Young People Music & the Internet

Just found this useful website via Ewan McIntosh's blog.
Childnet International has launched a worldwide campaign to inform teachers and parents how to explain the complex legal and ethical issues surrounding online music.

Checkout Young People Music & the Internet

:) Diana

World Environment Day: June 5, 2008

How will you and your students celebrate World Environment Day?
Students at New Zealand's Motatahi Area School invite overseas schools and students to be part of "their" day, by asking them to share their own 30 word "sustainability pledge" on their site.

• Motatahi Area School in the North Island Website.
  
• World Environment Day website: 80 ways you can participate.
• More information....

Let me know if any of you are planning on celebrating World Environment Day! I'm available to help you with uploading your pledge to Motatahi's site.

:) Diana

Fifth Graders are Movie Makers!

Paden's fifth graders have been using PhotoStory 3 to create short videos.

Enjoy,
:) Diana

How Do We Prepare our Children for the Future and at the Same Time Think About the Past?

I just listened to a conversation between Yong Zhao, Professor at Michigan State University, and Julie Duffield of Infinite Thinking Machine at the NCTI Conference website. Yong speaks to the importance of innovation, how technology is defining new talents, and why we all should embrace change.





Yong believes that we need to teach our students:

• ability to design
• to tell stories
• to feel empathetic
• organize to lead
• how to create avatars
  
• navigate Second Life or other virtual worlds
• to put multimedia together
  

Yong expresses the importance that educators understand the "critical" point in education that we are in. ...Give it a listen

:) Diana

Thanks to Lucy Gray's mention of this video on Twitter this a.m. ! :)

"I Just Got a Document Camera...Now What?"

Are Document Camera's the Next Big Thing?

"...document cameras are a good candidate for the next universal presentation technology adoption. ... “the document camera is the single most important piece of technology for all teachers, especially for math teachers who are seeking to understand their students’ thinking about the mathematics they are learning.

Susan Brooks-Young, "Are Document Cameras the Next Big Thing?," T.H.E. Journal, 6/1/2007, http://www.thejournal.com/articles/20746

Okay, you just received this cool new document camera and your not sure what do next; let alone get rid of your trusty overhead projector....Well, I've collected thoughts and ideas from our colleagues all over the country in the use of your new document camera.

• Check out the Kennewick Unified School District' 101 uses for a document camera.

:) Diana

Google Docs in "Plain English"

The folks over at Common Craft have done a terrific job at creating yet another easy to understand video! Check it out! :)Diana

100 Days of School