Alice Mercer’s PD Blog

Fear Not the Code!

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Welcome! We’re going to use this post to “work on” during the session which is schedule at 9:00 a.m. PDT.
Embedding images is easy with a visual editor, but don’t let that code freak you out!
Photo credit: 177 of 365 – blind justice on Flickr

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The Edublogs Live! session I am doing on VoiceThread: A 21st Century K-W-L has been changed from Thursday 6/18 to Friday 6/19 at 7 p.m. PDT. Hope to see you then!

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For those of you in Sacramento who subscribe to this blog, I will be at a Classroom 2.0 Live Workshop on Friday and Saturday April 24-25th. It will be held at Sacramento City College. You can find more information here: http://www.classroom20.com/events/cr-20-live-workshop
The event is for educators at all levels of technology proficiency, so I hope you [...]

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I really enjoyed meeting all of you and I had a great time. I hope that it was informative and fun for you too.
First, look at the left for links to the planning wikis I use for primary grades. Below that are online professional development resources. As promised, I will convey to the district that [...]

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This training will be held on Thursday 1/29/2009 at 4-6 p.m. in the computer lab at Oak Ridge Elementary (Room 3). I’m going to show some different applications, and then we will choose what we wish to look at in more detail.
Links to help us during our exploration phase:

Edublogs.tv Wikis in Plain English
flickrCC
Edublogs.tv [...]

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It was a great turnout and I loved working with all of you. If you have any further questions, please leave a comment on this post, or use the contact link above to send me an email.
The files I promised are here: http://drop.io/mx627xn
Also, I’d love to get feedback on what worked, and what didn’t. You [...]

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This will be a hands on session on using Kidspiration and Inspiration Mind Mapping software on November 5, 2008 from 4 – 6 p.m.
Inspiration is a computer-based visualization tool that can help you develop and scaffold higher-order thinking in your classroom. Kidspiration is a version of the software intended for use by primary students. If [...]

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