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Kermit the Frog Search Challenge (Information Literacy Games) NETS-S 3 Fun!

It ain't easy being green....

Finding Kermit was the inspiration for one of the first Internet Search Challenges created by Dr. Carl Heine. The task is to track down a picture of Kermit ready for graduation in the least amount of time. Many teachers use this as a whole class lab activity. Put up a search challenge and… Continue

Added by Dennis O'Connor on October 18, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Help - E-Blocks

Hello, I would like to know if anyone has used, or know anything about E-Blocks, a tool for teaching English, Mathematics and Spanish in the early years. As it’s an expensive tool, I would like to have some information from people who have used it worldwide. Any help would be highly appreciated, Lucía Continue

Added by Lucia Ramirez on September 29, 2009 at 1:09pm — No Comments

K12Online2009 LAN Party

Please join us on September 26, 2009 for the first live event of the 2009 K12Online Conference On September 26, K12Online Conference will host a LAN party from 2:00PM to 5:00PM EDT and encourages everyone to get together with colleagues in order to engage in lively discussions. Past presentations will be shown… Continue

Added by Durff on September 22, 2009 at 11:33am — No Comments

Cyber Bullying

Since many students also use the Internet at home, school officials should provide parents with information about cyber safety. A combined, concerted effort between parents and school employees can better protect students from cyber predators and dangers – on and off school grounds. Parents can best protect their families from online dangers by learning computer and Internet skills that will enable them to participate in their children’s Internet learning and activities. Communication between pa… Continue

Added by Digitalsandbox on September 20, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Lack of Risk Puts Nation at Risk

This is the topic of my new post on Life in the Renaissance. You can read and comment at http://bigenhoc.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/lack-of-risk-puts-nation-at-risk/ Continue

Added by Chris Bigenho on September 18, 2009 at 10:32am — No Comments

The Wilhelm Scream and the rise of modern sound editing.

You may have not heard of the Wilhelm Scream, but if you’re a fan of the westerns or creature films of the 50’s, watched television during the 60’s or 70’s or seen anything made by George Lucas then you know what it sounds like. BEWARE!! Once you know that the scream you hear is Wilhelm’s you will hear it everywhere!

One of the most overlooked film making disciplines is the tapestry of sound created by the Sound Designer. The soundtrack of a film contains much more than the d… Continue

Added by Frank Guttler on September 14, 2009 at 9:28am — No Comments

Digital Tools to Manage Classes and Assignments

Teacher-created online calendars to manage classes and assignments Assign A Day is an online classroom teacher calendar designed for teachers to make daily assignments to students. It’s a free service that allows teachers to create and manage y their classroom by posting and sharing online assignments with students. The website is easy to use and is a great way for teachers to post current and upcoming tasks, study tips, test dates and long term projects. Teachers create a calendar… Continue

Added by Digitalsandbox on September 6, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

ARRA-One Time Opportunity for Transformation

ARRA funding is placing more money in education than has been provided (totally) in 29 years. Anish Chopra (President Obama CTO) and Jim Shelton (Arnie Duncan's Deputy) have communicated that technology is "core" to the transformation in education and fostering unprecedented flexibility in the funding. Are state and district technology leaders prepared to collaborate with district educational leaders in how technology tools/resources will enable the transformation? Do state and district technolo… Continue

Added by Ann on September 5, 2009 at 5:00am — No Comments

Educational Technology and the Fair Use Doctrine

The use of technology in the school, especially the social networking applications, has dramatically changed the way educators gather and remix information. This fact makes restructuring copyright regulations a necessary component for school revisions in ethical use of digital media. Until the last two decades, written information mainly was distributed through textbooks and publications under the watchful eye of a publishing company. The people within these textbook companies had great influenc… Continue

Added by Digitalsandbox on September 1, 2009 at 7:21pm — No Comments

Technology Planning

Technology planning can be the catalyst used to enhance a school’s vision for the future, to strengthen its learning goals and to help realize its mission. The technology planning process itself must weigh the relationship between technology investments and student growth to be deemed successful. Technology planning requires that schools be willing to make substantial investments in time, resources, and support. The information provided on… Continue

Added by Digitalsandbox on August 20, 2009 at 6:30pm — 2 Comments

Using EyePlorer as a Graphic Organizer

eyePlorer.com is a beta graphical search engine that provides an easy to use interface for exploring and interacting with a database of structured knowledge. The search engine provides immediate access to facts and how these facts are related to similar content. When used in education as a search engine it becomes a powerful graphic organizer that has the potential to help students make connections between ideas. As a teacher you can use t… Continue

Added by Digitalsandbox on July 27, 2009 at 6:22pm — No Comments

My first month using twitter and the impact...

