School_Talk

David Warlick – How must the school change to meet the requirements of today’s student? An interesting article – “Our Schools are Leaking” with some very thoughtful responses. I especially liked Stephen Downes’ response in which he challenges the author to ponder “the hard questions”, such as “What does a learning network look like?”

http://www.downes.ca/ – Stephen Downes’ weblog

blog.brettmoller.com – Australian Educator Brett Moller

“Internet in the Classroom”
Presented by Mike Hetherington – 6^th Grade Teacher

Below you will find a listing of web addresses for each of the technologies discussed today in my presentation.  Please feel free to visit those sites that interest you and discover the myriad of technology choices available.

Web Pages

http://www.schoolnotes.com A good place to start when setting up a class webpage

http://www.schoolnotes.com/06237/mhetherington.html My classroom webpage

http://www.schoolnotes.com/06237/rlawrence.html Roy Lawrence’s webpage

http://teacherweb.com/CT/HoraceWPorterSchool/Grade8LA/ Jean Trask’s webpage

http://teacherweb.com/CT/HoraceWPorterSchool/JaneSkolnick/ Jane’s page.

http://teacherweb.com/ Another option – start a class website from here.

Quia http://www.quia.com   Intro and instructions to join

http://www.quia.com/pages/mhetherington.html  My quia activity page

  My quia activity page  My quia activity page

Google Earth

http://earth.google.com/ Download site for the free “Google Earth” world globe program
On-Line Gradebooks

http://mygradebook.com/

 Weblogs

http://mhetherington.typepad.com/room_613_talk_/

http://www.typepad.com  – excellent blog software – starter site for free – $ for additional

http://www.edublogs.org – Good site to set up a blog.  You can moderate comments and it’s free.

http://mhetherington.edublogs.org/ – a blog that I have set up for the Porter Faculty

http://www.blogger.com – free blogging site – powerful but has link to other blogs that could distract from student learning

http://epnweb.org/blogmeister/index.php – another free blogging site

http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/5/weblogs.html – Links to student blogs from around the country

Podcasting

http://www.apple.com/itunes/ For easy access to podcasts of all sorts, download itunes ver. 4.9 from this site

http://bobsprankle.com/blog/ The incredible “Room 208 Podcast” site.

http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/shows/Willowcast08.html Very polished podcast .from a 5^th grade classroom

http://www.bobsprankle.com/bitbybit/blog/B88463452/  Educator Bob Sprankle’s site on the practical applications of podcasting in the classroom.

http://bobsprankle.com/banners/nytimesarticle.pdf  New York Times Article on Room 208 Podcast

Edublogs.org. is a free blogging site that I recently discovered thanks to a tip from educator Bob Sprangle in his “Bit by Bit” podcast. Feel free to post your thoughts and comments here on blogging, podcasting, teacher web sites or any other topic of interest to the Porter learning community. I am very excited about the potential of these new technologies to enhance student learning.