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Peggy George

Lisa's Lingo: Best Day Ever! 3 Skype Calls - 1 views

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shared by Peggy George on 09 Jun 09 - Cached
  • three Skype calls, all with a purpose, and one was quite exceptional.
  • middle school teacher in Connecticut
  • looking for elementary students to critique songs his students were creating about the Oregon Trail. How serendipitous it was that we are studying the Oregon Trail now.
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  • we Skyped with his class so they could find out what kind of songs our students liked.
  • all week, the students have been brainstorming ideas in the Google doc.
  • speak with some of my students who are researching the government of Canada and various provinces there. She explained how the government works and gave a clear explanation of a Parliament. She then answered questions about Canadian homes, her house (she was in her home while Skyping with us) and any pets she might have. She even sent us pictures of her cats
  • the most impressive use of collaborative technology I've ever seen in my room. Today was the day that we skyped with our writing partners.
  • third Skype call was with my Teachers Are Talking
  • So at 1:00, each child opened up their document and found that their partner was editing also
  • et up a computer with Skype that we placed in a corner of the room. One group at a time sat at the Skype computers and discussed their story.
  • principal was invited in to witness this project
  • inspired enough to say we need to find grants to give us enough money to buy 1 to 1 laptops for our classroom.
  • Maybe one of the most impressive bits to all of this is that the technology held up it's end of the bargain. I hope I have permission to use this post in my pursuit of Skype. My district is currently blocking it.
  • Peggy George on 09 Jun 09
     
    Lisa Parisi's blog post about a collaborative writing experience. Today was the day that we skyped with our writing partners. Brian Crosby and I started a collaborative writing project based on the book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris van Allsburg. We partnered up our students on individual stories from the book. Their assignment is to create an original story based on a picture and a title. After enlisting Christine Southard for this project, we then duplicated it for 8 other teachers. Each story is going to be written and edited in a Google doc. It will then be published in our Class Booktalk Wiki, where VoiceThreads will be available for the students to compare story versions.
Peggy George

PicLits: Creative Writing with Images and Keywords - 5 views

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shared by Peggy George on 09 May 10 - Cached
  • Peggy George on 09 May 10
     
    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on May 8, 2010 Special guests: Terry Friedlander and Carrie Lightner Topic: PicLits: Creative Writing with Images and Keywords"
  • Peggy George on 09 May 10
     
    "Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on May 8, 2010 Special guests: Terry Friedlander and Carrie Lightner Topic: PicLits: Creative Writing with Images and Keywords"
Peggy George

Photographic Dictionary - 8 views

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ESL photographicdictionary dictionary photos

shared by Peggy George on 27 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Peggy George on 27 Sep 12
     
    "photographic dictionary illustrates over five thousand common words with beautiful photos, and has many more common words sorted into categories. Short, simple language definitions Familiar categories Make lists for quizzes and puzzles Learn English as a second language (ESL) Find rhymes for common words 'Stock' images by category"
  • Peggy George on 27 Sep 12
     
    Amazing site with photos that are mainly using Creative Commons Share Alike licensing. Fantastic resources for ESL and creative writing!
Peggy George

Day 26: Tag, you're it. - Teach42-Steve Dembo - 0 views

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shared by Peggy George on 07 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Not every blog employs tagging, nor would I say that it’s absolutely required, but understanding how tags work and what they can do for you is certainly knowledge that every blogger should possess.
  • a tag is a keyword that you create that serves as an identifier or link for the purposes of searching and/or filtering. By strategically tagging your posts, you provide visitors yet another way to filter through your entries without creating 100’s of categories
  • If you blog regularly about mobile devices in education, by adding those tags along with your name and your blog name to your posts you create ways for you to be associated with those topics in searches.
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  • Another purpose for tagging is to add in the keywords that you may not have mentioned in your post.
  • it has become common practice for people to use unique tags to track posts revolving around an event or topic.
  • So long as everybody that posts about that conference includes that tag, then sites like Hitchhikr will be able to aggregate them together.
  • So what’s the challenge? Simply this, KNOW thy tagging system.
  • Do you tag your posts? How do you decide what tags to use? Have you ever found particular benefit to tagging, or is it just a habit at this point? When you visit somebody’s blog and want to explore, do you head off to the categories or the tags first?
  • the tag cloud on the sidebar of my blog is not only a place or visitors, but a vehicle for finding my OWN posts when trying to find one from a remote location in a hurry.
  • Tags and categories on blogs are about making it easier to find posts on your site plus also give the reader an indication of what you write about. Provided your tagging is good your reader can locate the most appropriate information better than using the search widget.
  • Peggy George on 07 Jun 09
     
    Not every blog employs tagging, nor would I say that it's absolutely required, but understanding how tags work and what they can do for you is certainly knowledge that every blogger should possess. At it's most basic level, a tag is a keyword that you create that serves as an identifier or link for the purposes of searching and/or filtering. By strategically tagging your posts, you provide visitors yet another way to filter through your entries without creating 100's of categories.
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