For those of you who would like to get more technical with blogging, website management, and cross posting to optimize readership, McLeod has assembled a great group of chrome extensions.
If you haven't found this website, get ready to spend an hour and a half browsing through this awesome list of "Interesting ways. . ." to use technology in the classroom. My favorite is the "Use the iPad in the classroom.
The Blog "The EDjurist" is also somewhat affiliated with McLeod, and it covers much of what we worry about, in terms of AUP, how we deal with student pictures on websites, Facebook issues, etc. Here, the author gives the inclusive notes from his pre-conference session, including his powerpoint.
Half website, half hybrid textbook, this "book" has a lot of resoruces you would normally have immediate access to. My favorite part is the presetnation section.
hese skills are not taught by rote learning alone, but rather are learned through discovery, inquiry, and exploration. Many of these skills cannot be successfully taught through an application or website, but must be experienced in class and facilitated by a teacher.
Just because an educational tool isn’t perfect does not mean it should be disregarded. Just because an online classroom does not replace the role of a teacher doesn’t mean that this learning tool has no educational merit. Though there are thousands of technological tools that help enhance instruction, it doesn’t mean that teachers will be rendered obsolete.
The Google Apps Ninja Program that I started back in September and blogged about here has completely taken me by surprise. There are now over 150 educators who have access to the Google Docs. Seeing that there might be something here that I can support long term I decided to move all the files to their own Google Apps domain. So the Google Apps Ninja Program is now officially found at www.ninjaprogram.com the website isn't finished but after reading this blog post if you are interested in using the files and helping to keep them updated, fill out this form and I'll get you in. I'm excited to focus on this next year as one of my projects.