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Short (about 1 minute) talks on varied topics. Creates a more natural way to make students respond to ideas. Can be used mostly with older learners who would have more to share and contribute

Life is a Feast: a blog full of web ideas

I can´t wait to see the results, Carol!

Very complete site with lots of other links to be explored!

This is a WONDERFUL, UNBEATABLE online conference for educators. The interesting thing here is that you can listen to people whenver you want as it is mostly an aynchrounous event. Just click on the links provided and you'll watch or hear the presentations. As simple as that! Everyday they will make availabel more presentations. Just fantastic.

What a great site for animation!!

If you are blogging with youngsters, make sure parents know what this is all about.

What I am going to share here will probably be the most personal thing I have ever shared on my blog. Only 3 other people know of this and some who are skeptics will dismiss me right away. But - I promise if you stick with me to the very end, it will make sense AND it will be woven into Tech. A long time ago, a pastor I trusted was into meditation and he was leading several people through them. Being the skeptic (yes, even though my faith is strong, I still have doubts at times) I decided to give it a try. What I am sharing next was what I saw. I was sitting on a fountain and there was a gentle man sitting next to me and we began to talk about what I was afraid of. He asked me if I was ready to conquer some of my fears and I said "Yes". He advised me to look up - and there floating above me were planks with words on them….words with the fears that I indeed was dealing with. And the closest one said "Dogs". I was able to easily reach up and grab it. As I gave the gentle man the plank, I said "But I am not really afraid of dogs" and his response was "sometimes you have to go for the easy before you can go for the hard." He then asked me if I wanted to fly and I said yes and suddenly we were flying through the sky…….yet, I continually looked toward the fountain, toward the ground, toward the certain. He finally asked if I wanted to return and we returned to the fountain. He laid his head in his hands and began to cry. When I asked him why, his response was "Jennifer, I want you to fly, yet you always wish to return to where it is safe." What I am sharing with you is true - and I still deal with my fears and my wanting to be safe - but today - I want to take those 2 stories and weave them, if I may, into what our teachers are dealing with in regards to being open to tech. In the last few weeks, I have had several conversations with tech coordinators, integratrators, evangelists, ambassadors - whatever you want to call

Very interesting reading. I feel that many of you are with wings and flying high, even if sometimes we question things and just want to go back to the ground. This is totally natural, questioning, trying, feeling on the verge of giving up, giving another chance, trying a different approach...

Very wise advice. Sometimes we just need to let things "marinade".

I: Out of Control Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the

A great site to play around with students and making learn fun with learners in charge of the creation.

I've always enjoyed using music to teach for various reasons, I can say that one reason is that after listening to music everybodyis in a better mood, also because it makes learning much more fun and teaching as well. Eventhough finding music to use in classis not the challenge it was when I started teaching, and some books have songs built in their lessons still Ithink it is great to have all those alternatives Larry gives at hand and I'msureI'm goingto use them.

Description of the best music websites for teaching

I'm sure you will, and you'll also see possibilities for learners to find their own songs and put on a blog, wiki or webpages.

I just think that this site will enable us teachers who are quite iliterate in terms of web tools to be able to get closer to our students who are phd in using them, and then feel confident enough to use these resources to teach.

For people who want to learn about web 2.0 tools such as wikis, Flikr, etc...

Cecília, Larry Ferlazzo's site is just great to follow. In some weeks, you'll learn how to follow its updates without even getting to his site! I'm sure you could spend a lifetime exploring all the resources he makes available for teachers.

Clipping videos makes it much easier for us to create activities and tasks that focus on specific areas of the video clip without having to watch the whole thing.

Plagiarism - what's the best way to deal with it?

The speed with one can get information from the Internet also makes people feel that this information is there to be "taken" (literally).Plagiarism is a very important aspect that needs to be addressed by us, teachers. This year I had a student that to write "her" composition she first copied THE WHOLE TEXT IN PORTUGUESE from the Internet and then she used a google translator. The theme? Festa Junina. Unbelievable!