The explosion of Web 2.0 and social media has given us and our students a prodigious number of tools to use for collaboration. We have an exponentially growing number of Plans B-Z to use when something doesn’t work. This week, our end of the Skype book club we’ve created with Karin Perry’s (@kperry) students fell [...]
[Author's note: I love Foyble.com and its potential to add relevance and voice to students' community service. I greatly appreciate the opportunities I have to work with Foyble.com, but I am in no way compensated by the site.]
Monday night I Skyped with Brian Foy (@Foyble_org), a co-founder of Foyble.com, and Jack King (@drjackking), founder [...]
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Posted 14 January 2010
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Today we had a great time introducing ourselves to Laura Oldham’s (@engltchrleo) new reading classes via Edmodo; our small-group Skyping cohort also happily reconnected with Karin Perry’s (@kperry) students to discuss James Dashner’s The Maze Runner. We used 1:1 iPods Touch and m.Edmodo.com for our introductions; we gathered around Skype on a MacBook for our book [...]
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Posted 08 January 2010
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Also tagged: 1:1 access; 1:1 learning, 1:1 computing, Book club, Edmodo, Instructional technology, James Dashner, Karin Perry, Laura Oldham, Peer accountability, Personal accountability, Scott Westerfeld, Small-group Skyping, The Maze Runner, Uglies
My sources say these predictions for 2010 are pretty sound. Network macronodes will ditch the hubs and spokes and explode into clouds as learners carry new learning with them from opportunity to opportunity.
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I want synched e-readers with color screens and robust tablet features for annotation and audio/visual mark-up, and I want them licensed [...]
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Posted 02 January 2010
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Also tagged: 2010, Authentic learning, Authentic work, Book challenge policy, Career & Technical Education, e-Reader, Edmodo, Flexbook, Innovation, Inquiry by RSS, Instructional technology, Karin Perry, Laura Oldham, Magic 8-Ball, NCLB, Patacritical Demon, Predictions, RttT, Social media, Social reading, SpecLab, Teacher evaluation, Teacher pay, The Educational Optimists, TwitterKids of Tanzania, Website challenge policy
Today one of my reading groups started “small-group Skyping” (thanks for the phrase, @bjnichols) with some of Karin Perry’s (@kperry) students. The students met on Skype and then watched three book trailers before settling on Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies as the novel they wanted to read and discuss together after winter break. I thought the [...]
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Posted 17 December 2009
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Also tagged: American Born Chinese, Brian J. Nichols, Gene Luen Yang, Instructional technology, James Dashner, Karin Perry, NCTE, Reading group, Scott Westerfeld, Small-group Skyping, Teri Lesene, The Maze Runner, Uglies
