Hey guys! My name is Michelle and I’m an intern at a company called ePals. We offer a great free program called In2Books that I thought you might be interested in hearing about. In2Books is a free e-mentoring literacy program for 3-5th graders in Title 1 schools (where at least 40% of the children in the school are from low-income families.) Each student chooses five books from five different genres which are carefully selected by a team of children’s literature experts. The students are then ea…
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Posted by Michelle on July 25, 2008 at 9:48am —
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I have a vision where students connect with their peers from around the world. Why? Because it's interesting. It's challenging to create global friendships, across cultures and across seas. And it's interesting to learn what other are studying. Even the very precise studies, like math, are not exact all over the world. Sometimes you need help figuring out a problem and someone from across the world, who studied it in a different way, will offer that different angle that opens your eyes. This is…
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Posted by Or-Tal Kiriati on June 3, 2008 at 3:42am —
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Posted by Tracy on May 10, 2008 at 11:07am —
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www.WiZiQ.com is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment for teachers to interact online and teach students in real time. Teachers can also build a profile, keep an availability schedule, and maintain a content library, which is associated with their profiles, by uploading PowerPoint…
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Posted by Mark Cruthers on February 24, 2008 at 8:24pm —
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Hi, this seems like a very interesting place to learn and share. Thought I'd give it a whirl. I have an iweb 08 website. Every browser using Google, except Firefox, shows my adsense ad on my welcome page. Has anyone else had this problem or knows how to help me fix it. Thanks.
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Posted by Susie Corbett on January 13, 2008 at 3:06pm —
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so much has changed since i started writing my first webpages!
back in 96...from raw HTML to netscape composer*** 
...they were such cute f… Continue
Posted by gwyneth jones on September 19, 2007 at 11:39am —
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Thanks to all the team who worked so hard and long to put together what is / has been a great experience.
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Posted by Ross Polson on September 16, 2007 at 7:19am —
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I got the job I was after. WooT Monkey!
So finally I can start to contribute some intelligent discussion to this group. I'm going to be working with Autistic Preschoolers in the town's public schools. I am so jazzed! It's perfect.
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Posted by Krysten on August 31, 2007 at 7:19am —
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I'm new at this but it is soooo easy to get started. I can see a lot of time being used this way, which is why sometimes I won't even sit at the computer if I have a deadline due. Denise
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Posted by OWE Library on August 26, 2007 at 11:30am —
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I have an interview today at the charter school, and one tomorrow at a neighboring town. Woot monkey!!
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Posted by Krysten on August 15, 2007 at 10:15am —
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This week I'm writing a series on technology and "The Achievement Gap"
on
my social desktop. This is the third part of the series which takes
concepts introduced by "'The Achievement Gap' and culture", and
distinguishes between established methods for addressing the problem
and making real changes. In my last article I promised to go more into
technology, but it seems that the problem I'm addressing needs more
distinction at this time.
In…
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Posted by Jared on August 9, 2007 at 11:38pm —
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Well, I finally found a couple of job openings...one at a regular school district and one at a charter school - just t/a jobs, but it makes sense for me while I pursue my degree. The only problem now is that if I do get a job, I would have to give up the infant who I am taking care of in my daycare (obviously) and I LOVE HER! It will break my heart - and I hope it will be worth it. I can try to stay in touch, but most of the time that doesn't work out. Other than that, I have the prospect of get…
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Posted by Krysten on August 9, 2007 at 6:45am —
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This week I'm writing a
series on technology and "The Achievement Gap" on
my social desktop.
This is the second part of the series which takes concepts introduced by
"The Achievement Gap" and puts them into a larger cultural context.
Administrators and educators in the United States are faced with
balancing federal mandates like the "No Child Left Behind Act" and
state concerns like closing "The Ac…
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Posted by Jared on August 4, 2007 at 7:46pm —
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This week I'm writing a
series on technology and "The Achievement Gap" on
my social desktop.
This is the first part of the series which introduces the concept of
"The Achievement Gap" and some methods high level administrators are
using to combat the problem.
"The Achievement Gap" is a theory that observes educational performance
of children in the United States in public K-12 schools. The founda…
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Posted by Jared on August 3, 2007 at 10:08pm —
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I work in Sarasota County, FL and we are in the process of installing the largest number of ActivBoards ever. We are putting an Activboard and Projector (the Plus 2) in EVERY classroom in our county! I am the project coordinator for my school, and am in the process of being certified by Promethean to be an ActivBoard trainer. (Will finish the course this Friday.) Two-thirds of my school is completed and the final third will be finished by December.) It has been exciting! This fall will be crazy…
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Posted by Stacey G. on August 3, 2007 at 11:05am —
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I blog at
www.plansforusblog.com.
Check it out, if you are interested in how
PlansForUs works and where it's going.
Thanks,
Tyler
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Posted by Tyler Fonda on August 2, 2007 at 10:43am —
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There does seem to be some evidence that shows US schools are starting to lose competitive edge internationally.
"A
swiftly rising number of American workers at every skill level are in
direct competition with workers in every corner of the globe. While our
international counterparts are increasingly getting more education,
their young people are getting a better education as well. American
students and young adults place anywhere from the middle to the bottom
of the pack in all three…
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Posted by Jared on August 1, 2007 at 7:04pm —
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Well, I passed the Teachers Aid test with a perfect score, and found some openings for paraprofessionals at a local charter school. Now I'm just waiting for some letters of recommendations from a couple of colleagues so that I can send my application in. Unfortunately, the openings may be filled by then :-(
Anyway, thanks for the comments about gifted education. I appreciate your support.
