classroom_management

A Note To Staff About K-5 Social Media Use

by Mark October 4, 2011 classroom_management

Folks, Please don’t be shocked when you find out during my Internet Safety class that all or most of your students have personal Facebook accounts. Your class is not alone. We want to foster conversation about how to stay safe online. Admonishing your students that they must be 14 to have a Facebook account simply [...]

Delicious Launched Revamp Overnight

by Mark September 27, 2011 classroom_management

Delicious.com’s new owners relaunch site overnight.

SOLS Begin

by Mark May 11, 2011 classroom_management

SOLS Begin

Elementary School Newspaper

by Mark April 11, 2011 classroom_culture

Terracetimes.com started a number of weeks ago. Posts are generated by students, mostly without being assigned. In the lower grades, teachers are pulling together class projects on the curriculum in VoiceThread, MovieMaker, PhotoStory and posting them.

Are their ideas we could take away from this video which could be implemented in an elementary setting?

Elementary School Student Newspaper

by Mark March 2, 2011 classroom_culture

There is an elementary school student newspaper done by a friend of mine using wordpress. It is still “early days” but the kids are taking to it. I’m told some student editors were appointed in 4th grade yesterday. By this morning, they were holding court in the school library, before school started. Each had a [...]

We are Vermeer

by Mark March 7, 2010 classroom_management

Anyone who communicates in this modern world is an artist. You are either a good artist or a bad artist, but an artist you are–like it or not. We are all artists, and are students who are publishing are artists. To acknowledge this, in our pursuit of education and technology publishing, will help everyone.

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