A sixty-day experiment documenting classroom life in the Cloud: two Northfield Community School (NCS) fourth grade teachers (Mrs. Shenkus & Mrs. Gibson) explore the use of Google Chromebooks across the curriculum.
The ISTE 2010 opening kick-off featured the following slides as people came in and filled the auditorium. The slides featured famous people who accomplished big things and quotes attributed to them. ISTE has made that loop of slides available through YouTube. Fortunately, in the video they spared us the music that accompanied the slides in the auditorium.
The National Endowment for the Humanities supports tuition-freeprofessional development programs each summer for American schoolteachers. Participants receive stipends to help cover travel and livingexpenses.
.a great collection of Web 2.0 tools arranged in categories such as presentation tools, collaborative tools, research tools, video tools, writing tools, creativity tools, and many more!
a great blog with historical recipes and information about them that can support a unit of study, or be given as homework so parents and students can cook (and learn!) together
Lesson List (60 minutes each)
* Definitions of Copyright: What Do They Know?
* A Brief History of Copyright and Innovation
* Fair Use: Remix Culture, Mashups, and Copyright
* Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File Sharing
* Fair Use - You Be the Judge!
I want to tell you about one of my favorite things on the Internet. Storify is the best way to gather tweets, comments, snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post. It's a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate.
You can use Storify to capture a momentous event online, or you can ask a question and curate the best answers. Its uses are almost limitless. I've gotten so much out of it as a blogging tool
"Record and playback digital recordings up to 5 minutes long which can then be posted on" to your personal Audioboo profile page.
You can record your "boos" by phone, with the iPhone app or through your web browser.
AudioBoo is iTunes ready making it the easiest way to begin podcasting.