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10 free Educational Game sites | Emerging Internet Technologies for Education

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:29:24 -0000

Tags: technology, education, web2.0, GBL

by: Reynold Redekopp

Virtual Field Trips | SimpleK12

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:08:18 -0000

Tags: technology, virtualfieldtrips, education, virtual field trips, web2.0, tools, teaching

by: Reynold Redekopp

FlockDraw

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:30 -0000

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Flockdraw is the most seamless realtime collaborative drawing tool ever. - Cathie Howe

Tags: e-learning, tools, web2.0

by: berodier Alain

Novelties - Multiple Screens Built for Textbooks as E-Books - NYTimes.com

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:29:04 -0000

These new readers are starting to get to what we need in the classroom.

"The e-reader screen is used with a stylus that can underline or highlight text, take notes in the margin, pull up a blank piece of e-paper for solving math problems, or touch a link for a video of a chemical interaction that is then displayed on the LCD screen."

I've heard predictions that even more flexible devices will be developed this coming year.

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These new readers are starting to get to what we need in the classroom.

"The e-reader screen is used with a stylus that can underline or highlight text, take notes in the margin, pull up a blank piece of e-paper for solving math problems, or touch a link for a video of a chemical interaction that is then displayed on the LCD screen."

I've heard predictions that even more flexible devices will be developed this coming year. - Paul Allison

Tags: e-books, nytimes.com, nytimes, web2.0, education, tools, resources, teaching

by: Paul Allison

The Quintessence of Ham

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:01:27 -0000

I'm trying to learn more about Zotero, and this professor, Sean Takats, suggests that he used it with a "research-intensive" class this semester:

"With their unprecedented collaborative functionality, Zotero groups promise to transform the way that instructors and students interact with sources, particularly in research-intensive classes. "

I wonder how it went.

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I'm trying to learn more about Zotero, and this professor, Sean Takats, suggests that he used it with a "research-intensive" class this semester:

"With their unprecedented collaborative functionality, Zotero groups promise to transform the way that instructors and students interact with sources, particularly in research-intensive classes. "

I wonder how it went. - Paul Allison

Tags: Zotero, reserch-intensive, research, social bookmarking, web2.0, education, tools, resources, collaboration, teaching

by: Paul Allison

Google Image Swirl

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:29:08 -0000

Tags: google, image, swirl, visualization

by: Cathie Howe

The Front Lawn Educational Technology Blog

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:50:01 -0000

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I've been following this group for a while and thought I'd share my own blog with the community. It's an example of the evolution of a blogger. Please bear with me as I learn the art and improve my voice with every post. I spent 10 years blogging at the low end of the rubric before realizing there was so much more to learn. - Kevin Crouch

Tags: blog, edtech, technology, technology integration

by: Kevin Crouch

How to Manage a Group Project in Google Wave - Google Wave - Lifehacker

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:21:01 -0000

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by: Paul Allison

TALL blog » Blog Archive » The Transition from the Co-Digital to the Post-Digital.

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:35:02 -0000

I like all of the definitions in this blog post. They sound connected to past research, yet new. I know I was feeling odd at the "Digital Is..." Conference, because I don't want to let the technology disappear into uses. It's better, I think to look for what we can get out of particular technologies. That's what we are doing now with Google's Wave.

"Alongside these discussions Frances Bell suggested the term Co-Digital as a better term to describe the process of “…seizing the opportunities presented by the newness of technologies to spot changes and then shape the development of the technology.”"

As this paragraph suggests, we still need to look at "digital technologies" to see how we can exploit them for what we need.

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I like all of the definitions in this blog post. They sound connected to past research, yet new. I know I was feeling odd at the "Digital Is..." Conference, because I don't want to let the technology disappear into uses. It's better, I think to look for what we can get out of particular technologies. That's what we are doing now with Google's Wave.

"Alongside these discussions Frances Bell suggested the term Co-Digital as a better term to describe the process of “…seizing the opportunities presented by the newness of technologies to spot changes and then shape the development of the technology.”"

As this paragraph suggests, we still need to look at "digital technologies" to see how we can exploit them for what we need. - Paul Allison

Tags: web2.0, education, tools, resources, collaboration, google, teaching

by: Paul Allison

BBC News - Samantha Morton reads Carol Ann Duffy poem Last Post

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:21:00 -0000

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by: Amy Kelly-Graham

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:20:23 -0000

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by: Amy Kelly-Graham

The New Writing Pedagogy

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:58:35 -0000

I love how this article is framed.

