http://www.tielights.net Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:13:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Terry Shay, Lead Fablevision Ambassador, wanted to share a 10 mg. yearbook with us, his ambassadors. It was too large to email, so he put it in a cool web tool called Dropbox. This tool allows you to have a dropbox on your desktop and access files there from anywhere...There ... http://www.tielights.net/?p=973 A fun way to take a quick trip through a lot of media to find out what's happening is to use Google's Fast Flip. It displays the front page of magazines, one at a time, and you can "flip" through them... YOu can go in deeper to the text of ... http://www.tielights.net/?p=971 Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle, and that, says author Nicholas Carr, is what you're doing every time you use the Internet. Interesting read about multitasking and cognitive styles. I made brownies while I listened to the story online. The brownies were delicious and ... http://www.tielights.net/?p=970 These middle school students are collaborating on a project about bullying. This is a great example of students doing a project with authentic purposes. The book/materials they are developing will be used with elementary students in their district. Bullying Project Last fall at the Systems Change Conference, Barbara Coloroso presented an in-depth ... http://www.tielights.net/?p=968 Much of our world is moving online and as our technologies grow and change, our practice must follow. Six years ago, under the Project Enrich grant, I developed online courses based on instructional strategies that would work for all students. Over the years, I have pushed some tools to the ... http://www.tielights.net/?p=962 I've followed the LEGO movement in education for many years and enjoyed learning about the new LEGO Education Renewable Energy Add-On Set which will enable NXT robots across the nation to be generating power using wind and solar energy.  Since there is an ongoing emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math(STEM), ... http://www.tielights.net/?p=958 Jeff Utecht’s session was one of my favorites at this year’s ISTE conference in Denver.  He started out reminding us of how different the world is for our students—today’s high school seniors, for example, were born in 1992.  They have always been connected, had access, had mobiles, etc.  Now is ... http://www.tielights.net/?p=956 My take-aways from ISTE are many!  I will just share a few here: Developing, Designing, and Delivering: The Case for Powerful and Productive Presentations – Ken Shelton and Robert Craven   I have seen so many bad PowerPoints that I truly understand the Death By PowerPoint video on Youtube.  I have used PowerPoint ... http://www.tielights.net/?p=949 At the ISTE conference this year I continually heard the theme, "Walk the walk; talk the talk".  If, as an administrator or leader, we are asking our teachers to use Google Docs, integrate technology into everyday life, but we are not modeling it in our everyday life, then it is unfair to expect our ... http://www.tielights.net/?p=947  The technology I’m most interested in right now has everything to do with my passion: music. I’m a songwriter and composer, and I just love how new tools can open up new possibilities for me, creatively. Technology tools can do the same for our students. They can discover things about ... http://www.tielights.net/?p=930