1:1 Pilot

Google has not only taken over the world, but they are positioned to take over many of the classrooms! There are many Google resources and applications that can be utilized in the classroom. Below you will find them organized into the following categories: Applications (downloads); Collaboration; Research Resources and Other Resources.

A new way to use Facebook?

Shelly Terrell's reflection on Elluminate session: Elevating Education Reform Dialog

This post describes an Elluminate interactive session taking place on Oct 4th at 5pm. A panel of internationally recognized, innovative educators will be discussing ways to push the education reform movement forward. Presenters include Will Richardson, Chris Lehmann, Alfie Kohn, Sir Ken Robinson, and Gary Stager. 

Corey Plough's presentation at TSETC

Shelly Terrell's wiki for #TSETC

Adam Bellow's site for TSETC

Blog about #tsetc experience

Mary Beth Hertz's site for #tsetc session

Erica Hartman's presentation from #tsetc

Mark Moran's "Teaching Ten Steps to Better Web Research" info from his TSETC session. 

Karen Blumberg's Notes from TSETC. She covers sessions on building a PLN, using web 2.0 tools, researching on the web, teaching with games, using an iPad, using social media, going global, and using digital storytelling. 

A 35-page manual showing how to use Prezi.

Thank you, I uploaded to my moodle site for the students.

Rob Mancabelli posted this on Twitter...thought I'd share.

A student in my media lit class shared this. Is this social networking gone too far?

As we gear up for the Fall 2010 semester, I wanted to revisit the idea of teaching with Twitter.

Twitter is a good tool but unless you are on nearly constantly, you miss a great deal.

Something fun to test our newly acquired social media savvy.

It should raise questions when an enormous, complicated realm of life takes on the characteristics of a stock drama. In the current school-reform story, there is a reliable villain, in the form of the teachers' unions, and a familiar set of heroes, including Geoffrey Canada, of Harlem Children's Zone; Wendy Kopp, of Teach for America, the Knowledge Is Power Program; and Michele Rhee, the superintendent of schools in Washington, D.C. And there is a clear answer to the problem-charter schools.