Classroom III

• Wesley Fryer’s notebooks

  tags: technology, resources, web2.0, fryer, google, googlenotebook

• Doodle: Easy Scheduling

  tags: web2.0, collaboration

• VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, docs and videos

  tags: voicethread, education, storytelling, technology, web2.0, collaboration

• learninginhand.com - Podcasting for Teachers & Students Booklet

  tags: learninginhand, podcast, podcasting, resources, learninginhand.com

• Using Google Docs in the classroom: T…

  This guide provides some six tips and tricks for teachers who’ve mastered the basics of Google Docs. It covers how to keep student work organized, revisions and revision history, and how to publish student work.

  tags: classroom, docs

• Freedom to Learn

  “Freedom to Learn (FTL) is a statewide initiative aimed at improving student achievement and engagement in our Michigan schools. FTL is the catalyst for changing the way students learn and teachers teach. The demands of a 21st century educational system make this change necessary.
  FTL empowers teachers to individualize instruction for every child — truly to leave no child behind. FTL creates an environment where every child can have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), where learning occurs anytime and anywhere, where students are motivated by their own medium of expression. FTL accomplishes this new educational vision through a one-to-one learning environment, in which every student and teacher has access to his or her own wireless laptop in a wireless environment.”

  tags: freedom

• ReadWriteThink

  tags: lessonplans, writing, teaching, literacy, reading, english, education, lessons, resources

• EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium

  tags: explo.tv

• Exploratorium: Educate

  tags: science, exploratorium

• Concept to Classroom: Tapping into multiple intelligences - Explanation

  Tapping into Multiple Intelligences

  tags: intelligences, multiple

• Tech4D.I. » home

  the Technology for Differentiated Instruction wiki
  The purpose of this public wiki is to collect and share resources linking Computer and Information Technology with Differentiated Instruction.
  All educators are invited and encouraged to contribute and edit as well as reading and using the ideas and strategies found here.
  Please Note: Mac users are advised to use the Firefox browser to edit these pages.

  tags: differentiatedinstruction, technology, Wiki, differentiation, resources

• sig1to1 » home

  The goal of SIG 1-to-1 is to enhance teaching and learning in one-to-one environments in K-16 classrooms.

  tags: sig1to1

• Education Week’s Digital Directions: 1 to 1 Learning

  tags: no_tag

  • school leaders did not seem to be willing to stick with the programs for the long haul
  • a lack of attention to the components needed to fix computers and keep the models current and operational.
  • must pay attention to policies and procedures, including consequences for inappropriate use of the laptops and whether the machines may be used at home.
  • consideration of the goals of one-to-one programs need to be undertaken at the school, district, and state levels so that overarching questions of “why one-to-one?” are answered.
  • needs a mission statement that really answers those questions and provides a road map for how the program will move forward. The mission for some is to improve students’ technology skills; for others, it is to create more opportunities for self-directed learning.
  • a vision committee should be established to outline what else is needed for the program to succeed.
  • holding back on communicating about one-to-one computing initiatives, not wanting to tell people about incomplete plans.
  • he vision committee and people involved in running the program to become informed about best practices. Fanning out to observe and question schools, districts, and statewide programs results in an understanding of what’s working and what might have been tried along the way but didn’t work. Attending conferences that specialize in one-to-one computing is also helpful.

• Apple - Education - Texas Technology Immersion Pilot, pg.4

  tags: no_tag

• High School Rollout.

  High School 1 to 1 Rollout.

  Theme idea: On the Journey or TV Show

  Goal for the night: Set the stage for change, programs, curriculum, teaching and learning

  tags: no_tag

• Project Inkwell - Project Inkwell

  Project Inkwell Mission Statement:

  The goal of SNS Project Inkwell® is to accelerate the deployment of appropriate technologies onto K-12 desktops worldwide.

