Blogs@EduTech
October 28th, 2009
I recently gave two presentations on our blogging service at EduTech. Check out my new blog http://blogs.edutech.nodak.edu/blogsatedutech/ and tell me what you think. Are you currently using a blog to communicate with your students, parents or administrators? I’d love to hear about your experiences.
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My Fall Visit Glog!
August 27th, 2009
Today, I worked on creating a Fall Visit Glog! Glogs are interactive posters that can contain links to websites and documents as well as images and text. Glogs are created using a free online application called Glogster. One of the really cool things about it is that teachers can use the educational application of Glogster and create up to 200 student accounts. According to http://edu.glogster.com/, here are some reasons for using Glogster in your own classrooms:
1. A creative, dynamic, and innovative digital outlet that captures learner’s excitement for online creations, keeps learners engaged in course content, and makes teaching and learning more fun.
2. A private and safe platform, monitored directly by teachers. Teachers control all the activities of their learners.
3. A valuable teaching tool that integrates diverse core subjects including math, science, history, art, photography, music and more for individual learner portfolios, unique alternative assessments, and differentiated instructional activities.
4. A fun, imaginative, and powerful learning experience which fosters independent creative self expression, positive learner-teacher relationships, and teamwork on collaborative class projects.
5. A vibrant, multi-sensory learning experience which integrates learner’s knowledge and skills into traditionally text-oriented subjects and motivates learner’s desire to explore topics in which they may previously have been less interested.
So check out My Fall Visit Glog then try it yourselves. Better yet, have your students do it! So much better than posterboard!
Here are a couple of examples of North Dakota Student Glogs:
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Fun Classroom Games and Activities
April 22nd, 2009
Last Friday, I attended the North Dakota Association of Technology Leaders Spring Face to Face Conference in Fargo. While there, I learned about these fun classroom games and activities that are easy to use with an interactive whiteboard from Nancy Conkins.
I hope you and your students will enjoy using these in your classrooms!
Tags: activities, classroom, games, interactive whiteboards
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Videostreaming Websites
April 6th, 2009
Using videostreaming in the classroom is a great way to extend learning!
Here are a few websites to explore:
- Apple Learning Exchange http://newali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000355/
- Explore Learning http://www.explorelearning.com/
- The Futures Channel http://www.thefutureschannel.com/index.php
- History.com http://www.history.com/media.do
- NASA Virtual Scanning Electron Microscope http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/vlab/index.html
- Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com/
Tags: classroom, technology, videostreaming, websites
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Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing
April 6th, 2009
Join leaders in K-12 videoconferencing to learn structures and templates for student projects and collaborations. This class is team taught with VC colleagues in California, New York, Ohio, and across Texas. Guest speakers each day will share additional engaging uses of videoconferencing. Team up with another teacher to create a VC project for next year. Along the way, learn about and use other collaborative technologies such as blogs, wikis, Flickr, Moodle, Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Skype, Twitter, FaceBook, Second Life, Blackboard and more!
Details:
Dates: July 27-31st, 2009
Time: 8:00 am-3:00 pm
Cost: $300 per teacher plus grad credit
Location: Devils Lake School for Deaf in Devils Lake, ND
GT Credit: 2 Hours of Graduate Credit will be available through NDSU ($75 per credit)
Tentative Outline
Monday: What is videoconferencing? Meet your VC colleagues. Learn about VC project possibilities. Exchange Projects (Read Across America, Monster Exchange)
Tuesday: Academic Challenges. Math Marvels. Testimonials from teachers who have used VC. Group project time. Blackboard.
Wednesday: MysteryQuest. Problem solving multi-point videoconferences. Racial dialogues. Group project time. Author visit. Create-your-own-content. Global videoconferencing. Blackboard.
Thursday: Literature based videoconferences such as ASK (Author Specialist Knowledge). VC Etiquette. Group project time.
Friday: Group project time. Group presentations.
Want more information? Visit www.123vc.net.
Registration
Space is limited and we want to fill this workshop. So register ASAP!
Register or receive more information by contacting Tabitha Lang at tabitha.lang@sendit.nodak.edu
Tags: curriculum, videoconferencing, web 2.0
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2009 Legislative Technology Showcase
March 5th, 2009
North Dakota K-12 students participated in the 2009 Legislative Technology Showcase being held in conjunction with North Dakota’s 61st Legislative Assembly March 3, 2009 in the Great Hall of the Capitol.
