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30 Nov 09

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Selects half a dozen easy to use avatar creator apps that don't require an account. Explains clearly how to create the avatar, the best size and how to upload it to your blog

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27 Nov 09

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16 Nov 09

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Vanity alerts can be set up to alert you when someone else is using your name or other search term pertinent to you so you have an idea of whether your work is being plagiarised , quoted etc

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details how to use gmail+ to add contributers. Comments on the value of teachers needing to moderate all comments and posts before they are published

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11 May 09

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Informing parents about how to access their child's work on the class blog.

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28 Mar 09

What's A Pingback? And How To Write Links | The Edublogger

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04 Feb 09

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- Put in a little preventative education by putting digital citizenship components at every grade level.
  
  Educate students on the proper use of their tools and on what it means to be a professional student.
  Put in digital citizenship behavior codes in addition (or as part of) honor codes. Students should respect the privacy of other students and should not have the right to film or transmit the image of another without their permission. Students who do so, should be disciplined. The enemy is the behavior, not the tool. It is time to teach people how to behave and to teach students that online behavior has offline consequences.
  Understand that cell phones are part of the Internet and part of digital citizenship.
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- is certainly one of my favourites places to go when I want videos for the classroom, classroom management and personal development. Although I joined earlier this year, a mention of Teachers TV on Paul Hamilton’s site prompted me to go and take a deeper look. As mentioned in Paul’s post, there is an incredibly rich supply of resources available on this site. What makes the site even more usable is that vidoes can be downloaded or watched directly via Quicktime or Windows medial player. This overcomes the buffering problem that happens with watching online videos. If you haven’t been acquainted with Teachers TV, I’d certainly encourage you to do so.
- Embedding My Maps Into Edublogs
  
  Click on the link icon at the top of My Maps and you will find the embed code.
  In your post click on Code Tab then paste the embed code in the desired location and then press publish straight away.
  
  NOTE: Make sure you’ve completely finished writing your post before adding My Maps embed code as you can’t edit the post AT ALL after the code has been added.
- Let curriculum directors and teachers decide what gets through the filter. Give them rights to unblock the tools that they need to teach.
- online tool that creates cool graphs after seeing how Kathy Sierra used them effectively to enhance her blog posts.
  
  Thanks to Steve Dembo I’ve now found Crabby Graph – excellent for creating quick, easy graphs.
- The procedure of making a digital story involves creative and critical thinking, inquiry, multimodal literacy, writing, discussion, design, production, reflection, presentation and integrated use of ICT. It gives students opportunities to enhance the expression of their own stories, thoughts and ideas in creative and engaging ways, connecting learning across a broad range of learning situations.
- Instead of hiring and requiring people to be great teachers and empowering and expecting them to do their job, we are trying to make mediocre teachers better and keep the great ones from upsetting the applecart and "going to fast" and making the others look bad.
- Let bureaucrats come in and fill out the paperwork and let the teachers teach
- In a society that needs creativity, innovation, and common sense more than ever -- why are our school places of routine, standards, and senseless bureaucracy.
- Put technology that teachers use on the top priority list. If they cannot print, fix it. If their computer doesn't work, get them a new one. Does the vice principal really need a new computer every year?
- Definitely worth taking the time to listen to the recording from the session. If you are looking for “How To’s” guides for using Elluminate you will find them here on the Elluminate website. Don’t forget anyone can get their own Elluminate Vroom.
- Good teachers don't make excuses, they overcome them
- My network recommended the following for a 1min presentation:
  
  Explanations in Plain English Series - links provided by Britt Watwood, jsommermeyer, James Croft, onEnterFrame
  Liz Davis excellent 21st Century Tools Wiki - link provided by bcdtech
  Janning provided these words “Collectively we can create what can’t be done by individuals” with this Flickr photo which I have combined to create the following image. Image adapted from N’Dr3W licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (Words on image supplied by Janning).
- For
  
