Posted in geography, virtualfieldtrip on Feb 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Undoubtedly, world geography and foreign language teacher would jump at the chance to pack up their classes and take them trekking around the globe. But, even in the best of budgetary times, traveling away from the classroom is not an opportunity that happens often enough. For teachers who wish to immerse their classes is the [...]
Posted in GoogleEarth, geography, literacy on Feb 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Each year our 6th graders study the geography and countries of the Western hemisphere. In March they host an International Festival as a culmination of the studies. As part of their poster presentation are a series of graphs showing a comparison of growth indicators between their country and the United States. To help with [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, education, mashup, publishing on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Thanks to Amy Mayer, a guest blogger for Free Technology for Teachers, for recommending Glogster, an online poster creation tool. Not only did I register for an account for me, I could request up to 200 student logins. In my humble opinion this feature alone make Glogster one of the most brilliant of all Web [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, education, writing on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Back in July I Silvia Tolisano’s blog Langwiches led me to Mixbook. After reading the FAQs I signed up for an account, gave the site a brief workout, tagged it in my Delicious account, and didn’t revisit the tool until today. It’s not that I didn’t agree with Silvia’s recommendation and review of the site [...]