  Project Inkwell is developing international standards for pre-university teaching and learning. Having now defined version 1.0 of the minimal technical requirements for an Inkwell learning device, we are moving to incorporate additional advance technology in version 2.0, even as we set standards for servers, infrastructure, teacher professional development, software, and business models.

  tags: inkwell

• Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer wiki / onetoone

  tags: fryer, 1 to 1 Learning

• Every One Learns - Pedagogy, Technology, Motivation: NY Times Article Pounds 1to1

  tags: 1to1, laptop, 1:1

• One to One Computing Blueprint

  tags: education, 1:1, technology, 1to1, blueprint, laptop, laptops

• One-to-One Information Resource

  tags: 1, 1:1, education, technology, laptop, 1to1, laptops, learning, onetoone

• Inspirational Talking Points Justifying 1:1 Computing

  tags: 1to1, education, laptops, teaching

• Facebook | My Photos - Beverly Perdue Fundraiser in Columbus County

  tags: no_tag

• Podcasts Find Use in Classrooms - TIME

  A campus-wide “grandma rule” kept students from uploading anything that their grandmother wouldn’t find appropriate to listen to or watch. And teachers had the ability to designate certain areas as “No Zune Zones,” do periodic Zune checks and tell students when they must turn off their Zunes.

  tags: handhelds, management

  • Eric Langhorst led the pilot project at South Valley Junior High in Liberty, Mo.

Geek EduSquad?

Wow, this is awesome. Can you name all the technology skills they are using in this video?

• Computer:  what brand?
• Software and apps?
• Cell phones?
• camera?

Update: This morning, I noticed that Wes has done a super job filling in the details concerning the “Live from I-35: Moving at the Speed of Creativity enroute to NECC” event! Even after reading about it, I am blown away by how slick and interesting it really was.

• Google Reader -JB’s shared items

  tags: sharing

• EDTECH: Focus On K-12 - Unleash Your Digital Natives

  “Lesson Description:

  Students will create their own multimedia presentation. During this lesson, students can choose from a variety of video or sound sources online or they can use audio provided by the teacher. Students will use a software editing program to capture the sound and export it as a WAV file. Then they will identify and look for visual images (about one per every five seconds) to compliment the content. Once they have all the images and video, they can join them with the audio to create movies.”

  tags: 1 to 1 Learning, edtech, technology, teaching

• EDTECH: Focus On K-12 - Reel Projectiles

  Students use slow-motion movies to help understand the principles of physics.

  tags: physics, physical science

• NEA: Podcast Powerhouse

  tags: podcasting

  • fifth graders struggle with reading and have poor oral language. While working toward her master’s degree in instructional technology, Beebe learned to create podcasts with the software GarageBand. Combining her newfound skill at making podcasts with her desire to provide an authentic way to address reading fluency, Beebe began recording her students?

• Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer wiki / voicethread

  tags: voicethread

• How To: Get Students to Use New Skills | Edutopia

  tags: no_tag

  • Identify the core questions of your
    subject area
  • let students
    create their own labs to test hypotheses
  • Integrate lots of
    interviewing into a history curriculum and have students
    compare stories they hear. Add a five-minute reading component
    to journal-writing time, emphasizing to students that
    real authors share their writing and need to have a sense of
    their audience.
  • Performances, presentations, displays,
    publications, and entries into contests are essential for student
    buy-in. ULS’s hula class spends the semester gearing up for a
    final performance, and Hamilton’s seventh graders forget how
    hard they’re working on their writing when they focus on creating
    podcasts. “When I tell students they are going to create a
    podcast of their own stories, they get excited,” she says. “This
    buy-in from the students gives them a purpose to learn new
    skills and a reason to come to school.”

• Timer for Mac OS X - Freeware stopwatch, alarm clock and countdown utility for Mac

  tags: stopwatch, all_teachers, math, science

• TeachClever | Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Becoming a More Productive Teacher

  tags: teachclever, classroom management, Productivity

• ABC News: 3-Day Weekend: Schools Out for Gas Prices

  tags: 3day

• NEA: Technology Not Being Used Effectively In Schools

  tags: no_tag
  

  • “Access, Adequacy, and Equity in Education Technology recommends that education policymakers and advocates increase access to technology in the classroom and outside of school by providing more wireless and portable technology and increasing access to high-speed Internet service.  Other proposals include establishing standards for student usage in order to integrate technology deeper into the school curriculum.”

