Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Thanks for coming by...regular writing will continue in a couple of weeks (I know I just start this thing and it's time for our family vacation).
I will "Tweet" as time and thoughts allow (and if the cell phone work proper :) ) and I do have a post or two ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Slideshare is holding it's World's Best Presentation Contest! Go and create...click on the above link to learn more.
Here is one of the winners from last years contest:
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Both Joanne and Darren have posted about an AP report showing that elementary teachers are not being taught math properly.
Part of me says...well duh!...From what I've seen most ed schools are more interested in multi-cultural, differentiation, self-esteem building programs. But I digress...
In my experience I have found that a ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Drape's Takes discussed Twittering to Learn: http://tinyurl.com/6l5ojh
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Question: Is there an educational value/use for Twitter? I can't see much in the primary grades but maybe at the high school/college level..
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Hello all...here is my first tweet as I experiment around with the idea of "micro-blogging" and evaluate the usefulness of Twitter! :)
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
I have added Apture to Journey of Words and look forward to using it on my classroom website come the fall.
What is Apture? In their words it “provides the first rich communication platform allowing publishers and bloggers to easily turn flat pages of text into multimedia experiences.”
What this means ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Inspired by the recent posts at Weblogg-ed, Digital Roam, and Book of Kells, I have chosen my three summer reading books to peruse and digest over these summer months in between my "honey-do" list that my wife has prepared for me. They are as follows:
[amtap book:isbn=0979777704]
[amtap book:isbn=0321525655]
[amtap book:isbn=1591841992]
Odd choices for ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I first learned about Wordle, as I have about so many other things, from @edu and have since seen it show up here and here.
It does pose an interesting way of analyzing text that could be of beneficial use in the classroom. Any thoughts on that? How could you use ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Found at TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
Sir Ken Robinson offers his thoughts on the state of our education establishment today and how, in many ways, we stifle instead of encourage creativity in our children.
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