tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36249831896808057992024-03-05T04:20:54.308-09:00Education Technology that is changing AlaskaTechnology in Education is a Tool but it is also so much more. See how Technology will drive how kids learn in the present and how technology will change how kids learn in the future. The World is Flat and Technology is the driving Force behind it all.FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-60158725346375407392013-04-12T01:00:00.000-08:002013-04-12T01:00:05.854-08:001-to-1 Essentials Program | Common Sense Media<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As technology becomes cheaper and as we move closer and closer to Common Core implementation where the standardized test becomes computerized, more schools and districts will be moving to a 1 to 1 program either through netbooks, tablets, or laptops. Having a plan, managing the devices, commuication with parents, teachers and students, and integration of the technology into daily lesson plans are a few of the factors that will determine if your 1 to 1 program will be a success or failure. <br />
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Common Sense Media has a in-depth look at how a district or school can work through these issues in a 3 phase process.<br />
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<a href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/1to1/phase1">Phase 1 is Envision</a>. Here is the foundation work to make your program a success.<br />
<a href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/1to1/phase2">Phase 2 is Communicate</a>. Begin the process of communication to the key players involved in your 1 to 1 program.<br />
<a href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/1to1/phase3">Phase 3 is Implement</a>. They have posters for care and maintenance for a variety of ages, planning calendars and sample user contracts for a variety of topics.<br />
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All phase's have handouts and videos that will be helpful for every teacher, student, parent and administration that are all downloadable and free for educators.<br />
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and can be found at their own web site, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDEducation?feature=watch">Youtube</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ted-conferences/id376183342">iOS apps</a>, and even as podcast at <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tedtalks-hd/id281315460?mt=2">iTunes</a> and <a href="https://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?submit=edit&term=TED#iTunesUCourse">iTunes U</a> . In the past two years they have added a new section called <a href="http://ed.ted.com/">TED ED</a> which takes some of the talks from the past and even new talks and enhanced the talks with questions, the permission to edit, add to, and enhance for your use in the classroom. Here is the short introduction to TED ED.<br />
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The reason I am revisiting this is that recently David Warlick wrote a post about "<a href="http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/?p=4100">Exploring the Ocean</a>" which was a great video to show biology students about the diversity of ocean life.<br />
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For each talk, you have video of each talk a section to meet the creators, which include the speaker, director, artist, producers and more. "Think" link are multiple choice questions for each video that students can answer. "Dig Deeper" is links to resources that provide additional information about the topic being discussed. And some also have a "Discuss" section which is a guided questions about the video.<br />
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And best of all, it is free. On a side note, I stumbled across a talk somewhere that said, "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Tedx+Anchorage">TedxAnchorage</a>" and went "There's a TED conference in Anchorage?" A little research and found the facebook page and saw that it has been happen for at least the past three years at the end of January and is free and open to the public to attend. These talks have a distinct Alaska slant to them and the issues that Alaskans face throughout the state.<br />
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The most watched <a href="http://blog.ted.com/2011/06/27/the-20-most-watched-tedtalks-so-far/">TED Talks</a>.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDFellowsTalks">TED Fellows</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxYouth">TEDxYouth</a></li>
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So we were discussing Google Story Builder yesterday during work and how it could be used in the classroom. This is based on the concept of having two or more people working on one document within Google Docs. Here is one of the promo videos that was made using the service.<br />
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One of the more powerful ways that emerged for use in the classroom that could be used to work on synonyms and antonyms. You could create a script for the students on a handout and then have them visit Google Story Builder and find synonyms and antonyms for selected words and turn it into learning experience. Other uses could also include famous moments in time between two people and how a conversation might have taken place. One could use it as a discourse topic in government to show two opposing view points. This project works best if you choose two or more characters and having working toward a greater good or having them debate a topic. Your allowed to have 10 spots for conversations so you have a concise discussion in the telling of your story.<br />
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After you have the writing aspect down, they then provide you with theme music to enhance the situation to make it more dramatic as well.<br />
