Posted on October 13th, 2009 by kschaefer
In the past with Melissa Tredenick and I worked together with NCAIS Blended Learning Conference. She is now at The Linsly School in Wheeling, West Virginia. She posted on the Voicethread Ning how her and the 5th grade teacher had created a Voicethread to discuss their favorite scene in the book Because of Winn [...]
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Posted on September 11th, 2009 by kschaefer
I have been working to get back in the swing of the school year. I enjoyed my summer off and offline existence. Quite a change from my digital life at work. I could not connect to my blog for sometime using Ecto which is how I write my blog rather then online. Today, it worked [...]
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Posted on February 5th, 2009 by kschaefer
I have a colleague named Lou who has been corresponding to me about some work related technology questions. He happened to mention he had read a Wired article that mentioned some of the amazing iPhone/iPod Touch applications. Being a former teacher of Science and lover of Astronomy, I went directly to the iTunes App Store [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2008 by kschaefer
He has written about this restructuring better then anyone I have read. Many times, I read articles from experts who tell of lofty ideas or ways to do things in a classroom that are not as feasible as they seem or still keep the teacher as the person with the knowledge or information key. Alan, [...]
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Posted on November 13th, 2008 by kschaefer
I have not used Twitter for awhile but decided to turn on Twitterific which lists the tweets of the folks I follow. I only follow a few and one is a long Apple Engineer Francis Shepherd. He tweeted : Just heard a live presentation by Richard Miller, Rutgers University on the Future is Now http://tinyurl.com/2n2ge2 [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2008 by kschaefer
Reading about the new features in version 10 of FirstClass I like what I see and then I get to this:
Read the full article at: http://www.kannoncom.com/FirstClassRoadmap2008 and make sure you see the images of the iPhone client. Nice
Enhanced Sync Support for Mobile Devices: In FirstClass 10 we will greatly enhance our “Sync” support with the [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2008 by kschaefer
All students now have FirstClass accounts. Here is a cool student and a cool demonstration of how digital tools can change the learning platform.
Over the weekend some discussions were seemingly lost inside of a Workspace that a student had created for 7th grade History class. Because I was asked to assist, I logged in as [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by kschaefer
I know that many of our parents are buying MacBooks or iMacs for their children. I have read Chris Breen for many years and trust his knowledge so I feel good about being able to recommend this article on using the built-in parent controls in Leopard OS.
Configured correctly, Parental Controls are remarkably effective. But you [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by kschaefer
I had a parent (Mrs. Murray) send me this link which is an amazing example of how virtual education is The Palace Museum and IBM where she works has just launched a virtual re-creation of the palace grounds, architecture, and artifacts as they were during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Beyond Space and Time is [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2008 by kschaefer
This year is only 5 days old and already I am amazed if not a bit tired. I have been meeting with each of the grade levels for 2 classes in order to get the students organized and shown how to use some of the new tools. FirstClass is now available for all students grades [...]
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