Notes on a workshop “Teaching “spatially” with Google Earth to Investigate Land Use Issues during NECC09. Teacher resource page located at http://www.ei.lehigh.edu/nes/luc/ We have opened many .kml files on the above link and discussed observation and the concept of sprawl. Observing the different colors and discussing the trees, heat, freeway patterns, parking lots, etc. Lessons [...]
Bernie Dodge and Place Puzzles: A Design for Learning Outdoors Criteria: Low/no cost Easy Quick Critical Attibutes Resources must be studied ahead of time Map of related place Clues on map that realte the map to the resources and require both recall and ideation Optional Attibures Scores kept based on speed and accuracy Roles to [...]
My find for the day is…. the livescribe pen. Okay. It is early and I may find something more exciting, but even though I was less than thrilled to get up at 5:45 AM, then to sit and wait 20 minutes for the shuttle, then to walk 4 blocks to a breakfast demo of livescribe, [...]
Attending a session on using audio in the classroom. This is a Bring Your Own Laptop series and we are learning about using Voki to create talking avatars and VoiceThread for uploading images to invite others to comment on it. The workshop leader’s notes are located on her website. AC_Voki_Embed(100,133,”94b680b9bd67d69632f9315dd0a56696″,1551976, 1, “”, 0);Get a Voki [...]
Workshop notes at NECC09, Sunday, June 28, 2009 Workshop Links at http://sites.google.com/site/cuegli/events/2009-06-28 The handout for the day: http://www.cue.org/gwe Difference between Google Apps and Google accounts. Some districts can turn off feature in Google Apps that will render those apps useless. If you create a Google account with your own work email and then someone creates [...]
Here in DC at one of the first NECC09 events… Edu BloggerCon’s meet and greet and about to start the main event. Expecting to meet many education bloggers I have read and learn more about how to use blogging in education. Stay tuned. Follow me on twitter! K20.