How can shadow puppets be used to teach ELL kindergarten students about the components of a story? As the majority of the students in our elementary school are learning English as their third language, my wife Margaret works to create new ways to teach her library lessons by using visuals. When you add in the [...]
Picnik.com launches back to school ideas
A friend of mine who now works for Picnik (or should I say Google seeing that Picnik was recently purchased by them), the online photo editing website passed along these little suggestions this week. New for Back to School We just launched some handy tools that make it easy to create photo-personalized blog headers, newsletters, [...]
Using Search Stories to Teach Search Skills
Last year one of the best ads released during the SuperBowl was this simple ad by Google Shortly after the release of this video Google asked you to make your own search stories. Simply go to http://www.youtube.com/searchstories and start creating your story. What a great way to teach students search skills. Give students and start [...]
A Shopper for All Seasons
During my fifteen years of teaching, I often used food analogies in my teaching. Eating is something we all understand and hopefully enjoy. Locating and eating the ‘right foods’ is something we can all aspire. While searching for some new recipes this summer, I spent time at two sites: Epicurious and Eattheseasons. Used together, [...]
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Latest Web Marks 03/17/2010
Seth’s Blog: Wondering around I stumbled on a great typo last night. “Staff in the lobby were wondering around…” Wandering around is an aimless waste of time. Wondering around, though, that sounds useful. Wondering why this product is the way it is, wondering how you can make the lobby more welcoming, wondering if your best [...]
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Blogging Process – Find Your Flow
Brian Grenier wrote a blog post back in 2007 that I think I missed where he asks the question how do you write a blog post? Miguel Guhlin just wrote a great post in response to Brian’s thoughts. In my COETAIL course yesterday we had a great discussion around how blogging was going for those [...]
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Latest Web Marks 03/10/2010
BBC News – Mapping the growth of the internet A great interactive map that looks at the spread of Internet use around the world from 1998 – 2008. tags: Internet, population Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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ASB Unplugged Mumbai – a teacher’s impressions
A couple of weeks ago teachers from around the world congregated at the American School of Bombay in India for the bi-annual ASB Unplugged 1-1 laptop conference. The week proved very helpful for teachers at schools either exploring the introduction of a 1-1 laptop program as well as for those of us who already work [...]
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Latest Web Marks 03/03/2010
How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement tags: Twitter, classroom, social-learning Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Latest Web Marks 02/21/2010
My Google Chrome Extensions | The Thinking Stick tags: no_tag Extensions slow a browser down as it’s extra code that needs to be loaded, extra things sometimes running in the background, so I’m committed to keeping my extensions to a minimum and keep the Chrome speed a priority. So, here’s my basic package: Posted from [...]
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My Google Chrome Extensions
Last week Google Chrome updated itself on my MacBook and now allows Chrome extensions. I’ve almost completely moved over to Chrome as the speed of the browser just blows both Firefox and Safari away in my experience…and the way it handles gmail, gdocs, gwave, and the rest of G is just smooth. What’s been holding [...]
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Bring Buzz to Edu Apps
Google Buzz has been out for a while now and has been slowly making its mark on the social-networking scene. As I’ve been investigating Buzz (a.k.a. playing with it…but investigating sounds so much more important!) and how it changes social-networking, it hit me the other day how this might just be the communication tool I’ve [...]
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Latest Web Marks 02/17/2010
Why Social Media Means Big Opportunities for Women Companies looking to reach women — whether as consumers, entrepreneurs, employees, or advocates — have an unprecedented opportunity through social media to engage them. For women, social media presents abundant opportunities to lead, effect change, innovate, and build relationships across sectors, locally, nationally, and globally. tags: women, [...]
