Notes from Millie D

Mathematical Musings: Safe Blogging

Thanks to Cool Cat for uncovering this gem.  If you are planning on introducing your children to the world of blogging then this site is one of those places you want to get some ideas and links before you go to implement blogging in your classroom.  Too bad I’m finding this resource so close to the start of the school year.

Here is another resource DOPA would probably block on school networks.

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If you had some extra time before school starts up (okay that was suppose to be funny) and you want to find out some great resources that are free.  I know that I’ll be looking at more of these tools during the long weekend.

Best of luck to everyone and hope that you have a great and safe start to the school year.

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If you’ve been looking for a resource to give students and/or parents around Algebra then your search is over.  Algebasics has sixteen sections ranging from the basics all the way up to quadratics.  It provides examples and the process to solve it.  A flash video goes with each example to hlep those visual learners.

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Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google’s Writely released; will another sector be squashed?

Today Writely is accepting new accounts today.  For those who don’t know Writely is a collaborative online word processing tool.  Writely’s interface is very similar to Word.  From there Writely does things that Micro$oft dreams about, collaborative writing.  The author can open the document up for others to provide input (much like a wiki).  The author can decide whether to accept the input or not.  Writely also allows users to store their work online (10 MB I think).  This is definitely a tool you want to check out.

The article also mentions other online Office tools (Google Spreadsheets, Thumbstacks, and Zoho Show) as well as Google Calendar.  If you use iCal check out Google Calendar you won’t be disappointed.  But the one piece that could be interesting if it is true would be Google Drive (an online storage space).  Everything points to an announcement in the near future.  Would this lead to the end of File Servers in schools?

The article also indicates a PowerPoint solution for Google.  If this is true and it follows the Writely and Spreadsheets collaborative nature this could be the killer app for technology in education to take off in the classroom. 

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Change Agency - Advocating a better education system for the 21st Century. » Data Analysis and the Four C’s of Change

I got to this article via Miguel Guhlin’s blog.  This entry is very personal to me as our school is going through major change and re-vision.  I hope this engages conversation among teachers.  I will be examining my role within these topics and ideas.

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incorporated subversion

Edublogs.org is a year old today.  The site has really taken off in the last six months.  I’m excited to see the future additions of flickr, YouTube, and widgits.

Happy Birthday

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wwwtools for teachers

If you are looking for a resource guide in explaining wikis to staff members this is a site you want to keep handy.  It provides the reader with a variety of different sources of how wikis are being used in education. 

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EdTechPost: stu.dicio.us - what a student-developed, student-focused learning/study tool looks like

There is a service out there that mimics del.icio.us and other Web2.0 tools for the student.  it is called stu.dicio.us.  This service allows the user to input their schedule, create todo lists, and become an electronic notebook.  Students can collaborate by searching for notes from other students.  The article mentions filestorage and grade tracking in the future.  I found the service pretty simple to use.  For those people who were thinking about blogging this service may be another way to go.

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