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These are the slides for today’s presentation at the NCTIES Conference. Examples of how both teachers and students have used these tools are included. The full set of notes and resources from this session are available on the wiki. Thanks to everyone that attended, participated, tweeted, shared resources and ideas, etc.
Today is World Math Day. Unite with students and schools from around the world to set a new world record! This year’s challenge – to correctly answer more than 182,445,169 questions in 48 hours. Please participate and be part of the new world record.
Our kids and I have a lot of fun with AudioBoo. AudioBoo is a service that makes podcasting and audio blogging a snap and can positively impact your classroom (See previous posts1, 2, 3 and 4). Although the service has previously pretty much been limited to iPhone users it is now available to everyone. Here’s a screencast demonstrating how to use their recently released BrowserBoo feature which makes it possible to record to AudioBoo through any web browser.
Here’s the sample Boo that I created during the screencast above.
You can browse through my AudioBoo profile page to look through many other examples of boos that the kids and I have published.
I strongly encourage all teachers to take a look at AudioBoo. Whether or not you choose to use it as a teacher I believe there are students in your classroom that would enjoy using it and benefit from engaging this learning modality.
Sign-up for your AudioBoo account, friend me and other educators, and begin enjoying the valuable contributions this can bring you and your students.
Angela Cunningham recently had a post about Teaching Students to Dialogue. She included the following chart of guidelines that she developed. I think this is a great quick reference for classes to use during discussions, debates, role playing, group work, etc. throughout the year.
Today is World Math Day. Unite with students and schools from around the world to set a new world record! This year’s challenge – to correctly answer more than 452,681,681 questions. Please participate and be part of the new world record.
This special event is only 1 week away. Register now and make plans to participate.
Unite with students and schools from around the world to set a new world record! The Challenge – to correctly answer more than 182,445,169 questions in 48 hours.
The students play against each other in mental arithmetic games. Students may find it captivating to play and compete in real time. Each game lasts for 60 seconds and students can play as many games as they wish. The questions are appropriately individualized to the appropriate age/grade levels. Homeschools are also welcome to participate.
(NOTE: I received this announcement via email from Inspiration.)
Webcast: Using Visual Learning Techniques to Improve Academic Performance with Inspiration®
Date: Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Time: 12:00-12:45 p.m. Pacific Time, 3:00-3:45 p.m. Eastern Time
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Inspiration® helps students develop ideas, analyze concepts and improve organizational skills. Join us on January 29th to explore templates and examples that will help your students improve academic performance in Science, Language Arts and Social Studies. Cathy Cuff, our Education Development Manager for Science, will host a complimentary 45-minute webcast demonstrating how you can use Inspiration 8 to:
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If you are unable to join us, don’t worry – the webcast will be archived and available to you shortly after the event concludes.
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(Repost from 08/21/2007)
I challenge you to complete this mini-lesson and consider the questions below.
Lesson
Watch the video below about the crisis in Darfur. (A free download of this video is avaiable here.)
Play Darfur Is Dying, a quick mini-game that simulates aspects of daily living in this region.
Discussion
I posed the following question to the members of my personal learning network (PLN).
I received lots of good advice and suggested resources. I wanted to share the information hoping that others would find it helpful, too.
Here are the responses from my Plurk buddies…
…and these are the replies from my Twitter friends.
Please Share
I invite you to please share your ideas, teaching strategies and resources, too. You can post a text, audio or video reply in the comments to this post or you can send me a message via Plurk and Twitter.
Together we all learn more.
News Notes Shared Reader
