News @215

Hello and welcome to each of our room 215 families! This blog is a new project that I learned how to do this summer at USM. Boy-oh-boy is this new (to me)  technology an exciting thing, and the way of our world! My instructor said that people come in two technological categories: Natives and Immigrants. I am a [...]

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Deep Breath and Heavy Sigh! Elin and I have accomplished a great deal for newly arrived digital immigrants; In this week alone we have seen the new world from the deck of the ship, pulled along side the pier, and now we both feel that we have stepped foot in our new country. “See” sickness [...]

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Elin and I are two 4th grade teachers on a team of three, and have decided to work together on a wiki project that will connect all three of our classrooms in book responses and discussions,  alowing for more access to all of our books and to hear from more friends about favorite books.   The plan [...]

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Momma always said that anything that seems to good to be true probably is, however, in this case, really simple really does really simplify! In his article, The Technology of Reading and Writing in the Digital Space: Why RSS is crucial for a Blogging Classroom, (which can be found at)blogsforlearning.msu.edu/articles/view.php?id=6 I love the way David Parry explains [...]

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After three full days of inputting all this new information, technology, and “skills” – into my head-  I am honestly near tears; I have forgotten what I learned two days ago! Although I am very excited by so much technology and I know my students live in this world,  I am very frustrated by too much [...]

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Well to begin with, I discovered that keeping the  site name really simple really matters! My thought was to send my del.ic.ious account to our computer lab wonder -woman, and she could have that site up on the smart-board; then it would be a simple matter for me to direct my students to a particular [...]

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you must have the ability to take a picture, then remember all the steps: write, add media, file, browse, pictures, choose, upload, and then add. Finally to add text, you have to click into this post box, and then click the picture and the “tree” icon to align the text.

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What kind of books do you like to read, and explain why.

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