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Deb Little

Education Week: Educators Move Beyond the Hype Over Skype - 3 views

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  • ou want an opportunity for your kids to communicate with other kids about what they are learning,” says Becky Fisher, the director of educational technology and professional development for the 13,000-student Albemarle County school district in central Virginia
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    Good Article which talks about the use of Skype-but also one downside-finding efficient ways to connect with partners
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    This article gave several ideas on how Skype is being used in the classroom.
Sam Oppel

GroupTweet | Learn About GroupTweet - 3 views

  • The next time Malcolm (or anyone else on the team) needs to send an update, he sends a direct message to the group account and in a few minutes the entire team receives a tweet and everyone is up-to-date.
Maria Jacobus

The Harley School ~ Teaching Empathy - 6 views

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    Harley School Receives Educational Leadership Grant from the Recognized as national leader in teaching empathy and emotional literacy (Rochester, NY-May 27, 2011)-The Harley School, a preK-12 independent school located in Brighton, NY, has been awarded a 2011 Edward E. Ford Foundation Education Leadership Grant to further its work in teaching empathy and emotional literacy.
Amy Updegraff

ePals Facebook - 7 views

Liza Alton

I Tre Strumenti - 13 views

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    Excellent site by summer students of Sam Oppel
jaydahl

Travel updates - 7 views

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    Great site offers all kinds of advice to travelers that they can look at real quick before traveling.
Sam Oppel

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Home - 3 views

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    This is an excellent intro article about how to help the US education keep up. The idea of fusing the 3 R's with the 4C's(critical-thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation.
Kari Bosma

Teaching is Elementary: Skype in the Classroom...For Real! - 5 views

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    On this blog a fourth grade classroom teacher shares how she and another teacher (that she connected with via twitter) collaborated to use Skype to connect and complete a Mystery State Project. I think that this is a neat idea and that my fourth grade teachers would be interested in trying this.
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    I teach all levels at the high school and I can see this as an asset for my classes.
Linda Warner

Skype game gets kids excited about geography | Edutopia - 3 views

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    What a creative way to use technology!
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    Sounds like fun!
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    This is a great way to use this resource. Kids got involved.
Deb Little

How Educators Use Skype In The Classroom | HowToLearn.com - 6 views

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    Penguin Group, New York Philharmonic, Peace One Day, among others join Skype in the classroom to deliver dynamic content and guest speakers Helping to educate and inspire the next generation of thinkers, Skype joins forces with Penguin Group, New York Philharmonic, Science Museum London, Peace One Day, and Save the Children to provide teachers with educational content and access to expert speakers via video calling.
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    One of the coolest uses of Skype was the music video "One," that featured musicians from around the world colloborating to perform "Lean on Me" in real time. It's very moving, and my students love it.
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    I'm going to have to check it out after I locate a box of Kleenex! :) How do I find it? Do you have the link?
kschlawin

Facebook Demographics Revisited - 3 views

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    Some interesting demographic info on Facebook.
Sam Oppel

followmolly.com - 3 views

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    I have found this website to be very helpful when setting up a Google Site and maintaining it.
ssempeer

50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom - 2014's Top Teaching Degrees: Compare Pr... - 6 views

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    Lots of great ideas for using Skype in the classroom or school!
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    50 ideas for using Skype in the classroom!
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    This idea is great for the foreign-language classroom: http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2009/05/using-skype-in-the-languages-classroom.html. The teacher used video-conferencing with Skype and then recorded the conversation so her students could watch it again later.
Amy Keller

Banning Facebook in school: Interview on the Craig Fahle Show, WDET | Punya Mishra's Web - 4 views

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    Punya is a professor at Michigan State University in Education Technology. This is a post from his blog.
Anita Roche

Get your kids off Facebook, principal tells parents | Technically Incorrect - CNET News - 4 views

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    "There is absolutely, positively no reason for any middle-school student to be a part of a social-networking site! None.""
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    Agree?
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