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Tweetdoc: Document your twitter eventTags: twitter - By James Gatesedtechlounge - Glenn Malcolm's Primary ICT pages - The Ed Tech Loungeedtechlounge lesson plans and materials for teaching ICTTags: technology, ict, tech - By Darcy GoshornMcNaughton Fine ArtTags: historyUsing KidBlog as an Assessment DeviceTips and resources to help teachers use KidBlog as an assessment deviceTags: assessment,

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Marzano's Instructional StrategiesGreat ideas in educational categories for technology integration.Tags: technology, marzano, strategies, teaching, education - By Carol Rothresourcesforhistoryteachers - homeresourcesforhistoryteachers is maintained by teachers and students who are part of the History Teacher Education Program in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts

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IDroo Whiteboard for SkypeTags: whiteboard, skypeGet The MathTags: no_tagEdnovo - gooruEdnovo breaks down the barriers of access to education with a free web application, Gooru, that leverages technology, amplifies the effect of stellar teaching, and inspires students to learn. Gooru provides teachers with the ability to "search and teach" and students with the ability to "search and study" to

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Learn ScratchLots of lessons for learning how to program with ScratchTags: scratch, mit, programming, ict, computers, game, logic, control - By Darcy GoshornEducation Week: WebinarsTags: educationweek, webinars, pdScratch Resources « Kids and TechnologyMore resources for using Scratch in lessonsTags: scratch, MIT, ict, computers, program, programming, logic, game - By Darcy GoshornRubrics for

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Good TypingGood Typing is a free online typing skill development program. Good Typing provides 27 graduated lessons designed to help students learn to use their entire keyboards correctly. Unlike some free online typing programs, Good Typing offers support twenty different keyboard styles including US style, Japanese style, and several European languages.Tags: typing, keyboarding, tutorial,

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A Gentle Introduction to SQLInteractive SQL tutorialsTags: sql, tutorial, database, reference, programming, mysql, howto, tutorials, ict, computers - By Darcy GoshornReverb | ECHOWe are proud to announce the Operational release of "Reverb", the next generation metadata and service discovery tool. Reverb has been developed utilizing modern web development technologies and presents you with a fresh

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As I am getting ready to go back to the official school year, I have been doing a "spring cleaning" of sorts to my PLN (Personal Learning Network). I have been casually reading the blogs I follow this summer, and are now choosing the ones I want to focus on for this year. As I have been looking for new ones to follow, I found this site that had great blogs sorted into categories, and thought I

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As a CFF coach, I have had the priveledge of getting to "know" Ralph Maltese. In his "past life", he was an English teacher, and is now a coach mentor. Over the past four years, I have eagerly opened emails that he has written, knowing there would be a great nugget of wisdom held within. He has inspired me to challenge my thinking, and challenge students to do more. Recently, he published a book,

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I watched my son graduate from the Mercer County Career Center today, so maybe I am just a little emotional right now, or maybe this blog post is really as touching as I think it is: What Really Matters

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As I was thinking about writing our last challenge, I saw this blog post title on my blog roll, "Blah Blah Blah Lifelong Learning Blah Blah Blah."  This opens a new chapter on our challenge! Not only should we be lifelong learners, willing to learn new things, and have avenues for learning these new things, but we should be sharing the fact that we are lifelong learners with our students. I

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If you have never watched a TED Talks video, you should check one out sometime. Today, I watched one that talked about studies done concerning smiles. Go check it out, it is only about 8 minutes long, then come back. Working with you all has made me smile many times a day, making me feel rich beyond measure! And according to the video, it has increased my time here on Earth also! Thanks!

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Check out this group of middle school students! Their teacher took a chance, and stepped outside the "control box" and let his students lead the learning. Read the blog first (start at the bottom where the teacher introduces the topic, and then slowly work your way up through the posts from the students), and then click on the "Home" tab and watch the finished product. Although the video is

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Many teachers discourage students from using or looking at wikipedia. It is usually the first site that appears in a Google Search, but students are usually taught that it is unreliable. There is good reason for that, as anyone can edit most pages and add content. To dispute this reputation, many assessments have been done, comparing the reliability and accuracy of wikipedia to other

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A blog title caught my attention today, as I have been thinking a lot about the "Where Were You When...?" question. It went in a totally different direction than I had been thinking. It talked about the fact that people find out about breaking news, and follow that news, in a very different fashion today than they did even ten short years ago. What I found especially interesting were the comments

