Posted on September 26th, 2007 by kschaefer
Wesley Freyer tagged everyone who reads his blog to list 3 reasons why teachers should “attend” the 2007 K-12 Online Conference. Well here are mine:
1. Because I never have
2. Because I want to learn from others without leaving home
3. Because I can
What are yours?
From the K-12 Online Conference Web site:
“The K-12 Online Conference is for [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2007 by kschaefer
The Independent School listserv I subscribe to has been a buzz with new products or software. In an effort to keep up, I will blog about them.
VoiceThread allows users to add their voice to images they upload. The resulting movie can be shared privately via an email
Phanfare allows users to try it for free for [...]
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Posted on September 17th, 2007 by kschaefer
A great article on e-writing was shared by Michael Ulku-Steiner with the Upper School faculty deserves a wider audience. Full disclosure would mean that DA parent, Lucy Martindale get credit for sending it to Michael. This is how connected learning happens when done in bits and bytes or ones and zeros and not in an [...]
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Posted on September 17th, 2007 by kschaefer
A long time ago there was Logo which allowed users to interact and program a turtle to do certain actions. My predecessor, Rachel Avery wrote books on Logo. Logo still exists although it is now done via MicroWorlds or Terrapin Software. I remember conversations I had with the parents of students in the Lower School [...]
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Posted on September 11th, 2007 by kschaefer
I gave Nat G. the Garmin GPSmap 60CS to take on the coastal trip. I asked him to set some way points and see if he could collect as much data as possible. Actually, I gave it to Dr. Ward who gave it to Nat. I included a 150 page manual which I am sure [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007 by kschaefer
Tech Learning Educator’s eZine appeared in my email today. Instead of clicking on it to delete it because I was too busy, I thought I would take a look as a title grabbed my attention: Open Source Learning: How well do you share?. The article by Cheryl Oakes hit the spot with me. I am [...]
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