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Tech Triumphs & Tribulations

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Do you have a story to share from your classroom or school? This group is a place for sharing success stories (or crash & burn experiences) that showcase the growing impact of technology on the learning process. Short, long, sweet & sour.

Members: 73
Created By: Demetri Orlando
Latest Activity: May 13

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Please Start a Discussion to add a story or tidbit from your experience or comment on someone else's. Feel free to upload a video or photos if you have them.

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Filtering woes
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Like most schools, we've had our ups and downs with filtering. Last year, we decided to filter music/video download & streaming sites to protect our bandwidth. We also filtered P2P sites. Of co... Continue

Tagged: filtering

Started by Tami Brass. Last reply by Matt Scully May 13.

Video Conferecning to Build Community and Relationships around the World
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At the opening meeting our headmaster challenged us to explore our boundaries and to see how we could make new connections. We've been working on globalism the last few years and have partnerships ... Continue

Tagged: skype, ichat, conference, video

Started by Jamie Britto. Last reply by Bill Clark May 9.

Collaborating on summer tech offerings
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My school, along with two others, is about to embark on a collaboration of technology offerings for teachers this summer. We are just in the planning stages, thinking about a one or two day seminar... Continue

Started by Barbara Jansen. Last reply by Matt Scully May 1.

What is "Actual Learning"?
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A recent post on ISED-L mentions a skeptical teacher who says something along the lines of: "I can't find any educational reason to justify 1-1 computing at the middle school level... Middle schoo... Continue

Started by Demetri Orlando. Last reply by Susan Morgan Apr 25.

Language Lab charges forward
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We've had a wonderful second year so far with our new World Language Lab. The Language Lab coordinator, new to the school this year, came in with energy, enthusiasm, and a knack for communicating a... Continue

Tagged: language, lab, world, dill

Started by Curt Lieneck. Last reply by Karen Douse Apr 7.

Interesting Impact of Screen Monitoring Software
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Watching a french class last month, I saw the teacher using our screen monitoring software to observe the tablet screens of all her students during a dictation exercise. She quickly figured out she... Continue

Started by Demetri Orlando. Last reply by Demetri Orlando Apr 6.

iGoogle's new themes and hijacking

FYI--A colleague of mine told a group of us about iGoogles pages and pages of new themes. They are really great. Then the next day her iGoogle was hijacked. She thinks she has pinpointed it to not ... Continue

Started by Barbara Jansen Feb 17

The Staffing We Need

For the first time in ten years, I feel like I actually have enough hands on deck to do the job we're supposed to do the way we'd like to do it (I'm not dissing my superiors - they've been great si... Continue

Started by Curt Lieneck Jan 9

Websites vs Wikis
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I've been changing what I cover in my Computer Literacy class in an attempt to stay current with how students are using their computers, and have seen what has been the most popular unit in the cla... Continue

Tagged: web2.0, wiki

Started by Rob Roffe. Last reply by Colin Bridgewater Dec. 28, 2007.