Our morning schedule this Sunday was a bit different because of a combined service and all-church potluck, so after a breakfast at iHop with the nursery staff I had some time to drop in and visit Target. I love Target stores. Their technology department often has clever gadgets and accessories I have not encountered previously,
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It is very important we help students in our classrooms develop deeper, broader, authentic world views through the information we share and collaborative activities in which we engage together during and after class. It is also critical we help students develop values like respect, empathy, and compassion. Learning is most powerful when it is experiential
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If you’re a Twitter user, chances are fairly good you’ve seen at least one message in the past month (or maybe lots more) inviting you join someone’s “Mafia family.” What are these strange and unwanted messages? According to Kern Kelly, who I visited with this evening following the ACTEM 09 banquet, some messages like this
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These are my notes from Beth Goodwin’s 3 hour workshop, “Geocaching In and Out of the Classroom” at the ACTEM 2009 conference in Augusta, Maine, on 15 October 2009. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Let’s setup accounts on geocaching.com first today – for students, I have them do this at home with
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WikiMapia is a “wiki meets Google Maps” mash-up intended to be used as a digital geographic encyclopedia reference tool. In its current incarnation, WikiMapia is a little rough around the edges, but keep this site on your list of potential teaching tools. Here’s how WikiMapia works: Key landmarks, such as Rainbow Arch in Utah, the
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These are my notes from the NECC 2008 presentation “Where in the World is… GeoRSS for the Classroom” on July 2, 2008 by Shannon White, University of South Florida with Luis Perez. A website for workshop resources is available: http://georss.pbwiki.com – a PDF of session slides is also available RSS feeds defined – most people
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This weekend we stayed at the River Pond campground by Tuttle Creek Reservoir, just outside Manhattan, Kansas. Armed as I am now with a Garmin eTrex Legend HCx GPS unit, I was glad to see a few geocaches available in the area from geocaching.com. Instead of just finding some caches hid by individuals, however, my
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I’m currently in Altus, Oklahoma, co-facilitating one of our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshops for educators at Western Oklahoma State College for a couple of days. This evening after another great dinner at the Backdoor Steak House in Blair (just a few miles north of Altus – I reviewed the restaurant on our team blog “Good
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It’s official! My 10 year old son and I have joined the ranks of geocachers worldwide! According to the current WikiPedia article for geocaching: Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called “geocaches” or “caches”) anywhere
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