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shared by Garry Marshall on 28 May 10 - No Cached
  • Garry Marshall on 28 May 10
     
    This is great, but I just can't see myself ever "tweeting."
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  • Stacy Palkovics on 28 May 10
     
    I hear ya... I can barely text on my cell phone so I am certain that tweeting is out of the question.
  • Melissa Reams on 03 Jun 10
     
    I don't like how people tell you every moment of their day! I won't be "tweeting" either.
  • Shannon Mejia on 04 Jun 10
     
    I haven't tried tweeting but I hear it's addicting.
  • Andrew Stevens on 06 Jun 10
     
    My wife has gotten into tweeting along with her blogging. She uses twitter as a tool to communicate with authors. I think that if I had the time, I would use it as well.
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VirginiaTrekkers - 0 views

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shared by Melissa Reams on 03 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Melissa Reams on 03 Jun 10
     
    This site is wonderful in the classroom enabling students to visit various places around the state of Virginia without leaving the classroom! It was created by 4 guys who work for HCPS.
  • Garry Marshall on 05 Jun 10
     
    I love that site! It's great to take kids on virtual field trips and if their teacher is on a PODcast like that, then it helps students relate to teachers and generates great discussion.
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Babel Fish - 0 views

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  • Shannon Mejia on 04 Jun 10
     
    Babel Fish is a translation tool for language students
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LearnCentral - 0 views

Learn Central
shared by anonymous on 03 Jun 10 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 03 Jun 10
     
    This online community provides educators with free access to webinar style video conferencing software.  We can use it for virtual office hours.
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86 North Carolina Schools Gain Online Courses -- THE Journal - 2 views

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shared by Garry Marshall on 03 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Garry Marshall on 03 Jun 10
     
    We have the capability to do this in Henrico with SchoolSpace but have yet to take it to the level that North Carolina has. I would like to see HCPS leading the way with online credit courses for struggling students.
  • Stacy Palkovics on 03 Jun 10
     
    Garry, We do offer online English and History classes through a program called Compass Learning for struggling students. It is new this year and seems to working well.
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Bionic Teaching - 2 views

bionicteaching.com/ education technology blog teaching
shared by Kelly Jessup on 31 May 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 31 May 10
     
    Tom's blog is on my aggregator list!
  • Garry Marshall on 03 Jun 10
     
    I see a lot on the blog that probably shouldn't be posted due to the fact that it deals with things going on in Henrico County Public Schools. It raises issues with intellectual property and our web posting guidelines. If it can be construed as for one's personal gain, then it's not acceptable. The we and intellectual property guidelines are actually part of policy the last time I checked. Just my thought on it... I do visit the blog to help understand some of the jargon.
  • Melissa Reams on 03 Jun 10
     
    I have to agree with you Gary, however, I thought below was powerful: I think about where we spend our money. We're constantly trying to find easy ways out of holes, easy ways to scale metaphorical mountains. We look for processes to remove the chores of thought and decision. Education is floundering. We lost our faith in teachers. It is every politician's easy drum to beat- after all. "Our schools are failing! The enemies are at the gate!"1 Who would argue that our kids don't deserve better? Both parties agree. Education is failing. Our solution is not to work, to spend money and time on our teachers, to help them become better, instead we send our money away, spending precious time testing products of a system we insist is broken. We buy software. We buy content. We buy external experts.2 We buy reputation. We buy "trust" and "quality" because we don't believe either really exists in our schools. Invest that money in our teachers, on smaller classes, on things that have been proven to matter. Make teaching a career that isn't based on martyrdom. Martyrs die flaming deaths. Systems based on them don't last. There are no easy answers. You can't buy, process, software, magic your way out of this. There is no microwave dinner version of educational reform.
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PageFlakes - 0 views

www.pageflakes.com education technology web2.0 teaching
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  • Stacy Palkovics on 03 Jun 10
     
    PageFlakes is a start page similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Microsoft Live. Site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes
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THE Journal - 0 views

thejournal.com/...20100602.aspx web2.0 technology newsletter education
shared by Garry Marshall on 03 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Garry Marshall on 03 Jun 10
     
    Technology Horizons in Education is FREE and full of valuable learning for administrators working with technology. Check it out!
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Va. to get $324 million in stimulus funds for schools | Richmond Times-Dispatch - 0 views