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Then share the goo.gl link and you are done. There is no way to save your work.<br />
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Being a Math teacher turned instructional technology teacher I could not have been happier to see such a wonderful web tool as <a href="https://www.desmos.com/">Desmos</a>, an online graphing calculator. It will do almost everything a $100 plus graphing calculator will do and sometime more. It is based on html 5 code so it works on all mobile devices and does not use a lot of broad band. On <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/desmosinc/videos">YouTube, Desmos has their own channe</a>l where you can learn more about the graphing calculator and all that can be accomplished using this wonderful tool. They even have google account tie in so if your school has Google Apps for education, you can have your students use their district provide accounts to save graphs as part of their assignment without having to create an account on their own potentially.<br />
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Then one of my favorite bloggers tweeted this on March 5, 2013 about an offshoot using Desmos which led me to <a href="http://dailydesmos.blogspot.co.uk/">Daily Desmos</a>. This site challenges you to match different graphs using Desmos and then send them your solutions. This would be a perfect way to challenge your high level students.<br />
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Daily Desmos. Another creative single-serving website from the ever-creative math edublogotwitterwhateversphere. <a href="http://t.co/3VN10OuxHb" title="http://bit.ly/10av4Q7">bit.ly/10av4Q7</a><br />
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<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-44205158391518922852013-02-22T08:00:00.001-09:002013-02-22T08:00:00.062-09:00Google Reader<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</a> is one of the top five services I use from Google on a regular basis as it helps me keep current on trends for education and all other topics I find of interest. It is pretty easy to get started as you just have to find the url address for a web site copy it and the paste it into the big red subscribe button on your google reader home page. <br />
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There is a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/GoogleReaderHelp">YouTube Google Reader Channel</a> that offers up videos on the in's and out's of using Google Reader. <br />
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You can link to any RSS feed into your Google Reader account and then use Google reader or my personal choice "<a href="http://www.feedly.com/home#welcome">Feedly</a>" to read all of your updates.<br />
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Once you find a good collection of feeds you can bundle them and share them on your website, Facebook page, blog or various other places you can use embed code.<br />
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This is a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a> channel that is called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/LearningUpgrade?feature=watch">Learning Upgraded</a> that features math and english concepts that are used in their online learning program. There are limited amount of videos for both math and english as they would like you or your school to sign up for their online tutorial business, but if they are offering free videos you can always use them in your classroom as well as a way of introducing a given topic. The videos can seem a little "over the top" but you students will probably remember them because of that.<br />
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FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-48337273879498878052013-02-14T08:00:00.000-09:002013-02-22T00:01:18.960-09:00Google Books and Magazines<a href="http://books.google.com/intl/en/images/logos/books_logo_lg.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://books.google.com/intl/en/images/logos/books_logo_lg.png" /></a>Google Books and Magazines is a collection of books and magazines that are available to access for students and teachers. Some are complete works especially if they have a copyright date before 1923 and if the copyright is after 1923 it may be a complete copy or they may have a limited preview of the material. The limited preview could be upwards of 80% or more of the book or magazine.<br />
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There are curently 1 million books for download including what many people would consider the classics. Other books have a preview which means random papes are withheld from the preview. Although you can not see the entire book, you can get a feel for what is being presented and maybe be able to find valuable quotes for your research paper that you put off till the last minute and the library is closed.<br />
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If find an interesting book or magazine you can also embeded into your website or blog post at the page you found interesting. Not all books and magazines can be embedded but you can link to some great resources that one can use in the classroom. <br />
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<br />FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-12339438473058578222013-02-13T08:00:00.000-09:002013-02-13T08:00:08.625-09:0030 Days of GoogleI decided that there are so many Google tools that we as educators could use that I will do a blog post a day about 1 tool for an entire month. The goal is to:<br />
