Top 5 Tweets of the Day – March 4, 2011

Edach Edach
Digital Citizenship & Staying safe Online, gr8t Livebinder of resources http://bit.ly/dCb0oR

TechnologyToday Stephen M
Transforming the Classroom – Collaborative Learning in the 21st centuary. A fantastic article forwarded by my SO http://bit.ly/hNjGZh

ncara Nancy Caramanico
School Websites with Pizazz http://bit.ly/f4aVgp Just posted #aoptech #arch10plp

olliebray Ollie Bray
New Blog Post: Internet Safety and Responsible Use: LTS Understanding Digital Literacy Video http://bit.ly/ht0PRv

wmchamberlain William Chamberlain
RT @tasteach: do you have time to leave some #comments4kids over the next ten weeks? Sign up here http://bit.l… (cont) http://deck.ly/~nm4NV

Top 5 Tweets of the Day – March 2, 2011

ransomtech ✜ Stephen Ransom
(1) This student blog post has sparked some good discussion…”Balancing a healthy life with technology” http://bit.ly/h2IJe5

AngelaMaiers Angela Maiers
Powerful post- great Q to ask about education and student learning wp.me/p2GzI-nf

patrickcarman Patrick Carman
Live 39 Clues webcast coming soon featuring writing expert Ruth Calhum and four 39 Clues writers: http://bit.ly/39CWebcast

gcouros gcouros
Reading RT @CeciELT: RT @ij64: The Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V boom http://tinyurl.com/4nlxa5l > V good article about plagiarism and cheating

cmt1 Carol Tonhauser
Skype launches expanded services for teachers/students http://rww.to/hCKwXf #edtech #edchat

Top 5 Tweets of the Day – March 1, 2011

nlakusta Nicole Lakusta
Toys to Tools Book Study w/ #siglit http://bit.ly/gTUllV starting this week! Please join in on the conversation! #edtech

@blogonweb2point Heather KennedyPlant
5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years – Dan Schawbel – Personal Branding – Forbes http://lnkd.in/-qWcSA

CoryJhnsn Cory Johnson
Bullying was around before technology and will always be around despite technology #cgeducation

smgrimes Sara Grimes
hey – female game design students – SOE now accepting applications for G.I.R.L. Scholarship: http://tiny.cc/un463

tomwhitby Tom Whitby
How can we expect our students to think Outside the box when teachers are limited to teach Insde the box? #edchat

Top 5 Tweets of the Day – February 28, 2011

gcouros gcouros
Software guides in Under 10 Minutes | The Whiteboard Blog http://bit.ly/haNnbw

web20classroom Steven W. Anderson
The Googleaholics Guide To Everything Gmail: http://bit.ly/btq0eA

ItsJustAwesome Awesome Stuff
by johnfaig
FACEBOOK asks me what I’m thinking, TWITTER asks me what I’m doing, FOURSQUARE asks me where I am. Conclusion: Internet is my girlfriend!

davidwees davidwees
#mathchat #scichat @sarahshep Okay. Try the flipped classroom model w/ you as one of the students. Find approp… (cont) http://deck.ly/~ioy8A

shamblesguru Shamblesguru
by davidwees
World Maths Day 1st March 2011 http://www.worldmathsday.com #mathchat #ntchat #maths #21CLHK

QR Code for this site…

What is a QR code?  For the Wikipedia version of the answer – click here.

Basically, it is a neat looking bar code that can encode text such as a URL address.

The QR code seen below is designed to bring you to this page.

What are the applications in an education setting for a QR code?

I have been working with our school principal on moving towards using a blog as a method of communication with the parents of our school newsletter.  It has been very successful.  Parents are tech savvy and we have seen a high number of visitors to the site.  To remind parents of the blog, I think it would be a good idea to send a small reminder note  (1/4 page size) home with the students including both the address of the blog and the QR code.  Those with smart phones could then access the site with the QR code.

I think this type of technology could be very useful, especially as more student bring in devices with QR code reading software or applications.

Top 5 Tweets of the Day – February 24, 2011

pbsteachers PBS Teachers
Celebrate Dr. Seuss b-day Wed. Mar 2 in your classroom with The Cat in the Hat marathon http://www.pbsteachers.org/catinthehat #teachers

wmchamberlain William Chamberlain
Great post about how instruction changes when blogging http://bit.ly/i0UNhZ via http://bit.ly/h09pZS my thanks to @ccoffa

russeltarr russeltarr
Bloom’s Activity Analysis Tool: http://tinyurl.com/nar3mk

gwedman Greg Wedman
by tkorte
Can you teach effectively with technology if you aren’t an effective teacher without it? Nothing replaces good pedagogy. #abedtech

davidwees davidwees
New blog post: The value of storing your lesson plans online http://wees.it/lc #edchat #BCed #edtech

Top 5 Tweets of the Day – February 22, 2011

I am going to try a new type of post today.  Here is a list of five posts from Twitter that I found today.  I hope you are able to use it in your own practice.  Please comment if you think this is a beneficial post or type of post.  Follow me on twitter – @dancoles

If you teach rocks and minerals/weathering, this is a GREAT interactive animation from BBC http://t.co/tQvq4ok #edchat #edtech #scichat

from@ktenkely

I organized my first #Skype video conference today! My students discussed playwrighting with a pro, and it was awesome! #edchat #edtech

from @lukerushly

Tuesday Teacher Tips: Slide It! Flip It! Turn It! Resources to teach these concepts. http://bit.ly/faTful #edchat #mathchat

from @DreamBox_Learn

Experts vs. Problem Solvers. TED does it so well. http://bit.ly/hTBgOl #edchat #edtech #scichat #stem

from @TechGeeks83

RT @elephantsgerald: @mkuntz63 Welcome to twitter! grow your list slowly. it’s like bonsai #edchat

from @YancyUnger

NCTCA 2011

I recently presented at the North Central Teachers Convention. Below is the PowerPoint of for the presentation.

If you were in attendance and have additional comments, please feel free to pass them along.

Links from the presentation:

TPACK Game Online – http://mkoehler.educ.msu.edu/tpack/the-tpack-game

Learning Activity Types – http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/

TPCK Wiki – http://www.tpck.org

Files from the presentation:

Technology Planning – Laws of Media and TPACK PowerPoint

Presentation Handout

TPACK Game Notebook File – sorry for the round about way to download

Care to connect?

Twitter: dancoles

E-mail: danc@eics.ab.ca

Tech Tip: Google Searching by Reading Level

The other day while sitting in a meeting discussing a student’s ability to search for content on the internet I had this brilliant idea: “What if a search engine searched by reading level?” I did a quick search myself to see if this idea had already been invented…it has.

Using the advanced search features of Google, one of the option is search by reading level. When selected, an option to view beginner, intermediate, or advanced reading levels is available.

I believe this would be a great feature to show students in younger grades or even junior high so that they can find sites that they are able to read and understand.

My Alberta School

The Alberta Teachers’ Association has produced this video promoting the value of Alberta schools and Public Education. As a teacher it is sometimes difficult to imagine the students in front of me as being business professionals, judges, and police officers, but they are the next generation.

The ATA also has a contest on right now at http://www.myalbertaschool.ca/. Check it out, there are some great prizes.