This blog is dedicated to teachers who use technology as a tool to engage students in the 21st Century!!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Epals and In2books
Monday, April 19, 2010
Making Learning Irresistible
Dr. Tim Tyson
One to One Pre-Conference 2010
Digital nation: Life on the Virtual frontier Check this out
Skylight Pano for a tour of the school
Screencasting Use sreenflow, Camtasia
Start outcasting the information online. Creates a period of time. Screenflow is free!!
Use Diigo to get lists of how to or for students
Use RSS feeds
NetNewWire & FeedDemon-Link to Google accounts
Blogs: Blogger, Wordpress.com, Type Pad, Edublog (WordPress is Tim Tyson’s recommendation
Answers.com/main/answertips.jsp will help with word definitions and pronunciations. Talkr
MT-Cumulus; WP-/cumulus
Tagul.com
AddThis.com
Zamanta.com install as a Firefox add-on. Hiring a team of people to read what you are writing to suggest changes. Suggests related articles
OPIN file?
Upload pdf, upload to server,
uStream.tv Set up your own television station for ISS students
Jott.com Set up distribution list This is for Tom, walk around and talk to phone , will send an email, reminder
DropBox.com Access from any digital device
Digital identity – lots of people all over thought they knew things by what is online.
Dan Pink’s book, Driven
Working on the Work by Schlechty
What empowers students using technology?
Bena Kallick & Art Costa’s work on:
Habits of Mind & Intelligent Behaviors
THIS IS IMPORTANT Tyson’s ideas:
Instructional Best Practices
Curriculum Mastery
Effective Tech Integration
Monday, April 12, 2010
Speaker Debra Pickering
Debra Pickering
Marzano Research Laboratory
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Dark side…makes teachers lazy
No high yield, just high probability 6% gain is positive
Not digital age but “Interaction Age” Interaction because of the technology. How do we do it?
Four things:Fomative assessment/feedback – feedback increases learning 37%. Feedback from the students, not the teachers!!
Student engagement
Focus
WEBINARS:
11:00am tomorrow.
May 13th, 2:30 webinar on Cell phones