Comments for Information Overloaded http://wiredup.edublogs.org How all this information can benefit our classrooms. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 Comment on Oh, Oh…The Teachers Are Using It…. by Wendy Thomas http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/oh-ohthe-teachers-are-using-it/#comment-54 Wendy Thomas Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:33:37 +0000 http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/oh-ohthe-teachers-are-using-it/#comment-54 Hi Pam, Nice to hear from you. Your research sounds very interesting and I would love to learn more about your findings. Feel free to use the anecdote in your presentation. Have a great year! Hi Pam,

Nice to hear from you. Your research sounds very interesting and I would love to learn more about your findings. Feel free to use the anecdote in your presentation.

Have a great year!

]]> Comment on Oh, Oh…The Teachers Are Using It…. by pamjoyce http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/oh-ohthe-teachers-are-using-it/#comment-53 pamjoyce Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:44:27 +0000 http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/oh-ohthe-teachers-are-using-it/#comment-53 As a high school teacher in BC who is in the throes of learning how to involve my students in web 2.0, and has a daughter who will be attending the SAME high school in the fall, I absolutely love your perspective on 'teachers are using it'. I am about to research the difference between teacher-directed web interactions and student-directed ones. I'm presenting to my Simon Fraser University cohort in a couple of weeks and would love to use your anecdote...may I? As a high school teacher in BC who is in the throes of learning how to involve my students in web 2.0, and has a daughter who will be attending the SAME high school in the fall, I absolutely love your perspective on ‘teachers are using it’. I am about to research the difference between teacher-directed web interactions and student-directed ones. I’m presenting to my Simon Fraser University cohort in a couple of weeks and would love to use your anecdote…may I?

]]> Comment on Geocaching has Made Me A Demented High Pressure System by Poke Along http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/04/19/geocaching-has-made-me-a-demented-high-pressure-system/#comment-52 Poke Along Fri, 30 May 2008 02:04:30 +0000 http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/04/19/geocaching-has-made-me-a-demented-high-pressure-system/#comment-52 Demented, maybe. Addicted, definitely. If not, just wait until someone tells you about the Geocacher Rankings web site. Then you'll really want to get your numbers up. http://www.cacherstats.com/LocationIndex.html :-) Demented, maybe. Addicted, definitely. If not, just wait until someone tells you about the Geocacher Rankings web site. Then you’ll really want to get your numbers up.

http://www.cacherstats.com/LocationIndex.html

:-)

]]> Comment on Blackout Poetry…Taking the News to a Whole New Level by Mike Harvey http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/blackout-poetry/#comment-51 Mike Harvey Thu, 15 May 2008 17:48:46 +0000 http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/blackout-poetry/#comment-51 Now that is the best lesson in inspiration I have seen in ages... Now that is the best lesson in inspiration I have seen in ages…

]]> Comment on Blackout Poetry…Taking the News to a Whole New Level by SELDOM-HEARD MUSIC: a newspaper blackout poem by Austin Kleon http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/blackout-poetry/#comment-50 SELDOM-HEARD MUSIC: a newspaper blackout poem by Austin Kleon Mon, 12 May 2008 23:53:10 +0000 http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/blackout-poetry/#comment-50 [...] Here’s a cool little slideshow of eight graders doing newspaper blackout poems… [...] [...] Here’s a cool little slideshow of eight graders doing newspaper blackout poems… [...]

]]> Comment on Blackout Poetry…Taking the News to a Whole New Level by Diane Hammond http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/blackout-poetry/#comment-49 Diane Hammond Mon, 12 May 2008 18:35:26 +0000 http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/blackout-poetry/#comment-49 The video of the kids in action adds so much to the post. Neat idea - thanks for sharing! Have you seen this site - http://metaatem.net/words/ ? You type in a word and the script searches Flickr for photos to make up the letters. Might be a neat resource for six-word poems. The video of the kids in action adds so much to the post. Neat idea - thanks for sharing!

Have you seen this site - http://metaatem.net/words/ ?

You type in a word and the script searches Flickr for photos to make up the letters. Might be a neat resource for six-word poems.

]]> Comment on Blackout Poetry…Taking the News to a Whole New Level by Wendy Thomas http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/blackout-poetry/#comment-48 Wendy Thomas Mon, 12 May 2008 17:21:00 +0000 http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/blackout-poetry/#comment-48 Thank you for the comment. The students seemed to have fun with it! Thank you for the comment. The students seemed to have fun with it!

]]> Comment on Blackout Poetry…Taking the News to a Whole New Level by Austin Kleon http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/blackout-poetry/#comment-47 Austin Kleon Mon, 12 May 2008 17:17:55 +0000 http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/blackout-poetry/#comment-47 that video is too cool! that video is too cool!

]]> Comment on Geocaching has Made Me A Demented High Pressure System by Geocaching Online http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/04/19/geocaching-has-made-me-a-demented-high-pressure-system/#comment-44 Geocaching Online Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:16:41 +0000 http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/04/19/geocaching-has-made-me-a-demented-high-pressure-system/#comment-44 Demented? No way! Just another happy Geocacher! LOL! Glad to see that you, and the VP's had so much fun! Keep on cachin'! Demented? No way! Just another happy Geocacher! LOL!

Glad to see that you, and the VP’s had so much fun! Keep on cachin’!

]]> Comment on Oh, Oh…The Teachers Are Using It…. by Wendy Thomas http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/oh-ohthe-teachers-are-using-it/#comment-43 Wendy Thomas Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:44:58 +0000 http://wiredup.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/oh-ohthe-teachers-are-using-it/#comment-43 Thanks for the comment Patricia. The Wii has been popular here as well. Our Physical Education Mentor has been taking a Wii around to schools to use in Phys. Ed classes. The students love it, but you're right, it is in its early days! Thanks for the comment Patricia. The Wii has been popular here as well. Our Physical Education Mentor has been taking a Wii around to schools to use in Phys. Ed classes.

The students love it, but you’re right, it is in its early days!

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