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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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=70 Thanks to Jeff for this link!
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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.
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 ...
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!
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.
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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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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=67 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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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=66 How much do I love those Common Craft people!?
Check out Social Networking in Plain English, with subtitles.
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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=65 Another fine tutorial from the folks at Common Craft, who earlier brought you RSS in Plain English:
Here’s a link to see the same video, with subtitles!
Wikis in even Plainer English
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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=64 I’ve recently jumped on the Facebook bandwagon (pre-Platform!), thanks to an invite from a friend. Steve Hargadon, creator of the Classroom 2.0 ning has created a group on Facebook for devotees of the Read/Write Web, aka Web 2.0. If you have a Facebook membership, you can join the group here.
See you there!
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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=63 Ben at Discourse about Discourse is lamenting aversion to change in his latest post and mentions Academy of Discovery, which I’ve never heard of. I’m glad I clicked on the link…it looks like a great initiative get involved with and follow.
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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=59 Good news! The NYCWP Summer Tech Invitational is now open for registration.
Ken Stein and I will be leading a three week seminar that will look at Web 2.0 tools in the context of Writing Project practices. The seminar runs from July 9th to July 26th, Monday through Thursday (Can I get an AMEN for Summer Fridays?!). This year, the seminar will be held at Info Tech High School in Long Island City, Queens. Participants will receive three CUNY graduate credits, or can opt for a stipend, which are limited in number. (Personally, I would go for the credits as they are much more valuable than the stipend.)
Download the application here. Feel free to run off copies and distribute to whomever is interested. Remember, seminars are more fun when you bring along your fellow teacher-friends!
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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=57 Let me take a break from folding the laundry that’s been sitting around for two days (I’m a shabby housewife, I am) and tell you about the first day (or evening, rather) of the NYCWP Tech Retreat.
I really should be posting this over at Inquiry but I digress. We’re a relatively small group, with a range of teaching experience and comfort levels with technology. We got things off to a slow start as we waited for group members to arrive. In the meantime, everyone got settled in, registering for Trailfire and signing up on the MyNYCWP site. When most of the group had arrived, we relocated to a regular classroom for introductions. We asked members to share their current technology situation, as far their respective schools go and what they were each interested in exploring. Then, it was back to the lab to write Classroom Stories, a category on the MyNYCWP discussion board. We asked members to recall a time when they taught writing well, in their classroom.
Think of a day when you were really teaching writing well. What were the students doing? What were you doing?
After publishing their Classroom Stories to the site, we broke for a delicious dinner of middle eastern food (falafel, pita, salad, hummus, baba ganouj–all around good stuff!).
After dinner, it was back to the lab for more writing, working on profiles and posting reflections to the MyNYCWP Google Groups discussion page.
All in all, I think we got the retreat off to a good start.
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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=54 I’ve joined up at Classroom 2.0, a Ning social networking site for teachers interested in the classroom applications of Web 2.0. All the usual suspects are signed up and the forums are pretty active. Take a look.
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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=50 My seniors are reading Othello, and are unfamiliar with the historical and geographical context of the play. Using Shakespeare Set Free, I came up with a list of 7 topics related to the context of the play. I made a hand-out that listed the topic, a space to fill in the source of information and a space for recording the information found about that topic. I split the class up into seven small groups and gave each group a laptop. I recommended they use wikipedia.org and a google search, which they did. Most of the kids did their work but I had to take a laptop from one student who was showing off a photograph of a scantily clad woman. No questions, no discussion, no second chances…I just went over to his desk and took the laptop back. This was after I specifically told them their first priority was the work and not MySpace or any other site. Grr… this kind of behavior makes me not want to use the laptops at all. What is really frustrating is that the Department of Education tightened the Symantec security criteria over the February break so that students looking for information on Wikipedia couldn’t find everything they needed, even though the information was legit and appropriate but yet, that other student had no problem opening pages with inappropriate sexual content. Where’s the justice!? I’m going to start letting the kids use the proxy bypass site, because the DOE has no idea what they are doing.
I’m hoping to get back into blogging soon. We have a UFT teachers’ center in our school now and Norm, the center staff, introduced me to the SmartBoard. I’ve admired them from afar for awhile now but never actually to play with one. I’ll be using the SmartBoard to give a whole class introduction to blogging, which I wasn’t able to do before with the individual laptops and the distractions that come with it.
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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=49 My seniors are reading Othello, and are unfamiliar with the historical and geographical context of the play. Using Shakespeare Set Free, I came up with a list of 7 topics related to the context of the play. I made a hand-out that listed the topic, a space to fill in the source of information and a space for recording the information found about that topic. I split the class up into seven small groups and gave each group a laptop. I recommended they use wikipedia.org and a google search, which they did. Most of the kids did their work but I had to take a laptop from one student who was showing off a photograph of a scantily clad woman. No questions, no discussion, no second chances…I just went over to his desk and took the laptop back. This was after I specifically told them their first priority was the work and not MySpace or any other site. Grr… this kind of behavior makes me not want to use the laptops at all. What is really frustrating is that the Department of Education tightened the Symantec security criteria over the February break so that students looking for information on Wikipedia couldn’t find everything they needed, even though the information was legit and appropriate but yet, that other student had no problem opening pages with inappropriate sexual content. Where’s the justice!? I’m going to start letting the kids use the proxy bypass site, because the DOE has no idea what they are doing.
I’m hoping to get back into blogging soon. We have a UFT teachers’ center in our school now and Norm, the center staff, introduced me to the SmartBoard. I’ve admired them from afar for awhile now but never actually to play with one. I’ll be using the SmartBoard to give a whole class introduction to blogging, which I wasn’t able to do before with the individual laptops and the distractions that come with it.
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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=48 We’ve launched a new NYCWP site, one that we hope will be interactive and dynamic. Take a look, register and submit a News Item about the Writing Project or Web 2.0 work you’re doing in your classroom!
NYCWP
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http://nycwp.net/nancybrodsky/?p=52 My seniors are reading Othello, and are unfamiliar with the historical and geographical context of the play. Using Shakespeare Set Free, I came up with a list of 7 topics related to the context of the play. I made a hand-out that listed the topic, a space to fill in the source of information and a space for recording the information found about that topic. I split the class up into seven small groups and gave each group a laptop. I recommended they use wikipedia.org and a google search, which they did. Most of the kids did their work but I had to take a laptop from one student who was showing off a photograph of a scantily clad woman. No questions, no discussion, no second chances…I just went over to his desk and took the laptop back. This was after I specifically told them their first priority was the work and not MySpace or any other site. Grr… this kind of behavior makes me not want to use the laptops at all. What is really frustrating is that the Department of Education tightened the Symantec security criteria over the February break so that students looking for information on Wikipedia couldn’t find everything they needed, even though the information was legit and appropriate but yet, that other student had no problem opening pages with inappropriate sexual content. Where’s the justice!? I’m going to start letting the kids use the proxy bypass site, because the DOE has no idea what they are doing.
I’m hoping to get back into blogging soon. We have a UFT teachers’ center in our school now and Norm, the center staff, introduced me to the SmartBoard. I’ve admired them from afar for awhile now but never actually to play with one. I’ll be using the SmartBoard to give a whole class introduction to blogging, which I wasn’t able to do before with the individual laptops and the distractions that come with it.
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