Top 100 VE- Learning Tools for 2009

Lisa Harts top Virtual e-learning tools 2009

Which one's are you using..which one do your students use...which one would your students benefit from using?

Bakers Dozen preview
1. Firefox plus extensions—web browser
2. delicious—social bookmarking tool
3. Google Reader—rss reader
4. Gmail–webmail
5. Skype—instant messenger
6. Google Calendar—online calendar
7. Google Docs—online office suite
8. Slideshare—presentation sharing tool
9. flickr—image hosting and sharing tool
10. Voicethread—collaborative slideshow tool
11. Wordpress—blogging tool
12. Audacity—audio/podcasting tool
13. YouTube—video hosting and sharing tool

What will it mean when the ebook comes before the regular print edition

I ran across this blog posting.....it brings up some valuable points about the many different uses of electronic books, textbooks and other electronic media. How can we adapt electronic textbooks to better serve different populations from Honors and AP to middle of the road students to the at risk students. Think in terms of how we could use this to scaffold our book for easier reading.

What will it mean when the ebook comes before the regular print edition

What is 1 to 1 computing and how does it help education

Ok, exactly what is one to one computing?

Read this blog post if you are wondering how we are going to be able to help the at risk students in the future. Acutally the future is now!!! How long will we wait before we take action?

One to 1 computing

MacMillan textbook company close to getting this e-textbook thing solved

Check this story out

A new revolutionary way to charge an electronic device

Using a Blackberry to read books?

Visit this online textbook organization created by the Californial General Assembly

Visit the website below and see how a "Flexbook" is working with online resources

C-12 online textbook collaboration

Could this be the next revolution in education?

Social Studies teacher resources

Wow while searching for online textbook resources I found some interesting sites on Social Studies

This may help your struggling students or maybe not

Ourcourts.org

The latest on e-textbooks and devices to deliver educational content

According to Businessweek, looks like Apples attempt at the IPad device to break open the textbook print model for education will potentially pay off huge dividends. Read the link below to get more information

Apple Tablet + McGraw-Hill: Now we're talking

Apple in talks with McGraw-Hill, Hachette over Tablet

Wiki's in plain english....learn how a wiki works and what it can be used for

Newton's three laws of motion

This is a good unit that may help some struggling students.....what's the risk?

Blogs explained in plain English

This is a good explanation of exactly what a blog can do for you. You can use it as your classroom website. It has many function that will enhance your classroom instruction and help your classroom extend outside the walls and time in school.

This is pretty funny...and it just might be effective

At least you will get a laugh out of this

Let's celebrate Google's step forward

Google's step forward for education. They have announce that they are building a nationwide WiMax which will offer competitve rates for less than $20 per month.

Why is it important which countries have the fast broadband network?

I think this is a good question. I ran across this hubbling graph the other day that shows the United States, the most powerful country on earth ranks 15 in broadband internet speed. So then I asked myself (here I go again asking myself questions I don't have any idea of the answer)why is it so important to have fast internet anyway. Secondly I wondered if those counties ahead of us were also ahead of us in education.

Click here to view the graph

Turns out the top 5 countries are all ahead of us in education.....hummm....i wonder if there is some correlation?

The DualBook eDGe

This is pretty cool....what do you think about it?

Tips for Beginning Bloggers

A blog about beginning blogging

Today's digital learners

How to set up Google Reader

Top 10 signs your field trip is not going well

PBS video about living in the digital age

PBS video about living in the digital age

">PBS series Digital Nation video

Top Ten things they don't teach you in college about teaching

Believe it or not....doesn't look good for school again tomorrow

The bus lot has not been attended to at all. We are not going to get any sun today and the temperature is going to hover in the 30's. Mr. Liles and I just pushed Ms. Assa out of the Senior lot onto Avent Ferry.

Dr. Burns has already announced that Wednesday would be a full day of school with dismissal at 2:28 for the Drive.

Hope you are enjoying your Spring Break :)

No school tomorrow for students

Since the WCPSS site has crashed because it cannot handle 20,000 views to see if schools is cancelled tomorrow, I thought I would "break" the news on the blog.

Even better, there is a chance of frezzing rain Tuesday morning.......

No school tomorrow??

From the looks of the parking lot at Athens....it would guess that we won't have school tomorrow. No one has come scraped the Junior lot and I would think if we were going to have school tomorrow that would be in the works.

Also if you go back past WCPSS decisions...I would say that it is safe to say that we normally stay out of school at least one day longer than we need to be. So from that standpoint, I would say we will return on Wednesday.

Tomorrow will likely be a staff workday.

Hope everyone is enjoying our spring break in February....: )