Networked Learning Communities

Doing some professional reading today through my blog subscriptions, I came across an article entitled, If We Didn’t Have the Schools We Have Today, Would We Create The Schools We Have Today? While some of what Carroll has to say has a decidedly radical bent, there is much good to be found here in the [...]

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CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology

I stumbled across some new resources that I wanted to share with you all that I’ve started using with my students. Initially, I came across this list of educational projects created in partnership with Google. One of the more exciting, research-based projects on the list is called CAST, the Center for Applied Special Technology. CAST [...]

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Writing in the 21st Century

Recent NCTE article that seems right in line with where we are heading this summer: From NCTE–http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Press/Yancey_final.pdf From our blog (pdf)–writinginthe21stcentury Also, I’d like to use a different wiki platform for this summer’s participants. Here’s a mockup of a wiki I’m working on for my school. http://mccleskeymiddleschool.wetpaint.com/ It’s much more user friendly and allows for [...]

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The Unforeseen Consequences of the Social Web

The Unforeseen Consequences of the Social Web http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_web_unforeseen_consequences.php The headers for each section of this article ring true for students and teachers as much as for companies.

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Technology Readings

How To: Use Technology to Enhance Project Learning http://www.edutopia.org/freedom-project-learning-technology-how-to Old Dog, New Tricks: Tips for Technophobic Teachers http://www.edutopia.org/freedom-technology-integration-tips Conquering Technophobia: A Classroom Veteran Warms to Digital Tools (video) http://www.edutopia.org/freedom-technology-integration-video

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New York Times article–So Young, and So Gadgeted

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/technology/personaltech/12basics.html?_r=1

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Blogging the Summer Institute-NWP

http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2745

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Footprints in the Digital Age

An interesting article about the unintended consequences of our online lives, by Will Richardson: Read “Footprints in the Digital Age” Will Richardson is the author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

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The C’s of Change

NCTE article about 21st Century Skills: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, self-control, and comprehension. Download “Cs of change” (pdf. file) Cs of Change (link) This could be a good piece of required reading to stimulate discussion for our participants. I’m interested also in perhaps having them use Google Reader (or any other RSS reader) to [...]

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Hello, is anyone out there?

I know it’s getting hectic, but let’s keep the discussion going. Any updates from our fearless leaders, Jen and Amy? How many candidates do we have so far? We tossed around an idea of focusing a theme on flexible defintions of text, but it looks like we want to stay broader in our focus based [...]

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