PBS Has Lauched A New Teachers Website

November 3rd, 2009

PBS Teachers is the national Web destination for preK-12 educators to access PBS’ educational services and a searchable database of more than 9,000 free local and national standards-based teaching activities, lesson plans, on-demand video assets, interactive games, and simulations.

Many of the resources feature PBS’ award-winning programming and content, including on-demand streaming video from select PBS programs. PBS Teachers hosts an online learning community for educators to share ideas, collaborate, and discuss technology and digital media integration in the classroom. Within the community, educators can search for instructional resources that fit their needs; then easily bookmark, annotate, share, and manage their tagged content. The site is http://www.pbs.org/teachers/.

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EduBlogs

October 22nd, 2009

Are you and your students interested in doing some blogging in your classroom?  As I was out doing my fall school visits, I discovered that many of my schools did not know that EduTech has a free blogging service. Blogs@EduTech provides an easy way for the North Dakota K-12 community to blog and podcast. Anyone with an EduTech e-mail account is eligible to request blogging service. Each blog has 20 MB of space at no cost. Districts can purchase more space, $125 a year for 20 GB. The space allotted can be distributed at Technology Coordinator’s discretion.

Getting Started

To request blogging service, log into the User Resources page and click on “Blogging” under available services. Once you have blogging service, visit blogs.edutech.nodak.edu in your browser and log in with your EduTech username and password.

Your school’s building facilitator must approve the request before it becomes active.

Teacher training is available at EduTech’s regular training rate of $45/teacher for a four hour block of training.

Tags: blogging, podcasting
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Integrating Technology into the Curriculum Tools

August 23rd, 2009

Online Assessment

Rubistar 4 Teachers http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

PBL Checklist 4Teachers

http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/

Discovery School

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

Teach-nology

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

Standards Resources

ND State DPI

http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/standard/content.shtm

21^st Century Skills

http://www.metiri.com/features.html

National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (2008).

http://www.iste.org/NETS

Essential Questions

ND Curriculum Initiative  http://ndcurriculuminitiative.org/index.php/lesson_bank

Other Examples of Essential Questions http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/league/esques.html

Technology Tools

Tags: Assessment, blogs, Essential Questions, Integrating Technology, Multi media, Podcasts, probes, scanners, Spreadsheets, Standards, streaming video, virtual field trips, webquests, whiteboards, Word Processing
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EarthSky for the Science Classroom

July 24th, 2009

As the beginning of the 09-10 school year approaches many teachers are busy getting their classroom and lessons ready for their students.  Heads up science teachers!  I recently came across a great site,  EarthSky,   that was promoted in the July 23 Tech & Learning eNews. EarthSky is a digital media company advocating science as a vital voice in 21st century decision-making.  Millions of podcasts by scientists are heard by people world wide via EarthSky.

Have your students check out the latest in science news at Science News Headlines.  Or maybe they have a question they would like to Ask the Scientist?  There is another link for them to  follow Chronicles of Science Experiments.  But there’s more,  a special link For Kids as well as a Teachers Center with lots of activities.

Other features:

EarthSky Tonight daily charts and texts for beginning stargazers.

EarthSky Blogs world class science journalists and scientists on science, nature and people

Sky in Google Earth pop-up balloons populated with EarthSky content. Hosted by Google.

Tags: Integrating Technology, Podcasts, science
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Virtual FETC

February 17th, 2009

If you are looking for some free, online professional development focusing on educational technologies, you might be interested in attending Virtual FETC.  This event will be held  April 23rd, 2009 from 11:00-7:00 ET.  As stated on  their website, here is what you can expect:

• The latest developments in 21st century skills
• Engaging speakers sharing their expertise in an interactive and efficient way
• A dynamic exchange of best practices and tips for success
• A virtual networking lounge to expand your network of K-12 educators and technology experts
• Access to other participants through instant messaging
• Free content downloads and presentations to go
• Technology product and service demonstrations.
• Q&As with technology experts

For more information or to register go to http://Virtual.FETC.org

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Getting Students Hooked

February 2nd, 2009

Last month I had the opportunity to attend a great workshop, “Electronic Excitement in the Elementary Science Classroom”, presented by Allen Anderson of Mill Creek Elementary, St. Johns Co., at the FETC in Orlando FL. He is a firm believer that you need to get students hooked prior to introducing them to a lesson, leaving them curious and with questions. To do this, Mr. Anderson uses movie trailers and video clips. Today movie trailers are extremely popular on the Internet as are free videos. So the next time you have an import lesson coming up that you need to get your students hooked on, find a movie trailer or video clip, download it and use specific portions that might relate to your content along with a statement or question to stir their curiosity. Some web sites he gave us to find movie trailers and help with the downloads are:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/

http://keepvid.com

http://www.teachertube.com/

http://www.tooble.tv/

Tags: Integrating Technology, movie trailers, Multi media, video
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FlipVideo, I just gotta have it!

