Wikis, Twitter, Social Bookmarking

Now that we have had a whirlwind tour of Wikis, RSS, Twitter & Social Bookmarking, Please post your response to chapters 4,, 5, & 6 below as a comment.

To Post your Response, please Click on Add a Comment below this posting. Copy & Paste your content from your document and Save.

Is it possible I have too much time on my hands?  I thought, for a lark, I would throw all your responses into a Wordle to do a quick count of the most common words you all used in your postings...

Wikis

Exemplars:
http://blog.wikispaces.com/2012/01/best-educational-wikis-of-2011.html
http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/Wikis+in+Education

http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/wikiedu/
Scoop It: http://www.scoop.it/t/wikis-for-education
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis
http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/page/How+we+use+wikis+in+class

Twitter in Education

Education

https://twitter.com/#!/DiscoveryEd

Bringing the world of discovery into the classroom by igniting students curiosity.

https://twitter.com/#!/educationnation Examining and redefining education in America.

https://twitter.com/#!/SirKenRobinson   SIr Ken Robinson...

U.S. Dept. of Education https://twitter.com/#!/usedgov

History

https://twitter.com/#!/HistoryChannel

https://twitter.com/#!/AmExperiencePBS A good link on documentaries made about US history by PBS. 

Language Arts

(SH) Mali is a vocal advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching, having himself spent nine years in the classroom teaching everything from English and history to math and S.A.T. test preparation. He has performed and lectured for teachers all over the world, and his New Teacher Project hs a goal of creating 1,000 new teachers through “poetry, persuasion, and perseverance.”     https://twitter.com/#!/welcome/search/Taylor%20Mali

https://twitter.com/#!/langmag

SPED

Special Education and Sports

https://twitter.com/#!/Education_IEP

• This is a special education twitter account. This twitter page focuses on Learning disabilities such as ADHD, ADD, Dyslexia and so on.

https://twitter.com/#!/SpecialEDNeeds

• More about students with special needs

https://twitter.com/#!/SpEdEnrichment

• Special education enrichment twitter

Gifted Phoenix

Science

https://twitter.com/#!/NASAJPL_Edu

https://twitter.com/#!/sciam Scientific American magazine.

Technology Resources

https://twitter.com/#!/edublogs

https://twitter.com/#!/edutopia

https://twitter.com/#!/eschoolnews

(SH) I love when things are explained well!!! https://twitter.com/#!/welcome/search/common%20craft

https://twitter.com/#!/Tolerance_org   Teaching tolerance twitter site

Eye On Education https://twitter.com/#!/eyeoneducation
- Eye On Education is an innovative provider of books and other resources for educators. We'll keep you updated on educational news, classroom tools, and more!Inspiration and information for what works in education.

https://twitter.com/#!/Education_com

We offer parents info to support their children’s educational and developmental needs, and to make learning more fun. Tweeting are Kat Eden and Alex Blickley.

Blogs

Now that we have reviewed the Blog Page and done the Blog Activity where you looked at exemplars related to your authorization & subject areas, you are ready to post a response for Chapters 2&3.

To Post your Response, please Click on Add a Comment below this posting. Copy & Paste your content from your document and Save. That way we can organize all of your thoughts around the theme of Blog.

Blogs for Middle School/ High School

http://teachinglearningspanish.blogspot.com/
This blog consist of teaching spanish to kids. It also includes different educational website. On the side bars there are sections for children learners, adult learners and websites for teacher / parents. It shows different magazines that are free and it also gives tools for education. There are videos and pictures as well.  

https://sites.google.com/site/sratoering/spanish-blogs
This is a teacher’s direct blog. The blog page looks boring when you open it up, but she does something really cool with her students. She has them create their own blogs where they post their class work. The teacher then goes into their post and helps make corrections.  

Here is a blog for so social studies classes at Westview high school
The inital site  http://www.mdellerba.com/Dellerba_Social_Studies/Am_10_Blog/Am_10_Blog.html

Blog example https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Eil8d_RHM5J-aYkNG2kwIz5y-8qSUxlBjfDPQnfccnI

Also here is another site they use called technology musings using the same blog spot as we are it appears http://dellerbatechedmusings.blogspot.com/
The site also has other links and key information that are useful.

Education Week On Special Education
This link is to a blog that explores states working hard to incorporate Common Core State Standards in relation to Special Education.

http://specialedlaw.blogs.com/
Special Education Law Blog
This is a blog that provides special education legal resources discussing case law, news, practical advocacy and developments in state and federal laws, statutes and regulations.
It also has a link to some humorous Youtube videos about Parents Frustrations with I.E.P. meetings.Parental Frustration of I.E.P. Meeting

Wrapping it Up Blog
A Special Education Teacher speaks of her turning in his “alternative assessments” and starting finals week. specialed.about.com/b/

Special Classroom
This is a link to a blog that a special education teacher wrote about her classroom. The classroom is for visually impaired students and details the activities she uses to get the students ready to learn to communicate with their disability. Being that the students are severely visually impaired, the activities all have to do with senses other than sight. One of the skills that seems to be a focus for the class is learning braille and many of the activities listed deal with honing the students sense of touch. The blog is set up for teachers to view as a resource for more ideas for their own classrooms, not necessarily parents or students.

