What the Tech! » Uncategorized http://kkarr72.edublogs.org A TechnoB's Take on Instructional Technology Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:37:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Diversity Resources http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/2009/04/21/getting-results-module-1-diversity-and-classroom-management-different-learning-styles-3/ http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/2009/04/21/getting-results-module-1-diversity-and-classroom-management-different-learning-styles-3/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:27:53 +0000 kkarr72 http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/2009/04/21/getting-results-module-1-diversity-and-classroom-management-different-learning-styles-3/ Gathering sites for use on one of my school websites. Thought my followers might want to check them out also!

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

]]> http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/2009/04/21/getting-results-module-1-diversity-and-classroom-management-different-learning-styles-3/feed/ 0 Spring Break for a TechnoBumbleBee! http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/2009/04/13/spring-break-for-a-technobumblebee/ http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/2009/04/13/spring-break-for-a-technobumblebee/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:38:48 +0000 kkarr72 http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/?p=70 It is Spring Break so there is no excuse why I can not return to my blogging duties! I ask forgiveness and promise to do better.  I choose to blame Plurk, Facebook Notes, & Twitter as the reason that my blog has hit a bog! I just became a edublogs supporter, so I am sure access to all the latest and greatest tool that help to use the above mentioned web 2.0 elements will help to hold my attention! Stay tuned to my thoughts and ideas about the recent Twitter Tipping Point phenomenon!

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Literactive is an interactive website that provides reading material for pre-school, kindergarten, and grade 1 students available online. The site promotes the program as a site “comprised of carefully leveled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities, and a wealth of supplemental reading material which gradually develop a child’s reading skills in a sequential and enjoyable manner.” All the material is available for free from this site but you need to register. To use and view the site is free, but to download material you need to register, which is also free! The site also includes interactive poetry lessons and reading materials that work wonderfully with interactive hardware products like the Interwrite school pad and SMARTBoards. The lessons include the ability for the teacher to access the audio, text, and illustration features. If you are a K-2grade teacher or Special Education teacher this site provides wonderful resources for introducing basic skills. I know you and your students will enjoy this site!

www.literactive.com

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VoiceThreads is a great multi-media web 2.0 site that allows you to create great collaborative site and a great class resource.

VoiceThreads

VoiceThread Resources

http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/

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Are you looking for an exciting engaging activities to start the year? Well, do I have a project for you, and it even integrates the scientific method, math, and technology . JenuineTech.com is proud to present the 1o th year of using the Oreo cookie to teach math, history, language arts, science and technology and more in your classroom! That’s right its O.R.E.O. 2008 Project time once again! (Unfortunately, for the last time. This telecollaborative project is about to retire.) This project is open to any grade in any location! For 2008, students will stack the original Oreo cookie and count how many Oreos they can stack before the Oreos tumble. The “official” project dates are September 15 to October 10, 2008. There are worksheets, games, fun links, trivia, lesson ideas and more to help bring FUN into your classroom.

The beauty of this project is that you can actually do the project prior the the dates listed above and then report your findings during the project window, adjust it to fit any age range, aligns with current SOL standards for study, and it allows students to participate in gathering data as an individual, as a class, and as a part of a larger collective body. If you are interested in participating in the O.R.E.O project let me know, I would love to assist you in any way that would benefit you and your classroom. Don’t hesitate to ask me questions about this type of project. As a classroom teacher, I participated in several of Jen Wagner’s project and found students thoroughly enjoyed them, were worth the time and effort, supported the curriculum, and provided opportunity to make cross curricular connections between math, science, and technology.

Content Alignment
SCIENCE: Scientific Method
MATH: Number & Number Sense (Counting 1-20, comparing numbers), Statistics (Tally Marks), Computation and Estimation (adding, dividing, averaging, and using a calculator)

ISTE NETS-S(National Educational Technology Standards for Students):

Communication & Collaboration, Research & Information Fluency

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  • Google Earth *PRO* is FREE for Educators! | Welcome to NCS-Tech!

