ttyl, y? bcuz pos

The young live, eat, and breathe this language by cell, IM, and email 24/7. It is their native language – we will not break them of it – we must accept that. Obviously not all conventions or presentation problems found in classroom writing are texting-based, but txt does creep in.

SupportBlogging

From the SupportBlogging Wiki educational website:

Uses for Blogging in Education

Teacher Communication
Teachers will often start a blog for providing communication to students, parents, or other teachers. Sometimes this is just the posting of homework or other assignments in one easy-to-find location. Other times this can be a richer description of the things taking place in the [...]

The Icebreaker

What’s your guilty pleasure TV show? You’re first pet? Where was your last vacation? Favorite song in high school?  Of the following two sentences, pick which one is true about me: A) My hair is blonde B) I believe in the power of Ice Breakers for online teaching.
Nothing builds a community faster than allowing a [...]

Top 10 Most Popular Learning Tools of 2007

In July and August ‘07, the Centre forLearning and Performance Technologies polled “learning professionals”, bloggers, and others, asking these contributors to rank what their top learning tools were out of a list of 400 possible choices.  The list ranged from the purchased and high tech software like Outlook to the old school paper and cardboard [...]

Google goes gaga for educators

I will write more on this later, but Google launched two new sites today specifically aimed at networking teachers and teaching across the web.
 Check them out and track back!
First up, Google Literacy

Followed by Google for Educators
Enjoy!

Tags: Teaching, Education, Online, eLearning, Google, Web2.0, Digital Literacy

Getting Out “There” – Tip #3

If you’re going to teach online, you have to know the tools of the trade…or at least know of them.  Here’s 10 tech tools for online teachers you might want to check out (in no particular order…).  These are just examples – there are other various “brands” of some of these:

wikis – some sites are [...]