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Blog Action Day Projects

Each year on October 15th, people all around Earth share their ideas, research, images and other information for Blog Action Day. This is a project that you can complete with your students with very little effort, but you will receive a great payback for an excellent learning opportunity. The topics each year are timely and interesting. This year's topic is Climate Change. Hope you will join us next year for this great online writing a… Continue

Added by samccoy on October 15, 2009 at 9:46pm — No Comments

Invite Your Colleagues to Network

Widgets are very helpful in sharing links to your other networks. A variety of web applications will help you make new widgets to direct people to networks, such as Twitter. FollowMe Button is one such web application. Here is an example of a Twitter widget that you can also make for yourself.

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Added by samccoy on August 19, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Autism Institute: Awareness Training LIVE STREAM - June 5th, 2009

Get it here! June 5th 2009 - LIVE video stream This interactive live video streaming event will run from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. central time and will discuss: * Sensory Processing and ASD by Jenny Clark Brack. * Review sensory systems and signs/symptoms of Sensory Processing Disorder * Current research in this field. * Discuss practical ideas for implementing sensory strategies into learning environments and within the con… Continue

Added by Darren Couch on June 4, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Aviation & Space Conference

We will be streaming live sessions from the Aviation & Space Conference on April 28th & 29th, 2009. Greenbush Live Join us for 2 full days of learning. Dedicated to the field of Aviation & Space. We will be broadcasting live sessions where anyone can participate by asking our presenters questions about the subjects. Check out our session schedule here Continue

Added by Darren Couch on April 28, 2009 at 6:45am — No Comments

CSI project

Here is the latest video on the CSI project we are working on for elementary students. Continue

Added by Darren Couch on March 25, 2009 at 3:33pm — No Comments

Vision of Innovation

Photo by Alex // Berlin (away for 3days)
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Encouraging students to use their youthful strength, the plasticity of their brain function to create or innovate is the passion of Toshiba in partnership with the… Continue

Added by samccoy on September 14, 2008 at 8:18pm — No Comments

Apply for Toyota/Tapestry Project Funding

Over the years, many teachers have dreamed of implementing their ideas within their classroom, grade or school. These teachers often need money for materials, technology and other resources, so they search for assistance. Many have received Toyota Tapestry Grants for Science Teachers. Remember,… Continue

Added by samccoy on September 7, 2008 at 7:31pm — No Comments

ISM Films

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Added by Darren Couch on August 13, 2008 at 9:40am — No Comments

Be The Change You Want To See!

You want to enhance and enrich your Personal Learning Network, so you joined the Greenbush Educational Network.

This is your opportunity to "...be the change you want to see in the world...", in your professional world. You can do that by blog… Continue

Added by samccoy on August 8, 2008 at 5:00pm — 4 Comments

Student Film Class this Summer

Greenbush, in conjunction with ISM Films and William R. Gill & Associates, is offering a two-week film production course to high school aged students who have a strong desire to learn the process of creating films. This course is hands-on incorporating all aspects of film-making including: storyboarding, scriptwriting, filming and acting. Beginning Date & Time: Monday, 6/… Continue

Added by Darren Couch on May 17, 2008 at 7:52am — No Comments

Notions for Innovation

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Added by Rich White on May 12, 2008 at 11:40am — No Comments

GreenbushGrid (our Opensim Island) on an interactive whiteboard (Promethean Acvtiveboard): Video Demo

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Added by Rich White on April 21, 2008 at 10:13am — No Comments

Pi R Not Squared, Pie Are Round

Pi, the famous, yet elusive constant seems veiled in children's minds. Let's help open the blinds, and let the sunny day shine on Pi Day. A wonderfully fun, learning celebration is here. Inviting our students to celebrate Pi Day will reward our schools with learning and fun.

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Added by samccoy on March 6, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

MS Surface with games … but give us Educational Content too!

Kind of a neat little game … but it REALLY could do so much more …. something more along the lines with what we are doing with Edusim http://edusim3d.com involving 3D direct manipulation of 3D learning objects .. employing the Edusim theory of “Rich-Immersive Learning Environments”

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Added by Rich White on February 29, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Streamin' Baby...Streamin'

Most of you have probably seen what we're doing with streaming thanks to Rich embedding the site into this NING network. What you may not know is that we've set up a site in which you can select content you're interested in seeing. This is concerted effort due largely in part to several key players who wanted to be able to deliver content of various natures in a fashion whereby people could choose what they wanted to see. Ah heck, here's the address, check out for yourself:… Continue

Added by Russ Wilcox on February 28, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Upcoming Greenbush Conferences - April 30th

* Re-scheduled for April 30th th

* Feb 22nd is the Greenbush Mini-Tech conference at the main Greenbush Campus - rescheduled due to the weather in SE Kansas Continue

Added by Rich White on February 17, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Counting's for the Birds: TechED Nature Mashup

For the Birds, for the Kids, for the Environment, for Research and for Fun.....let's all join people across North America from Friday, February 15th through Monday,… Continue

Added by samccoy on February 16, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Create an Edusim Lesson - Win a Nano !

We will be formally announcing the Edusim Lesson Ipod Nano Giveaway next week - but in a nutshell here are the terms.

(1) Create an Edusim lesson
(2) Save it
(3) zip up the Cache directory of the saved lesson
(4) submit a blog post describing the lesson at http://edusim.ning.com
(5) We will download it… Continue

Added by Rich White on February 7, 2008 at 11:24am — No Comments

Its not about the hardware

If you havent seen the "Its not about the shoes" commercial its worth a look Here - Watch the commercial on Youtube here

It also reminds me that interactive surfaces are "not about the hardware" (As Smartech's David Martin rightfully points out). Touch based surface devices (Interactive Whiteboards or IWBs for those in the classroom) are in fact not about the hardware at all .. Johnny Lee proved the point with the $50 wiimote… Continue

Added by Rich White on February 1, 2008 at 9:21am — No Comments

New High Tech Antifreeze

There are probably a wide range of other applications of this new compound called gelatin hydrolysate, and it is all natural...no genetically modified ingredients.

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Added by samccoy on January 19, 2008 at 5:19pm — No Comments