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Using a Chat Room in the Classroom

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

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 [...]

ShareTabs- Displaying Collection of Links

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

ShareTabs is a new tool I just heard about. It looks like a great tool to use in presentations, but also for your elementary school classroom.
It is very visual by displaying a thumbnail of the website link, but also has tabs open with the links you specify open, ready for your students to click on.
You [...]

Collaborative VoiceThread- I have a Dream

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Nancy von Wahlde from the American School of Madrid and I have been trying to collaborate on a project for a while now. We finally settled on connecting two of our first grade classes (Allison W. & Meghan M.)
We started looking at each others curriculum maps for the next few months and paid attention to [...]

Priceless Education

Monday, December 29th, 2008

I am in the process of applying to become an Apple Distinguished Educator for the class of 2009.
I don’t know if it is appropriate to publish my video clip since the application process is still open until January 31st.
But…
… it feels odd not to share my work, so in the spirit of transparency and documenting [...]

Five Tools to Communciate Around The World

Monday, December 15th, 2008

National Geographic Society conducted a Geography Literacy Survey in 2006. This Geographic Literacy Study assessed the geographic knowledge of young American adults between the ages of 18-24.
I was pleased to see many questions asked that go hand in hand with the 21st century skills, all of us are working so hard in acknowledging, learning about, [...]

Animoto- Faces of Peru

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

There are so many website out there… So many tools… so many NEW tools to discover and try out… Sometimes one can forget the “good old” ones.
I have not used Animoto in a while. I should, since it is one of the GREAT companies that gives us educators a break, meaning a free [...]

A Story to be (Re)Told

Monday, November 10th, 2008

My grandfather, Siegfried Rosenthal, never spoke to me about his experiences the night of November 9th, 1938, Kristallnacht. The night that the SS came to his door and arrested him in front of his seven year old son and pregnant wife for simply being a Jew and taken to a Concentration camp. He did write [...]

Blabberize & Jose the Travel Bear

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Recently, I was reminded by several bloggers in my reader about the site “Blabberize“. Thank you Teaching Sagittarian, Teach42,
Technology in our classroom.
I thought it might be a great opportunity for Jose, the travel bear to introduce his newest upcoming adventure to Costa Rica and Peru.

China Blog
Egypt Blog

Digital Storytelling- Downloadable PDF Files

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Please feel free to download the pdf versions of tools discussed in the Digital Storytelling Tool Guide for Educators if you need them for faculty at your school.  I am still working on proofreading and creating the manuscript and front and back cover to upload to Lulu.com

Voicethread
Windows Moviemaker
Mixbook
Google Maps
Audacity
Wordle
Microsoft Photostory

Digital Storytelling Part VIII- Audacity

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Nothing personalizes a story better than the voice of the author…
Nothing allows someone better to let their own imagination run wild than an oral story or audiobook…
There are no pre-set images of how someone else envisioned the story that taint your perception. How many times have you seen a movie after reading a book and [...]