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Good Old Fashioned Book Learning vs. The PC

by Tony Thompson on July 12, 2010

Two recent NYT pieces make a case that may surprise you…

The Incredible Power of Books

The Not So Incredible Power of the Computer

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Global Climate Change Education for Middle School

by Tony Thompson April 19, 2010

Eligible South Carolina middle school teachers are invited to participate in an exciting opportunity to not only be among the first teachers to experience a new PBS TeacherLine online graduate course, but to also help evaluate the course effectiveness. The course, “Global Climate Change Education for Middle School” (known as the GCC Course) is a [...]

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Laptop Jungle: A New Kind of High School

by Tony Thompson April 15, 2010

At Minaret High School in Madera County, California, every student gets a laptop. Classes are focused on group projects instead of homework and lectures. After school, students and teachers text each other and use online tools to complete assignments. The high school of the future? Read for yourself. Warning to Media Specialists and book lovers: [...]

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The Most Popular Math Teacher on YouTube

by Tony Thompson March 11, 2010

From a spare room in his San Francisco Bay Area home, Salman Khan is using the Web to teach math and science to millions with free YouTube videos…

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World of Warcraft in School

by Susan Myers March 6, 2010

Lucas Gillispie, an instructional tech coordinator for Pender County Schools in NC, uses WOW (common abbreviation for World of Warcraft) with middle school students.  I wasn’t able to attend his session at NCTIES, but he tweeted his wiki explaining how to use WOW with students.  View the wiki here. World of Warcraft, by the way, is [...]

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Free Tools for the Classroom

by Susan Myers March 5, 2010

We will need to check to see if these 1) will run on our network and 2)are unblocked. To do a screen capture, use either Screen Toaster or BB Flashback Express.  Screen Toaster has in a built in voice recorder.  Teachers could record lessons for students to review later.  The recorded lessons would also be [...]

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Classworks is approaching

by Jim Frady March 5, 2010

Classworks is a web-based integrated learning system that is aligned to state and national standards.  Each school is scheduled to have its own meeting for its Classworks Implentation Plan during the month of March.   Classworks will be implemented this school year in most of our After School programs.  In the fall, it will be implemented into classrooms. 

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Smartboard/Interwrite Alternatives

by Susan Myers March 5, 2010

While I was at NCTIES, I saw an amazing board called anEno.  This board is an interactive/smart type board that you can WRITE on with whiteboard markers.  The salesperson said there is a grid,

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Use Twitter as a News Reader

by Zachary Maddox March 5, 2010

While you may not use Twitter, you’ve probably heard of it and may know that many people use it regularly. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile [...]

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Awesome Highlighter

by Cheryl Robinette March 1, 2010

This could be a useful tool for students to use as they conduct online research. By highlighting and adding notes to the resources they find, students will be able to quickly remember what it was about a website that they thought would be helpful.  Click here to see the awesome highlighter.

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