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22 Apr 08

You got the love? My week at Suffern Middle School | Welcome to NCS-Tech!

Kevin Jarrett talks about his week at one of the leaders in innovative technology, suffern Middle School. An excellent read to see what this digital revolution is all about. Wow!

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20 Apr 08

Reaching Out With Your Conference | 2¢ Worth

Excellent article for conference organizers from David Warlick. He has some great recommendations and links to the works from a conference in California this week.

Conferences are setting up social networks as a best practice. As these handy sites go mainstream, effective use of such networks seems to be increasingly an important understanding for students as behavior on these sites is very different from the "social" social networks in their personal lives.

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18 Apr 08

wikisinEFL » Wikis in EFL

A website with examples of best practices of wikis used in EFL (english as a foreign language) classes. Excellent.

Kudos to this!

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17 Apr 08

openpd » home

Open professional development by Darren Draper and Friends. These opportunities will let you open up your classroom and join in with others to learn collaboratively about blogs, wikis, and more. Take a look at it.

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16 Apr 08

princecaspianproject wiki

An excellent project for 4th - 6th grade sudents from Jennifer Wagner called the Prince Caspian project which will allow teachers to collaborate with other teachers around the world about the book and the upcoming movie "Prince caspian."

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This project is open to all FOURTH to SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS Worldwide between the months of April to June, 2008
The main purpose of this project is provide a way for teachers to collaborate with other teachers all over the world about the book (and soon to be released) "PRINCE CASPIAN".

Susan Silverman's Lucky Ladybugs project going on for elementary

A great way to get started with technology is to join in an exciting project. this project by Susan Silverman was designed using the principles of Universal Design for Learning. I've heard her present and she is a pro. (Along with my friend Jennifer Wagner.)

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A Collaborative
Internet Project for K-5 Students
Essential Question:
Why are ladybugs considered to be good luck?
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- This
  project will demonstrate lesson plans designed following
  principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and
  examples of student work resulting from the lessons. As
  teachers we should ask ourselves if there are any
  barriers to our students’ learning. We should look for
  ways to present information and assess learning in
  non-text-based formats.
- Based on brain research and new
  media, the UDL framework proposes that educators design
  lessons with three basic kinds of flexibility:
  
  1. Multiple formats and
  media are used to present information.
- Examples:
  
  Illustrations,
  pictures,
  diagrams,
  video or
  audio clips, and
  descriptions
  
  2. Teachers use multiple
  strategies to engage and motivate students.
  
  3. Students demonstrate
  learning through multiple performance and product
  formats.
- UDL calls for
  
  three goals to consider in designing lessons:
  
  1. Recognition goals: these
  focus on specific content that ask a student to identify
  who, what, where, and when.
  
  2. Strategic goals: these
  focus on a specific process or medium that asks a
  student to learn how to do something using problem
  solving and critical think skills.
  
  3. Affective goals: these
  focus on a particular value or emotional outcome. Do
  students enjoy, and appreciate learning about the topic?
  Does it connect to prior knowledge and experience? Are
  students allowed to select and discover new knowledge?
- Resources you might want to use:
  
  Scholastic Keys, Kid Pix, Inspiration and Kidspiration,
  digital camera (still and video), recording
  narration/music, United Streaming. Let your imagination
  go!
- This
  project begins on March 15, 2007. Materials need to be
  e-mailed by
  May 31, 2008.

Global Kids

Online program that has second life presence and many other things for promoting global awareness.

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Think.com - Safety & Netiquette Lesson

Think.com's safety lesson with nets standards. Think.com is excellent to use with younger students and is very walled and has an excellent profanity filter. I highly recommend it and have personally used it for a summer blogging project. Excellent site. It also requires an extensive verification process by the participating schools.

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- Identify and provide examples of proper and improper netiquette;
- Generate a list of preferred web behaviors for their class;
- Understand and use a few Think.com content creation tools;
- Define "safety" and describe/draw an environment that values safety;
- Develop a greater sense of personal responsibility and web community; and
- Define the following words: accountable, community, enforcement, environment,
  etiquette, inappropriate, law, netiquette, private, responsible, rule, safety.

Technology Integration Matrix

Technology integration matrix from Florida. This amazing resource was picked up from Lucy Gray. Really amazing.

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The
Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use
technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates
five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments:
active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic,
and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003).
The
TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry,
adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the
five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together,
the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics
of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as
illustrated below.
Levels
of Technology Integration into the Curriculum