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Edublogs awards 2010 at Shanghai American School

November 17th, 2010

Sarah Toa, for best class blog

Kimbra Power, for best teacher blog

Amy Hossack, best resource sharing blog

SAS teachers do an amazing job, of directing their students to worthwhile content online. Daily I am impressed and often in awe of the content teachers are developing and writing about with their students. 3 teachers in Elementary on the Pudong campus constantly engage their students in online learning by making their blog “the Go to” place on the web.

In 1st grade Amy Hossack has developed a blog that delivers, just the right amount of content for her 1st grade students to develop technology and online skills that allow the students to shine. Just look at the news post titled The World’s biggest and Longest. Mrs Hossack has a group of 1st grade students eager and willing to embrace technology. Her ability to introduce and find resources for her students has allowed classes around the world to easily find resources and ideas of embracing technology. Too often I hear of programs and websites being used by teachers that Amy has introduced them to through her blog.

Sarah Toa has been involved recently in a collaborative project raising awareness and money for a school in Uganda. The Uganda Global Project, was embraced world wide with Shanghai American School raising over $15,000 US dollars! Through Sarah’s blog, she engages the students and develops strong writing skills, social awareness and a “a whole lota fun”. This site is the go to place for 3rd grade students. It has become the Portal to the world, with links to keep the students safe, learning and commenting.

Finally, Kimbra Power in her 6th year of blogging continues to develop strong bonds on a global scale with her students. Her engaging posts and links to interesting and educationally sound sites allows her students to view blogging as a medium to develop writing skills, social awareness, interaction and lifelong skills. Her examples allow students the opportunity to understand personal safety online whilst building their own online presence. I don’t think there is one post without a student comment on it!

So without further ado, I would like to nominate these three teachers for the outstanding job they do!

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Mozilla add-ons to brighten your life for 2009!

February 2nd, 2009
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This list has in no way been exhausted! Please if you have any others that work well for you, leave a comment.

Netvibes add feeds and share links. A nice fast way to add to your Netvibes page.

All-in-One Sidebar. This is a great one to control all of your settings in one place. Nice and handy with lots of options to tweak.

Answers. What does that word mean? Right click on the word, click look up anwers.com and bang you’re there!

Autopager. Loads the next page for you automatically. No more clicking next page.

ColorfulTabs. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.

Cooliris. Transforms your browser into a visually stunning, lightning fast way to search and enjoy online photos, videos and more.

Delicious Bookmarks. The official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.

Downloadhelper. The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.

Downthemall! The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!This baby proclaims to be able to speed downloads up to400%.

Facebook toolbar. For the facebook junkie requiring immediate updates all day long. Stay connected.

Forecastfox. Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive add-on.

Foxclocks. Lets you keep an eye on the time around the world - or just your local time - by putting small clocks in your statusbar.

GCal Popup. Google Calendar in a nice overlay so that your calendar can be updated without ever leaving the web page.

Gmail manager. Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

Google Reader Watcher. Checks your Google Reader for unread news.

GooglePreview. Inserts preview images (thumbnails) and popularity ranks of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages.

IE Tab. Enables you to use the embeded IE engine within Mozilla firefox. Great for groupwise!

Instaclick. Right-click on links to open them in new tabs. Firefox does this by default with middle-clicks, but many laptop mice (touchpads) don’t have middle buttons.

Morning Coffee. Keeps track of daily routine websites and opens them in tabs.

Mouse Gestures. Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard.

Screen grab! It will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images.

Scribefire. A full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

Session Manager.  Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs.

Sxipper. Forget your passwords! Sxipper accurately fills in forms, manages passwords and your OpenIDs.

Tab Catalog. This shows contents of all of tabs as a thumbnail-style list.

Thumbstrips. Find what you seek — visually.

UrlbarExt. Extends the Location Bar with set of commands to (Make Tiny URL,Copy URL,Search site,Go up,Tag pages easily ,Navigate through sequential URL’s,View page cached version,Unblock filtered websites and Surf anonymously using online phproxy servers)

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