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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. Continue

Added by samccoy on August 19, 2009 at 11:30am — 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

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

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

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

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

There's No Place Like Home!

Have you ever experienced that moment in the autumn when you REALLY know it is autumn? Remember the moment when all the oaks, maples and other colorful trees are shouting out in their brightly colored pageantry, and you want to sing with the natural world?

Well, today was that day for me, and I would like to share the experi… Continue

Added by samccoy on November 14, 2007 at 10:17pm — No Comments

Jan Brett and the Reading Takes You Places Tour

In my first Greenbush.ning blog, I shared the story of Jan Brett's Author Tour for her latest book, The Three Snow Bears.

Well, last weekend, some friends and relatives of mine traveled to… Continue

Added by samccoy on November 14, 2007 at 7:36pm — No Comments

Gotta have IT!

I gotta have it!

Today, I was checking out a colleague's excellent video,Using Croquet on a Smartboard.

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Added by samccoy on September 28, 2007 at 5:10pm — No Comments

7 Simple Steps Online with Class

TappedIN, an educational social network, is sponsored by Stanford Research Institute, Inc. within their Center for Technology in Learning, an innovator in educational research interests, including TappedIN.

Follow these seven simple steps to discover TappedIN, the online tech campus. You can have an office and make protected classrooms for K-12 students. Tappe… Continue

Added by samccoy on September 18, 2007 at 1:47pm — No Comments

5 Ways to bring the ROADTRIP into Web2.0 territory

While I take a ROADTRIP to Coffeyville, KS, I will put all my efforts into refining my web2.0 skills by using various pieces of equipment to send mobile messages and store content for later projects.

Having twittered about the trip, I will now blog. Part of learning is to take the new and meld with the old....it's called accessing and bridging "prior knowledge".

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Added by samccoy on September 14, 2007 at 1:23pm — No Comments

Look NE for Charioteer's Sparks in the Sky


In the early hours this Saturday morning, 09-01-07, look into the NE sky for the Aurigids meteor shower. These are the remnants of the dust trail of the Comet Kiess. Look up! Look out!
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Added by samccoy on August 30, 2007 at 2:57pm — No Comments

Set Your Event Alarm for Lunar Eclipse

"On Aug. 28, skywatchers across much of North America can watch as the Moon crosses into the Earth's shadow and will undergo its second total eclipse in 2007."

Use this map of the world to find out when and where the lunar eclipse will be sighted.

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Added by samccoy on August 26, 2007 at 12:15am — No Comments

Integrated Curricula and PBL opportunity

  • Want to integrate your curricula and start a simple PBL opportunity?
  • Want exciting, educational afterschool PBL extensions?
  • Want your PBL experience to be successful?
Leni Dolan, a colleague at the TappedIn campus, and an experienced teacher-leader, can collaborate with you to meet these goals… Continue

Added by samccoy on August 23, 2007 at 3:42pm — No Comments

Integrated Curricula and COOL beta web apps

Some colleagues and I from TappedIn were discussing, during our Math and Technology session, some new web apps that could be used in developing algebraic reasoning. The session leader shared one called World:Gapminder . I think this little app will appeal to… Continue

Added by samccoy on August 22, 2007 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Time to plan out educational road trips!

Jan Brett, the famed author/illustrator will be visiting Watermark Books & Cafe, on the corner of Douglas and Oliver streets in Wichita, on Sunday, October 17, 2007 from 5:00 to 7:00PM for The Three Snow Bears booksigning party. She is the author or illustrator of a multitude o… Continue

Added by samccoy on August 20, 2007 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

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