40 day global blogging challenge on energy conservation

This is one wise young woman's way of generating interest in using Web 2.0 tools.

Vicki Davis is asking for some help for her kids. "They have been using Google Lively as part of the Digiteen Project teaching digital citizenship (http://www.digiteen.net), however Google has announced it will shut lively down on December 31st." See her 'coolcatteacher' blog --> http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/ for more details.

This is such a nifty toolbar. If you have a ommunity they can all use it to quickly log on to your main blog, wicki, or social network and you can control the features. If not, go to the gallery and install on eyou like. I have 2 going -- the one for my community and another for NPR.

Wow! I live in the Pacific Northwest of Canada, and Georgia Strait shows greater impact than the California Coast. Southern Nova Scotia is a global hot spot. It would make an interesting project to get students working on what factors are contributing to such a high rate of impact off our coasts and what form that is taking. That should be presented to our provincial government as they consider lifitnf the moratorium on offshore drilling.

This video is one of a wonderful collection of videos showing the 2008 Students on Ice Expedition. It's a great opportunity for any young person interested in the environment and the icy regions of the world. One of my students was on this trip!!!

The companion site to the Freepath software --here you can store and share your multimedia files. You can set up groups colleagues or students who can access your files (aka: playlists) online, and then download and use them.

Free software for collecting multimedia resources and links, I am using this to build a new Earth science 11 program. Freepath lends itself so well to enabling my students (who work individually) to engage in the joy of self-directed discovery within the parameters of a structured learning package because they will be able to maneuver around my collection of multimedia materials, worksheets, readings, and links non-sequentially -- following their interests and going where their curiosity takes them, but will still have to come back to the framework and fulfill the expectations of the unit.

Welcome to my web page. Here you'll find links to some tools and resources my teaching partner and I have used to begin to move from 'text, paper and word processor' towards a more blended learning environment.

My first blog --> introduces meshows tools I like & questions I am grappling with "When I first started teaching and used to imagine how I'd end up, I thought perhaps I'd be helping student teachers learn how to work in the classroom. Now I think that goal may be within reach, but with a different twist, because I'm getting enormous pleasure from helping colleagues -- many near dinosaurs like I almost was -- renew, refresh and re-energize their work -- by letting web-based tools and resources breathe new life into our work.