http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:26:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Visit this site for some great education tools to use in the classroom. Discovery Education http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog/index.php/archives/337 Wordle is a tool used to generate word clouds from text you provide. Wordle Example Have fun and enjoy exploring Wordle. http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog/index.php/archives/331 Today, December 3, 2009, is the submission deadline for the secondary website banner contest. All submissions should be given to the building Technology Advisor. All entries will be judged and a 1st-3rd place entry will be chosen. The 1st place entry will be placed on each school website for the ... http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog/index.php/archives/291 The next NPAECT Dinner Meeting will be held on December 3, 2009 and will cover gadgets that may be on your holiday wish list for your classroom. Check the NPAECT website for the meeting location. The meeting will begin at 5:30 PM with dinner. The presentation will follow. PENNCREST has ... http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog/index.php/archives/298 (Via the conference site) The K12 Online Conference is a FREE conference open to ANYONE by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference (among several) is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a ... http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog/index.php/archives/294 [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Image by Isaac Bowen"][/caption] It's time for the school website banner contest! Your buildling Technology Advisors should be receiving information about the contest this week. Be on the look out for flyers and announcements for more information about this exciting opportunity to share your talent with the ... http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog/index.php/archives/239 http://school.nettrekker.com The contact Pennsylvania had with netTrekker was not renewed for this school year. Because of this all of our netTrekker accounts were automatically deleted from the website. PENNCREST feels that netTrekker is a valuable resource for teaching and learning. We have decided to renew our subscription to netTrekker for this ... http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog/index.php/archives/285 http://voicethread.com Here are some of the new features just released in VoiceThread: New York Public Library: Over 700,000 historical images from The New York Public Library's Digital Gallery are now freely and instantly available in the Media Browser whenever you're creating a VoiceThread. Flickr Photo Search: Search for and add Creative Commons ... http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog/index.php/archives/281 [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Photo by jillclardy via Flickr"][/caption] This past week we worked with teachers from 5 different schools in IU5 on digital storytelling. The first day was spent telling stories around a camp fire, talking about audience, accessibility and tone of digital stories along with planning the story. The ... http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog/index.php/archives/236 http://schools.penncrest.org/technology/blog/index.php/archives/234