• staysafe.org Toolbox In the News Week of June 8, 2008

  tags: staysafe.org

  • To see what controls are available from the major cellphone companies, click to “What Mobile carriers need to do for kids” (see also ConnectSafely’s “Cell-Phone Safety Tips“). [See also the New York Times on how 3G or smartphones are taking off and how 71% of women make the decision about their family's wireless choices, including phones and service plans.]
  • Why do teens post online? “Just because they crave attention? Why do teens post such personal information online for all the world to see?”
  • “Mimi Ito, one of the principal investigators of the Digital Youth project. Of particular interest to parents concerned about teen social networkers’ safety are findings by C.J. Pascoe mentioned by Dr. Ito, for example that: “Contrary to common fears, flirting and dating are almost always initiated offline in the traditional settings where teens get together and extended online. Her work clearly shows there’s a strong social norm among teens that the online space isn’t a place to find new romantic partners, but a place to deepen and explore existing offline relationships.” Exceptions: marginalized teens “whose romantic partners are restricted for cultural or religious reasons” and gay and lesbian teens (the latter are “not reaching out online for random social encounters but using the expanded possibilities online selectively to overcome limitations they’re facing” in their offline social networks); and the very small percentage of teens most at risk of sexual exploitation.”

• staysafe.org Educators

  tags: staysafe

• Teacher tracking “The UNC system is working on a new database that officials hope will help them get a better grasp on the state’s teaching shortage. The data are culled from Department of Public Instruction files and uses characteristics such as race, sex, salary, SAT scores and other factors to determine whether a public school teacher is more or less likely to leave the profession.”                (Jim Morrill of The Charlotte Observer contributed to this report. )

• Instructify » Blog Archive » Blog at Conferences Like a Pro

  Reading Blog at Conferences Like a Pro

  tags: instructify

• The benefits of podcasting

  “This video is a version of the results of Andrew’s experimentation with the use of iPods and Podcasting during early 2006 for a DE&T Knowledge Bank Rich Picture Case Study.”

  tags: podcasting, science classroom

• The NC 1:1 Learning Collaborative » 1to1 Webinars Great Site!
  

  tags: 1to1

• AT&T’s iPhone 3G Data Plan and No Longer Revenue Sharing - Mac Rumors

  tags: no_tag wow!  iPhone’s 3G only works for me in North Carolina in Raleigh . - post by blakej

• Durff’s Blog: Write a first-rate blog post!

  tags: no_tag

  • 1. The posts (or comments) are well written.  Oh well I can’t spell and have terrible grammar.
    2. The posts (or comments) are responsive. They respond to other people’s ideas – whether it is a post by a teacher, a comment by a student, or an idea elsewhere on the Internet. The power of blogs is in connections – they are connected to a larger community of ideas. Participate in that community. Uh, whine time?
    3. The posts (or comments) include textual references to support opinions. Adding quotes or links to other works strengthens your post. Check.
    4. To be part of the dialogue, part of the conversation, you have to participate fully, consistently and often. Often? darn, this means I suck again…
    5. Your posts (or comments) are respectful of others. It’s okay to disagree; it’s not okay to be disagreeable. Be respectful of others and their opinions, and be civil when you disagree. Do you know that if you post comments, that some bloggers refer to you as a Troll? I guess I live under a bridge, I have been called worse!
    6. Your posts include at least 3 technorati tags. What? I am not writing for Technorati tags. That is anal!
    7. Your posts speak to visual literacy by carefully choosing an image to include. The image should refer to what is written.  Pretty image==>

• YouTube - Creating a Blog List with Blogger - Tech Tip.

• tags: no_tag

Where did all the time go?

Well, first of all, I have no real excuse. But looking back at the school year, many factors contributed to not using blogs. One key difference this past year was Twitter. Instead of spending time thinking and writing, I constantly found myself glued to mini blog posts. I have never enjoyed writing. I am a horrible craftsman of language. My writing teachers always told me I wrote like I talk. This was nice way of telling me that in their opinion, anyone from eastern North Carolina is dumb. I feel confident that all my formal writing teachers are either dead, or tucked away in a nursing home by now.

I have also spend considerable time with my students learning to use Google Sites. I set up an account for my classroom which required students over the age of 13 to use their school email account. I had several students over 18 years old and they used their personal accounts from Yahoo or AOL. I did not use it at all with my under 13 y.o. students.

I liked using Google Sites for one major reason- Google Docs. The Google Site Google Docs feature is really nice with high school students. I was able to post PowerPoint, Word Docs, and spreadsheets. If we were studying cell processes, and I found a document I wanted them to read, I uploaded it the the Google Doc site and “shared” them with the students. They could work in teams or individually on projects.

