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“Write to Learn: How Blogging Can Inspire” « Global #gtchat Powered by TAGT. This chat drew an unexpectedly large crowd from 18 states and 5 countries to discuss blogging for gifted students and adult bloggers as well. It was great to see so many new faces and old friends. Since its inception, gtchat has spawned many gifted blogs which in turn have inspired thousands of readers. It was also encouraging to hear that so many teachers were planning to have their students start blogging in the new year. Where did our bloggers find inspiration? What were considered some of the benefits of student blogging?

Below, you will find many links to sources that can help you start blogging with your students/children and ways to improve them if you have already started. Links: 8 Tips for Blogging with Students How to Write for Blogging Students Learn, Learner, Learni.st? The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use and Creative Commons Thirteen Thoughts on Student Blogging What Does Student Blogging Exactly Do? Kidblog: Safe and Simple Blogs for Your Students Student Blogging (wiki) Rethinking the Classroom Website. I can remember building my first classroom website. It had every detail about our class. Our schedule. Classroom jobs. My phone contact information. A link to my email. Over time, the website became something different.

Then? With my iPhone in my pocket, the iPad and Android tablets in the kids hands, there must be a way to help them get involved in creating the content that represents our classroom. Collaborative Projects: The site can be a hub of collaboration. Media to Inspire Discussions: I’ve added a Video of the Week to my site.

Our Learning: I’m a huge fan of Instagram. Extending Beyond the Classroom: Since I teach a pull-out gifted program and only see my students for a portion of each week, I’m constantly looking for ways to extend the curriculum. I’m also thinking of adding links to student online portfolios, providing students more space to publish their work, and encouraging kids to be the bloggers more. PLN Starter for Elementary Teachers. Our school is one of the schools who received an Innovative Learning Designs Grant for this coming year.

This is Phase 2 of the District project. You can learn a little about the Innovative Learning Design Project here. To help our teachers build their Personal Learning Network, I thought it would be a good idea to bundle up a bunch of great blogs at various grade levels for them to get ideas and inspiration. Jennifer LaGarde (aka Librarygirl) made a similar tool you can find here. I wanted to create one that was more specific to different grades. To start following and reading blogs, you may find it useful to create a Google account and then set up a Google Reader associated with that account. So, let’s get started. The Way I See It – Jodi Pulvers (SD36) Searching for Sunshine – Michelle Heibert (Abbotsford, BC) Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century – Tanya Alvarez (Canada) Miss. My Hullabaloo – Matt Gomez (Texas, USA) Peeking into Division 16 (class blog) Learning and Sharing with Ms.

10+ Educational Podcasts Worth Listening To! About us Courses & workshops Consultancy services Clients & publications Tools & webquests Blog > Our Blog Our Blog At The Consultants-E we help educators worldwide become more comfortable with technology in their teaching. You can subscribe to our blog here: «Back to Posts 10+ Educational Podcasts Worth Listening To! By Shelly Terrell 05 July 2012 in category: Podcasting July 15th to 30th is our online 2 week short Podcast e-course which covers how podcasting works, how it can help students learn, and what teachers needs to know and do to use audio podcasts with learners. Tags: podcasts Share this Digital Literacies Book Give Away Throughout April #eltchat #esl #ellchat #edtech #edchat #elearning Common Core Made Easy: A Collection of Tips, Resources, Ideas #edchat #commoncore via @delynbeard @Elle_Gifted Why play games in class?

© The Consultants-E SL 2003 - 2013 Sitefinity ASP.NET CMS. 10 ways to take skype beyond ‘meet and greet’! Skype with an author Videconferencing with another global class is always powerful learning, even when it is just ‘meet and greet’. However, further productive and effective learning will take place when extensions are made to these initial connections.

It is always valuable to research further where that class was from and if possible, place a marker on a google map and discuss geography, history, cultural mixes, possible religions, season, natural disasters, foods eaten, sports etc. Tonight was the first tweetchat on #globalclassroom. As I was not home this evening, I missed it, but noted questions from @tasteach and @mgraffin on my tweetfeed. Linkups can go beyond class to class and more intimate, rewarding videoconferences can take place between two small groups of students or even place students one on one. Learning to fold paper money for wedding gifts Here are some suggestions and ways that I have used videoconferencing to go beyond ‘meet and greet’:- Like this: Like Loading... k2-pilot - home. Lessons Worth Sharing.

Kathy Cassidy -- Blogmeister. This spring, our class has been working with other classes around the world--sharing and learning together. Several collaborative projects have resulted. The book below is one of the products from that collaboration and contains pages created by various PreK - 2 classrooms from around the world as part of the Flat Classroom Project. Each of the participating classes focused on "A View From the Window" of their school in a different way.

Our page (containing photos and text created by the students) is first, but it is fascinating to see what all of the other classes have created as well. Click on the image to see the finished product. Seattle iPad Open House (VIDEO) · techwithintent. Jeff Utecht. St Paul Apostle North. World Class - Home. 4KM and 4KJ @ Leopold Primary School.