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October 1st, 2005 Whether you work at elementary schools or online colleges , you will find that being a teacher is a difficult and often thankless job. Between lesson plans, unengaged students, and new emerging technologies, teachers need help now more than ever.
100 Most Inspiring and Innovative Blogs for Educators | University Reviews Online
Below are 20 blogs that have taught us a few things, made us laugh, made us cry, and reminded us that we are not alone in this sometimes stress-inducing, always awe-inspiring profession. The lowdown: Canadian first-grade teacher Kathy Cassidy invites readers into the classroom to interact with students and her dynamic lessons. Why We Love It: Besides sharing fun ideas like making fairy-tale characters out of clay, Cassidy lets us witness her students’ learning firsthand by posting lots of videos and photographs. And another bonus: We get to learn from Cassidy’s many guest speakers, too! Why She Loves Blogging: “My favorite thing about blogging,” says Cassidy, “is that the students literally have a worldwide audience.
Top 20 Teacher Blogs | Scholastic.com
Top 100 Education Blogs | OEDb
Education blogs are becoming a means for educators, students , and education administrators to interact more effectively than ever before. Technorati currently tracks 63.1 million blogs . Over 5,000 of them are about education. It is likely that there are hundreds, if not thousands, more education-related blogs on the Web. ( UPDATE: There are over 30,000 blogs hosted at edublogs.org alone. Thanks James Farmer!) Here is a list of our staff's 100 favorites.
Education | ZDNet
Christopher Dawson grew up in Seattle, back in the days of pre-antitrust Microsoft, coffeeshops owned by something other than Starbucks, and really loud, inarticulate music. He escaped to the right coast in the early 90's and received a degree in Information Systems from Johns Hopkins University. While there, he began a career in health and educational information systems, with a focus on clinical trials and related statistical programming and database modeling. This focus led him to several positions at Johns Hopkins, a couple-year stint in private industry, teaching high school math and technology, and 2 years as the technology director for his local school district. Most recently, he started his own consulting business and is now the Vice President of Marketing for WizIQ, Inc., a virtual classroom and learning network provider.
In January Micheal Gove announced that he wanted there to be more elements of Computer Science within the ICT Curriculum. He even specifically mentioned the use of Scratch saying “ we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations”. This coincided with my department being about to start a Scratch computer game design topic with our Year 7’s. So it was time to get down to business, I think Scratch is a great tool and have used it a lot in the past but felt there was definite room for improvement in the way I delivered it. I felt that we “drip feed” too many instructions when it comes to programming and allow less room for creativity. I have seen teachers who basically have their students follow a set of instructions which shows them entirely how to create the game.
Murmurings from the Whiteboard
My Nominations for the 2011 Edublog Awards | Angela Maiers Educational Services, Inc.
Each day I am inspired and motivated by so many talented, passionate leaders in our community. I would like to acknowledge and give special things to the following individuals for all they have contributed and the impact they have had on so many.
Scrible : allows you to mark up web pages in your browser and manage and collaborate on them online. Having set up an account - free- I started using it. You can highlight, color, bold, underline text, add sticky notes, categorise your annotations (this is a great idea, especially in collaborations) and export them, save and share, organise and search your findings from the internet. I found it easy to use (with a bookmarklet similar to diigo's and I have thought that I will try this alongside Diigo for a different set of tags. It's in public beta and worth a look. Simple CC Flickr search : By Dan Coulter.
The Open Classroom
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