Get ready – the Wilderness Classroom team is starting stage 2 of their Amazon trek on April 1st. (Not a joke.) You can chat with them at 10am CST. (link)
If you aren’t familiar with the Wilderness Classroom, you should take a look. These are biologists and educators that are trekking through the Amazon and interacting with YOUR classroom(s) on a daily basis with chats, daily dilemmas, videos, and podcasts.
‘Nuff said here, check it out – and it’s FREE!
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New episode of Twenty Minutes for Tech is posted: Using Google Docs in education.
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My buddy Lee forwarded me this article I must have missed – it’s from eSchool News and talks about how blogs can be used to communicate with the district community. Here’s a taste:
As school district leaders look to improve stakeholder relations across their districts, some superintendents are experimenting with a tool more commonly associated with tech-savvy students and teachers than administrators: the blog.
Speaking at the American Association of School Administrators’ annual conference in New Orleans earlier this month, Superintendents Clayton Wilcox of the Pinellas County Public Schools in Florida and Mark Stock of the Wawasee Community School Corp. in Indiana explained how they are leveraging blogs in their own communities to communicate with parents, foster support for important programs, and keep parents and students apprised of issues affecting their schools.
I’m happy to say that our Superintendent has his own podcast and we are currently examining using blogs for the same types of communications.
Bravo Dr. Huesken!
Seems some folks in London cannot text and walk at the same time, so they’ve put pads around the lampposts. There’s even a video on Youtube showing them crashing into posts – though it looks a bit contrived for the report.
