Mar 15 2008
XO-1 and Teachers First
For those who have been keeping up here – I FINALLY RECEIVED MY XO-1 COMPUTER FROM MIT!!!!! It is an amazing piece of engineering. In one gigabyte of storage, it has twenty wonderful programs and utilities. It needs maintenance and update utilities and a printer utility. It has a good camera – for video and stills – and mics. The students in my classroom jumped right on it.
Here is a really fine site: http://www.teachersfirst.com/index.cfm - Ron at ISTE wrote:
“TeachersFirst is a website designed to meet the needs of K-12 ‘teachers in the trenches’ by focusing on resources that teachers need and can actually use in the classroom. Each resource is selected and reviewed by one of TeachersFirst’s reviewers, all of whom have classroom teaching experience.”
The Network For Instructional TV are the owners and it is very slick – full of flash scripts. I joined, and it looks useful after a cursory look.
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Skip,
Glad you are enjoying TeachersFirst. Since you are an English teacher, I suspect you might enjoy the Interactive Raven and some of the other lit content on TF. I also suspect that you will enjoy the reviews of web 2.0 tools and ideas for using them in the classroom found in the TeachersFirst Edge (See “What’s Hot” menu). Welcome to our little corner of the web (free and ad-free for teachers for 10 years now).
BTW, which Ron at ISTE told you about us? We rely on word of mouth, so I am always curious to trace the path. You may email me a response, if you wish.
Happy mud season in NH,
CHS
Dir. of K-12 Initiatives at TeachersFirst and 27 year teaching veteran- I KNOW the trenches (and the mud!).