October 8th, 2008

The past couple weeks I have been out in the schools doing some workshops and annual fall visits. It is so fun to see what everyone is doing, especially with their new whiteboards and mobile labs. I’m aways looking for great things to share with others.

Yesterday I attended the Fall Face to Face NDATL meeting in Minot. This is a day for our state’s educational technology leaders to share technology they are using in the educational world. One session that I really enjoyed and want to share with you, was Chris Webb’s, “FlipVideo”. Created by Pure Digital Technologies, FlipVideo is a highly compact digital camcorder that makes it easier than ever for on-the-go consumers to capture and share life’s moments on video. This slim-sized camcorder is smaller than most cell phones, yet provides the simplicity and portability for capturing, editing, and sharing high quality video. Check it out at www.theflip.com.

As I was watching Chris demo the FlipVideo, I was thinking about the many ways students could use this cool device in the classroom. If your students are using FlipVideo in the classroom, please share your ideas with me.

Tags: Integrating Technology, Multimedia, video
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Welcome to the Atomic Learning Scavenger Hunt for North Dakota Students and Educators!

October 8th, 2008

Learn how to use Atomic Learning and have a chance to win some prizes. Just participate in the Atomic Learning Scavenger Hunt. All participants who score an 80% or better will be entered into a drawing for the prizes. Give it try today!
Dates: October 6 - 24
Prizes: Ipod shuffles, Nanos, Office Depot and Target gift cards
Begin by registering:
• Go to: https://www.faincompany.com/atomic/
• Enter the Contest Code: Nodak
• Complete the form
• Read the directions and click OK.
Participate:
• Open another Web browser window and go to http://www.atomiclearning.com
• Log in to Atomic Learning (not necessary from school site).
• Now you can go back and forth between the Scavenger Hunt questions and Atomic Learning.
• Be sure to follow the question directions. You may be asked to view a tutorial to find the answer
*If you would like to use a word document of the questions to complete the Scavenger Hunt rather than using two browser windows, please go to:
http://www.edutech.nodak.edu/doc/services/nodak-questions.doc
We hope you have some fun as you explore the resources available on the Atomic Learning site! If you have technical problems with the form contact the Atomic Learning Help Desk at cs@atomiclearning.com

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Grant County Anatomy Students Connect via Video to Live Surgery

April 10th, 2008

A common surgery that we hear about today is total knee replacement. However, six classes from North Dakota not only have hear about this, but can now say they actually observed a live surgery of this type. On Wednesday, April 9, Grant County High School’s Human Anatomy class was one of the six North Dakota classes that connected via video to the surgical suite at Mount Carmel East Hospital in Columbus, Ohio to observe a live total knee replacement surgery. The orthopedic surgeon removed the diseased cartilage and bone from the femur, patella and tibi and replaced these with prosthetics.

Students were allowed to ask questions of the operating room staff throughout the surgery. Comments from students following the surgery: “The surgical team was very descriptive to help us understand what was going on. Very interesting. Not as bloody as I thought it would be.” Instructor Darrell Howard conducted both pre- and post-visit activities with his 28 students.

The other North Dakota schools connected were Beulah, Bottineau, Jamestown, Tioga and Glenburn. Two schools from Ohio, one from Texas and one from Alberta Canada were also connected. This live interactive videoconference was coordinated by EduTech and COSI.

Tags: streaming video
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SMART Board™ Podcasts & Lessons

March 20th, 2008

Recently in visiting with one of my colleagues, I was introducted to a great website that contains a weekly SMART Notebook™ lesson, a podcast and resource links. Here is the site address: http://pdtogo.com/smart/ The podcast can be delivered automatically to your iTunes or email address. Past lessons can be searched by category.

Also, on March 7, 2008, SMART Technologies began working with Scholastic to design lesson plans that provide teachers with digital resources to complement their SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards and Senteo™ interactive response systems. Here is what they say “This microsite features SMART lesson activities for Notebook™ collaborative learning software, resources to help with lesson activity creation and links to customizable tools and templates. Math and science lesson activities are currently featured, and additional lesson activity subjects will be added regularly.” Check it out at http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplans.jsp

Tags: Podcasts, whiteboards
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