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Wired: Recognizing Technology As Our Tool

Notes from a presentation by Barbara Wilson at the ESC10 Technology Conference in Texas. Provides testimonials about using GPS devices to engage students.

A fusion of art and technology is the answer to realizing the NETS. This potent combination naturally creates opportunities for creativity, innovation, communication, higher-order thinking, differentiation, and tech literacy. This is the adventures of a middle school teacher in a real-world classroom implementing this fusion. Posts include successes, challenges, failures, model lessons, student work, tech tool reviews and tutorials.

The study results indicated that, in general, using interactive whiteboards was associated with a 16 percentile point gain in student achievement. This means that we can expect a student at the 50th percentile in a classroom without the technology to increase to the 66th percentile in a classroom using whiteboards.

Cool sample of tech tip sheets; most appear to be in Word for easy editing. Thx to Seth for sharing!

This should be on our webpage

Inanimate Alice is Transmedia - designed from the outset as a story that unfolds over time and on multiple platforms, the episodes are available on all devices capable of running Adobe's Flash Player. 'Alice' connects technologies, languages, cultures, generations and curricula within a sweeping narrative accessible by all. As Alice's journey progresses, new storylines appear elsewhere providing more details and insights, enriching the tale through surprising developments. Students are encouraged to co-create developing episodes of their own, either filling in the gaps or developing new strands.

Just for you TRTs

For those of you taking Jesse's course

Intro video for Edmodo training?

Introduction for teachers on how to use Edmodo

Short video and training documentation for Edmodo

Lessons and Labs for beginning geocaching. Created by Community College level educators. After review, it looks like they'd be appropriate activities for grade 5 and up.

Office 2010 Update Support - Training Courses, Interactive Guide (Where did it go?) Features, quick tips

Click on a screen image of 2003 program and get directions on how to do it in 2010

Very nice tool for AP students to get homework help from peers in a social format.

Very good ideas for some upper level literature classes

a list of 20 skills that "every" educator should have and links to the sites and tutorials related to those skills. Great set of basic skills for 21st Century teachers and administrators

More talk about Kahn