tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60288222011-04-21T17:14:00.474-05:00Thinking about k-12 pedagogy, technology and change. Sometimes rethinking, sometimes inventing, sometimes traditional, always learning. Looking at news, jargon, trends.Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1097195133768506092004-10-07T19:25:00.000-05:002004-10-07T19:25:33.766-05:00

Buzznet - Shoot > Send > Share. Follow the link to find out how you might make your Blogspot blog more interactive and much more up-to-date!

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1093724536177010802004-08-28T15:22:00.000-05:002004-08-28T15:28:01.906-05:00

Do you know about Inventa from Valiant Technology Ltd.? If not, check it out. In this age of problem-solving and critical thinking, we should be thinking about ways to include all learning styles and intelligences in 21st Century literacies. Focusing as education tends to do on listening, reading and writing, those students with hands-on, visual and artistic strengths, to say nothing of short

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1092936097358636882004-08-19T12:21:00.000-05:002004-08-19T12:21:37.356-05:00

Read this: Test scores fuel laptop debateNow, ask yourself this: What assessment tool has been applied to this program? I maintain that tradition, pre-technology assessment tools, which include the relatively new Maine state testing, can not be used to assess the value added by laptops in the classroom. Learning that results from inquiry, projects, problem-solving and collaboration is not

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1092755719877993692004-08-17T10:15:00.000-05:002004-08-17T10:15:19.876-05:00

Kevin Jarrett's WordPress test site is worth a look. Bookmark the site and return to it often. Kevin is exploring blogging applications for k-12 education. If you currently using a blogging tool in your classroom, be sure to contact Kevin directly. He is developing a NECC workshop on the topic.

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1090876419610799272004-07-26T16:13:00.000-05:002004-07-26T16:13:39.610-05:00

Who is setting the alarm these days, them or us?A New Professional Development Decision-Making Tool is being piloted in eight states. Follow the link and read the article. Ask yourself: Where does school change fit into this scenario? Who defined the need for this expensive tool - Co-nect and TetraData Corp or the administrators of those schools? I remember when a college counsellor could not

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1088954513895951522004-07-04T10:21:00.000-05:002004-07-04T10:21:53.896-05:00

Here is something I have been waiting for - a free wiki tool: Unfortunately, the JavaScript editor does not work with Jaguar IE (5.1), Safari or the latest Mac versionof Netscape. That seems to limit its usability, doesn't it? The following links for blogging and wiki use in education have come out of the NECC conference. We have Craig Nanson to thank: The Blog@School workshopBlogs and Wikis

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1088785509478688082004-07-02T11:25:00.000-05:002004-07-02T11:25:09.476-05:00

Technology & Learning Grants Database. Bookmark this site. In addition to grant information, there are how-to's and practical guides for grant writing. The lastest issue (Leadership issue) of the free Technology & Learning journal contains a handy print calendar of grant deadlines for the upcoming school year.

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1088460136934342572004-06-28T17:02:00.000-05:002004-06-28T17:02:16.933-05:00

Cool Free Web Tools for TeachersThis is the support site for our June 30 workshop at the CAIS Technology Conference. The Handout contains even more tools!

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1087495034117303612004-06-17T12:57:00.000-05:002004-06-17T12:57:14.116-05:00

Professional Development does not have to be painfully expensive and pointless. The short, inexpensive and online courses from Indiana University,LTTS - My Desk, are focused upon a specific Problem, stated as a How can I... question. Topics such as "How can I stimulate scientific inquiry using investigations?" focus teachers on pragmatic, usable technology tools and pedagogical models. The

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1087492213522560232004-06-17T12:10:00.000-05:002004-06-17T12:10:13.523-05:00

A desktop replacement in your hand - News - ZDNet. Take the time to check out this little video. "under $2000" is too much for now, but WOW - when the price falls... I want one - could be the only PC I will ever buy.

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1087484269334229622004-06-17T09:57:00.000-05:002004-06-17T09:57:49.333-05:00

I am not a fan of the catch-all phrase "The Age of Information," (even though it is central to the title of the text I have co-authored), agreeing with Eamonn Kelly that all ages are full of change brought on by information new to the cultures and peoples of the age. However, Kelly and others suggest that "knowledge" is a more important umbrella concept now than ever before. What does this mean?

