Patty Papers » Blogging http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org Separating Prime Cuts of Educational Technology from Common "Mystery Meat" Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:48:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Student blogs can win cash for college http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2009/05/20/student-blogs-can-win-cash-for-college/ http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2009/05/20/student-blogs-can-win-cash-for-college/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 20:48:08 +0000 Patty O'Flynn http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/?p=153 This eCampus News article by Dennis Carter reports that Web site CollegeNET has given more than $500,000 to college students to pay for classes.

Excerpt:

Karissa Snow won $5,000 in scholarship money just by blogging and winning her peers’ approval. She’s among 40,000 students vying for tuition cash every week on CollegeNET, a web site that lets current and prospective college students post blog entries on a myriad of topics. The student who receives the most votes from CollegeNET members every week wins thousands for college.


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]]> http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2009/05/20/student-blogs-can-win-cash-for-college/feed/ 1 If a teacher had invented Twitter… http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2009/04/23/if-a-teacher-had-invented-twitter/ http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2009/04/23/if-a-teacher-had-invented-twitter/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:15:43 +0000 Patty O'Flynn http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/?p=149 …it would have looked like Edmodo. Like Twitter, it’s a microblogging site, but it builds in significant additional functionality to support classroom interactions. Edmodo allows teachers to create groups that students join and then send messages, files, links, and assignments to the entire group. AWESOME !!

Check out Chris Dawson’s review of Edmodo for more info.

]]> http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2009/04/23/if-a-teacher-had-invented-twitter/feed/ 0 Tagging, Tumbling, and Mathcasting… http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2008/02/27/tagging-tumbling-and-mathcasting/ http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2008/02/27/tagging-tumbling-and-mathcasting/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:05:06 +0000 Patty O'Flynn http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2008/02/27/tagging-tumbling-and-mathcasting/ Tagging, Tumbling, and Mathcasting posted by Paul Allison is a jam-packed thirty-nine minutes that explores the power of tagging, teachers using tumblogs, mathcasts, VoiceThreads in health, speech, history, math, music, technology, and EFL classes. This session includes an interview with my friend, Tim Fahlberg, on mathcasts. What’s a mathcast, you ask? Well, mathcasts are screencasts (screen movies) of writing with voice that focus on mathematics, and Tim is the pioneer in this field who got me and my students started 3 years ago.

Click here to learn more about mathcasts and to view mathcasts created by me and my students. You can also learn more about mathcasts by visiting Tim’s mathcast wiki at http://math247.pbwiki.com/.

]]> http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2008/02/27/tagging-tumbling-and-mathcasting/feed/ 0 They’re watching… http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2007/10/06/theyre-watching/ http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2007/10/06/theyre-watching/#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:37:24 +0000 Patty O'Flynn http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2007/10/06/theyre-watching/ In Teching Out H.S. Math, Ben Licciardi has described Patty Papers as a “forward-thinking site” in ASCD’s EdBlog Watch. Ben is an information resource coordinator in ASCD’s Information Resource Center. Thanks, Ben!

]]> http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2007/10/06/theyre-watching/feed/ 0 Blogging in the Classroom http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2007/08/21/blogging-in-the-classroom/ http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2007/08/21/blogging-in-the-classroom/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:39:54 +0000 Patty O'Flynn http://pattyoflynn.edublogs.org/2007/08/21/blogging-in-the-classroom/ If you currently use blogs or are thinking of implementing them this year, here’s a great overview of blogging in the classroom at Remote Access.

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