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shared by matthewdengel on 03 Jun 10 - Cached
  • nowBuzz up! Virginia is in line for an additional $324 million in federal economic-stimulus funds, according to the state's U.S. senators.
  • "At a time when state and local government budgets are tight, these stimulus dollars have helped Virginia avoid even deeper cuts to public education."
    • matthewdengel
      matthewdengel on 03 Jun 10
       
      Boy I hope this helps! When does HCPS see theirs?
  • matthewdengel on 03 Jun 10
     
    Virginia will receive an additional $324 million in federal economic-stimulus funds to help retain teachers and improve low-performing schools.
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#Vanmeter Schools Transforming the Educational System: Student Post- "It is Exciting to... - 1 views

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shared by Kate Puschak on 02 Jun 10 - Cached
  • But this year, my junior year, that all changed. No, Van Meter Community High School didn’t get a new lunch menu. It began the one to one program and entrusted its students with their own personal MAC laptops. More importantly though, our teachers and administrators gave us the opportunity to be apart of what has become the beginning of an educational movement! Similar to a tidal wave to the face or a nice cold Coca Cola on a hot, Iowa summer day, students at Van Meter felt the refreshing impact that the computers had on us. Suddenly, I was excited to come to school again. I wanted to see what our teachers could do with the new technology handed to them and I was eager to learn something. What a crazy thought! No longer was I dragging my feet and wondering when oh when would that bell finally ring to signal it was 3:15.
  • Kate Puschak on 02 Jun 10
     
    I thought this was just a friendly reminder how lucky Henrico County is to have so much technology at its fingertips!!!
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Virginia Department of Education: Open Education and Policy - Creative Commons - 1 views

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shared by Kelly Jessup on 02 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Traditional textbooks have served us well, especially for me as a beginning teacher, because the textbook was the curriculum. The concept of looking at different ways to deliver textbooks could be as simple as putting it online or making it able to be viewed on an iPad or similar device. It could be more complex by including lots of multimedia and other interactive resources. But fundamentally, even experienced teachers are looking to textbooks for guidance on what to teach, what the content should be, and what the process should be. In developing electronic textbooks, you have to hold onto those concepts. The textbook is a teacher’s guideline and roadmap. Any of the multimedia and enhanced materials that you can include to enliven instruction would attest to that.
  • We can energize students with technology, and there’s a lot of gold to be panned in exploring many new teaching methods
  • OER would allow many opportunities and latitude to have really good and engaging instruction. The sharing of resources and best practices would help teachers do other things to enhance the learning of not only mainstream kids, but gifted students too. Struggling students can use these resources to review content in other formats or at different paces.
  • Kelly Jessup on 02 Jun 10
     
    Interview with Lan Neugent on his platform and idea of Open Education Resources
  • Kelly Jessup on 02 Jun 10
     
    This is an interview with Lan Neugent. It can give you an idea of his current iniative in VA for education and technology.
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Web 2.0 in the classroom by Ryan McCallum on Prezi - 1 views

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shared by Byron Davis on 01 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Web 2.0 in the classroom
    • Byron Davis
      Byron Davis on 01 Jun 10
       
      This does such a good job of summarizing our Web 2.0 discussions for this course! It's definitely worth your time to check it out.
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digitaltools - Social Bookmarking - 0 views

digitaltools.wmwikis.net/Social+Bookmarking social bookmarking diigo video education
shared by anonymous on 31 May 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 31 May 10
     
    One of my students from WM created this webpage about social bookmarking.  It includes a video featuring a teacher who is using the tool in her classroom.
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TED: Ideas worth spreading - 1 views

www.ted.com/ technology education ideas
shared by Kelly Jessup on 31 May 10 - Cached
  • Kelly Jessup on 31 May 10
     
    Inspiring speeches
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The Science Spot - 1 views

www.sciencespot.net
shared by Tia Brown on 29 May 10 - Cached
  • Tia Brown on 29 May 10
     
    Science Spot
  • Tia Brown on 29 May 10
     
    On science spot one can see and share lesson, there are ideas for science projects, a reference desk, backyard garden, etc... My favorite is the idea factory. One can share ideas and favorite teaching tips with others on science lessons.
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Virginia State Standards of Learning Science, Math and Technology Practice Tests - 1 views

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shared by Mylene Melson on 29 May 10 - No Cached
  • Mylene Melson on 29 May 10
     
    SInce we are in SOL testing right now, I thought this would be a good site to share with math and science teachers. The "more options" is great because students can concentrate on their weakest strands.
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