The Ypulse 2009 Totally Wired Teacher Award (sponsored by Dell) will honor a public school teacher from grades 3 to12 who is successfully using technology (the internet/social media, mobile technology, gaming) in the classroom.The award is inspired by Ypulse founder Anastasia Goodstein’s book, Totally Wired: What Teens & Tweens Are Really Doing Online, and the [...]
Exciting NY DEN LC news to announce. Technology helps us stay better connected, save time, and become more efficient. The NY DEN Leadership Council is always looking for better ways to reach this goal. One new way is to converse in the Twitterverse. Our new Twitter page can be found at http://twitter.com/NYDENLC. Here the members [...]
Do your students blog? Do you want your students to improve their writing skills? Are you interested in connecting your students with other kids around the world? Do you want to watch your clustrmap grow? If you’ve said yes to any of these questions, then you need to check out the 2009 Student Blogging Challenge. [...]
Thanks to my Plurk friend @BarbinNebraska for sharing this cool site: Spell With Flickr:
Great things are happening over at Animoto! 1. Image Pacing Control You can now dictate the speed of your images within any full-length video. Want to create a high-intensity action flick of your pics? Try setting the image pacing to double speed. Need each photo to be more carefully appreciated? Try half speed. Fun! 2. [...]
This message comes from Vicki Davis (http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/). For those who don’t know, Vicki is a very positive influence in the world of Web 2.0 in education. —– Hello everyone – I hope you’ll take a second to help a group of my very passionate ninth graders who have named themselves the Digiteen Dream Team – [...]
I received a very informative e-mail from the people at Teacher Tube. It made me very happy. I hope it makes you happy too! Happy teachers make for happy students! Read on… From the Teacher Tube E-mail Newsletter: If you have not visited TeacherTube in the past two weeks, you need to check us out. [...]
Our tri-state Day of Discovery with Power to Learn this past week was FABULOUS! Here are some pictures from the day to prove it! I created this 15 second video using Animoto. Don’t forget to visit the wiki presentation I shared with you on VoiceThread and Animoto. Have fun enjoying these two applications with your [...]
Beginning mid-August, PBwiki is hosting a Back to School Challenge. Teachers can earn a free gold wiki, plus great classroom resources like books, legos and more. You can participate in the challenge by signing up here. This is the “Year of Collaboration,” so consider joining this challenge as one step toward creating a 21st Century [...]
Awesome news! Animoto now has a section just for educators! Visit Animoto for Education to check it out! When I visited the site, I discovered that our own Lance Rougeux, Director of the Discovery Educator Network endorses Animoto as a great web 2.0 tool beneficial to students and teachers alike. He is right! Be sure [...]
Have you discovered wordle yet? Visit the wordle site to generate beautiful word clouds from text, a blog link or a delicious username. Just like a regular tag cloud, the words that appear more frequently are given greater prominence in the wordle. I especially love how you can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, [...]
If you’re not attending the DEN National Institute, you can always watch from home. Video chat rooms at Ustream
Thanks to our Pennsylvania neighbors Jen Dorman and Bridget Belardi for Live Bloggins and UStreaming Steve Dembo’s Keynote at the DEN Leadership Council Institute. </p> Broadcast by Ustream.TV
Hello NY DEN Members! A new web 2.0/social networking application has arrived and you need to head on over to Shelfari to check it out! Shelfari is a social media site focused around books, and will continue to innovate as it brings together the world’s readers. There are many teachers who have migrated to the [...]
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