You're at the front lines shooting Nazis before they shoot you. Or you're a futuristic gladiator in a death match with robots.
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Today’s topic again focuses on another valuable teacher freebie, and free is in my price range. How about you? Today’s post gives each of us a rare professional development opportunity – learning from other teachers who teach the same curriculum as you.
These are a series of small lesson plans (I call them "labs") I've used as assignments for my students. These pages serve as more permanent reminders of what I show them during the face to face class meeting, as assignments, and as resource pages for further learning. Please feel free to add your own.
There is always a danger with any series like this that, with a new task or challenge being presented each day, it can all become somewhat relentless. For that reason I decided at the outset that I would insert some 'consolidation days'.I suppose technically that's cheating a bit, because it will make the series longer than 31 days — but I never said anything about the days being consecutive!
10 Obligations Of Bloggers
Let’s face it: Social networking is here to stay. Whether it is Facebook or Twitter, or the next web application waiting to become a phenomenon, social networking is a part of our students’ lives. The only place where it isn’t usually present is in our classrooms. And yet, how many of us haven’t sensed our students itching to reconnect as soon as class is over? The moment they leave the classroom, the cell phones come out and the air is abuzz with various versions of, “Where are you?” or “What are you doing?”
ll the Web 2.0 technology tools you need to get started experimenting with this new advancement in interactive and productive internet experiences, over one thousand (1,000) web based tools listed here in our Web2.0 favorites. Web2.0 is slowly replacing the need to pay for installed software!
In 2009, 80% of Canadians aged 16 and older, or 21.7 million people, used the Internet for personal reasons, up from 73% in 2007 when the survey was last conducted.
100 Informative & Inspiring YouTube Videos for Educators
As a teacher and a new mom, it didn’t take long for me to find Facebook as a supplement for my stunted social life. And as any FB user knows, once you join, you become inundated with photos of new babies, comments about friends’ recent bodily functions, quiz results, and mysterious requests for farm equipment or mafia weapons.
School-age children are more technologically savvy than a decade ago.
That is why teachers in the Franklin Regional district are utilizing more technology in their classrooms than ever before.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10126/1055876-298.stm#ixzz0nBoVwfJ7
Don Tapscott (http://dontapscott.com; Twitter: @dtapscott) is the author or co-author of thirteen books on technology in society, including Grown Up Digital (2008), Growing Up Digital (1997), and Wikinomics (2006). He is Chairman of the think tank nGenera Insight and an Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and he consults to universities in several countries. Anthony D. Williams (adw@anthonydwilliams.com) is a writer, speaker, and co-author of Wikinomics. He recently led nGenera Insight's worldwide investigation into the impact of Web 2.0 and wikinomics on the future of government and democracy. Tapscott and Williams will publish their new book, Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, in September 2010.
Last April, I published a post titled “10 Internet Technologies That Educators Should Be Informed About.” This article continues to be a popular draw on EmergingEdTech.com. In the year since then, I have learned about and looked into many other web-enabled applications that can benefit educators. Here are 5 of these technologies that I think should be added to that original list.
After some reflection, I've decided to delete my account on Facebook. I'd like to encourage you to do the same. This is part altruism and part selfish. The altruism part is that I think Facebook, as a company, is unethical. The selfish part is that I'd like my own social network to migrate away from Facebook so that I'm not missing anything. In any event, here's my "Top Ten" reasons for why you should join me and many others and delete your account.
Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They’re often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.