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Some Tech Sense » Blog Archive » Keeping Parents in the Loop
This year, I have set the goal to get every parent set up with a Netvibes page so that they can access all of their child’s teacher’s blogs quickly. I’m attending the first PTSA meeting of the year this week to teach parents how to set up the page, I’ve written an article about Netvibes for our school-wide ParentTalk and I’ve created a screencast for parents to set the Netvibes page at home.
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Allows you to practice your typing and keyboarding skills against other people that are connected to the Internet. Social Typing practice?
Jeff Utecht is an international educator, educational technology consultant and author. He has worked internationally since 2005, prior to that he worked in Washington State. Currently Jeff is working as the High School Technology and Learning Coordinator for the International School Bangkok. Additionally, Jeff is the technology consultant with EARCOS (East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools) and has consulted for Web 2.0 companies on educational issues. Jeff is a main coordinator for the Learning 2.0 Educational Technology Conference in Asia. He has consulted with international schools and conferences globally. Jeff regularly shares his thoughts on education and technology on his blog, thethinkingstick.com. Jeff have been mentioned in several books including Reinventing Project-Based Learning as an avenue for “free online professional development” and Web 2.0, New Tools, New Schools. He has also written a chapter on 21st Centrurey Technology Planning for the book Wired for Learning. To learn more about Jeff, visit www.jeffutecht.com.
Keyboarding is an important skill for everybody nowadays — that’s why I created a website with typing games for my after-school group to use.
Over the years it’s grown and now has over 50 typing games! It’s a kid-safe site — I work hard to ensure that when links go to outside pages, those pages don’t have inappropriate ads or links to non-educational games, and I update the site regularly.
http://www.auntlee.com/kids
If your keyboarding students don’t mind doing a little work, I’ve got two solutions to download for free from my website. You can download the “guts” of a CD in a zipped file — extract and burn to a CD. The CD auto-runs with a bunch of free typing software ready to run.
One CD has a bunch of games, including TuxTyping2 and Mario Teaches Typing, and one is Typing of the Dead demo.
http://www.auntlee.com/teachers/software_cd.html