Blogs in Education

I have posted about blogs in education, but I just found an excellent site that has links to blogs about education and blogging as well as a list of blogs illustrating how blogging may be used in education.

Eszter's Weblog provides some questions to consider before a teacher jumps into blogging and I would add my own concern regarding the monitoring of comments on student authored blogs written as part of a class activity - the new privacy features with Blogger coupled to the options to moderate comments minimize this concern for teacher authored blogs.

My current class and school blogs are found at Room A207 and IB History in A207.

Gadwin's Free Print Screen Utility

Here is the link to a free print screen utility from Gadwin courtesy of Lifehacker, the productivity and software guide. I have only had it up and running for a couple of days, but it seems easy to use and it gives more selection options than the usual print screen key.

Center for Teaching History with Technology

This is a site that provides links to websites, software, and examples of using technology to teach history. I have only visited a few of the links, but what I have found looks good. In particular the British site has a nice web based revision software for making web diagrams or maps of content.

Physics and Chem Simulation Software - free

Here is a screenshot of the start page for the free sim software available from crocodile clips. The list of fully functional demo sims includes: waves, distance-time graphs, and exothermic and endothermic reactions, you may click the image for the full list. The website for crocodile clips provides a variety of modeling and simulation software for education. The full list of sims and packages available for purchase is extensive.

Google Earth, IB Notes, Catalysts and Connections, and Plagiarism from Wikipedia

Catalysts and Connections, a blog and website about music education, the subtitle is "Expanding Dialougue in Music Education. Looks interesting. An example of the posts is "online instrumental mentors".

The IB Notes site is a usefull collection of websites and resources for teachers and students in IB courses. In the new section the Savita Paul and Chem site has a lot of review material as well as topic notes for IB Chem students.

Many students are turning from Google to Wikipedia to research their reports. It is a peer written and peer edited on-line encyclopedia. Quck checks for plagerism for a particular report or essay might start here.

I searched one link for using Google Earth in the classroom and came up with so many links that I will have to make a Google Earth posting. Here is a selection of sites and resources:
-Google Earth educational resources and ideas at the Shambles.
-From Juicey Geography, putting Google Earth into your lessons quickly and easily.
-Google Earth Lessons from Google Earth Lessons, home page link. The image is from this site.

PowerPoint Jeopardy Templates

Use a PowerPoint template provided by M. Schimdt to create a PowerPoint Jeopardy game for your classes. The site will give you templates for single and double Jeopardy as well as instructions for the use of the template and instructions regarding how you can create your own PowerPoint templates.

Using Excel for Marks (and here's a tutorial)

Here is a sample excel file to help to keep track of Group IV IB Internal Assessment. Here is a Lifehacker link to an excel tutorial.