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Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:01:56 thoughts

carolyn (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:02:02 therefore i am

Carly (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:02:14 I'd rather be at the beach

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 08:02:26 toes in the sand

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:02:37 Howdy, how about this technology! > //Knitter is an experiment of mine, just to explore the potentials of back channeling (phrase coined by David Jakes). There are now a number of similar tools out there, including EdModo (http://www.edmodo.com/), Back Noise (http://backnoise.com/), and Back Chan (http://backchan.nl/).//

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:02:42 great communication tool

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:02:44 boo

Susan Adams (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:02:52 It would be warmer at the beach!

Lowell (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:02:55 wow

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:02:58 i'd rather be right here. i moved here from the beach. i hate the beach

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:01 I'm on summer vacation therefore I don't.

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:02 lol

Scott (Nc) • 2009-06-17 08:03:04 Why can't we just talk to each other?

Julie (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:11 haha

Susan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:11 My baby girl misses me!

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:14 seriously

Kelly Smith (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:15 This is really neat! > //It always starts off this way, the a lont of serious non-sense. It would start the same way with students, though they'd push it a little further and for longer -- most likely. But services like these eventually become tools for learning, and they get used that way.//

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:17 Boy, I feel dumber each day! > //Get use to it -- and be happy with it. It's exciting to always have something else to learn.//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:18 thats not the point scott

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:03:26 Should this be an intellectual discussion? > //No Worries!//

Carly (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:29 Aw, I love the beach. I think it's wonderful

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:29 let's all laugh at the count of 3

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:03:33 wow

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:41 Scott, he told us yesterday that the millennials don't like talking

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:45 now, lets all hum

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:03:52 looks good so far, I'm looking for the chesser cat and the rabbit

shawn (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:53 Think of all the instructional applications.

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:03:57 dito Scott

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:04:00 imagine if the kids had this in our classrooms

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:07 I understand; I want to visit Tahiti again!

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:11 this would drive me nuts

kay (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:12 It's a great day to be inside!

Chris Robertson (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:13 i think we've lost it

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:18 they do have this in the classroom

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:18 this is all they would want to do

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 08:04:21 we never had it

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:21 then the class would be quiet. maybe > //The difference between this and your students' txting, is that this is archived. When you come back later and see it, then you come to realize that this is about content creation -- not just chatting.//

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:22 ya think?

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:23 I agree chris

Carly (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:24 I've been to Tahiti too!

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:29 random

Scott (Nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:29 ive never had it

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:30 I think the kids will love this... we'll never get them back. > //In the beginning, this is probably true. But by virtue of the fact that this is archived, they'd come to realize that they are responsible for what they Knit or Twit. It would become a tool. Especially, if the back channeling was integrated into the assignment.//

sandy (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:32 I'd rather be knitting

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:33 they use it all the time

Robin Caroline (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:33 No wonder the kids don't get their homework done! Read a book...they laugh!!!

John Doll (US) • 2009-06-17 08:04:34 We are experiencing the "sounds of silence."

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:38 It would have been a great morning to sleep in.

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:39 well a quiet class might be fun for a change

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:48 done

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:50 hello darkness my old friend

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:52 I wonder how long we could sustain a conversation about a particular topic? > //I've had this truly abused only once, when three teachers hijacked the conversation by talking about '80s whreslers. But several educators in the audience, who were using Twitter, took the more relevant conversation there, and even latched in UStream, inviting people from their home schools to watch the keynote and participate. The conversation has a way of happening, when the conduit is there.//

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:52 ah but they have to be able to read > //Bingo! And would they want to read, if they could read (participate with) each other.//

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:04 yeah that is an issue

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:05 quiet can be chaos on the horizon! > //"Chuckle"//

Anthony (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:10 how woould you keep them focused on the task if we used this in class > //Again, they won't be focused at first. Get past that, integrate the conversation into the task, make them responsible (post the transcript on the class web site for the community), and they'll come around.//

allison (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:05:11 Sounds of silence, why talk when we can type

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:12 we are a part of the add nation

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:05:17 i agree sonya!

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:21 OK annamarie... but they will use text so then they can't spell

George Taylor (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:05:30 Where will this all go?

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:30 r u ok > //Ah, but that is spelling. Think about it. They've invented a new grammar that is perfect for this new and potent avenue for communication. We MUST respect this, and help them learn to make the decision: When should I use IM-speak? and When should I use proper language? If we are teaching them to communicate, rather than just teaching the mechanics of writing, then that decision becomes an integral part of the process.//

Clovis (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:33 I look forward to reading your conversation. > //Wow! A whole lot happened before I got in here. I'm impressed...//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:43 omg, he is typing 2 us > //:-)//

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:06:02 How will I teach my students how to use light when I have only two ancient computers in my classroom and the computer lab is always full? Also, my students don't know how to make a sentence. Well, they can't do that on paper. How will they learn to do it with light?Or do they need to know how to write a sentence anymore? Just how much is the world changing? Don't we still communicate with words? > //First of all, that you only have two ancient computers in your classroom is absolutely inexcusable. If it is the job of your school to prepare its students for their future, then they need to at least be using contemporary technologies (digital tools). If you're job is to prepare them for the 1950s, then you're set.//

//Second, paper is a wall. You write on paper, and the number of people who read it is limited -- mostly only one person and only for a grade. But if they use light, then the readership grows, potentially without limit. Writing becomes communicating, and kids want to do that -- and they want to do it well. When it's communicating, they become responsible.//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:06:08 on the count of three we all hum

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:06:09 don't you know its a new language - they have no problem understanding

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:06:24 proof how smart they can be

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:06:33 Good point Betsy

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:06:49 /We

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:06:59 omg, my bff has shown me how 2 text/chat > //OK! I don't know what a "bff" is.//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:07:09 I feel like a twit

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:07:11 i am too old > //I have that thought every day -- and it makes me feel young ;-)//

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:07:34 it is not too old, it is will you keep learning?

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:07:47 I thought "twit" was not a good thing... > //Hey! It is today ;-)//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:07:52 we have to be openminded to this. we should be the people most open to learning > //Who is this Baba person?//

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:08:01 i certainly hope so - i still have so much to learn

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:08:05 I agree

shawn (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:08:13 I agree

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:08:18 if you stop learning, you die

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:08:24 we can all do this. Got to get over the uncertainty and embrace what we can > //Be a "Master Learner." It should be the definition of being a teacher.//

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:08:26 apparently being a "Twit" is now a good thing

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:08:33 Well last time I looked it was still English- they don't understand that, I think that affects their understanding of computer communications. It has certainly hampered their understanding of info they read on the computer. > //They know how to "play" the information. It's our job to help them learn how to "work" the information.//

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:08:49 annamarie just don't let it overwhelm you. just take it a small bite at a time.

Kelly Smith (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:08:58 I agree, we have to be lifelong learners if we expect our students to be.

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:09:00 wait till they start talking in their text language

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:09:19 sooo, rather than complain about their "tools", we use their tools to instruct! > //And we respect their tools for their power. There is much that is going on in their "outside-the-classroom" information experiences that will be a part of their future. We need to understand. Pay attention to your students.//

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:09:30 gosh if you try listening you miss a lot > //The magical age is 34. If you are younger than 35, then you have a much easier time with this. But I've found that practice helps. I'm having an easier time back channeling now than I use to, though I find that writing and listening is much easier than reading and listening.//

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:09:34 they already do speak in text

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:09:50 omg, u r so right

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:09:58 Yes, we communicate with them in class via twitter

Kathy Lyday (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:10:25 backnoise.com/backchn.nl

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:10:38 thank you!

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:10:39 Let me know when they format the EOG in text.

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:11:52 OuDr

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:12:26 old woman...what is OuDr?

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 08:12:27 what stephen??? did u make that up?

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:12:40 Our DPI won't let us use MP3 players for read aloud.

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:12:54 seriously?

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:13:04 Ok, now I feel like an 8 track

Marty Gibson (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:13:18 Where are we if someone pulls the plug? > //Same place we are if the furnace goes, and it's 20 degrees. It's another infrastructure we depend on.//

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:13:22 Amen Lisa!

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:13:23 i agree lisa...thought i was a cd but i was wrong!

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:13:41 in big trouble

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:14:31 guys its not like people forget how to talk. quit being so afraid of the unknown > //New definition for teacher: Fearless, relentless, and resourceful learner. Anything less is not doing your job -- IMHO ;-)//

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:14:35 the poteneial for this is INCREDIBLE!

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:15:07 Yes true, they do it in other scholl systems. DPI wants us to be 21st cen teacers yet handcuff us.

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:15:12 I agree I just think we cannot forget to teach the basics of pencil and paper too > //Jury's still out on that in my mind. Is penmanship still crucial -- or has it become a craft? I'm not saying that it's not important. I'm saything that this is something I'm still thinking about.//

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:15:13 i am not afraid...i am just realizing how much i did not know > //Again! Get use to it -- and be happy. You'll know a whole lot more tomorrow -- and that makes you bigger.//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:15:34 the first true knowledge is knowing you know nothing

Tanya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:15:56 Where is the funding going to come from for this technology?? > //Good question. But is that our job? Somebody else is responsible for figuring out how to fund this. Our job (as teachers), is to realize that it is important and to make a case for it. But, of course, it's a much more complex issue than that.//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:16:00 socrates and/or thoreau

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:16:15 I agree with you about the need to continue the basics...what would happen if this all did go away? > //I agree about the "basics." But the "basics" have changed, because the information landscape has changed.//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:16:16 quite often from the companies selling it

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:16:30 this is like the futuristic movies with Will Smith

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:16:43 Try this there are churches that allow the cong. to twi during sermons. > //I've heard of this, but not done any research. It intrigues me that some churches are recognizing the communicative powers of these new tools.//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:17:03 why not. people talk during sermons

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:17:29 yea, but we shouldn

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:17:37 yes, be we shouldn

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:17:44 never mind

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:17:50 those toe rings look stoopid > //Yes, but have you ever been lost in New York City. It actually makes a lot of sense...//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:17:53 but we do and if the church allows it, they are not saying you should not

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:18:01 Without going to the theology, it is rude.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:18:31 so we are supposed to stop thinking during a sermon

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:18:48 thats an internal monologue

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:18:56 thinking doesn't always include talking

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:19:05 agreed

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:19:05 I agree toe ring stupid and pretend phone stupider > //Yes, but how long ago would a phone in your pocket have seemed strange and intrusive. I think that we have to be willing to see these things, and ask, why might this be a good idea. Maybe it isn't. But I think that we have to be willing to ask that questions -- seriously.//

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:19:54 yes, but remember when a box with moving pictures was stupid?

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:19:59 He ma

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 08:20:03 but our grandchildren may have them

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:20:09 or a man on the moon?

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:20:14 Did those toe rings screw into your foot?!!!