"Still, is this shift in pedagogy and policy worth the effort? Will sound, traditional writing instruction still suffice, or do we need to reframe the way we teach students to write due to the global, online spaces they will frequent more in their lives?

In an August 2009 Wired article, Andrea Lunsford, professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, offered her own research to suggest that students are writing in environments far removed from those from even a generation ago. “I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization,” she says. According to her five-year study of student writing, technology is pushing writing literacy in new directions that educators must begin to make sense of. "

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I love how this article is framed.

"Still, is this shift in pedagogy and policy worth the effort? Will sound, traditional writing instruction still suffice, or do we need to reframe the way we teach students to write due to the global, online spaces they will frequent more in their lives?

In an August 2009 Wired article, Andrea Lunsford, professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, offered her own research to suggest that students are writing in environments far removed from those from even a generation ago. “I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization,” she says. According to her five-year study of student writing, technology is pushing writing literacy in new directions that educators must begin to make sense of. " - Paul Allison

Tags: reading, skimming, opposing, viewpoints, Diigo, socialbookmarking, new, writing

by: Paul Allison

Digital Films Home

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:43:02 -0000

Unleash your creativity and make your digital film for free!\n\nChoose a background scene, characters, animated actions, dialog,\n\nintroduction, and ending credits. Put your name as the producer\n\nand email the movie to your friends! You can also signup for free\n\nas a registered user, which gives you access to more advanced\n\nfeatures, such as being able to save or edit the movies that\n\nyou create.

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Unleash your creativity and make your digital film for free!\n\nChoose a background scene, characters, animated actions, dialog,\n\nintroduction, and ending credits. Put your name as the producer\n\nand email the movie to your friends! You can also signup for free\n\nas a registered user, which gives you access to more advanced\n\nfeatures, such as being able to save or edit the movies that\n\nyou create. - Gabriela Grosseck

Tags: diigo, filmmaking

by: Gabriela Grosseck

Featured Videos | dotSUB

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:49:29 -0000

dotSub is another site beyond YouTube that makes available a wealth of video resources. This one is unusual in that it offers the facility for those who upload their videos to create subtitles in any language.

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dotSub is another site beyond YouTube that makes available a wealth of video resources. This one is unusual in that it offers the facility for those who upload their videos to create subtitles in any language. - Rhondda Powling

Tags: translation, vídeos, subtitles, web2.0, tools, collaboration, language, film

by: Rhondda Powling

Mr. Picassohead

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:48:13 -0000

Mr Picassohead is a fun website. It allows users to create their own ‘Picasso’ by selecting different types of faces and facial features, colours and so on and dragging them onto a canvas. It is a great way to begin a unit of work on Picasso, Cubism or abstract art with students.

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Mr Picassohead is a fun website. It allows users to create their own ‘Picasso’ by selecting different types of faces and facial features, colours and so on and dragging them onto a canvas. It is a great way to begin a unit of work on Picasso, Cubism or abstract art with students. - Rhondda Powling

Tags: picasso, interactive, design, Web2.0, tools, graphics, flash

by: Rhondda Powling

World Wide Words

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:47:21 -0000

A facinating site on 'Words' (British. It offers more than 2100 pages on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide. .

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A facinating site on 'Words' (British. It offers more than 2100 pages on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide. . - Rhondda Powling

Tags: language, words, English, reference, etymology, writing, history, linguistics, dictionary

by: Rhondda Powling

Geocube - The world of Geography at your fingertips

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:45:50 -0000

Really cool application for Web 2 using Geo teachers. Similar to youcube - search engine with visualization and click and watch/listen to each square.

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Really cool application for Web 2 using Geo teachers. Similar to youcube - search engine with visualization and click and watch/listen to each square. - Rhondda Powling

Tags: geography, geocube, socialstudies, resources, education

by: Rhondda Powling

Differentiated Instruction | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:40:38 -0000

Tags: differentiation, differentiated, learning, teaching, education, instruction, pedagogy, resources

by: Rhondda Powling

Welcome to Google Lit Trips!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:17:21 -0000

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Mainly American but Possum Magic does feature. A novel way to make literature come alive! - Judy Weggelaar

Tags: education, web2.0, Literature, GoogleEarth, Mapping

by: Judy Weggelaar

Party with einstruction

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:12:22 -0000

Our math teacher made this video the for eInstruction makeover contest. If you can please vote for them!

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Our math teacher made this video the for eInstruction makeover contest. If you can please vote for them! - Debbie Johnson

Tags: diigo, einstruction

by: Debbie Johnson