LTMS600

"Nineteen Interesting Ways* to use Wallwisher in the Classroom"

If you've got (or are thinking about getting) Google Apps for Education, then you need to see this. Nice site that was announced at ISTE this year (2010)

Shared tonight on the Elluminate session with Steve Hargadon

Alternative to Ning

Now, build your own widget based on Wolfram Alpha's search queeries. Thanks to Rob Nelson for sharing this

Could you put one of these on YOUR website for your students?

"List of twenty-five tips, ideas and resources that may galvanize educational uses for the Wave."

This looks very interesting and I have bookmarked it for when I have time to check in out more.

"At Learn it in 5, you'll learn what is Web 2.0, and strategies for using Web 2.0 technology in the digital classroom - all in 5 minutes or less. Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more."

thanks- added to bookmarks and following on Twitter

50 Great ideas for using Google Earth in the classroom. From elementary to high school

Posts that were tagged with the word #edchat

Shared today on Twitter

Thanks, I can use this as a resource to cite for the game for students with specific learning disabilities and deficits in executive functioning I am making for LTMS 603.

"Allow a student to create a faux Facebook page for a famous person from history using a Google Drawing! A fun way to introduce research to students."

"Google Earth Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth & Maps to the hundreds of millions of people who use them. "

"Here's another poster to help get you thinking about how you can apply Bloom's higher-order thinking skills in your classroom. This poster shows the segments of an orange with each segment relating to a thinking skill and some helpful verbs to serve as prompts."

1 minute in is what I mentioned in class about the evolution of humans

Wall-E Clip - Look 1 min. in

Keynote Student Speaker in Dallas

Keynote Student Speaker in Dallas

I know several of us are already following Free Technology for Teachers but I am posting this because we do all 11 things in LTMS 600! Thanks to our great teachers and information we share with each other. It is nice to be validated. Soon time for us to use more of these tools in our classroom!

This looks like a good resource for those who plan to use Edmodo. Wish I had found this before presenting.

Checklist for using Moodle including Admin settings and resources

A lot of you mentioned using Moodle as the course delivery method for your project. Nice checklist to make sure you are ready to use Moodle.

Photo sharing doesn't get any easier than this. No account needed.

Another "Did You Know" kind of video. Very interesting. should your students see this? Should they discuss it? Does it apply only to Brunswick students?