Join IDEAL at MEC 2011! Be immersed in three days of learning and collaboration created especially to meet the needs of Arizona educators. Interact with the IDEAL team, network and explore what’s new in educational technology. Join this collaborative effort while gaining valuable professional development hours. Bring your whole team to MEC2011! Register Now > [...]
There was just too much great information to summarize in this article about learning continuity with iPod Touch. The accompanying table details 210 apps! Keep students connected to your curriculum from home and back. If you use iPod Touches in your classroom and students have access to either an iPod Touch or an iPhone, here [...]
It is not too late to get up to $10,000 for your classroom! Do you have a great project based lesson idea you would love to present to your students? Are you in need of funding to make it happen? Then apply to the AZ Technology in Education Association (AzTEA) for the AzTEA/Qwest Grant. You [...]
Note: The IDEAL site for Arizona’s educators hosts Verizon Thinkfinity in the Curriculum Resources menu. Verizon Thinkfinity partners with The Electric Company® to connect with today’s kids, parents and educators. The Electric Company is an Emmy® Award-winning multi-media literacy experience designed to bridge the literacy gap among 6-to-9-year old struggling readers. Jump into The Electric [...]
Where? Vail’s Empire High School, take the Houghton Road exit from I-10 south of Tucson When? January 29th, 2011 Time? 8:30 am – 3:30 pm, Registration starts at 8:00. Cost? AzTEA member price $25.00, Non-member price $45, or $60 with membership. Includes lunch. Register? http://www.aztea.org/2011-teaching-and-technology-conference Highlights: Tony Vincent Keynote on innovative teaching practices with technology. [...]
From the “Free Technology for Teachers” blog written by Richard Byrne, check out his assembled 140 of the most popular postings of the year in a google slide presentation. Are you familiar with these tools? Tell us about some of them you have tried in your classroom OR let us know about how you can [...]
Communication Package from Verizon Thinkfinity Verizon Thinkfinity and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announce a completely updated EDSITEment website designed to immerse educators, families and students in the world of humanities. Use primary resources with students to delve into Arts and Culture, Literature and Language Arts, History and Social Studies and Foreign Languages [...]
Qwest/AzTEA Mini-Grants Wow! What outstanding and innovative educators we have in our Arizona classrooms. Teachers engaging students in creative and self-directed learning with technology that deepens and give more meaning to their studies. iPads, iTouches, laptops, video editing software, eBooks, DNA sequencing equipment and more have been funded by the generocity of Qwest’s Teachers and Technology [...]
Reposted from Elliot Soloway, soloway@umich.edu ISTE SIGML (Special Interest Group, Mobile Learning) We told you so!! Mobile learning in the U.S. – at least – is at “the tipping point.” Based on surveying over 300,000 parents, teachers, and students, Project Tomorrow’s CEO, Julie Evans, has issued a report that documents the dramatic acceleration of the [...]
Hoping to create an ongoing global connection in your classroom? How about just finding group in another state or country to casually talk to a few times to let your students meet peers of a different culture virtually? The Skype Blog announces that it will be launching a free online directory in December that makes [...]
Chrome Experiments of fun with html5 are meant to show off the clean and fast beauty of the new code. Of course Google wants you to see it in Chrome for full effect, and I would encourage that as Chrome is an easy and responsive browser, you try it out. The Wilderness Downtown is a [...]
I use Audiobooks and Podcasts to get through all my mundane tasks and roadtrips. I use them in the classroom as a center. They are great to put on your classroom computers and create an easily navigated listening lab. Many of these accompany their books with the pdf so students can read along. While I [...]
Amy Serrano of IMMEDIA shared this announcement with us about a different kind of Promethean training. You will get deeper into how to use the tool, how to fix it, options you may not yet be aware of. These may be archived, but consider dropping in to a session when you get a chance. The [...]
Have you ever wanted to use Google Earth to follow a Lit Trip, visit an area, or share information and the program is not installed? Or tried to teach (or learn) place marking and other features of Google Earth and found the learning curve a bit steep? Dr. Alice Christie suggests you explore an application [...]
The DEN Virtual Conference last April inspired many teachers to integrate technology in their classroom lessons. The IDEAL Learning Environment* offered teacher participants an opportunity to earn ten PD hours credit after the event by creating a lesson plan to share using the tools from the conference. Laurel, who is a second grade teacher, sent [...]
Discovery Education hit the iTunes App store with U.S. Geography by Discovery Education. The app is intended for 5th grade students studying U.S. Geography in the classroom, but is enjoyable and informative for people of all ages. Available through the App Store, the U.S. Geography by Discovery Education app offers educators and students videos, knowledge-based [...]
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I’ve re-visited a few great sites (not necessarily new) this summer. I guess I just didn’t have an occasion for which to use them, but WOW, once I got started, they were really useful to me. During the DE Symposium, we ran “groups” in the Edmodo.com site. It was very much like having a back [...]
Whether you’re a newbie feeling IN OVER YOUR HEAD or a veteran teacher IN A RUT, you’ll find ideas and plans to keep you energized. Even if you have everything completely IN CONTROL, be sure to check out the creative ideas and time-saving tips to help keep you on top of your game throughout the [...]
DE treated LC members to the BLC 2010 Conference. The BLC Conference is hotsed by November Learning. Mitch Resnick opened the conference with a very simple message: Students should be creating on the web I couldn’t agree more and not just creating for themselves and their classmates, but for the world. Using Scratch as his [...]
A new licensing agreement with Discovery Education will bring the music and methods of Dr. Lodge McCammon within reach of a million teachers around the world. McCammon, a curriculum and contemporary media specialist in the Friday Institute for Education Innovation, brings 21st century tools into the classroom. He’s a proponent of making classroom videos and [...]
Explore the Blue is a new program from the Take Me Fishing™ campaign and Discovery Education, which provides teachers and parents with a set of online tools that promote youth participation in on-the-water activities and reinforce the importance of caring for our environment. Fun and Games You don’t have to be at a lake or [...]
Mouse Mischief can transform teaching and learning in the classroom. Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, letting you create interactive presentations that engage and excite every student in the classroom by inserting questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Students can actively participate in these lessons by [...]
If you’re interested and available, join other AZ teachers for a Mini-Geek Fest on Monday evening, June 14 at 8:00pm AZ time. Some great sites/links will be shared. Anyone is welcome so feel free to share it with any of your teachers or colleagues. Get more information and register via: http://www.aztea.org/content/mini-geek-fest-monthly-online-conversation-0
Are you a video editor? Do you use free iMovie or Windows MovieMaker? I’m definitely not into video production, but I’ve had lots of fun with around the house video and using a “green screen” to insert my talking head or bouncing dog. My trial copy of a well known video editing application has long [...]
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