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The Jing Project - It’s Official (Jing Blog)
This is an awesome birthday present TechSmith has offered us for Jing’s birthday. 2GB of storage spaces and 2GB of transfer! If you’re not using Jing there is no better time than than to try.
The possibilities are now expanding of how I can use this tool in my classroom to expand student learning.
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Here are the links for the resources that Joyce Valenza uses in her New Tools for Learning workshop.
What Caught My Eye Today 07/24/2008
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What Caught My Eye Today 07/22/2008
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layout templates directory for Google Docs
Google has entered the template business when it comes to the Google Suite.
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What Caught My Eye Today 07/21/2008
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AudibleKids - Audio Books for Kids
Thousands o the best children’s titles that can be downloaded and listened to anytime.
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What Caught My Eye Today 07/20/2008
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Search for flickr pictures by tags. The results are posted on a globe.
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Here are the resources for David Jakes’ presentations.
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promiseintopractice wiki / BLC 2008
Here is the wiki that supports Sara Kajder’s sessions at BLC.
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Here are the archives of sessions tagged BLC from ustream.
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Here is the archives of the sessions at BLC08 that were ustreamed. I know I’ll be going back to watch some sessions I wasn’t able to make. There may be more but they were not tagged BLC08.
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Are you listening to this?… Why, yes. I am. But, are you? « Real Reasons to Write
Sara attended one of Marc Prensky’s sessions at BLC08 and was moved to write this entry based on what she heard. This is a must read entry. Ironically she started this blog so she could write this post. A new voice in the blogosphere, thank you. If you get the chance to see her it is well worth it.
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100 Unbelievably Useful Reference Sites You’ve Never Heard Of | Teaching Tips
By Laura Milligan
Beyond Google, Wikipedia and other generic reference sites, the Internet boasts a multitude of search engines, dictionaries, reference desks and databases that have organized and archived information for quick and easy searches. In this list, we’ve compiled just 100 of our favorites, for teachers, students, hypochondriacs, procrastinators, bookworms, sports nuts and more.
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Dangerously Irrelevant: Leadership Day 2008 - We have neglected our leaders
Here is the initator of Leadership Day 2008, Scott McLeod’s take. His point here is that most school leaders received no training in 21st Century schooling, much like theit teachers.
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Metanoia » Reflecting Upon Prensky’s Principles of Principals
Ryan reflects on Presenky’s principles of principals. I like the additions that Ryan put on the list.
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Edubuzz.org opens a window on teaching and learning in East Lothian schools. It’s the home of a district-wide networked learning community.
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Posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email.
A blog by email is the best way to describe this tool.
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Utterz - Mobile Multimedia Discussions
Utterz lets you create and follow discussions with friends or people with similar interests. Utters can be audio, video, pictures and text. You can create or join a discussion from any mobile phone or computer. Than you Bob Sprankle for the resource.
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Glogster allows you to create a virtual poster on a webpage. Embed videos, music, images that hyperlink.
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Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success—a simple idea that makes all the difference. Teaching a growth mindset creates motivation and productivity in the worlds of business, education, and sports.
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Kassblog - Technology Pedagogy
Richard tooks participants through a processs where we focused on pedagogy.
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This was one of the tools showen at EBC East. The applet allows someone someone to record, playback and save their voice in a webpage and Moodle page.
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Kassblog - Reflections on Building Learning Communities 2008
Richard offers his reflections on his BLC week. It was a pleasure to meet him at EBC.
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Penzu : Free Private Journal and Diary - Annotated
This is a little tidbit that I got rom EDC East. As the title states it is a free private journal on the web. YOu can lock it, share it, add pictures, etc.
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Here is a FAQ to Google’s Lively.
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Here is Darren’s wiki for his presentations at BLC08. Excellent presentations.
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Newtools - Powered by AardvarkWisdom
Here is the website from Day 2 BLC08 Keynoter, John Davitt.
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Here is the listing of links from the different workshops that Bob Spankle offers.
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Liz and Lisa put on a great session helping people put together a PLN. This wiki showcases their work.
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What Caught My Eye Today 07/19/2008
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Favthumbs - Your del.icio.us bookmarks visualized.
This was one of the tools that was showcased during EBCEast. Favthumbs will give you a thumbnail view of your del.icio.us bookmarks (can be brokendown by user and/or tag).
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Real Reasons To Write: BLC08
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Cover it Live seems to acting up (or bandwidth). So let’s try it the old fashion way…here are my notes.
She believes we don’t have a choice about old literacy vs. new literacy.
She looks at tools to figure out how it can amplify students’ learning and not just trying the newest tools.
Her story, back in the classroom after a 4 year absense in academia. She had a room that didn’t fit the students she had. She asked about the tools they used to write…after 6 minutes of silence “pen”, “paper”.
The kids eventually mentioned computer and then the rest of the list generated, blog, imovie, video games, cell phone, wikipedia, post-it notes,digital cameras, highlighters. Kids pushed back when blogs were mentioned because that was their space and they saw it separate from school spaces.
Writing “non negotiables”
development of a unique voice, strong voice
concise, packed, lively writing (forced language)
authority and confidence
immediate and specific examples and details
organization
REAL WRITING FOR REAL AUDIENCES
She needed to answer the question why we need to do this…
How do we get there?
deal with student’s emotionsurrounding writing
expose students to a wealth of lagnuage
Frequent writing opportunities
1981 “the three things to do with final version of writing are post, print and publish” James Moffett Before the Internet and Blogs.
Strategy that Sara used: Author Quest
Select a livign author whose work you admire
Read at least two books by that author. Ask questions in your reader’s log.
Research your author and write a 3 paragraph reflection on the search. (Process of your search, what surprised you, what you want to ask)
Using these questions as a basis, write a letter to your author
Revise and edit your letter
Publish your letter
Storyboard using GoogleDocs. Her wiki http://promiseintoprices.pbwiki.com has some tools.
Using pictures to enhance the creativity process.
Google MyMaps as a way to visual
Showing the Flip
“This we believe”
Tools that that are in play now in her classroom…
podcasting (audience goes beyond the classroom)
Jing (The kids reading their own writing and commenting/marking up text)
Nice job Sara.
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Everything New is Old Again BLC08
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John Davitt’s Session at BLC
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Marc Prensky:The Death of the Classroom and the Rebirth of Learning in the 21st Century
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BLC Keynote Day 2-John Davitt
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