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This will be an annual event due to all that google provides not just for educators but to the world for free as long as you don't count those cute banner ads on the sides of your searches. I will be covering the main ones people know like google earth, bloger, etc, but I will also be covering some tools that not a lot of people take advantge of either like google books, voice, and other various tools that can be found here. My hope is that during the "30 days of Google" you will find something useful about the tools you are already using, and find a new tool or two that you are not using to add to your ever growing teaching toolkit. I will being this journey and wrap it up around the time spring breaks starts up here in Fairbanks, AK.FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-62904574128424700092013-02-08T08:00:00.000-09:002013-02-08T08:00:06.432-09:00Quizlet - The Place to Study Vocabulary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.quizlet.com/">Quizlet</a> is easily one of my personal favorite websites for studying definitions. I only wish this was around when I was in high school and had to memorize well almost anything vocabualary wise. They have improved this site over the years with three features that I really like.<br />
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Students get instant feedback, they can track their progress and much more. If you need students to learn vocabulary this is the site I wished I had 20 years ago to study vocabulary.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Social Network</span> - You can now let your friends know what sets you are currently studying or creating through Facebook or MySpace.<br />
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If you have never been here before you can view and practice different sets without becoming a member, but you can not create your own. Once you are a member you can create your own set or share that task with a fellow teacher or student by inviting them into the process as well.<br />
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They have a detailed <a href="http://quizlet.com/help">help menu</a> to help you get started or learn advanced techniques to get the most out of Quizlet.<br />
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Below is a video explain the ins and outs of <a href="http://www.quizlet.com/">Quizlet</a>.<br />
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So we recently attended a district wide training session on <a href="http://www.vernier.com/">Vernier Probeware</a> with a local professor from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, <a href="http://www.uaf.edu/">UAF</a>, and had time to sit down and learn how we might use the probes within a math and science curriculum. We also had a chance to see how students could use software for the iPads that might be useful as well. There are close to 60 probes available for use in pre made labs or if you think of your own learning experience you could easily create your own as well. As for a Math teacher, you go to probes would be the motion detector and the temperature probes. During this time I worked on a lab called <a href="http://www.vernier.com/experiments/rwv/22/tic_toc_pendulum_motion/">Tic Toc</a> found in the <a href="http://www.vernier.com/products/books/rwv/">Real World Math book</a>. You can set up a Pendulum and have the students model and explore real life cosine functions and how to manipulate different aspects of a cosine function from amplitude, frequency, and the period. I set up the Pendulum using an ice fishing rig, some string, and fishing takle bob. But if you have real science equipment you could easily set it using equipment from the science department of your school as well. We had a great turn out during this session and lots of interest using the equipment from teachers. As I work with teachers district wide I will post about the learning opportunities that students have had and the engagement level of the labs as we proceed. FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-71612419773622237342013-02-06T23:49:00.003-09:002013-02-06T23:49:32.321-09:00Excel Labs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So we as a district have started a district wide priority this year of doing one lesson for all 4th through 8th grade students using microsoft excel. In grades 4th - 6th grade the content is delivered through the math classroom and the 7th and 8th grade lessons are delivered through the science classroom. For the 7th and 8th grade lessons we looked at having the students learn about writing equations, learning to use the auto fill with equations, the stats formulas and framed it around the science concepts of "Why cells are small" for 7th grade students and is "Does solar power in Fairbanks, AK make economic sense?". Students practice variable replacement, formula writing, drag fill for patterns, and answered questions based on the numbers and science behind each lesson. I will post links to the lessons later on, but a sample of the 8th grade lesson can be found<a href="http://bit.ly/fnsbsd8excel"> here.</a>FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-66681725556331227812012-05-02T13:40:00.001-08:002012-05-02T13:40:16.405-08:00Math Reasoning Inventory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mathreasoninginventory.com/Style/Images/Public/logo-mri.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="34" src="https://mathreasoninginventory.com/Style/Images/Public/logo-mri.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<a href="https://mathreasoninginventory.com/">Math Reasoning Inventory</a> provides a wonderful opportunity for teachers to assess the reasoning behind how students come to a conclusion when working with whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Teachers sit down with students and have students answer 10 questions on the given topic and explain to their teacher how they arrived at their answer. You then record their answer and the reason behind the answer and can make any additional notes about the process of their rationale. You can create a teacher account which allows you to do the Inventory for up to 160 students. If you are at a small school site you can set up a manager account and link up to 5 teachers to easily compare results across the school or grade level. If you were wanting to do this for an entire school or district then you may have to pay for that size of service but is free for single class use or a small number to teachers. By doing this activity, you are probably looking at around 10 minutes per student per topic for a grand total of 30 minutes per student. The benefits of looking at how students reasoning when working on math problems may give you insight in to how to best teach your students. I would recommend this for middle school teachers or high school teachers that are working with students that struggle with math.<br />
