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Archive for April, 2007

Breaking Down the Classroom Walls Through Technology

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Joe Dale had invited me a few weeks ago to participate in a Flashmeeting. He asked me to contribute my ideas and thoughts on blogging and podcasting and how to integrate technology in general in the classroom to a professional development staff session at his school in England (Nodehill Middle School).
I continue to be so [...]

links for 2007-04-30

Monday, April 30th, 2007

http://kids-learn.org/
(tags: collaboration projects teaching elementary_school)

links for 2007-04-29

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

authorSTREAM Present and Share PowerPoint
(tags: collaboration presentation powerpoint)

Collaboration Projects: Looking for an Egypt Partner

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I just read a very informative post on Kim Cofino’s Always Learning Blog, titled: “5 Tips for Creating a Global Classroom“. Her tips are:
Tip 1: Set up that aggregator
Tip 2: Author a blog
Tip 3: Join a social network or online group
Tip 4: Contact an expert or use a company
Tip 5: Start putting your students work [...]

links for 2007-04-26

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Apple - iTunes - iTunes Store - iPod Games
Sure, you can play iQuiz for hours of fun. But you can also become the quizmaster by creating your own custom trivia packs, syncing them from iTunes to your iPod, then sharing them with others.
(tags: ipod tutorial games)

always learning » 5 Tips for Creating a Global Classroom
(tags: [...]

links for 2007-04-25

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Comeeko - Creating comic strips from your photos
Comeeko lets you take your photos and put them into our photo strips.
Ever had a great night out with a series of photos?
What about a funny comic strip idea?
Comeeko makes it as easy as toasting toat to create your own photo strip!
You can also post
(tags: comics photos web2.0 [...]

RSS explained in Plain English

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Great video clip put together by The Common Craft Show. Thanks to Beth Kanter for sharing.
RSS explained in plain English.
[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/0klgLsSxGsU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

links for 2007-04-23

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

SLurlBuilder
(tags: SecondLife slurl)

Second Life- Getting Started

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Another one hits Second Life.
After David Warlick demonstrating his Second Life Avatar, I have ventured into this amazing virtual world. I have started “teleporting” to specific locations that I am reading about on blogs of other edubloggers, such as Technospud (aka Jennifer Wagner), The Four Eyed Technologist, and Kathy Dryburgh (aka Kathy Schrock). One [...]

Langwitches Podcast 017- Internet Safety

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

This is a recording of an Internet Safety presentation I gave at my elementary school’s Parent Association meeting. I spoke about:

How parenting has changed with children being more tech savvy than their parents
How children are wired differently today. Who are the Millenium kids?
Acknowledging the different mindset of digital natives and imigrants.
Cyberbullying, and social networking places [...]