Sheri's Blog (7)

Fellowship of Open Spokes -- Education in 5 Years

Something awesome is happening on a new channel in YouTube. Ben Wilkoff has gathered together a few everyday educators who are sharing weekly vlogs about education.

This week we're discussing what education might look like in five years.

We'd love to have you watch and comment.…

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Added by Sheri on April 21, 2013 at 10:20pm — No Comments

Veterans Day, Google Apps, And More

I know everyone is ready for that first bright day when our students return to socialize and learn. But here are a few ideas for using Google Apps, including an activity for Veterans Day: a short 150 word essay on the simple topic "Honor All Veterans." This was sponsored by our local VFW last year, but two of my students carried it further, and if you use Google Apps, you might want to try this, or adapt it to another project.

Google Docs is our tool to…

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Added by Sheri on August 16, 2012 at 9:31am — No Comments

Thanks to CR20, I'm Connected !

Greetings!

Have you heard about Connected Educator Month? Have you signed up to listen or share? How about joining the group at P2PU?

What is your definition of a connected educator? I'm still working on…

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Added by Sheri on August 5, 2012 at 1:05am — No Comments

People Power: Building Classroom Community

People Power

Building Community

Without community, a classroom is just a room. Without community, a class is just a crowd.

A community of learners starts with discovering…

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Added by Sheri on September 3, 2011 at 10:19am — No Comments

iPad Resources

I've begun to research iPads in the classroom and joined the iPad group.

I added this info there, but thought others may also want it:

Here are some resources I'm looking at:

SPED: …

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Added by Sheri on August 15, 2011 at 11:24pm — 2 Comments

Digital Citizenship

Interested in how to introduce your staff to digital citizenship? Tracy Watanabe has written essential questions and provided resources for her staff. Check it out! Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship.

My Diigo bookmarks:…

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Added by Sheri on August 12, 2011 at 6:29pm — No Comments

New Media Literacies -- What are they?

I found a blog post by Susan Carter Morgan which included MIT's Henry Jenkins's video about New Media Literacies. See the blog here.

Love this:

New Media Literacies: "Becoming part of the participatory culture….Skills that connect people together with something larger than the individual levels…."

The logo for Project New Media Skills is "create,… Continue

Added by Sheri on July 15, 2009 at 10:00am — 2 Comments