We’ve all come to love and rely on Google, but I was alerted to a new site today, Clusty. This search engine takes your search query, and “clusters” the results into different search topics. For example, I did a search on “volcano”, and not only did it give me a list of websites for volcanoes,…
We have following classes coming up for WILD Wednesday: Using Blogs in your classroom – Nov. 9th This class will show you how to setup a blog for your classroom and allow your students to publish their work or comment on other published work. What you are looking at right now is a blog. A…
Some adults are intimidated by the the technological knowledge of today’s youth, but it appears that kids today are not as good with technology as they appear. The study found that, contrary to stereotype, teens as a group are not as adept as adults in navigating the Web. When dealing with students and technology, one…
In an article in USA Today, Online phys ed is taking hold in Minneapolis. (Jacob Miller) …was finding it hard to complete his physical education requirement while balancing studies, sports and a social life. Then Miller discovered that through a new online class he could fulfill his phys-ed credit after school by playing on the…
According to an article in The Seattle Times, teachers are beginning to use the iPod in an educational setting: …middle-schoolers podcast performances of student-composed musical works. From East Oakland, Calif., high-schoolers paint an audio portrait, in English and Spanish, of their troubled community: “It’s hard to see someone die in front of you.” Gunston Middle…