Who is currently using TTL 4? Right now I have students work their way through all lessons and activities. Wondering what others are doing.
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Lynn came across a Fair Use website that has some pretty good ideas plus some good links for copyright free images if you want to share it with the group. The Fair Use Test is particularly useful! Do you have more sites that you use to teach about copyright laws and fair use? Please leave [...]
I have some possible changes coming to my schedule for next year – yeah, all of us, right? My question, anyone successfully implementing keyboarding on a twice a week rotation? Worth the effort? Is keyboarding still a valid skill to be taught and learned and practiced? I am leery to implement a two day a [...]
Great video from Will Richardson on iPad and apps for younger kids and their reactions to iPad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xglnN5nX5Q
This looks pretty cool! This wiki is designed to be a repository for lessons and other resources. It’s a little like what we tried to do with our curriculum. http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/
Howdy, We’re doing a little more with wikis, but not all teachers know quite how to work with them to get the most out of students. This article is helpful. http://thejournal.com/Articles/2009/10/07/More-Challenges-with-Wikis-4-Ways-To-Move-Students-from-Passive-to-Active.aspx?Page=3&p=1
Karen is the Technology Coordinator at a school the same size as mine – 320 students. Tux Paint is an Open Source software package – completely free. “It’s not about the Tech, it’s about the Teach.” Over 80 languages available – can be changed easily in the configuration for students needing alternate languages. It’s a [...]
ISTE has developed a new “Seal of Alignment” for those programs who are validated by ISTE. These can “meet” or “support” specific standards. They examine the quality and treatment of those programs and the rigor they put into it. Not just the product but how it is implemented is assessed. “Quality and Alignment Assurance” Adobe [...]
In this session, my main goal is to gather sites that will be helpful to our teachers who have a growing need for bilingual resources for their students. http://www.lorilopez.info is her portal site of FREE resources. Here are some she highlighted: Flash Quizzes for Grammar – http://a4esl.org/q/f/ Internet Picture Dictionary – http://www.pdictionary.com/spanish/ (there is also an English [...]
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