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:20:20 The future is a quantum world

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:20:33 true betsy

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:20:42 In

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:20:46 He just made a great point. We are not preparing for our future, we are preparing children. Let's remember that. I'm an old bookworm so this is hard for me to hear, but he is right.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:21:15 check out on you tube the video- shift happens-get the most up to date version > //It might be a good idea to generate a list of those motivational videos, like "Shift Happens" for participants.//

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:21:18 AGAIN, what is best for our kids..at home and those we teah? we must get them ready to deal

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:21:28 The bad thing is the kids already know more than we do about technology > //Is there any excuse for this. I know that our children have much more time than we do, but shouldn't it be part of the job of educators to keep up?//

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:21:36 why is it bad

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:21:38 true

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:22:01 In twenty years, my trailer will still have the same two ancient computers, but they will just be older - at least I am inferring this from NC's present valuation of teachers and public schools > //Again, we should all be outraged by this...//

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:22:14 because what can we teach them if they already know it? > //What they know is how to play the technology and the information. They need us to teach them how to work the technology and information.//

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:22:27 de

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:22:28 pe

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:22:40 how to integrate what we do into that technology

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:22:41 That's why we have to stay up on our game!

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:22:45 depends upon what it is that they already know

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:23:06 you can tweet all day, but i have to lead you through huckleberry finn > //Hmmm! I have to wonder. If students have a voice in learning Huck Finn, might they start to lead their own learning -- and isn't this what they need to be learning to become lifelong learners.//

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:23:44 Another problem is we can make them literate today (technologically) but the test is still based on traditional literacy. > //The test has to change! Say it! "The test has to change!"//

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:23:46 Isn't that why most of us are here.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:24:08 yes

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:24:17 i had to fight and lost at my school to let kids do eocs on computer > //This will change//

John Doll (US) • 2009-06-17 08:24:44 The

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:25:03 they are more engaged taking the computer test

Kelly Smith (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:25:48 Computer tests prepare them better for college.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:25:56 if we had the funding all learning and assessing would one day be on computer

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:26:07 Exactly we all took the PRAXIS

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:20 accuplacer and other tests for intro are going all computer

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:21 we don't need text books anymore?!?!

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:43 No, and think of the money the state would save. > //Might we find that we could do education more cheaply with digital content and tools, than using 15th century technology...//

Kelly Smith (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:47 GRE's were computer based too!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:50 no, and thank goodness for that -there is a bunch of money freed up for computers

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:53 we need to focus on teaching our children how to filter all the information that is being thrown at them being in a digital age > //I consider that to be a basic literacy skill, as critical as being able to read the text.//

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:27:06 I took the PRAXIS on paper

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:27:16 However, regardless, if the tests are taken on a computer or not, they will still assess based on traditional teaching methods. > //This is a very good point. We have to decide what children need to learn in a time of rapid change and a dynamic new information landscape, and then figure out how to assess that. I'd also suggest that we figure out how to make assess "engaging."//

Chris Robertson (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:27:36 he's making a great point; they trust everything on the internet

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:27:47 If we teach like this they will be way more prepared, but the tests won't show that. The state has to be on board. > //Don't blame DPI. They work for the legislature...//

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:27:55 so now we teach them not to

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:28:28 He is making a great point and Chris Haas also made the same point yesterday!

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:28:28 it should be a lot cheaper to have textbooks on cd like my teacher manual. > //Ah! But the textbook could be so much more if it is digital. It's one of the most interesting questions around education today. What does the textbook evolve into?//

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:28:30 we trusted everything in print at our students age > //This is very true. We were taught to assume the authority of the information we encountered. We need to teach today's children to "prove the authority."//

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:28:36 We also trust eveything we hear on the news, but information from any source is often skewed > //News is an excellent example.//

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:28:48 amen!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:28:53 we have to judge the level of bias

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:29:00 that's why they need to learn to think > //Bingo!//

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:29:22 analyzing websites is a great way to teach critical thinking skills > //There was an interesting study a while back that showed that old people who used Google, saw less deterioration of their brains. I'm not using the correct terminology.//

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:29:22 amen!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:29:24 agreed and using a computer is not exclusive of learning to think

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:30:16 i fully agree - i actually like technology

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:31:43 Remember the rule,when the legend is better than the truth, print the legend. > //That's a great issue -- one//

shawn (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:33:17 While focusing on literacy, we have to include media literacy and make sure students do not blindly believe everything they see/read online. > //Bingo!//

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:33:39 totally agree!!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:33:52 to fight the state about the technology we have to know it. that's how we get what we want in the classroom

shawn (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:34:15 Hopefully this week will help.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:34:42 I think I need more than a week!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:34:56 i plan to need a lifetime

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:35:43 amen!

shawn (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:35:54 LOL! We've actually discussed how to extend this for you guys.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:36:11 Good

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:36:25 That would be wonderful!

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:36:37 All that he just said is what the state "wants" too; critical thinking, evaluating, etc. So sad, that they won't assess that way!

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:36:40 I'm on board with that!!

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:36:45 I am making notes for other teachers to use some of these different tools in their area.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:36:56 agreed jennifer

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:38:47 the scos is not evaluated by most eocs, but i digress

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:39:07 very true

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:39:25 or eogs

Scott (Nc) • 2009-06-17 08:39:32 Why then do the students need us? Why don't they just come in, sit down, and google how to factor polynomials? xxxx Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:39:53 don't kid, thats coming I think

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:40:30 students learn in many different ways, many different learning styles - many cannot just look at steps and get it

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:40:43 that was my point

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:40:49 perhaps that will save our jobs

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:40:57 G

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:41:05 They still need to learn English.

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:41:17 Good teaching takes care of test scores.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:41:23 no thry need to be multi lingual

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:41:36 computers will not steal our jobs unless we let them > //They'll steal our jobs if they can do it better.//

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:41:55 I was on the math adoption committee last summer and there was actually a publisher that had a cd that taught every objective in their book

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:04 i don't know, teaching may become obsolete

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:10 our jobs are safe aas long as we remember that we FACILITATE LEARNING...even when we must change to do so and incorporate learning styles and compensate for learning needs

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:15 you would still need a teacher to help facilitate

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:25 yes

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:26 that would be my point

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:27 amen sonya bet me too it

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:37 beat me to it even

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:42:46 that is sad...i had students who said their previous math teacher taught them by videos offline

Ashley (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:43:11 in the future, education will be on the computer. there will be no need to have teachers, they will have online classes where students learn. it is already started in the colleges.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:43:29 schoolhouse rock was how I learned my multiplication facts

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:43:36 the online classes, which i have taught, still have teachers

Ashley (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:00 i know, i mean in a school classroom setting

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:04 it has already started in the high schools

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:20 nova net and the uncg online school

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:20 computers only do what people have them do...teachers need to facilitate that knowledge...these are children we are facilitaitng for

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:32 true

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:43 actually it wasn't a cd it was a dvd and it was weird because the teacher never got frustrated even though she had to repeat herself for the 50th time because a particular student didn't understand

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:45:24 I work in Special Ed...I've spent 15 years trying to work myself out of a job, so to speak...my kids still need me!

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:45:24 as stated earlier...students learn in different ways

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:45:37 still poor teaching on the whole. only helps some kids

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:45:47 we can't bookmark because it will go away the next day > //That should be fixed. Bookmarking is a BASIC information tool/skill.//

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:45:55 i am all for bringing in multiple supplemental materials, but i still think the teacher needs to be there to answer the questions and come up with other ways to get information through to the students

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:45:56 ABSOLUTELY, Lisa

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:46:09 write down the link or print the info.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:46:23 deep freeze does suck

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:46:43 but bookmarks do stay

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:46:49 Janee....naturally, but we have t incorporate the tehnology for them to be prepared for the future

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:46:56 deep freeze should be gone - talk to your media or tech person

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:47:07 understood.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:47:18 either way, bookmarks and favorites stayed

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:47:29 they took deep freeze out

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:47:34 i agree completely

Chris Robertson (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:48:48 is deep freeze supposed to be gone?

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:48:50 wow, this could give our kids those personal experiences they so desperately lack

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:49:09 i still say the potential is phenominal...WHOOO-HOOO

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:49:18 me too!!!!

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:49:39 This stuff is all about Marzano and Bloom - great integration of HOTS

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:50:19 i am going to cstw at teacher academy, very excited. when i was in wilmington we had to do marzano. good stuff

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:50:53 chris, deep freeze should have been removed sometime over the last 9 weeks.

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:51:51 Is the qtvr available with any pic if you include it in the search?

Scott (Nc) • 2009-06-17 08:52:14 deep freeze is gone but now you have to have administrator rights to do ANYTHING.

Chris Robertson (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:52:25 thanks wendy

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:53:31 and now the chat begins to drift off as we tire and need a break

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:53:39 haha

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:53:58 This really cool, but I can only put a face to some of your names...I still like to talk to people face to face

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:54:06 called it!!!!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:54:30 I am brian costin- let the persecution begin..;.haha

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 09:00:43 Will this book teach me how to do all this stuff

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:09:06 i guess we will have to read it and find out

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:09:51 btw, i love technology, but I never want to lose books. I have over five thousand in my home

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:23:22 I think that is important to teach our kids... love books and technology, use all resources to learn

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:24:28 I agree Anna Lee

Lowell (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:24:36 If you have a tool that will make learning easier then you should use it

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:25:39 I have used the internet to find and share information with my students, but I guess I never realized the magnitude of this resource

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:26:38 the possibilities are limitless

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:27:33 with that said... it is easy to get overwhelmed!

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:27:51 you said it sister!

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:30:05 OMG that is cool!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:32:44 that is cool. the tagcrowd site I will use immediately

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:45:51 cute, my son makes stick figure videos on some web site

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:39:24 spam spam spam spam spam.....i am suddenly hungry

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:40:02 A Monty Python fan, huh?

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:41:30 yeppers

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:41:53 i want spam cheese egg spam cheese and spam

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:48:43 I prefer shrimp

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:49:12 It didn't print everything

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:49:37 I was making a Bubba Gump reference

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 11:50:12 Run, Lisa, Run

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 11:51:08 margaret mead? cmon

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 11:55:07 You obvious were not Anthropology major

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 11:59:02 what movie is the name "babaganouj" from? it's driving me crazy.

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:00:52 Content Building; Connection Making; conversation Mining

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:03:58 babaganouj is a mediterranean food

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:04:41 dennis miller used to say it a lot and its a running joke and nickname for people being silly in my family

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:04:56 Here Comes Everybody - book about how people contribute to others..we have cognitive surplus...to fill that at the turn of century was drink gin....50s and 60s, it was sitcoms...today it is used to build in the internet things people can use

Anthony (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:05:06 David

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:06:15 no, annamarie, english and theater with side of sociology and psychology

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:06:33 i just didn't recognize her, i know who she is

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:07:21 What exactly is a Wiki?

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:08:23 How are wikis and blogs different?

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:08:50 Someone help us!

Tanya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:08:53 How do we set them up and get started??

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 12:09:04 it seems that a wiki is a blog you and anyone who enters your site can change and add to ????

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 12:09:45 there is a wiki site that is free if you google it

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:10:13 hope no one throws down in here due to the BLOG questions. LOL!

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 12:10:16 www.wiki.com

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:11:53 blog (blŏg) n. A weblog. intr.v. blogged, blog·ging, blogs To write entries in, add material to, or maintain a weblog.

