Archive for November, 2009

The WOW factor -must check out!

Okay, so I was looking atthe journal. The cover article is the WoW factor. The picture shows a guild, nice one too, standing atop a hill. The group is armored to the hilt. Being a previous Warcraft player, I was curious as to why the educational dept. was recieveing mags about WOW. So, I went to the journal‘s web site to sign-up (free) and low and behold, I discovered a guild of educators!!! Guild Name: Cognitive Dissonance

WOW Guild: Cognitive Dissonance
(Guild Master Vyktorea is center front)


They are ranked #8 out of 333 guilds on their server, so they are no small group to trifle with. Their guild leader,Vyktorea, is an assistant super. Another biggy I met last night (I joined up of course: Camdenai) was Syzyrgy and he is a Tech. Dir. They are both out of New York. I also met Denata and she is from Shepardsville, KY.

If you ever thought of joining a MMORPG and talking a little education, this is the group.

They also spoke of a WOW project in the article. Check it out (includes lesson plans, etc…) wowinschool

Differentiated Instruction and Technology

This is one of the more interesting sessions from the NMSA ’09 Conference. Below is the link to the website that will open the Powerpoint to the session. To those who don’t want to go through the whole session, I will highlight a few videos and links in the PP.

Dr. M. Monte Tatom
P Theroux, Teacher,
Alberta, Canada
Updated 11/09/2005
ptheroux@shaw.ca

Enhance Learning with Technology : Differentiated, Instruction, Technology

Visual Blooms
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Web 2.0 VERY COOL Web Site: Cool Tools for Schools

National Coneference of State Legislatures: Interesting facts and figures to twirl around.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!

Keynotes

I will expand on all the good info later, but I thought I would give you something to chew on. I just got back from the National Middle School Conference (NMSA) in Indianapolis. Technology was all the rage this year. One of the keynote speakers on tech. was Novemeber. His site is at http://novemberlearning.com/ is filled with much of what he believes we should know beyond just tech tools, but should apply in knowledge. He spent his Sat. session showing us how to find out if a site is valid and proving that it would be worthwhile for our students to also have these skills. There is also some simple syntax skills that are really neat. I hope to update you on all the really cool things in the near future. Unfortunately, I also managed to get the flu the first day I was there and I am under the weather. I’ll be right as rain soon and will have the video for the closing speaker, Rick Wormli, to share with everyone.

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