Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/08/2012
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- Context and the Calendar: An Introduction to Chronofencing Chronofencing is the principle of delivering contextually important information at the right time. It is like geofencing (triggers of contextual information at a location) but perhaps more useful. Learn to understand this term as it has important implications in education. For example, students can have triggers before leaving school reminding them what books to take home - or reminders of what to take to school - these time based reminders could be combined with location as with the... more »
Collaborative Writing in the Cloud: A collection of resources for writing teachers
coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher) at Cool Cat Teacher Blog - 6 hours ago
I've begun work on the website companion to Collaborative Writing in the Cloud: An essential guidebook aligned with Common Core standards that will be published this winter. (The draft is due now.) I'm referencing some of these pages in the book and am asking for your help if you're involved in teaching writing, collaborative writing, or helping teachers. Right now, I've drafted the pages on Twitter hashtags, chats, and lists for writing teachers and also networks where teachers can join. You're invited! The next page I'll create will be open collaborative writing projects. Feel fre... more »
IdeaConnection: Open Innovation success story: Open Innovation: Goldcorp Challenge
coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher) at Cool Cat Teacher Blog - 6 hours ago
"The Goldcorp Challenge was launched in March 2000 and 400 megabytes worth of data about the 55,000 acre site was placed on the company’s website. Everything that the company new about the Red Lake mine was a mouse click away. Word spread fast around the Internet and within a few weeks submissions came in from all over the world as more than 1,000 virtual prospectors chewed over the data." There were 100 sites identified, 50% of them unknown to the company based upon this data. Goldcorp became one of the most profitable in the industry. This is an example of open data and collaborat... more »
Tweak My Blogger: Hide Widgets/Gadgets
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Some code to put items only on the homepage of your blogger blog. This code still has a few issues but I'm figuring out how to do it now. via Diigo http://www.tweakmyblogger.com/2010/07/hide-widgetsgadgets.html This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Blogging from iGoogle and Gmail - Blogger Help
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This blogger post gadget scares me witless. I could see a student posting to cool Cat Teacher if I left my igoogle page unattended. Not happening here! ;-) via Diigo http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=143415 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
LinkWithin - Install Widget on Blogger
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Richard Byrne recommended the Link Within widget and I've installed it on my blogger blog. It recommends related posts. Cool tool. via Diigo http://www.linkwithin.com/install?platform=blogger&site_id=1173259&url=http%3A//coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/&email=coolcatteacher%40gmail.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
National Writing Project: National Community open to anyone #engchat
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The National Writing Project (NWP) has a community open to anyone who is interested in writing. If you teach writing, you should consider joining this community. They also have a "Twibe" (for sharing tweets) that you can use to disseminate tweets on the topic of writing. They've always been on the forefront of writing and research. Great organization and some great conversations about common core as well. via Diigo http://connect.nwp.org/national This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
How to Hide or Remove Blogger Navbar at Digital Inspiration
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Cool Cat Teacher Comment Feed
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How do I change my site feed settings?
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How to Hide Blogger Navbar in New Blogger Beta at Digital Inspiration
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Blogger Tips and Tricks
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Stinky cleats and stinky attitudes: both should be tossed
It is like cutting onions. One whiff of my son's football cleats and you're crying. It was so bad this week, my youngest son and I drove with the windows down and our heads out the window in a rainstorm because they were tossed in the backseat before we left school. Yesterday I was at my desk and I was like "oh my goodness, what is that?" Looking around for the dead rat, I looked behind my door and he had stored... you guessed it, the stinky cleats. Good glory, what's the story? So unsavory, why is this worth discussing? Because some people have stinky cleats for an attitude. Their... more »
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/07/2012
- Amazon's new Kindles: Everything you need to know (FAQ) | Tablets - CNET Reviews Lots of Kindle options now including the new Kindle paperwhite are shared in this rundown post from cnet - the best I found today on the topic. eBooks are here to stay. Textbook companies can wake up or be left in the wake of an epaper revolution that is shredding the traditional book publishing industry. We've yet to see a great interactive textbook but that is coming. tags: news education ebook - Grandparents Day! | Cyber Seniors Documentary... more »
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/07/2012
- Amazon's new Kindles: Everything you need to know (FAQ) | Tablets - CNET Reviews Lots of Kindle options now including the new Kindle paperwhite are shared in this rundown post from cnet - the best I found today on the topic. eBooks are here to stay. Textbook companies can wake up or be left in the wake of an epaper revolution that is shredding the traditional book publishing industry. We've yet to see a great interactive textbook but that is coming. tags: news education ebook - Grandparents Day! | Cyber Seniors Documentary... more »
Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 09/06/2012
- WALLS 360 BLOG » Periodic Table Wall Graphics from Yiying Lu. Plus FREE Periodic Table Design Downloads! Free periodic table downloads with QR codes to use in your classroom. tags: education teaching qrcode - Grandparents Day For Grandparent's Day, this organization is asking people to committe to do something grand. Here are some ideas. tags: education grandparents teaching lessonplans grandparentsday - Cyber-Seniors Corner - YouTube Here's the Cyber Seniors corner where Grandparents teach others how t... more »
Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 09/05/2012
- SocietyOfDigitalAgencies I'm an Adobe Education leader and just found out about this competition. "The Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) http://societyofdigitalagencies.org/ and Adobe wish to throw out a challenge your students so they might show their creative flair by submitting their best HTML animation work using Adobe Edge Animate. The competition is called the HTML5-Off Challenge! Registration cut off is Oct 20 and the work submission cut off is Nov 9. In the short term students will be required to use Edge Preview offered (f... more »
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/05/2012
- New Research Finds Most Top Torrents Are Monitored Most torrent sites like Bit Torrent are logged and your ip address is being tracked.Best advice, don't try to download things for free that aren't supposed to be free. Be wary, wise, and share it with your students. tags: news privacy security - September Lesson plans aligned with Common Core Lesson planning sites are proliferating. Here's a set of 135 lessons all relating to events in September aligned with Common Core from Sharemylesson.com. Plan ahead. (You can also upl... more »
Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 09/04/2012
- 2012 Back-to-School Bulletin Board Contest A pinterest based bulletin board contest where you can win prizes for the most "likes" and "pins" for your bulletin board. Some of you will be interested in this because I've seen your amazing boards on Pinterest. tags: education pinterest teaching contest Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Most Popular Posts of August 2012: Cool Cat Teacher Blog
[image: lesson plans from 1979] We've come a long way on our lesson plans - Look at this one from 1979 (Photo credit: Fuschia Foot) August was a busy month with many of us heading back to school. Looking over my stats for this blog, I thought you might want to see the hottest posts of the month for your weekend reading: 1. 50 Teaching and Lesson Plans that Rock 2. QR Code Classroom Implementation Guide 3. 15 Fantastic Ways to Use Flipboard 4. 89 Lesson Plans and Ideas for Teaching Math 5. 10 Ways to Be a Terrible Teacher 6. 62 Ideas, Lesson and Humor for Engli... more »