This morning I was scrolling through Twitter and came across a website that @bethstill tweeted about.What a perfectly awesome resource. It is Electronic Field Trips with the National Park Foundation. I looked at the first video on "Climate Challenge North Cascades National Park". Jeff Corwin is the host, and there are several park rangers with students spread throughout North Cascades National Park talking about climate change and how it is affecting the everyone in and around the park. Some of the electronic field trips have companion websites...
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
The LEARN NC Interactive Conference was recently held in Chapel Hill, NC. LEARN NC has a daily blog, Instructify, that not only shares information about new tools and sites to use but also gives ideas on how they can be used in the classroom. When using technology in the classroom, the curriculum and learning should be the focus, not the tool.Here are some of my notes from an Instructify session: Free classroom technology with Instructify. The presenters...
Monday, 18 October 2010
I get asked a lot about Twitter. From how educators are using it to more basics like what does RT mean or what are those funny little things called hashtags?Over the past few days I have been going through my over 1000 sites I have saved in Diigo to find the best stuff on Twitter. I have compiled it all into a Livebinder. (If you don't know what a Livebinder is, check this out.)In this binder you will find information on:Getting StartedTerminologyThe...
Friday, 15 October 2010
Yesterday, October 14, I attended an interactive conference hosted by LEARN NC. The first session was on Blended Learning and the presenters were Nancy Mangum, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University; and Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D. I had heard of blended learning before, but wasn't exactly sure what it was. What was very interesting is that the presentation modeled what blended learning is or could be. We all came up with ideas of what we thought blended learning was, shared those ideas with the group and the presenters wrote...
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Unfortunately Learning Village is still down. We will look forward to the updates when we get this curriculum warehouse back up. We will let you know as soon as it is available again. You can try out some of the instructional tools Learning Village links to by accessing them from the WSFCS Homepage under teacher resources on the planning page right n...
Monday, 11 October 2010
Look at these ideas for ways to use netTrekker in your classroom that I found on the netTrekker Blog:No Time to Sight See (explains how to use the virtual field trip folder available to you as a teacher in netTrekker)eBooks with eResearchGlobal Portfolio (shared resources for all teachers)On netTrekker, you can also find ideas for Best Practices (in the customer service area):Elementary SchoolMiddle SchoolHigh Sch...
Thursday, 7 October 2010
I just discovered another great piece offered by netTrekker! On Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 EST, they have 15-20 minute presentations called Tip Tuesdays. Since I am not always (or at all) free at that time of day, I was very excited to find the recordings of those sessions available on the netTrekker Village http://www.nettrekkervillage.com/page/tip-tuesdays. I viewed 2 sessions earlier today and have so many great ideas to share!One of the things...
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Yesterday on Twitter my good friend, Mary Beth, posted a video for her kids on how to find Creative Commons photos on Flickr. It is a great and simple tutorial that really anyone can use with teachers or kids.Short and simple.In addition to this video you could also check out the Creative Commons Search to find photos, music and video. Also check out Compfight, which is a tool that searches the CC photos in Flickr.This post on Understanding Creative Commons can be helpful also.Thanks Mary Beth for the great vid...
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
When I was teaching Gifted Education, I had a Donors Choose project funded and received a class set of the From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. To go along with the novel, I created a Pageflakes full of student projects ideas and activities. Since I have been learning about various web 2.0 tools, I decided to recreate that pageflakes project using Glogster.(Pageflakes now also has advertisements of sponsored content boxes and you...
Monday, 4 October 2010
Today I came across a very cool site from the BBC. It is called Dimensions and it takes important events in history and current events and shows how big they are over a give area on a Google Map.For example here is an image showing how big an area the flood in Pakistan is on the East Coast of the U.S.Kinda puts things in perspective...Or here is an image of what the footprint of the moon would look like centered over North America.There are lots...
I just wanted to let you know that while upgrading WSFCS Learning Village, we encountered some problems so it is still unavailable. We are planning to have it back up Friday, October 9. Many of the resources linked to Learning Village are still available from the Planning page under Teacher Resources off the main WSFCS si...
Friday, 1 October 2010
Do you want to learn at your own pace, on your own time? Choose Atomic Learning. Do you want to learn how to mail merge in Word, learn intermediate skills in Excel, or refresh your skills with Twitter, Skype, PhotoStory? Choose Atomic Learning. You just had a face to face with ActiveInspire or SMART Notebook and you can't remember how to use the on-screen keyboard or adding a resource to the library; what do you do? Go to Atomic Learning and watch...
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