July 1, 2011

I spent from 7:50PM until nearly 11PM reading my PLN (Plurk: Lona; Twitter: #LonaBreitkopf) and the several blogs I follow from teachers and techies. Here are some of the facts I gleaned:

~Diane Cordell's Blog- reflections on ISTE 2011- people left with a sense of "I can do that!"

~@bkfeather on plurk shared http://visibletweets.com/- put in a topic and the recent tweets (from Twitter of course) appear.She also shared:
her ISTE 2011 scoop.it: http://www.scoop.it/t/iste-links-shared-by-my-plurk-
buddies
http://simplek12.com/tlc/gxz37/: free ebook on uses of interactive whiteboard

~@Metsoskil from Plurk shared that Uzbekistan became the 127th country to access their classroom wiki (Mike is a middle school teacher from PA). Mike's blog, "A Teacher's Life for Me" covered his Friday's Five- Young Adult Books. I added two to the list, one of which was new to him.

~Another Plurker, @GFK from Atchison, KS, shared a Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html)Graphic organizers and so much more.

~Plurker @mindelei shared her GrammarNazi pet peeve of the week: "Make sure you use 'who' instead of 'that' when talking about people. Ex: Amy was the one who walked out." And, I added a couple pet peeves of my own. She also shared a new YA Lit Group on FB group for Teachers/Librarians. https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_156202971117987

~@MichaelPCSD from Plurk shared that admins in Ogden, UT, have essentially broken the union. See "Ogden Teachers Get Take-it-or-leave-it Contract Deal" (http://www.standard.net/topics/education/2011/06/30/ogden-teachers-get-take-it-or-leave-it-contract-deal)

~@SkipZ from Plurk always shares several important teaching blog links daily. One was http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-word-games-play-sharpen-language-skills/. He also shared http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/technology/personaltech/30smart.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=ctb1 and said that he'd tried one of the 3-D apps and it was wonderful.

~Plurk's @giftedgal shared a teacher's site with LOADS of technology tips: http://www.edzone.net/~mwestern/stuff.html

~@Loonyhiker (Pat) a retired Special Education Teacher and Plurk buddy who now helps prepare teachers shared http://a4cwsn.com/fb-100/: 100 Apps for Children with Special Needs.