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The race is getting tight, but I would like more people to jump in the competition, so I thought I would make this week an easy challenge. This week we will look at joining a social bookmarking site, and adding to our own libraries. Social bookmarking is a way to manage, organize, and store your favorite online resources in one place. You don't actually store the resources themselves as files,

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In our present climate of teacher bashing and budget shortfalls, I find it easy to fall into an "educational depression" at times. While this week is supposed to be one where our educators are honored for the work they do, I read many more articles about just the opposite. Today, I came across this youtube video while looking for ways technology helps our students learn. It is touching, and

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As an educator and Instructional Technology Coach, I have had many conversations with many other educators (and even blogged about) my frustration with the pressure teachers feel to not veer from their "curriculum" to cover important events or to teach creative, collaborative thinking to our students. I try to break the shell of "curriculum" carefully, knowing that teachers are judged on their

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Google has many great tools, beyond just searching the web. (Sometime go to the top of the Google page and click more, and for those adventurous ones, click even more!) Today I stumbled across this great Google challenge site: http://agoogleaday.com/ Each day, they post a new trivia question. But these questions are not your ordinary trivia questions, they require you to do several searches to

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For this challenge, we will be wiki-ing! Wiki is a word that means fast in Hawaiian. A wiki is a fast way to create a website that allows for collaboration of many individuals. There are lots of great ways to use wikis in education! The simplest way would be to create a classroom webpage for parents. Other ways could be to have students working on information and posting it to a webpage that can

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Have you seen this Verizon commercial? I was watching it last night, after I had proudly shown my husband the wiki pages my 3rd grade students had made, and the commercial really struck me. Even with all the "tricks" I have learned as the instructional technology coach, I am sure I am still handing my students a computer and saying, "Do this." and they are thinking, "I could do this!". I find it

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Today our 3rd grade students skyped with a classroom in Paraguay. My students had a list of questions for them, and was amazed at the answers the students there had for us. When we introduced this idea to our 3rd graders as a part of their global studies unit, they were extremely excited. They wrote questions they would like to ask these students about what it is like to live and be a student in

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This says it all: Mercer Area High School Students Protest State Cuts from WCN 24/7 on Vimeo.

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If you teach about the solar system, you need to check out this site! Interactive 3D Model of the Solar System This site allows you to zoom into anywhere you want to go. You can zoom into individual planets, see the view from their surface, look at how the sun shines on each planet, see the orbit, etc. Very exciting, and lots of potential to explore and ask higher level questions! Enjoy!

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In case you haven't heard of augmented reality, check out the video below. Isn't this the stuff that made films "science fiction" when we were kids? If this is already possible, (and cheap enough to post on the back of a cereal box) what else will our students have as tools to use when they are entering the career field? What part do we have in getting them ready for that world? (You could also

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I have been following Shelley Wright's journey down the road of project-based learning and the Holocaust in her blog. Today, she completed her journey, and of course, blogged about it. You can read about what the project was about here. There are several of blog entries about the process, the learning process she went through as a teacher, and how her students progressed with the project on her

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As I promised, I am including in this post directions to get started with blogging. If you prefer, I have also included a link to the Common Craft explanation of blogs. Follow the steps below to start your own blog with blogger. 1. Go to www.blogger.com 2. Create an account. 3. If you don’t already have a google account, you will need to create one by clicking on the "Get Started" link. If

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Blog Week If you are reading this, you have an idea of what a blog is...you are reading one, after all. In my PLN (Personal Learning Network), I have lots of blogs I follow and read, and learn a lot from. This week, I would like to challenge you to start a blog, and to find other bloggers with your same interests to follow and learn from. So here are the challenges and point values for each one!

