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ccapozzoli
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If you like toondoo you will love kerpoof, check it out. Create stories and animated movies. Have you seen the time line generators. www.vygo.com and xtimeline.com These are awesome!!! Viygo - you can add to a global timeline or create your own. Both are Free!!
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catysuzgirl2000
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Deven said: ccapozzoli said: that is so great to hear that your teachers use google docs. let me ask you, as a hs student, do you thing google docs could cause more cheating if we introduce it?
I hate to sound like a professor teaching freshman semantics (been there, done that) but the answer to your question depends on how you define cheating. If a teacher encourages collaboration and sets up the tools so that the students can collaborate, collaboration cannot be called cheating.
The world was once a very simple place where it was possible for a single individual to know almost everything that was available to be known. In a complex society such as ours, that is no longer possible. Now it is difficult for an expert to know everything about his or her own field of work or study. Knowledge, and by extension, wisdom, becomes a collective endeavor, much as it is in this society we call The Apple. By drawing on the learning, experience and intelligence of all the people here The Apple contains more information and wisdom than any one of its members. Am I cheating when we use this information in my daily teaching, something that I have to pass tests to be able to do?
-to me cheating is only when you plagiarise or when you copy answers during an exam.
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editor
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One of our featured writers has contributed a great article about a Wiki Lesson gone wrong. It's a must read if you haven't done a lesson with Wiki but are thinking about it!
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Teachnologist
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Deven says ...
ccapozzoli said:
that is so great to hear that your teachers use google docs. let me ask you, as a hs student, do you thing google docs could cause more cheating if we introduce it?
I hate to sound like a professor teaching freshman semantics (been there, done that) but the answer to your question depends on how you define cheating. If a teacher encourages collaboration and sets up the tools so that the students can collaborate, collaboration cannot be called cheating. The world was once a very simple place where it was possible for a single individual to know almost everything that was available to be known. In a complex society such as ours, that is no longer possible. Now it is difficult for an expert to know everything about his or her own field of work or study. Knowledge, and by extension, wisdom, becomes a collective endeavor, much as it is in this society we call The Apple. By drawing on the learning, experience and intelligence of all the people here The Apple contains more information and wisdom than any one of its members. Am I cheating when we use this information in my daily teaching, something that I have to pass tests to be able to do?
I concur. That was nicely put. Could not have said it better myself.
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Teachnologist
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Here are a few I like:
http://worldtv.com/ Create your own tv channel. FREE! Allow your students to re-enact something in history, play something they have composed or pretend to be congress persons and speak on a bill they want passed. Record it and upload it to worldtv and they canshare it with their parents and grandparents. If you are worried about posting them on the internet, here are a few points
- Get a talent release form signed specifically for that project
- Leave it up only a short time
- Do not use any identifiable information (i.e., name of school, students' names, name of location, tec.)
- Remind the parents before you upload it. You can also put a password on the site to share with the parents.
http://www.atutor.ca/index.php An Online Content Management System - Put your entire class here or just special projects for FREE. Really easy to use and can be private. Give it a try. Students can access your lessons, collaborative projects, posted articles, and other parts of your assignments and activities from any computer. This is great if you all have those snow days out of school and need to keep the lesson going.
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Teachnologist
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Love these teacher resources on the Web
- http://teachnology.com/ - FREE access to online teacher resources, printables, customizable rubrics, lesson plans, games, quiz makers, puzzle makers,etc. This is one of the best. FIVE STARS!
- http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/ FREE A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more
- http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/teach.jsp FREE Lesson plans, printables, strategies, etc.
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