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:11:57 wi·ki (wĭk'ē) n. pl. wi·kis A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:12:06 you find the time if its important and if not, its not a big deal

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:13:16 those are from dictionary.com

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 12:13:25 thanks

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:13:53 Definitely. You don't have to do it all, but as educators we have to be aware of what's out there for us to use as resources.

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:13:57 if you don't have time to blog, twit, or facebook...then dont do it

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:14:30 i find the time because i sleep about four hours a night, and its not a choice

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:14:47 amen

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:14:49 so since i am awake, i keep up with what i can if i can

Lowell (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:14:50 you should use the tool that best fits you. You can't use all the tools out there. You don't have the time it would take.

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:14:51 or maybe try it to see if you can use it to work smarter not harder

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:15:14 sonya, i was typing those exact last four words

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:15:15 Great ideas. Way to keep it positive.

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:15:25 work smarter, not harder...i like that

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:15:28 "Excuses are tools of the incompetent Which build monuments to nothing And those who engage in their uses Are seldom capable of anything else." -Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:15:41 i love that

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:15:46 yeah stephen, you lost me again

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:15:53 WOW! coolbeans!

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:16:21 terry we need u to break out into Guitar Hero in about 2.5 seconds. OK???

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:17:31 I hardly think taking care of kids is an excuse

Kathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:17:45 Please remember to be respectful of the presenter!

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:18:03 I agree

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:18:07 neither do I, but when my son goes to bed, i use my time

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:18:46 having kids is time consuming, and so is teaching and learning

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:19:06 i think anyone would say that

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:20:42 kids of different ages have different needs...even my 14 year old who is not "little"....respect to parents who teach...go back to work smarter not harder

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:21:02 Is twittering basically like instant messaging with many people?

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:21:11 yes ma'am

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:21:12 yeah, sort of

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:21:33 only to people who want to know what you are doing

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:22:01 lot of people hook it to their cellphone so you receive it as text

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:22:50 lot of movie stars and musicians use it, obama used it during the election

Megan (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:23:11 connected to your cell seems to make it make more sense

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:24:09 Earlier, I thought Twitter was ridiculous. I can see the usefulness of it as a resource.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:24:20 So, socially then, it's a little bit like the Facebook blurbs: Hey this is what I'm doing now

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:24:35 honestly, i think its kind of silly....yes heather, exactly

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:24:38 "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" There are many genre that repeat this theme. Family,ministry, teaching all are time consuming yet by God's graces it get done.

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:24:38 However, I still think it's silly to keep up with celebrities or just let people know what you're doing constantly.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:24:43 Jennifer, I do think socially it's egocentric and obnoxious

Megan (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:24:46 yes

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:24:55 agreed

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:24:55 Some of my kids' parents said they would like to know what was going on in our class during the day..this would be an interesting way to keep some parents up to date

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:25:14 i can see its uses and its easy to use

Megan (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:25:15 interesting idea

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:25:41 thank you, Stephen-Yoda, but too true

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:26:38 can anyone respond to a person's twit?

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:27:03 you have to be on their subscriber list or connected like we are

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:27:17 So this is just another way to have more friends?

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:27:32 i disagree. he says a lot that is valuable.

Megan (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:27:37 in the sense we would use it it is actually a way to have access to resources

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 12:27:56 someone mentioned pageflakes it looks like it might help with organizing

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:27:57 this is a fast way to get valuable information

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:28:32 it has good uses, but it is often used silly

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:28:41 sillily even

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:29:12 ahhhhh....know the source of information...trust but confirm

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:29:53 What is pageflakes?!!!

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:30:04 yeah, never heard of that either/

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:30:18 good question...new to me

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 12:31:06 can go to www.pageflakes.com check it out

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 12:31:10 www.pageflakes.com allows you to set your location for weather, calendar, e-mail, facebook, and twitter

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:31:19 i just looked it up, looks like a way to organize all your sites you go to

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:32:00 sounds like a way to save time too

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:32:30 looks like that, its like internet picture in picture

afranzen (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:39:19 so is second life free to visit but costs to stay?

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:39:29 Does anyone use Quest Atlantis?

carolyn (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:39:45 don't like avatars - don't like virtual worlds - everything is harder

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:41:38 i think second life is free, but if you want certain things you have to pay

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:42:35 QA is like this for kids in 4th-8th grade; they have avatars and they complete learning quests individually and in community.

Angela Raby (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:42:39 My son uses Quest Atlantis. It was introduced and set up for him by his AIG teacher. He really likes it!

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:42:53 I couldn't use this because I am getting nausiated just watching this now.

Julie (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:43:05 The AIG teacher at my school used it with her kids. I never really caught what they were actually doing though.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:43:19 Yes, 3 AIG teachers in the county use QA.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:43:51 i will check it out, is it kid related?

Angela Raby (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:43:51 My son has corresponded with students his age as far away as Australia. It introduces another whole world to him.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:44:01 Angela, Does you son really do the quest work?

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:44:05 i mean only for kids

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:44:26 My students liked the social element more than the learning element.

Angela Raby (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:45:24 Actually, I think he's like most of your students...likes the social aspect.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:45:25 is it only for kids?

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:45:52 QA is for kids only.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:46:25 thanks. i have playstation home on the beta edition

Angela Raby (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:46:39 Doesn't QA have to been school/organization sponsored?

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:46:48 It began as a guy's dissertation. It's really safe. Monitored 24/7. Cannot get it without teacher setting you up, and teacher must be trained.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:46:58 its like this but it has movies that you pay to watch, pay per view

Kathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:47:31 Give greetings to Trish Johnson, our Associate Superintendent who has joined us!

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:47:42 Hi Trish!

Julie (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:47:58 Greetings!!

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:47:59 Hi Trish! Great seeing you here!

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:48:03 Welcome, Trish! This has been an incredible session...and week!

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 12:48:07 Hey Trish

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:48:10 hi trish

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:48:18 welcome Trish. good to see ya

Lowell (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:48:19 hello

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:48:21 hello trish!

Tanya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:48:29 Hello Trish

donna (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:48:43 Hello Trish. Glad you joined us.

afranzen (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:48:43 hi Trish. So much great info to absorb!!

Kelly (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:49:05 Trish, I need to see you about something. Will you be around for a bit?

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:49:06 Hey Trish.

sandy (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:49:18 hi Trish can you believe I'm doing this????

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:49:25 Hi Trish. How are you? I am fine. I am sitting here learning about technology. Later, I will go home.

dana (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:51:56 should we be spending all this time on something we cannot use in the classroom?

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:53:02 we can use this...through our staff development we get on the screen

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:53:12 I think the whole point is being connected to other educators.

Megan (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:53:24 yes

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:53:30 I don't know, but it is very interesting

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:53:32 If he wouldn't have presented this, I wouldn't know about Quest Atlantis which is for kids.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:55:01 i like learning everything about this kind of stuff...i don't care much for sl

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:57:22 on a non-teacher topic: support local music http://www.endoftheworldrecords.com/

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 13:06:34 thanks heather, i am always on the lookout for new music

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:07:19 4/5 of the artists are local and they're really talented

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:08:57 I went to school with Chris Church!

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:09:49 Chris's album is good. It's my favorite of all the artists.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:11:25 He's a nut!!! I wonder who broke his heart to write about unrequited love?

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:12:12 Are you an artist too, or connected to one? Do you know Rick Stapleton?

Kathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:15:52 Technorati.com

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 13:24:24 welcome?

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 13:27:00 test

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:28:45 there are no limits to what we can do in our classrooms...the future is in managing this knowledge!!!

Lowell (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:29:52 THe management is the true challenge

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:30:18 beibng able to manage it is where it becomes way cool!!!

Wayne (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:30:35 What is RSS?

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:31:16 anyway...we work toether to manage it...remember, fellow specialists...we work together, we work better

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:31:47 oops...together

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 13:41:10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 13:41:33 the librarian needs to find information

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:47:26 So netvibes is a way of keeping up with the sites, blogs, etc. you are using?

afranzen (nc) • 2009-06-17 13:53:31 It sounds to me like it is keeping up with current events to keep students interested and feeling like the learning is relevant.

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:55:30 not all current events...things which help you teach..relevant to your classroom

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:57:14 it is a way to manage information that you need and you use to keep you ahead of the game, so yes, it keeps your information (that you choose) to keep up with organized

kay • 2009-06-17 14:01:23 WOW....awesome resources!!!

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 14:03:20 this is history as it happens....the human experience in action...AWE...RESPECT

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 14:19:23 today's session has been unbelievalble!!! all of thet websites, the new tools, ways to organize the information we want to keep up with..Heaven's, this is AWESOME!!!! I will be using these tools as much as I can to become a teacher who is "in the know" for my students...growing and learning with my guys, and sometimes from my guys!!!

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:11:55 anyone on here this morning?

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:18:17 is there anybody out there????

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:20:02 you there?

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:20:22 I'm here!

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:20:42 did you see where bev removed the state mandate for grad project. its totally local choice now

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:21:34 yes; i'm thinking CC will continue it since it's virtually free to the county (coordinator positions)

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:21:53 i think most probably will, but i found that interesting

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:22:09 removing that state mandate will make some counties pull out

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:23:07 I'm sure it could be more difficult in some areas than others to get good community involvement as mentors and judges.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:24:04 I was impressed how well it went here. in new hanover county, it had been going for seven years when i started so i didn't experience

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:24:12 growing pains

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:24:43 it certainly will need shaping, but the community buy in was impressive to me

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:24:56 I think CC did an awesome job for year 1!

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:25:46 agreed...the one thing that i think we need to focus on is what we called recovery in new hanoverr

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:26:31 for the kids who didn't make it the first time. there they frontloaded classes

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:28:29 With students doing research paper in 11th, it gives students more time to succeed.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:29:11 west didn't do it that way

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:30:04 we didn't do research early. my take was always that we should do a piece of it per year of high school

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:30:13 not was but is

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:34:07 for whatever reason, we at west always do things differently from everyone else. don't know?

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:36:38 It's ok for schools to have a unique identity. What works for one may not work for another. We're feeling good about our choice.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:36:44 we have some kind of teacher rivalry that makes no sense to me

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:37:21 sure we should have unique id, but this is almost stubborn

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:37:31 I refuse to participate in such a rivalry. We're here for Caldwell County students.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:37:49 i am with you, i am sure you know that

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:38:27 i think sometimes things are said to me because they think i will go home and tell melissa

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:39:10 Some seem to think of it like an athletic rivalry. Personally, I would like to see every high school in CC scoring above 80%.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:39:46 oh, the athletic rivalry is definitely there, but this is out loud spoken education rivalry

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:40:22 how about over ninety

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-18 08:41:11 I was thinking last night about how key collaboration is to all this technology. . . it's very "whole is greater than part"

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:41:25 Being the spouse of an adm at a "rival" school could be a bit sticky at times.