Teachers at risk
This is a very interesting blog about a SPED teacher that teaches to students at risk and realized that not a lot is done to help teachers in this area. The author of the blog provides a great deal of information about successful strategies she has implemented and also those that have not worked as well.

http://www.nakedscience.org/mrg/
This blog is for a science teacher at Southe Pointe High School in Phoenix Arizona.  She does a really good job of having links to relevant areas of the school related to science such as science clubs, science fairs, and current events in science.  It has great graphic representations and some really good articles of recent advances in science.  Also, there are links to recent school projects and field studies with pictures.  Students can easily participate in the blogs as well as access class materials and school documents.

Blogs 4 ECE/Elementary

Submitted by AM
http://edublogawards.com/2010awards/best-teacher-edublog-2010/  This site has blogs that are nominated for the top bogs of the year in different categories.  There is a category for best teacher blog which has links to all the nominations for the award.  Technically it is a blog of blogs.  A great resource to use to get ideas when setting up your own blog.  The winner of the best teacher blog was http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/

This blog won the “beyond the classroom” category.  I like the pictures and videos.  She did a great job not capturing student faces to protect their privacy.

Here is a link to the blog of one of the teachers at my school.  He used to be our tech teacher and I have found his blog to be the most up to date and includes lots of pictures and videos.
https://sites.google.com/a/beaverton.k12.or.us/mr-amorose-s-classroom-home-page/

Submitted by SH
This looks a good one...http://ideasandthoughts.org/ Blogger Dean Shareski
It is about... “Visitors to this site can see his latest post at the top of the left-hand column, and if they scroll down the page, they can read what Dean has been posting for the last couple of months.”

On the left, you can find the latest postings. One of the links in the blog is this project, pretty cool global project. It is about collaboration even with teacher far, far away (the link shows two videos and replies from and teacher here in USA and a teacher in Greece) You should check it out: Magic and Serendipity in Our Global Primary Classroom. Actually, this leads to another blog, which I did not explore, except the global project.  

The video section is very interesting too. It has links to YouTube videos that show very nice practices teachers are doing in the classrooms.

Submitted by JL
http://edudemic.com/
A huge variety of articles/topics related to education and technology.

http://flipped-learning.com/  Flipped Learning

The notion behind this website is to turn learning upside down.  It is the personal blog/website of Jon Bergmann.  Jon is a teacher, educational coach, and writer who has had the privilege of helping educators around the world reconsider what education can look like.  He, along with Aaron Sams, are considered two of the pioneers in the Flipped Class Movement.  They co-wrote the book on the Flipped Classroom.  It will be available from ISTE Press in June of 2012.  They also have a popular YouTube channel which contains the videos they have used with their students in the flipped classroom.  The videos are mostly Chemistry, Astronomy, and Space Science videos.  Jon believes educators should ask one guiding question:  What is best for my students in my classroom?  To the best of his abilities he has done this in his twenty-four years as a high school science teacher.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ Free Technology for Teachers
The purpose of this site is to share information about free resources that teachers can use in their classrooms.

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/ The Innovative Educator
Creative teaching ideas, lots of articles.

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/ Mind/Shift - How we will learn
Research, policy, and cultural issues.  MindShift explores the future of learning in all its dimensions – covering cultural and technology trends, groundbreaking research, education policy and more. The site is curated by Tina Barseghian, a journalist and mother of a grade-schooler.

http://www.teachingblogaddict.com/ Teaching Blog Addict
TBA provides bloggers and readers direct access to fabulous teaching blogs that are filled with creative teaching tips and fun educational resources.

Submitted by SB
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337
First Grade Classroom Blog.  This is a good one for displaying student work (authorship), topics being covered in the classroom, exciting events, etc.  

http://teachinglearningspanish.blogspot.com
Spanish blogspot...lots of resources for te

http://theteachingpalette.com/2009/05/06/blogs-that-promote-unconventional-discussion/
several links to different blogs such as art blogs

http://readingyear.blogspot.com/
Literature
If you scroll down this page about halfway down on the right hand side, there is a column for teacher resources with a bunch of valuable links for literacy!  Good ones!

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/teaching-ideas
Scholastic blog where teachers share lessons with videos to show the lessons in action.  Some include: geometry units, summer reading, storia, digital reading in the classroom, wall charts, fun with grammar, etc.

The Read Write Web

After reviewing the page I created for this topic READ/WRITE WEB [also listed in our header bar], I will ask you to post the responses you wrote for Chapter 1 as a Comment.
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