tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:38:05 +0000There's a lot of cool ideas out there. Let's share them.http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/hmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)Blogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-9201743955848851408Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:56:00 +00002008-09-09T11:13:09.374-04:00wikiI'm a big fan of wikis - I consider it a kind of service project to Outward Bound for example by contributing from time to time over at their wiki.Of course we are also using Wikispaces to support our faculty laptop program by writing a wiki to support the best practices of using this tool in our classrooms.But the other day a colleague of mine expressed dismay at the wiki saying, "I just have a http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/09/do-i-have-to-keep-checking-wiki-too.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-7077093773266260034Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:15:00 +00002008-09-01T22:18:13.535-04:00freeEnglishaspA friend sent me a link to a nice site of free audio books. Might be interesting for English teachers or tutors. The selection is limited but the price is nice. The site is called LiteralSystems. Check it out!http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-audio-books.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-3509854562838729871Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:21:00 +00002008-08-30T23:24:58.205-04:00critical thinkingHistoryInterested in a lesson that takes a look at current events through the lens of hard facts? Check out FactCheckEd - the educational branch of FactCheck.org.The site has regular lesson plans relating to current events and includes facts and terms of the week.But don't take my word for it. Check it out for your self :)http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/08/lets-check-those-facts.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-5143370739375971230Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:47:00 +00002008-08-28T15:54:02.280-04:00videoscienceThere is a website that's been out for a year or so called SciVee. It's a video sharing site for researchers. I wonder if this might be a cool site to check out for our students to see what is going on in the field of science?Also I wonder if the 'Poster Cast' option is a model we might use for digital presentations?http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/08/science-videos-galore.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-404389432706514858Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:13:00 +00002008-08-20T21:19:24.460-04:00wikiclassroom managementStewart Mader, wiki evangelist and author, has an interesting interview with Campus Technology today. Although he is speaking through the lens of higher ed, much of what he talks about is applicable to us. The example of the science lab he uses is a great one I think.We've got wikis in the FOL but no official wiki portal established for NHS - what are your thoughts about this?http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/08/wikis-in-higher-ed-implications-for.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-16296804879375996Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:05:00 +00002008-08-20T09:23:05.229-04:00toolaspPhoto sourceWhen I was a tutor I used to empty out my student's backpacks once a week to recover the crumpled up bits of paper at the bottom that were actually important notes or homework. My favorite thing was when students found their notes but then couldn't read their own writing!Maybe online note taking solutions are the answer for students who struggle with this kind of organization but http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-cant-read-my-own-handwriting.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-8429316459518621013Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:19:00 +00002008-08-18T08:24:40.552-04:00videoscienceOver at the Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy blog I saw this interesting post about an interactive site that provides background videos on all the elements. It's called the Periodic Table of Videos.Here's the gripping (and most viewed) Sodium vid.http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/08/periodic-table-of-videos.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-6573762286070601790Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:36:00 +00002008-07-30T08:39:03.550-04:00YouTubeYouTube produced as much content in the last six months as the major three networks in the last 60 years according to Michael Wesch professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Kansas. Wesch presented on this and other topics at the Library of Congress last month.Things that impact society in big ways have to - have to - impact education too.http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/07/youtube-presentation-at-library-of.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-1639335285191068247Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:32:00 +00002008-08-20T09:24:13.435-04:00open sourcefreemusicNeed some nice background music for a short documentions or student project video?Check out Musopen for free opensource classical music. It is a great website, organized in several different ways for you to find what you are looking for. You can also play the song before you download it.http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/07/public-domain-music-free-download.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mrs. Poulin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-4584056894870390007Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:27:00 +00002008-07-18T14:33:40.961-04:00Check out the Peacecorps website about how WorldWise Schools matches up a class and the teacher with a Peacecorps Volunteer while he/she is serving a 2-year term abroad. It is an inexpensive way to get connected to an area of the world that our students may never experience first hand. With technology it is possible to get a good a look at life outside their "bubble."http://www.peacecorps.gov/http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/07/get-connected-globally-through.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mrs. Poulin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-3341449293233604355Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:52:00 +00002008-07-13T20:31:39.976-04:00conferenceblogflickrwikitwittersocial networksOld school way to attend a conference: Go to a new place and meet a bunch of new and stimulating people. Maybe you are a stimulating person yourself. Get exposed to a bunch of new and stimulating ideas. Go home and try to share what you learned and stay in touch with the people you met. Assimilate back into daily life, weeks later remember a really cool resource you found at the conference http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/07/guess-which-camp-im-in.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-5166986723354658366Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:59:00 +00002008-06-26T21:16:04.552-04:00wikiclassroom managementHere is a great post about how a school has used Wikispaces to manage homework, worksheets and communicate with parents.Update 6/26: This blog has an interesting article on the best wiki platform for teachers.http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/wikispaces-in-classroom.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-340312280673248137Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:35:00 +00002008-06-23T20:47:32.713-04:00global educationwikisocial networksAfter talking with Jake the other day about how his grad class used wikis to connect with another class from Spain I was starting to think about how in the world to make those initial connections.That seems to be the really tricky part - finding a class and a teacher you can work with to the right degree. It would be rotten to get all fired up with your students only to partner with a school http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/flat-classroom-project.