May 9th is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This is a global campaign to raise awareness about the need for digital accessibility. The challenge is to go mouse-less or screen-less for an hour (or whatever amount of time you can commit) and to use your computer with only assistive features as Read more »
Project done by Deb Truskey and Cindy Gates via the Lifelong Learning Professional Development Class.
Directly from the Symbaloo website: It is our dream to make Symbaloo the easiest starting point on the Internet. It’s that simple; you could have thought of it yourself! Symbaloo is an ancient Greek verb meaning ‘gathering’ ‘assembling’. It perfectly reflects the mission of the company. http://www.symbaloo.com/embed/visuallyorglearning shared Read more »
Google Apps in the Collaborative ClassroomGoogle Apps in the Collaborative Classroom (OEDT 5088) This week long experience, planned and designed by Maine 207’s team of Google Certified Apps Trainers will first prepare you to use the core suite of Google Apps for Education, which includes Google Documents, Gmail, Sites, Calendar, Chat, Read more »
Please be advised. Our district will not be using First Class as our email and communication center starting July 1, 2012. We will be moving to Downers Grove District #58 Google Email and Downers Grove District #58 Google Education Apps. 1. Your email will appear the same way as it is now. Example: SMeech@DG58.org <— Read more »
Teaching Collaboration Online – July 23, 2012 ”If you build it, they will come,” sometimes doesn’t work out. Simply creating a wiki doesn’t guarantee that students will meet your learning targets. Learn how to meld Cooperative Learning pedagogy with 21st Century writing situations (blogs and wikis) to transform collaborative writing. Emphasis Read more »
