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Fred Bartels's Discussions
Mission Statement for 1 -1 laptop program
Replied 14 hours ago
A Common 1:1 Survey, Across Several Schools
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Fred Bartels's Events
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NEIT2009
November 11, 2009 at 12pm to November 13, 2009 at 12:30pm – Mohnk Mountain House
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I've attached the rationale letter we send out every year to the families of students entering our laptop program.
I wrote a short book about 1:1 programs about 7 years ago. A lot of the information is dated but I think the material related to wh...
Jim,
Great surveys! Of the two the MS survey seems a little stronger. What I feel is missing from the HS survey is questions that capture the ubiquitous fluid use of computers that develops over time in 1:1 schools. For instance, I see a lot of s...
Jim,
Definitely interested. It would nice to do this really well, with a carefully developed set of questions, and taken by a reasonably random set of students at 1:1 and non 1:1 schools. Many independent schools have statistics courses. Perhaps ...
Joe, I watched the video last night. My reading of his talk is that Cowen is just cautioning us to be aware of how much our minds are wired to fit -often inaccurately- the inputs we are getting from the world into stories. In a nutshell, we need t...
For most of the summer I participated in an online drawing course at Sessions Online School of Fine Arts. My motivation in taking the course was to have someone guide my drawing process, nudge me to draw more, and satisfy my curiosity to see what ...
I just completed taking my first online course a week ago. The course, Sustainable Design as a Way of Thinking, is one of a growing collection of online courses related to sustainability offered by theBoston Architecture College.
The teacher of t...
This is a discussion for teachers to share their experiences taking or offering online courses. Many of us are beginning to experiment with online education, and we can all learn from each other -and avoid reinventing wheels- if we share what work...
Demetri, I think the ideas he is exploring in this video are very important. It was really interesting how quickly Susan Booth shut down the recent discussion of compensation on ISED given that this video certainly implies that as top administrato...
Joe, Great blog posts! It is really valuable to have a Head's take on PLNs, Web 2.0, social networking, etc.. Please keep them coming. Fred
NEIT2009 at Mohnk Mountain House
November 11, 2009 at 12pm to November 13, 2009 at 12:30pm
The NYSAIS Education and Information Technology Conference.
This conference is for technologists and librarians to get together and spend three days exploring the future of our fields. We use an open-space model meaning anyone can convene a topic...
A group to facilitate communication between the computer coordinators of Fairfield and Westchester County independent schools.
An intellectually and visually stimulating TED talk by Henry Markram on his team's work to simulate neuronal structures with computers. Perhaps the singularity is closer than we think?
To me, achieving universal health care is one of the major challenges of our time. It is similar to the civil rights movement in the good it will do for vast numbers of people. Yet I've heard no educational leader speak out strongly for universal ...
Hi Sandi,
RCDS has a 1:1 program in grades 7 through 12. With that said, we have 3 computer labs (one in each division, with two rooms in the MS lab), and many classrooms in grades 6 and below have multiple desktop computers.
Our labs are all ava...
Alecia,
Have you seen this video. It certainly provides anecdotal support for your argument.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/10/03/nr.holmes.new.way.to.learn.cnn
Fred
A new effort to mobilize people around the world to push their leaders to take action on climate change at the upcoming climate summit at Copenhagen.
http://www.hopenhagen.org/
I think a lot of our kids will find this a compelling idea.
"If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right?" (No!!!!!!) "It does just the opposite. It dulls thinking." (Yay!!!!!!)
The notion that rewards work better in more narrow-focused, mechanized tasks, that's illuminating. I shudder to...
A short video of a new iPhone app that combines video, location awareness, and location coded databases. Very cool, although I suspect it will lead to a number of people walking in front of buses...
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- www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/
sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse
www.k12converge.com/
schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/
I've always loved the wacky architecture in Dr. Seuss books. This movie is a walkthrough of a SketchUp model I made that trys to emulate some of that Seussian magic.
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TIAA/CREF Quarterly Statements, Frustration, and Accountability
<* warning, a political post *>
I received my TIAA/CREF quarterly statement yesterday. Yet another loss of value. I take a long term view and believe/hope that much of the value will return by the time I retire in 10 or so years.
However, if we don't handle the current financial mess well it might not. The Japanese stock market hasn't come close to recovering from its high during their real estate bubble 15 years ago.
The frustration is caused by my belief that this financial disaster d… Continue
I received my TIAA/CREF quarterly statement yesterday. Yet another loss of value. I take a long term view and believe/hope that much of the value will return by the time I retire in 10 or so years.
However, if we don't handle the current financial mess well it might not. The Japanese stock market hasn't come close to recovering from its high during their real estate bubble 15 years ago.
The frustration is caused by my belief that this financial disaster d… Continue
Posted on April 8, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments
Graphical Representation of the Power of Today's Computers
It is easy to forget how powerful computers have become. A video like the one linked below is a good reminder of the information processing power inherent in current information technology.
http://www.byhook.com/video/telematics.html
http://www.byhook.com/video/telematics.html
Posted on March 30, 2009 at 6:00am —
Very Interesting Article on Having Students Edit Wikipedia Entries
Seems like there might be quite a bit of potential using the approach discussed in the article referenced below, especially in AP Courses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jbmurray/Madness
and the site which this project produced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MMM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jbmurray/Madness
and the site which this project produced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MMM
Posted on September 1, 2008 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments
Miro - A Great Tool for Managing Internet Video
Looking for a way to easily manage, organize and download all those great new video resources on the web? Take a look at Miro. An outstanding free open-source tool for working with Internet video. Thanks to Kerri Richardson for pointing out Miro on the NYCIST listserve!
