I’ve been “tagged” by another blogger, Karl Fisch, at the Fischbowl as part of a Five Things meme. A meme is sort of a thematic internet project. From Blogjargon, it’s defined as “an idea, project, statement or even a question that is posted by one blog and responded to by other blogs.” In any case, the tagg-ee [...]
Entries from December 29th, 2006
Pod cats
December 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Web 2.0
My holiday has had two themes–(other than being felled by a bad cold and having a wonderful visit with the kids)– –my new Ipod, and our new constantly meowing mama cat(found outside the library in August) and her new kitten. It was an Ipod Christmas at our house, and I’m learning how to use mine and loving [...]
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Time’s “Person of the Year” is…
December 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
You! “…Look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story….It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wrestling power from the few and [...]
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Where are we heading?
December 15th, 2006 · No Comments · Future students
This article in Time on graduates of the future is such important reading I am posting it again! (free online if you watch an ad…) It’s about changing the education conversation away from the basics to a broader conversation and it identifies some strategies our students will need. Very interesting in terms of our schoolwide discussions–I’d [...]
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Searching, info literacy and commercialism
December 13th, 2006 · No Comments · Future students
While watching tv tonight, I saw a commercial for gifts.com, which allows you to enter a profile of the person you are shopping for, and then the site selects and recommends gifts you can purchase and the online stores that sell the gifts. A great idea–a customizable, personal shopper online. All of which made me [...]
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Google earth
December 12th, 2006 · No Comments · Tools
I hadn’t really put together the potential for Google Earth in my mind until I saw a workshop about a math teacher using it for an interactive math lesson that he created and then saw Joel’s workshop for Project Tech a few weeks ago. I felt a little bewildered by how to use the basics of the [...]
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Photostory
December 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment · Tools
I feel like someone arriving late to the party when I saw this teacher’s post on what her students did with Photostory. For some reason, I just didn’t fully get all of the curricular applications of Photostory (which by the way, is installed in our computer labs). Students created Photostory presentations of their interpretation of [...]
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A “novel” wiki
December 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Tools
Here’s an excellent example of a wiki created at Woodward Academy for the study of a novel, Hannalee. (this is courtesy of Weblogg-ed where I always find fascinating tips!) You can see how the sidebar pages are organized so that they are information aids(like tours and historical information) to support the study of the novel. Check out some of [...]
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