http://springingforward.edublogs.org putting technology to work in the classroom. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:10:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Above you will find a VoiceThread that I just created. I'll let the creators of VoiceThread explain what one is... "A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways ... http://springingforward.edublogs.org/2008/04/07/voicethread/ Download Video: Posted by marottam at TeacherTube.com. http://springingforward.edublogs.org/2008/04/04/digital-students-analog-schools/ igoogle doesn't just have to be a nicely organized homepage for your own personal information! Teachers are getting creative and using their igoogle page as a teaching tool. Choose gadgets that include information pertaining to one of the units you are exploring. For instance, Frith deKerillis, ... http://springingforward.edublogs.org/2008/04/02/igoogle-for-your-classroom/ There is no way you could have missed the glorious capabilities of google as a search engine. Heaven knows each of us use google as a common household word.  Fortunately for us, the head honchos at google didn't just stop once they reached the title of search engine master.  They ... http://springingforward.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/the-hidden-treasures-of-google/ With the excitement of the chicks hatching from their eggs, I failed to go into detail about how the viewing of the hatching chickens was made possible! And the answer is ustream.tv. Initially, we wanted the eggs to be visible for the entire class to see, so we ... http://springingforward.edublogs.org/2008/03/12/we-love-ustream/ We are currently streaming live video of Mrs. Lorenzini's chicken eggs using ustream.  Click here to view the eggs and keep track of their progress! http://springingforward.edublogs.org/2008/03/07/will-the-chickens-hatch/ You have to check this video out. Chicken eggs have invaded our 2nd grade classrooms and Jared from Mrs. Lorenzini's class is going to show us how to turn the eggs! And yes, this video was captured with the Elmo, a mic, and the smartboard recorder. Easy ... http://springingforward.edublogs.org/2008/03/06/the-eggs-are-here/ Learning lunches this week will take another look at the CPS, Classroom Performance System.  You will experience how to make a lesson, set up your class roster, and look at reports.  Come by during your lunch if you can! Enfield:  Thursday, March 6th  Tech Lab 11:15-1:15 Erdenheim:  Friday, March 7th Floss's office ... http://springingforward.edublogs.org/2008/03/03/the-clickers/ I wrote an email this week informing you all that Learning Lunch would be a little different. Since I am doing MAP testing I wasn't able to have an official learning lunch. I gave a very non-comprehensive list of some of the "tech things" that teachers in the ... http://springingforward.edublogs.org/2008/02/01/a-different-kind-of-learning-lunch/ What is it?? Blog: web log "Blogs provide commentary on news or a particular subject; others function as a more personal online diary." ~ Wikipedia Blogs contain: text, images, links to other blogs and webpages, other media sources Most important part of blogs: ability for readers to leave comments on a blog as ... http://springingforward.edublogs.org/2008/01/24/sites-for-our-blogging-lunch/