I have been tagged by Jen Wagner. I do not know how this game of tag got started but it seems I’m it. I spent the last few hours reading what many others have posted about themselves when they were tagged. Some people have lead some pretty interesting lives. All in all I think it has been a good experience it led me to new blogs and I know more about the bloggers I read. So what can I share…
A large portion of the participants in our little blogging experiment are special education teachers, at the elementary level. I am looking for resources I can direct their way, specifically blogs and wikis. The links below are from Special Education Bloggers, please comment and let me know of others. I know there are some great resources out there. Mechelle DeCraene in an email offered to lend a helping hand to our participants. Karen Janowski is an assistive technology consultant and…
I am adding a resource wiki to Beth’s Thoughts. It is very much under construction. It contains links I frequently direct others to visit, there are also notes to myself on what I need to add. If you have any suggestions please share them in the comments.
The Tech Savvy Educator shared a free art program, ArtRage, which I passed on to my daughter. She loves it and took to it in minuets. I feel like a bad mother giving her one more thing to distract her from her school work. She has such a creative spirit now she has one more tool to show it off.
It has been a busy couple of weeks as it always is before a school vacation, there are many loose ends to tie up and holiday celebrations to attend. We complete our first round of the blogging workshops with a grand total of 27 participants. Everyone now has a bloglines and edublogs account. Their current assignment is to read, reflect and write. I am looking forward to what happens next, it is a great group of teachers and administrators and…
The December 8th eSchoolNews article, Ruling: Schools must archive eMail: New rules make eMail, instant messages subject to legal review suggests that provision of student email accounts by schools may become even rarer in the United States. Many free web-based email services are already blocked by school district IT folks, in an ostensible effort to force teachers to use their district-provided (and trackable) email accounts, and encourage students to remain on task with district-assigned computer tasks which DO NOT include…
This morning the winners of the 2006 International Edublog Awards were announced. The online awards ceremony took place as a chat at EdTechTalk and a skypecast. It truly was an international event with people participating from England, Portugal, Canada, Chile and the US among others. One of the winners in the category this blog was nominated in was the Spanish language blog from Chile tilt!, the other co-winner was Ed Tech Journey. I really enjoyed the collaborative nature of the…