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 [...]
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The Build Your Wild Self site from New York Zoos and Aquariums might seem like nothing more than a bit of fun. (Of course, who can’t use a bit of fun once in awhile?) However, I’d recommend giving it a try and thinking deeper about educational uses for this site.
As a previous second and third [...]
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Brainpop has opened their Digital Citizenship library of videos to teachers for free this month! Some of the topics presented are:
*Copyright
*Blogs
*Information Privacy
*Online safety
*Plagiarism
*Internet Search
*…and more.
Check it out! Still plenty of days left this month to share them with students. Brainpop also has a ESL site now!
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Looking for ways to motivate your children and summer school students? Check out the free resources at Discovery Education’s Parent Corner including Motivation Station, Summer Activities and Step-by-step Webmath.
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Awhile back, I favorited this tweet from Dennis Richards:
I just got around to checking out the Dancing Matt video and agree that it is one that made me smile.
In addition to making me smile, it made me think about the world today and how we used to all dance alone. Now, with the use of [...]
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We all wonder what the digital future will look like…if you’re wondering what the digital now looks like, get ready for Digital Nation.
From the site:
Digital Nation is a multi-platform project that includes an interactive Web site and a one-hour FRONTLINE documentary to air Winter 2010. The project aims to capture life on the digital frontier [...]
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Mark your calendars! The K12 Online Conference will begin the week of November 30, 2009 with a pre-conference keynote. The following two weeks, December 7-11 and December 14-17, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog for participants to download and view.
From the site:
As we get prepared for the summer (Northen Hemisphere), we [...]
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The Cyber Summit on 21st Century Skills is a completely FREE online event.
From the site:
Be heard and take part in advancing education across our nation at The Cyber Summit on 21st Century Skills, June 1-12, 2009.
Raise your voice and help advance education across our nation. The Cyber Summit on 21st Century Skills is an important, [...]
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One of the sites I direct elementary students to for locating project images is Pics4Learning. It’s included on an earlier post of mine, Images Choices.
This site has a fair amount of useful images for student projects. One issue I’ve stumbled on though is that some keywords don’t turn up many results. As I’ve begun to [...]
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I wanted to pass information on about two upcoming virtual learning opportunities. One is the FETC Virtual Conference and Expo ‘09 and the other is Discovery Education’s Virtual Conference, Spring Into Action. See the details below and if you’re available on Thursday, April 23rd and/or Saturday, 4/25th get registered. Have fun learning, for as long [...]
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