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Here are some article to read incase it does not turn up - I would call the phone company as soon as possible. How well they work, I do not know but know but if you have lost your iPhone or want to take precautions, this could help.<br />
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<a href="http://www.zinnedproject.org/">Teaching A People's History</a> is a wonderful site that a History or English teacher could use to enhance their lesson plans on a given topic. Teaching A People's History has detailed lesson plans in PDF format for a wide range of topics and time periods that will push students of all abilities to critically analyze a given topic deeper and in meaningful ways that are not always apparent. One unit I looked at was on the <a href="http://www.zinnedproject.org/posts/1422">Potato Famine</a> that decimated Ireland. After presenting the facts and extended reading, it asked students to start to think about what were some of the problems that led to such a preventable disaster. At the end of the unit it laid blame not just on the English landlords but the farmers as well as the church. If you would like to learn more about the Howard Zinn Project of Teaching A People's History, please read the <a href="http://www.zinnedproject.org/faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a>.FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-32237553217796541242009-12-07T22:59:00.004-09:002009-12-07T23:11:51.390-09:00Skype An Author<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/W44oattCXHBfy-H8Ui_P8A11677"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 557px; height: 93px;" src="http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/W44oattCXHBfy-H8Ui_P8A11677" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://skypeanauthor.wetpaint.com/">Skype an author</a> is a terrific site for classroom teachers, mainly at the elementary and middle school level, where teachers and students can do a video-conference interview session with the author. The first 15 to 20 minutes are usually free as it is a meet and greet session with the author, but longer sessions can be arranaged for a fee, usually for an hour interview is around $100 to 300 dollars and some are willing to work with Title One schools for a discount. They have a list of authors that you can search and see what they are willing to do. This may well be worth the price for a classroom teacher to bring an author alive to their students that without Skype or other technology could not be done 5 years ago.<br /><br />I<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c.skype.com/i/images/logos/skype_logo.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 47px;" src="http://c.skype.com/i/images/logos/skype_logo.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>f you have never used <a href="http://www.skype.com/intl/en/getconnected/">Skype</a> it is a wonderful technology that allows people to communicate using voice, chat, or webcams (video-conference). Other technology can also do similar things, but <a href="http://www.skype.com/intl/en/getconnected/">Skype</a> seems to be the most popular.FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-73376696094862827242009-12-04T10:49:00.004-09:002009-12-04T11:07:40.683-09:00Wavy Graffiti<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.graffiticreator.net/img/interface/frame/logotype.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 1064px; height: 120px;" src="http://www.graffiticreator.net/img/interface/frame/logotype.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.graffiticreator.net/">Graffiti Generator</a> is a neat little online app that anyone can make their own graffiti. You have 7 different fonts to work with on making your logos. There is no embed ability that I discovered so you will have to take a screen shot and upload your photos to your website and embed them that way. Who has not wanted to be their own artist with such neat flair. Below is a sample of what I may use to spice up the banner across the top of my blog.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcwM-DHSCpuVjXb2vnG8BTTzqaV9jL4mIWJS8y_1fhGSwCTJtdrJ4TR3ABlKcDFDDBzGHwJFDJR0wVTVT8XW3_hrlxmwoRpwVHOLjGeyw5EehDUMu7CcFYwl-FfaVPCLRz4BIqMFjpMT-/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 66px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcwM-DHSCpuVjXb2vnG8BTTzqaV9jL4mIWJS8y_1fhGSwCTJtdrJ4TR3ABlKcDFDDBzGHwJFDJR0wVTVT8XW3_hrlxmwoRpwVHOLjGeyw5EehDUMu7CcFYwl-FfaVPCLRz4BIqMFjpMT-/s200/Picture+5.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411474532419215298" border="0" /></a>FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-33980482262692293042009-12-03T12:11:00.004-09:002009-12-03T12:38:31.379-09:00The Choices Program<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.brown.edu/Research/Choices/images/title_tag.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 68px;" src="http://www.brown.edu/Research/Choices/images/title_tag.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.choices.edu/index.php">The Choices Program</a> was shown to me by a social studies teacher I work with here in Fairbanks and found it to be a very useful website for teachers teaching <a href="http://www.choices.edu/resources/supplemental.php?course=4">current events</a>. They have detailed lesson plans that include extended reading, video segment links, and additional websites for even more resources. They add about one new topic a month and have topics that focus on <a href="http://www.choices.edu/resources/supplemental.php?course=2">US</a> and <a href="http://www.choices.edu/resources/supplemental.php?course=3">World Events</a>. They also have other lesson plans that you can pay for if you want the complete lesson plan for a given topic, but they do give you a wealth of information without purchasing anything.FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-35186361920995214362009-12-02T15:26:00.005-09:002009-12-03T12:08:12.473-09:00Wordle - I have a dream<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wordle.net/static/v1246/we.