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Odds & Ends (04/02/09)
Education Jargon Maker – Angela Maiers shared this one via Twitter. Sure wish we’d known about it while we were still writing our ERT documentation! Have some fun typing in a phrase and seeing how it is converted, ex: math skills translates as “deliver visionary critical thinking.”
If you don’t already follow her blog or twitter feeds, you NEED TO ADD HER RIGHT NOW!
Go on.
I’ll wait.
Hmmm, Hmmm, Hmmm, Hmmm.
Done?
Good.
Once you follow her you’ll find she shares a bunch of excellent educational resources as well as thought provoking posts. While I was over on her page just now, I happened to see the following YouTube video “Goomoodleikiog” (Google, Moodle, Wikis, Blogs), which is a great introduction to an ideal virtual classroom ala CommonCraft style. I SOOOOO, would love to develop something like this with one or more of my teachers (ahem! Mr. Forston, you reading this???) I’ve attempted to embed the video below, but it is YouTube, meaning it is blocked by our district and you’ll have to watch from home. Sorry, it hasn’t been posted in TeacherTube yet.
There is also a “sequel” for students “Goomoodleikiog 4 students” that is just as good, if not better, with two sock puppet students discussing the classes virtual classroom.
I hope you enjoyed the videos and have taken a moment to subscribe to Angela Maiers blog and twitter. You won’t regret it! I’ve got a bunch more resources to share, but I’ll pass them along in another Odds & Ends post later. I was just too excited to share these to do a “proper” odds & ends piece!
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Okay, here’s what happens when I get too excited. I get things WRONG!
In a round about way, I did learn about the two videos, Goomoodelikiog and Goomoodelikiog 4 students from Angela Maiers. One of her tweets led me to TYS Tech Sessions blog (http://blogs.yorkschool.com/tystechsessions/?p=226) where the video was embedded.
Sorry for the mistake!
Heather *blushing*
PS: And Angela Maiers is “still the bomb” as my kids would say. Many, many of the items I’ve shared to faculty directly have come from her tweets.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:32 pm
LOL only a devoted blogger would admit a mistake like that. Yes I like Angela Maiers to. She reads me some, though Ive never gotten a comment. But she is a member of MyBlogLog (the widget on my sidebar) and I see her face there occasionally. I guess that means she visits…I could be wrong. I did use the MBL program to link her as a friend/contact, and she accepted. But Im not even sure I understand MBL as a networking tool. (What can I say? I am a slow learner on some things.)
April 5th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Thanks, Cathy. I wanted to go back and correct it in the post, but thought it would mess up the embedded youtube videos. While I’m embarrassed I made the mistake, I’d be even more embarrassed if someone else caught it before I did!