"Remember when technology in schools meant computer labs and internet connections? New Jersey teachers and students are slowly but increasingly using the tools of Web 2.0 -- the so-called second generation of the web that includes creative, collaborative, shared content.
Students are writing on wiki pages, blogging about their classroom activities, recording audio files for band practice, videoconferencing with people around the globe and chatting online about literature.
For a generation that has embraced a joystick and a mouse since they were toddlers, these technologies can help them learn how to be creative, how to communicate and how to work together, said Lisa Thumann, a senior specialist in technology education at Rutgers University's Center for Mathematics, Science and Computer Education."
Students discovering online collaboration - NJ.com
Students discovering online collaboration - NJ.com:
60 Second Recap | Romeo and Juliet | 3: The Plot
60 Second Recap | Romeo and Juliet | 3: The Plot:
Watch the video.
Watch the video.
"William Shakespeare. It sounds like something you’d see carved in marble.
But let’s not forget that at one time, “Billy the Bard” Shakespeare (no one called him that, by the way—certainly not to his face), was a money-grubbing playwright and part-time theater operator with one mission: To pack his audience with people who bought tickets. That meant Mr. Shakespeare would do anything—anything!—to keep his story humming, and his audience entertained. The plot of Romeo and Juliet is a case in point. Give us 60 seconds and you’ll see what we mean."
The First Thanksgiving Student Activities for Grades PreK-12 | Scholastic.com
The First Thanksgiving Student Activities for Grades PreK-12 | Scholastic.com:
"They spent two months at sea to reach a strange new world, and barely survived once they got there.
Learn how the Pilgrims reached America and lived to celebrate the first Thanksgiving."
Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
http://www.ted.com Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.
Farr-Out Links to Learning » Blog Archive » Word Searches…Worthless or Worthwhile?
Farr-Out Links to Learning » Blog Archive » Word Searches…Worthless or Worthwhile?:
"Recently, I came across some really terrific Word Search generators. As I played with the online tools and tried to solve a few of the puzzles I created, I began to question their value. Just because we can easily generate a word puzzle does that mean we should? Do word searches help students learn?"
HigherEdMorning.com » Blog Archive » The top 5 ways students use technology to cheat
HigherEdMorning.com » Blog Archive » The top 5 ways students use technology to cheat:
"They can do it faster and more easily than ever before. But what’s most worrisome: Today’s students may not think cheating is wrong.
Let’s start with the facts.
According to a recent survey by Common Sense Media, 35% of teens use their cell phones to cheat."
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2009/09/im-just-helping-look-at-electronic.html
News Details :: Enhance Learning with Second Life
News Details :: Enhance Learning with Second Life:
"There is a shift afoot in education. The wind is changing. This new digital wind is haling from a virtual world.
Students today need to be immersed in what they are learning - not dealing only with static things like pictures, books, and to some degree even movies. An immersive world allows the student to move, talk, build, and connect with the very information that they are learning - they can be surrounded by it and then they can contribute to it.
In real life (RL) you can’t take students out and let them swim in the ocean, listen to whales singing, touch sharks, see the Monterrey Bay Seashore National Park as only a few have seen it, but, in Second Life (SL) you can."
Guide to Twitter - The Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter | Webdesigner Depot
Guide to Twitter - The Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter | Webdesigner Depot:
"Twitter isn’t just a cute way for keeping in instant touch with friends on mobile phones anymore. It has ramped up quickly to be the search engine of choice for some with its human driven results.
Applications galore allow you to find friends all over the world with similar interests and keep up with them in real time."
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