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 79px; height: 28px;" src="http://www.wordle.net/static/v1246/we.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.wordle.net/">Wordle</a> has gotten a lot of press over the past year, but like any new tech tool it takes the brain a few laps around the pool to figure out how to use the tool. So after playing with and reading how other teachers have been using this interesting tool in their instruction, I thought wouldn't it be great to see how some watershed moments of history look like in Wordle. So I choose to use the speech, "<a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm">I Have A Dream</a>" by Dr. King as my example. This and many more speeches are all can be found at a website called <a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/">American Rhetoric</a> It would be interesting to have kids think about what key words they found important and then compare it to what <a href="http://www.wordle.net/">Wordle</a> generated. If there are differences then discuss what they are and place in context some of the words that really pop out in the <a href="http://www.wordle.net/">Wordle</a>.<br /><br />I picked up one trick that I found very useful, was to use ~ to combine words. If you notice the phrase "I Have a Dream" is together so to use this trick you would need to turn it into "I~Have~a~Dream" anywhere in the text that you choose to use. It does take a little more time, but for phrases that should be together it makes for a more powerful Wordle.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1405073/I_have_a_dream" title="Wordle: I have a dream"><img src="http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/1405073/I_have_a_dream" alt="Wordle: I have a dream" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 4px;" /></a>FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-220558685984821942009-11-25T13:46:00.002-09:002009-11-25T13:54:47.579-09:00Tabbloid<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tabbloid.com/bitty-static/images/tabbloid/logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 63px;" src="http://www.tabbloid.com/bitty-static/images/tabbloid/logo.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Tabbloid is a neat tool for creating a pdf of your rss feeds. So if you have a some great math rss feeds but have teachers that are not inclined to to subscribe to rss feeds this would be a great way to introduce them to a wealth of information without having to set up an rss reader. The layout looks great and will arrive to in your inbox on your email. You do not need an account so even your students could set up their own tabbloid from rss feeds for current events, topics they are interested in, and much much more. Give it a try and see if you like it.FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-21321252635008692102009-11-21T16:08:00.004-09:002009-11-21T16:36:33.937-09:00National Novel Writing Month<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/sites/all/themes/nanowrimo/images/header.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 760px; height: 122px;" src="http://www.nanowrimo.org/sites/all/themes/nanowrimo/images/header.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Even though the month of November is almost over, this site has a great challenge that could be used at any time for an English teacher. There are two sites, but they both have the same goal in mind, write the majority of a novel (50,000 words) in one month.<br />The first is the <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">National Novel Writing Month</a> also known as "NaNoWriMo".They provide you inspiration with help hints, forums to ask questions, and a Young Writers Program as well.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/sites/all/themes/nanowrimo_ywp_2/images/logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 256px;" src="http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/sites/all/themes/nanowrimo_ywp_2/images/logo.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>The <a href="http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/">Young Writers Program</a> has a similar site as well but with it geared towards teenagers instead. They have games and suggestions on how to get rid of writers block.<br />This would be ambitious for any teacher to have their students write this much, but they could easily adapt this exercise across a semester or year.<br /> <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/0feef885-97eb-475d-afc2-6afb16b016e0/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=0feef885-97eb-475d-afc2-6afb16b016e0" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /></a><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div>FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-1056149814269210502009-11-04T20:59:00.003-09:002009-11-04T21:24:09.027-09:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs_v3/learning/learning_post.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 562px; height: 100px;" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs_v3/learning/learning_post.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I found three tools for use in the classroom from the NY Times "<a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/">The Learning Network</a>" today. "The Learning Network" is a blog by the NY times that reports on educational issues and provides some useful resources and tools.