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POPSQualitative Research: Using Technology in Class This is a wonderful example of what I like to see, a reprise of a qualitative study into the uses of technology in the regular progression of improving students' use of technology while teaching class at the college level. Any teacher could use Ed Webb's protocol and replicate this research in their class. A teacher could even expand on this research by giving a formal pre-post test of technology skills and an interest inventory. Using Google Forms, a teacher could easily present the tests and survey (inventory).
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POPSAnother Balkanized Technology Rip-Off
What new technology do you have that isn't already obsolete as soon as you buy it? I can think of only one that I've purchased in the past thirty years. I did actually buy a computer that didn't become obsolete within three years. I can understand it if technology is truly growing and developing, and new, greatly enhanced products are being produced. That doesn't happen very often. From vinyl formats to programs to online image formats to music formats, the balkanized world of technology has introduced its most recent addition: E-BOOK READERS. The concept of importance here is that the e-book reader world is balkanized, separated....segregated, for no good reason. One might surmise that it is greedy desire for exuberant overspending by the consumer. Is this what drives the separation and format variations among the electronic publishers and e-book reader manufacturers? Each e-book reader accepts a few electronic publication formats. NO e-BOOK READER accepts all formats of ele
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POPSSnap.com Preview Pioneers Rocketry Planet gets it. The whole purpose of preview software or web applicants is to help readers move around your blog or website more effectively. Snap.com preview web application does that. It's not just seeing the website before you click on the link, even though that is a very powerful tool. Snap.com can also help save time by just opening a tiny preview screen that is still readable, saving memory usage as well.
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POPSFind the Family Footprint! Try this out and find what your family's carbon footprint really is. There are a variety of surveys that can be used to assess your family's carbon footprint. This is a very helpful one from the Environmental Protection Agency.
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POPSTeachers Can't Coast All through our lives, we are at various stages of interest and commitment to our work and personal lives. When you teach, you must be on target, and there is no room for coasting. This is this issue discused here in our PLN. I like the idea that Sharon Elin shared that possibly the "coasting" teacher may need some assistance to get back on track. Sometimes, personal or family illness can put a strain on a teacher's ability to respond in a robust manner to their students. As I always say, let's check out the antecedents, before we throw the baby out with the bath water. If assistance doesn't help, the "gold-bricking" teachers may need to work somewhere else where they may have better results with this behavior.
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POPSNetbook Turns to Touch Tablet This is what the netbooks were meant to be, accessible to students! With the upgraded Classmate PC by Intel, you can use a touch, a stylus or the keyboard. You only have to rotate the screen and fold it over the keyboard. You can find more information about this new netbook touch-screen tablet at ClassmatePC.
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POPSNRICH Your Student's Math Interactions I have used and shared this website for several years now. Students and teachers can access a variety of math problems and activities that can enrich student's learning. There are also interactive aspects for their access to this website. Students can set a particular background to show up when they work at the NRICH website. Try this website and sign up for their monthly newsletter.
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POPSLooking for Pearls A discussion of what we are missing in our conversations that could encourage a fuller understanding and acceptance of technology in education. Positve and negative comments have bits of truth that are there for us to mine to develop into pearls of wisdom.
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POPSMaking Technology Relevant for Education Using technology in our classes, just because it's out there, just for its own sake is a recipe for disaster. Technology in education is not the one new thing in town, it is the way we expand our teaching and learning. If we don't use it with an eye to relavance and rigor, the use of technology is pointless... This is why I chose this blog post to begin our group clog, the ABCs of PLN Power. Good teachers know how to teach, and good technology should enhance that good teaching through opportunities to expand student learning.
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POPSLighten the Load Lighten the load and save money when you use this inexpensive electronic gadget to test your various electric appliances and other devices. I've seen this gadget being demonstrated, and it is eay to use. This could really help schools or businesses save money also.
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POPSToxic Beauties Young children, pets or any people who will not listen should be prevented from eating Surprise Lilies. This common sense measure will keep them safe from plant toxins. Some symptoms include abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
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POPSThe Legacy When I moved to my own home, my grandmother and I dug up some bulbs of one of the most amazing plants I have ever seen, the Surprise Lily. I shared them with my sisters and planted them in my yard. I will be moving soon and so will they. Plants, recipes and other traditions can provide an enduring legacy to the giver upon all who were touched by their lives. My grandmother is no longer with us, but her legacy remains. Using Amplify for such a project to begin or end Grandparents' Day would be a great way to encourage students to share their histories and legacies.
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POPSPlumped Poster Presentation Glogster is a very popular web application among teachers and students. You can use Glogster as a static poster or background. For instance, I have seen glogsters used as backgrounds for wikispace pages. I believe its most important use is as a front page portal to an entire presentation.
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POPSBlood from a Turnip The city of Milwaukee obviously needs money. If this foreclosure goes through, they can begin to foreclose on may other properties in the same situation. What a way to increase city revenues.
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POPSSqueezing Salmonella to Death This is an excellent use of a previously used technology. By pressurizing fresh food, especially those with few air pockets, bacteria inside the food is squeezed to death This technique is also use for raw oysters and other meat.
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POPSThe Snake's Tail VERY interesting, yet easily readable research abstract that explains the research behind determining what causes the development of various vetebrae across species
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POPSBe a Book Wizard! Embed this widget in your website or blog and anyone can use it to find children's literature by author, keyword or title. Scholastic has used Google gadgets to create an excellent teacher resource, a children's literature search engine. You can find your favorite book or search for titles to help you develop an instructional unit. While most titles are published by Scholastic, they do include other book titles from other publishers. When readers at your blog, wiki, or website use the Teacher Book Wizard Widget, they will be taken away from your site to the Scholastic site. I would like to see this widget open in another tab or window. While this is an inconvenience, it is not a major hindrance.
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POPSHelp Is One Tweet Away! This is the most serious use of Twitter that I have ever seen, but there are lifesaving tweets all over the network.
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POPSWhat a Difference a Day Makes! It seems that NASA and the European Space Administration did NOT say these new predictions by student are correct. It seems that NASA has already accounted for the orbits of the satellites in their collision calculations, so the 1:45,000 probability stands.
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POPSA Spoonful of Sugar Very interesting research that could affect children's and adult's eating habits if they knew about these data.
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POPSVideo Ghosties Mhmm! Sounds like an idea for a new Ghost Hunters International episode;D sent by a Twitter colleague
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POPSMac or PC: Can't Decide People are still talking about this; Let's all get along; go opensource w/Linux and use web applications like IBM's new Symphony of office applications. What do you think?
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POPSBreathtaking View: Up Close and Personal On Tuesday, December 11, 2007, the three copies of the Magna Carta will be on display in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. If you live close or can travel this will be the trip of a lifetime. Most times, these documents cannot be seen by the public.
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POPSCharter of the Forest: A Sister The Charter of the Forest was negotiated at the same time as the Magna Carta, and further spelled out some rights that belonged even to the common man; for instance, a king did not have the right to kill someone just because they hunted in the King's Forest.
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POPSDr. Web Weblog Design Mashup excellent ideas; this blog is in German, but most of the websites in the mashup are in English; there may be an English version of Dr. Web, IDK
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POPSTED: 3 Stories and An Argument I was interested in this video, because I recently accepted terms and requirements for a copyright on software that gave the companies rights all throughout the UNIVERSE.
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