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| − | [[File:Sacredhearts.png|right|300px]][[File:Generic.jpg]] David -- I look forward to reading your conversation<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:45:20 | + | [[File:Sacredhearts.png|right|300px|Sacredhearts.png]][[File:Generic.jpg]] David -- I look forward to reading your conversation<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:45:20 |
[[File:Generic.jpg]] amy fears -- We are happy you are here.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:45:55 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] amy fears -- We are happy you are here.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:45:55 | ||
[[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- A great tool for the classroom in a 1-1 situation, what other backchanneling programs do we use on campus?<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:49:38 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- A great tool for the classroom in a 1-1 situation, what other backchanneling programs do we use on campus?<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:49:38 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Knitter Chat is currently a personal experiment. I am constantly hacking the code, trying new features, so it isn't very reliable. The one that I hear about the most from teachers is Today's Meet http://todaysmeet.com</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Kindergarten -- This is cool!<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:50:20 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Kindergarten -- This is cool!<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:50:20 | ||
[[File:Generic.jpg]] jill c -- can my avatar look like Christie Brinkley<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:50:50 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] jill c -- can my avatar look like Christie Brinkley<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:50:50 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Your avatar is limited only by your creativity.</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] bkoehler -- We still need to teach students how to read cursive.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:56:05 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] bkoehler -- We still need to teach students how to read cursive.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:56:05 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Really? I don't ask because I have any specific feelings about the subject. But I think we, in a time of rapid change, need to be willing to question what we believe, as professionals. Do students need to learn to write (or read) cursive. If so, why?</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Connie -- @Michael todaysmeet.com & Twitter<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:56:27 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Connie -- @Michael todaysmeet.com & Twitter<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 9:56:27 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">See! ;-)</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Anonymous -- An exabyte is as much storage on 10 billion 100 GB computers. That's about 5 times as many computers are connected to the internet right now<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:04:00 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Anonymous -- An exabyte is as much storage on 10 billion 100 GB computers. That's about 5 times as many computers are connected to the internet right now<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:04:00 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I never really thought about it that way. You see, I also and always learn from doing this.</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- @bkoehler Can students to teach me whatever it is they're writing that they call cursive? Or can I have them be completely digital already?<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:05:04 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- @bkoehler Can students to teach me whatever it is they're writing that they call cursive? Or can I have them be completely digital already?<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:05:04 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Again, it's a good question, for which I do not know the answer. I could foresee cursive being something like caligraphy, a special skill that some people choose to pursue. I think that a hand-written note is a wonderful thing. But does everyone need to know how to do it? Is that a basic skill?</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- @Connie Thank you. Didn't know Twitter did live updating on the page (although their own follows might be a distraction)<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:06:01 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- @Connie Thank you. Didn't know Twitter did live updating on the page (although their own follows might be a distraction)<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:06:01 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">That's where hashtags come in. You establish a hashtag for your class, and students can follow only the tweets that are hashtagged thus. I asked Jason if there had been a hashtag established for our event. I could have set up Knitter Chat to capture those tweets as well.</span><br/> | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">It'</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">s a great way to learn, following the hashtags for conferences that are taking place. Some of the best blog articles about specific conferences have been writte by people who didn't even attend the conference. They followed it on Twitter through the conference hashtag.</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] bkoehler -- Even if they can't write it they should be able to read it. Before long no one will be able to read any family archives or historical docum<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:09:02 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] bkoehler -- Even if they can't write it they should be able to read it. Before long no one will be able to read any family archives or historical docum<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:09:02 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">You make a great point, though history is full of texts that we can no longer read. But is it a basic skill for all students. Perhaps all of yours. I just don't have an answer for that one.</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Connie -- @Michael You're welcome. You can use a specific hashtag or the twitter fontana tool.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:09:10 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Connie -- @Michael You're welcome. You can use a specific hashtag or the twitter fontana tool.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:09:10 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">See ;-)</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- With the common core criticism about its "lack of creativity", I'm interested in a response to these topics @David<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:16:17 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- With the common core criticism about its "lack of creativity", I'm interested in a response to these topics @David<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:16:17 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The problem with any standards that are coming out of the government, they can't include content or skills that can't be tested. If they can figure out how to test creativity, then it will come. But my question is, "If you can measure creativity, doesn't it stop being creative?"</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- "Information is raw material" I think that sums up our current IB Technology issues, no? @tforde<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:17:20 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- "Information is raw material" I think that sums up our current IB Technology issues, no? @tforde<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:17:20 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">That's why I called my first book, "Raw Materials for the Mind." Information is a raw material, and rigor of curriculum should not be so much about how much children are learning, as what they can do with what they are learning.</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] daniel -- I wonder if the person with the "original" code cited where he/she got it<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:25:28 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] daniel -- I wonder if the person with the "original" code cited where he/she got it<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:25:28 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">In all likelyhood, they wrote it. They were the originators.</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- @daniel Kids can be quite clever.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:29:41 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- @daniel Kids can be quite clever.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:29:41 | ||
[[http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fbe1abdacc305155088e687f717e3572_normal.jpeg |left|Avatar]] Donna Moir -- where was the SHA teacher flashmob video<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:39:26 | [[http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fbe1abdacc305155088e687f717e3572_normal.jpeg |left|Avatar]] Donna Moir -- where was the SHA teacher flashmob video<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:39:26 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Ya'll had a flashmob. How cool is that?</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- I saw it on KnitterChat so it must be true ;)<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:39:45 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- I saw it on KnitterChat so it must be true ;)<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 10:39:45 | ||
[[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- Just for further discussion: MinecraftEDU [http://youtu.be/RI0BN5AWOe8 http://youtu.be/RI0BN5AWOe8]<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 11:18:00 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- Just for further discussion: MinecraftEDU [http://youtu.be/RI0BN5AWOe8 http://youtu.be/RI0BN5AWOe8]<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 11:18:00 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thanks so much for the link. Lot's of education technology conferences now offer workshop on Minecraft. The creation of MC was quite an interesting story as well.</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] AC -- Be sure to expand your PLN by following @dwarlick on Twitter.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 11:23:18 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] AC -- Be sure to expand your PLN by following @dwarlick on Twitter.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 11:23:18 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I think I'm blushing!</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- To all but esp. @SHP since I'm a parent, what could we do to help our parents' information literacy? #progressivevsmontessori? etc.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 12:22:33 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- To all but esp. @SHP since I'm a parent, what could we do to help our parents' information literacy? #progressivevsmontessori? etc.<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 12:22:33 | ||
Michael -- @Michael Please explain further??<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 12:44:00 | Michael -- @Michael Please explain further??<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 12:44:00 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">That is a great question. I've seen lots of approaches. I will often volunteer to do an evening session for partents when I'm working for several days for a district or school. I've also been involved in tech nights at schools where students have their own booths and demonstrate some of the games and other activities they engage in on line.</span> | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- @-- I had a bit of information overload when it came to progressive vs. montessori. What can we create (vs. link)? Q was also general to all<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 12:48:19 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Michael -- @-- I had a bit of information overload when it came to progressive vs. montessori. What can we create (vs. link)? Q was also general to all<br/>14 Feb 2014 - 12:48:19 | ||
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| + | :<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">That's one I'd meant to have explained to me. I'm intrigued...</span> | ||
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