video visit_2, originally uploaded by happygirl_77. Yesterday was Ball State University's first virtual author visit of the school year. Sue Price and Betsy Likens(middle school language arts teachers) joined their classes in order to visit with Betsy Lewin and Doreen Cronin (careful, there's sound at Doreen's site!), author-illustrator team of Click Clack Moo. Sue and Betsy reported… Continue reading Virtual Author Visit
Category: technology
This is the only kind of jogging you’re going to see me do!
Kevin, Creator of Day in a Sentence, used a new technology, Jog the Web, to showcase everyone's posts this week. I was fascinated with the ease at which I was able to navigate through the websites of the Day in a Sentence Contributors. In fact, I liked Kevin's Jog so much that I created a… Continue reading This is the only kind of jogging you’re going to see me do!
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Day in a Sentence as an Interrogative
Kevin changed-up the "Day in a Sentence" Charge this week. He proposed reflected on your day/week as a question. So, here I am, trying to think about my week in terms of a reflective question. This is what I came up with: Will the technology I use in my classroom (daily) help my students become… Continue reading Day in a Sentence as an Interrogative
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Tech Tools: Scribd
The Reading Zone started using Scribd as a way to share documents she created with her blog readers. Even though I'm partial to Box.net for file sharing with my colleagues, I thought I'd give Scribd, which has a social networking component, a try. I'm delighted I did! Scribd turns documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, ppts, and more… Continue reading Tech Tools: Scribd
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Preserve Your Students’ Year in Writing & in Pictures
A few days ago I received two e-mails from one of my former fifth graders that I hadn't seen since the final day of school in June 2007. He's now in seventh grade and wanted to get back in-touch. Seeing as all of my students have my personal e-mail address, this was pretty easy for… Continue reading Preserve Your Students’ Year in Writing & in Pictures
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Stay up-to-date with TWT posts
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Stixy: My new favorite tech toy
My Stixyboard for Wednesday 9-3-08 Originally uploaded by teachergal I discovered Stixy this past weekend, which is essentially an online bulletin board. The users of Stixy suggest using it in the following ways: * for family schedules * for work projects * to prepare an upcoming vacation with friends * to display photos from your… Continue reading Stixy: My new favorite tech toy
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Sharing Photos with Students & Families
I built a website on Shutterfly to share pictures and news with my students' families. This might be overkill seeing as I also built a classroom blog. I was going to use Picasa to host photos of my students, but now that I found this great new tool over at Shutterfly, I'm rethinking my Picasa… Continue reading Sharing Photos with Students & Families
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Trading My Favorite Classroom Spaces
Trading Our Favorite Spaces: 1 of 2 Originally uploaded by teachergal Mary Lee & Franki are hosting something of a blog carnival over at A Year of Reading. It's called Trading (Our Favorite) Spaces. Click here to learn more about it &/or to submit photos of your favorite space by September 1st. I'm posting just… Continue reading Trading My Favorite Classroom Spaces
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del.icio.us is now delicious
Delicious, the social bookmarking website, recently went through a major overhaul, making it even more user-friendly. In case you're unfamiliar with it, you can learn more by clicking here. I've been using Delicious ever since I heard Kylene Beers speak about it several times last summer. At first I thought it would be a good… Continue reading del.icio.us is now delicious
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Discovering New Technology You Can Use in Your Classroom or on Your Blog
Dabbleboard is like an online white board. If one has an LCD Projector, then I can see this being a quick way to illustrate a concept that you want to preserve (instead of being forced to erase the marker from the classroom white board.) Hyplet provides you with online business cards and flyers. You can… Continue reading Discovering New Technology You Can Use in Your Classroom or on Your Blog
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wanna new font?
Maybe some of you out there are as crazy about fonts as Stacey and I? If so, check out today's post on Sprague Lab called Font-o-licious! Jessica Sprague has provided a tutorial for downloading & installing fonts plus access to her 24 favorite FREE fonts (plus another 3 that cost a few bucks). (Which means… Continue reading wanna new font?
