iNACOL is partnering with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to boost college readiness and college graduation rates. The project will “provide grants to innovators, build evidence of what works, and foster an engaged community of professionals committed to helping students and young adults prepare for college and successfully complete their postsecondary educations.” The project will launch with a six-week Request for Comments period where people can share their knowledge and comments on the issues of helping students prepare and complete college....
Monday, 28 June 2010
Sunday, 27 June 2010
When you use a technology tool for a lesson, do you have a good reason to use that technology or are you just using it because it is "technology" and you feel like you are supposed to use it? I remember learning about a "new" technology tool and then going and figuring out what lesson I could teach so that I could use or show that technology. I quickly came to realize that an educational topic should drive a lesson, not the use of a technology tool. In education, we are in the business of learning. I feel teachers do whatever is needed using whatever...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Google Voice is now available to anyone (both students and teachers) in education with a .edu email account. Click on this link to see a video on all the cool features Google Voice has to offer: http://www.youtube.com/googlevoice.I wrote a blog about Google Voice about a year ago. Google Voice www.google.com/voice is a free service. You still need a cell phone carrier. However, when you make a call to any number within the United States any day of...
Monday, 21 June 2010
In the recent issue of eSchoolNews I read a short article about Google Tunes Up It’s Internet Search Results. To the left of any search results people can find tools for reshuffling and filtering search results into specific categories. According to Google the changes were designed to encourage people to use Google’s search engine more frequently.So here’s an example – I did a search for “Gulf of Mexico oil spill” and got about 27,000 results. My...
Sunday, 20 June 2010
While I was at an elementary school last week helping teachers with their new websites, one teacher showed me the ways she uses the wikis she has created. Christy used to teach in a school where there were 8 Kindergarten teachers, so it was not possible for all of them to have a common planning time. In order to find a way to collaborate, they used a wiki to share ideas and create lesson plans together. On this wiki, the theme of the week is posted...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
When Promethean Planet recently upgraded their site and released the news they would be giving users 1 GB (yup, 1 GB!!) of storage space, I immediately thought of all the teachers I've known who've dealt with issues regarding how best to store their Activboard flipcharts.Our district offers each teacher space on district servers, but teachers who are heavy users and develop and save flipcharts all year long often eventually max out that space.I've...
Thanks to a member of the NC Ed Tech Chat Skype Group, I discovered a Prezi on Creating Glogs on Glogster created by Dorene Bates! I am a big fan of Glogster and EduGlogster. I have not used Prezi too much although I have seen some great examples. Here are some other Glogster Resources I share in workshops. Now I will need to add this presentation to that list! Thanks Dorene!.prezi-player { width: 350px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }Creating a Glog on Pr...
Monday, 14 June 2010
School’s out and thousands of students have a much deserved rest from school but how will these students spend their time online this summer? A federal online safety task force found that students who spend a large amount of time with social networking sites, text messaging and other ways to communicate are not influenced by scare tactics for Internet safety. The task force determined that educating students about appropriate online behavior and digital media use will enable students to evaluate potential online risks through digital citizenship...
Thursday, 10 June 2010
The summer can be a great time for reflection and planning for implementing new ideas for the upcoming school year. Teachers often use the summer months as the time to try out some new things and plan for how to integrate technology into their lessons. So as the school year begins to wind down for 2009-10, I'd like to suggest my Teacher's Top 3 Blogs for Summer Reading. These are all blogs I've been following that I feel provide easy ways to incorporate technology into your classroom, whatever grade you teach. I've mentioned Richard Byrne's www.freetech4teachers.com...
Have you ever selected the rubber stamp in the Resource Browser and wished it would end? As I have gone out to do trainings in ActivInspire I sometimes get the question, "How do I turn the rubber stamp off in the resource browser of ActivInspire?" When you click the rubber stamp in the resource browser, it just continues to create duplicates of the object endlessly. If you select another object from the resource browser, it will continue to make...
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Now that we are just a few days away from the end of yet another school year, the fear sets in, and a question comes to mind. Are my students/children going to forget what they have learned during the school year this summer? We all know that somewhere down the line we all seem to click off the learning button when it comes to the summer. The beautiful days, full of sunshine, trips to the pool, beaches and other areas to visit.Fear not, try out these links to give your students/kids some fun time on the computer. Oh and it is educational too.1....
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