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:41:51 Yeah, 90%.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-18 08:41:56 which makes me think emphasizing creativity and individual product is essential

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:43:02 The collaboration among students as well as teachers is key. It's so hard though because I'm brain dead from 3:30-5:30, then I get a second wind.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:46:06 yes heather I agree with you

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:48:23 and yes, it is sticky so I keep my mouth shut and have taken to eating in my room with a few of my more positive colleagues

brent tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:49:10 The rivalries are there - but it really takes communication to get over some of that. High School social studies teachers have gotten over a lot of that in the last few years as a result of the Teaching American History grant. I know at South, we pull for everyone to do well because it is about students

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:51:57 i understand a good hearted athletic rivalry, but educationally a positive rivalry would even make sense but its not positive

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:11:27 I used Skype during a study of Night for students to talk with a Holocaust survivor in Israel. It was really compelling. Students were hooked.

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-18 09:13:16 very cool. what a way to use technology!

Soleil (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:14:49 that is great!

Kelly (NC) • 2009-06-18 09:15:17 I agree. That is a really neat idea. It gives students a chance to experience something they may never have the opportunity to do.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:15:34 that is awesome

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:16:47 you want to share that information when/if i ever teach world lit again

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:18:39 that was a question sandra

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:18:58 contrary to the punctuation lol.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-18 09:47:24 Wow, Sandra. I bet that was really powerful!

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 10:23:01 I'd be happy to share the information, but I was highly dependent upon a student's parent for the webcam/contact in Israel.

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 12:50:56 HEy NC 1 to 1 Folks :)

Natalie (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:03 Hey

Clovis (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:08 I look forward to reading your conversation...

Not the Nice Guy (US) • 2009-07-08 12:51:10 This is cool!

Neill Kimrey (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:17 This could be a formative assessment tool in One-to-One schools....

jeanne dillman (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:51:24 hello 1:1....I'm overwhelmed.

ljbrooks (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:51:24 Wow!

Mike (US) • 2009-07-08 12:51:25 Hey guys!

Brenda Wooten (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:27 This is my first attempt at twittering.

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:40 He really said he's not a nice guy, but he seems smart!

Morgan (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:51 I still have no idea what Twitter is in the first place...

Leslie Jones (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:54 Going one to one is something I have dreaming about for several years:)

Carmen (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:54 I'm a twitter virgin too!

John B (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:01 Hey Ya'll

ljbrooks (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:52:11 My colleagues are a little slow at this...can you slow down?

Hiller (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:24 This is fun!

wrennv (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:52:26 Hey everyone. I am a nice gal.

Natalie (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:28 This reminds me a little of an tool called "Illuminate", has anyone heard of that?

Gary Oakley (US) • 2009-07-08 12:52:31 I'm getting dizzy.

niceguy (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:52:37 Hi i am a nice guy too!

GlennK (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:43 Can my brain multi-task and attend to David while I tweet or knit or whatever I'm doing?

Daniel Colvin (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:51 Impressive, sometimes difficult to keep up.

Kelly (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:58 I feel old

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:53:02 elluminate is how you spell it

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:53:07 I can't get off Orientation Island. I'll never make it to David's SL office!

chrisblice (US) • 2009-07-08 12:53:08 Glad to be here with all you techie folks!

Natalie (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:53:28 nope, this program is spelled with an "i"

nicolebaker (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:53:29 It is exciting. Moving real fast.

GlennK (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:53:41 Natalie--eLuminate does this and lots more, but they are similar. We use it for webinars.

Joselyn Todd (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:53:53 Anyone who is overwhelmed- hang in there...

niceguy (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:53:55 what! tech trouble?!

Natalie (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:53:56 yes

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:00 I am learning LOTS and LOTS of new stuff!

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:24 Great advice, Joselyn!

watkins (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:54:25 Wow!!

GlennK (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:31 I see, the is an eluminate and an illuminate. I know the "e" one but not the "i" one

Patsy (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:35 It is good to know that even the big guys have tech problems

Terence (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:41 I'm still thinking

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:54:48 anyone else ever use Prezi?

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:49 Got in!

Amber (US) • 2009-07-08 12:54:59 ok- finally got in!

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:55:14 Prezi, good for netbooks? does it crash much?

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:55:16 does spelling matter?

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:55:23 What's Prezi?!?

gbryant (US) • 2009-07-08 12:55:24 I know who the "nice guy" is!!

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:55:26 Howdy

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 12:55:51 Jeff Utecht has a great blog post about using the backchannel http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheThinkingStick/~3 /E0W3YSWU-6I/it-takes-time-to-focus-on-a-back-chan nel-chat

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 12:56:24 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/it-takes-time-to-f ocus-on-a-back-channel-chat

Aaron (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:56:54 prezi.com is a web based presentation tool

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 12:57:14 Prezi zooms a bit too much for me - but this one doesn't jump too much :) http://prezi.com/

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:58:02 I could stay on this all day!!

Aaron (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:58:13 I prefer the typewriter sounds from powerpoint :)

niceguy (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:58:17 i'm afraid that wasn't chicken at lunch!

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:58:24 This is the tool of an ADHD user! I love it!

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:58:28 The factory-model high school.... It's still with us. Many community members still see that as the desired model.

Kelly (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:58:56 not just community members...teachers, administrators, etc. do too

GlennK (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:59:05 Yes, we need to get everyone to understand we need to move beyond the factory model

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:59:39 The only thing that will make those community people change their minds is when the kids show love for 'new schools'!

GlennK (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:59:41 My wife won't let me cancel our home phone, even though we all have cell phones'

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 12:59:49 I'm afraid to get rid of our home phone

Keith Pittman (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:59:53 Bad cell signal in my house. Can't give up land line yet, but I carry a cell.

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:00:12 I'm with you, GlennK.

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:00:34 My hubby has a bad signal too, and It makes us feel corporate to have two cells and a land line!!

Neill Kimrey (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:00:51 for those of you who carry iPhones, try audioboo.fm. Cool tool for audio micro-blogging.

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:01:12 Johnnerlyn, I'm with you... I'm an NSP Principal!

sherry (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:01:28 Bethany, what are you afraid of?

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:01:44 Today was 123456789 day (while we ate lunch). It was at 12:34:56 7-8-9. You were there!

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:01:46 Not having power and needing to call 911

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:02:31 I may be a techie - but I still have my phobias :)

Patsy (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:02:51 Love the fact Jimo

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:02:54 "We are spending too much time teaching our children how to use paper."

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:03:04 said david warlick

Frances Bradburn (US) • 2009-07-08 13:03:21 I'm with Bethany. If you've ever been in a devastatinig hurricane, the only thing that worked was the landline.

Jesse (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:03:43 Have home phone, but it is voip, and cell phone backup for home alarm plus cell phones

Leslie Jones (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:03:58 I gave mine home phone up three years ago. If I have a power out with storms I have electric access in my hybrid.

Norma (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:03:58 What is skype?

Joselyn Todd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:03:59 Theda- Kids are much less concerned about paper- ADULTS are concerned about paper.

Joselyn Todd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:04:25 Skype- a way to video conference over the Internet

Neill Kimrey (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:04:38 Skype is a telephone-like online tool that uses the internet to transmit voice (and chat)

Jesse (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:04:44 skype is onlone program to voice chat by calling

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:04:45 Ustream is good to for streaming out conference sessions

chrisblice (US) • 2009-07-08 13:04:51 I still need it on paper every once in a while

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:04:58 joselynn, i wasn't disagreeing with david!

niceguy (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:05:01 looks like Bruno's jacket!

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:05:09 http://www.ustream.tv/

Joselyn Todd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:05:35 Ustream is also good for having a synchronous chatroom simulateously with the video

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:06:03 "Roasted Brown" shows the least dirt.... ;-)

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:06:16 Is he serious or is he joking!!

Neill Kimrey (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:06:19 http://stickam.com/ is another great tool for streaming and conferencing...

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:06:36 "Recalibrating...."

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:07:19 Warlick says, "I am not preparing my students for my future, am I?"

niceguy (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:07:43 maybe the 'Borg' werent too far off!

Morgan (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:07:56 that is a very scary though

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:08:06 You will be assimilated.... Resistance is futile!

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:08:24 DW: "WE are preparing our children for a future we cannot clearly describe."

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:08:41 Sometimes I have to stop and take it all in b/c it moves so fast!!!! What is left to change??

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:08:45 not content, but skills!!!

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:09:08 I remember being excited about an Apple IIe with an 80-column card. It had a complete memory of 256k.

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:09:29 I still have an Apple IIc

sherry (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:09:46 I still have one too!

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:10:08 So you still do the 5 1/2" disk flip?

Anthony (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:10:12 Hey there is that package they lost of mine!

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:10:20 global cooperation, not global competition

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:10:32 @Gregg - only when I play Oregon Trail ;)

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:10:41 I just bought my 8 yr old a Gameboy Advance SP. I told him his peers will say "your mom is old-fashioned"!

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:10:47 Timex Sinclair with 4K of RAM, no storage, 1Mhz processor. THAT was a computer!

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:11:13 we have a tremendous deficit of engineers in the US

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:11:48 Richard Florida spoke at the FI a few years back - really great speaker

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:12:00 DW - jinx :)

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:12:47 We're still 300K in the hole....

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:13:17 DW: creative arts are also important for us in the US. We are looking for the new story, the plot.

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:14:36 I heard Sir Ken Robinson speak at a New Schools Institute. Same message about the impoartance of creativity. Similar speech on TED

Anthony (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:15:14 I once played 8track games. It was like choose your own adventure books.

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:15:45 I love Ken Robinson's TED talk about creativity - v. cool

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:16:05 Cool zoom in feature on a picture of a girl. two different levels of text

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:18:35 We don't need to say goodbye to our friends because we carry them with us! That's true!!!

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:19:09 TED talks are the best way to get inspired

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:19:23 Technology means you never have to say goodbye - good tagline :)

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:19:40 We are sitting in this classroom and we are all as wired as we want to be right now. Are you having a hard time learning? I am not.

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:20:03 I have so many quotable quotes from him.

Leslie Jones (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:20:04 If you are listening to TED please go sign up.

Leslie Jones (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:21:12 not listening sorry

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:21:38 meredith wilson (citation)

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:22:10 When we ignore the technology in our classrooms, do we run the risk of seeming out of date, do we lose our credibility as learners?

Julian Nichols-Wilson (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:22:14 Theda, I wonder how many students have been punished for doing the same thing.

Lois Clement (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:23:11 We do need this kind of broadband to homes and community centers.

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:23:18 Messopotamia, yes. Macedonia, no

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:23:32 So many teachers, staff become worried about being "shown up" by the students!! WHY!?!!

Lois Clement (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:25:29 Can we use student construction of virtual worlds as assessments ?

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:25:57 I am interested in learning more about gaming and brain research, that brains engaged in games are more receptive to learning. Send me some links, if you have some.

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:26:43 My two sons (12 and 14) are very comfortable in virtual worlds.

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:27:05 my kids have been to Club Penguin and WebKinz. The totally safe, scripted, cute places are easy, as are the adult spaces. My daughter is 11 and struggles to find a virtual place for her age group.

nicolebaker (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:27:56 Very Interesting; I think about how much we are holding them back-students that is

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:28:13 Sadie is using her Nintendo DS to learn Japanese. Ergo, she is teaching herself language construction and grammar.