After NECC, I posted a question about twitter in the classroom. I received responses and I am in the process or researching activities, etc. to share with others later. Last night I began reflecting on my thoughts and experiences of my first month using twitter with other tech ed advocates. My thoughts can be found on my edublog site @ http://stacybodin.edublogs.org. Many t… Continue

Added by Stacy Bodin on July 26, 2009 at 10:43pm — No Comments

Digital Tools for English Language Learners

WordAhead is a vocabulary development tool that demonstrates a selected word through a short animated film which expands upon the words definition. The website provides not only the definition of the word, but your students can see a video illustration and hear how the word is used in different sentences. The beta testing website has a very complete vocabulary development section of 600 words with words added daily. You can use this site by not only uploading selected word videos but also allow… Continue

Added by Digitalsandbox on July 25, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Designing Technology-based High Engaging Lessons

To incorporate technology in the classroom effectively teachers must use those strategies that are directly aligned to practices that engage students in higher levels of direct learning. Teachers must be cognizant of academic learning time as they deliver a lesson, because large differences in the amount of academic learning time built up by different students generally result in wide variation in student achievement. This means that some students may choose not to engage in teacher assigned tas… Continue

Added by Digitalsandbox on July 24, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

NECC 2009

I really enjoyed NECC this year. It was a liitle different because I didn't get to travel this year. In year's past NECC was really a confernence that was greatly anticipated because we had to do a great deal of planning to make arrangement to travel and find a place to stay. Not only was NECC a place to learn more about current trends for technology use in technology but it was a time for our technology training team to get away from our environment and expand our thoughts on technology use. Si… Continue

Added by Ronlyn Dandy on July 21, 2009 at 7:02am — No Comments

Another Point to Consider from Gladwell's Keynote at NECC...

During Gladwell's speech, I was exchanging occasional text messages with my boss--Dr. Joyce Malyn-Smith--who is the Principal Investigator of the ITEST Learning Resource Center (ITEST LRC). She brought together from his words something that I had missed--that has to do with the work it takes to become "expert" at something. Some of Dr. Malyn-Smith's work involves how today's youth are "power users" (becoming "experts") of ICT. The world the… Continue

Added by Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert on July 20, 2009 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Investigative Search 20/10: Online Self-Paced Training In Website Evaluation

The 21st Century Information Fluency Project is offering a new self-paced online class devoted to Website Evaluation using investigative search methods. This is the first time we've offered a self-paced course designed to meet your on demand learning needs. In this course you work at your own pace in a media rich interactive environment hosted at our Moodle based online learning site.… Continue

Added by Dennis O'Connor on July 14, 2009 at 5:43pm — No Comments

The Implications of Classroom Instruction and Open Source Distant Learning Software

The management skills required of today's educators and curriculum developers will include the ability to assess the importance of distant learning courses, and to develop policies that support the integration of these new instructional delivery formats within the given standards of the required curriculum. The evolutions of technology-based distant learning instructional formats and open source software applications like Moodle, Skype, DimDim and Voice Thread are creating new issues for school… Continue

Added by Digitalsandbox on July 9, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

This I Believe

(written for a recent in-service day I facilitated) I believe that the most important thing any teacher can do, ever, with no exception, is to learn. I believe it so strongly I want to say it twice, because I recently learned what an effective form of emphasis repetition can be. Are you with me? The most important job of any teacher is to learn. And I believe everyone at some point in their life, or in their day, is a teacher. Don’t you want your doctor, your financial advisor, your interior de… Continue

Added by gayle cole on July 9, 2009 at 9:28am — 1 Comment

Gearing Up For A Greener School Year?

Don't miss Planetpals.com for great ideas and teacher tools for the classroom.Recipient ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA 2009 TOP SITE award. Planetpals.com has been assisting educators, teachers and kids for over a… Continue

Added by Planetpals and Planetpals.com on July 9, 2009 at 5:00am — No Comments

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