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Posted by Krysten on July 31, 2007 at 2:37pm —
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I'm working to promote international collaborations between educators.
Over the last week I've put up a sight where educators can register for
what I've been calling the
International Educators Collaborative.
It's still a little vague what that means because the more I talk to
educators about it the more the idea starts shift and come into greater
focus. My real purpose is to establish a means for educators to use the
web in a somewhat standard way that…
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Posted by Jared on July 20, 2007 at 5:32pm —
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I think the biggest disconnect between teachers and technology comes
when a technological
medium requires too much time to understand or maintain. That's
probably part of the enthusiasm behind social networking; you have a
profile page that says who you are and then you can go about
communicating with people who are online in real time. It's simple and
requires no technological knowledge or understanding.
Applications which are in some ways like ning will
be best for educators, as…
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Posted by Jared on July 18, 2007 at 9:38pm —
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Okay...i need to get me act together.
First and foremost...I need to change the photo on my profile--see...my problem is that I'm the one that always takes the pictures---there are no photos of me. So my goal for this weekend is to get a better photo--i was using my Kent photo, but I may have to revert to that until I get a better pix.
Enough said about that nonsense.
Right now I'm basically working on several projects. I have to get my courses ready for Fall early--becau…
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Posted by Mary Hricko on July 14, 2007 at 1:15pm —
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This is a review of the Documentary "The Fog of War". It's from my blog page on
christonium.
The entire film can be viewed by searching for "The Fog of War" on Google Video.
Cohesion : 9
Composition : 10
Contrast : 8
Dynamics : 9
Humor : 1
Intelligence : 7
Production : 9
Quality : 9
Cohesion : 9
"The Fog of War" is a seriously entertaining interview with former
S…
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Posted by Jared on July 9, 2007 at 7:19pm —
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I just wrote this letter to a teacher on Ning and I thought I would share it here.
Mark-
I'm looking for Beta testers for web application I'm working on located at http://christonium.com. I've singled you out because you're obviously trying to start a education focused community here and I think christonium is an ideal solution
for long term education development and person…
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Posted by Jared on July 8, 2007 at 4:35pm —
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From my blog http://nkilkenny@wordpress.com
Reggio Emilia educational approach and philosophy insists that children learn readily from their environment, and there for the environment is the ‘third’ teacher. I’m assuming that
the teachers/parents and the child themselves are the first and second
teachers.
So much has been written about this educational approach that I posted links to information below. You might wonder what an
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Posted by Natalie LK on July 8, 2007 at 10:39am —
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Project Based Learning - notes and links
I took part by Skype in a session at the NECC last Monday on Reinventing Project Based Learning - Jane Krauss and Suzie Boss's forthcoming book. It was an interesting experience. I was able to hear what was going on in the lecture room via Skype and follow along the presentation as Jane had sent me a copy. Whilst this was going on I was taking notes on a wiki page and having a Skype chat with… Continue
Posted by LindaH on July 1, 2007 at 10:51am —
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In an effort to get into a school system faster, I have taken my teacher's assistant exam. I'm waiting for the results, but I am fairly certain that I did well. Right now, I have a daycare and after school program in my home, and that would work for me too - I would like to eventually offer classes in the program, such as piano instruction, marital arts instruction, mixed media art instruction and performing arts instruction. That is the dream-plan B. Otherwise, I will be happy to serve in a cla…
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Posted by Krysten on July 1, 2007 at 9:02am —
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Posted by Darlene Marquardt on June 30, 2007 at 10:56pm —
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From my blog at http://nkilkenny.wordpress.com
Silke Fleischer authored a great article on using Captivate for creating podcasting. The article provides great tips including recording screen size settings and how to help viewers see mouseover cues when you are creating a software demo. I have tried
using SoThink software for converting .swf files created in Captivate
to podcasting for
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Posted by Natalie LK on June 8, 2007 at 9:48am —
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This week is a big one for us, we've just reached the half a million unique visitors number! I've recently gone through the list of all the countries that our registered users come from, and there are representatives from over 160 countries!!
Fantastic stuff. The best bit is the new Google maps feature which has been incorporated into our instant messaging service - you can quickly scour the globe for people online and then discuss the unit you are studying. It's great to see the littl…
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Posted by Stuart Brown on June 8, 2007 at 5:43am —
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Posted by Aaron Smith on May 23, 2007 at 12:17am —
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I've created a new section in the Teachers 2.0 forum called
In The News, specifically to discuss current events stories involving education, technology, or both.
Remember that you'll need to be logged into the Teachers 2.0 website (Not the Ning site or Yahoo mailing list - those are different services) to comment or add a new news story, but fortunately you can…
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Posted by Aaron Smith on April 6, 2007 at 1:09pm —
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Some of you have found your way from here to
Teachers 2.0's main website, and may have discovered that your logins don't work over there.
That's because while this site is on Ning's servers, the main site is on a server I main…
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Posted by Aaron Smith on April 4, 2007 at 2:30pm —
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Posted by Natalie LK on April 3, 2007 at 11:49am —
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A way to Integrate Technology in the classroom!
Check out my blog
Help with iweb
It took us long enough, but here's the third in what will hopefully be a long line of groupcasts.
