Ed.Tech@Lake Blog

Today I got an email from District Administrator magazine ( I subscribe to their online daily e-letter) and there was a link from USA Today addressing the issue of Pluto not being a planet anymore.
“I am going to spend the next two weeks whiting the pages in our textbooks out that call it a planet,” [...]

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Yes, I just read a blog entry yesterday by David Lee King about a public library and school library that created Myspace accounts to connect with teens. Brilliant! (Of course, the sites would be blocked in most public schools here in NYS. )
If we are concerned about the way our youth is [...]

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Today, after finishing teaching an inservice on Web 2.0, I went back to my office to prepare for the next class I teach next week, 25 Ways to Use Google Earth.  Well, since I only had about 10 up my sleeve so far, I was stressing a bit.  So, I started searching for stuff on [...]

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My Pop Studio is another new Web 2.0 tool that has great merit and potential.  It’s designed for middle school girls.  The goal is to “…transform girls’ experiences with the media messages they see on TV and in magazines, on the radio, and on the web, moving away from simple and passive scanning towards a more [...]

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Isn’t that a song?  My inservice class really went nowhere today. Technology got in the way.  I was all prepared to show them how to set up their RSS feeds to aggregate sites and had them set up Bloglines accounts….Well, turns out that the Bloglines server was having some problems and none of them could [...]

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We’re all going to subscribe to each other’s blog so you get the sense of how you keep up with various blogs. My Bloglines RSS feeds are public, so if you want to see what I subscribe to, check it out here.

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So today I had about 14 eager and enthusiastic teachers learning about Web 2.0 and setting up their blogs.  For most of them, I think it was the first time that they got involved in blogging….and I think they like it!
Tara has already made some great headway and will have kids blogging about things quite [...]

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Just like I said to the class today…if we expect our students to use the new tools appropriately, we have to model best practices.  I am going to start blogging on a regular basis and hope that they come to read what I have to say.

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