  Benefits those whose typing ability is limited but speaking ability isn’t - Lisa Parisi
  Video comments are fun to do. Audio not so much - Kathryn Greenhill
  
  Bandwidth takes longer to get and absorb comment - Gary Barber
  Written very fast on uptake of comment. Easier to reply to written comments- Gary Barber
  Text of what you say isn’t indexable/searchable thus findable - Kathryn Greenhill
  Not every one has the hardware - James Kingsley
- A nothing piece of paper that no one reads! I'm sorry, but the volume of paperwork in most American public schools is asinine.
- Cyberbullying is being cruel to others by sending or posting harmful material or engaging in other forms of social cruelty using the Internet or other digital technologies, such as cell phones
- accurate and fast
- Digital stories can be used in the following ways:
  
  • Preserving community and personal histories
  
  • Engaging, inspiring and motivating all learners
  
  • Creating ePortfolios
  
  • Celebrating achievements or events
  
  • Presenting factual information e.g. ‘The Great Wall of China’; ‘The Life Cycle of a Butterfly’
  
  • Demonstrating different genres of writing
  
  • To provide an explanation for a particular maths concept
  
  • Creating visual learning materials for the autistic or learning disabled
  
  • Creating learning materials
  
  • Assessment and reporting
- If we improve every individual classroom in America, American education will improve. Adding bureaucracy and diplomacy on top of the struggling teacher will only continue to drive the hope, innovation, and individuality out of our schools that we so desperately need.
- Consider letting students create teacher PD as part of their technology education program.
- gaming addiction and involvement in excessively violent games. The most addictive games appear to be the multi-player role planning games.
- Click the EasyEdit button, highlight the placeholder image at left and hit "delete." Then click the "image" button in the toolbar and use the "browse" button to find the image you want to insert from your computer. It's that easy.
  
  The text can be wrapped around your image, or you can have the text start below the photo. You can also move the photo to the right side of the page. See your choices for photo and text placement by clickin on the photo with your mouse and then clicking "image" on the toolbar.
  
  You can also change the size of your photo by clicking on it once to highlight it, then by clicking the "plus" or "minus" sign in the "Edit Image" toolbox. When you're all done, save your page.
- Problem solving should go on the front burner and empowering people to FIX problems instead of just complain about them should be on the first order. (Good principals do this already.)
- Staff and students in our school have lost their clustrmap and other widgets from their blogs. To restore them, follow these instructions:-
  
  1. Login to your globalteacher/student account
  
  2. Stay in the dashboard
  
  3. Goto plugins, on RHS between links for settings and users (on the same line as write manage design comments)
  
  4. Scroll down until you see the widget pack
  
  5. Tick the check box beside the widget pack, choose activate link
  
  Widgets should now appear.
  