    Information about how to use Google Earth Pro for free! It has some great overlays that I am sure will help you as you begin the year with georgraphy and on into your units on explorers!

    tags: google_earth, edtech

  • Creatively Speaking: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative Mind | Edutopia

    Discussion of how we need not reform education but rather transform it into something new to meet the challenges of the future. Short speech by Sir Ken Robinson that is about 15-minutes long.

    tags: edtech, creativity

  • Join PBwiki summer camp and earn a free classroom wiki – The Daily Peanut

    This is a great opportunity to earn a free pbwiki for your classroom. Join in with the PBwiki Summer Camp to learn more about how to use wikis in the classroom.

    tags: edtech

  • Poem: The Average Child

    The challenge… to make all children…feel more than average!

    tags: edtech

  • FORTUNE: How I Work

    Read a few of these fellow workers outside of the field of education. It gives interesting insight into the way they work and only a glimer of what skills are needed in the workplace from now and into the future.

    tags: productivity, edtech

  • Imagination Cubed

    Interesting drawing tool that allow you to draw online and then send it to a friend via email. At that point they can edit the drawing and send it back. Might be cool for group brainstorming.

    tags: collaboration, Web2.0, drawing, edtech

  • WritingFix: Interactive Writing Prompts & Lessons for Teachers and Students

    Amazing resources for writing! THis site includes a Random Daily Prompt Generator, Writing Connections for Picture Book & Chapter Book Lessons, Constructed Response resources to prepare students for high stakes testing, Brain-based Writing prompts to access qualities of the right-brainand left-brain and many other great links for the writing teacher!

    tags: writing, edtech

  • Research on Edublogging for K-12 Teachers – Classroom 2.0

    Research study on blogging.

    tags: edublogging, edtech

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  • Go2Web20.net – The complete Web 2.0 sites directory

    This a comprehensive directory of Web 2.0 sites that do a variety of jobs.

    tags: web2.0, directory, edtech

  • MYVisit 2007-2008 Series

    Virtual author series. features live creators, live interaction, and live learning.

    tags: authors, edtech

  • movingforward » ProfessionalDevelopmentManifesto

    Moving Forward is correct. This is a great wiki that promotes an ed tech philosophy of student learning, sound pedagogy, and research based strategies. I see it as a process of getting our priorieties in order.

    tags: pd, edtech

  • Copyright issues in the classroom and beyond

    THis is a great source for understanding copyright issues in the classroom and beyond. It is important for educators to set a good example of digital citizenship!

    tags: copyright, edtech

  • The LOT’s and HOT’s for Assessment | Educational Origami

    Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy discussion. Blog entry that gives a variety of technology applications and how they rank on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.

    tags: bloomstaxonomy, edtech

  • NECC 2008 Webcasts

    What in the heck is necc? It is the annual National Educational Computing Conference. I like many others did not have a chance to attend NECC 2008 in San Antonio, so I will attend via webcast in an asynchronous manner, so can you!

    tags: conference, necc2008, edtech

  • create a mixtape / mixwit

    Remember Creating Mix Tapes for your BF & BFF? Now you can do it in the virtual world also! I am not sure of any educational value…but it is fun!

    tags: audio, edtech

  • Infinite Thinking Machine-Googleplex

    Blog entry highlighting the many great presentations and resources provided by Google Certified Teachers

    tags: Google, edtech

  • Materials (Google Teacher Academy Resources)

    Great Resource for all of the many applications provided by Google.

    tags: google, academy, edtech

  • Google Docs (Google Teacher Academy Resources)

    Google Docs is a fabulous application that can help one collaborate with several individuals at one time on the same document. It is also a place to store documents online and have access to them even if your own computer is not available!

    tags: google, edtech, docs

  • Communities of practice

    This year I hope to develop two communities of practices as we work to develop resources, strategies, and support for integrating specific technology hardware.

    tags: collaboration, learning, COP, edtech

    ]]> http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/2008/07/13/what-the-tech-surfin-weekly-2/feed/ 0 Now that You R Rested! http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/2008/06/29/now-that-you-r-rested/ http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/2008/06/29/now-that-you-r-rested/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:24:57 +0000 kkarr72 http://kkarr72.edublogs.org/?p=56 I have always found it humorous that the common citizen believes that the three best reasons for teaching are June, July, & August. Last time I checked most schools adjourn  in mid -June and teachers report back mid-August, so at most a teacher has 8 weeks of “free time”. And I will be honest the last two weeks in June and on into July at least to the 4th  hold for me some of the best unstructured time on the planet! But a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and most teachers I know or at least the ones I hang out with are always “thinkin’, plannin’ & plottin’! Sorry folks we just can’t shut if off. Summer is a great time for attending an institute, taking a tech workshop, or attending a class. It gives participants time to ponder and reflect how they hope to use it in their class during the upcoming year.  Maybe you are not planning to attend any such meeting, and you don’t have to do your professional development in a traditional manner. Starting July 7th I hope to bring you several post on a variety of topics that may be useful to you as you peculate your morning coffee  and ideas for your class for the coming year.  One new feature for this summer is What the Tech Surfin”. It contains  my “finds” for the week as I have surfed the web, so look for it each Sunday. Take a minute to check out the sites and think about how you might use them to instruct students!

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