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Super Book of Web Tools for Educators

December 13, 2010 Books, Web 2.0 2 Comments

I was honored when Richard Byrne, from FreeTech4Teachers,Â asked me to contribute to his latest project: a collaborative Super Book of Web Tools for Educators. I am fascinated by the production power of teachers who collaboratively are creating work to help other educators. I am fascinated by their willingness to donate time, expertise and share resources.

Here is the list of contributors to The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators:

You will find chapters about:

An Administrator’s View
Elementary School Tools
Middle School Tools
High School Tools
ESL/ELL
Teaching Online
Connect Via Skype
Elementary School Blogging
Alternative Ed Tech
Social Media for Educators

The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators- A comprehensive introduction to technology in all K-12 classrooms.

There are teachers around the world who want to use technology in their classrooms, but they’re just not sure where to start. That’s why eleven prominent bloggers, teachers, and school administrators got together to create this free book.

Except where noted, all content is the property of the respective authors. you may read, download, print, and distribute this work in its entirety under the following conditions:

You cannot charge for access to The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators.
You cannot use The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators as a “free gift” connected to a workshop, training, book, or other services or product for which you are charging a fee.
Unless granted permission for the author(s) you cannot use excerpts from The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators for inclusion in another electronic or printed book.

Super Book Educators Web Tools

Web 2.0 for Young Learners

February 5, 2009 Conferences, Elementary School, Web 2.0 1 Comment

Title: Engage Young Learners with Web 2.0 Tools
Presenter: Gail Lovely
Description:Â Discover curriculum-rich possibilities of engaging Web 2.0 tools like Skype, YackPack, Wikis, and VoiceThread in primary classrooms. Explore real learning ideas, not just â€œGee Whiz!â€

lovelytcea09.wetpaint.com

Moving from Computer as a toy to computer as a tool
Younger students should be encouraged to work in pairs.
Get headset splitters.
Teach and reward process AND products.
Link computers in the lab to student learning!
Easy website accessibility is VERY important for the younger students. They should not have to type in any URLs- > too big of a risk>> create your own website /wiki to publish these links for your students. Try to include images, so they are not only text driven.

Tools:

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My Twitter Flock

February 1, 2009 Social Networking, Web 2.0 4 Comments

I learned from Jane’s E-Learning Pick fo the Day about a cool little Twitter site:

Twitter Sheep

Enter your Twitter username and password and it will create a Wordle-like cloud of the bio profiles of your followers.

This is a word cloud generated from the bios of @langwitches’ followers.

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Quality Commenting- Student Guest Post by Zoe M.

I invite few guest bloggers to share posts on Langwitches. This makes it especially rewarding to be able to present to my readers an incredible young lady. Zoe is growing by leaps and bounds as a blog writer and commenter. She is a fourth grader at the Martin J. Gottlieb …

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Annotexting

The following is a collaborative guest post by Michael Fisher and Jeanne Tribuzzi , of the Curriculum 21 Faculty. The companion LIVEBINDER OF INTERACTIVE TOOLS IS HERE. Expecting students to read deeply and draw meaningful conclusions is at the heart of the Common Core ELA standards. Students are asked to …

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Teaching English through Film and Screenwriting…

I am honored to be able to cross-post Stephen Wilmarth’s blog post below on Langwitches. If you are interested to read more about Steve’s International Experimental program at the Number One Middle School in Wuhan, China take a look at: Take a Peek into China’s First 1:1 iPad Class Learning…Young …

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Professional Development

edJEWcon- A Visual Reflection of a New Kind of Conference

I am slowly coming down from an incredible high this past week. I was part of a team (Andrea Hernandez, Jon Mitzmacher and myself), that envisioned, organized and ran an education LEARNING conference. This was a first for me, since I have only been a participant an/or a presenter at such …

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Action Research- Quadblogging Trailer

If you are interested in following the blogs of the International Action Research teams on “Quality Writing through Blogging”, take a look at the following trailer and visit the classroom and student blogs to see for yourself the progress they are making, draw your own conclusions about blogging with students. …

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Perspectives and Talking at Cross Purposes

Perspective is defined as a mental view or outlook. Your perspective is influenced by so much and luckily is not set in stone. Your life experiences, your learning journey, the people you meet, culture, geographic location and the language you speak contribute to your current perspective. My own perspective was …

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Action Research: Quality Writing on Blogs

In the month of March 2012, an International team of 4 elementary school classrooms are conducting Action Research about quality writing through blogging. You can support them by giving them an authentic global audience and modeling quality commenting on their posts.

