Random Ramblings

Wisdomap
Mindmaps - thinking maps
tags: mindmapping, mindmap, web2.0, mindmaps, thinkingmap

Toddle
simple email newsletters
tags: toddle, newsletter, newsletters, email

100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers
tags: youtube, videos, video

Hulu - Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free.
Free online TV
tags: tv, television, web2.0, hulu, streaming, movies

Tatango - connecting groups through group text messaging
Group texting
tags: textmessage, text

Fotoll Create polls with pictures
tags: poll, polls, pictures, survey, surveys

PowerPoint Slide Show Cheat Sheet
tags: powerpoint, powerpoints, Powerpoints-teaching, shortcuts

Mathway: Basic Math Problem Solver
Basic Math, Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Linear Algebra, Trig, Pre-Calc, and Calc
tags: math, mathematics

SESAME STREET
games, videos, muppets, and much more
tags: sesamestreet, sesame_street

Using Technology in The Language Arts Classroom
tags: languagearts, languageartslessonplans, powerpoint

Dabbleboard - A powerful and easy-to-use collaborative whiteboard
Collaborative online whiteboard
tags: whiteboard, dabbleboard, web2.0, tools, collaboration

The Sanford Herald
Sanford, North Carolina newspaper
tags: sanford, newspaper

NowDoThis
tags: todo, list, tool

Portrait Illustration Maker : Free Illustration Generater!
tags: avatar, design, graphics, avatars, generator

Whew!  Been a few weeks since I have blogged.  Seems like everything that could have happened has.  But, we’ve been dealing with a few things in my department that I just needed to share and ask for opinions.
We are struggling with the idea of how much do we protect the students from the Internet and [...]

WOW!  Remind me never to apply for 3 session at a conference again! I thought I would apply for 3 sessions in hopes that NCAECT would accept one. Surprise!  The good thing was that we presented back to back to back in the same room and all on the first day.
Our best session was our [...]

I had an aha moment this afternoon. I was speaking to one of the teachers at East Lee about East becoming a STEM school next year, when she offered one of the best analogies I have ever heard.  As we were discussing how to get the teachers involved, Misty offered this:
“You have given [...]

Are you a networked teacher? I had never thought of that term until I saw the Edublogs Magazine.
I loved the visual. So, how many of the connections do you make??
From the Edublogs Magazine:
Visualizing the Networked Teacher
Published by Lorelle VanFossen on 2 Feb 2008
This popular flickr image by courosa, called “The Networked Teacher”, is a [...]

We are at the closing session of FETC. It has been a tiring, but good conference. There were great sessions and the vendor area was good.
John Kuglin

S.W.I.M.

“How William Shatner changed the world” from History Channel

Route 21 partnership for 21st century learning

IPCC - won Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for global warming

Lay [...]

Cross Curricular and Across the K-12 World with Google Earth with Cindy Lane
Lane.cindy@gmail.com
www.googleearthgoods.pbwiki.com
Langwitches notes from same session - GREAT notes!

password for wiki is Cindylane
thanks to Kathy for ustreaming the session
most in audience know a bit about Google Earth
geogreeting.com

create spelling words
can find and graph words from all over world
shows letters on world map
good for elementary school

Math

instant [...]

Whew! I’m in day 3 of the FETC conference. I have learned a lot, but the absolutely coolest thing was meeting face to face (F2F) with some of my twitter friends. If you haven’t read my blog before, Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to update yourself/your activities in [...]

A couple of summer ago, hubby and I visited his parents in Atlanta and we took our friends from South Africa. While we were there, we visited CNN. Great tour! One of the best parts was when I was able to try my luck at being a news anchor. Okay, so it [...]

Geocaching … An Educational Adventure
Crystal Turney and Beth Hamilton
http://www.geocaching.com
also on United Streaming
great staff building activity
Geocaching as a learning tool
1.       Stimulates creative teaching
2.       Motivates students
3.       Fosters cooperative learning and teamwork
4.       Promotes higher order thinking skills
5.       Integrates various curriculum areas
6.       Instills a respect and consideration for others
7.       Creates awareness for environment
From National Geographic:
                Crack the Code - [...]

Patrick Crispin  Googlebots
http://netsquirrel.com
http://netsquirrel.com/powerpoint/complete.html
 
Google 201 workshop
                Google’s page rank algorithm

Google on the road

1-800-goog-411
Will do cross streets
Will text message the directions

Google Maps

http://maps.google.com
Map is clickable and dragable
Map, [...]

Alan November
Digital Learning Farms
                Jobs kid should do
a.       Designing tutorial
-          Homework will contribute to the good of the whole instead of the individual.
-          Create tutorial groups in classroom by using screen casting software
-          Screencastomatic is free
b.      Podcast reviews
-          Curriculum review teams of kids
-          Have a chart of jobs that change from week to week
-          The [...]

David Warlick – Second Life
http://handouts.davidwarlick.com
ajaxchat – mini twitter – after session you can relocate the transcript to a wiki
http://davidwarlick.com/ajaxchat/index.php
tag blog entry:  secondlife and warlick – to be part of the online handouts
“Snow Crash” book about Second Life by Neil ??

I haven’t used my blog in this manner before, but hey, there’s always a first time, right?  I have a teacher that wants to let the kids collaborate simultaneously on a spreadsheet.  I suggested Google Docs, but found out that you must have an email to register.  Our kids have Gaggle, but aren’t allowed outside [...]

Yep, that was me skipping down the hallway on Friday.  I had spent a couple of days in Susan Oriet’s 6th grade Language Arts class working on Voicethread.  The kids made collages of books they had read and then we recorded their reports onto Voicethread.  WOW!  What a great experience!  I had so much fun! [...]

That’s exactly how I’ve been feeling for a couple of weeks now. I can’t seem to shake this bug I’ve caught. Wonder if I just might be allergic to the new kitten that Jeff brought home. Hmmmmmm……
We had an interesting workshop on Thursday with the teachers at West. We started with Powerpoint [...]

Don’t forget the K12 Online Conference begins today! Click on over and learn something

Until next time ~ Danita

What a wonderful week I had! It began Monday with my friend Kim and I presenting at the North Carolina Elementary Education Conference. We did our Web Wizards Web 2.0 presentation. How fun it is to have someone you can work with so well. She’s great and really does know her [...]

The far reaching Internet has proven itself to me once again. I’ve had 2 very unexpected emails from people I have never met in person and probably won’t ever see face to face. But, we are communicating and discovering how we can help each other.
The first email I received was from a company [...]

This has been a great week. I’m having more and more teachers approach me and ask how they can make a wiki. I knew the fire would catch on, but I had no idea how quickly it would spread! The wikis range in ability, like our kids, and some teachers have put [...]

Many of you probably do not know that I publish a monthly newsletter for my teachers.  You can view my previous months newsletters on this page of my blog.
I have struggled with publisher (urggg) and yes, publisher won.  This time I went out on a limb and tried PowerPoint.  Much, much easier!  Only problem, I [...]