Earth Hour

Join the movement
March 29, 2008
Turn out the lights for one hour in your time zone 8PM - 9PM

Preserve Our Planet video

Updated information - The website for the "Preserve Our Planet" film and PSA has been changed.

The National Geographic Channel website will begin broadcasting the winning “Preserve Our Planet” College Film and PSA entries on April 15th.

http://www.preserveourplanet.com

Earth Day is April 22nd.

We can all make a difference.

Technology Integration - Web 2 Tools - Asking Why?

Insightful article by Ryan Bretag in 21st Century Connections.

Explains why educators and facilitators need to focus on the "why" when planning a class project using web 2 tools, instead of only on the "what" or "how" .

Northern Illinois Computing Educators (NICE)

Learning and Teaching Through Animation

Animation Tools: Flash and Scratch

Learn on how to effectively use these programs in your classroom and view student projects.

Date: March 19

Time: 4:30 PM

Location: New Trier High School

Read the newsletter for more information.

http://chapters.iceberg.org/nice/pdfs/march08.pdf

News from IL-TCE 2008

Personal Learning Networks, Social Networks, Blogs, Podcasts, web based documents and more.

Visit the Conference blog at http://myiltce.ning.com/

Here are some of the new Web 2 sites that I learned about today that you can use professionally in the classroom:

Time Space Map
bubbl.us
Pageflakes
Buzzword
Splashup
ToonDoo
FreeRice

Mitch Resnick from MIT Media Laboratory was the keynote speaker.He discussed the creative learning cycle and showed two of the tools that were developed by MIT to foster student creativity and problem solving

• Scratch
  
• Picocricket

Thoughts on Social Bookmarking

My del.icio.us account currently has 264 tagged bookmarks plus 13 people in my network. I can click on any network member's name and easily view his/hers bookmarks.

Today, I searched my del.icio.us account for bookmarks that were marked with the "social" tag. This reduced the number of sites to a manageable 15. Then I searched all of del.icio.us using the "social" tag and found 382,074 bookmarks!

Applying tags to your del.icio.us bookmarks creates order out of chaos. Additionally, you can create bundles from a group of tags. (However, at the other extreme there is over tagging - an issue that I am dealing with as I review my existing bookmarks.)

Since I am on the subject of organizing, why not post your favorite book titles to the web? Find other people with similar reading tastes.
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

Blogs on Social Bookmarking and Photo Sharing

Learn about blogs from this clever video posted on Youtube.
Blogs in Plain English

Blogs on Social Bookmarking and Photo Sharing
The Social Bookmarking Faceoff - ReadWriteWeb

The Web Photo Sharing Site Faceoff - ReadWriteWeb

Saw this information on the E^2 Educating Educators blog.
Flickr: Photos from The Library of Congress These photos have no known copyright restrictions.
Think of the educational possibilities.

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