Here are the participating classrooms with links to student blogs.
International School of Prague (3rd Grade)- Team Czech Republic
International School of Zug and Luzern- Team Switzerland ( 4th Grade)
Martin J. Gottlieb Day School- Team USA (4th Grade)
International School of Bangkok- Team Thailand (5th Grade)

21st Century Learning

The Evolution of the Classroom Schedule

Thank you to Andrea Hernandez for the image of the classroom schedule that inspired me to put the following visual of the Evolution of the Classroom Schedule together. No Pencil Class> Computer Class> 21st Century Learning > Learning It will take classroom teachers, who understand that “21st Century Learning” cannot …

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Annotexting

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The Digital Learning Farm and iPad Apps

I previously published a chart of Bloom’s Taxonomy and iPad Apps, which I use regularly when planning projects or look to reinforce certain skills and literacies. Since I also rely heavily on The Digital Learning Farm concept (based on Alan November’s work), I felt it was time to create a …

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The Digital Learning Farm in Action

The Digital Learning Farm and iPad Apps

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Screencasting Apps for the iPad

Teaching ourselves, our students and other educators how to use screenshooting (images) and screencasting (video) tools is a relevant skill to have that integrates in so many areas. Think Tutorial Designers (A role from the Digital Learning Farm) or the Flipped Classroom model. Being able to create, share and take …

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The Teacher as a Conductor of an Orchestra

Should Teachers Be More Like Conductors? This bog post from 2009 took me to the following TED talk by Itay Talgam. Although I am not a musician, nor listen to much classical music, I was mesmerized. This TED talk was geared towards organization leaders, but I so agree with Tania …

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Global Education

Perspectives and Talking at Cross Purposes

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Walking the Walk: Action Research

I have been blogging for 6 years now… I have written extensively about blogging (131 posts categorized “blogging” on Langwitches) I have shared two guides for teachers to start blogging with their students “Stepping it Up: Learning About Blogs FOR your Students” Part I: Reading Part II A: Writing Part …

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Curriculum21 Podcast Episode with Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay

I had the opportunity to speak to Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay. Two educators who are making a difference in their students’ lives as well as thousands of other students and teachers from around the world. Vicki is a teacher from Camila Georgia. She blogs on the Coolcatteacher blog and …

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Blogging With your Classroom

Hyperlinked Writing in the Classroom- From Theory to Practice

This is the follow up post to the theoretical Wondering About Hyperlinked Writing. The post ended with Now…on from the wondering, theory and resources…to the practice in the classroom. I am ready to bring hyperlinked writing (and reading) as an important genre into the classroom! Can one just start “throwing” …

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Wondering About Hyperlinked Writing

Almost 4 years ago, I wrote a post on Langwitches titled Teaching Hyperlinked Writing and Reading. 4 years later, many (most?) teachers have not heard, let alone are teaching and coaching their students in the use of hyperlinked writing. The word “hyperlinked” is still being underlined in red as I …

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Quality Commenting- Student Guest Post by Zoe M.

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iPads

EdTalk- Educators Talk About Learning: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano: iPads in education

I was honored to be interviewed by EdTalks- Educators talk about Learning, while speaking at Learning@School 12 in Hamilton, NZ this past January, about iPads in Education. Speaking at Learning@School 12, 21st Century learning specialist Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano asks the question: is the iPad a tool to transform learning, or a …

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iPad Apps and Bloom’s Taxonomy

I felt it was worthwhile to update the Top Post (over 25,000 views) on Langwitches: Bloom’s Taxonomy for iPads I have added links to each app represented on the visual. Remember: Exhibit memory of previously-learned materials by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts and answers. describe name find name list …

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My Ten Most Used Apps to Become Fluent on the iPad

It is no secret, that I enjoy my iPad tremendously. I even proclaimed, now and then, that I love it! From the beginning, I approached the iPad with one goal in mind: I wanted to become fluent in using it. There is a distinct difference, in my opinion, between being …

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Digital Storytelling

Transliteracy- QR Codes and Art

Transliteracy is defined on Wikipedia as The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. The modern meaning of the term combines literacy with the prefix trans-, which means …

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Why and How to Participate in Teddy Bears Around The World Project?

I posted a few weeks ago about the ongoing Teddy Bears Around the World (now in its fourth year) project. The project blog and hub can be be found at http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/teddybearsaroundtheworld/ I have created a How-to-Guide in order to articulate how and why to join such a project, to make …

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Teaching English through Film and Screenwriting…

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