Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Joel Barker, "paradigm man" and famous futurist, reviews Debbe Kennedy's Book, Putting Our Differences to Work. One of his famous quotes, "You can and should shape your own future; because if you don't someone else surely will." This book is a must for all educators.
Amazon.com Widgets
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Teacher Web Page Component Suggestions
Communicate with Parents
Make it More
People Want to See It
Student Presentations
Safety
Privacy
Wiki
Blog
Podcasting and Mediacasting
Linking
Finding and Being Found
Paperless
Communicate with Staff
Moodle
Student Web Sites Suggestions
Links
Video
Unit Work
Student Work
Blog
Communicate
Collaborate
Wiki
Greatest Hits of Teacher Sites
Links to Alumni of Class
Virtual Classroom
Links
Study guide
Practice Quizzes, etc.
Class Help
Podcast
Activities
Student Scribe
One student per day
Resources
Free Forums Bravenet.com
Student Media Publishing
Book Discussion Via Blog
Ideas ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Sir Ken Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. (Recorded ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
I watched Wade Davis' Cultures on the Edge presentation yesterday and it has impacted me tremendously. I in one fell swoop have changed my view of story telling and it necessity in the world. Wade is a persuasive and polished presenter. His simple stand and deliver approach is ...
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
We visited many sites today that are interesting and helpful. Take a look at some.
http://www.brainpop.com
http://kidshealth.org
http://www.polleverywhere.com
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com
http://fantasticcontraption.com
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10
http://freeology.com
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/mouse.html
http://www.nettrekker.com
http://voicethread.com
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view
http://www.edutopia.org/scratching-surface-creativity
http://scratch.mit.edu
http://www.usbourne-quicklinks.com
http://speakingofhistory.blogspot.com
http://fayette.k12.in.us/~cbeard/dictionary/intro.html
http://www.webquest.org
http://www.csta.acm.org/Resources/sub/DownloadableResources.html
Toward the bottom of the page, PBL resources
http://www.theapple.com
http://pocketmod.com
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
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Watch the screencast to observe how to create and set up your Wikispaces.com wiki. This is free to students and teachers. The built-in tutorials are very useful. The best thing is there are no ads.
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