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:29:16 Using the game environment as a movie set. Too cool!

Tecfacnoob (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:29:28 machima

Anthony (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:29:39 that's awesome

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:30:14 information as a product VERSUS information as a raw material

Jaclyn Bell (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:30:25 Red vs. Blue is a wonderufl example of gaming becoming a movie... teenagers started making it using Halo, now it is a million dollar industry and they make their living creating these films

Frances Bradburn (US) • 2009-07-08 13:30:27 information is a raw material

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:30:28 Google Numa Numa.... It's in World of Warcraft as well.

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:31:04 Marshall McCluhan (?): "the medium IS the message."

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:34:30 we must be able to depend on others as literate citizens

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:34:38 Anyone know where I can find that 'Can't Touch This' video?

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:34:46 What do we hope they know [now that they have all these tools]? (This is the $64,000 question)

chrisblice (US) • 2009-07-08 13:35:14 Great stuff, big job training and conditioning teachers to use this to help kids pass the EOCs ...Ooopps, there's an issue

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:35:51 Peggy: also worth $64K: how do we enable students to discern fact from mis- or disinformation?

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:36:17 There goes the hierarchy

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:36:55 64% of American teens have produced and published original digital content to real audiences over the Internet.

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:37:44 Learning in the Flat Classroom: first, the teacher's role has to change radically from the source of information to the key questioner.

Cathy (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:38:09 Jimo - http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids. individual

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:38:31 Thanks Cathy!

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:38:43 Greg: and the teacher must use these tools herself, authentically, if she is to remain helpful to her students. Yes?

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:39:56 Theda: Absolutely! You get it! (But those of us who know you, know that already!)

Lois Clement (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:39:58 how do we make sure students have the say vocabulary to participate in interactive tech and online publishing?

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:40:16 Numa Numa in WoW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHF483cuzuY

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:41:04 Theda: Absolutely! You get it! (But those of us who know you know that already....)

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:42:29 Kids not interested in Othello? Horrors! Now that is a problem

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:42:46 Numa Numa in WoW: lots of pages here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:43:51 Oops: url too long. Google "Numa Numa WoW"

Lois Clement (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:44:13 I like the term learning lifestyles

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:45:58 Thanks, David.

Leslie Jones (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:47:17 I had not seen the last "We are not Afraid" Thanks for another great experience - David Warlick.

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Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:01:56 thoughts

carolyn (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:02:02 therefore i am

Carly (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:02:14 I'd rather be at the beach

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 08:02:26 toes in the sand

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:02:37 Howdy, how about this technology!

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:02:42 great communication tool

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:02:44 boo

Susan Adams (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:02:52 It would be warmer at the beach!

Lowell (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:02:55 wow

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:02:58 i'd rather be right here. i moved here from the beach. i hate the beach

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:01 I'm on summer vacation therefore I don't.

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:02 lol

Scott (Nc) • 2009-06-17 08:03:04 Why can't we just talk to each other?

Julie (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:11 haha

Susan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:11 My baby girl misses me!

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:14 seriously

Kelly Smith (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:15 This is really neat!

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:17 Boy, I feel dumber each day!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:18 thats not the point scott

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:03:26 Should this be an intellectual discussion?

Carly (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:29 Aw, I love the beach. I think it's wonderful

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:29 let's all laugh at the count of 3

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:03:33 wow

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:41 Scott, he told us yesterday that the millennials don't like talking

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:45 now, lets all hum

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:03:52 looks good so far, I'm looking for the chesser cat and the rabbit

shawn (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:03:53 Think of all the instructional applications.

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:03:57 dito Scott

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:04:00 imagine if the kids had this in our classrooms

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:07 I understand; I want to visit Tahiti again!

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:11 this would drive me nuts

kay (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:12 It's a great day to be inside!

Chris Robertson (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:13 i think we've lost it

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:18 they do have this in the classroom

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:18 this is all they would want to do

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 08:04:21 we never had it

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:21 then the class would be quiet. maybe

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:22 ya think?

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:23 I agree chris

Carly (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:24 I've been to Tahiti too!

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:29 random

Scott (Nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:29 ive never had it

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:30 I think the kids will love this... we'll never get them back.

sandy (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:32 I'd rather be knitting

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:33 they use it all the time

Robin Caroline (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:33 No wonder the kids don't get their homework done! Read a book...they laugh!!!

John Doll (US) • 2009-06-17 08:04:34 We are experiencing the "sounds of silence."

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:38 It would have been a great morning to sleep in.

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:39 well a quiet class might be fun for a change

Ann Matthews (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:48 done

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:04:50 hello darkness my old friend

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:52 I wonder how long we could sustain a conversation about a particular topic?

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:04:52 ah but they have to be able to read

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:04 yeah that is an issue

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:05 quiet can be chaos on the horizon!

Anthony (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:10 how woould you keep them focused on the task if we used this in class

allison (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:05:11 Sounds of silence, why talk when we can type

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:12 we are a part of the add nation

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:05:17 i agree sonya!

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:21 OK annamarie... but they will use text so then they can't spell

George Taylor (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:05:30 Where will this all go?

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:30 r u ok

Clovis (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:33 I look forward to reading your conversation.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:05:43 omg, he is typing 2 us

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:06:02 How will I teach my students how to use light when I have only two ancient computers in my classroom and the computer lab is always full? Also, my students don't know how to make a sentence. Well, they can't do that on paper. How will they learn to do it with light?Or do they need to know how to write a sentence anymore? Just how much is the world changing? Don't we still communicate with words?

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:06:08 on the count of three we all hum

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:06:09 don't you know its a new language - they have no problem understanding

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:06:24 proof how smart they can be

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:06:33 Good point Betsy

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:06:49 /We

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:06:59 omg, my bff has shown me how 2 text/chat

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:07:09 I feel like a twit

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:07:11 i am too old

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:07:34 it is not too old, it is will you keep learning?

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:07:47 I thought "twit" was not a good thing...

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:07:52 we have to be openminded to this. we should be the people most open to learning

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:08:01 i certainly hope so - i still have so much to learn

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:08:05 I agree

shawn (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:08:13 I agree

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:08:18 if you stop learning, you die

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:08:24 we can all do this. Got to get over the uncertainty and embrace what we can

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:08:26 apparently being a "Twit" is now a good thing

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:08:33 Well last time I looked it was still English- they don't understand that, I think that affects their understanding of computer communications. It has certainly hampered their understanding of info they read on the computer.

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:08:49 annamarie just don't let it overwhelm you. just take it a small bite at a time.

Kelly Smith (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:08:58 I agree, we have to be lifelong learners if we expect our students to be.

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:09:00 wait till they start talking in their text language

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:09:19 sooo, rather than complain about their "tools", we use their tools to instruct!

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:09:30 gosh if you try listening you miss a lot

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:09:34 they already do speak in text

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:09:50 omg, u r so right

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:09:58 Yes, we communicate with them in class via twitter

Kathy Lyday (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:10:25 backnoise.com/backchn.nl

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:10:38 thank you!

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:10:39 Let me know when they format the EOG in text.

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:11:52 OuDr

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:12:26 old woman...what is OuDr?

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 08:12:27 what stephen??? did u make that up?

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:12:40 Our DPI won't let us use MP3 players for read aloud.

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:12:54 seriously?

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:13:04 Ok, now I feel like an 8 track

Marty Gibson (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:13:18 Where are we if someone pulls the plug?

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:13:22 Amen Lisa!

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:13:23 i agree lisa...thought i was a cd but i was wrong!

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:13:41 in big trouble

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:14:31 guys its not like people forget how to talk. quit being so afraid of the unknown

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:14:35 the poteneial for this is INCREDIBLE!

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:15:07 Yes true, they do it in other scholl systems. DPI wants us to be 21st cen teacers yet handcuff us.

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:15:12 I agree I just think we cannot forget to teach the basics of pencil and paper too

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:15:13 i am not afraid...i am just realizing how much i did not know

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:15:34 the first true knowledge is knowing you know nothing

Tanya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:15:56 Where is the funding going to come from for this technology??

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:16:00 socrates and/or thoreau

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:16:15 I agree with you about the need to continue the basics...what would happen if this all did go away?

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:16:16 quite often from the companies selling it

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:16:30 this is like the futuristic movies with Will Smith

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:16:43 Try this there are churches that allow the cong. to twi during sermons.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:17:03 why not. people talk during sermons

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:17:29 yea, but we shouldn

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:17:37 yes, be we shouldn

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:17:44 never mind

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:17:50 those toe rings look stoopid

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:17:53 but we do and if the church allows it, they are not saying you should not

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:18:01 Without going to the theology, it is rude.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:18:31 so we are supposed to stop thinking during a sermon

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:18:48 thats an internal monologue

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:18:56 thinking doesn't always include talking

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:19:05 agreed

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:19:05 I agree toe ring stupid and pretend phone stupider

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:19:54 yes, but remember when a box with moving pictures was stupid?

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:19:59 He ma

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 08:20:03 but our grandchildren may have them

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:20:09 or a man on the moon?

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:20:14 Did those toe rings screw into your foot?!!!

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:20:20 The future is a quantum world

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:20:33 true betsy

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:20:42 In

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:20:46 He just made a great point. We are not preparing for our future, we are preparing children. Let's remember that. I'm an old bookworm so this is hard for me to hear, but he is right.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:21:15 check out on you tube the video- shift happens-get the most up to date version

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:21:18 AGAIN, what is best for our kids..at home and those we teah? we must get them ready to deal

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:21:28 The bad thing is the kids already know more than we do about technology

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:21:36 why is it bad

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:21:38 true

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:22:01 In twenty years, my trailer will still have the same two ancient computers, but they will just be older - at least I am inferring this from NC's present valuation of teachers and public schools

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:22:14 because what can we teach them if they already know it?

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:22:27 de

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:22:28 pe

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:22:40 how to integrate what we do into that technology

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:22:41 That's why we have to stay up on our game!

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:22:45 depends upon what it is that they already know

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:23:06 you can tweet all day, but i have to lead you through huckleberry finn

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:23:44 Another problem is we can make them literate today (technologically) but the test is still based on traditional literacy.

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:23:46 Isn't that why most of us are here.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:24:08 yes

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:24:17 i had to fight and lost at my school to let kids do eocs on computer

John Doll (US) • 2009-06-17 08:24:44 The

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:25:03 they are more engaged taking the computer test

Kelly Smith (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:25:48 Computer tests prepare them better for college.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:25:56 if we had the funding all learning and assessing would one day be on computer

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:26:07 Exactly we all took the PRAXIS

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:20 accuplacer and other tests for intro are going all computer

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:21 we don't need text books anymore?!?!

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:43 No, and think of the money the state would save.

Kelly Smith (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:47 GRE's were computer based too!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:50 no, and thank goodness for that -there is a bunch of money freed up for computers

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:26:53 we need to focus on teaching our children how to filter all the information that is being thrown at them being in a digital age

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:27:06 I took the PRAXIS on paper

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:27:16 However, regardless, if the tests are taken on a computer or not, they will still assess based on traditional teaching methods.

