Last week I surprised myself by responding to a scholarly discussion on a Brainstorm article in a publication for higher education. When I was in graduate school, my professors encouraged us to continue a path of “scholarly discourse.” One professor in particular told us to embrace the mantra of “fearless curiosity.”
With that in mind, I [...]
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This summer I have stretched, groaned, celebrated, and learned an incredible amount about applying Web 2.0 tools well in professional growth and in working with my students. I’ve always wanted to challenge my students to think deeply and to learn how to learn, not just regurgitate facts they’ll forget by next week.
Anyone who has taught [...]
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This is definitely the age of social networking. It’s been around a long time in the face-to-face format, but now cyberspace is the place to connect, learn, create, and share.
My school has developed a Ning, complete with groups, forums–well, everything you could wing in a Ning. I’m currently in several groups, and I already have [...]
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Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher, continues to write one of my favorite feeds. On July 17th, she commented on a Google blog article, “Our Googley Advice to Students: Major in Learning.’” Vicki’s response to the Google article was so apt that techLearning had picked it up by July 19th.
All of the above (Google, Cool [...]
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For every 7th grade student who’s ever said, “I couldn’t find it; I lost the URL; I couldn’t remember how to get to it; I couldn’t remember what we were supposed to do, look at, read, create, study, or anything else–there’s Pageflake.
It will take me some time to gather all of the resources that I’d [...]
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I’ve known about Google Docs, but I haven’t really stopped to consider how I might use the program with my students and colleagues. The program is really easy to use. In a matter of minutes, I made a collaborative online document that my language arts students can use to create a class database of recreational [...]
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What a wealth of videos are available–from the “sometimes-needs-to-be-filtered” YouTube to the amazing TeacherTube! Although I found a number of YouTube videos which would be helpful, such as Slave Catchers and Resistors and Crime and Punishment in Colonial America, the hassle of getting these videos into a format that I can use in my classroom [...]
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…And now, the podcast you’ve all been waiting for: Podcasting in Language Arts! Grab the popcorn!
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I am a confirmed visual learner. I need to listen carefully to audiovisual presentations, and audio only presentations are a struggle for me. Thus, I am a bit reserved about podcasting.
In exploring the directories, I felt the greatest success with the NPR Podcast Directory, where I found The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, and [...]
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Library Thing is absolutely amazing. This is social networking for the book lover. By entering your own titles of books you own/have read/adore/hate, you are able to connect with thousands of people who also know the book and author. Actually, you don’t have to enter a thing–you’re free to search anything you like to come [...]
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