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Allison Johnson

Teacher Blog Community - Blogs for Teachers : TeacherLingo.com - 0 views

teacherlingo.com

shared by Allison Johnson on 06 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Allison Johnson on 06 Mar 09
     
    Great blogging community for teachers. You can start your own blog discussing any problems, sucesses, issues, etc and have a community of other teachers there to help and learn along with you. You can also read their blogs and learn from what they have to say. Great information would be shared.
Macy Stewart

Twitter in a Classroom - 12 views

Twitter is a useful tool for an ECE teacher to communicate with parents of students. This is an easy way for parents to be informed on what is going on in their child's school and classroom.

started by Handley Wright on 02 Mar 09 1 follow-up, last by Macy Stewart on 03 Nov 09
anonymous

MySpace - 0 views

www.myspace.com

web2.0 socialnetworking community network tools

shared by anonymous on 23 May 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 23 May 09
     
    MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends. Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends! See who knows who, or how you are connected. Find out if
anonymous

Skype - 1 views

www.skype.com

tools web2.0 software collaboration telephony voip chat communication

shared by anonymous on 23 May 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 23 May 09
     
    Skype created a little piece of software that makes communicating with people around the world easy and fun. With Skype you can say hello or share a laugh with anyone, anywhere. And if both of you are on Skype, it's free.
  • Shelby Jackson on 04 Nov 09
     
    This program is not suited well in servign as a web2.0 tool for children. This site can, however, be used as a tool of communication between caregivers and teachers. Though it does not have a direct influence on children, it can also be used to connect with other professionals to gain insight and advice.
Jessi Williams

Collaborative Document Creation - Adobe Buzzword - 3 views

Adobe Buzzword is a program that is new to me, but I had a lot of fun learning to use it. The site is used mainly to create and collaborate on PDF files. The tool is free, but you must set up an ...

techeducators community collaborativedocumentcreation creation

started by Jessi Williams on 03 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Blagojevic

LTP | Getting Started: "I Wanna Take Me a Picture" - 2 views

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techeducators digital_photographychildren

shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
  • we’re living in a visual culture
  • benefits of positive visual stimulation
  • Even very young children, when encouraged, have the ability to express their complex emotional lives visually.
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  • until the second or third grade a child’s predominant means of self-expression is drawing.
  • But when they’re just beginning to write, they often rely on their drawings rather than their writing to convey the meaning of the story.
  • the need to attend to our neglected physical and visual surroundings
  • and the need we all feel to articulate and communicate something relevant about our personal and communal lives.
  • thirty years of thinking about how we learn, and how we express ourselves with images.
  • when I demonstrated how the camera worked to the people I wanted to photograph, everyone, myself included, felt more at ease.
  • Their desire to be photographed was as strong as their desire to photograph.
  • The children’s pictures were more complicated and disturbing than mine — and, I began to realize, much closer to what it felt like to be there.
  • Merton’s photograph reflects that fear.
  • Their pictures and writings made for an uncompromising look at the problems they faced.
  • It’s unlikely that the young people would ever have written what they did without the pictures to prompt them (Kathy’s writing came from the beautiful landscape photographs she’d made), and the pictures would have been difficult to decipher without the stories to accompany them.
  • their photo-essays were a starting point for acknowledging and discussing, in their own voices, a very tough predicament. (
  • how photography and writing stimulated one another. Many of the students I worked with had trouble writing; they would labor painfully over a sentence or two. But when they worked from a photograph that had something to do with their own lives, especially a picture they had taken themselves, they were able to write more — and what they wrote about was their own experiences.
  • Asking them to write about the subject they were going to photograph, then asking them to make a list of images suggested by their writing — this was a way to help them organize their picture-taking before they went out to shoot.
  • These children had never seen each other’s neighborhoods, certainly not each other’s homes or families. They were essentially strangers to each other.
  • When the students brought back pictures of their families and communities, each child tried to explain what was going on in the pictures, and the others eagerly asked questions.
  • teachers rarely come from the same community as their students. Photographs can give them a glimpse into their students’ lives.
  • Photography is perhaps the most democratic visual art of our time. For most of us, picture taking is a part of our family lives. We don’t need a particular talent, like the hand-eye coordination necessary for drawing, to render what we look at. Even children and adults unfamiliar with photography can make photographs of what they see and imagine. For those of us who have used cameras, photography offers a language that can draw on the imagination in a way we may never have thought possible before.
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 16 Sep 09
     
    Wendy Ewald shares from lessons learned working with children, using photography to express themselves. Lots of interesting ideas.
mary corr

