CORE 24 – Washington State Board of Education

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

What is Core 24? Core 24 is the new set of credit requirements for high school graduation being considered by the Washington State Board of Education. Core 24 will require students to develop a high school and beyond plan and choose courses to help them achieve their goals. Core 24 requirements will ...

Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Innovative teacher Vicki Davis leverages wikis, blogs, digital storytelling, podcasts, virtual worlds, and other digital tools to connect students in rural Georgia to the world. - Edutopia Read more: http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-teachers-vicki-davis

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008View more documents from Jane Hart.

Web 2.0 Slam

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

A Web 2.0 Slam View more presentations from Nitin Parmar. This is a great overview of Web 2.0 tools and concepts applied to education.

Theories Discussion Chart

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Please download a chart to record your understanding of the educational theories Theories Discussion Chart (Word)

Ed.VoiceThread.com

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Edutopia published a nice article about VoiceThread in the classroom.  Check it out. VoiceThread Blog Many great topics including sample work and research supporting VoiceThread's use in the classroom can be found on their blog VoiceThread Digital Library "The Digital Library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects. Our hope is to ...

School 2.0 – Check it Out!

Monday, June 15th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_432" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Click the Image Above for School 2.0 Vision of Tomorrow"][/caption] Imagine the school of tomorrow. How would you design it? How would you integrate creativity, problem solving, collaboration, participation, and put all the tools together to help this happen? Explore the School 2.0 web ...

School AUP 2.0

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

I was looking at David Warlick's 2 ¢ blog today and came across School AUP 2.0.  It's a wiki dedicated to creating a discussion and resources for student acceptable use of  online resources.  It's incredible.  A must see.  Two thumbs way up!  Our school district is grappling with the idea ...

SETDA Technology Report Released

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has released its annual National Trends Report, revealing new data on the power of technology to increase student achievement and describing the need to equip American children and teachers with the knowledge and technological proficiency necessary to make America a leader within the ...

ARISE and Manage Your Classroom Technology

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Great article addressing technology adoption, management and innovation for education in the March 2009 edition of Tech and Learning Now that digital technology is an integral part of many of our classrooms, we have a new challenge: How can we manage this essential technology? How can we maximize the school district’s ...