Posted on April 9, 2013 by kschaefer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28826792@N00/5971423516 Joanne Shang, a colleague, is getting her Masters and needed my help. This is her request: Hi Karl, I need to ask you for a favor again! I am working on an assignment, for my graduate course, to create a documentary on someone in my everyday world who lives creatively. I can’t find a [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2013 by kschaefer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21317398@N04/6243312715 As I work on writing comments for my students during our teacher workday, I found a link to Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk in a shared Google Doc from the English Departments Retreat last week. I had not seen it so with two browsers open, one for comments, and one for soul food, I [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2012 by kschaefer
I have been absent from blogging much as my writing is taking place in writing tutorials or helping students and teachers with iPads. I will be posting some of my tutorials from my new favorite app, SlideRocket soon but until then let me share this video from a parent. By the way SlideRocket EDU is [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2012 by kschaefer
I feel really bad for the entire This American Life crew who were taken in by the story teller Mike Daisey and his fabricated monologue which morphed into a highly touted journalistic report. Ira Glass does a nice job of talking us through the retraction and as I listened to it, I could hear his [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2012 by kschaefer
These two announcemets came in through Twitter (TED-Ed) and Google Reader (Khan Academy App). I think both are huge as potential resources for our teachers and students to use. Khan Academy website: http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy App review by Edudemic: http://edudemic.com/2012/03/sneak-peek-the-new-khan-academy-ipad-app/ I played with it this morning and it really is quite a useful resource for students or [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2012 by kschaefer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Blackout_Screen.jpg On January 18, 2012, the Internet began to live up to the collective tool that many of us think it is by unleashing it’s power on Congress. With many sites going dark or putting black banners across their name along with links to Congressional Members many members of Congress withdrew their support. Read more [...]
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Posted on January 13, 2012 by kschaefer
Image: Apple\’s Eyes Studio / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Over the last few weeks, more students are looking for audiences for their writing and stop animation movies. Mostly the avenue chosen is to send out email messages individually to students and teachers or to a conference where all students can read the request. I think this is a [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2011 by kschaefer
Image from:http://www.adrdesignonline.com/happy-new-year-from-adr-design/ Quoted From Richard Bryne’s Blog: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/12/year-in-google-searches.html “Today, Google launched their 2011 Zeitgeist site. Google’s 2011 Zeitgeist features a menu of the most-searched terms of 2011. You can view the overall picture or use the menus to see the most searched terms according to region, country, and theme. The menus are nice and [...]
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Posted on December 12, 2011 by kschaefer
As schools, mine included, look to adopt the latest portable or mobile devices, I am wondering if the decision makers are also considering whether or not the school is ready for a post PC device. I know our school is testing iPads in one class while another class uses MacBooks. Granted, the iPads are brand [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2011 by kschaefer
Flipping the classroom is somewhat new although variations have been around for years. My fellow NCAIS Master Teacher Josh Thornton has worked on flipping his Math Class with good success. At the Middle School, various math teachers use Khan Academy to help their students. For the most part, it is not true flipping in that [...]
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