New eTeacher Academy!

My friends at Provable Solutions are releasing this press release for fabulous online teacher professional development opportunities.

:)

~julz

Provable Solutions professional development specialists invite you to visit our eTeacher Academy. The eTeacher Academy is an online professional development academy offering educators high quality online courses developed and delivered by certified teachers.

We provide both self paced or facilitated courses and teachers receive certification units per course (where applicable). Our courses include some of the most sought after topics and are grounded in a "learn by doing" philosophy.

Accomplish your professional development goals in the comfort of you own classroom or home and at a reasonable price. Keep your teaching certificate current as you learn the topics that interest you the most. Multiple course discounts are provided and our educational consultants will work with individuals, schools and districts to create a professional development plan.

Available Courses

• Moodle Course Development
• Adobe Digital School Collection
• Integrating Adobe Acrobat
• Google Apps for Educators
• Turning Point Student Response System
• Interwrite Workspace and PRS
• Qomo Board, Pad and Document Camera
• Using and Integrating Easiteach
• Wii and Edugaming in the Classroom
• Podcasting for Educators
• Digital Storytelling
• Grant Writing for Technology
• Response to Intervention
• School Safety

Course Details: Each course includes tutorials, video and audio tutorials, integration and best practice ideas, and project based assignments.

Durations: 4 Weeks

Professional Learning Units: 1-2 units

Requirements for Units: 80% & 10 Cumulative Hours

Course format & Pricing: Self paced $99.00 Facilitated $149.00

Contact Information

Provable Solutions Technology Integration Specialists http://www.provablesolutions.com phone: 321-604-5308

Al Gore's Speech (video)

It's a Beautiful Day!

Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America

July 17, 2008
D.A.R. Constitution Hall
Washington, D.C.

Ladies and gentlemen:

There are times in the history of our nation when our very way of life
depends upon dispelling illusions and awakening to the challenge of a
present danger. In such moments, we are called upon to move quickly
and boldly to shake off complacency, throw aside old habits and rise,
clear-eyed and alert, to the necessity of big changes. Those who, for
whatever reason, refuse to do their part must either be persuaded to
join the effort or asked to step aside. This is such a moment. The
survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And
even more - if more should be required - the future of human
civilization is at stake.

Read the rest of this important speech and join one of the most
important causes of our time at:
http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/pages/304/

Because we won't need education if we destroy our world!

If/when video of this speech becomes available, I'll post it.

Hugs everyone! It's a Beautiful Day!
~julz

Join me in solving the climate crisis

Dear Friend,          Global warming is an urgent, but solvable problem. That's why I've joined the We Campaign, a powerful nonpartisan movement of concerned citizens that was founded by Nobel Prize Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. We're already a million strong -- and growing each day.          Will you join, too? Visit this site to learn more and add your voice: http://www.wecansolveit.org/          The We Campaign is working to ensure that elected leaders make the climate crisis a priority. Visit: http://www.wecansolveit.org/. Here, you can learn about solutions to global warming, take action steps and even find events happening in your community. Although it's not too late, global warming is very serious and there is no time to lose. So please don't wait any longer to get involved – sign up today: http://www.wecansolveit.org/          Together, we can solve the climate crisis.

Go to PBwiki Summer Camp!

PBwiki Summer Camp

Build the ultimate classroom wiki and have it ready for the start of
the fall semester.

The PBwiki team is providing a six-week program that will teach you
how to create the best wiki for your classroom -- including how to
integrate wikis in your lesson plans, what features work best to
engage students and how to use the new PBwiki 2.0.

All educators who complete the program will receive a free platinum
wiki that lasts the entire school year!

Sign up here:
http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/07/14/join-pbwiki-summer-camp-and-earn-a-free-classroom-wiki/

Fun way to teach some English!

Check this out for a few laughs and for you English teachers, what a fun way to teach some of the complex topics in this article:
http://deanhunt.com/bloggers-are-terrible-writers/
:)
~julz

Flowgram - gather material, do voiceover, present, nifty

Teaching with the Web

Ten free ideas from Mitchell Weisburgh to leverage the Web:

1. Set up a class page with headlines from Google news on the topic via an RSS feed
2. Offer a page (Wiki or portal) where students can comment and share videos and articles they find on class topics
3. Have students responsible for posting and editing the lecture notes online from classes
4. Devise an online list of topics that will be on the test and have the students write, and provide links for, the study notes
5. Use a widget that enlarges a student's picture on the class portal as he/she contributes to the class notes
6. Assign topics to students or groups, and have them responsible for the content on the class website, portal, or wiki
7. Maintain online discussions around relevant, interesting topics
8. Develop online groups or sandboxes for research topics
9. Have students prepare lectures (video or audio with slides) that can be posted online
10. Create a Twitter stream that students can access, follow, and contribute to for the class.

Read the rest of the article at:
http://academicbiz.typepad.com/piloted/2008/07/weschs-thoughts.html

Identi.ca joins the Microblogging Wars

 A new microblogging solution (think Twitter, Jaiku, Plurk) entered the fray today. According to an article at ReadWriteWeb, "Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it's not just another also-ran. The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services."

I wonder if there will be a ning-like solution for microblogging now...

Check out identi.ca at http://identi.ca
Check out the ReadWriteWeb article at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/indentica_federated_twitter.php

:)
~julz
http://identi.ca/desertjul