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We’re just creating our new classroom website for the 2009-2010 year. We had it up and running in about 15 minutes by setting up WordPress 2.8.4 (3 minutes to create the site; 12 minutes to cut and paste the content from our Meet the Teacher newsletter.)

How to Make a Class Website
Should I use Google Sites or [...]

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Many teachers are blogging in the classroom. It’s authentic writing that hooks struggling readers and writers, especially boys.
However, there is one huge flaw with using WordPress or Edublogs in the classroom. Students can read unmoderated comments when they are logged into the edublog or class blog before the comments get moderated and published online. They [...]

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This post is a work-in-progress as we experiment with using wikis in the classroom and school environment.

What is a wiki?
Why use a wiki in the classroom?
How to start an educational wiki for your classroom
Things to know about Using Wikis in the Classroom

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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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Even though it’s summer vacation in Ontario, we’re still thinking about ways to integrate technology into the classroom.
In fact, we’re considering investing in a SMART board, so we spent some time reflecting on the pros and cons of some of the educational technologies to help us teach in the classroom.  From low-tech to high-tech, chalk [...]

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Sure, it’s summer time, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a few ideas brewing on the back burner.
Here are some technology things that you could do with your students. Not everything may be feasible (i.e. cost factors) or appropriate (i.e. security or privacy issues):

some of the things we’re already doing,
some of the things we’re [...]

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Sure, it’s summer time, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a few ideas brewing on the back burner.
Here are some technology things that you could do with your students. Not everything may be feasible (i.e. cost factors) or appropriate (i.e. security or privacy issues):

some of the things we’re already doing,
some of the things we’re [...]

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There are two situations where you might want to restrict access to your educational blog to just a few specific computers.

First, you might want to restrict the entire blog so it can only be accessed by people using school computers.
Second, you might want to restrict the login pages of your blog, so that students can [...]

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More and more teachers are blogging in the classroom. And, why not! There are a lot of reasons to consider blogging in the classroom.

It gives your students an authentic purpose to write. The idea that their stories will be published online for the world to see may motivate them to do their best.
Students have a [...]

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