Spotlight

This appears to be a new magazine created by the folks at Eduction Week. The first issue came out in the summer and this second issue has some very thought provoking concepts for using technology. How about kids using IM to discuss a book? Read more at this link. There is also some information about whiteboards, wikis and email.

This site from the ReadWriteThink provides a TON of lesson plan ideas, forms, charts, a calendar of professional events and much more. This is worth the visit especially if you teach a literacy class

This new high speed camera (2000 frames per second) is demonstrated here. Imagine what could be done with this type of capture for science, sports analysis, motion analysis etc. I think we will see more fun videos from this guy.

Sometimes you can find something that will be part of a great lesson and you adjust the lesson to use what you find. This may be one of those visuals. There are implications for using this in math, science(recycling), creative writing, or pop culture. You chose what fits your style and standards! Thanks to Chris Jordan for this series of images.

The Best Buy teacher grant is closing applicatons on September 30, 2007. There is a wide variety of grants which will be awarded in February 2008.

If you do some creative arts activities in your room, you will find some excellent resources at this site. Thanks to Donna S. in my graduate class for suggesting this site for our class.

If you have never attended an online event, then this is the one to try out. This k-12 Conference has all kinds of online workshops you can enjoy from the comfort of your pj's in a big sofa! This is where I actually leaned about how to use a wiki and was part of a collaborative group project/discussion. It was quite valuable and helped me to learn it well enough to show my colleagues how to get started. In any event, look around the website and if you decide to sign up, you should check out this link too at attendr.com. It is a "mashup" for those attending the k-12 Online Conference. If you wish to see what was done in 2006, you can view all the sessions and some of the notes and podcasts created.

We are trying a voicethread experiment. Please bare with me on this one. To comment on this voicethread, you need to create a user account(FREE) at the site. We are going to try this technology with a few teachers this year. We will keep you posted and publish them as they are completed.

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