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September 2008 Blog Posts (4)

Karaoke and Games for World Languages

Based on some of the recent brain research, and in an attempt to have some fun, I'm looking for any number of video games for game systems or computers to help acquire world languages.

Does anyone have any experience with this type of gaming? Can anyone suggest a source for Karaoke discs or files in French or Spanish? Any PS2, Xbox or Wii movement or music games that use French or Spanish

Thanks in advance for your help and consideration,

-Jamie

Added by Jamie Britto on September 19, 2008 at 2:26pm — 1 Comment

Rethinking the Admissions Process

[cross posted on my blog, Multi-faceted Refractions]



As an administrator at an Independent School, I realize that there are processes which allows us to attract new students to our campus. Over the past few evenings, I have been processing the information that I have collect during my conversations about Internet Safety that I do for all of our students, from fourth grade through twelfth grade. Here are a few informal responses that I have gotten back… Continue

Added by Vinnie Vrotny on September 12, 2008 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Classroom 20 Live Conference: Chicago

I created an event in the ISED ning about a free professional development opportunity in Chicago that will completely unofficially dovetail with the ISACS conference.



Steve Hargadon, creator of the Classroom 2.0 ning community, will be helping to faciliate a min-unconference based on the concepts covered in his ning on November 7 and 8. The event will be begin on Friday afternoon with a showcase of student work, Pecha Kucha presentations and a surprise mystery keynote. On Saturday,… Continue

Added by Lucy Gray on September 4, 2008 at 7:17am — No Comments

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

Added by Fred Bartels on September 1, 2008 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

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