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Two people tweeted about this website and how student test scores went up with it. Wonder if others have had similar results? Might decide to use it with my own children if that is the case.

Tags: education, learning, math, bestpractices, edu_newapp on 2009-07-06 and saved by 26 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Voices of the world project. This is a project that kindergarten teacher Maria Knee participates with. It is a fascinating collaboration of students.

Tags: education, wikis, wiki, all_teachers, bestpractices, technology, digitalcitizenship, elementary on 2009-06-29 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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A lot of people like this for doing collaborative wikis.

Tags: education, learning, tools, all_teachers, bestpractices, technology on 2009-06-28 and saved by 626 people -All Annotations (12) -About

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So, if you want twitter to automatically tweet (like when your class blog is updated,) then set up twitter feed to automatically post anything to twitter that has an RSS feed. I do this for my classroom to send my blog or any current information that students need to have.

Tags: education, twitter, bestpractices on 2009-06-27 and saved by 428 people -All Annotations (7) -About

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This is the help wiki for all of our flat classroom projects and how we do the things we do. I realized that I hadn't shared it!

Tags: flatclassroom, education, innovation, bestpractices, help on 2009-06-25 and saved by 10 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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One of my favorite web 2.0 tools shown last year at necc wasn't on a computer, it was a keychain used by Kevin Honeycutt. These are amazing and this is a photograph of that. These were given to the teacher at his school in sort of a swap meet - people wrote about what it was and links on one side and the name on the other side along with the name of a person who could be contacted to help with that. Each teacher had to bring two to share with the others.

Tags: education, web2.0, web2, eb09, web2_smackdown, technology, bestpractices on 2009-06-21 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Great information on Google Sketchup and a tutorial about how it can be used from the ICT guy as part of their 1 to 1 netbook project.

Tags: education, learning, google, tutorial, technology, all_teachers, bestpractices on 2009-06-07 and saved by 20 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Great efolio wiki from my ninth grader -- summarizes the year and accomplishments. (Videos will be added this week.)

Tags: education, learning, efolio, technology, bestpractices on 2009-05-04 and saved by 5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Another amazing reflection from Netgened, this student is simply phenomenal.

Tags: education, learning, netgened, bestpractices on 2009-05-03 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Excellent efolio of work from Joy J in the 10th grade Introduction to Computer Science course. You can see an overview of the types of things done in this course and how Flat Classroom and NetGenEd were integrated into the curriculum as well as some videos. Joy is an excellent student and this portfolio with exception of a few tiny omissions is near perfect.

Tags: education, learning, netgened, flatclassroom, bestpractices, technology on 2009-05-03 and saved by 6 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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Great resources with all types of activities and resources for your classroom.

Tags: education, news, tools, bestpractices, technology on 2009-04-28 and saved by 180 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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From Steve Hargadon:

"I've started a new community at http://www.FutureofEducation.com to providing an opportunity for those who care about education to share their voices and ideas on charting the course of education in a networked world. It's a place for thoughtful discussion on an incredibly important topic. The site will launch officially at the end of the month with the start of a weekly interview series, but I'm inviting some participation now because of an email Carol Broos (http://www.classroom20.com/profile/beatechie) sent out.

Carol is one of twelve teachers who have been invited to participate in a round table discussion concerning the direction of education the new Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Jan 21. She was sent the following questions, and is asking for feedback and ideas. You can respond either at the new http://www.FutureofEducation.com site or her wiki at http://education20.pbwiki.com/FrontPage. Here are the questions:

1. What is the one most important education issue you wish Secretary Duncan to focus on during his tenure and why?
2. How shall the tenets of the No Child Left Behind act be altered or invigorated? What are its positives? How can its negatives be improved?
3. How should the new administration respond to the nation’s need for better prepared and more qualified teachers?
4.What should the new administration do to increase student engagement in mathematics, the sciences and the arts?
5. How should funding equity issues be addressed?

There is also a discussion topic on what questions were not asked that might have been."

This seems to be a great thing!

Tags: education, learning, edu_news, curriculum, bestpractices, all_teachers on 2009-01-16 and saved by 54 people -All Annotations (3) -About

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A school receiving e-rate funds must now:

"‘(iii) as part of its Internet safety policy is educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms and cyberbullying awareness and response.’."

Tags: education, erate, law, digiteen, safety, bestpractices, digitalcitizenship on 2009-01-10 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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New blog by teachers about writing.

Tags: education, writing, literature_teacher, all_teachers, bestpractices, literature on 2008-12-05 and saved by 77 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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There are some GREAT books on Emotional intelligence, but Debra Sanborn, Program Director at Iowa State University, is using an emotional intelligence assessment as part of the "toolbox of assessments that she relies upon for identifying issues challening students in the first weeks of college."

She says that EQ has an 85% predictor rate of success in college. The EQ-i assesses 5 aras: interpersonal, intrapersonal, stress management, adaptability and general mood."

Who is using this in high school? I read a book on this to help my two kids with learning disabilities but if there is a test or profile that would help us with these kids - to develop emotional intelligence, then we should do it.

Life success is SO MUCH MORE than test scores! Hate that we have to have a "test" to measure this one - although the result is more an indicator of a person's behavior, albeit self-reported.

Tags: education, technology, bestpractices, professionaldevelopment on 2008-11-23 and saved by 4 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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Those who want to share a presentation they've done with the K12 online community, share at the K12 online fringe festival just starting up at notk12online -- ANYONE can submit a preso on ANYTHING. So, dust off those slideshares and vids and start sharing!

Tags: education, presentation, k12online, bestpractices on 2008-10-30 and saved by 11 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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The usefulness of twitter -- this is THE twitter accounts that librarians should follow!

Tags: education, learning, library, bestpractices on 2008-10-16 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Dianne Krause, Instructional Technology specialist, from Blue Bell, PA USA (http://diannekrause.edublogs.org) has put together an incredible e toolbox wiki that is worth sharing with anyone using a wiki or any web 2.o tool!

She shares the tool and gives an example, exactly the type of thing inquiring teachers want to see. She is modeling instead of just expecting them to figure it out! Great job, Diane - you are my new wiki go-to gal! Wow!

From digital portfolios to online databases and Ning, she does a GREAT job on this wiki of putting it all together.

Tags: education, wiki, techintegrator, bestpractices, technology, all_teachers on 2008-10-12 and saved by 98 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Bitty Browser is an incredibly cool and useful tool.

It allows you to embed a website inside another web page - so if you want to embed a web page for people to use in your wiki, just use the bitty browser. You can even create up to 100 feeds and make a mini RSS reader for education news for those teachers you KNOW will NEVER use RSS. Fascinating tool.

Tags: education, wiki, web2.0, bestpractices, technology, techintegrator, web2, edu_newapp on 2008-10-12 and saved by 198 people -All Annotations (11) -About

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Very nice article about using Games in the Classroom from Todd Bryant. (Hat tip to Jo McLeay's plurk about this one.)

Tags: hz09, education, pedagogy, professionaldevelopment, bestpractices, technology, edu_newapp, hzmeta, games on 2008-09-10 and saved by 23 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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