When it came time for students to write their term paper, I had a hard time convincing my students to use Google Docs. They did not like having to log in to Google and uploading and then when they needed their doc, logging in downloading their document and remembering to upload it again. My students did not like the way Google Doc reformatted their documents. So, I will not try that again for term papers. The best tip I learned from this experience- tell the students to buy a cheap thumb drive and story their term paper on it. I loaned two of my thumb drives and the students never returned them. I should have gotten them to leave their cell phone with me until they returned my thumb drives. Oh well, maybe it was worth it.

It is summer time, time to recharge my batteries. Time to turn off the computer and take some walks outside. Gas is too high to ride around…have a good summer!

• Education World® Holidays Center: Summer Fun

  tags: holidays, Summer, Fun, learning

• Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators - Home Page

  tags: kathyschrock, lessonplans, classroom, technology, teachers, resources, teaching, education

• Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site - Reviews and teaching ideas for kids’ books.

  tags: education, books, children, library, readaloud, literature

• Apple - Pro - Tips - Welcome to Wikipedia!

  tags: no_tag

  • Your built-in Dictionary application now includes not only an excellent dictionary and thesaurus, but also instant access to Wikipedia. That means you can conduct Wikipedia searches from within any OS X Leopard application that supports Dictionary, including TextEdit, Mail, and Pages.

• Become a Ringleader: Teaching with Text Messaging | Edutopia

  tags: no_tag

  • “ping” our students with updates on schedules, assignment reminders, even wake-up calls, and they answer with questions of their own.

• Senate mulling education changes to House budget :: WRAL.com

  tags: no_tag

  • Easley, facing his final test with the Democratic-led General Assembly before leaving office in January, had said Tuesday he was puzzled by House leaders for “stiffing the teachers.”
  • Easley’s signature More at Four preschool program, which has been the focus on negotiations for several years, received about half of the $45 million the governor wanted.
  • Senators also want to raise teacher salaries beyond 3 percent, but they acknowledged they may be hard pressed to reach the nearly 7 percent salaries Easley said are needed to keep a promise to exceed the national average during the next school year.

• Through students’ eyes

  tags: alternative_school, eyes

• isb21 » Effective Learners

  tags: isb21

  • How do you know information is true?

  • How do you know information is true?
  • How does the scientific method help us determine fact?
  • How does the scientific method help us determine fact?
  • How do I learn best?

Reading the post in this blog from last September, I am ashamed of not having posted a single blog post all year. What happened? Where did all the time go? Why did I not use this great tool?

Well, first of all, I have no real excuse. But looking back at the school year, many factors contributed to not using blogs. One key difference this past year was Twitter. Instead of spending time thinking and writing, I constantly found myself glued to mini blog posts. I have never enjoyed writing. I am a horrible craftsman of language. My writing teachers always told me I wrote like I talk. This was nice way of telling me that in their opinion, anyone from eastern North Carolina is dumb. I feel confident that all my formal writing teachers are either dead, or tucked away in a nursing home by now.

I have also spend considerable time with my students learning to use Google Sites. I set up an account for my classroom which required students over the age of 13 to use their school email account. I had several students over 18 years old and they used their personal accounts from Yahoo or AOL. I did not use it at all with my under 13 y.o. students.

I liked using Google Sites for one major reason- Google Docs. The Google Site Google Docs feature is really nice with high school students. I was able to post PowerPoint, Word Docs, and spreadsheets. If we were studying cell processes, and I found a document I wanted them to read, I uploaded it the the Google Doc site and “shared” them with the students. They could work in teams or individually on projects.

When it came time for students to write their term paper, I had a hard time convincing my students to use Google Docs. They did not like having to log in to Google and uploading and then when they needed their doc, logging in downloading their document and remembering to upload it again. My students did not like the way Google Doc reformatted their documents. So, I will not try that again for term papers. The best tip I learned from this experience- tell the students to buy a cheap thumb drive and story their term paper on it. I loaned two of my thumb drives and the students never returned them. I should have gotten them to leave their cell phone with me until they returned my thumb drives. Oh well, maybe it was worth it.

It is summer time, time to recharge my batteries. Time to turn off the computer and take some walks outside. Gas is too high to ride around…have a good summer!