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Google wiki, originally uploaded by Jenn Cronk.

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Woot! I am in the Google Teacher Academy! I am so excited! I was on Skype with Jeff Whipple who mentioned two others that he knew of. So then I checked my Twitter and found a few more which led me to this site that was created not more [...]

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While perusing my feeds I came across a phrase by Lucy Gray from the Infinite Thinking Machine
It’s not about “competing in a global economy” for me…it’s about experiencing all that the world has to offer. I want kids and other adults to realize that there is so much out there to discover and explore.

Lucy was [...]

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I will write a more formal post later…..
A while ago I began moving my blog from Typepad to here at Edublogs getting caught up in this process and the holidays I have not done any blogging of my own.  I have still been reading my favorite blogs, but not spending any time on my own thoughts. 
Getting [...]

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Delicious Ideas

I actually started to build a Del.icio.us account for my students! Right now this will just be an assignment on “Tagging“.  I may start with having the students access technorati first to see how certain blogs may contain Tags that they are interested in. Next, we will move on to del.icio.us where the kids will [...]

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 One of my most recent assignments has to do with hyperlinking text in a document. I am doing this to build my students blogging skills before we actually start blogging. The assignement is to use wikipedia to answer some of the following questions and then to hyperlink a word back to the page the answer [...]

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I have been reading many posts lately that express frustration about getting admin and teachers alike involved in utilizing Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. I have to admit that I go in and out of these phases of frustration but I don’t think that the battle is all up hill.
In one of his posts [...]

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Tabblo and Garage Band

Two very cool things happened today:

1. I was interviewed by doctoral candidates about concerns I have for my school’s technology program.  I gave pretty lengthy answers on all the new things I wanted to do with my classes, so on of the candidates decided to use Garage Band to record my interview. After we were [...]

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I have not posted in a few days; I thought I had a deep moment with the last post, but no comments so I became discouraged. Earlier today I was going through the chapter on RSS in my current bible Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts.  While playing around with folders and organizing my feeds I checked [...]

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