I am taking some time to clean out all the saved posts in my Bloglines accounts. One of the ‘jobs’ is to look for new tools to help teachers meet the learning needs of their students. So here are two resources I found in my feeds. These two alone will keep me very busy. But what resources to have at my finger tips. First Jim Coe at Bionic Teaching shares Online Media God from Mashable. This list contains more then…
At work some times I hear the following comments, they usually make me blush. How do you do it all? How to you know so much? You are so smart. I can always count on you to have an answer. I knew you would know. I’d love to take credit for it all but the reality is I am connected to a greater mind. I am learning everyday reading blogs, checking out wikis and talking to my network. Some people…
I have been doing some searching for lesson plan templates for my husband. In my searches I came across Planbook. A program, currently Mac only, that is a modern dynamic plan book. Where was this when I was a classroom teacher? In bloglines this morning I find that Jim Coe of Bionic Teaching has a nice review of the program.
Over the last few years my collaborative network has grown, thanks to wonderful Web 2.0 tools; skype, web conferences, blogs, wikis and the like. But in the last few months the network has grown considerably by the addition of twitter, Secondlife and the Edublogger networks. These include the Bloggers Cafe in on the web and in SecondLife and Edublogger World on Ning. I have been able to have focused discussions with an ever growing group of educators. They have given…
Tom of Bionic Teaching has been writing about MITs Exhibit tool (post 1 and post 2). I have been thinking about this tool since he first shared his find. This web based tool allows the user to create an interactive Web exhibit. I have been thinking about the Social Studies and Science teachers who make interactive Hyperstudio projects (looking forward to checking out the reprise of hyperstudio) or Keynote/PowerPoints. I think this may be a great option for updating the…
Well I finally think I have time to give twitter a go. Lets see if I can keep it up and get into the habit. Now I need to develope a friends list, and learn all the ins and outs. I love summer time to play and explore.
When it comes to providing an on-line component for professional development in my district we have been using Moodle and wikispaces and Google groups. Depending on the length of the professional development or proficiency of users these tools have served us well. But I have been taking a look at Ning as an option. As we develop more professional learning communities, could Ning be a more appropriate tool? Would creating a social network for each group foster a deeper level…