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While You Were Teaching…4OOPS EduTech News Feed May 12, 2008

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Tags: crunch base, http://4oops.com, Teague, Tech Crunch, Tech meme, Zoho
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While You Were Teaching…4OOPS EduTech News Feed

The kids need you and the web keeps marching on…not to worry, 4OOPS’ EduTech news Feed has these top stories of interest to educators:

From Tech meme, May 9: Google Confirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com 4OOPS’ Comment: The non-filtered Party is officially over

From Zoho Company Website, May 2, 2008: IBM, Microsoft & Google Eras of Computing 4OOPS’ Comment: Great synopsis, give this to students to summarize and pick out main idea.

From TechCrunch, May 9, 2008: Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday 4OOPS’ Comment: Move over MySpace. Teachers: watch that taskbar!

From Tech Meme, May 6: How Little Do Users Read? On the web http://www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-text-read.html 4OOPS’ Comment: I knew y’all were skimming

From Crunch Base, May 11: Top 100 blogs list

Squidoo for You? YES! February 7, 2008

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Tags: blogs, building webpages, http://4oops.com
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The The 5 W’s of Squidoo:

What is Squidoo? an interactive web-editor portal interface with lots of cool modules!

Where can you Squidoo? anywhere on any computer connected to the Internet

Who can Squidoo? You, me, another can become a “Squid.”

When can you Squidoo? Anytime and Anyplace because the Internet doesn’t close!

Why Squidoo? Because it reflects the interactivity and dynamic interplay with content that meets students cyberly where they like to learn best…and…it’s fun!

More on Why Squidoo???

Blogs are fun, but…

May be blocked by school filters

Squidoos are fun and…

Often not blocked
More interactive features
More options for cool add-ins

Check out these sample Squidoo’s:

Fall Leaves Squidoo (Example of a Virtual Field Trip): http://www.squidoo.com/leaves
Teaching Squidoo (Example of an Occupational Squidoo): http://www.squidoo.com/teacher
Reading (Example of a Course of Subject Squidoo): http://www.squidoo.com/reader
Summer Resources Squidoo (Example of an Extra-Curricular Squidoo): http://www.squidoo.com/summer
Mid-Summer Night’s Dream Squidoo (Example of a Unit Topic Squidoo): http://www.squidoo.com/msnd
Travel Squidoo (Example of a Hobby Squidoo): http://www.squidoo.com/helenteague

The Main Squidoo Page: http://www.squidoo.com/

What are some learning scenarios to consider? How can we use this in the classroom? With our students?

Here is the link to the powerpoint from our session. Great work, today!
http://www.oops.bizland.com/tceasquidoo.ppt

10 Tech Tricks You Are Already Doing: Part 1 February 4, 2008

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Tags: http://4oops.com, internet resources, Teague
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1. You invite students to demonstrate concept mastery through creating a Digital Deliverable such as a: digital product. Need new ideas for products? Click here: http://www.oops.bizland.com/oopsproductpage.htm

2. For computer classroom or lab management, you assign students to specific computers, you begin each lesson with a Warmup activity which gives you time to troubleshoot tech challenges, and you use Learning Centers when you do not have 1:1 connectivity. Need new ideas for Warm-ups? Click here: http://www.oops.bizland.com/100days.htm. Need more iformation on Learning Centers? Click here: http://www.oops.bizland.com/May07_LearningCenter.pdf and here: http://www.oops.bizland.com/centers.htm

3. For lessons, you are teaching students to use the Insert/Comment feature in Word for checking, revising, grading, peer editing. you are showing students how to hack down URL’s for 404 sites, and teaching students to save their original file and draft revisions with their initials and “draft 1” “draft 2” etc…

4. In case of internet outage you are saving internet content in offline form for easy retrieval and archiving.

5. You are applying authentic assessment through Rubrics. Need some nifty websites to create online rubrics? Try David Warlick’s Landmark Project: http://landmark-project.com/ and Teach-nology: http://www.teach-nology.com/

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