Nancy Cavillones : Activity

Tweet!

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:03:58 GMT

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=73 I'm back on the Twitter bandwagon, thanks to Henry. (If you're on twitter, look me up: NCavillones.)

I've been trying out some twitter-centered tools. One was suggested by Paul Allison. TweetScan is a search engine for topic-specific tweets. Right now, I'm checking out tweets that contain the word "homeschool," since ...

Save the Date!

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:03:58 GMT

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=72 It's never too early to mark your calendars for the New York City Writing Project's 10th Annual Teacher-to-Teacher Conference. This year, the conference will be held on Saturday, March 29th at Lehman College in the Bronx. The scheduled keynote speaker is Linda Christensen, author of Reading, Writing and Rising Up: ...

EduCamp NYC

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:03:58 GMT

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=71 Sounds neat. I'll try to make to it, if I'm feeling up to it! (And yes, you saw this same post on Ms. Frizzle's blog).

EduCamp NYC is a gathering born from the desire by teachers, researchers, and technology specialists in K-12 education to share and learn in an open ...

Google For Educators

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:03:58 GMT

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=70 Thanks to Jeff for this link!

Google For Educators

And another thing…

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:03:58 GMT

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=69 Eric recently mentioned on his blog that he is using the new Flock release. I've downloaded it to try it out, since it comes with many new features. I used it awhile back but found myself annoyed with it, so I went back to Firefox.

Foray.

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:03:58 GMT

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=68 I'm up early today to meet the UFT teacher center staffter at my school, to talk about how I'll use the SmartBoard in my class today. I went to the Apple Store yesterday to buy the peripheral I need to connect my MacBook to the school's projector. I'm looking forward ...

Tech Thursdays

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:03:58 GMT

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=67 It's not too late to join Tech Thursdays! Here's a flyer: Tech Thursdays

The next meeting is November 8th. If you are interested, please shoot me an e-mail, or e-mail the folks noted at the bottom of the flyer. Hope to see you there!

Olmstead/Wasserman 212

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:03:58 GMT

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=66 Olmstead/Wasserman 212 is the class blog of a colleague I met at NCTE last year, in Nashville. His sophomores are posting on current events, and Jeff has put out a call for readers, so that his students will see that their audience goes beyond just each other.

[cross-posted at Se ...

EducationBridges

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:12:24 GMT

http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=68

As part of my work with NYCWP and Tech Thursdays, I participate in an elgg community called EducationBridges. The posts from this blog are cross-posted over at the elgg.

Check out some of the communities I belong to, and feel free to sign up for the elgg and join the communities, if you so desire!

Tech Thursdays Community

NYCWP Community

And here’s a link to my profile on the elgg: Nancy B on EducationBridges.

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YouFig - My Home

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:31:49 GMT

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Nobody Knows over at The Reflective Teacher extended an invitation to YouFig after suggesting that we bring our kids together (us in NYC, them in the midwest) for a collaborative creative writing project based on Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters. We’ve been collaborating on YouFig, throwing around ideas, possibilities and questions. The earliest we could bring our kids together would be November. (He has state testing, I have laptop logistics to work out…)

In any case, I’m excited about this project, and looking forward to playing around with YouFig. It’s like GoogleDocs on steroids. All the collaboration is there, and then some. YouFig is available by invite only, so if you’d like an invitation, e-mail me.

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