Participating Schools were:
- Jeanette Myhre Elementary, Bismarck – Web 2.0 in the Classroom (Chad Even)
- Wachter & Horizon Middle Schools, Bismarck – Web 2.0 in the Classroom (Benjamin Lervick)
- Sheyenne Valley Area CTC – PC Construction (Frank Egan)
- NDSU/Powers Lake High School – Remote Instrumentation SEM (Kim Owen, Roberta Rystedt)
- Ashley Public – Kindergarten Imagineers (Kristi Anderson)
- Turtle Mountain Community HS – Environmental Chemistry Utilizing iMovie (Renee Aalund)
- McClusky Public School – ND Current Issues Utilizing Ezedia Presentation Software (Roberta Froehlich)
- Fairmount Public School – 1:1 Initiative Utilizing DyKnow Software (Yolanda Luick)
- Burlington-Des Lacs Elementary – The Theory of Blogging (Kayla Anderson)
- Hazelton-Moffit-Braddock – GIS/GPS (Tami Naaden)
- Grand Forks – Connect Students with Government (Darin King / Darlene Johnson)
Here are a few pictures from the event.
Tags: Events, students, technology
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ActivStudio for Mac Foundation Skills Course
January 7th, 2009
I’ve recently been introduced to a website that Promethean Learning has created to certify teachers in ActivStudio and ActivPrimary Foundation Skills for Mac users. It is a Moodle site and you will need to register (even if you already have a Promethean Planet account).
Here is the website: http://www.prometheanlearning.com/us/index.php
Once there, click on the orange 
Mac Level 1 Activstudio or Mac Level 1 Activprimary links.
Let me know what you think after you complete the course!
Tags: interactive whiteboards
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Chemistry Podcasts
December 11th, 2008
I attended a podcast workshop at the National Educational Computing Conference this past summer in San Antonio. The presenters were Jonathan Bergmann, recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Math Teaching and Aaron Sams. They both teach AP Chemistry at Woodland Park, Colorado and use video podcasts of their lectures for students to view at home.
Students view the vodcasts each evening. They can stop, rewind and fast forward through the lectures as needed. The next day students discuss the lectures for about 10 minutes and then have 75 minutes to devote to guided practice and labwork. These teachers have found that their students’ test scores have improved as well as their grasp of the content.
Bergmann and Sams use software called Snapkast to record their PowerPoint slideshows which include live voice-over audio and pen strokes created on a wireless tablet. This software then converts the presentation into an MP4 file.
This week, Learning & Leading with Technology (December/January 2008-09) has an article entitled Remixing Chemistry Class by Jonathan and Aaron. To access this article, go to: http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/Current_Issue/L_L_November.htm
To learn more about Chemistry Vodcasts go to:
Bergmann’s Web page: http://www.wpsdk12.org/~jbergmann/Podcasts
Hatak’s blog: http://21chatak.blogspot.com/2008/08/good-ideas-seem-to-come-in-sets.html
Hatak’s podcasting blog: http://hatakappodcast.blogspot.com/
Sam’s Web page: http://www.wpsdk12.org/~asams/
Snapkast: http://snapkast.com/
Web site on how to start vodcasting lessons: http://www.educationalvodcasting.com/
Tags: chemistry, conferences, Podcasting
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Interactive Whiteboard Games
November 26th, 2008
I have been teaching a lot of workshops on interactive whiteboards lately. At one of my workshops, a teacher recommended this website http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/techno/games.htm
There are a lot of games there that can be used with any interactive whiteboard. Check it out and let me know what you think!
Hope you all have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!
Tags: classroom, games, interactive whiteboards
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Google Earth in the Classroom
November 13th, 2008
Today, I am teaching a workshop in Bismarck on Google Earth. In the workshop, we create some pretty cool placemarks and paths. I found these websites that have more information on creating placemarks, and thought I would share them with you…
Spreadsheet Mapper 2.0
KML Reference Code
Using Spreadsheet Mapper with Google Earth and Google Maps
Happy Traveling!
Tags: classroom, Google Earth, web 2.0
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