What a great and amazing time of year....Fall or Autumn. We were driving along and came upon this scene and had to take a picture. It represents what I like to think as Fall. It is a beautiful time of year and with all the rain this year, the leaf colors are brilliant. It is a time to reflect as the year draws to a close. Halloween is tomorrow, Thanksgiving in about three weeks, and then, of course, the Christmas season.....Time goes really fast. I remember my uncles and aunts saying that as you get older time flies. Boy, is that true. I can remember a time when I took all day to clean house and I mean I cleaned the whole house. Now, the day goes by so fast that I took all day to clean house meaning that I cleaned the refrigerator out....too funny.
Look at those leaves! Kicking up work with cutting tree limbs and raking leaves.....This was really work, but we truly enjoyed being outside with the fresh air and sun.
Cell Phones Become Learning Tools | theledger.com | The Ledger | Lakeland, FL
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Here is a school that is not afraid to let their High School Students use cell phones and personal computers as learning tools. The students are using them in the schools...in their classes....
At Wiregrass Ranch High, cell phones are used in classroom work.
WESLEY CHAPEL | Jennifer Gould ended her class announcements and told her students to take out their cell phones.
"I need at least three people who can get a signal in here," Gould said to her advanced placementD.H. Lawrence, and I want you to find some things about him that you don't already know." literature class. "We're going to be studying the works of
Nearly everyone whipped out a phone and began tapping away. Within moments, the teens were sharing their Internet discoveries.
In a world where most high schools have adopted a "we see them, we take them" policy on cell phones, Pasco County's Wiregrass Ranch High School swims upstream. It encourages teachers to allow students to use their phones in classes for educational purposes. Teens routinely use their phones to shoot pictures for projects, calculate math problems, check their teachers' blogs and even take lecture notes.
If anyone's complaining, Bonti hasn't heard it. Parents, staffers and students alike have praised the school's many efforts to be technologically savvy, including giving students permission to use their personal laptops on campus, too, he said.
"It puts the education in their hands," Gould said.
Langwitches Blog » Blogging with Elementary School Students
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Blogging for Elementary School Students: Here is an excellent article and I love the statement "Blogging is one way of linking writing, reading, and connecting information and learning together" that Silvia Tolisano makes in her blog....
All of our teachers at my elementary school maintain their own classroom blog. As I wrote about in Blogs vs. Static Website and Changes in Classroom Blogs, we still have a long way to go as we need to move forward from merely a one sided communication tool to an online learning space that encourages, fosters and supports students’ creativity and learning.
Being able to read AND express yourself in a digital world is an important part of being literate in the 21st century.
All of our teachers at my elementary school maintain their own classroom blog. As I wrote about in Blogs vs. Static Website and Changes in Classroom Blogs, we still have a long way to go as we need to move forward from merely a one sided communication tool to an online learning space that encourages, fosters and supports students’ creativity and learning.
Blogging is one way of linking writing, reading, and connecting information and learning together. It seems the perfect venue to introduce elementary school students to the online world world of networked learning. They need to get acquainted to reading and writing hyperlinked text .
When I help organisations understand how to incorporate social media into their formal e-learning content to create formal social learning, I explain this can be done in 3 different ways as shown in this slide from a presentation I use:
Fall is here and it looks beautiful. The leaves are changing colors, pumpkin farms are on the rise, and people are buying STUFF for Halloween. Where did the summer go? It seems like yesterday it was the first day of spring, now it is fall. Along with this change in weather comes raking leaves and cleaning gardens and basically getting ready for winter. Don't forget to take pictures of the leaves changing before they are all on the ground.
Using Twitter in education has been all the buzz recently. If you are ready to start using Twitter yourself and need a little help getting started or have already been using it and can use a little extra help, then these tutorials are just for you. From getting started to ways to use Twitter more effectively to using Twitter tools to applications and suggestions for Twitter use in the classroom, these tutorials will provide you with tons of knowledge and ideas to get you going.
Getting Started
These tutorials will help you set up your account, introduce you to the basics about Twitter, and more.
This was shared on Facebook by Nellie Deutsch and I thought it is a great introduction to WiZiQ. She has been encourage with virtual classrooms and I have too. Check it out!
Where have the years gone! WOW! I have been teaching elementary education for 30 years and I still love it. I created this blog to help anyone interested in technology uses in schools, blogging, and web 2.0 tools. I wanted to build a blog that showcases technology as well as provides links to others who are experts on using technology in schools. I see this blog as a starting place for newbies in trying to bring technology into the classrooms. Hope you find this blog useful.
