1:1 Pilot

A look at the use of mobile phones and web 2.0 technology for instruction

"Weather Underground - The Best Weather Site On The Web"

I think there was an article on this in Wired a few months back...

Yeah, I used to use weather channel all the time. They updated their site recently, and now it is too confusing. Weather underground has quick easy to get info and forecasts. Accu-weather has nice graphics from a teaching perspective.

Article that takes a broad view of technology in education. It has pros and cons, but its distribution is wide so it's good to see what others are saying (i.e. parents, community, students).

This could be useful on Wikis or maybe blogs for kids to track who's looking at their work.

A really cool way to look at your work in OneNote.  This add in allows you to see all of your pages at once from a "bird's eye view".

A student sent this to me from Yale. The American Scholar is a great resource. This suggests reasons for why students are not selecting English as their majors anymore.

English Teachers: To tempt you further to read this amazing article: "But we can, we must, do better. At stake are the books themselves and what they can mean to the young. Yes, it is just a literary tradition. That's all. But without such traditions, civil societies have no compass to guide them. That boy falling out of the sky is not to be neglected."

Chelmsford Library....aka Chelmsford Learning Commons!

Top 10 sites for creating online surveys and polls

This website has a lot of media/entertainment type things as well... but there are a host of "games" for geography, literature, science (yay science!), history, language, and sports. (I've spent a lot of time trying to get my best time of naming all 50 states.)

Read the 14 page "Exceutive Summary PDF" to get a view of the national plan. Will Richardson mentioned this during our morning session. Enjoy!

thanks so much for sharing this! It will be incredibly useful for students in African Studies as well as our Comparative World Studies classes where we study differnet cultures and the students research different aspects of culture.

When students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation.

Students have more information at their fingertips than ever before, yet the challenge remains for them to find, evaluate, and apply the information they discover in the classroom and beyond.Applying critical thinking skills through web research can help students: Improve search skills.Evaluate the information they find.Incorporate them in their work.Explore the ready-to-use curriculum below, including detailed lesson plans, student worksheets, and class demonstration

Possibly some ideas for different ways to engage students on day 1.

Examples of projects that SLA has done. Each one has a little description and some have attached UbD unit plans, student work, etc.

This is an awesome utility that stores your favorites/bookmarks on a server and is constantly syncing what's on the server to what's in your browser. But more importantly you have access to all of your bookmarks wherever you are, you just have to log in. And when you get a new computer or try out a new browser you can download them into your new browser. And you can create bookmark profiles to keep personal computer bookmarks separate from Tablet PC bookmarks, etc. Not so much Web 2.0 but it's a Godsend! And your students can snyc their existing bookmarks onto their new netbooks!

A recent example of the dangers of pulling Google images for web projects.

A 23 slide slideshow on using backchannel chats.