Fred
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Posted on January 31, 2008 at 6:51pm —
Comment Wall (56 comments)
- At 8:06pm on October 21, 2009,
Laurie Bartels said… - Oh my goodness, we can give virtual gifts now! What HAS become of isenet.Ning!
- At 5:57am on June 25, 2009,
Dianne Schlosser said…
- Hi, Fred, I'm just now getting around to looking at Ning and its educational use. Two of my language teachers plan to use it for their teaching this year. Believe it or not, I was introduced to it first by the Jr. High School that I worked at in New Orleans at least 20 years ago. It was destroyed during Katrina and they have established a ning to reconnect.
- At 12:12pm on June 23, 2009,
Douglas Brophy said… - Thanks, Fred. I'll follow-up.
- At 11:13am on June 23, 2009,
Douglas Brophy said…
- Hi Fred,
I am new to the group and have a question: What would be the best way to identify a teacher interested in having her/his class collaborate with my Ninth Grade World Religions Class on a technology-based project?
Thanks,
Doug
- At 5:02pm on June 19, 2009,
Bonnie Roskes said… - Fred, I've been workign with Mike Lucey from SketchUcation and we're going to "open" soon a SketchUp forum for teachers and students, modified by yours truly. Are you interested in paricipating, or being one of the moderators? You'd only have to pop in from time to time. We're lookng for examples of student work, too, and I imagine you have tons of it. More info on my blog. http://3dvinci.blogspot.com/2009/06/bleg-calling-all-teachers-and-students.html
- At 11:29am on May 13, 2009,
Bonnie Roskes said…
- I've started up the discussion with Coen again, hopefully we can get something going soon. Maybe your students will be our first contributors ;-)
- At 10:02am on May 13, 2009,
Bonnie Roskes said…
- I discussed moderating a youth forum a while back with Coen and Mike from Sketchucation, but we sort of dropped the ball on it ;-) I'm still in touch with them often, so I'll bring up the issue again. I'm looking for kids' models for my own site, on my Case Studies page (which is currently empty because I haven't had the time for it). So if you or anyone else has some student SketchUp work to contribute, please send it my way! I'm also always looking for edu-related material for my blog: http://3dvinci.blogspot.com/
BTW Fred, I believe it was your (former?) student who gave a talk at last year's SketchUp Base Camp? I'm blanking on his name but he was extremely impressive!
- At 6:15am on May 3, 2009,
Susan Carter Morgan said… - Hi Fred,
I wanted to give you an update on my student who expressed interest in taking programming. It appears he is not returning to our school. So at this point, I do not have a student interested in participating. Thanks for being so willing to consider this. Perhaps another time...
Susan
- At 4:02pm on April 23, 2009,
David K. Lew said… - Yes she was and she did a fantastic job. I loved the part about "awakening the possibilities in others."
- At 1:20pm on March 24, 2009,
Mark Hale said…
- Hi Fred,
I am the Head of School at Greensboro Day School in Greensboro, NC. I had thought that I was already a member of this chat group, so will add more information to my profile.
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Thanks Cassandra, I have been playing phone tag with the Great Source Representative for Math in Focus. Just to get to her number tooks some doing as the web site directed me to a person at Harcourt who explained they were no longer handling Great...
A group dedicated to talking about all kinds of diversity issues and sharing ideas and resouces.
Hi Sister Elizabeth -
There is a fair amount of info on our website about our 9-yr-old 1:1 laptop program (www.urbanschool.org/laptops). Also our Tech Director Howard Levin has some information on his site (www.howardlevin.com). Sarah is right --...
Math in Focus is based on My Pals Are Here, currently in use in Singapore. Primary Mathematics was based on an older syllabus in Singapore that was used there until 2001 or so. Although the content for Math in Focus is very similar to what is taug...
Welcome, all teachers of mathematics! Please join in the discussions and use the wiki link below to add to our resources.
I've attached the rationale letter we send out every year to the families of students entering our laptop program.
I wrote a short book about 1:1 programs about 7 years ago. A lot of the information is dated but I think the material related to wh...
Hi Sister Elizabeth,
I recently updated my rationale statement for our 1:1 program. While this is much longer than a mission statement, it may be of interest... http://www.battlegroundacademy.org/podium/default.aspx?t=105664 It draws from a few so...
We're planning to offer such a class next year to our 7th-8th graders and are looking into VE software alternatives. We are PC based.
Does anyone have user based comments on Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, or Adobe Elements? Or any other software yo...
I added it again because the video wasn't showing up for everyone--this is a different source, Viddler.
Jim,
Great surveys! Of the two the MS survey seems a little stronger. What I feel is missing from the HS survey is questions that capture the ubiquitous fluid use of computers that develops over time in 1:1 schools. For instance, I see a lot of s...
A few years ago I created a graphic to represent the "essential objectives" of a MS laptop program. You can see it at
http://www.k12converge.com/?p=201
Jim Heynderickx
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