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-1637651975624885533Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:04:00 +00002008-06-20T23:18:52.672-04:00toolgooglemathWhen you've got Google.I admit I still use the same calculator I bought for my high school algebra one class. But it turns out I don't need it. I just found through a rather round about path that if you enter any mathematical formula into Google search it will give you the answer.So for example if you wanted to know what (4(57/17)+15^3.5)/2 was equal to, you could simply type it into search.Nothttp://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/who-needs-calculator.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-6023788567498171104Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:08:00 +00002008-06-20T23:19:53.136-04:00toolEnglishMy friend Matt sent me a link to a pretty fun little tool called Wordle that makes word clouds out of any text you put in using some sort of frequency count. We've seen this kind of thing before of course with tag clouds, but Wordle is fun in that it uses any kind of text you can put in (there doesn't seem to be any limit) and that you can tweak and color and reshape the text until you get a http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/wordle.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-5013413789634194420Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:37:00 +00002008-06-20T16:09:40.632-04:00World LanguagesGarageBandSay you were interested in building a language lab for your school but you couldn't invest more than say a couple of thousand dollars. No special room, no specialized equipment. How would you do it?iPods and recorders? Open source software? Garageband? I'm curious, let's gather some ideas.Update later in the day:So I played around a bit with GarageBand and I found it laughably easy to make http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/language-lab-on-cheap.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-7701642474110555433Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:33:00 +00002008-06-19T20:36:52.917-04:00wikiWorld LanguagesSpanishI was chatting with a former colleague Jake tonight and he mentioned a very interesting project he was a part of in grad school at UNH.His class learning Spanish met with a Spanish class learning English on a Wikispaces wiki. Each learner posted projects in the language they were learning and edited and critiqued the work in their native language.There were several topical assignments that the http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/international-exchange-via-wiki.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-1252485433165060290Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:22:00 +00002008-06-17T20:30:17.542-04:00social networksBeth Kanter has a great post over on her blog about personal productivity versus social productivity. I definitely feel the crunch some times between staying in touch and getting work done. That's why Google Reader changed the way I read the web. I also liked her idea of screen-capping her desktop so I copied it for this post!But I do agree that social productivity is a real phenomenon. I've http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/social-productivity-is-going-to-need.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-1482131749376962319Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:14:00 +00002008-06-16T16:42:17.253-04:00web comicemailtipsSo I've been reading this hilarious web comic called PvP for the last couple of years mostly for the Dungeons and Dragons references initially. I've kept reading though because I kind of like the characters and the author blogs about the process of writing the strip and other things besides.Today he posted a great link to tricks to using email better. These aren't limited to a single platform, http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/comics-helped-me-use-email-better.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-2674527412482901391Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:20:00 +00002008-06-16T16:37:12.889-04:00text to speechtipsosxlearning differencesaspThere are a lot of great speech based software programs out there for folks with learning differences. I have to admit I've had limited experience with them. However I have discovered that you can tell your Mac to speak any text you highlight anywhere on your computer. This is handy for folks who are auditory processors.Any web page, any text document - basically anything on your screen where http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/macs-speak-to-you.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-9007373378568315543Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:36:00 +00002008-06-13T16:20:49.008-04:00global educationgamesblogworld simulationThen visit this link to a recent posting on the Mission to Learn blog. Good for a rainy day of computer game play (all for the sake of education, of course). Have fun playing games!http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/want-to-check-out-some-games.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mrs. Poulin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-513534505046412634Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:46:00 +00002008-06-12T20:52:41.245-04:00resourcesweb2.0Just sharing this list that I found on the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies blog.Here is the description from the blog entry:The list is compiled from the contributions of 160 learning professionals (from both education and workplace learning) who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning both for their own personal learning/ productivity and for creating learning solutions for others.http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/top-100-20-tools-for-learning-in-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mrs. Poulin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-8580389161303468887Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:09:00 +00002008-06-16T16:36:47.073-04:00skypetipschatI think just about everyone knows that Skype is a free text, voice and video chat service. I've heard of people's grandparents using it to video conference with their grandchildren.I'm also the last person I know to get into the text chat game after being turned off AIM and later frustrated by iChat's failure to consistently video conference.But recently I think I've just started to really use http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-make-skype-more-effective.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-7967157615801811041Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:40:00 +00002008-07-02T13:52:58.679-04:00wikigoogle earthWhat follows is a series of edits I made to our NHS Tech wiki as interesting ideas came to me. Looking back I think they are better suited to this blog so I'm moving them over and future discoveries will be posted here.I'd eventually like to develop a good tagging system to keep track of this goodness. Enjoy!General ideasI'd like to capture ideas as they come up. This feature eventually seems http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/ideas-ideas-ideas.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-3827076244329073087Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:57:00 +00002008-06-06T14:59:29.164-04:00Okay, I'm jumping back onto this blog in a big way. I'm hoping to use it as a way to get out information and ideas that I come across in the vein of tech integration into the classroom.This blog will be prong one of a three prong strategy:Blog about interesting things that I / we come acrossSocial bookmark interesting links, I haven't chosen a service for this yetBuild a wiki knowledge base of http://ideateacher.blogspot.com/2008/06/welcome-back.htmlhmundahl@newhampton.org (Hans Mundahl)0