PatSine

I've been reading about the folksonomy and darting over to del.icio.us for more than a year now. I've tried shared bookmark spaces like ikeepbookmarks.com many times in the past, but this is something different. Continue reading...

I just got a note from one of my students from the summer. She's been using Edublogs to the scaffold her students in Spanish class. Her level 2 students write about different topics that she assigns. Then her level 4 and 5 students respond. This is a great way to do online tutoring that could be used for any subject area. For me, the interesting thing is how much we can do now in education without spending more money. Back in the 90s, there was an awful lot of "build it and they will come" mentality. That really didn't pan out very quickly. Continue reading...

This weekend I uncovered a few shows that might make life a little easier for busy folks. One of the big things we’ve all been pushing for years is webpages for teachers. These are touted as a great way for teachers to stay in touch with parents and to keep parents informed about things going on in the school and individual classrooms. But many of our solutions have been hard or require more regular attention. Continue reading...

Over the past few months so many new sites have appeared on the Internet that it’s easy to forget about the earlier ones that were good then and are still good. The one I stumbled back across today was the National Library of Virtual Math Manipulatives. This site contains online, Java applets to illustrate and allow exploration of just about any math concept at any grade level. Continue reading...