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Chatting About Poetry « Books and Bytes
Inspired by a post about using chat in the classroom, I decided we would try it for an introductory discussion about poetry. I was interested in countering some of the negative attitudes students had about poetry and getting a sense of their prior knowledge base (types of poems, poets, [...]

What does learning mean? « What Else? 1DR
Silvia Tolisano at Langwitches expresses the energizing wish that we educators (teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, and ed-technicians) come together to conduct learning in the 21st Century.
Period.
(tags: langwitches learning 21stcenturyskills)

Teaching and Learning
(tags: presentations learning)

Learning Mosaic
Around the World With 80 Schools: For this I plan to introduce the collaboration at a [...]

Maybe it is time to take “Technology” out of the equation at our schools. Who still wants bring in technology for technology sake? Technology Integration is not about the skill set, but about the mind set and above all about STUDENT LEARNING. So why is there still resistance (open and quiet) from teachers and/or lack [...]

Sixteen Interesting Ways* to use Wordle in the Classroom – Google Docs
(tags: wordle ideas)

Flat World Schools SWOT: Uses of Back-channeling
back-channeling provided the following insights to how the process can enrich a presentation and increase audience understanding of the topic.
(tags: chat_classroom professional_development)

Blocking Chat In Our Schools « Utilizing Blogs In The Classroom
(tags: chat_classroom)

Numberline.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Interactive number line
(tags: swf smartboard)

Backchanneling in Middle School Social Studies
This was an awesome first experience with backchanneling in our middle school. In the past, when teachers used a long video (more than a few minutes in length) with students, one could easily [...]

Here is a short update after 3 months into the project “Around The World with 80 Schools”.
Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to be “on the other” side of the screen, as I visited (physically) Chrissy Hellyer’s class at the International School of Bangkok. It just happened to be a morning that they were [...]

Tiny Chat – good fun « Lucacept – intercepting the Web
I used it in my Yr 9 class the day after I’d had a play with it. I created the chatroom and sent the link to all the class members. I posted a discussion topic and our aim was that we were going to use [...]

While in Bangkok visiting Kim Cofino from Always Learning and Chrissy Hellyer from Teaching Sagittarian, I attended a session of CoTaIL (Certificate of Technology and Information Literacy) that is being taught at their school (International School of Bangkok). Jeff Utecht, from The Thingking Stick and co-teacher of the course,  had asked me to share with [...]

Tea for [Web] 2.0: How do you Eat an Elephant? Integrating Technology One Byte at a Time
The process of integrating technology into our libraries and classroom spaces seems daunting at first, much like climbing a mountain or eating an elephant – but if we simplify the process, start small and work our way up and [...]

What is backchannelling and how can you use it in your classroom? | Welcome to NCS-Tech!
(tags: chat_classroom)