Earlier this week, a 2nd grade teacher came by and asked, “I want to teach kids dialogue in their writing using comics. Is there a free program that helps me do that?” The answer is a definite YES. There are several programs online that you can use. Although we quickly stumbled upon BitStrips.com as a [...]
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ThinkfinityTexas is looking for educators willing to contribute an idea or lesson about how to best use Thinkfinity.org in public schools today. Ideally, I’d like to find one person to contribute one blog entry per day.
Note that all content shared is for educational use and shared under NonCommercial-ShareAlike-Attribution Creative Commons Copyright.
More information appears here.
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This email just came in…it shares a new interface that will be available.
Good Afternoon Thinkfinity Field Trainers,
We are moving forward with the development and launch of the replacement for the Rusticello system. At this time, the main thing you should know about the new system is that rosters, surveys, and follow-up forms will only be [...]
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Karen Horn, Thinkfinity Trainer, encouraged educators undergoing Thinkfinity Field Trainer professional learning in Texas to pick out which of the web sites they discovered via Thinkfinity caused them to say, “Wow!”
In this inaugural post, and I sincerely hope other Thinkfinity facilitators will join me, I’d like to share one of my “Wow!” Thinkfinity sites.
To begin [...]
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Marguerite Cahill and Miguel Guhlin are partnering on their proposal to present at the COSN Conference in 2009. Keep your fingers crossed that it is accepted!
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Title of Presentation:
5 Steps to Successful Professional Learning for Teachers
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Track/Subject Area (Select ONLY one):
Content and Integration
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Identify which framework of CoSN’s Essential Skills this presentation/topic best [...]
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NOTE: If you enjoyed this article, you might want to read this one as well. The title is:
Slide Thinkfinity Into Your Curriculum with Diigo.
by Miguel Guhlin, 2008
This email floated in one day last week.
Once again I come to you with a grave concern. During this revamp of our current curriculum, we are trying to encourage [...]
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by Miguel Guhlin
Available: June 21, 2008
by Miguel Guhlin – mguhlin@gmail.com
DRAFT – STILL IN PROGRESS
New to Diigo? You might want to read this article introducing Diigo PRIOR to reading this one.’‘’
TexasThinkfinity
A Diigo group for sharing Thinkfinity Stuff!
<a href=”http://groups.diigo.com/groups/texasthinkfinity” >Diigo Groups</a>
Introduction
“Thinkfinity?” said one Gifted and Talented Coordinator as I stumbled over the term, “What’s that?” To be [...]
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Welcome to Thinkfinity Texas, where you can find more information about Thinkfinity.org use in Texas. Eventually, I hope to have other folks contributing to this, but for now, it’s just me.
My vision for Thinkfinity Texas is pretty straightforward and looks like this…note that I’m just brainstorming the possibilities.
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