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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, we will part… Continue

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

Charter School Teachers List

Charter School Connections This is an unofficial and informal listserv for people interested in or working in charter schools across the US. The inspiration for this is the wonderful ISED listserv (http://www.milton.edu/ISED-L/). Charter school people need an online niche, too! The purpose of this list is to facilitate conversation and the sharing of resources. This list is not limited to just tech talk. Teachers and adminis… Continue

Added by Lucy Gray on March 16, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Doodle 4 Google Competition

Google announced a competition for k12 students today based on their famed Google Doodles, a whimsical tradition in which holidays and important dates are noted. Artist Dennis Hwang draws these doodles around the Google logo and can be viewed from time to time on Google's home page. In this contest, students are asked to ponder the question, "What if..." and use their imaginations to construct their very own Google Doodle. The winner will have their doodle appear on Google's home page for a day… Continue

Added by Lucy Gray on February 13, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Illinois Technology Conference for Educators

I know many people will be attending NAIS about this time, but if you're looking for an alternative consider the following.

Illinois Computing Educators' annual conference is taking place in St. Charles IL February 26-29 with the theme of Learning Outside Boundaries. Anyone is welcome to attend. Our keynote speakers this year are Dan Buettner of Blue Zones Quest fame and Mitch Resnick of MIT. Spotlight speakers include retired Mabry Middle School Principal Tim Tyson, Vicki Davis of the… Continue

Added by Lucy Gray on February 9, 2008 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Macworld 2008

Any ISEDers attending Macworld? I'm very excited to be attending for the first time!

CUE has asked me to present at their Macworld Educator Academy. Along with Judy Beaver of Punahou, I will be conducting workshops on blogging and collaborative documents January 16th and January 18th. I've set up a del.icio.us account where I'll be bookmarking relevant links, a… Continue

Added by Lucy Gray on December 29, 2007 at 11:15am — No Comments

Job Openings @ the University of Chicago Charter School

The University of Chicago Charter Schools are looking for a few good people. For job openings, check out this link: http://cusi.il.schoolrecruiter.net/index.aspx. Continue

Added by Lucy Gray on December 14, 2007 at 10:18pm — No Comments

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Jim Heynderickx replied to Curt Lieneck's discussion 'Terms of Use'
Hi, Curt We've been interesting in purchasing space to use in the Google Web Albums, but I've been concened because the Terms of Service suggests that there will not be warnings before changes in Service. If I'm reading the terms correctly, they co…
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Shared Responsibility for Laptop Programs
One of the changes I made in my current laptop program was to discontinue insurance coverage on the laptops. We have the three-year Apple Warranties on the Macbooks, but we don't have insurance on accidental breakage or theft. One reason we did thi…
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Share your work arounds and enhancement requests for Finalsite.
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2010 NAIS Annual Conference at Moscone Convention Center
February 24, 2010 at 9am to February 26, 2010 at 7pm
Adapt, Survive, and Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within "The 2010 NAIS Annual Conference is designed to support interests expressed by independent school leaders - all of whom face intrinsically difficult issues within their unique positions.…
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Teacher Technology Proficiency
Discuss which technology skills are essential to the job of an educator and how to measure and improve teachers’ capabilities for productivity and classroom integration through the use of technology standards or proficiencies.
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Terms of Use
I know that many of you use Flickr with your classes. Others of you use Flickr for other purposes like archiving school photos for promotional, development, and such. Flickr's Community Guidelines clearly state that the service is for personal use…
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Online School for Girls Adds Four More Member Schools A nationwide consortium of four independent all-girls’ schools that created in June 2009 the first-ever online school dedicated to secondary education for girls this past fall has expanded its m…
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Let me know what you think of this project and if you've tried something similar. I'm happy to share details.
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Using Facebook to Teach
Bullis School teacher Sara Romeyn talks about using Facebook as a teaching tool in her AP U.S. History Class.
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Please view a short (3 minute) interview about my recent History project: Using Facebook as a teaching tool.
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Erik Nauman replied to Tim Cooper's discussion 'RobotC' in the group robopeople
Processing (processing.org) is a Java-based language that allows you to do some exciting visual effects and at a much more advanced level link realtime data to algorithms to present data in visual formats. Digital artists use it for that creative el…
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James Wilding replied to Demetri Orlando's discussion 'Bassett asks, "What are your demonstrations of learning?"'
Nice one, Fred. As a digital enthusiast, I'd happily stick to the task of enumerating the real skills we can identify our students may need for the future, so long as someone doesn't then make them mandatory, stick them in a list to provide a checkb…
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Fred Bartels replied to Demetri Orlando's discussion 'Bassett asks, "What are your demonstrations of learning?"'
James, How does this fit with the following famous quote attributed to Socrates? "Worship the gods if you wish, but first, know thyself." Fred
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