.

The scavenger hunt does the following:

1. Introduces students to flickr and…

"A portal to Connect Classrooms to the World: Global Citizens can Share Talents and Skills with Students. Teachers can find Global Citizens (Volunteers) willing to help in a field of interest that they are working on in their class."

FieldFindr: Where teachers can meet global citizens with skills to share.

It started with a…

Why should you participate in this online conference?

• It's Free!
• You can participate when it is convenient for you.
• You can participate as much or as little as you like.
  
  
• You will 'meet' some very interesting people.
• It will challenge you to do "new things in new ways".
  
  
• It will help you…

Today during a Math lesson on Surface Area and Volume:

Mr. Truss, I forgot my calculator, can I borrow one?

Do you have your cell phone?

Yes?

Then you have a calculator.…

In my last post about my Science Alive wiki, I mentioned that our Renaissance Fair Project was starting, (here…

Cross posted with my blog.

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Well here it is, my completed Science Alive Wiki.

After…

A practical session that will introduce you to blogging.

You will see how others use their blogs and you will get a chance to create your own blog.

You will also learn just how easy it is to create links, add pictures and even movies to your blog.

Also, you will learn a bit about web2.0 and very easy to use tools that…