Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Monday, August 25th, 2008
The video below is chapter one of Dimensions which I found via @edu.
In the past I've not had a big interest in mathematics but this has me wanting to hit the library and do some serious reading.
Enjoy...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Drape's Takes asks: What is the Edublogosphere?
Go. Read. Offer your answers...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Not sure what this is really going to be about but is seems worth following to find out on August 8:
The 2008 Education Olympics Start on August 8th! from Education Gadfly on Vimeo.
via Joanne Jacobs
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Ten days and counting until we here in Georgia return to our classrooms and prepare for the new group of cherubs we will be receiving com August 11. While in the middle of beginning my preparations here at home for upcoming field trips (Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield) and all the various ...
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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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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
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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