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No Time, No Funds by Tom Whitby

Posted by Shelly Terrell on Wednesday, December 2nd 2009 11 Comments

By Tom Whitby This was a comment that I posted on a discussion that extended to this post. Time and funding are becoming old chestnuts in the Tech ed discussions that have been going on for over 20 years now. With Web 2.0 tools available to teachers, funding is far less an issue as a software concern. Hardware has come down so Read full article »

category: Thought-provoking

tags: education, funds, guestblogging, thoughtprovoking, time, tomwhitby

What Did They Tweet?

Posted by Shelly Terrell on Tuesday, December 1st 2009 1 Comment

December 1st edition! My guilty pleasure is.... Twitter... as you can tell by this weekly series, What Did They Tweet? Kid's Digital Stories @JohnMikulski's students have created beautiful digital stories using Storybird. Storybird is one of my favorite applications that you can read about here! John describes the project which has students write a short story in which the protagonist discovers something he/she Read full article »

category: What Did They Tweet

tags: children, collaboration, EFL, elearning, ESL, FollowFriday, instructional design, links, music, rainforest, secondlife, Storybird, Teachertuesday, TEFL, thoughtprovoking, tweetseries, tweetsgiving, Twitter, videos, virtualworlds, VWBPE Conference, web2.0

What Did They Tweet?

Posted by Shelly Terrell on Tuesday, November 24th 2009 No Comment

Thanksgiving edition! Have you ever come across a tweet you wanted to share? Check out this weekly series, What Did They Tweet? to discover valuable resources! Once again I have changed the format to provide you with the best way to see the resources. Please leave a comment to let me know if you prefer this format! Tweetsgiving What better way to celebrate Read full article »

category: What Did They Tweet

tags: cyberbullying, digitalcitizenship, dilbert, edtech, EFL, ESL, FollowFriday, links, quote, Teachertuesday, TEFL, thoughtprovoking, tweetseries, tweetsgiving, Twitter, videos, web2.0

What Did They Tweet?

Posted by Shelly Terrell on Monday, November 16th 2009 3 Comments

Third week of November edition! Have you ever come across a tweet that you really wanted to discuss and share with others? Here are the ones that grabbed my attention this week. Check out the rest of this weekly series, What Did They Tweet? to discover some valuable resources and links! Go to the original mindmap! Kids Videos to Help the Environment Getting Read full article »

category: What Did They Tweet

tags: edtech, EFL, environment, ESL, FollowFriday, links, mindmapping, podcasts, Teachertuesday, TEFL, thoughtprovoking, tweetseries, Twitter, videogames, vodcasts, web2.0

What Did They Tweet?

Posted by Shelly Terrell on Wednesday, November 11th 2009 1 Comment

Second week of November edition! Here are the tweets that grabbed my attention this week. Check out the rest of this weekly series, What Did They Tweet? to discover some valuable resources and links! Videos to Bring Languages Alive Ken Royal runs an incredible website which is updated daily with several interesting articles by various educators. In this piece, Isabelle Jones, shares advice Read full article »

category: What Did They Tweet