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I am taking a course this summer, Internet in the Classroom, and I have recently started using some of these tools as well. I just started PLN by adding education blogs to my Google reader and had to join Ning (and like it so far). We also had to ...
So far this summer, I have expanded my PLN by joining social networks, following blogs, and beginning to Twitter (gschwanke18). However, I have yet to begin blogging on my own. I have always thought about beginning my own blog, but I really don't ...
Thanks for the great info! Our school has limited computers (none in my classrooms, long line for the computer lab) so I'm struggling a bit with how to integrate more technology into my lessons. What did you have kids use to do their blogs and pod...
Well, I'm not new to the profession, teaching both middle school English AND computer for 26 years. I love technology and decided since our school sits on the Mississippi River (Sabula, Iowa), the computer technology could integrate with that them...
The info you provided me is helpful because part of my job is tech initator, so I can definately pass on the info. However, next year I will be teaching middle school computer applications. Have you used technology with cooperative learning strate...
Greg,
If you are still teaching English consider the following cooperative activities:
1) peer editing of written work (via blogs or Google Docs)
2) have students write alternative endings to a story and defend it using real aspects from the sto...
Go to the Kagan strategies workshop or online site : http://www.kaganonline.com/ . This company offers workshops, materials..
Hello again Greg
Years ago I visited the Arbor Day Foundation Headquarters in Nebraska City and well remember flying into Omaha and seeing I think Casino Lights?....We are currently working with Junior Achievement Washington and Southern Californ...
I teach at a middle school in Omaha, Nebraska. I will be beginning my third year of teaching this year teaching middle school computer applications. However, for the past two years I have been teaching 7th grade English. Please tell me a little mo...
Greg
I do appreciate your passion for cooperative learning platforms. We (Mentor research Institute) are currently are working on a project to help kids learn about and better use their Strengths based upon the science of Positive Psychology. I e...
Sorry as soon as I sent you a message I found your wiki.
My bad
Greg
How can I access your wiki? I can't seem to find it.
Thanks for your help
Greg
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- Job Title:
- Teacher
- Grade Level:
- 6, 7, 8
- Favorite Subject Area:
- Computer Applications
- What do you want to get out of Teachers 2.0?
- I want to collborate with other educators who share the same passion of technology in education as I do. I would like to gain tips, ideas, and be able to discuss technology topics as they pertain to education.
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- At 11:39am on June 24, 2009,
Laurel Gruhn said…
- One more thing before I go out to my flower beds. We're a small staff which facilitates integrated learning so well. We have done a career, science, history expo forever and are "moving on" next year. Taking a problem solving approach to a real world problem, namely the economy. Now that sounds boring and tiring since we hear so much about this on a daily basis, but our Ukraine math teacher is a take charge and fix gal. She thought that since so many young people have gotten into financial messes we should come up with real world activities throughout the year, integrate our classes so that English, science, family consumer science, history, etc. contribute in whatever way they want to the bigger issue of "consumerism." Very thought provoking. And we will start from day one planning and plotting our projects that contribute to the learning goals we establish. Once we started investigating last spring, it became clear that every curricular area had a great deal available to explore. The project will culminate in an expo of sorts. Lots of technology will replace the tri-fold posters of old. We will build on the past, however, because our expos were terrific. We're just "refreshing" so staff can get a mental boost and delve into new approaches to learning. Principal has suggested learning teams, with teacher on the team rather than a teacher. Cooperative learning again. Well, we'll see once new year rolls around. Exciting.
- At 8:23pm on June 19, 2009,
Mark Cruthers said… - Hi Greg,
With your passion for Education Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording conducted by Nellie Deutsch on Technology Integration.
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