Elem Sites (weekly)
Posted on February 7th, 2010 by mkrill
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Elem Sites (weekly)
Posted on January 31st, 2010 by mkrill
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Welcome to KidSports! – KidSports
“A new blog from the York Daily Record/Sunday News focusing exclusively on youth sports in York and Adams counties.”
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Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » Best Educational Wikis of 2009
“…three award-winning educational wikis on Wikispaces. These wikis have been used to interact with schools from around the world, share classroom activity, and turn online class notes into end-of-year exams. They’re great examples of how wikis can be used to create engaging learning experiences. “
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TumbleBooks – eBooks for eKids!
“TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they’ll love.”
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“What2Learn is a national award-winning interactive learning solution which provides effective educational resources and revision games. A great tool for students with learning difficulties such as ADHD and literacy difficulties. It is also a great resource for high achieving students looking to work independently to get ahead. “
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ValleyViewComputerResources – home
Kindergarten and first grade web resource links
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EconEdLink | The Ice Cream Stand
“Students will learn about supply, demand, price, competition, and entrepreneurial skills in this lesson. They will put what they learned into action by creating an ice cream stand, to complete with other stands in the classroom.”
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Elem Sites (weekly)
Posted on January 24th, 2010 by mkrill
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Links and strategies for teaching math facts.
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“Into the Book is a multimedia package designed to improve students’ reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum. Based on current research, the project focuses on eight learning strategies:
* Using prior knowledge
* Making connections
* Questioning
* Visualizing
* Inferring
* Summarizing
* Evaluating
* SynthesizingInto the Book includes:
* student Web site featuring interactive reading comprehension activities
* teacher Web site featuring music, video clips, classroom design ideas, posters, teacher guides, lesson plans and lots more
* Into the Book video series: nine 15-minute classroom videos teaching children how to be strategic readers”
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I learn, you learn, we all learn!
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by mkrill
A few learning opportunities are coming my way soon. Thanks to the ability to participate virtually, they are coming your way too!
Educon is coming up at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia the weekend of January 29th. This is the third year for this educational event and I’m proud to say it is my third year attending. If you cannot attend in person, sign up to attend virtually. There are 75 conversations scheduled and you can check in on them live or from the archives later.
ISTE has a Spotlight series (January to May) of FREE webinars coming up for educators.
Spotlight on Solutions is a new, free webinar series spotlighting the products and services of our ISTE 100 corporate members. The webinars will highlight products offered by our corporate members, demonstrating how they can benefit your district, school, or classroom.
Webinar topics include Digital Storytelling, School of the Future, Building Teacher Leaders: Tools for Teacher Professional Development, Digital Citizenship, Critical Thinking and Web Literacy, and Project-Based Learning. The series is sponsored by Microsoft – just an FYI:)
The month of February will bring about the annual Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference. I have attended this conference annually for many years and will attend again this year. Sir Ken Robinson is a keynote speaker and I am thrilled to hear him speak in person. If you cannot attend in person, you can still join the ning network to join the conversation and follow the Pete & C twitter account. As the conference occurs, add the twitter hashtag to your twitter client – #petec2010.
Last, but not least, be sure to visit the K12 Online Conference site. The 2009 theme was Bridging the Divide with over fifty presentations posted online to for participants to view, download, and discuss.
I first experienced the K12 Online Conference in 2006 and it was a truly moving experience. I download the audio and video presentations to my iPhone so I can learn on the go. Give it a try!
There’s just no excuse for not learning anymore!
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2/2010 & 3/2010
Posted on January 20th, 2010 by mkrill
My week 2 picture for 2010 is titled “Sadness”. That’s how I felt when the office M&M dispenser was empty. I really look forward to snacking at one of our elementary buildings and was disappointed that my M&M craving would not be met that day!
This week I was eyeing the school pond as a place to take a picture. I named this one “Drip” as I was excited to see snow melting from the roof and dripping into the defrosted pond. I must have snapped about 25 pictures. This one captured the splash-up from the drip perfectly!
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Elem Sites (weekly)
Posted on January 17th, 2010 by mkrill
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CarrotSticks Online Math Games
“CarrotSticks is an online multiplayer game that improves math skills for 1st – 5th graders as they practice and compete with peers around the world!”
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Elem Sites (weekly)
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by mkrill
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Many interactive science activities for use with elementary students.
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Make-a-Flake – A snowflake maker by Barkley Interactive
Virtual world Make-a-Flake teaches real-world scissoring skills by letting players create snowflakes from folded sheets of paper. Can also print a flake from a gallery to start making snowflakes in real life.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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1/2010
Posted on January 6th, 2010 by mkrill
I decided against going with a theme for the 52/2010 project on Flickr. I just couldn’t decide! In fact, I was struggling to find a picture at all for the first week. My husband came to the rescue with this one. It is a side wall from 100+ year old barn wall on family farm in Lebanon, PA.
Still Standing
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Flickr Fun
Posted on January 4th, 2010 by mkrill
For the past two years, I have watched folks participate in various 365 picture taking groups. The premise of these groups is that members take a photo a day and upload to Flickr. See some of the 2010 groups here.
I shied away from joining any of these groups in the past because I didn’t figure I’d be able to keep up with daily picture taking. Well, this year, there’s a 52/2010 group and I joined. In this group, members upload one picture a week. This group will be more my speed! I plan to use the iPhone camera for most pictures since I have it with me all the time.
I’m thinking of identifying a theme for the pictures I take, possibly things with pink in them! I will post a link to my set…once I get started.
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eLearning Reflection (Part I)
Posted on November 13th, 2009 by mkrill
Back in June, I began a new venture. It’s now nearing the end of November and I’m finishing the end of course two. After completing the second, completely online, course of the School Administration and Supervision program (a partnership between Johns Hopkins and ISTE), I have determined that eLearning is for me. It might not work for everyone, but it is working well for me.
A big revelation for me has been the lack of reliance on physical textbooks. To date, I have purchased 3 texts for the classes, but many of the readings are provided in pdf format or are web based. When it comes time to write a paper or refer to texts from class, I have been very aware that the electronic resources are much more user friendly. The physical texts do not lend themselves well to referencing, even with sidebar notes and endless post-it tabs.
There are two advantages to electronic texts, in my opinion. The first is the ability to highlight pdf resources and annotate web sites using Diigo. Obviously, highlighting is possible with physical texts and is nothing new when reading course content. However, when annotations are done electronically and then combined with search and find, the physical texts fall far short.
Highlights with Diigo
This leads to the second big advantage electronic resources have over physical texts and that is the ability to search a pdf file and websites for a term that is being discussed in the assigned work. Any website can be searched for a term using ctrl+f. This searching ability is important, and the fact that it so easily done makes it invaluable. While working on an assignment, I was also able to use the search feature in Preview to locate a term in the pdf reading. In addition to locating the term, Preview also gave me a count of the times that term was in the file. I used the Next button to scan for each incidence of the term and could easily use that information in my assignment. In this case, the sentence read something like, ‘the author mentions the term standards 12 times in the article.’ To be able to note this type of detail when using a physical text would be too time consuming and most likely avoided.
Highlights in Preview
I bring up these points because I wonder if our schools are thinking along these lines as we teach today’s learners. Today’s student has many electronic resources at their fingertips – who is guiding them in their use of these resources and sharing techniques for effective reading?
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