Using Flickr as an online classroom - Case study. Pearltrees. Pearltrees I have found that as I introduce Twitter to staff members, they are usually amazed at the amount of K12 information available to educators and support staff. They can quickly become overwhelmed with so much relevant information coming in. It’s like attending a top-notch conference every day, with no time to digest and reflect unless a system is figured out.
They become immersed for a month or so, but the time comes when they start wondering how to keep track of all the links to the collection of data they want to store and share with others. There are many good sites for organizing your links. I enjoy the Pearltree site. Like this: Like Loading... About gaillegrand K12 Technology. Twitter Tutorial For Beginners. Student E-book Creation - Not using iPads, but using Barnes and Nobels Tikatok free features | Kids Create iPad Books. Bringing Your Textbook to Life! 15+ Tips & Resources. Teaching like it's 2999. 22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros.
Do you blog? Looking for exciting new tools to simplify the blogging experience? If so, keep reading. We decided to get the scoop on today’s hottest blogging tools. We asked 22 pros to share their favorite new finds. Here they are… #1: InboxQ Mitt Ray @MittRay A great blogging tool I discovered a few months ago is InboxQ. InboxQ lets you create campaigns with different keywords. You can work on these questions and come up with better blog topics in your area of specialty. When people type in questions with these keywords, I get an update. Use InboxQ to find the questions people are asking on Twitter. Mitt Ray, founder of Social Marketing Writing, author. #2: Content Idea Generator Rich Brooks @TheRichBrooks The Content Idea Generator (v2) is a Google Doc that will automatically find news and related stories for your blog from a variety of sources… everything from Google News to Reddit, from tweets to public Facebook updates and more.
You can get started here. #3: Diigo #4: Disqus Leo Widrich @LeoWid. Long term tweeting #iplod @SgtGaryWatts on why he tweets (#WIT10) @SgtGaryWatts, one of the first police officers to tweet for work, writes about his approach to Tweeting. I covered the journey that brought me to twitter a while ago here so this post is an update on why - two years and 12,000 tweets later - I’m still here. My foray into twitter began with a personal account after years of Facebook use. At first it scared me and seemed like another language and for a person who rambles on a bit, limiting myself to 140 characters was joke.
I had been in a fortunate position previously encouraging Police teams to use Facebook but it wasn’t until I found myself back on the frontline I decided to give Twitter a go. My account started out in the same style I had advised others to go with Facebook, as a team, Falmouth Police. I soon realised that with the speed of exchanges people soon knew it was just me and others had begun to ask who was tweeting. This was access and information that I had never had before and it was in my pocket, literally! Texting tweens score lower on grammar tests, researcher says - Chickasha Express Star | Social Media and Cell Phones in the K12 Environment. To Fly. To read is to fly:it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.- A.
C. Grayling Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. - Anna Quindlen Germany India Reading is everything. India Everywhere I go in the world, I see young and old, rich and poor, reading books. Thailand India Reading a good book is a universal activity, and people read while they do just about everything else, and that includes reading while playing the piano, which my sister used to do.
Sri Lanka At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book–that string of confused, alien ciphers–shivered into meaning. Burma Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. - Joyce Carol Oates Italy Tibet. Friendship, by Nirupam Roy. We were in the search of the Kingfisher on the river side of Raidhak. But it was really a disappointment for us as we have found nothing. It was at the time of evening, and the schools were closed. Suddenly I saw these children making gossip in their own way.
It reminds me how much true friendship is necessary to rebuild our tortured Earth. Technical Info: Nikon D5000 | Exposure 1/30sec @ f/6.3 | Focal length 240mm | ISO 200 Award Winner: Photo of the Day | August 01 Award Score: 57 (Value 11, Clarity 10.5, Composition 15, Style 10.5, Skill 10) Title of the photograph: Friendship Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography Photograph Location: Coochbehar, West Bengal | India Photographer: Nirupam Roy (Tufanganj, Coochbehar, West Bengal, India) Registered Photographer Nirupam Roy is a school teacher by profession. How to Use Cell Phones as Learning Tools. Does your staff need Educational Technology training?
The K-12 Teachers Alliance can help you plan your in-service professional development at no additional cost. Regardless of your school’s cell phone policy, the reality in most schools is that students have phones in their pockets, purses, or hoodies. Why not get these tools out in plain sight and use them for good and not evil? Here are some easy to use strategies to use cell phones in the classrooms. Proven teaching strategies to boost your students' happiness. A few suggestions.on classroom activities that involve performance for...
We point out some knowledgeable educators who quickly can become your trusted... Here are a few suggestions on how to motivate students intrinsically. Reasons why a class may be less likely to pipe up and interact during a lesson... Why Use Cell Phones as Learning Tools Cell phones are different from a computer lab filled with computers or a cart of netbooks because the cell phone is personal technology. FounderDating Partners with Teach For America to Help EdTech Entrepreneurs Co-Founder Up. By Michael Carney On August 1, 2012 FounderDating, the pre-eminent co-founder matchmaking service and entrepreneur networking platform, is moving beyond the generalities of a “technology” focus to announce its first sector specific vertical. The company has partnered with Teach For America’s Social Entrepreneurship Initiative in Launching FounderDating Education. The interest driven network will foster business relationships among the growing number of entrepreneurs in the education sector.
With the addition of Teach For America, FounderDating has created otherwise rare serendipity between those with subject matter expertise in education and learning and those with business and technology expertise. “We saw bottom-up demand,” says FounderDating founder and CEO Jessica Alter. Alter and her team developed the idea after noticing that applicants to the network were regularly listing “education” as an interest area on their profiles, despite it not being offered as an option on the site. How one California school uses iPads to support its PE programs. By Danielle Cherry Read more by Contributor August 1st, 2012 The iPads fill a gap where traditional PE instruction leaves off by ensuring the most accurate assessment of student skills and abilities. The pressures of being a physical education teacher in today’s public school environment are mounting. We’re being asked to strike a balance between government physical fitness mandates for America’s children and extreme budget cuts.
Like many other public schools, we at Eastlake Middle School in Chula Vista, Calif., are struggling to walk that tightrope with fewer and fewer supports and are continuously searching for tools that help us achieve that goal. I’ve been teaching for 14 years. Last year, we rolled out a new iPad-based PE program called SPARK.
We started using the iPads in our department in the 2011-12 school year. The iPads also fill a gap where traditional PE instruction leaves off by ensuring the most accurate assessment of student skills and abilities.