Learning At The LRC

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Entries from April 2009

Earth Week

April 24th, 2009 · No Comments

During the week of April 20th, 209, the ABC celebrated the Earth, Claudia Lars and Salvador Salarrué as a part of both Earth Week, and National Reading week initiatives. Through a series of Earth friendly workshops, students were ablet to participate in making recycled paper, using recycled materials as covers, building recycled bottle walls, [...]

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Tags: Mrs. Garcia · Trials and Successes

Graphic Apps to Add to Your Toolkit!

April 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

I was wandering throught Twitter again today, after being informed I had a new follower-yes! Anyway this lead me to this newly resurrected blog on teaching with comics which of course got my attention immediately after all the work we have done with ToonDoo this year. Well I couldn’t help myself I scanned the [...]

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Tags: Trials and Successes · web applications

Control With Bots

April 15th, 2009 · No Comments

It always amazes me how much I learn from my children. This Easter holiday my boys of 9 and 10 introduced me to their latest craze-Incredibots! This website allows users to sign up free, save and embed their creations. With a bit of guidance from my 9 year old I was able to explore a [...]

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Tags: Mrs. Garcia · Trials and Successes · web applications

TwitScoop etc.

April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

One of my favourite web 2.0 tools is wordle which allows you to generate tag clouds by copying and pasting text into a box, or by enterring the url of any blog, feed, delicious account, web page ….
Recently in my wanderings, I came across a podcast on k12onlineo8 that mentioned Twitscoop which is a part [...]

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Tags: Digital Fluency Resources · Mrs. Garcia · web applications