WIKIs

Check these out:

Widgetbox

Wordle

NING Diane Krauss

• box.net is a file holder.
• NING has private, more robust than wiki
• Edmodo is even better
• NING is robust with space, lots can go on a NING but there is advertising. Pay to get rid of the advertising
• classroom20.com
• educa

Jim Gates Session A Digital Literacy

Creative Commons

• Check out Tianammen Square, Google, Bing, then Google in China
• Yahoo has Creative
• Big Huge Labs does neat things with pictures
• Copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com

• Digital Literacy Document Management
• Gapminder.com
• www.officelive.com, like Google Docs difference is you cannot create, must have office 2007 this is storage only

Research skills

• Zoomit.com will zoom in, free
• site:ir elections
• Wolfram Alpha (Firefox browswer) computational search engine
• Split screen is an add on from Firefox
• Del.ico.ious
• Diigo
• mailcatch
• Aggregator - Netvibes.com to have information come to you

Security, Privacy, Digital Footprints

• "Please rob me" on Twitter, finds people not home- WARN STUDENTS

Presenting

• pecha kucha style Power point presenting. Each slide 20 seconds, 20 slides
• mappingworlds
• uuorld
• slideshare
• Bubble motion charts in Google
• Google Earth
• Evernote to take notes
• Symbaloo - site to pull up lots of icons

STEM Favorite 10 sites

STEM:

Problem solvers

Siemens STEM Academy Oakridge, trips conferences

http://stem.discoveryeducation.com/

PBS Eduction Resource Center

~Link to shows PBS/STEM

The STEM School blog

Minn STEM - Flashy

http://www.mn-stem.com/

STEM Education Blog

Pennsylvania STEM Initiative

http://www.pasteminitiative.org/

Teach Science and Math Blog

www.teachscienceandmath.com/2010/01/29/math-and-science-integration-with-environmental-science/

STEM ED

http://k12s.phast.umass.edu/stem/

Engineering is Elementary

http://www.mos.org/eie/

STEM Connect

http://www.discoveryeducation.com/stemconnect/

National Engineers Week Foundation

http://www.eweek.org/Home.aspx

Discover Engineering

http://www.discoverengineering.org/

On Discovery site: Fuel the Future Now

Saving a picture in a blog

To get a picture in a blog. Save as a jpeg. Can put the information into Power Point, save as picture, than copy and paste to blog.

Interview with Mr. Keohler

Originally, the price was $7,000 but lawyers bought the property and would only sell for $200,000

2004 Property was bought for $200,000.  Through the community, received $100,000 from community.  The Rotary and Library borrowed $100,000.  Land had to be cleared, environmentally.

Whitewash stone walls, hazard, this clean up was $75,000.  Stone is as good as it was when it was built.  Roof is bad, had no attention.  Great walls, doors are exactly as when it was left.

Previous owner took a lot out of the building, even copper wiring.  

Brochure was created for information about the Steelworks.  Some metal taken down, eventually there is hope for a cable to go back and forth. 

Mauch Chunck Trust is the backer of the money for the project.

Layfayette University came to draft ideas for the Train Works

Women painted the wood pink so it would lighten it up.

The Black Creek (Hazle Creek)was black with coal.  Sulfer made the creek orange.  This water would heal wounds and poison ivy!

The pictures Mr. Koehler has are wonderful history.  Koehler's Krossing!

Theodore Roosevelt's wife's dress silk was made here in the Silk Mill in Weatherly.  The library on the right, and the Post Office, historical pieces from Mr. Koehler. 

Old railroad pits. The water was good in the front, but there is oil in the back wells near the building.

Steam Engine 4037 was donated but some of the Weatherly Council did not want it.

CFF Network Meeting May 14, 2009

CFF Network Meeting

 

Get Superintendents on board

 

Get CFF teacher one more prep per day to help other teachers

 

Joanne R check who

 

Blended courses can the district make it a requirement.  Dave, professional development

 

Make classes a bit larger so that the CFF teachers can have the extra time for the next embedded learning course.  Use the stimulus funds.

 

Pay teachers for training through title 1 money.   Snow day make-up.

 

Virtual Summer courses/free/Act 48 credit.