I’ve started playing with VoiceThread and love it! One class is investigating early animal domestication and are starting to comment on a thread called The Ancient 14. Background the Students Had 14 large, herbivorous mammals were domesticated in ancient times. Of these 14, 12 are native to the areas in and around the Fertile Crescent. [...]
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My Yearbook class collaborated last week on the ladder diagram for this year’s book. In the course of two class periods, we laid you the entire book and the students take ownership for the sections. And the room was nearly silent the whole time! The screen capture, below, shows the ladder diagram document and our [...]
I liked this article, the Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students (thanks Lifehacker!). The big players like Google Docs and Spreadsheets or Wikipedia are there, as you might expect. I am interested in checking out the note taking category because I’m curious to know how an online option beats Notepad.
Apple launched iTunes U at the end of May. It’s a dedicated area inside the iTunes store. About 16 colleges and universities are currently publishing content in the U. According to an article in THE Journal On the K-12 side of things, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Arizona State University (ASU) are providing [...]
In Livin’ la Vida Google: A Month-Long Dive Into Web-based Apps, Wired news editor Michael Calore describes his experiment to ditch desktop programs in favor of Google’s offerings. I think there’s a huge application for students and teachers with online word processors (and so do many other educators). Here are my top reasons: Google Docs [...]
Given that I learned of the Virginia Tech shootings via the Cool Cat Teacher blog, I shouldn’t be so surprised that I went on to get my news from Wikipedia. Isn’t it just fascinating that the modern equivalent of World Book or Britannica is acting a lot more like ABC or NBC? Not until I [...]
Last fall, I used Club Penguin to teach internet safety to my students in grades 4 to 6. These students introduced me to the wildly popular social networking site for tweens so it was only fitting that I find a way for them to use it at school. What is Club Penguin? In Club Penguin, [...]
Thanks to the Educational Change blog, I learned about using Vyew with Skype as a study tool. An opportunity to use the Vyew part came up this week when a student needed some help in physics but I couldn’t commit the time face-to-face. “I’ll call you at 5pm,” I told the student. I knew it [...]
I just signed up for a free account at Gliffy, which bills itself as a web based diagramming program that feels like desktop software. It works a lot like Visio. Signup requires an email address, so I probably won’t use Gliffy with my middle school students — which is a shame. I continue to struggle [...]
