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We’ve been teaching our speech unit to Grade 7 and 8 students for several years, but this is the first year we’ve really had an opportunity to integrate different types of technologies into our English lesson.
Let’s be honest. Most students hate doing speeches. They don’t like spending the time to write the speech, revise their [...]

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We run several classroom blogs and professional sites, including this blog on using educational technology in the classroom. Mostly we use WordPress, but lately we’ve been experimenting with bulleting boards (phpBB) for our online literature circles.
You can only go so far with free accounts, whether they’re with Blogger, WordPress.com, Edublogs, or Wikispaces. Eventually, you want [...]

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Parents / students can download the SMART interactive viewer to open SMART notebook files at home. (Save is disabled.) http://bit.ly/3SUrXy #
Wow. Twitter had an over-capacity message: too many tweets. How many people social-networking can shut down Twitter? #
When you share a google document with students – you can set them up "to edit" or "to [...]

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Parents / students can download the SMART interactive viewer to open SMART notebook files at home. (Save is disabled.) http://bit.ly/3SUrXy #
Wow. Twitter had an over-capacity message: too many tweets. How many people social-networking can shut down Twitter? #
When you share a google document with students – you can set them up "to edit" or "to [...]

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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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You can’t share folders in Google Docs which means if you have a large number of files to share, you have to do it individually. #
(You also have to upload a large number of files separately in Google Docs – you can’t ctrl or shift select multiple items to upload.) #
If you publish your Google [...]

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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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Our Google pagerank has dropped to a rank of two and we’re not sure why.
Pagerank is Google’s opinion of how important a website is. The higher the pagerank, the more important Google (and apparently the world) thinks you are, and the higher you show up in a search listing.
In a nutshell, Google is a popularity [...]

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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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