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1087338410880663352004-06-15T17:26:00.000-05:002004-06-15T17:26:50.880-05:00

In most of the rest of the English reading world, ICT is an important acronym. It represents more than a national testing agenda - it is vision for a healthy and successful future for children. ICT tutorials abound on the UK and Australian net (available to all). In some nations, curricula are in place to create the "base" from which the vision tree will grow. Understanding this, for a US teacher

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1087239852261483802004-06-14T14:04:00.000-05:002004-06-14T14:04:12.260-05:00

Time to pull a summer recommendation out of thin air. This is mine: Souls in the Great Machine. It is SciFi in the traditional sense - futuristic and full of adventure and possibility. But it also raises some significant summer "thinks" - Think about the school as Machine - who are the working cogs and how much freedom do they have? Is that the way it has to be? Think about Leadership and Vision

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1087151535264087012004-06-13T13:32:00.000-05:002004-06-13T13:32:15.263-05:00

Consortium for School Networking and Grunwald Associates today released the final report about technology use, growth and budgets. They have termed their findings Digital Leadership Divide. Because this report supports one of the basic points about professional development that I made in The Teacher in Oz, I urge you all to read it. That point is stated in this: visionary leadership is necessary

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1087148236916732212004-06-13T12:37:00.000-05:002004-06-13T12:37:16.916-05:00

Google News Alerts. It is easy to miss the link to News Alerts on the Google News main page. However, this link can be invaluable. Like a good RSS or Atom feed, this service connects you directly to updates on the Internet posts that you want to read. Here is the key, however: you are doing a Google keyword search. If your "topic" is not well stated, you will get tons of junk emailed to you

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1087079104662842422004-06-12T17:25:00.000-05:002004-06-13T12:09:13.033-05:00

Responding to a June 5, 2004 article, How to use weblogs to create engaging learning experiences. If you are a designer, enabler, provider or participant in professional development, or a school administrator, you should take the time to read this very short article. It explains why blogs are good tools for professional development. But even more important, it tells you that planning for

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1086979174426049042004-06-11T13:39:00.000-05:002004-06-11T13:39:34.426-05:00

Responding to the following article: Study: Computer use a boost to young minds. I had an instant reaction when I first saw this article: What is the nature of the home in which k-2 (and younger) students have access to computers? My guess would be (and yesterday I read a news post that verified this, but did not bookmark it) that parents are more highly educated and have a somewhat higher

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1086907500795841652004-06-10T17:36:00.000-05:002004-06-10T17:45:00.796-05:00

I stumbled yesterday on KEEP, a Carnegie (Foundation?) product, free, in support of teaching. At this time, the purpose it serves is to enable teachers to create an online, collaborative (optional) environment for managing/planning/recording a teaching unit/project/course/year. What I like about this tool is its samples - although you are not limited to the templates provided, reviewing the

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1086897534203851072004-06-10T14:58:00.000-05:002004-06-14T11:18:35.256-05:00

This is an AudioBlogger file. I created it by making a (free to me) cell phone call to a unique number. It was posted automatically. It would be nice if I could add a Title as well, but alas, I have to do that within BlogSpot. Not bad, however!

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1085172531359591242004-05-21T15:48:00.000-05:002004-06-10T17:14:02.363-05:00

It is too bad that I can not upload images from MacJournal. This should be a picture of the April moon. But... I don't think images can be uploaded. So here is a link so you can look at something. .

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1085170890609299152004-05-21T15:21:00.001-05:002004-05-21T15:21:30.610-05:00

Discoveries: Completed journals can be exported as .html. This creates a rather attractive web page (not site). All images and media files are copied to the folder into which you save. Hence, create a folder before you save! This entire folder can be uploaded to a web server or simply placed on a server for display in a client browser. Links made via html hard coding work when uploading to a

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1085170865782253822004-05-21T15:21:00.000-05:002004-05-21T15:21:05.783-05:00

I have the luck to be working on a PowerBook G4 with OS X 2+. That means that when I ran across a freeware app called MyJournal today, I immediately downloaded it. Why? Because it saves text as .rtf, making it perfect for creating text media resources for import into TK3. All objects can be saved into a journal, collecting them for eventual use in a book. I believe that it also will upload

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1076108463363441002004-02-06T17:58:00.000-05:002004-02-06T18:03:27.030-05:00

I am working on a book, a free text for ed tech students or just teachers-in-training who need to learn about technology currently available in the classroom. It's work, but I am learning a great deal and gaining even more respect for the volume of information available on the Net. Also for the volume of money that businesses hope to make out of the NCLB and other well-intentioned initiatives.

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1074899257558427792004-01-23T18:07:00.000-05:002004-01-23T18:09:41.936-05:00

Few non profits can afford good calendaring, like WebEvent (at over $1000 per office) Most non profits have only a few computers - their needs are small. So what's a non profit to do? One suggestion is a Yahoo group. But with groups come spam. Nonetheless, the calendars are fee and good - they work. Another solution is a simple shared FileMakerPro database. You do not need more than the client

Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028822.post-1067883976525397242003-11-03T13:55:00.000-05:002003-11-03T14:06:15.940-05:00

Visit the Least Tern homepage: supporting technology integration with no-frills, personal and direct training. Exploration is essential to education. In that spirit, this is the beginning of my own exporation of blogging. Why? Because I think that this tool, along with Wiki pages, can play a powerful role in education. As I create this blog, I will be trying to answer the following questions:

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