Category: Educational Technology
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Demos & Trainings
Two events of note this week. First, Shelby has organized a demonstration of the Promethean interactive whiteboards for Monday December 17th. We are considering the Promethean boards as a possible alternative to Polyvision and Smartboards. The show begins at 1:30 P.M. at Manor Middle School. On Monday and Tuesday, K12 Systems will hold an online…
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Cool Online Foreign Language Tools
With our High School piloting an online Chinese course, I’ve been hearing a great deal of interest in online language learning. With that, here are a couple of neat virtual language webtools that are worth checking out:
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MIT’s Free Online Course Library
Did you know that Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s undergrad and grad courses have been digitized and made available online for free? Check out the MIT OpenCourseWare project here: http://ocw.mit.edu. The site features course syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, labs and audio/video lectures for the universities entire 1800+ course catalog. This past week MIT celebrated the project’s…
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Virtual Travel at Pequea
Check out the Lancaster New Era article featuring Erik Polaski’s 2nd grade class at Pequea Elementary: http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/212853. Mr. Polanski paired Google Earth with the building smartboard to create a virtual site-seeing trip to various world cities. With a nice tie-in to American History, students were shown the ocean voyage of the Mayflower in virtual 3-D…
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PM Moodle: Happy 4th Birthday!
This fall we celebrate Moodle’s 4th birthday at Penn Manor. First installed in spring ‘o3, Moodle went live with a small group of pilot classrooms during MP1 of the 2003-04 school year. Fast forward 4 years and our Moodle system has grown to over 400 individual classroom and resource pages. Across the globe, Moodle has…