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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Deb Gardner

Deb Gardner

The Innovative Educator: Google Voice Provides Every Teacher with a Personal Secretary - 0 views

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    Gets around the issue of providing personal cell phone numbers to students and/or parents. Many more uses for teachers.
Deb Gardner

Revisiting Cell Phone Bans in Schools -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Twenty-four percent of K-12 schools ban cell phones altogether, and 62 percent allow phones on school grounds but ban them in the classroom, according to the most recent national data available. But it's about time for those schools to rethink those bans,
  • We have to decide if we are going to continue to ban cell phones, and we have to weigh the balance between pros and cons.
  • He described one example of a teacher using Poll Everywhere in a social studies classroom. As students enter the classroom, the teacher has posted a question on the whiteboard asking students what they believe to be the most important cause of the Civil War.
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  • QR codes are also making mobile phones more attractive as educational tools.
  • research has demonstrated that using texting to provide students and parents with regular information about classwork leads to higher assignment completion rates.
  • To create the Web pages for each site of interest, we used the WordPress blogging tool,"
  • The cell phone bans are in place, Bellarmine's Thomas said, because of legitimate concerns about cheating, texting, sexting, and cyberbullying. Thomas argued that the mobile phones themselves are not causing these problems. They are moral and ethical in nature, not technical. "These are new forms of old behaviors. Banning will not be the solution," he said. "We have to educate students about proper way to use the tools."
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    Read the comments by readers - lots of insights here.
Deb Gardner

Free Technology for Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years - Crazy About RSS - 1 views

  • Without a doubt RSS feeds and Google Reader are the most important tool that I use on a daily basis.
Deb Gardner

CIESE - Curriculum: K-12 CIESE Online Tele-Collaborative Classroom Projects - 2 views

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    I like this website b/c it's collaborative and addresses "real world" issues and/or problems. Many activities require data collection which is conducive to setting up, collecting and reporting using spreadsheets.
Deb Gardner

Welcome to T2T - Technology Training developed for teachers by teachers - 3 views

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    includes zipped activities/files for Excel. Great resource
Deb Gardner

Excel - 6 views

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    provides links to Excel 2007 tutorials (pdfs)
Deb Gardner

Ten Reasons Why Teachers Excel in the Classroom - 3 views

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    Explore this website. It's dated but Kathy provides many ways to use Excel - even in the el ed classroom.
Deb Gardner

Education World: Middle School Math Lessons | Using Excel - 2 views

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    Good article but see if you can spot the error in CUPS. How could you apply principles/concepts from this article at a MS level to el ed or HS? Think about Common Core State Standards and the student learning objectives that emanate from them.
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