Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

The past week I have come across different edubloggers talking about a fifth graders who writes a phenomenal blog. In a short amount of time the blog had received over 30,000 hits and is still growing today. Even though I have worked with fifth graders a number of years, I still find myself in awe [...]

Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

There are so many innovative and exciting web 2.0 tools out there that are in use by educators all over the world. I receive RSS feeds, Twitter feeds, social networking, social bookmarking, virtual worlds/communities, instant messages and emails about the awesome tools and I am having a hard time remembering all of the possibilities available.
So [...]

A Rock-n-Rollin’ Wiki Webquest

A few minutes ago I was reading an email containing my daily Diigo update and a bookmark from my Project Based Learning Group that submitted the blog site, “Wikis for Everyone“. The post, “A Classroom Wiki Webquest“, caught my attention featuring a teacher conducting a wiki webquest with her students about rock and roll musicians.

“For [...]

The Weblins are Coming! The Weblins are Coming!

If you haven’t already heard, beware the weblins are coming! What is a weblin you ask?

“…weblin makes you and others on the Web visible as small avatars. There are others on the same page you are on right now. Weblin opens a new and exciting world on every web site.”

The name of my avatar is [...]

Diigo in China

Last Monday morning you may have noticed some outages from social bookmarking tool, Diigo. That was due in part to the earthquake that shook China. At almost an 8.0 earthquake on the Richter scale, much devastation and loss of occurred. As an educator, I was particularly disturbed by one of the news reports that showed [...]

Just Call Me a Zealot!

The other day I received a bookmark in the update I receive from Diigo from one of the online groups I am a member of to the edublog entitled, “Betchablog” authored by Chris Betcher. I was reading the post, “You say that like it’s a bad thing“. He shared an anecdote from Will Richardson who [...]

Moving on Up!

Please make the move with me by reading my edublog at http://kcaise.edublogs.org as I this will be my new blog home. I find the features easier to use and implement there as a newbie blogger.
Thank you for your continued support and reading my blog and please feel free to add a comment, leave a suggestion [...]

K12 Online 2008

Just wanted to pass this along to everyone in case you missed it or hadn’t receive the information below. If you have questions, access one of the links to be taken to the conference wiki.
We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the third annual “K12 Online Conference” for educators around the world [...]

Flip Flopping Blogs

So sorry folks but this may be a time warranting a ‘test of the emergency broadcast system’! I originally started blogging using edublogs a few years ago. Then I moved everything to this WordPress.com blog thinking I liked the features more. I came across my edublog and started looking at the updates made and [...]

“This is a test – just a test – of the Emergency Broadcast System”

All of us have heard or seen the tests conducted by the emergency broadcast system and had there been an actual emergency when we would have been notified of how we were to proceed. I liken this to the approach of testing in Texas. I was reading the post entitled, “Severe Weather Testing Protocols” from [...]