Chris Robertson (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:27:36 he's making a great point; they trust everything on the internet

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:27:47 If we teach like this they will be way more prepared, but the tests won't show that. The state has to be on board.

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:27:55 so now we teach them not to

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:28:28 He is making a great point and Chris Haas also made the same point yesterday!

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:28:28 it should be a lot cheaper to have textbooks on cd like my teacher manual.

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:28:30 we trusted everything in print at our students age

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:28:36 We also trust eveything we hear on the news, but information from any source is often skewed

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:28:48 amen!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:28:53 we have to judge the level of bias

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:29:00 that's why they need to learn to think

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:29:22 analyzing websites is a great way to teach critical thinking skills

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:29:22 amen!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:29:24 agreed and using a computer is not exclusive of learning to think

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:30:16 i fully agree - i actually like technology

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:31:43 Remember the rule,when the legend is better than the truth, print the legend.

shawn (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:33:17 While focusing on literacy, we have to include media literacy and make sure students do not blindly believe everything they see/read online.

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 08:33:39 totally agree!!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:33:52 to fight the state about the technology we have to know it. that's how we get what we want in the classroom

shawn (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:34:15 Hopefully this week will help.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:34:42 I think I need more than a week!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:34:56 i plan to need a lifetime

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:35:43 amen!

shawn (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:35:54 LOL! We've actually discussed how to extend this for you guys.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:36:11 Good

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:36:25 That would be wonderful!

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:36:37 All that he just said is what the state "wants" too; critical thinking, evaluating, etc. So sad, that they won't assess that way!

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:36:40 I'm on board with that!!

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:36:45 I am making notes for other teachers to use some of these different tools in their area.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:36:56 agreed jennifer

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:38:47 the scos is not evaluated by most eocs, but i digress

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:39:07 very true

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:39:25 or eogs

Scott (Nc) • 2009-06-17 08:39:32 Why then do the students need us? Why don't they just come in, sit down, and google how to factor polynomials?

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:39:53 don't kid, thats coming I think

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:40:30 students learn in many different ways, many different learning styles - many cannot just look at steps and get it

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:40:43 that was my point

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:40:49 perhaps that will save our jobs

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:40:57 G

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:41:05 They still need to learn English.

Brent Tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:41:17 Good teaching takes care of test scores.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:41:23 no thry need to be multi lingual

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:41:36 computers will not steal our jobs unless we let them

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:41:55 I was on the math adoption committee last summer and there was actually a publisher that had a cd that taught every objective in their book

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:04 i don't know, teaching may become obsolete

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:10 our jobs are safe aas long as we remember that we FACILITATE LEARNING...even when we must change to do so and incorporate learning styles and compensate for learning needs

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:15 you would still need a teacher to help facilitate

Megan (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:25 yes

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:26 that would be my point

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:27 amen sonya bet me too it

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:42:37 beat me to it even

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:42:46 that is sad...i had students who said their previous math teacher taught them by videos offline

Ashley (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:43:11 in the future, education will be on the computer. there will be no need to have teachers, they will have online classes where students learn. it is already started in the colleges.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:43:29 schoolhouse rock was how I learned my multiplication facts

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:43:36 the online classes, which i have taught, still have teachers

Ashley (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:00 i know, i mean in a school classroom setting

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:04 it has already started in the high schools

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:20 nova net and the uncg online school

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:20 computers only do what people have them do...teachers need to facilitate that knowledge...these are children we are facilitaitng for

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:32 true

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:44:43 actually it wasn't a cd it was a dvd and it was weird because the teacher never got frustrated even though she had to repeat herself for the 50th time because a particular student didn't understand

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:45:24 I work in Special Ed...I've spent 15 years trying to work myself out of a job, so to speak...my kids still need me!

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:45:24 as stated earlier...students learn in different ways

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:45:37 still poor teaching on the whole. only helps some kids

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:45:47 we can't bookmark because it will go away the next day

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:45:55 i am all for bringing in multiple supplemental materials, but i still think the teacher needs to be there to answer the questions and come up with other ways to get information through to the students

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:45:56 ABSOLUTELY, Lisa

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:46:09 write down the link or print the info.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:46:23 deep freeze does suck

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:46:43 but bookmarks do stay

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:46:49 Janee....naturally, but we have t incorporate the tehnology for them to be prepared for the future

Annamarie (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:46:56 deep freeze should be gone - talk to your media or tech person

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:47:07 understood.

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:47:18 either way, bookmarks and favorites stayed

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:47:29 they took deep freeze out

Janee • 2009-06-17 08:47:34 i agree completely

Chris Robertson (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:48:48 is deep freeze supposed to be gone?

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:48:50 wow, this could give our kids those personal experiences they so desperately lack

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:49:09 i still say the potential is phenominal...WHOOO-HOOO

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:49:18 me too!!!!

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 08:49:39 This stuff is all about Marzano and Bloom - great integration of HOTS

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:50:19 i am going to cstw at teacher academy, very excited. when i was in wilmington we had to do marzano. good stuff

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 08:50:53 chris, deep freeze should have been removed sometime over the last 9 weeks.

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:51:51 Is the qtvr available with any pic if you include it in the search?

Scott (Nc) • 2009-06-17 08:52:14 deep freeze is gone but now you have to have administrator rights to do ANYTHING.

Chris Robertson (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:52:25 thanks wendy

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:53:31 and now the chat begins to drift off as we tire and need a break

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:53:39 haha

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:53:58 This really cool, but I can only put a face to some of your names...I still like to talk to people face to face

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:54:06 called it!!!!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 08:54:30 I am brian costin- let the persecution begin..;.haha

betsy burton (us) • 2009-06-17 09:00:43 Will this book teach me how to do all this stuff

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:09:06 i guess we will have to read it and find out

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:09:51 btw, i love technology, but I never want to lose books. I have over five thousand in my home

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:23:22 I think that is important to teach our kids... love books and technology, use all resources to learn

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:24:28 I agree Anna Lee

Lowell (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:24:36 If you have a tool that will make learning easier then you should use it

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:25:39 I have used the internet to find and share information with my students, but I guess I never realized the magnitude of this resource

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:26:38 the possibilities are limitless

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:27:33 with that said... it is easy to get overwhelmed!

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:27:51 you said it sister!

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:30:05 OMG that is cool!

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:32:44 that is cool. the tagcrowd site I will use immediately

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 09:45:51 cute, my son makes stick figure videos on some web site

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:39:24 spam spam spam spam spam.....i am suddenly hungry

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:40:02 A Monty Python fan, huh?

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:41:30 yeppers

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:41:53 i want spam cheese egg spam cheese and spam

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:48:43 I prefer shrimp

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:49:12 It didn't print everything

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 10:49:37 I was making a Bubba Gump reference

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 11:50:12 Run, Lisa, Run

Babaganouj (NC) • 2009-06-17 11:51:08 margaret mead? cmon

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 11:55:07 You obvious were not Anthropology major

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 11:59:02 what movie is the name "babaganouj" from? it's driving me crazy.

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:00:52 Content Building; Connection Making; conversation Mining

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:03:58 babaganouj is a mediterranean food

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:04:41 dennis miller used to say it a lot and its a running joke and nickname for people being silly in my family

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:04:56 Here Comes Everybody - book about how people contribute to others..we have cognitive surplus...to fill that at the turn of century was drink gin....50s and 60s, it was sitcoms...today it is used to build in the internet things people can use

Anthony (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:05:06 David

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:06:15 no, annamarie, english and theater with side of sociology and psychology

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:06:33 i just didn't recognize her, i know who she is

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:07:21 What exactly is a Wiki?

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:08:23 How are wikis and blogs different?

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:08:50 Someone help us!

Tanya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:08:53 How do we set them up and get started??

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 12:09:04 it seems that a wiki is a blog you and anyone who enters your site can change and add to ????

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 12:09:45 there is a wiki site that is free if you google it

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:10:13 hope no one throws down in here due to the BLOG questions. LOL!

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 12:10:16 www.wiki.com

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:11:53 blog (blŏg) n. A weblog. intr.v. blogged, blog·ging, blogs To write entries in, add material to, or maintain a weblog.

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:11:57 wi·ki (wĭk'ē) n. pl. wi·kis A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:12:06 you find the time if its important and if not, its not a big deal

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:13:16 those are from dictionary.com

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 12:13:25 thanks

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:13:53 Definitely. You don't have to do it all, but as educators we have to be aware of what's out there for us to use as resources.

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:13:57 if you don't have time to blog, twit, or facebook...then dont do it

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:14:30 i find the time because i sleep about four hours a night, and its not a choice

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:14:47 amen

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:14:49 so since i am awake, i keep up with what i can if i can

Lowell (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:14:50 you should use the tool that best fits you. You can't use all the tools out there. You don't have the time it would take.

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:14:51 or maybe try it to see if you can use it to work smarter not harder

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:15:14 sonya, i was typing those exact last four words

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:15:15 Great ideas. Way to keep it positive.

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:15:25 work smarter, not harder...i like that

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:15:28 "Excuses are tools of the incompetent Which build monuments to nothing And those who engage in their uses Are seldom capable of anything else." -Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:15:41 i love that

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:15:46 yeah stephen, you lost me again

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:15:53 WOW! coolbeans!

Julie (US) • 2009-06-17 12:16:21 terry we need u to break out into Guitar Hero in about 2.5 seconds. OK???

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:17:31 I hardly think taking care of kids is an excuse

Kathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:17:45 Please remember to be respectful of the presenter!

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:18:03 I agree

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:18:07 neither do I, but when my son goes to bed, i use my time

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:18:46 having kids is time consuming, and so is teaching and learning

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:19:06 i think anyone would say that

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:20:42 kids of different ages have different needs...even my 14 year old who is not "little"....respect to parents who teach...go back to work smarter not harder

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:21:02 Is twittering basically like instant messaging with many people?

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:21:11 yes ma'am

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:21:12 yeah, sort of

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:21:33 only to people who want to know what you are doing

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:22:01 lot of people hook it to their cellphone so you receive it as text

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:22:50 lot of movie stars and musicians use it, obama used it during the election

Megan (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:23:11 connected to your cell seems to make it make more sense

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:24:09 Earlier, I thought Twitter was ridiculous. I can see the usefulness of it as a resource.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:24:20 So, socially then, it's a little bit like the Facebook blurbs: Hey this is what I'm doing now

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:24:35 honestly, i think its kind of silly....yes heather, exactly

stephen (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:24:38 "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" There are many genre that repeat this theme. Family,ministry, teaching all are time consuming yet by God's graces it get done.

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:24:38 However, I still think it's silly to keep up with celebrities or just let people know what you're doing constantly.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:24:43 Jennifer, I do think socially it's egocentric and obnoxious

Megan (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:24:46 yes

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:24:55 agreed

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:24:55 Some of my kids' parents said they would like to know what was going on in our class during the day..this would be an interesting way to keep some parents up to date

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:25:14 i can see its uses and its easy to use

Megan (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:25:15 interesting idea

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:25:41 thank you, Stephen-Yoda, but too true

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:26:38 can anyone respond to a person's twit?

