21st Century Skills
 
Today, I will be posting the first of several interviews with teachers in my building and from around Ohio.   These podcasts, will range in topics from: classroom management, first year stories, integration of technology, special education issues and maybe even parent interviews.  I hope you find them helpful.  Our goal in the future will be to put these podcasts into Itunes for download as an RSS feed.   

T.C. Messer (email: pmn@beachwoodschools.org ), is a Language Arts teacher here at Beachwood Middle School.  It was my pleasure to sit down with her for 20 minutes and chat about her students and classroom.  T.C. mentioned a few sites that are linked below as well as a few images from the wiki she discussed. 

noodletools:   http://www.noodletools.com/
wikispaces:  http://www.wikispaces.com
glogster:      http://edu.glogster.com

 
 
Technology, Entertainment, Design = TED.com .  If you have not visited Ted.com, you have been missing a wealth of knowledge on modern and historical issues.  I have been a listening for over three years.  In fact, by using Itunes, you can RSS feed and never visit the website.  Then just read the description, click and download the ones you want and forget the others.  Ituens then downloads and you can put them on your ipod.  Listen while you workout, walk, work on the computer or whatever you do as you listen to your Ipod.  One of my personal favorites: Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools Kill Creativity?  Give it a listen and then tell me what you think about his comments.