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Found this student created powerpoint "How-To" today. Love it! Find more videos like this on TLNing

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As I prepare to wrap up this season of my life (coaching teachers to use technology in the classroom, going back to the classroom and teaching science at the high school), I have been reflecting a lot on how technology affects our teaching and students' learning. In this position, I have learned a lot about teaching, read a lot of instructional books and articles, added a lot of other

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Two of the eaglets hatched over the weekend. Watch the 10 minute video of the time elapsed version of the first hatch below. What can you teach your students about this process? In our library, we have a book called Eaglets World by Evelyn Minshull.  Evelyn is a local author, and taught art at Mercer for a few years. This is a book for the primary grades. Could the older students learn by

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So many of you are watching the eagles, and the students are amazed. So I am wondering, how are you tying this into your lessons today? I could see a geography lesson ~ looking at a map and finding the locations of the nests. I could see a lesson on time zones. I could see a science lesson ~ what kind of animal hatches from an egg. But I know you are creative, so tell me what ideas you are

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What a cool way to bring nature to your students! If you get a chance, watch today! Eagle Nest Live WebCam See answers to questions about the nest and eagles below the live picture. Since this is so popular, I decided to add another link to a nest that has eaglets already hatched. Watch them feed and move around!

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The entire thing is sad, but as an educator, this one made me cry. Mentally hug your kids today (its a shame I have to say mentally), and appreciate them for who they are.

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I love this video on how a school in PA is using QR codes. I am also amazed at the fact that they are using cell phones and ipods in school, too. I don't think it will be too long before all schools are doing this. What do you think?

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In this time of teacher bashing, I found an interesting study/article about What the US Schools can Learn from the World's Most Successful Education Reform Efforts. I found most interesting that the most successful reforms and countries uphold their educators to a high status. That is the opposite of what is happening in most states of the US today. What do you think? What parts were most

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What do you think? Is she right to make this comparison (US schools to China)? Do we need to protect our children from what is out there? Are we protecting our children from what is out there? What about the increasing number of bullying issues that take place on Facebook, but are being dealt with at school? Are we teaching them to deal with this and the right way to handle these technologies? At

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This article talks about becoming a better teacher by thinking back to yourself as a child the age of your students. It contents that by doing this, you will better understand what motivates your students. Try it! Let me know what you think! Maybe we can start a list of "memories".

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I read this article today about Grade Ins held by teachers in New Jersey. In this day of anti-teacher sentiment, I think this is a great idea! What do you think? Anyone interested in grading papers at the outlet mall?

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A classic question, one many can answer without much thought. There are many questions like this: when Kennedy was shot, the Space Shuttle exploded, etc. I remember watching the Space Shuttle explode as it was attempting to leave our atmosphere, while I was in school. Why did my teachers allow us to watch that? What educational value did they see in that? I was recently perplexed by these

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How many of you are watching the news today? Major earthquake in Japan, 8.9~ 5th largest in history, with a 23 ft. tsunami, that have together devastated the country! At my house this morning, we had other news, a major snow storm that caused a two hour delay of school. As we woke up and turned on the news and saw what was happening in Japan, my boys and I were glued to the tv. Three laptops were

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I encourage people to build themselves a PLN, find others who care about the same things you do, and follow them to learn new things. Most of my learning has come from reading about ideas and sites other people have found. Sometimes it is hard to know where to begin with this, so today, I would like to give other educators, like myself, a good blog resource: I Learn Technology Blog. This blog is

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I see students working on proofreading skills every morning, and so when I found this site, I was excited. Power Proofreading is an online game the students can play that has them proofreading scripts from a TV news show. Each story has them focus on different proofreading areas. They are organized by grade level, and the stories are short. At the end of a session of play, a screen shows the name

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I love to read, and I would like to pass that love of reading onto my students. I have found a site that I think would encourage them to read more, since it is set up like facebook. It is called Shelfari. Once you are a member of shelfari, you can add books to your shelf that you have already read, books you are currently reading, and books you would like to read. You can discuss and rate your

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Story problems always gave me problems, and seem to give my kids problems too. I find that when we draw pictures of the problem, it seems to get clearer. Thinking Blocks is a site that helps students visualize the problem. It helps students understand the algebraic concepts you need them to understand. This is a tool that students can use at home, in the computer lab, or can be used as a whole

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Found a new resource today that excites me as a science teacher, Planet Foss. What excites me about this resource is that it has students taking pictures of the world, and applying it to the science concepts they are studying! Students from around the world are contributing pictures to the site, so my students get to experience the world through the eyes of their peers everywhere, related to the

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I love this! The entire community getting together to read the same book! Thanks to Janice Langdon, our elementary librarian, for the work she puts into choosing just the right book each year. This year, as a community, we are reading "Emily's Fortune" by Phyllis Naylor. I look forward to reading it! Last year we read "How to Steal a Dog", by Barbara O'Connor. Great book, if you haven't read

