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Entries from April 2007

Citizen Journalism

April 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Just a quick note as I am sick today. I was reading a BBC article and came across this… I have not seen anything like this before, but imagine the possibilities for classroom projects where you can get actual stories from real people at the locations where events are happening… All can say is Wow!

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Lewis University- Graduate Education Conference

April 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

I am sitting in Lewis’ Graduate Conference watching and participating in a number of sessions on everything from student performance, virtues of teachers, and school code revisions due to tragic disasters. while all are brief (yet powerful) presentations, only the first session made the connection to student learners. Now to be fair these sessions are [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Presentations

WOAH… HUH… Teachers doing something cool? Hey ALL THE TIME MAN!

April 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Check this out.  I ran across TeacherTube while reading Eric Langhorst’s Speaking of History blog.  This is really cool… you worried about youtube in your district?  what about a service that teachers can use for the same purposes… getting a message out, and collaborating with other digital educators… welcome Teacher Tube.  I just saw this [...]

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Tags: Technology · convergence · web 2.0

eSchool News online - Experts: Ed tech must change its message

April 1st, 2007 · No Comments

I just saw this brief but right on target article on the future of technology and teaching in the classroom.   Overall, the focus was that proponents of education technoogy really need to stop touting technology and begin the discussion and focus onto teaching and learning.  Isn’t that what we do?  or should be doing?  I read this article [...]

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Tags: convergence · staff development

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