Friday, December 7, 2007
Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs
Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way.
The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You’ll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.
Get the rest of the story including a lesson plan and lots of great resources at:
http://www.google.com/educators/weeklyreader.html
The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You’ll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.
Get the rest of the story including a lesson plan and lots of great resources at:
http://www.google.com/educators/weeklyreader.html
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Free online classroom resources
Thank you Susie for this resource!
A very user friendly resource for educators and a little something for everyone! =;->
Free Web Tools Blog
http://freewebtools.wordpress.com/
Here is a sampling under the Creativity Tools section.
Toondoo- free comic strips and comic books creation tool.
Animoto-free music video creation site for 30 second spots. Then it costs $3.00/video for longer videos/
Flickr-free photo sharing website and online community platform.
Picnik.com-free photo editing online and integrates with Flickr.
A very user friendly resource for educators and a little something for everyone! =;->
Free Web Tools Blog
http://freewebtools.wordpress.com/
Here is a sampling under the Creativity Tools section.
Toondoo- free comic strips and comic books creation tool.
Animoto-free music video creation site for 30 second spots. Then it costs $3.00/video for longer videos/
Flickr-free photo sharing website and online community platform.
Picnik.com-free photo editing online and integrates with Flickr.
Flat Classroom Wiki Project
Thank you Bethany for sharing this cool wiki project
http://flatclassroomproject2006.wikispaces.com/
:)
~julz
http://flatclassroomproject2006.wikispaces.com/
:)
~julz
On-demand webinar: Building better Moodle rooms
Building better Moodle rooms: Online strategies and best practices
Sponsored by: Moodlerooms
Sponsored by: Moodlerooms
Original broadcast date: December 4, 2007
Expiration date: March 3, 2008
Audience link:
http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=94646&s=1&k=9B7400E6E6534B9DD4FC267D25E2CF8E&partn
erref=opn24
This event is now available on demand. The archived webinar will be
available for viewing through the expiration date listed above.
To view this Webcast you will need to have Real Player or Windows Media
Player. You may download either of these at
http://webcast.on24.com/clients/help/.
2007 VSS Resources now available
The North American Council for Online Learning is pleased to announce that the 2007 VSS Resources page is now available online at http://www.virtualschoolsymposium.org/resources.php. On this page, you will find links to webcasts, vodcasts, articles, PowerPoint presentations, photos, etc. from many of the presentations offered at last month's Virtual School Symposium.
Don't forget to mark your calendar for next year's VSS: 2008 Virtual School Symposium, October 26-28, 2008 in Phoenix, AZ. It is sure to be even more exciting and innovative than ever!
Don't forget to mark your calendar for next year's VSS: 2008 Virtual School Symposium, October 26-28, 2008 in Phoenix, AZ. It is sure to be even more exciting and innovative than ever!
Video sites make science more accessible
Inspired by YouTube's success, several new science video web sites have sprung up online
From eSchool News staff and wire service reports
Haim Weizman is a chemist by trade and an internet movie maker on the side. In his first video, a telegenic narrator in a lab coat swirls a flask as electronic music plays in the background. Created by four science and film students at the University of California, San Diego, the video shows a typical recrystallization experiment straight out of Chemistry 101.
The six-minute epic, complete with bloopers, got 1,205 views on Google Inc.’s YouTube, but the number increased fourfold when the video was posted to SciVee, one of a number of online video-sharing startups designed to let scientists broadcast themselves toiling in the laboratory or delivering lectures.
Read the rest of the story at http://snipurl.com/1uuxi
:)
~julz
From eSchool News staff and wire service reports
Haim Weizman is a chemist by trade and an internet movie maker on the side. In his first video, a telegenic narrator in a lab coat swirls a flask as electronic music plays in the background. Created by four science and film students at the University of California, San Diego, the video shows a typical recrystallization experiment straight out of Chemistry 101.
The six-minute epic, complete with bloopers, got 1,205 views on Google Inc.’s YouTube, but the number increased fourfold when the video was posted to SciVee, one of a number of online video-sharing startups designed to let scientists broadcast themselves toiling in the laboratory or delivering lectures.
Read the rest of the story at http://snipurl.com/1uuxi
:)
~julz
Monday, December 3, 2007
MIT adapts free online courses for high schools
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created a new web site
with free online resources that aim to improve science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction at the high school level.
Check out the article at http://snipurl.com/1ukkz
with free online resources that aim to improve science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction at the high school level.
Check out the article at http://snipurl.com/1ukkz
:)
~julz
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