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At the end of June, our Grade 8 Language Arts (English) class experimented with using Twitter in the classroom.

What is Twitter?
Why use Twitter in the classroom?

Examining Twitter in the classroom to see how social media tools are changing the way the world communicates.
Using Twitter in the Classroom as a collaboration tool

Review of using Twitter in the [...]

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Classroom technology is great… but where do we get the money to fund the educational technology? I would like to have a class set of laptops for my Grade 7 and 8 students to use: 

4 Reasons why I would like to have a class set of laptops
How much will a class set of laptops cost? Where [...]

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Classroom clickers are a piece of educational technology that allows you to get your students more involved. You put up a question on your computer and students use the classroom clickers to vote in their answers.
SMART technologies has a SMART Response student response system (formerly called Senteo) that has caught my attention.
I’ve heard people talking [...]

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We’re constantly trying to think  of meaningful ways to integrate technology into our classroom. We’re doing some of these things in one form or another (i.e. class blogs and student wikis), but we’re always trying to improve our practice. Here’s our wish list for things to experiment with over the next few years. 
Are you doing [...]

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This week, we brought in Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) into our classroom as a class reward for our Intermediate students as well as for our daily physical activity (DPA) requirements.
We’ve been thinking about bringing in Dance Dance Revolution into our classroom since last summer,  but didn’t actually start to research specifics and the benefits of [...]

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We haven’t posted recently because we’ve been busy experimenting with educational technology for the classroom, instead of simply writing about it.
It turns out that one of our colleagues has a kindergarten student who has his own free blog. Apparently, he reports on the classroom activities and uses exclamation marks quite liberally in his writing.
So, to [...]

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Tomorrow is the last day of school before the Winter Holiday Break. So, ofcourse we’re eagerly awaiting our two weeks off so that we can play on the computer more and work on some side projects.
(On a side note, one of our students did an incredible job on her student wiki, updating her KWL chart [...]

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Consider your own experiences with communicating with parents about your reading program. What are the key barriers to parent involvement in your teaching situation?
Personally, I’m big on integrating technology into my classroom practice.

Over the summer, I started a list of 101 ways to bring technology into the classroom (in meaningful ways). Not upto 101 ways, [...]

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UPDATE: We tested Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) in our classroom. Read our review on using DDR in the Classroom. 
I’ve decided that I’d like to experiment with Dance Dance Revolution in my classroom.
Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) is a video game by Konami that was released in the arcades of Japan in 1998 and is now [...]

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We teach with a data projector in our Grade 8 classroom. And, since we’ve set up this blog, we’ve had a few people find us on google looking for information on how to use an LCD projector as a teaching tool.
This year, we bought a wireless keyboard and mouse combination to use with our digital [...]

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