Twitter - 0 views

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shared by mary corr on 01 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Handley Wright on 01 Mar 09
     
    Twitter is an easy way to communicate with friends, co-workers, and other people. For us, as teachers, it is a great way to communicate with parents what is happening in the classroom!
  • mary corr on 03 Nov 09
     
    Twitter has become a very popular site over the last 2 years. This site would be more appropriate for teachers and parents. Teachers could follow someone in the public eye that has importance to education, and parents can follow teachers. By "follow", I mean that if you "follow" someone, you receive updates from them to your phone and/or web. It is a great way to stay connected! Many times parents are curious as to what their children are doing/learning that moment, and teachers can express this through using Twitter.
  • mary corr on 03 Nov 09
     
    After evaluating this site even more, there is not always a guarantee that a website that is posted to someone's update would work or be available. This could cause concern and frustration for a parent or student trying to stay in communication with a teacher through Twitter.
Rachel Arredondo

http://www.epals.com/ - 0 views

www.epals.com

collaborative document creation

shared by Rachel Arredondo on 24 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Collaboration Corner
  • Safely connect, collaborate and learn using our leading protected email and blog solutions for schools and districts
    • Rachel Arredondo
      Rachel Arredondo on 02 Dec 09
       
      Goal of ePals.
  • anonymous on 24 Feb 09
     
    The ePals Global Learning Community is a network of interconnected classrooms around the world. It provides a safe environment for students and teachers for building and exchanging knowledge, using protected e-mail, blogs, translation tools, evidence-based curricula and authentic, collaborative learning experiences. ePals offers a range of services and features that are free for students in grades K through 12. One service is ePals SchoolMail. This is a multilingual electronic communications solution that offers schools and districts a protected, customized and collaborative environment. Another service is ePals SchoolBlog, an educational tool for creating unified Web-based platforms that administrators, teachers, parents and students use to achieve academic goals (hotchalk.com)
  • Rachel Arredondo on 02 Dec 09
     
    The ePals Global Learning community is a very useful networking, and collaborative tool. I found it very easy to use. It is easy to sign up and free to use. I have had no problems using this website.
Annalise Walker

Free patient websites, blogs, support and community - CarePages.com - 0 views

www.carepages.com

techhome support family healthcare illness blogs

shared by Annalise Walker on 01 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Annalise Walker on 01 Mar 09
     
    Carepages is a site that allows individuals undergoing a health care challenge to connect with others going through the same experience. Families are also able to create their own blogs and websites where they can share updates with family and friends. Carepages provides support, community, and resources for anyone needing information and help during these trying times.Teachers can use this site to gain knowledge of conditions that might be affecting their students as well as by providing them with a way to check in on a student who might be in the hospital.
  • Annalise Walker on 01 Mar 09
     
    Carepages are a great way for families and patients to keep family and friends updated both in and out of the hospital. They would also be a great way for teachers and students to stay in touch with a friend who is in the hospital and missing school.
  • Jocelynn Smrekar on 25 Oct 09
     
    A website that connects patients during a "health challenge." This site, like CaringBridge, is for ill children and families and has information, discussion boards, and blogging. Although useful for a certain segment of the population, does it belong on techhome?
Alicia Caldwell

Dabbleboard: The Whiteboard Reinvented - 3 views

dabbleboard.com

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shared by Alicia Caldwell on 10 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Alicia Caldwell on 24 Oct 09
     
    Dabbleboard is an online whiteboard that allows users to visualize, explore, communicate, create, and share their work. Users can chose from two ways of drawing: freehand or computer-recognized shapes. Either way, users can create a multitude of pieces. Dabbleboard can be especially helpful for students. They can create flow charts, organizational charts, or mind maps to process school topics. As well, they can create comic strips, mark on uploaded pictures, or freehand drawings to accompany an original story. There is also a collaborative feature, that allows users to voice and video chate, share with or browse the public library, or send the link of their creation via the web. There are endless possibilities for students to express their creativity using Dabbleboard.
  • Cecile Robinson on 24 Oct 09
     
    This can be a great graphic organizer to help students study for tests and communicate while doing projects.
Jocelynn Smrekar

Snapfish - 6 views

Snapfish can be used by anyone to upload pictures into an album to share with friends and family, organize them, create collages, calandars, photo books, cards, etc. It is a great website for teach...

