Mar 05
Technology blog, moving No Comments
If you are following this blog, please know that we have moved to: http://buddypress.southamboyteacher.com/melson/
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Thanks and see you on Buddy Press.
Popularity: 18% [?]
Jan 27
Teaching, Technology Contest, Discovery Education, Interactive whiteboard, Laptop No Comments
Enter the 9th annual Win a Wireless Lab Sweepstakes for your chance to win one of three grand prize wireless computer labs for your school, including 20 notebook or tablet computers, interactive whiteboard, mobile cart, projector, printer, wireless access points, portable document camera, digital camcorder, and a $5,000 digital media grant from Discovery Education.
Plus, 25 additional technology prizes! In addition to the three grand prizes, we’re giving away 20 additional prizes, including projectors, notebook computers, and digital camcorders! Each month one lucky winner will receive a projector from NEC.
Enter once per day until May 3, 2010 at discoveryeducation.com/cdwg. Share with your friends and colleagues on Twitter and triple your entry each day.
*No purchase necessary. Sweepstakes runs through May 3, 2010. For complete details, see the official rules posted at discoveryeducation.com/cdwg.
Popularity: 23% [?]
Dec 01
Professional, Social Networking, Technology Google, Google Wave, Tools No Comments
I’ve got Google Wave invites to give away to the first eight (8) educators who comment on this post! (Please include your school or how you are involved with education in your comment.)
What is Google Wave? Watch below to get an idea:
While Wave is still very much beta and makes my head spin thinking about it, I am using it everyday and can see to potential for learning. I am even including this in my PIP as a PLN.
Please be patient waiting for your invite. As Goolge states, “Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.”
Happy waving!
Popularity: 79% [?]
Nov 12
Google, Technology Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Tips No Comments
For students and teachers, the Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs.
100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students & Educators | AccreditedOnlineColleges.org.
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Nov 03
Gadgets, Teaching, Technology education, High school, Mobile phone, UK No Comments
I found this fascinating quote today:
Looks like Notre Dame high school in the UK is taking the bull by the horns and moving forward with an initiative to allow the use of mobile phones for educational purposes during class time.
Assistant headteacher Paul Haigh said mobiles, MP3 players and gaming devices were “untapped resources” for teaching and learning.
“We realise as a comprehensive state school we could never afford to buy every student all the IT and mobile devices we would like them to have.
He added: “But most students own many of these devices anyway – they’re just hidden in their schoolbags. What’s more they’re experts in using them, knowing all the short cuts and characteristics of their own equipment as they use it every day.”
- Image via Wikipedia
Mr Haigh said there was little logic in allowing pupils to use a netbook in school while banning mobile phones, many of which could access the internet, record sound and take digital photographs.
teach42.com, Teach42
You should read the whole article.
Popularity: 59% [?]
Oct 05
Technology Google, Google Apps, Google Moderator, moderator, question No Comments
Google Moderator makes it easy to gather and prioritize questions or opinions on any topic from a group of people.
Please take a moment to participate in the following: “What is your most pressing question about technology in our district?”
You need to have a Google Apps account to use this feature. You will need to sign in with your sapublicschools.com account after you click the above link.
If you are interested in an account, please fill out the form here.
Keeping group discussions or Q&A sessions focused on important topics can be difficult. Google Moderator will help keep things on track by allowing users to both suggest questions and vote on others’ questions.
Everyone has a chance to propose questions and the questions are collected in one place. Users can individually vote up or down on the questions they feel strongly about. Questions can then be addressed in popularity order, providing the best chance to answer the questions that the audience cares the most about.
It is flexible enough to be suitable for anything from a lecture to a team meeting or as a research tool to gather popularity-ranked feedback.
Popularity: 30% [?]
Aug 10
Social Networking, Teaching, Tech Links, Technology, del.icio.us Bookmark Managers, Common Craft, del.icio.us, Diigo, Social bookmarking No Comments
Heard of Delicious? Diigo? No? There are just two of the most popular sites providing social bookmarking services. Social Bookmarking is a method for you to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet. And lucky for us, the good folks at Common Craft have created a simple video to explain what this is all about.
After watching the video, stop by the school’s Delicious and Diigo accounts for some link goodness. The school’s Diigo account is somewhat limited so stop by mine for a better example of what it looks like.
Note: Diigo has special education accounts for teachers and classrooms, so be sure to visit.
Popularity: 18% [?]
Jul 15
Technology Board of Education, cell phone, cell phones, classrooms, Mobile phone, School, School district, Science and Technology, Student No Comments
“Can you hear me now?”
This phrase will not be heard this year from students when they return to classes at any of the schools under the supervision of the Durant Independent School District.
While students will now be allowed to carry their cell phones with them on campus, they will not be allowed to use them during school hours. Previously, cell phones were banned.
The change in policy was unanimously approved by the Durant I.S.D. Board of Education at Monday’s monthly meeting.
Durant Daily Democrat – Durant schools put silence on cell phones.
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Jun 22
Social Networking, Technology fun, Social Networking, Twitter No Comments
Oxford University Press has been studying the language of Twitter these past six months – take a look at what they’ve found.
Seems the most commonly tweeted word is (hold the drum roll) “the.”
Read more below:
HigherEdMorning.com » Blog Archive » The hidden problem with Twitter.
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Jun 18
Technology microsoft, Microsoft Office, MS Office, Office Suite, OpenOffice.org No Comments
If you’re thinking of skipping the next expensive Microsoft Office upgrade, you can begin preparing today for the move to a free Office-like suite or Web service.
Break from MS Office with free alternatives.
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