  nb There are some nice new plugins available eg social bookmarking
- I think we would all agree that collectively my network was considerably more innovative than what I could have achieved as an individual; thus demonstrating the true power of Web 2.0. Hope you join us for Web 2.0 Wednesday!
- 1. Request a formal written proposal.
  2. Send the proposal to a committee.
  3. Schedule meetings to discuss the concept.
  4. Lose the proposal.
  5. No money in the budget.
  6. "Have you talked to ... about it?"
  7. "We don't, haven't, won't, can't ..."
  8. "Sounds exciting, but I'll need more details."
  9. "Yes, but ..."
  10. Quote Nancy Reagan and "just say no."
- Motivational is when someone actually listens to your problem AND DOES SOMETHING TO HELP!
- This excellent site allows you to search through 13,000 free fonts, broken down into various categories. When you click on a particular font, it then gives you a close up view of that font so you can see what it looks like.
- Our task was to consider whether or not you think multimedia is a better option and how it might impact learning
- the fonts on this site are REALLY good. Each one is in a ZIP file so just click on the ones you want and they will immediately download to your computer. Then just unzip them. Some notable ones include Harry Potter, Yahoo, Scrabble letters, Star Wars, Godfather, Terminator, Bon Jovi and Pizza Hut.
- young people also sometimes post threats or distressing material as a “joke” — a joke that can have serious ramifications.
- Hate groups, gangs, and other troublesome groups are another form of unsafe online community.
- The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Right now
- movie and TV themed fonts. If you have a favourite movie or TV programme, check here to see if the font is available
- The Hawkesdale P-12 home base is a perfect example of how a blog can be used to contain links to all the staff and student activities that are happening within one school. It also doubles and provides a great place to showcase and celebrate some staff and student work.
- “What The Font” allows you to upload a scanned image of a piece of writing or a font and it will identify the name of the font for you. Or instead of uploading, you can point it to a URL.
- Use Your Friend Lists
  Remove Yourself From Facebook Search Results
  Remove Yourself From Google
  Avoid the Infamous Photo/Video Tag Mistake
  Protect Your Albums
  Prevent Stories From Showing Up in Your Friends’ News Feeds
  Protect Against Published Application Stories
  Make Your Contact Information Private
  Avoid Embarrassing Wall Posts
  Keep Your Friendships Private
- Use Your Friend Lists
  Remove Yourself From Facebook Search Results
  Remove Yourself From Google
  Avoid the Infamous Photo/Video Tag Mistake
  Protect Your Albums
  Prevent Stories From Showing Up in Your Friends’ News Feeds
  Protect Against Published Application Stories
  Make Your Contact Information Private
  Avoid Embarrassing Wall Posts
  Keep Your Friendships Private

Embedding A Flickr SlideShow In Your Blog Sidebar | The Edublogger

Have you speculated if it is possible to embed a Flickr Slideshow in a sidebar rather than in a post?

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21 Dec 08

Here’s My First Five Tips For Writing Better Blog Posts — What Are Yours? | The Edublogger

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28 Nov 08

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online tool that creates cool graphs after seeing how Kathy Sierra used them effectively to enhance her blog posts.

Thanks to Steve Dembo I’ve now found Crabby Graph – excellent for creating quick, easy graphs.

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online tool that creates cool graphs after seeing how Kathy Sierra used them effectively to enhance her blog posts.

Thanks to Steve Dembo I’ve now found Crabby Graph – excellent for creating quick, easy graphs.

16 Nov 08

Tips for making a virtual classroom more interactive

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take turns moderating the virtual classroom and developing their own skills.
Keeping everyone awake in a virtual classroom is a challenge
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- provide students with things to do other than just listening; build interactive tasks into the session.
- Labeling Activities Using the Whiteboard
- et the students to drag and drop the text labels to the right locations on the image.
- re-use this same activity for other groups of students save the Whiteboard as a wbd file (File > Save Whiteboard > Save as wbd).
- Create a Wordsearch
- Wordstorms are great for exploring ideas/opinions
- developing concept maps and checking understanding
- define terms in pairs, find information using the Internet.
- pair us with partners
- searching for images relating to the question
- Creating polls and Quizzes are good for revision, assessment activity or reinforcer of learning.
- listen to the recording from the session

01 Nov 08

My Quick Start Tips for New Twitters | Mobile Technology in TAFE

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Are You Twittering? Here’s How I Use Twitter | The Edublogger

Sue Waters explains how to set up Twitter and get conversations going

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How I Use RSS To Make My Life Easier | The Edublogger

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Parental Consent, Use of Student Images and The MiniLegends Closure | Mobile Technology in TAFE

AlUpton explains about his blogs and use of images in a letter to parents

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Building Personal Learning Networks! | Mobile Technology in TAFE

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series of presentation on Personal Learning Networks
to demonstrate the importance of PLNs by asking my network to help me.

Mobile Technology in TAFE

Sue Waters blog- Lots of tips for e-learning and m-learning-How to's on mobile technologies - Web 2.0 “how to” includes:1. Use blogs (Beginners) 2. Use Blogs (Intermediate)3. Subscribe to Blogs 4. Use del.icio.us 5. Use Ning 6. Create movies using Moviema

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