July 28, 2007
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Thanks to some year-long mentoring by Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim, I am now fully on board with students having their own blogs. I logged off Wednesday night’s Teachers Teaching Teachers Skypecast with some concrete ideas for providing students with … Continue reading
July 21, 2007
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Just finished a wonderful week at the Area 3 Writing Project’s summer tech institute Telling Stories in a Digital Age. We started the week with a look at digital story telling as a genre, using Movie Maker 2 as the … Continue reading
July 20, 2007
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I’m sitting in an A3WP tech workshop brainstorming with our summer institute teachers about what makes a PowerPoint presentation ineffective, boring, confusing and/or painful to sit through. Here are some of our thoughts: Too much writing on a slide Horrid … Continue reading
July 11, 2007
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Because I am still very much a learner in understanding all the tools available to teachers in Edublogs.org, one blog I’ve added to my reader is Mike Temple’s Edublogs Tutorials. For anyone seeking advanced sessions on Edublogs, Mike’s site will … Continue reading
July 8, 2007
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To pass the time on my flights to and from NECC, I grabbed – and dusted off – a few magazines from my nightstand. The first article to catch my eye was from the April/May 2007 edition of George Luca’s … Continue reading
July 5, 2007
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Time to reflect on some favorites from NECC 2007 Favorite toy: Flip video camera – Priced at 75$ at Costco for the model that offers up to 30 minutes of video, this pocket-sized camera has a popout USB plug in. … Continue reading