If you haven’t read the following three articles from this past week in the New York Times, they are worth taking a few moments to take a look. Wifi Turns Arizona Rowdy Bus Ride Into Rolling Study Hall Do School Libraries Need Books? This debate style article has over 300 comments at the moment. It [...]
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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Digital Literacy
Proper typing out, thumb typing in
Just as I’m having conversations again around why we should or shouldn’t teach typing in our schools technology has once again moved us into another typing realm. The thumb typing. I’ve watched more videos than I care to count about the iPad (my thoughts here) and in a recent survey to our students here at [...]
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Latest Web Marks 02/10/2010
How Social Gaming is Improving Education Enter social video games as a solution — immersive environments that simulate real-world problems. Today, technologically eager schools are replacing textbook learning with social video games, and improving learning outcomes in the process. Here’s how they’re doing it. tags: videogames, Education 100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time [...]
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Latest Web Marks 02/09/2010
Where are the savings in using GoogleApps? – Home – Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog No internal mailserver and mail back-up costs (hardware, software, maintenance).$12,000 (We were due for a replacement and running out of storage capacity) No student/staff document file server costs (hardware, software, maintenance). $84,000 (28 servers and server OS at $3000 each on [...]
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Latest Web Marks 02/06/2010
Seth’s Blog: Hunters and Farmers Clearly, farming is a very different activity from hunting. Farmers spend time sweating the details, worrying about the weather, making smart choices about seeds and breeding and working hard to avoid a bad crop. Hunters, on the other hand, have long periods of distracted noticing interrupted by brief moments of [...]
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Latest Web Marks 02/05/2010
Life After You Chords (ver 2) by Daughtry @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com tags: no_tag Pre-Chorus A C A Believe me I won’t stop for nothin’ C D To see you so I’ve started runnin’ Chorus Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
21st Century Themes
Learning 2.010 Conference: Where do we go from here?
In a world where content is continually changing, and you can learn almost anything for free, what’s the point of going to a conference? This is the question we started with in designing your Learning 2.010 Conference experience. The content is free and easy. If you want to learn how to use Facebook in your [...]
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Latest Web Marks 02/03/2010
BBC News – Phone texting ‘helps pupils to spell’ “A study of eight- to 12-year-olds found that rather than damaging reading and writing, “text speak” is associated with strong literacy skills. Researchers say text language uses word play and requires an awareness of how sounds relate to written English. This link between texting and literacy [...]
Elementary
You mean the teacher still matters?
Four great articles have come to light lately that point to research being done and what many of us in the Ed Tech community have been saying for a long time might just be on the horizon. That is that this technology stuff can improve education. So let’s start at Mashable one of my favorite [...]
Digital Literacy
The iPad: Not the Right Product for Education
I’ve been reflecting the last couple days on Apple’s new iPad. The product that, before it’s announcement, some had claim would revolutionize education. If it does…..it will be a shock to me. I have nothing against Apple (I’m typing on a MacBook that I love), I just think this piece of hardware is not what [...]
