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ISTE 2012: Flattening Classroom Walls with Blogging and Global Collaboration. This is a guest post by educational bloggers, Linda Yollis (Los Angeles, USA) and Kathleen Morris (Geelong, Australia). The long-time blogging buddies met face to face for the first time before the ISTE 2012 conference in San Diego. They presented together on educational blogging and global collaboration. This post summarizes their presentation. Linda and Kathleen are both passionate about integrating technology in the classroom and have been heavily involved in educational blogging since 2008. Kathleen’s 2012 class blog is Linda’s class blog is A connection forms In early 2009, Linda came across Kathleen’s class blog and from just one comment a rewarding friendship and collaborative adventure began.

The unique relationship has now spanned over three years and connected eight different cohorts of students. Despite being physically positioned in opposite hemispheres, Mrs. Using online tools Tips for teachers. EdTech Workshop: Blog-folios. Last year I began working with students in grades K, 5 and 8 to create digital portfolios. We used Wordpress blogs as the platform. Portfolios are a digital collection of a student's best work with a reflective component. This type of reflective practice is new for most of our students and is a process, which will take time. As we began the process, we realized that it was almost a tease giving students a versatile, customizable, blogging platform and then not allowing them to freely blog.

Portfolios give students a chance to develop metacognition, set goals and internalize what "good work" looks like. Blogs are Transformative:As educators, we are in the business of helping each child bloom into the flower that he or she is meant to be. Student Blogging Challenge: We have started this year by introducing the blog-folios to our 5th graders through participation in the Student Blogging Challenge.

Comments! Part of the joy of blogging is knowing that someone is reading what you've written. Authentic Audience. Edu180 worldwide | edu180atl. The mission of the edu180atl project is to nurture and encourage the spirits of those who love to learn, , and to deepen the national conversation about education by enabling parents, students, and educators to share stories of what they are learning every day. We hope that the edu180atl project will inspire spin-off projects across the U.S.A and all over the world! The edu180atl team is happy to provide any guidance or assistance in getting your edu180 project off the ground.

We’ve even created a detailed start your own edu180 guide . All we ask is that you give us a little credit for the idea and let us know about your project by emailing us at edu180atl [at] gmail [dot] com. 1. Through viewing the edu180atl project, we wanted to share some of our stories with Parkland School Division for the 2011-2012 school year. 2. 3. Like this: Be the first to like this. 184 Days of Learning. Flipped Classroom, Game Based Learning, and Flexible Assessment With a focus on student based learning we collaborated to revamp some of our classes. Our primary foci have been on creating a flipped classroom (through video lessons), game based learning, and flexible assessment at a high school level (implementing ideas in Physics 20, Physics 30, Science 10, and German 10 classes). Flipped-Classroom – In the spirit of student based flexible learning both Physics 20 and Physics 30 classes are being taught through a flipped approach.

The flipped classroom was initially implemented to free up class-time in order to dig deeper into material and builder stronger understandings of the fundamental concepts (as well as make time for game based learning). In this flipped model, students are required to watch a short 10 minute video of the lesson for homework, then work on the application of the lesson during class (where the teacher is available to guide them). Flexible Assessment Conclusion. Chris Betcher on Blogging and “Publicness” | CEGSA. Chris Betcher on Blogging and “Publicness” Posted on December 19th, 2011 | 4 Comments and 24 Reactions Chris Betcher Have you “Googled” yourself lately?

You might not actively participate on the Internet. You may be aware of the idea of a ‘digital citizen’ but don’t feel like that’s you. You don’t want to be an active citizen as it doesn’t interest you and might even scare you a little bit. You worry that if you create content on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or even a blog, there will be a record of that forever. These sentiments will either have you nodding in agreement or raising an eyebrow in surprise The truth is, however, that there are still many educators out there who feel that way about the Internet and its use.

Go on, Google yourself right now. If we as teachers are not actively participating in online communities how can we expect to have any control over what Google (or any other search engine for that matter) reveal to our potential employers? Keeping it safe Tips for Beginners.