Ok, I’m over a month late on this, but I owe thanks to Ben Rimes over at The Tech Savvy Educator for a nomination for the EduBlog Awards 2008. Since I blog for a very unique narrow niche of educational technology, I never expected such a thing! So thanks again, Ben! Now, if you haven’t [...]
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We’ve been doing three days of Mrs. Claus sessions again this year (65 videoconferences and 5000 students). I have noticed that some sessions go very well because of how the teachers and coordinators help us. So here’s a list of some of the best practices that we’ve noticed this week: Zoom the camera in on [...]
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Today we have a class trying out the new Weather Watch program from COSI Columbus (content provider of our favorite Gadget Works and Knee Surgery). The program starts out with students sharing their hypothesis for what happened on the presenter’s vacation last year, by using the barometer readings and other weather statistics. Students are organized [...]
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Thanks, Carol, for tagging me for a meme! A thought-provoking one too! Here are the instructions for this meme: Read Martha’s original post from the Opening Digital Doors blog. Share three things that you believe about all students. Reflect on your thoughts in your blog. Be sure to link to this post and to where [...]
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This list was posted on the Megaconference listserv. I’m adding it here too so that I can find it again in the future. Big thanks to Linda Uhrenholt for finding these! IP TEST SITES: Blue Star Conference Room 209.163.159.58 LifeSize Conference Set-up 209.163.224.77 Denver Cam (LifeSize) 64.15.104.134 Denver Cam (Polycom VSX7000E) 64.15.104.142 US CAPITOL 64.47.22.10 [...]
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This afternoon, a middle school geography class from Bridgman, MI is connecting to the Cleveland Institute of Music for their program the Musical Geography of Europe. For each country featured, pictures and foods are shown from that country and students are encouraged to try to guess the country represented. Then they listen to a piece [...]
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This morning I was chatting with Arnie Comer about our distance learning programs. He asked me if I had a class in the Polycom Special Event with Margaret Willey this afternoon. I don’t; because I sent it out once, and when no one signed up, I didn’t worry about it anymore. He said – that’s [...]
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