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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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If you’ve spent any time on the internet, you’ve already been indoctrinated into the world of Making Money Online. Just do a search using one of the big 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft), and you’ll see ads beside your results. When we were growing up, we made money as teens by mowing the lawn, [...]

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You can't transfer ownership of a google doc if you're in a different domain from your students. # Our students and staff use google docs – the students are set up on a separate domain with "student" in the domain name # Teacher are using Google docs on a separate domain – students need to [...]

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WordPress plugins for our class website: Global Translator – not ideal, but uses Google Translate to help non-English speaking parents. # WordPress plugins for our class website: Mike Jolley's Download monitor tracks how many times the handouts are viewed. http://bit.ly/rLhvT # WordPress plugins for our class website: TinyMCE Advanced customizes which tools students can use [...]

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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 [...]

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Installed Google desktop on our MDG flip to provide a more powerful computer file search tool; sidebar gadgets might distract students. # WordPress allows you to compare revisions (like Google Docs or WikiSpaces), but you can only compare the HTML code, not the WYSIWYG text. # Is there a way to hide certain WordPress posts [...]

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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 [...]

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We made $21.80 in June 2008 from Google AdSense. How can we integrate Reading, Writing & Media Literacy into a unit on Making Money Online. # Typing on the little keyboard on a netbook laptop is slower than typing on a regular keyboard because those keys are so darn close together. # The SD card [...]

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Tried the MDG Flip Tablet netbook today: Good ink/handwriting recognition. Comes with Evernote. Can you install MS Office to get their ink? # MDG Flip Tablet netbook: How durable is the pivoting/flipping screen? MDG claims it’s student-rugged, but does it hold up with student use? # MDG Flip Tablet netbook: bluetooth means you could use [...]

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