http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org Blogging at UMW Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:29:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was playing around with the tool VoiceThread and enjoyed myself immensely. The idea of Web 2.0 is exciting. I love the ability to create and share content with the masses. VoiceThread is such a tool, it allows you to create presentations and then allows others to comment directly onto them. The ... http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org/2008/11/16/voicethread/ I was surfing the Web today, reading blog postings, and catching up on the news - the Internet news that is. I happened upon this post, Visual Literacy Tool, introducing PicLits.com. Interesting idea for students to begin thinking about the process of writing whether it be poetry or that next ... http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org/2008/11/08/exploring-the-web/ I was reading an article this morning in ISTE’s Technology and Learning journal for November that caught my eye. Well actually, two articles caught my eye and I thought I would share them with you. In both articles technology is emphasized as a tool to support and challenge learners. Technology ... http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org/2008/10/28/two-articles-to-share/ My students were very creative this week. They created tutorials that would be helpful to their K12 colleagues. I must say that they did an excellent job. The tutorials were created in Camtasia and then each student group posted their tutorials onto TeacherTube to share with the world. Take a look ... http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org/2008/10/25/creating-tutorials/ I wanted to introduce my students to google maps and google earth. What better way to do this then to have them participate in creating a map. I set up a challenge to help achieve this goal. The challenge - share with the world how your K12 school integrates technology ... http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org/2008/10/18/69/ One assignment I am having students complete this week is the exploration of memory. Specifically, how memory plays an important role in teaching and learning.  After giving the assignment, I wanted each student to share the information they gathered with the class in a presentation format. Next, I wanted them to share the presentation they created with the ... http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org/2008/10/10/exploring-slideshare-and-learning/ PBwiki has a back to school challenge that is worth every educators time and effort. The benefit - a free wiki. The task, work with your wiki to earn points. Each point earned gets you closer to your overall goal - a free wiki with a lot of features. This ... http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org/2008/10/08/pbwikis-back-to-school-challenge/ Larry Lessig provides an interesting presentation on our culture,  copyright, and the law. On many levels this presentation will get you thinking.  Reviving the ideas of John Philip Sousa http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org/2008/10/02/lessig-on-copyright/ This video is of a young keynote speaker. A speaker that asks a room of teachers if they believe in him and all of his fellow classmates. Very powerful. My suggestion, listen and become inspired. http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org/2008/09/18/do-you-believe-in-me/ A couple of things this week My Leadership class continued to work on their professional learning community last night. A wiki has been created to help each member of the class work together as a collaborative group in forming their purpose and goals for this community for teachers. We are in ... http://teresacoffman.umwblogs.org/2008/09/11/collaboration-and-communities-of-practice/