State wide use of online learning!!! Awesome!

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The on-demand version of "Building Bridges to Better E-Learning" is now available here. You can watch the on-demand version free for the next six months.
• View the on-demand webinar: http://edweek.org/go/webinars/bridges
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Guests:
• Donna Hutchison, CEO, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (Boise, Idaho)
• Martha P. Rizzuto, superintendent, Tarrant City Schools (Birmingham, Ala.)
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—The editors at Education Week

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/