Part of the series: The 30 Goals Challenge, Goal 25: Plant a Seed (picture from www.veezzle.com) Marisa Pavan from Argentina shares this post about her journey with Goal 25: Plant a Seed and how she planted a seed with her students…. A couple of years ago inspired by the members of my Personal Learning Network […]
Month: July 2010
6 Reasons to Attend the #RSCON10 Free E-Conference Fri. 7/30-8/1
Part of the Cool Sites series After an Edchat conversation about education reform,Chris Rogers, Jason Bedell, Kelly Tenkely, and I collaborated to organize The Reform Symposium, a 48 hour free e-conference for educators that will begin Friday, July 30th at 2pm PDT (LA Time) and end Sunday, August 1st at 2:30pm PDT (LA Time). The […]
Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas? by Marti Sides #30Goals
Part of the series: The 30 Goals Challenge, Goal 14: Cause a Ripple Marti Sides, who just celebrated her birthday this past Friday, took the 30 Goals Challenge in January, please read this incredible post about her journey with Goal 14: Cause a Ripple and how she caused a ripple at her school…. “The Butterfly […]
20 Places to Create and Find Free Courses Online
Part of the Cool Sites series Today’s Cool Sites series post comes from guest education writer, Karen Schweitzer. It has never been easier to create your own elearning resources or get a free education online. There are dozens of sites, content management systems, social learning networks, and open source products dedicated to making education more […]
Xtranormal: Text to Speech Video—A Few Uses
Part of the Cool Sites series Today’s Cool Site post comes from guest blogger, Kathy Niebuhr As a .5 elementary media specialist, I was assigned the overflow prep time for two sections of 3rd and 4th grade—one a day. My assignment from my principal when this was created at the beginning of the year was “do […]
What Did They Tweet?
July 2010 edition of the What Did They Tweet series! Let’s see what our Personal Learning Network (PLN) tweeted about in education and social media this week. Tweets I favorited a YouTube video — Seth Godin on how schools teach kids to aim low http://youtu.be/e5ywUhs1Pn4?aPatrick Larkinbhsprincipal Hey PLN: Reminder… Ed Open Mic night this Thursday […]
The Best Kept Secrets of Highly Successful Edu-Bloggers, Part I by Karenne Sylvester
Part of the series: The 30 Goals Challenge, Goal 4: Support a New Blogger Karenne Sylvester, a prolific blogger, offers some advice for new and established bloggers…. With over 70,000,000 blogs written weekly – thousands of which are written by fellow educators – it is actually a good idea today to stop, take stock and […]
Tips and Tools to Manage Your Twitter Time!
Part of the Cool Sites series Do your friends or partner accuse you of being a Twitterholic? Do you fear you spend too much time on Twitter? Daily people ask me how I manage to have a life and spend so much time on Twitter. It is true that you will see me tweet daily. […]
My Reign is Over by Kevin Creutz #30Goals
Part of the series: The 30 Goals Challenge, Goal 13: Give Students Reign Kevin Creutz took the 30 Goals Challenge in January, please read these incredible post about his journey with Goal 13: Give Students Reign…. Shelly Terrell challenged teachers with the following statement as part of her 30 Days, 30 Goals challenge. She said, […]
What Did They Tweet?
July 2010 edition of the What Did They Tweet series! Let’s see what our Personal Learning Network (PLN) tweeted about in education and social media these past two weeks. Tweets “Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world | Video on TED.com” http://j.mp/bsNyS3baldy7baldy7 Just uploaded ‘Towards Open & Connected Learning’ to SlideShare. http://slidesha.re/dfrMGH Alec […]