Social Bookmarking is the process of sharing links or as Wikipedia says: On a Social Bookmarking system or network, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists can be accessible to the public by users of a specific network or website. Other users with similar interests can view the links by [...]
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We have been blogging in 6th grade this year so this cartoon seemed appropriate. It was sent to us by our Middle School Secretary. While we can debate the merits it is clear to me from a student’s views, blogging and getting comments made their use of Classblogmeister more useful then a paper book report. [...]
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I had the distinct pleasure of representing Durham Academy at an Executive Briefing with Apple Computer in Cupertino. The purpose was to discuss how we can move the learning at Durham Academy forward into the future and how they may help. We were treated extremely well by all Apple Executives and given a warm and [...]
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There has been much talk recently about online safety and children. I wrote about this on a web site for Durham Academy last year after a visit by a noted expert on the dangers presented by Social Networking, IM, and other technologies. You can read more about that at: Social Networking. These represented my thoughts [...]
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Fred Bartels recently post on the ISED listserv about this tool. I can see the benefit of having this tool in the growing digital toolkit as we adjust from being a text based learning environment to a digital audio and video learning environment. It costs $23.32 and is available for free trial download that is [...]
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DA Teacher – Mrs. Ward allowed Red Hat to film her students using the DAILE Moodle. Here is feedback her students generated which she shared with Julie and Greg from Red Hat.
“Thank you for coming to our class. Aside from making us all feel very cool if even for just one period (of course the [...]
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Mrs. Birgel’s class will be doing a few culminating projects around the book Life of Pi. One tool we will use are free learner blogs for students. To do this, we will go to the following site Edublogs and start the process of creating a blog. When setting up your blog, do not use your [...]
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Each 8th grade student completes an independent project on a scientific topic. Many do PowerPoint, Movies plus a posterboard. Here are two students who took a different route because the tools were available. Here are the links to the web sites that two of our science students built for their Independent Projects and one students [...]
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Red Hat software was here today to film Mrs. Ward’s 8th grade science class using the DAILE Moodle. The students were studying clouds and used the assignment, quiz, web page modules to study and identify clouds. Red Hat was here as being an open source software company they are keenly interested in how Moodle is [...]
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For the 8th grade History Project, we will use the web sites that Mrs. Longee has shown you during your time in the library. As Mr. Dahlgren and Mr. Costello have outlined the project:
Over the next several days, you will be working to produce a project demonstrating an understanding of the Constitution of the United [...]
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