CyberCamp 08

Wow…December already?  We decided that November or December would be a great check-in time to bring everyone up to date with our projects.  I know that everyone has been slammed since school started.  Hopefully you will all be able to take a few moments and give us an update on your Cybercamp project.  It has [...]

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This is the eighth WiP presentation from CyberCamp.  In this presentation, Alice talks about some of her ideas around Wired, a class she’ll be helping to teach that involves student advising, planning, and digital and information literacy.  Here’s the link to the archive of the chat from the session.

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Aye! Like Joanne and 1 wheel wrote today, I feel that while I have spent a lot of time on my project, it is moving along much more slowly than I had anticipated.  I became bogged down in how to assess all the many things I want to put in this many stepped project. I [...]

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It was a good weekend in that I was able to make some headway on my project.  The Skyline domain was verified by Google Apps Education and I can now begin working on the nuts and bolts of deployment.  I was able to set up our domain so it would be recognized on the Internet and [...]

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This is the fourth WiP presentation from CyberCamp.  In this presentation, Myra talk sabout her school’s plan to use Google Apps for Education as a digital learning platform for teaching and learning.   Here’s the link to the archive of the chat from the session (Scroll down about halfway – to 11:30-ish on the time [...]

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Myra’s presentation today was mind-boggling.  I now get it!   I see why I need to really learn how to navigate all of these great tools.  People have mentioned to me previously – use your gmail acct, put it on google docs, etc and I didn’t really understand why I would want to do that.  But, [...]

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Another good day at CyberCamp.  This was a valuable day in that we discussed the first three chapters of the Boss & Krauss book, Reinventing Project-Based Learning.  A few things come to mind: that there is a lot of learning going on at CyberCamp, there is a lot of learning to do, and maybe even more [...]

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With a few hours to read, think, and reflect on our learning yesterday, I’m ready to jump in.  Google Apps Education makes more and more sense for student (and staff) use.   I plan to document my learning here, briefly, but I do think that this process will necessitate my own blog on the deployment of [...]

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There will be no morning calisthenics, bed checks, or campfires – although I am hoping to make a digital braided lanyard. Our CyberCamp is a computer lab full of some very smart people and I’m hoping to absorb some ideas, tips, and great new tools. From the sounds of things, there will be many very [...]

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