I wanted to share a couple of eye-openers for educators.
iSchool Initiative
First, if you haven’t checked out the iSchool Initiative yet, visit 17-year-old Travis Allen’s website to explore more about his push to bring schools into the 21st Century with iTouch technology. Here’s a short introduction to his conceptual dream of schools of the future.
Also, visit Travis’s wiki, where you can contribute apps and ideas to his growing collection of educational resources for handheld technology.
Techy Tips for Non-Techy Teachers
Next, if you know any teachers who are reluctant to try technology or are just getting started, here is a useful collection of tools and activities in a presentation by Mark Carlson. Although it’s aimed at “newbies,” I easily spent the better part of an afternoon playing with these fun teaching ideas/sites, and bookmarked most of them:
After exploring the presentation, take a look at Mark’s collection of resources (”Ideas to Inspire”). It’s also worth a long visit.
Glogster Tutorial
Selena Ward, one of my friends on twitter, just posted a fantastic tutorial showing how to create online posters in glogster and graciously shared it with the “eduverse” community:
With these offerings, I think you can stay busy for quite a long while! Have fun exploring! (But don’t forget to return to Real Life before your family misses you!)
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Posted on July 18th, 2009 by Sharon Elin
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