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Here's a great site for all of us that need a little help to familiarise ourselves with, and keep track of all the changes Web 2 has to offer.
Collaborative Writing with Google Docs9 Replies
Looking for a 3rd grade classroom to collaborate on a shared writing project using Google Docs & possibly Skype. The students could collaboratively write stories using Google Docs. If possible...
Started by Melissa in Help or Feedback Needed. Last reply by Jeff Stein 6 hours ago.
Are you interested in podcasting or using handhelds in your teaching?1 Reply
If so, please visit our Ning group called iPod Educators! It is designed for those interested in learning how to use these tools, as well as those with lots to share! We hope you will join us and a...
Started by Sue P in News or Noteworthy. Last reply by Bob Bednar 10 hours ago.
Teaching DNA4 Replies
I'm looking for a website available to students that can answer some of their questions about DNA. That will conceptualize DNA, and allow them to look through the material at their own pace. It can...
Tagged: biology
Started by Nick McCarty-Daniels in Help or Feedback Needed. Last reply by Greg from TeacherRated.com 11 hours ago.
Looking for 3rd grade class for Math collaboration project...17 Replies
Hello! I am a tech coordinator for a Minnesota public school. I've recently helped a couple of our 3rd grade math teachers begin a weekly "MathCast" episode, using voicethread.com. It's completely...
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Posted at 10:30PM Sep 22, 2008
by Jan Sutton |
Bedtime Text Danger (Sunday Mail 7/9/08 p24)
I read this article on Sunday and could relate to it
100% with my own children. I had just finished telling my family how
they had become irritable, tired and were on fast forward since we
had the wireless router put in. I don't think this applies to just
teenagers as I can relate to Dr Teng's symptoms myself!
Bedtime text danger
Sleep deprived teens are at risk of a lifetime of high blood pressure and chronic health problems due to the "technological invasion of the bedroom". Australian researchers have found.
Leading sleep expert Dr Arthur Teng said text messaging and emailing friends late at night had created a "sleep deprivation epidemic".
His research is supported by an independent study that found teenagers are staying uyp until midnight and beyond to SMS and chat online.
Rather than having bed time, teenagers now have "room time," which is a period of vital social interaction, Neer Korn, of Heartbeat Trends, said "We found that from 10pm to as late as midnight and 1am were the key hours for socialising with their friends". As a result, teenagers were constantly tired. Dr Teng, from the Sydney Children's Hospital, said teenagers needed between nine and ten hours' sleep but were lucky to get six hours. He said the implications were enormous, predisposing them to adult hpertension, heart disease, memory loss and concentration problems.
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Posted at 05:06PM Sep 07, 2008
by Jan Sutton |
David W
einberger has a new book out which further elaborates on the
benefits of Multimedia.
What is the Web for? And why do we care so much? Why has this simple technology sent a lightning bolt through our culture? It goes far beyond the Web's over-hyped economic impact: 500 million of us aren't there because we want a better "shopping experience." The Web, a world of pure connection, free of the arbitrary constraints of matter, distance and time, is showing us who we are - and is undoing some of our deepest misunderstandings about what it means to be human in the real world.
First reactions...
"This is a book to
savor. Not to speed
read. I am not a techie - but I
ardently believe the
Web will change
everything. David has made me laugh ...
and frown ... and pause
and think ... and scribble
furiously in the margins ... and call
friends a continent away for long
conversations. That's exactly the right
mood for exploring the
consequences of the most
profound medium of social and political
and economic change in hundreds
of years."
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Posted at 08:53PM Sep 05, 2008
by Jan Sutton |
Digital Native or Digital Immigrant
There is a lot to discover and time is short, interactive lectures, downloading web pages, blue toothing information on to interactive white boards, it's totally mind blowing to me. The imagination is boggled, the possibilities endless... More soon!
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Posted at 07:28PM Aug 29, 2008
by Jan Sutton |
Jan Sutton
- Location
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- School Education
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Digital Storytelling, Holistic Education, Learning Difficulties, Multimedia
