Gates and Me have same ideas

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/20/gates-and-weingarten-fixing-our-nation-s-schools.html Bill Gates and Randi Weingarten state many public opinions of our education system here in the US. I too think we need to follow other countries in Education but are we too self centered to think we are doing all the right things when clearly we are doing most of all the wrong things?

Free low cost droid apps for education

http://bit.ly/8VhPtu Droid Apps for education...cheap or free. Also try SugarSync...love it on all my devices.

New Social Network for Charities

A Facebook Founder Begins a Social Network Focused on Charities http://nyti.ms/fa8Ufo Saw Chris on a tech show describing the app. Sounds pretty interesting.

Free eTexts

http://blog.efrontlearning.net/2010/11/free-e-learning-books.htmlA list of free eText books for you to use in your online classroom. Most of them are about eLearning.

Tracing letters on the iPad

My 5 year old daughter does this daily and she plays learning games. She's learned a lot on the iPad! http://www.mobilegarageblog.com/2010/11/can-little-fingers-use-mobile-devices-can-teenage-fingers-use-them-productively-in-school-.html

18 New Ways of Learning

http://goo.gl/QsoxaThese are interesting and include everything from having servers to learning in the clouds. I do agree with many that responded to this article that 3-D tv might not go anywhere. What would we use it for in education? or What could we use it for in other areas? What do you think?

Student Behavior Changed: Using Technology in Grades 6-12, Alternative Education

Feel free to comment and start discussing the Virtual Poster Session presented online for Sloan-C ALN conference November 3-5, 2010 here. I look forward to discussing the subject with you. Please subscribe to the blog to get updates on this topic.

Tweet about the conference! Use hashtag #ALN2010

Would you like to live in the Clouds?

Google docs is growing in popularity but in this blog post there is a survey for your ideas from moving from MS Word to living in the clouds (google docs). What do you think? http://goo.gl/rIPj

Was that my imagination or my computer?

Interesting opinion about the increase in technology driven organizations and use of technology in our daily lives. http://goo.gl/xhX8

10 million and counting using Google Apps for Education

10 million students using Google Apps to enhance their educational experience. Why not? They are free to use and versatile. http://goo.gl/poq4

Open Textbooks...what's new?

Latest Trends in Open Textbook Research

View more presentations from OER Commons.

Facebook study groups? The future of on ground studying?

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/10/05/purdue-students-hook-into-facebook-for-study-groups.aspx Facebook is everywhere, right? So a team at Purdue University created a tool that allows studying to be done through facebook. Use the tools we have to enhance learning...AWESOME!

Here is another article about Facebook features that Zuckerberg is adding to allow the user to have more control over the information shared with others and their own profile. http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/10/06/5242527-facebook-gives-you-better-privacy-personal-info-control

Screen Shots made easy

This saved me a ton of time. Just 3 clicks to a screen shot that's cropped and ready to send. See the above screen shot that I took with SnapIt. Get your trial version here: http://www.digeus.com/products/snapit/snapit_screen_capture_3_5.html

Education Nation - will this work?

As we embark on another weekend, NBC is gearing up for what we hope will wake some of these educational guru drones in our school systems. They go about preaching change, spending billions of dollars on interventions, and in turn, let down our society. I'm not saying all interventions are bad, but when you are "training" kindergartners to color in the bubbles for a standardized test, that is "bad"! I don't agree with all that is projected in this TV exclusive but I do however agree that we have to do something! These poor kids! http://www.educationnation.com/

Printing on the GO!

Cloud printing...printing while at a conference, out and about in the city, or stuck at the airport. http://blog.imagetec.com/what-is-cloud-printing-all-about/

STEM supported by White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live Media companies creating content, launching robotic initiatives, and 100 CEOs bring science and math programs to the most needed communities to finish the "Race to the top".

Middle school tries paperless classroom - timesfreepress.com

Middle school tries paperless classroom - timesfreepress.com

Paperless Middle School?

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/?p=1010 Can this really happen? I hope so. NO more textbook fees!

Why is online learning increasing?

http://webucationcenter.com/why-is-the-shift-toward-online-education-happening/

Integrating free tools, eBooks, and minimizing our carbon footprint may all be contributing to the growing number of students who choose to take courses online.

Digeus products

http://digeus.com/products/systemoptimizer/system-optimizer.html

Prevent system crashes, eliminates system freezes, and identifies and repairs common Windows problems.

Dragontape - Untitled Tape

Used http://www.dragontape.com to create a seamless video of YouTube footage. Easy to use. Just search, drag, and save.

View mine at Dragontape - WeddingDances

Teaching with blogs

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/07/27/arvan

Sloan-C article, teaching with blogs...just passing it along.

A new way of teaching? Not so new to awesome teachers and their students.

http://vimeo.com/13362508

Watch this video to see what teachers should be doing in the classroom. Wikis, web 2.0, ... all students benefit from technology.

A New Age: Our kids and technology

Teaching with 3-D


http://www.techlearning.com/blogs/31100

http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf

http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-TheiPadIsComing-orIsIt-EdTech2010-02.pdf

The above articles symbolize a coming of change...or are we already there?

From NYC classrooms to the introduction of the iPad...technology can change student behavior.

State wide use of online learning!!! Awesome!

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iGoogle to the Rescue!

iGoogle is a "one stop" home page where you can access facebook, blog feeds via Google Reader, the weather, games, your most popular visited sites, and more! Without leaving the page I can search, see updates from friends on facebook, and post comments. It was storming last night and could view the most updated weather outlook. Gadgets are available for almost anything you use on the net! Have fun.

Technology is Very Personal

Technology is Very Personal

k-12 approach to online learning Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiby3m_RyM

This video features Chris Dede, an expert in online leanring for k-12. Please view this video to enhance technology in your classroom!

Got Vidoes???

Recording videos are easy with a 30 day free trial of Camtasia. Create slides in a PowerPoint and record screen. Import your media and you are done. Edit and move slides and audio as needed. Have fun and record some lessons, hands on learning for part of your portfolio (all you first year Queen Anne's County Teachers) and presentations you want to retrieve later.

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

Online Learning

I see in this article that the students of today need to be coddled with technology. Yes, perhaps this is the time that we must change from on campus learning to online learning, even for k-12. Look at how many students use cell phones (maybe NOT smart phones, but they are getting there) and the internet daily. How much time do they spend on these devices? A lot. Therefore we must embrace their interests and develop learning AROUND the web. Find out what your students are doing online and then foster inquiry based lessons that support the state standards. You will trick the students into having fun learning.

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Colleges-of-Education-Are/21862/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

YouTube releases alternative language captioning!

This is huge for ESL learners in any grade level or in higher ed. We, as teachers, will be able to share videos that support the curriculum in classrooms where students struggle to get the information at hand. Hopefully with this new technology, more information will be available to our students. I taught Alternative School and often wanted to show videos. Some students didn't speak English and didn't understand the video. The concepts will now be available to them in their language so that the students will be able to collaborate with others after viewing. http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/04/youtube-launches-auto-captions-for-all-videos/