Web 2.0 Barriers: I think it’s important to have a better understanding of why some places are really embracing Web 2.0 tools and strategies and other places are not using them at all. Using SurveyMonkey, I’ve created a quick and easy survey for you to respond to about using Web 2.0 tools and the challenges you view. I realize that if you are here reading my blog, you are more likely to be one of the people in a place that embraces these tools, but please take just a minute or two and check this out: Click Here to take survey

Do you teach Kg? If you are a Kg Teacher and are looking for exciting ways to ignite your pre-reading and pre-writing curriculum and to make it more accessible, engaging and fun, please get in touch with me. I’d love to help you get some web 2.0 tools in place and I’ve got some exciting, free ideas for doing so! dmcnulty@r8esc.k12.in.us

UDL on msnbc: This is a great video, less than 3 minutes long, about UDL and how Universal Design benefits EVERYONE!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/19558409#19558409

Blab blab Blab…
Blaberize.com is a free website that allows you or your students to upload digital images and then animate the mouth portion of the photo to accompany their voice recording. …might be a fun way to give a presentation or a report that students would certainly find engaging and would also allow them to practice several 21st Century Skills along the way including, working with digital images, uploading, recording and working with audio, etc. http://www.blabberize.com/main/

MathTrax! MathTrax was introduced to me by Mel, the Technology Director in Lakeland. It was “invented by NASA to offer the ability to write out some of the equations they use. It may be an easier/more accessible way for some of your students to write the functions / equations. Check it out! Thanks Mel! http://198.122.144.210/mathtrax/bviDownload.htm

~EduChallenge #4~

If you haven’t gotten into podcasts yet, you are missing out!

EduChallenge #4 is to find 1 Podcast that genuinely interests you and SUBSCRIBE TO IT! Two of the easiest ways to find and subscribe to podcasts are by using the iTunes Store in the iTunes Software and/or the Marketplace in the Zune Software. By the way, don’t the terms, “Store” and “Marketplace” deter you from getting into listening to podcasts. With VERY few exceptions, all podcasts are FREE. So, if you don’t already have either the free Zune software or the free iTunes software is to download and install it, then visit the online store or the marketplace, from within the software, find the podcast area and subscribe to just one podcast that you find interesting and just observe what happens over the next few weeks to you podcast.