Ruth’s Ruckus2

I was working with Mrs. Heil’s class and this is what we did:

Social Bookmarking would benefit a number of teachers in my school.  I am thinking specifically of working together to build a list of bookmarks that would be somewhat like a Portaportal.  I have created a portaportal for both  schools, but I am the only one building them.  This limits the viability and growth potential of [...]

I’ve never tried Animoto before.  Heard lots of good things, but just couldn’t get around to it.  I just suggested a teacher try it, so I thought it might be a good idea to follow my own advice…tell me what you think.

I was getting ready for my Web 2.0 class, and came across this video.  Thought it was so funny that I wanted to share…

This is a VETC09 session. Live Blogging…
Sharon McGlone, TRT at Booker T in Norfolk, is presenting.
Things that help:

TRT gives overview to students
TRT creates samples when planning with the teacher
TRT co-teaches
students practiced in diads
Rubrics given to students before they were assessed
Teacher training is key
refer to podcasts as “audio files” to increase teacher comfort
Students in groups worked best
be careful about [...]

This post is primarily for those who will attend the DE Streaming Teacher Tools session today.  If you’ve read my blog at all, you know that from time to time I get fabulous information to share through my Personal Learning Network (PLN).  I found an absolute gem while preparing for the inservice and wanted to [...]

So during my SL adventure tonite, someone made a reference to Wordle.  I learned about this application earlier this year, but never posted about it (that I could remember). I think using this application would be a cool way to teach students about Main Idea.  The application make a word cloud from your text.  Words [...]

I’ve got bunus points because I’ve got Plurk open!!
Learning to Speak Native:
Reference to Prensky: Natives are multitaskers, they prefer graphics BEFORE text etc… they think differently because they grew up connected.  Our schools were not created to accomodate these kids.  If educators want to reach NATIVES we will have to “just do it”. 
We’ve had an [...]

Mrs. Taxson asked me to do a review activity with her class, so I decided to try out the VoiceThread application with them.  They had fun, I had fun, we all had fun!!  Wanna see what we did?  Check it out:

Thanks to Chrissy for the tutorial on embedding VoiceThreads. I would never have been able [...]