Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Using a Cluster Map to See Locations of Visitors to Your Site

Here I go again, experimenting.
I listened to the recording of a webinar from Edutopia with Will Richardson on Making Global Connections and on how the web is changing our lives and opening up our world.
He showed how one young girl's blog has reached out to audiences world wide. When her grandfather died in Dec. of 2007, she decided to make a difference in her community for each of 25 days. Then she decided, with her mother's permission and guidance, to blog about it. Her project has grown into nearly 365 days of making a difference in her community and has touched and inspired others all over the world to do the same.
Here is the address of her blog:
http://twentyfivedays.wordpress.com

I looked at her cluster map and decided to try on for my blog. I doubt I'll have the coverage she does. The site gave me .html code to paste into my blog to get the map. So here goes. Hope it works:

Locations of visitors to this page

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Links to teacher blogs

At the PTO meeting on November 6, 2008, I want to have easy access to the blogs I'd like to show the parents. So.....I am putting them in my blog. Now they are all in one place and accessible.

Mrs. Miller's blog:
http://amitybooktalk.blogspot.com/
Mr. Norton's blog:
http://www.tominct.blogspot.com/
Mr. Fragione's blog:
http://amsb.wordpress.com/
Mr. Doyle's website:
http://www.amityregion5.org/tdoyle/
Dr. Dellinger's blog:
http://dellingerblog.blogspot.com/

A Link from Kathy Schrock

At NECC (National Educators' Computer Convention) 2007 in Atlanta, Kathy Shrock was a featured speaker on the topic of Web 2.0 tools. Here is a link she provided to educators to help them do further research on how these tools can be used to increase student engagement and achievement.
http://kathyschrock.net/web20/

These tools can be really fun to use. Start small. Experiment with just one, and share what you learn and how you'd like to use it.