I love that our system is paying for all of us to have Gaggle.  The kids enjoy checking and writing email, keeping their blogs, and the digital lockers certainly come in handy!  However, I haven’t yet figured out how to get the RSS feed for the blogs to work for me.  Doing so would save SOOO much time in reading and assessing what the kids post (some of my assignments ask them to blog).  I’ve recently been thinking about looking into Blogmeister or a newly found educational blog site called Edmodo.  Any opinions?

Flickr Photo Credit: Blogging for Teens?!

• Dropbox – Home – Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.

  Neat place online to store, share, and publicize entire files! Very cool!

  tags: storage, dropbox, web2.0

• StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers

  NASA site which include great astronomy information just for kids. Also includes audio for kids who struggle reading the content themselves.

  tags: science, astronomy, space, solar_system

• Myths and Legends from E2BN

  Read and/or create myths and legends with sound effects!

  tags: storytelling, myths

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Learned of this wonderful opportunity on David Warlick’s recent post, “Two Not-to-Miss Professional Development Event this Summer”.  According to the description David posted:

Also entering my radar range was a professional development event, being organized for school administrators by Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach.  The Web 2.0 Bootcamp will take place at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia.  Here’s a quote from the site:

If you are a superintendent or principal, you know that your students are or will be using the Web, cell phones and other technologies to connect and create social networks. But do you also know the profoundly transformative opportunities for learning these technologies offer? Do you understand fully how schools and classrooms are being challenged by these new technologies and what the implications are for your teachers and students?

Sure wish our Lee County Administrators would take advantage of this!  I have long admired the work of Chris Lehmann at SLA.  Maybe they’d consider taking their annual “retreat” in Philly?!!  It would be worth the cost and we all would benefit (students and teachers)!