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The folks at Google never cease to amaze me! Check out Google's Art Project. This site allows you to virtually visit many famous museums from around the world, and even check out the art up close! What a great way to enhance an art lesson, or even a history lesson (lots of great depictions of events in history). Many of our students will never get to visit these places, so why not bring the

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For about a month, I have been participating in the Alpha version of a new search engine site called Qwiki. It is now available to the public. This site marries wikipedia type information about a topic with pictures, graphs, and videos, all the while reading the text to you. The end product is a short, informative, video about the topic. It also includes links to related material, embedded within

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I don't know about you, but this time of year is stressful (end of grading periods, PSSAs coming up, watching the Steelers in close games...), and sometimes I just need a little laughter to bring me back to reality! I thought it would be fun to look at a site that has Murphy's Laws applied to teaching. Click on the link, and comment below on your favorite! My favorite was:       "The time a

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The New York Times has a site that is "Mapping America: Every City, Every Block". This site has used the American Community Survey information from 2005-2009 to create maps that show the distribution of ethnicity and race, income, housing and families, and education. You can look at any place in the US, or by typing in your zip code, look specifically at your area. So how could this be used in

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Today I read about a wonderful gift from the writer Richard Byrne, Free Technology for Teachers blog. It is an eBook called "The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators." He has compiled the work of well-known principals, teachers, and tech integrators from around the globe into a book that you can download for free. It is 83 pages, so I don't suggest you print it, but you can download it and look

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I just read that delicious is shutting down soon, see a post that has the news here. In order to save all your tagged sites, follow these directions. I am saving all my tagged sites to Diigo. To access my tagged sites, you can now go to http://www.diigo.com/user/tsevin and search, and hopefully, the search will work just as well. If you are using delicious and need help saving your sites, let me

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Here is a fun site that allows you to make your own pop-up books! Could you imagine how much fun students would have writing a book when their finished product looks like this? Check out my creation here! Technology Christmas List You can create one too, just go to Zooburst.com!

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I was reading a post today that talked about a way to add a QR code (like a bar code) to your internet sites. So I thought I would try it! If you have a smartphone, you can scan the QR code on the bottom and it will take you directly to my Elementary Sites binder. I got this code from bit.ly, a site that allows you to shorten URLs, customize them, and get a QR code for them. Why is this exciting

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As teachers attempt to step into the 21st Century, offering an online newsletter that has links to games students can play to extend their learning outside the classroom can be useful. But where do you find the appropriate games? Although I have lots of sites linked on my delicious account, I find that some teachers find there are too many options there. I have attempted to organize this a

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I don't know about you, but my sisters and my mother and I have made a tradition of going Black Friday shopping. This year, our shopping experience was changed, and dare I say, improved, by my sister's smart phone! It started on Thanksgiving, when we were all sitting in the living room after enjoying our turkey. As we looked through the sale ads, planning our course for the next day, my sister

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Students are incredible artists, I love looking at the artwork as I walk through the halls! How cool would it be if people could purchase items with the students' artwork on it? Now they can, and you can get money for your classroom when they do! Check out http://www.artsonia.com/ . When artwork is uploaded to this site, parents and friends can purchase items with this artwork, and your class

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Today I read about this use of oreos in the classroom on the blog Teaching with Technology. They used oreos, had students stack them to determine the tallest tower that could be stacked, and then graphed their results. The neat thing about this lesson is not that they had real data to work with and manipulate (you could find mean, median, and mode), but that students from around the world

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I am sure you are all familiar with Highlights Magazine, but have you seen their site? I think this site has lots of fun things to do, but it also has neat science experiments, articles from professionals in the field, pictures, etc. This could be a neat addition to your lesson, and one kids could look at when at home or in the computer lab. Check it out!

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This blog post tells about a third grade class that created a digital story about what they learned after a field trip. In order to create this digital story, the teacher had to take a camera (we have access to 5 of these in the elementary and more at the high school) to take pictures of the adventure, a program to load the pictures into (photostory for us at Mercer), and a microphone for the

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This site has a lot of fun science games your students can play to increase their vocabulary and science skills. This would be a fun one to add to a class page to be played at home, or one that could be added as an assignment on ThinkCentral for when students are in the lab and finish an assignment or test early. You could even play this in teams, with a smartboard!www.kineticcity.comMany

