Archive for February, 2008

Growing Up Online

Posted on February 29, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized |

by Tim Cushman
Watch the PBS Frontline Special Growing Up Online: Just How Radically is the Internet Transforming the Experience of Childhood?
Ask any teacher with more than fifteen years of teaching experience about the current generation and he or she will typically respond with a single word – different. Different, because the traditional [...]

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Follow-up on Interactive Whiteboards

Posted on February 22, 2008. Filed under: Interactive Whiteboards |

Follow-up on Interactive Whiteboards
by Tim Van Heule
There have been some great comments regarding an earlier post on interactive whiteboards in the classroom – specifically Promethean Activboards and SMART Boards. I must apologize to the Hitachi Starboard community for not including them in the original post, but as I have no real personal experience with the [...]

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TeacherTube and Slideshare

Posted on February 16, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

by Tim Cushman
“What do you think about YouTube?” The question came from a ten-year-old at the end of a recent workshop on Internet Safety for three hundred 4th and 5th grade students. The question was posed in earnest but not in innocence. For this young person, like many “digital natives,” YouTube is [...]

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Free Training Opportunities

Posted on February 13, 2008. Filed under: Teachers |

Free Training Opportunities
by Tim Van Heule
Everyone loves trainings… especially FREE trainings.
South Carolina educators are fortunate to have the opportunities to attend SC ETV Technology Workshops multiple times throughout the year, another such opportunity is fast approaching – April 22-24.
The great thing about these workshops is that they bring together passionate educators from around the state [...]

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