tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273709122009-12-21T00:38:05.921-05:00There's a lot of cool ideas out there. Let's share them.Hans Mundahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11925971999830233807hmundahl@newhampton.orgBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27370912.post-92017439558488514082008-09-09T10:56:00.004-04:002008-09-09T11:13:09.374-04:00

I'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

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A 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!

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Interested 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 :)

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There 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?

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Stewart 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?

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Need 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.

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Photo 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

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Over 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.

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YouTube 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.

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Check 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/

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Old 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

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What 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

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Here 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.

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After 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

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My 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

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When 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.Not

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Say 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

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I 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

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Beth 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

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So 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,

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here are a few more sites to check out as teacher/student resources:www.studygs.netwww.teach-nology.com

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Don't forget about Inspiration...it is a good resource for both kids and teachers. There are great templates in it that can easily be used in a classroom. Kids often complain they don't like it, but I found this is a result of not really knowing how to use it. I used it in my ASP classes and hooked up one of the projectors. The students and I went through and created a web brainstorming together

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Erica and I got into a hot debate over Wikipedia. I like it as a tool, not as a primary source. I guess that's a big disclaimer but I like that it cross references its self and allows for users to follow lines of inquiry through out the website. It also has up to date articles on a wider range of topics than a traditional encyclopedia would. For example it has a large section on pod casting

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http://mathforum.org/dr.math/dr-math.htmlOne that tutors can use from time to time.....This is a site Cara Parker found for tutors...check it out!

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Here's the first paragraph of the most lucid and succinct reflection about youth, adults, school, history and implies quite a bit about our role in all of it. Here's the first bit - if you want to read the whole article click here. Paul Graham has some interesting things to say on other topics as well. It's worth a read!When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the

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