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I am consistently impressed with my PLN beyond words. Last night mad me realize again how much I’ve developed connections with my PLN that feel like close friends. While I realize that online relations can be tenuous at best sometimes, those times when I have the dedicated members of my PLN have . . . → Read More: PLN as Family
¡Hola! We are Catalina Bohórquez and Michelle Olah. We are Spanish teachers in Central Florida and we are excited to share with you one of our favorite technologies for collaboration – Etherpad. Etherpad is a “really” real time online web-based word processor. It allows people to work together in a synchronous way. . . . → Read More: Using Etherpad in the Classroom
I am a school librarian, not a Silicon Valley analyst. I endeavor in this post to give a logical, unbiased view of Google’s strategy in both the real-time web, primarily through Google Docs and Wave, and social networking, primarily through Google Buzz, to determine the viability of the tools for my students. . . . → Read More: How Google’s Strategy for the Real-Time Web and Social Network Will Effect Education
While the title to this post may sound incendiary in nature, it is not intended to be so. This is half-exploratory and half-venting. As a first year school, all of the teachers are on schools improvement plan (SIPS) committees. I was, despite my loathing of how data is used in TN most . . . → Read More: What Are School Improvements Plans Really Good For?
This morning, many talented students made food representations of their favorite books. Here are some of the entries. We’re going to vote on winners, have a party, and eat them all after school today. I’m very proud of and impressed by the students. Update
We had about 80 kids stay after school. . . . → Read More: Edible Book Contest This is a lesson I developed in collaboration with World Geography teacher Seth Ramsey. Feel free to use or modify. Google Earth Tours
You will be creating video documentaries on human impact in Google Earth. You have to pick a country that we have studied this year and find at least 3 . . . → Read More: Lesson Plan: Human-Environment Interaction Documentaries in Google Earth Right now, I am avidly watching the 140 Character Conference which is being streamed live on UStream. I am learning a lot listening to Chris Lehmann, the principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. Honestly, his 10 minute presentation has been one of the highlights of my entire week. Here are . . . → Read More: A New Idea for Professional Development
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As I was exploring which social networks to use next year, I tried out WordPress MU with Buddypress to complement Moodle, my course management system, on the advice of Christopher Rogers. Another teacher, Colin Matheson, and I both wanted to implement this but we also required a single-sign on, if possible, . . . → Read More: How to Authenticate Users From Moodle Into WordPress MU I like to plan ahead. It’s just my nature. The plans are always different, but ask me at any given moment and I can give you a naïve forecast for next week, next month, next year, five years from now, tens years from now… So, even though I haven’t been hired for . . . → Read More: My New Plan for Grading
World Geography
One of my World Geography teachers came to me recently wanting to do a project. He has 10 days unallocated in his scope and sequence and he wants to do a project with his kids as he doesn’t often get to. It sounds good to me! My requirements are simple: . . . → Read More: Google Earth Tours Lesson |
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