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I love attending conferences with colleagues. Truth be told, the content and location of the conference are so much less important than the time spent together off campus, with time to free-associate, dream and collaborate together. But as it happens, BLC08 is turning out to be simply fabulous. We’re trying something new — a [...]

I’ve been very anxious to begin playing with the new educational version of Voicethread, and I finally found a willing set of guinea pigs in our 2nd Grade Team. If all goes according to plan, we should begin recording student voices later this week. For $10, it has been relatively easy to set up an [...]

As I wrote in “I May Be Nuts, But…” a few months ago, I am now the advisor of a 1x/week blog club for 6th Graders. Although the first meeting attracted boys only, by the end of November we had 7 girls in the club as well. The kids were completely pumped about the opportunity [...]

..some 6th Grade boys approached me last month with the idea of starting a lunchtime blogging and podcasting club. After procrastinating as long as humanly possible, I finally agreed.
We had our first meeting today, and while I was thrilled to see that 12 kids showed up, I was somewhat disappointed that none of them were [...]

It seems like my immediate circle of friends, neighbors and colleagues have discovered the blogosphere and I am having so much fun getting inside their heads and hearing about their personal and professional lives. Here are some of the newest blogs in my community:

Loose Parts: Our twin sons’ preschool teacher recently launched [...]

 Here’s a link to another terrific presentation from the K12 Online Conference, given by John Pearce of Geelong, Victoria, Australia:

http://k12online.wm.edu/its_elementary/player.html

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I was peeking around the super-cool K-12 Online Conference website, and I stumbled upon a fantastic session given by Kathy Cassidy from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. As the title suggests, she describes the ways in which she is incorporating blogs and other tools into her teaching. Here is the link to her conference session, here [...]

I recently presented a session at the CAIS (California Association of Independent Schools) Northern Regional Meeting in Atherton, CA. The session was entitled “Hello World! Blogging and Podcasting in the Elementary Classroom.”
If you attended today’s session, please be sure to leave a comment letting us all know how you’re intending to use blogs & podcasts [...]

OK…so if 2005-06 was the year of the Duck Blog, 2006-07 is the year of the Trout Blog! To see our latest endeavor, go to:
http://www.mcdsblogs.org/trout

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It appears that Duck Diaries has been awarded the special Edublog Star Award (Convenors choice) as part of the Annual 2006 Edublog Awards! To check out all of the winners and nominees, go to http://www.incsub.org/awards/

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My tech department colleague and one of our 4th grade teachers took the “blog as final project publishing tool” model one step further this week. Using the identical setup to the one I used for the audiobooks and the duck blog, these wonderful teachers have created a repository for all of the 4th grade student [...]

The 3 first grade audiobook blogs are now finished and posted. Hooray! The most exciting thing has been the response from the students’ friends and family. More comments and kudos keep pouring in from around the country. Talk about early writers writing for an authentic audience! I am so proud of this project and I [...]

Who’s brilliant idea was it to try to upload 56 1st graders’ stories as podcasts before the end of school?! Oh yeah…mine… I’ve been trying to wrestle with a combination of Audacity, GarageBand, archive.org and edublogs to make the whole thing work for free (excluding the price of GarageBand and my time…)
To give a [...]

Over Spring Break, our Director of Facilities discovered that a neighborhood duck had decided to build her nest right under the Middle School play structure. Being the tech-savvy school that we are, of course, we had to create a blog for our own feathered mom-to-be. I used the comments section of the first post to [...]

Each Spring, the MCDS 1st Graders host the First Grade Library as a culminating project to celebrate their collective growth as readers and writers. Students hand write a series of stories, edit the stories, type them into a PowerPoint template I’ve created for the project, print the stories out, illustrate each page and bind them. [...]

Overview:
MCDS hosted a BAISNet meeting this afternoon, which was attended by over 40 teachers, tech department members and administrators from Bay Area public and independent schools. Folks drove from as far away as Monterey, Oakland, San Jose and Sonoma to attend the meeting. The topic was, of course, how we are implementing Web 2.0 technologies [...]

Today I got one of our second grade classes set up on learnerblogs.org! The teacher plans to pose a weekly question and each of the kids will post their responses. They did a great job for the first time out, and when I just checked my email this evening, 2 of the parents had left [...]

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