<br /><br />The first is called <a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/news-quiz/">News Quiz </a>where they ask 5 questions about today's headlines. The NY Times include a link to the headlines of the day with the story's that the questions are based on. This is a Monday through Friday post that started on October 15, 2009. This would be a great warm up exercise for a social studies teacher or a reading teacher.<br /><br />The second one is called "<a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/fill-in/">Fill-In</a>" which is similar to a Mad Lib style exercise that is based on an article. It has been happening since October 23, 2009 but they had such an overwhelming positive response to it that they decided to make it a weekly event. They tie their "<a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/fill-in/">Fill-In</a>" to a real news story and you can either have the students fill it in with their own words or you can give them a scrabmled list of words that were removed for the fill in the blank part of the story. The NY Times also gives you a link to the original story as well.<br /><br />Finally, the NY Times provides a "<a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/word-of-the-day/">Word of the Day</a>" complete with pronucation and definitions. This is weekday post and they use words that most teenagers should learn. When you go to read more about the word they explain how often it has been used in NY Times articles and then try to use the word in context as well. They also have a link to a tool call the<a href="http://www.visualthesaurus.com/landing/nytln/?ad=nytl&utm_medium=default&utm_campaign=VT&utm_source=nytl&word=dilate"> visual thesaurus</a> as well.FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-74966222883903705452009-11-02T08:32:00.005-09:002009-11-02T09:22:10.574-09:00Technology In The Classroom<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/art/p_frontline.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 181px; height: 46px;" src="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/art/p_frontline.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Over the past 10 years technology, has a played an ever increasing role in how we teach and how students learn. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Frontline</span></a>, a PBS show takes an <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">in-depth</span> look at how technology is being used from <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/school-theres-an-app-for-that.html?play">use of cell phones</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/literacy/moby-what-1.html?play"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Internet</span> censorship issues</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/literacy/do-books-have-a-future.html?play">what roles do paper books have</a>, what are some of the drawbacks of the use of technology (<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/concentration/countering-the-urge-to-multitask.html?play">the myth of multitasking</a>), and many more topics. The web site is broken down into 4 large topics that are called <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/concentration/">concentration</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/games-that-teach/">games that teach</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/literacy/">literacy</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/">schools</a>. I would spend some time exploring each <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">category</span> and watching the videos that seem interesting to you. It is a very up to date series of videos that takes a well <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">balanced</span> view towards the pros and cons of technology in schools and learning.<br /><br />These videos could lead to some great discussions and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">writing</span> prompts in an English classroom or tech integration class as these are the questions that we as educators are constantly dealing with.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Other Resources</span><br /><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-10-26-kindle-school-library_N.htm">USA Today: Future of Library</a> - An article about the use of kindles in a library setting.<br /><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/339dottodot/">IS 339</a> - A public middle school in New York that was transformed using Google Apps.FairbanksTechTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00816603438918781508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624983189680805799.post-77890143784525431442009-10-21T13:34:00.004-08:002009-10-21T15:17:39.509-08:00uMapper - More than Just Maps<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAglZLPticRjgoANNKS2buYmQ3DWF09Z0Uz2XA9hrZo4cyAZ1-07tdhIfi4AAlz0XafbNoLPf-KW7i2QN8q4PRIVOIPt-gw6sC6POokZ-3Q_SioRmi10mM8_3gdO8yup4X5ztAyDFmIkI/s400/Picture+9.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 44px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAglZLPticRjgoANNKS2buYmQ3DWF09Z0Uz2XA9hrZo4cyAZ1-07tdhIfi4AAlz0XafbNoLPf-KW7i2QN8q4PRIVOIPt-gw6sC6POokZ-3Q_SioRmi10mM8_3gdO8yup4X5ztAyDFmIkI/s400/Picture+9.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<br />After reading one of my favorite blogs <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/10/umapper-create-flash-maps-and-games.html">Free Technology for Teachers </a>and his post about <a href="http://www.umapper.com/">uMapper</a>. I started to realize that the geodart game could be used for more than just maps. You can upload any image that you want to and create ballons on your image and create a random study aid for your students or have your students create them for themselves or classmates. So I decided to do one for the first 20 elements for the periodic table and included pictures on two of them. You can do either text or pictures but not both. With text you can add hyperlinks to other web pages as well. Have fun creating games to use for your students to study for your next skills assessment.
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