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I've found that the threaded-conversations feature offered in our Google mail is confusing to many. Our past email programs did not have this feature, so it is taking some time to learn how to use it. Once you get the hang of it, I think you'll find it convenient for organizing information in your email account. Check out the "Your Inbox" link above for helpful information about interpreting your Google mail inbox, threaded conversations, and labels!

Please reflect upon and then share your comments on the benefits you have derived from participation in the REAL Tech program at Loyola Academy. What about your participation has worked out the best for you? I am also interested in knowing how you feel the program has facilitated your meeting or exceeding National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers in one or more of the following areas:


Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
Model digital-age work and learning
Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Implement the IPP, Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (LA extra credit!)

Further information about the standards can be found at:
http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS

Thanks so much for your thoughts! You rock!

Visit Voicethread for Educators

credit to: http://wordle.net/


Here is a Wordle "word cloud" creation of our Grad@Grad descriptors.







And here's one created from another subject near and dear to my heart: the ISTE Technology Standards for Students.

http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_for_Students_2007.htm

Shift happens 4.0 is the official new update to the video "Shift Happens," first produced in 2006. This edition, published in September, focuses on media convergence. The original author, Karl Fisch, is a teacher at Arapahoe High School, Centennial, Colorado. While this version is more media-centric, Fisch claims it still has meaning for today's educaton world. More in Karl's own words at the following link: http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2009/09/did-you-know-40-economist-media.html Enjoy!

Here are two links to a favorite resource of mine, http://www.edutopia.org/. Although Edutopia's focus is public education, I think you will recognize some terminology from our very own models of Jesuit education: reflection, social-emotional learning, and the human touch (cura personalis) side of teaching!


http://www.edutopia.org/teacher-development-introduction-video


How to Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning Edutopia

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Feel free, of course, to share your comments by clicking on the "comments" link below!

Below is a video originally created by educator Karl Fisch, of Arapahoe High School, Co, in 2006, to start a discussion about 21st Century education. Since then millions more have seen it, started their own discussions, and even recreated the video! Here is a more recent rendition. I encourage you to consider and, I dare say, even comment below on what implications this information may have for us professionally.



While you're here, feel free to check out some of the other resources on this page to see what your colleagues are up to, as well as share some of your own ideas.

Please reflect upon and then share your comments on the benefits you have derived from participation in the REAL Tech program at Loyola Academy. In particular, I am interested in knowing how you feel the program has facilitated your meeting or exceeding National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers in one or more of the following areas:

• Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
• Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
• Model digital-age work and learning
• Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
• Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
• Implement the IPP, Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (LA extra credit!)

Further information about the standards can be found at:
http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS

Thanks so much for your thoughts! As we move further into 21st Century education, I think it is important that we keep such lofty goals within sight.

Checking out a new tech tool: VoiceThread

Enjoy the challenge of these holiday riddles from the Kaboose website! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Christmas Jokes: Funny Christmas Jokes and Riddles- Kids' Christmas Jokes - Kaboose.com

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We heard at our JSEA Technology Coordinators Conference this week about 21st Century education tools, advancing Jesuit education, and the role of the technology community in these regards. Today I invite you, the technology coordinators community, to comment upon the special and specific role of technology coordinators in advancing the mission of Jesuit secondary education. Describe an incident when you or a colleague exemplified the Ignatian principles of cura personalis and/or cura apostolica. Recall successes over the past year. Remember times that made you proud to be part of this mission. Imagine you are telling this story to someone newly hired and you want to convey the impact of our role in advancing Jesuit education.

Check out my IM for this page: meebome!

Hi, Frosh Chapel Students!

If you liked today's break from B-96 music, watch and listen to this Gregorian chant from YouTube as you take a moment to unwind.

You can also comment on today's session by clicking on the "comments" link below.

Today's Tech Tuesday presentation is on the subject of RSS feeds, or Real Simple Syndication feeds. You would use an RSS feed to bring new information from your favorite news or blog sites to your favorites area of your browser. Please enjoy this video by Common Craft, explaining RSS feeds in plain English.



For best results, you would need Internet Explorer 7.0 installed on your machine.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx

Welcome to Tech Tuesday! Today's first tech tidbit is an intro to blogging, the type of site to which you have now found yourself viewing. What is a blog, you ask? Blog is short for web log, and it is both a noun and a verb. I have created this blog as an online publishing platform. It can also be utilized as an online journal and/or a content-management system for organizing and facilitating collaborative content, as several of our Loyola Academy colleagues have done. (See the links on the left.)

The difference between web logs and web sites is that blogs are updated regularly and are interactive. Readers are allowed to comment to the content, instead of merely passively reading content. Just click on "comments" link below, and let me know what you think! Blogs are also multi-media, meaning you can add video, hyperlinks, and pictures to them, which can make them more interesting than just reading text. Scroll below to see a video example explaining blogs in plain English.



Thanks for playing!

Hi, Project Management Class!

I've added a little scope creep to my project by embedding this video to use in my presentation! Enjoy!

Jan

Hi to Dr. Martin's Classes!

I enjoyed meeting with you and showing you a little bit about setting up your team blogs. I hope you will enjoy publishing to the World Wide Web!

For your information, one neat thing you can do is embed a video from YouTube into your blog! Here's how:

Go to http://www.youtube.com/. Find a relevant video.

To the right of the video is an info box with the identifying tag for the video. Click on "embed," which highlights the video clip ID mark.

Go to your blog. Posting>>edit Html.

Paste the code into your message box.

Add your blog text.

Preview, save, and publish your post.

If you get confused, I've embedded a tutorial on this blogspot. Click on the video below for more of an explanation. Also, Blogger.com has an extensive help section, of which you can take advantage. Look for it on your blogspot home page when you log in.

Peace,

Mrs. Stoner

Bad storms hit the Chicago area yesterday, and we still don't have power at school. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I've been doing more R&D about blogs and found a very interesting podcast from Paul Greenberg about Web 2.0. Good introductory information! See the link below to enjoy! http://www.bettermanagement.com/seminars/today/frameset.aspx?L=14493

Some exciting news! One of our blog students this spring, Sra. Komelasky, has created a blog for her Spanish 4 classes. It is complete with videos, and the students thought it was such a "hip" assignment! Check it out at http://www.apkomelasky.blogspot.com/. Go, A-Train!

Our eldest daughter is studying abroad for three months; and we were in the throes of keeping in contact sans cell phone. Yikes!

I'm happy to report that we've bridged the gap over the Atlantic Ocean via the use of Skype, a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application. Basically, we both have microphones attached to our computers and can either "dial" each other or IM/chat with each other over the Internet! If we so desire, we could also see each other, if we had webcams attached to our computers. The quality of the audio transmission is excellent; and best of all, it's free for the basic Skype sign-up.

In the computer lab classroom, this could be very useful if you had connections with a distant school, say, in another country. Think of all the fun a language class could have with students of a school in your target language! You could alternate between the voice and chat features for experiences in speaking and writing. The cultural exchange could be very rich as well! Check out my link section to get to Skype.