Just had an idea for a way schools could begin to utilize student cellphones in a productive way. What if, rather than simply treating them as if they were an instrument of evil, determined to destroy the classroom, schools collected student numbers, then used text-messaging to alert students of important events, reminders, even snow days? [...]
Why should you be using Twitter? Here are a few of the resources, stories, lessons, etc. that I picked up off my Tweets so far this morning:
Distance Learning with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Thanks to Room214)
How to Create a Hackintosh out of a PC (Thanks to Courosa)
A thought-provoking essay on national schools [...]
The Library of Congress has added a collection of its photos to picture-hosting site Flickr. The collection currently includes over 3,000 images, categorized as “1930s-1940s in Color” and “News in the 1910s“. Visitors are encouraged to tag images or leave comments that will help categorize the pictures. According to ReadWriteWeb, the permanence of the collection [...]
Warning: my four-year old boy thinks this kind of stuff is hilarious (potty humor). Enjoy!
Download Video: Posted by mrshinshaw at TeacherTube.com.
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PBS show Frontline will be airing a show about the generation of children currently growing up in an online world. The program, Growing Up Online, appears to be the same shock-value stuff that has been terrorizing parents for years now, at least from the trailer (watch below). Hopefully, this is just an attempt to lure [...]
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