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:27:03 you have to be on their subscriber list or connected like we are

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:27:17 So this is just another way to have more friends?

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:27:32 i disagree. he says a lot that is valuable.

Megan (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:27:37 in the sense we would use it it is actually a way to have access to resources

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 12:27:56 someone mentioned pageflakes it looks like it might help with organizing

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:27:57 this is a fast way to get valuable information

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:28:32 it has good uses, but it is often used silly

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:28:41 sillily even

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:29:12 ahhhhh....know the source of information...trust but confirm

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:29:53 What is pageflakes?!!!

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:30:04 yeah, never heard of that either/

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:30:18 good question...new to me

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 12:31:06 can go to www.pageflakes.com check it out

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 12:31:10 www.pageflakes.com allows you to set your location for weather, calendar, e-mail, facebook, and twitter

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:31:19 i just looked it up, looks like a way to organize all your sites you go to

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:32:00 sounds like a way to save time too

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:32:30 looks like that, its like internet picture in picture

afranzen (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:39:19 so is second life free to visit but costs to stay?

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:39:29 Does anyone use Quest Atlantis?

carolyn (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:39:45 don't like avatars - don't like virtual worlds - everything is harder

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:41:38 i think second life is free, but if you want certain things you have to pay

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:42:35 QA is like this for kids in 4th-8th grade; they have avatars and they complete learning quests individually and in community.

Angela Raby (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:42:39 My son uses Quest Atlantis. It was introduced and set up for him by his AIG teacher. He really likes it!

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:42:53 I couldn't use this because I am getting nausiated just watching this now.

Julie (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:43:05 The AIG teacher at my school used it with her kids. I never really caught what they were actually doing though.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:43:19 Yes, 3 AIG teachers in the county use QA.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:43:51 i will check it out, is it kid related?

Angela Raby (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:43:51 My son has corresponded with students his age as far away as Australia. It introduces another whole world to him.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:44:01 Angela, Does you son really do the quest work?

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:44:05 i mean only for kids

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:44:26 My students liked the social element more than the learning element.

Angela Raby (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:45:24 Actually, I think he's like most of your students...likes the social aspect.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:45:25 is it only for kids?

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:45:52 QA is for kids only.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:46:25 thanks. i have playstation home on the beta edition

Angela Raby (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:46:39 Doesn't QA have to been school/organization sponsored?

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:46:48 It began as a guy's dissertation. It's really safe. Monitored 24/7. Cannot get it without teacher setting you up, and teacher must be trained.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:46:58 its like this but it has movies that you pay to watch, pay per view

Kathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:47:31 Give greetings to Trish Johnson, our Associate Superintendent who has joined us!

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:47:42 Hi Trish!

Julie (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:47:58 Greetings!!

Bethany (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:47:59 Hi Trish! Great seeing you here!

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:48:03 Welcome, Trish! This has been an incredible session...and week!

Soleil (BU) • 2009-06-17 12:48:07 Hey Trish

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:48:10 hi trish

Randy Hart (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:48:18 welcome Trish. good to see ya

Lowell (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:48:19 hello

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:48:21 hello trish!

Tanya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:48:29 Hello Trish

donna (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:48:43 Hello Trish. Glad you joined us.

afranzen (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:48:43 hi Trish. So much great info to absorb!!

Kelly (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:49:05 Trish, I need to see you about something. Will you be around for a bit?

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:49:06 Hey Trish.

sandy (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:49:18 hi Trish can you believe I'm doing this????

Wendy kyro (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:49:25 Hi Trish. How are you? I am fine. I am sitting here learning about technology. Later, I will go home.

dana (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:51:56 should we be spending all this time on something we cannot use in the classroom?

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:53:02 we can use this...through our staff development we get on the screen

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:53:12 I think the whole point is being connected to other educators.

Megan (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:53:24 yes

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:53:30 I don't know, but it is very interesting

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:53:32 If he wouldn't have presented this, I wouldn't know about Quest Atlantis which is for kids.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 12:55:01 i like learning everything about this kind of stuff...i don't care much for sl

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 12:57:22 on a non-teacher topic: support local music http://www.endoftheworldrecords.com/

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 13:06:34 thanks heather, i am always on the lookout for new music

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:07:19 4/5 of the artists are local and they're really talented

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:08:57 I went to school with Chris Church!

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:09:49 Chris's album is good. It's my favorite of all the artists.

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:11:25 He's a nut!!! I wonder who broke his heart to write about unrequited love?

Lisa Abernathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:12:12 Are you an artist too, or connected to one? Do you know Rick Stapleton?

Kathy (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:15:52 Technorati.com

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 13:24:24 welcome?

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-17 13:27:00 test

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:28:45 there are no limits to what we can do in our classrooms...the future is in managing this knowledge!!!

Lowell (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:29:52 THe management is the true challenge

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:30:18 beibng able to manage it is where it becomes way cool!!!

Wayne (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:30:35 What is RSS?

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:31:16 anyway...we work toether to manage it...remember, fellow specialists...we work together, we work better

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:31:47 oops...together

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 13:41:10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

Annamarie (us) • 2009-06-17 13:41:33 the librarian needs to find information

Jennifer (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:47:26 So netvibes is a way of keeping up with the sites, blogs, etc. you are using?

afranzen (nc) • 2009-06-17 13:53:31 It sounds to me like it is keeping up with current events to keep students interested and feeling like the learning is relevant.

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:55:30 not all current events...things which help you teach..relevant to your classroom

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 13:57:14 it is a way to manage information that you need and you use to keep you ahead of the game, so yes, it keeps your information (that you choose) to keep up with organized

kay • 2009-06-17 14:01:23 WOW....awesome resources!!!

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 14:03:20 this is history as it happens....the human experience in action...AWE...RESPECT

Sonya (NC) • 2009-06-17 14:19:23 today's session has been unbelievalble!!! all of thet websites, the new tools, ways to organize the information we want to keep up with..Heaven's, this is AWESOME!!!! I will be using these tools as much as I can to become a teacher who is "in the know" for my students...growing and learning with my guys, and sometimes from my guys!!!

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:11:55 anyone on here this morning?

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:18:17 is there anybody out there????

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:20:02 you there?

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:20:22 I'm here!

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:20:42 did you see where bev removed the state mandate for grad project. its totally local choice now

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:21:34 yes; i'm thinking CC will continue it since it's virtually free to the county (coordinator positions)

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:21:53 i think most probably will, but i found that interesting

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:22:09 removing that state mandate will make some counties pull out

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:23:07 I'm sure it could be more difficult in some areas than others to get good community involvement as mentors and judges.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:24:04 I was impressed how well it went here. in new hanover county, it had been going for seven years when i started so i didn't experience

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:24:12 growing pains

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:24:43 it certainly will need shaping, but the community buy in was impressive to me

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:24:56 I think CC did an awesome job for year 1!

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:25:46 agreed...the one thing that i think we need to focus on is what we called recovery in new hanoverr

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:26:31 for the kids who didn't make it the first time. there they frontloaded classes

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:28:29 With students doing research paper in 11th, it gives students more time to succeed.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:29:11 west didn't do it that way

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:30:04 we didn't do research early. my take was always that we should do a piece of it per year of high school

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:30:13 not was but is

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:34:07 for whatever reason, we at west always do things differently from everyone else. don't know?

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:36:38 It's ok for schools to have a unique identity. What works for one may not work for another. We're feeling good about our choice.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:36:44 we have some kind of teacher rivalry that makes no sense to me

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:37:21 sure we should have unique id, but this is almost stubborn

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:37:31 I refuse to participate in such a rivalry. We're here for Caldwell County students.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:37:49 i am with you, i am sure you know that

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:38:27 i think sometimes things are said to me because they think i will go home and tell melissa

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:39:10 Some seem to think of it like an athletic rivalry. Personally, I would like to see every high school in CC scoring above 80%.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:39:46 oh, the athletic rivalry is definitely there, but this is out loud spoken education rivalry

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:40:22 how about over ninety

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-18 08:41:11 I was thinking last night about how key collaboration is to all this technology. . . it's very "whole is greater than part"

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:41:25 Being the spouse of an adm at a "rival" school could be a bit sticky at times.

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:41:51 Yeah, 90%.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-18 08:41:56 which makes me think emphasizing creativity and individual product is essential

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:43:02 The collaboration among students as well as teachers is key. It's so hard though because I'm brain dead from 3:30-5:30, then I get a second wind.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:46:06 yes heather I agree with you

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:48:23 and yes, it is sticky so I keep my mouth shut and have taken to eating in my room with a few of my more positive colleagues

brent tomberlin (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:49:10 The rivalries are there - but it really takes communication to get over some of that. High School social studies teachers have gotten over a lot of that in the last few years as a result of the Teaching American History grant. I know at South, we pull for everyone to do well because it is about students

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 08:51:57 i understand a good hearted athletic rivalry, but educationally a positive rivalry would even make sense but its not positive

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:11:27 I used Skype during a study of Night for students to talk with a Holocaust survivor in Israel. It was really compelling. Students were hooked.

Anna Lee Potter (NC) • 2009-06-18 09:13:16 very cool. what a way to use technology!

Soleil (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:14:49 that is great!

Kelly (NC) • 2009-06-18 09:15:17 I agree. That is a really neat idea. It gives students a chance to experience something they may never have the opportunity to do.

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:15:34 that is awesome

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:16:47 you want to share that information when/if i ever teach world lit again

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:18:39 that was a question sandra

babaganouj (nc) • 2009-06-18 09:18:58 contrary to the punctuation lol.

Heather (NC) • 2009-06-18 09:47:24 Wow, Sandra. I bet that was really powerful!

sandra (nc) • 2009-06-18 10:23:01 I'd be happy to share the information, but I was highly dependent upon a student's parent for the webcam/contact in Israel.

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 12:50:56 HEy NC 1 to 1 Folks :)

Natalie (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:03 Hey

Clovis (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:08 I look forward to reading your conversation...

Not the Nice Guy (US) • 2009-07-08 12:51:10 This is cool!

Neill Kimrey (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:17 This could be a formative assessment tool in One-to-One schools....

jeanne dillman (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:51:24 hello 1:1....I'm overwhelmed.

ljbrooks (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:51:24 Wow!

Mike (US) • 2009-07-08 12:51:25 Hey guys!

Brenda Wooten (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:27 This is my first attempt at twittering.

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:40 He really said he's not a nice guy, but he seems smart!

Morgan (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:51 I still have no idea what Twitter is in the first place...

Leslie Jones (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:54 Going one to one is something I have dreaming about for several years:)

Carmen (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:51:54 I'm a twitter virgin too!

John B (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:01 Hey Ya'll

ljbrooks (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:52:11 My colleagues are a little slow at this...can you slow down?

Hiller (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:24 This is fun!

wrennv (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:52:26 Hey everyone. I am a nice gal.

Natalie (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:28 This reminds me a little of an tool called "Illuminate", has anyone heard of that?

Gary Oakley (US) • 2009-07-08 12:52:31 I'm getting dizzy.

niceguy (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:52:37 Hi i am a nice guy too!

GlennK (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:43 Can my brain multi-task and attend to David while I tweet or knit or whatever I'm doing?

