The End

The semester has ended and so has this blog. It will be available for at least a year. Here is the link for the Fall 2008 Class blog.

Week 16 - Final Presenation - Group #2

Here is the line up for Tuesday, April 29th. Class will meet at 5:30 in R-1

1 Katie Medina
2 Alison Selin
3 Johnali Anderson
4 Rachel Ellis
5 Jessica Hinckley
6 Gina Freno
7 Shawn Gray
8 Laura Mercier

A Final Message

GOD'S PROMISE TO YOU AS A TEACHER
Proverbs 2:1 - 11
“My sons (and daughters), if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
Turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
And if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
And if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
Then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
For he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
Then you will understand what is right and just and fair – every good path.
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.”

Week 15 - Final Presentation - Group 1

Here is the line up for Tuesday, April 22nd
1 Casey Roberts
2 Lynette Schnell
3 Amy Bostock
4 Breanne Cook
5 Megan Smaaladen
6 Janelle Jamison
7 Elizabeth Doehne
8 Gina Freno
9 Chris Scott

Videos & Movie Making

TOOLS
Photo Story 3 - (free from Microsoft) Create videos from photos
Movie Maker 2 - (free from Microsoft) Create, edit & share home videos

RESOURCES
"Create a Story from a Single Still Photo with Photo Story 3"
"How to Create Slideshows with the Free Photo Story 3"
"Using Microsoft Photo Story 3"
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

Week 14 - EdTechTalk

Class on 4/15 will meet in R-1 (rather than HSC 205 as announced last week)

We will join a live webcast from Women of the Web 2.0: Effectively Using the Tools of the Web sponsored by EdTechTalk

Blog Entry - (original entry canceled). Make sure that other required entries have been posted. See Blog assignment for details.

NOTE REGARDING ASSIGNMENT #5. You may need to use box.net rather than google docs for uploading your project to a web server. Instructions regarding using box.net are available here.

Week Thirteen - The Future: Education & Technology

What do you think your classroom will look like in 5 years? In 10 years? What kind of tools will you and your students use?

EDUCATION MEETS THE REAL WORLD
Academics Meets Architecture video

VIRTUAL TEACHERS & FRIENDS
Virtual Teacher Could Change Distance Learning (Teaching Math) Audio
Toddlers Embrace Our (Giggling) Robotic Overlords

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Student Exchange, Without the Jet Lag: Educational Collaboration in a Virtual World (Second Life)
Global Education on a Dime: A Low Cost Way to Connect (Global SchoolNet & ePals )

HIGH TECH HIGH SCHOOLS
Microsoft's High-Tech High
High Tech High
Three Cities, One New High-Tech High School (Education for future engineers, mathematicians and scientists)

ONLINE SCHOOLS
Insight School of Washington
See Press Release 8/29/2007 Internet Academy/K-12 Online Education
Interview with Bill Finkbeiner, Executive Director
Florida Virtual School

CELL PHONES
From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Schools (A blog with a lot of good ideas)
Cell Phones for Learning
Cell Phones Tackle Reading, Language Barriers (2008)

TECHNOLOGY FOR LESS
Turn any surface into an interactive white board with eBeam
Low cost computers for students include the XO Computer -- Explore the XO, the Classmate PC & the teachermate

OTHER RESOURCES
Digital Learning Commons - Tools for promoting technology & learning in Washington State Schools
Password Safe - create a secure name/password database on your computer
Connexions - "a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc."

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY & SPECIAL LEARNERS RESOURCES
University of Washington DoIt Program: Academic Resources for K-12 Educators
Alliance for Technology Access
Center for Applied Special Technology
Assistive Technology Training Online
Special Education Resources on the Internet
Students with Special Needs

Keeping Up!

READ EDUCATIONAL BLOGS
Set up RSS feed for Educational Blogs using Bloglines or Google Reader

SUBSCRIBE TO OR READ ONLINE AND PRINT JOURNALS AND NEWSLETTERS

Online Journals or Alerts:
eSchool News: K12 Decision Makers' Technology & Internet Newspaper
T.H.E. Journal Online: Technology Horizons in Education
EDCompass Newsletter (From SMART Technologies)

Read Magazine Online:
Edutopia (some free email newsletters are available)

Subscribe to Free Print Journals:
T.H.E. Journal: Transforming Education Through Technology

KEEPING TRACK OF WEB SITES
del.icio.us - "del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders." - from their web site

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