Archive for July, 2009

links for 2009-07-29

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Great Lesson Starter for any subject using Flickr
1. Go to flickr
2. In the search box type in what your lesson is about or what you want to generate discussion about
3. Flickr returns hundreds of user generated photos / content.
4.Flickr turns all the photographs into a slide show that you can show as the class is [...]

links for 2009-07-28

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

UbDCurriculumMaps.pdf (application/pdf Object)
(tags: UbD PDF curriculum_mapping)

UBD Template.pdf (application/pdf Object)
(tags: UbD curriculum_mapping PDF)

Student and Teacher Blogs that Succeed, Dean Shareski
Blogging is mostly about reading
To make a friend you have to be a friend
It's personal
Hyperlink
Get Graphical
(tags: blogging)

links for 2009-07-27

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Telling Stories through Digital Threads: The Election in Iran « Life in the Renaissance
The idea here is that when you read or view something online, it is often linked to another item online or digital thread. You pull on one item and invariably it is attached to others. A tweet leads you to another tweet [...]

Playing For Change

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I stumbled upon “Playing for Change“, a documentary by producer Mark Johnson.
Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. No [...]

links for 2009-07-25

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Exemplary Digital Stories from Hugo, Oklahoma » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
These were five of the fifteen wonderful stories created by the K-12 teachers who participated in our workshop this week. All but one of those stories are available now on our COV learning community website, which now includes 377 videos created by Oklahoma [...]

links for 2009-07-24

Friday, July 24th, 2009

improvingrelationships.pdf (application/pdf Object)
(tags: PDF professional_development leadership)

Renzulli Learning Systems
The Renzulli Learning Differentiation EngineTM puts students in touch with engaging, individualized resources specially chosen for their interest areas and learning styles.
(tags: education learning)

The Innovative Educator: 5 Innovative Ways to Differentiate Instruction as Witnessed During My Visit to the School of One
1. Using Renzulli Learning as a Differentiation [...]

Relationships in School- Collaboration & Collegiality

Friday, July 24th, 2009

We speak so often about opening the walls of our classroom to the world. With collaborative 21st century tools, such as Skype and wikis, we try to encourage teachers to reach beyond their customary horizon out to others in the world.
Global awareness and collaboration is my passion, BUT what about internal (within your own school [...]

links for 2009-07-23

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

6 Wordpress blogs all updated to WP 2.8.2
(tags: wordpress tutorials)

links for 2009-07-22

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Search on notebook files
Community-created Notebook files contained in the following websites are provided by third parties independent of SMART
(tags: smartboard resources searchengine)

links for 2009-07-21

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Dropbox – Welcome to Dropbox – Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.
(tags: file_sharing)

Google Docs Templates
(tags: templates google documents)

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