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In my room, I have various facts about how people react to situations. For example, "For every 9 people who stand in front of a locked building, 1 will go around to check the back door."Innovators and inventors tend to be the 10th person. These are the people that change the world, and in school, change the face of education.I was watching the movie "How to Train Your Dragon" with my

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As I looked down through the list of new updated websites from last week, I got very excited about the site Community Walk. It allows you to make a "virtual tour" by linking your text, pictures, audio, etc to a google map. Other individuals can then follow your tour and see where each of the stops is located on the google map.I imagine students doing a report about a country using this tool. They

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As our students are searching the net, using more resources (pictures, videos, quotes), and posting more things to places like youtube, we need to be teaching them about fair use. Many law suits are creeping up, and we don't want our students to find themselves on the bad end of a lawsuit one day! Our teacher's union warns us against posting things illegally, and we need to warn our students!The

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So the buzz word in schools today is "21st Century Learning". We have seen many buzz words come and go, and I am sure the label for this one will change too, but I don't think the ideas behind it will. Cell phones, internet, etc are not going away, and neither will the skills our students need to be successful in this new world. Many teachers have expressed the desire to see some lessons in this

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T.H.E. Journal, the same one that published Travis Weller's story last fall, published findings about the effectiveness of the Classroom's for the Future initiative. The article, entitled "Pennsylvania Ed Tech Initiative Shifts Students to Project-based Learning", discusses how CFF has moved students from "desk-based learning to collaborative, student-paced education enabled by technology tools".

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As we begin a new calendar year, and a new semester, I like to make new goals for myself. My primary goal this year is to help my teachers understand where technology helps them teach, and is not just another thing they have to do. This is a big goal, so I think I will stop there! But to achieve this goal, I need your help!I have introduced a lot of different tools that make your jobs easier,

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Today I read a blog from David Warlick, a leading force in the 21st Century movement. (See http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/ - Jan. 13, 2009 post) He was talking about what 21st Century schools should look like. While his blog was interesting, I found more interesting the comments left by his readers. They were asked what they thought a 21st Century school should look like. If you want to do some

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We may not currently have Response Systems (hand-held devices the students use to reply to questions you ask, and results are displayed on your computer) in our district, but that doesn't mean we can't poll our students and see the results instantly!Poll Everywhere now has a download feature that will allow you to show the results of a poll in your powerpoint, live! You can set up a free account,

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Last week, our state mentor was here to attend our regional coaches meeting. One of the things talked about during the meeting was the need to have more rigor in the classroom assignments. PDE would like us to achieve the higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, having students create, compare, analyze, and collaborate.As coaches, we felt that the pressure of the PSSA scores has caused teachers to

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WORKSHOP 1 NOTES:I have been trying to encourage teachers to use Google Docs in the classroom, without much luck, so I have decided to show you an example of how Google Docs can be used, and make an existing lesson easier. Let's see how this works....First, in my working lunch sessions, you will be receiving a bag of M&Ms. (For those of you not attending the working lunches, I am sorry, you will

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This week's trainings have focused on using games in the classroom. There are two major ways games are used in the classroom, and I am going to talk about them both.First, games are commonly used as a way of reviewing material. Using our whiteboards, there are many ways that we can play games. Online, you can find many templates that you can download and input your questions into to create easy,

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You can do a lot with blogs. Here is an example of a quiz that can be put into your blog.sample_quizThere are also lots of other great things you can do with blogs, and sites you can set up your blog on. Take a look at this internet presentation I have made about blogging.http://www.jogtheweb.com/reader/index.php?trackId=949Now it is your turn. Before Thursday, I would like you to post a comment

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As we get ready for next's weeks technology lunch topic, I was reflecting on what kinds of projects I would like to see us work on as a school. This video http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=d5796fe663f8ff3f39fe came across my desk, and it inspired me. I hope you take a few moments to watch it, you won't want to turn it off! I can envision a project like this being done in our

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As we begin thinking about this new school year, and the technology we now have available, I would like to share with you some news about one of our own! Travis Weller was recently interviewed by THE Journal about his use of Skype to bring composers into the classroom from across the country, and to allow composers to introduce their own pieces of music as they were played in the spring band

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Please read the following article:http://tinyurl.com/ypj3wvI feel our embedded learning course could be summarized by this article. It is very well written, and I feel portrays the difference in students peotically. With the teachers I have worked with this year, I have heard over and over again about how students who have been failing, and haven't worked this year are now working, and doing a

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