District 87

District 87 Technology

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Finished grading the graduate credit presentations at the the Feast. Great presentations on variety of content areas

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www.spellingcity.com

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Using IlliniData for scaffolding of students based on income.

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http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

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http://www.dumpr.net

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http://www.wordle.net/

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some interesting sites from Feast - Week 3 in Bloomington

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Posters - http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html
send to Ken in BACC for nice color print

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Great classroom tools from Google

http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html

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http://www.microsoft.com/education/events/teachertech.aspx

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Tech Tuesdays with MSFT - http://www.microsoft.com/education/events/teachertech.aspx
webcasts on variety of topics

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We signed up for dreamspark https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx .. first 200 accounts for students available in fall 2009

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according to MS, they've given up on Popfly Been playing with kodu in the meantime http://bit.ly/O8xvu

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Skype 4.1 for Windows is out of beta. It is now available for download.

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www.thefeast.org

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Moveable Feast - Week 3 in Bloomington coming up July 6. Hope to share some great things learned at NECC

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http://cs4hs.media.mit.edu/

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New Scratch sites just opened.http://scratched.media.mit.edu/

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Later this week, Scratch will have elements to link to the WeDo Legos

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Scratch (MIT), Alice (Carnegie Mellon), PopFly (MSFT), Python (?)