Daniel Colvin (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:51 Impressive, sometimes difficult to keep up.

Kelly (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:52:58 I feel old

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:53:02 elluminate is how you spell it

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:53:07 I can't get off Orientation Island. I'll never make it to David's SL office!

chrisblice (US) • 2009-07-08 12:53:08 Glad to be here with all you techie folks!

Natalie (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:53:28 nope, this program is spelled with an "i"

nicolebaker (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:53:29 It is exciting. Moving real fast.

GlennK (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:53:41 Natalie--eLuminate does this and lots more, but they are similar. We use it for webinars.

Joselyn Todd (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:53:53 Anyone who is overwhelmed- hang in there...

niceguy (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:53:55 what! tech trouble?!

Natalie (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:53:56 yes

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:00 I am learning LOTS and LOTS of new stuff!

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:24 Great advice, Joselyn!

watkins (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:54:25 Wow!!

GlennK (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:31 I see, the is an eluminate and an illuminate. I know the "e" one but not the "i" one

Patsy (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:35 It is good to know that even the big guys have tech problems

Terence (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:41 I'm still thinking

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:54:48 anyone else ever use Prezi?

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:54:49 Got in!

Amber (US) • 2009-07-08 12:54:59 ok- finally got in!

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:55:14 Prezi, good for netbooks? does it crash much?

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:55:16 does spelling matter?

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:55:23 What's Prezi?!?

gbryant (US) • 2009-07-08 12:55:24 I know who the "nice guy" is!!

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:55:26 Howdy

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 12:55:51 Jeff Utecht has a great blog post about using the backchannel http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheThinkingStick/~3 /E0W3YSWU-6I/it-takes-time-to-focus-on-a-back-chan nel-chat

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 12:56:24 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/it-takes-time-to-f ocus-on-a-back-channel-chat

Aaron (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:56:54 prezi.com is a web based presentation tool

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 12:57:14 Prezi zooms a bit too much for me - but this one doesn't jump too much :) http://prezi.com/

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:58:02 I could stay on this all day!!

Aaron (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:58:13 I prefer the typewriter sounds from powerpoint :)

niceguy (nc) • 2009-07-08 12:58:17 i'm afraid that wasn't chicken at lunch!

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:58:24 This is the tool of an ADHD user! I love it!

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:58:28 The factory-model high school.... It's still with us. Many community members still see that as the desired model.

Kelly (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:58:56 not just community members...teachers, administrators, etc. do too

GlennK (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:59:05 Yes, we need to get everyone to understand we need to move beyond the factory model

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:59:39 The only thing that will make those community people change their minds is when the kids show love for 'new schools'!

GlennK (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:59:41 My wife won't let me cancel our home phone, even though we all have cell phones'

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 12:59:49 I'm afraid to get rid of our home phone

Keith Pittman (NC) • 2009-07-08 12:59:53 Bad cell signal in my house. Can't give up land line yet, but I carry a cell.

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:00:12 I'm with you, GlennK.

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:00:34 My hubby has a bad signal too, and It makes us feel corporate to have two cells and a land line!!

Neill Kimrey (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:00:51 for those of you who carry iPhones, try audioboo.fm. Cool tool for audio micro-blogging.

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:01:12 Johnnerlyn, I'm with you... I'm an NSP Principal!

sherry (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:01:28 Bethany, what are you afraid of?

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:01:44 Today was 123456789 day (while we ate lunch). It was at 12:34:56 7-8-9. You were there!

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:01:46 Not having power and needing to call 911

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:02:31 I may be a techie - but I still have my phobias :)

Patsy (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:02:51 Love the fact Jimo

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:02:54 "We are spending too much time teaching our children how to use paper."

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:03:04 said david warlick

Frances Bradburn (US) • 2009-07-08 13:03:21 I'm with Bethany. If you've ever been in a devastatinig hurricane, the only thing that worked was the landline.

Jesse (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:03:43 Have home phone, but it is voip, and cell phone backup for home alarm plus cell phones

Leslie Jones (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:03:58 I gave mine home phone up three years ago. If I have a power out with storms I have electric access in my hybrid.

Norma (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:03:58 What is skype?

Joselyn Todd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:03:59 Theda- Kids are much less concerned about paper- ADULTS are concerned about paper.

Joselyn Todd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:04:25 Skype- a way to video conference over the Internet

Neill Kimrey (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:04:38 Skype is a telephone-like online tool that uses the internet to transmit voice (and chat)

Jesse (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:04:44 skype is onlone program to voice chat by calling

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:04:45 Ustream is good to for streaming out conference sessions

chrisblice (US) • 2009-07-08 13:04:51 I still need it on paper every once in a while

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:04:58 joselynn, i wasn't disagreeing with david!

niceguy (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:05:01 looks like Bruno's jacket!

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:05:09 http://www.ustream.tv/

Joselyn Todd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:05:35 Ustream is also good for having a synchronous chatroom simulateously with the video

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:06:03 "Roasted Brown" shows the least dirt.... ;-)

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:06:16 Is he serious or is he joking!!

Neill Kimrey (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:06:19 http://stickam.com/ is another great tool for streaming and conferencing...

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:06:36 "Recalibrating...."

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:07:19 Warlick says, "I am not preparing my students for my future, am I?"

niceguy (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:07:43 maybe the 'Borg' werent too far off!

Morgan (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:07:56 that is a very scary though

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:08:06 You will be assimilated.... Resistance is futile!

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:08:24 DW: "WE are preparing our children for a future we cannot clearly describe."

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:08:41 Sometimes I have to stop and take it all in b/c it moves so fast!!!! What is left to change??

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:08:45 not content, but skills!!!

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:09:08 I remember being excited about an Apple IIe with an 80-column card. It had a complete memory of 256k.

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:09:29 I still have an Apple IIc

sherry (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:09:46 I still have one too!

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:10:08 So you still do the 5 1/2" disk flip?

Anthony (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:10:12 Hey there is that package they lost of mine!

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:10:20 global cooperation, not global competition

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:10:32 @Gregg - only when I play Oregon Trail ;)

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:10:41 I just bought my 8 yr old a Gameboy Advance SP. I told him his peers will say "your mom is old-fashioned"!

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:10:47 Timex Sinclair with 4K of RAM, no storage, 1Mhz processor. THAT was a computer!

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:11:13 we have a tremendous deficit of engineers in the US

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:11:48 Richard Florida spoke at the FI a few years back - really great speaker

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:12:00 DW - jinx :)

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:12:47 We're still 300K in the hole....

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:13:17 DW: creative arts are also important for us in the US. We are looking for the new story, the plot.

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:14:36 I heard Sir Ken Robinson speak at a New Schools Institute. Same message about the impoartance of creativity. Similar speech on TED

Anthony (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:15:14 I once played 8track games. It was like choose your own adventure books.

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:15:45 I love Ken Robinson's TED talk about creativity - v. cool

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:16:05 Cool zoom in feature on a picture of a girl. two different levels of text

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:18:35 We don't need to say goodbye to our friends because we carry them with us! That's true!!!

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:19:09 TED talks are the best way to get inspired

Bethany Smith (US) • 2009-07-08 13:19:23 Technology means you never have to say goodbye - good tagline :)

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:19:40 We are sitting in this classroom and we are all as wired as we want to be right now. Are you having a hard time learning? I am not.

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:20:03 I have so many quotable quotes from him.

Leslie Jones (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:20:04 If you are listening to TED please go sign up.

Leslie Jones (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:21:12 not listening sorry

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:21:38 meredith wilson (citation)

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:22:10 When we ignore the technology in our classrooms, do we run the risk of seeming out of date, do we lose our credibility as learners?

Julian Nichols-Wilson (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:22:14 Theda, I wonder how many students have been punished for doing the same thing.

Lois Clement (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:23:11 We do need this kind of broadband to homes and community centers.

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:23:18 Messopotamia, yes. Macedonia, no

Johnnerlyn (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:23:32 So many teachers, staff become worried about being "shown up" by the students!! WHY!?!!

Lois Clement (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:25:29 Can we use student construction of virtual worlds as assessments ?

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:25:57 I am interested in learning more about gaming and brain research, that brains engaged in games are more receptive to learning. Send me some links, if you have some.

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:26:43 My two sons (12 and 14) are very comfortable in virtual worlds.

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:27:05 my kids have been to Club Penguin and WebKinz. The totally safe, scripted, cute places are easy, as are the adult spaces. My daughter is 11 and struggles to find a virtual place for her age group.

nicolebaker (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:27:56 Very Interesting; I think about how much we are holding them back-students that is

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:28:13 Sadie is using her Nintendo DS to learn Japanese. Ergo, she is teaching herself language construction and grammar.

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:29:16 Using the game environment as a movie set. Too cool!

Tecfacnoob (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:29:28 machima

Anthony (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:29:39 that's awesome

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:30:14 information as a product VERSUS information as a raw material

Jaclyn Bell (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:30:25 Red vs. Blue is a wonderufl example of gaming becoming a movie... teenagers started making it using Halo, now it is a million dollar industry and they make their living creating these films

Frances Bradburn (US) • 2009-07-08 13:30:27 information is a raw material

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:30:28 Google Numa Numa.... It's in World of Warcraft as well.

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:31:04 Marshall McCluhan (?): "the medium IS the message."

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:34:30 we must be able to depend on others as literate citizens

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:34:38 Anyone know where I can find that 'Can't Touch This' video?

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:34:46 What do we hope they know [now that they have all these tools]? (This is the $64,000 question)

chrisblice (US) • 2009-07-08 13:35:14 Great stuff, big job training and conditioning teachers to use this to help kids pass the EOCs ...Ooopps, there's an issue

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:35:51 Peggy: also worth $64K: how do we enable students to discern fact from mis- or disinformation?

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:36:17 There goes the hierarchy

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:36:55 64% of American teens have produced and published original digital content to real audiences over the Internet.

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:37:44 Learning in the Flat Classroom: first, the teacher's role has to change radically from the source of information to the key questioner.

Cathy (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:38:09 Jimo - http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids. individual

JimO (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:38:31 Thanks Cathy!

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:38:43 Greg: and the teacher must use these tools herself, authentically, if she is to remain helpful to her students. Yes?

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:39:56 Theda: Absolutely! You get it! (But those of us who know you, know that already!)

Lois Clement (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:39:58 how do we make sure students have the say vocabulary to participate in interactive tech and online publishing?

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:40:16 Numa Numa in WoW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHF483cuzuY

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:41:04 Theda: Absolutely! You get it! (But those of us who know you know that already....)

peggy weaver (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:42:29 Kids not interested in Othello? Horrors! Now that is a problem

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:42:46 Numa Numa in WoW: lots of pages here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en

Greg T (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:43:51 Oops: url too long. Google "Numa Numa WoW"

Lois Clement (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:44:13 I like the term learning lifestyles

Theda Rudd (nc) • 2009-07-08 13:45:58 Thanks, David.

Leslie Jones (NC) • 2009-07-08 13:47:17 I had not seen the last "We are not Afraid" Thanks for another great experience - David Warlick.