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started by Kari Webb on 02 Mar 09 1 follow-up, last by Jocelynn Smrekar on 16 Oct 09
Jessi Williams

Central Desktop - 2 views

www.centraldesktop.com

techeducators creative document creation community class tools

shared by Jessi Williams on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Jessi Williams on 03 Nov 09
     
    This is a collaborative document tool that has three different links so that you can customize your document depending on whether you are part of a workgroup, enterprise, or community. Teachers could use the workgroup version to collaborate on assignments or other things going on in the school. You could also use the community tool to collaborate with parents.
Katie Paciga

The Pre-K underground | eSchool News - 7 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...the-pre-k-underground

PreK co-op

shared by Katie Paciga on 20 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Paciga on 20 Dec 11
     
    Not so much tech (email communication between parents is actually discouraged), but interesting to those engaged in PreK. Alternative settings for education.
Katie Paciga

Google Docs for Communicating | EdReach - 2 views

edreach.us/...google-docs-for-communicating

techeducators

shared by Katie Paciga on 10 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Katie Paciga on 10 Feb 12
     
    Record keeping with google docs, forms, and spreadsheets. Invite collaboration across school personnel and with parents too.
Dan Tompkins

Where Do Parents Fit Into The Mobile Learning Revolution? - Edudemic - 1 views

www.edudemic.com/nts-mobile-learning-revolution

digitalcitizenship parentsandtechnology

shared by Dan Tompkins on 07 May 14 - No Cached
  • Dan Tompkins on 07 May 14
     
    Communication is key to involving parents in their child's education and educators must do what they can to keep the conversation going.
Bonnie Blagojevic

TopTen for Young Learners - All the Best! - 18 views

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techchildren web2.0 wiki

shared by Bonnie Blagojevic on 15 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Bonnie Blagojevic on 15 Apr 09
     
    Gail Lovely's list of Top Ten Web 2.0 tools for young learners. Should be interesting to check this out.
  • Shelby Jackson on 04 Nov 09
     
    #6. Glogster EDU- This is a great way to incorporate the school into the home. This program allows teacher to show caregivers what is being done in the classroom (i.e. uploading class calendars, posting students' projects, etc.). If teachers post educational practice links, students are able to practice certain skills learned in the classroom at home. This program also allows parents to connect with the teacher, it will allow parents and teachers to communicate via blogs.
  • anonymous on 16 Nov 09
     
    Wonderful that someone put together a list of the top ten tools for young children,their parents and teachers. Several sites would be helpful in working with young children or counseling are: 1. Wordle - students could create a poster of words they know and continue adding new words. 2. Yola - a user friendly software that allows teacher, parents, student to create a web site.to share information with others. 3. Blogs - the KinderKids Blog published class projects that could be view by parents or serve as means of communicating with classrooms around the world.
Bonnie Blagojevic

Introducing the CHFD 5130 students! - 43 views

During Spring 2009, students in my Creative Activities for Young Children class will be exploring technology tools that could be used in early childhood settings. As part of a class assignment, the...

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started by Diane Bales on 11 Feb 09 1 follow-up, last by Bonnie Blagojevic on 04 Mar 09
anonymous

Photo Story 3 - 11 views

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techchildren techhome collaborative document creation storybook creation communication tools video editing digital file sharing

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  • Kelly Hoang on 02 Mar 09
     
    Photos Story 3 is a way to combine photos, voice recordings, music, and writing . Children can bring their favorite stories to life or create their own. By creating photo stories in the class or at home, these stories can be shared to many.
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  • Alicia Caldwell on 24 Oct 09
     
    With Photo Story 3, students, parents, and teachers can create, share, and connect! Simply start by uploading your digital photos and editing them the way you like. Then add your own personal touches such as special effects, transitions, music, and even your own voice narration! Children will love being able to hear their own voices narrate their stories. After you have created your stories, share them with anyone online, by burning a DVD/CD, or watching them on your TV. This is a great way for students to show their creativity! Just download the program onto your computer.
  • Jocelynn Smrekar on 25 Oct 09
     
    Free, easy, creative tool for the user. Upload photos, add captions, your own voice as narrator, transitions. and music. Clear instructions too. What's not to like?
  • Anna Berrier on 04 Nov 09
     
    Photostory is unbelievably user friendly and could be used in any classroom to help a child integrate their outside of school experience inside the classroom. It's a good way to get children to learn about the way that other families live and it brings a sense of community to the classroom when a photostory is shared and everyone knows a little bit more about that individual.
  • Darcy York on 06 Nov 09
     
    that is a really great idea. That is amazing. Thanks for sharing
  • Rachel Arredondo on 02 Dec 09
     
    I actually downloaded this software recently. It was extremely easy to use and fun to play with. I created a couple of slideshows involving my siblings, and shared with my family via the email and they enjoyed it. I like how easy it is to share and how creative you can get with it. I feel that children could use this with some assistance, but they will be thrilled with the end result. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
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