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Storyboard Templates

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:35:53 -0000

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TweetWheel - Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other!

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:30:10 -0000

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Survey: Generation Facebook's skills wasted at work - CNET News.com

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:42:23 -0000

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Posted by: randynobx

Online Event Registration Management Service by eventsbot

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:56:58 -0000

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Posted by: riptide

Digital immigrants or digital natives? A discussion of digital competence… A spectrum, not a dichotomy! | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Thu, 15 May 2008 04:38:38 -0000

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So if I were to make the post title into a statement it would be: Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy, students have a wide spectrum of digital competence positively correlating to their digital exposure. posted by datruss

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Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy,
students have a wide spectrum of digital competence
positively correlating to their digital exposure.

Tags: digitaldivide digitalexposure pairadimes pedagogy schools2.0

Posted by: datruss

Statement of Educational Philosophy | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Thu, 15 May 2008 04:25:46 -0000

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The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners, that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of the world. posted by datruss

Tags: community education learning pairadimes philosophy students technology

Posted by: datruss

Blogging with students requires biting your [digital] tongue | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Thu, 15 May 2008 04:20:34 -0000

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I really wanted to post a little timeline. Earlier I actually started typing a comment suggesting that perhaps Da Vinci used the same model for both paintings, then erased it rather than posting it… I forced myself to ‘bite my tongue’. The fact is that I am not used to letting students take ownership of their learning in this way. I want to ‘teach’ them… isn’t that my job? But if I had put that “perhaps Da Vinci used the same model” post in after the 5th or 6th comment, would the other comments have followed? posted by datruss

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I really wanted to post a little timeline. Earlier I actually started typing a comment suggesting that perhaps Da Vinci used the same model for both paintings, then erased it rather than posting it… I forced myself to ‘bite my tongue’.

The fact is that I am not used to letting students take ownership of their learning in this way. I want to ‘teach’ them… isn’t that my job?

But if I had put that “perhaps Da Vinci used the same model” post in after the 5th or 6th comment, would the other comments have followed?

Tags: blogging learningconversations pairadimes reflection studentvoice

Posted by: datruss

Wikis in the classroom: a reflection. | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Thu, 15 May 2008 04:16:33 -0000

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The thoughtful/reflective effort it took to write this has made this one of the most powerful things I’ve done for professional development as a teacher. posted by datruss

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1. Scaffolding

2. Time Line

3. Experts

Grades

The thoughtful/reflective effort it took to write this has made this one of the most powerful things I’ve done for professional development as a teacher.

Tags: blc08 pairadimes pedagogy reflection wiki

Posted by: datruss

$3,881.65 for one night’s work | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Thu, 15 May 2008 04:09:55 -0000

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News editors and journalists don’t give our wonderful students enough credit and enough accolades! We spend hours telling students how much they are valued and appreciated in schools, then they go into the ‘real world’ where they are portrayed so poorly by mass media. posted by datruss

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Posted by: datruss

“Who Have You Helped Today?” - Developing Empathy | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Thu, 15 May 2008 04:08:37 -0000

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This post will be printed in a Grade 8 Language Arts Text by Pearson Education. “Who did you help today?” It is simple. It inspires empathy. It shows what we truly value… and I look forward to the day when my daughters ‘favorite part of the day’ is also the answer to ‘who did you help today’. posted by datruss

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“Who did you help today?”

It is simple. It inspires empathy. It shows what we truly value… and I look forward to the day when my daughters ‘favorite part of the day’ is also the answer to ‘who did you help today’.

Tags: empathy pairadimes socialresponsibility

Posted by: datruss

kis21learning wiki / A "Digital Arts" Menu for Multiple Intelligences

Thu, 15 May 2008 04:00:01 -0000

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1. Which is your strongest "multiple intelligence" (Gardner)? Take this questionnaire to find out! 2. Choose from the Multiple Intelligence(s) Menu(s) below to see which "Digital Arts" might be most enjoyable for you to explore in iLife and Web 2.0 posted by datruss

Tags: assessment multipleintelegences tools web2.0

Posted by: datruss

Spotlight: Free Social Media Tools for Educators : April 2008 : THE Journal

Thu, 15 May 2008 03:52:57 -0000

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While most districts are still tackling Web-based collaboration tools from pedagogical and security perspectives, a large number of teachers are already out there using these tools to supplement instruction, engage learners, and encourage their students to become producers of information, as well as consumers of it. In other words, they're experimenting. And here are some of the free tools they're using to do it. posted by datruss

Tags: collaboration opensoftware tools

Posted by: datruss

Visual dictionary

Thu, 15 May 2008 03:50:54 -0000

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Great for young kids, kids with challenges and ESL posted by datruss

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Posted by: datruss

The New Face of Learning: The Internet Breaks School Walls Down | Edutopia

Thu, 15 May 2008 03:28:58 -0000

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I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms. posted by datruss

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I can say without hesitation that all my traditional educational experiences combined, everything from grade school to grad school, have not taught me as much about learning and being a learner as blogging has. My ability to easily consume other people's ideas, share my own in return, and communicate with other educators around the world has led me to dozens of smart, passionate teachers from whom I learn every day. It's also led me to technologies and techniques that leverage this newfound network in ways that look nothing like what's happening in traditional classrooms.

In many schools and even states, it's been, rather, a movement to block and bust: no blogs, no cell phones, no IM. We take away the powerful social technologies our kids are already using to learn and, in doing so, tell them their own tools are irrelevant. Or, instead of using the complex and challenging phenomenon of a site such as Wikipedia to teach the realities of navigating information in this new world, we prohibit its use. In fact, at this writing, the U.S. legislature is in the process of deciding whether schools and libraries should have access to any of the potential of the Read/Write Web at all. When you read this, blogs and wikis and podcasts (and much more) may be things that students (and teachers) can access and create only from off-campus.

I wonder whether, twenty-five or fifty years from now, when four or five billion people are connecting online, the real story of these times won't be the more global tests and transformations these technologies offered. How, as educators and learners, did we respond? Did we embrace the potentials of a connected, collaborative world and put our creative imaginations to work to reenvision our classrooms? Did we use these new tools to develop passionate, fearless, lifelong learners? Did we ourselves become those learners?

Tags: future learningconversations pedagogy techintegrator technology web2.0

Posted by: datruss

An Introduction To Twitter For Marketers » SlideShare

Thu, 15 May 2008 03:18:32 -0000

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A great summary of what Twitter is all about... not just for Marketers posted by datruss

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Posted by: datruss

Passwords Are Like Underwear (Pic) | MakeUseOf.com

Wed, 14 May 2008 03:13:27 -0000

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This is just the attention grabber my teachers need. posted by riptide

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Posted by: riptide

YouTube - 21st century pedagogy

Wed, 14 May 2008 02:57:47 -0000

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Need to develop a new pedagogical dna for schooling in todays world in order to break from the past posted by datruss

Tags: admin learningconversations pedagogy squarepeg video

Posted by: datruss

freshAIRapps.com - Adobe AIR Application Showcase, Tutorials and Resources

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:11:32 -0000

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Posted by: randynobx

Technology Review: Social Networking Hits the Genome

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:22:54 -0000

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Worth a mention? posted by sarahhanawald

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OK, I'm scared. posted by sarahhanawald

remember Gattica? posted by sarahhanawald

a new social-networking service that allows customers to compare their DNA.

encourage consumers to get DNA testing, potentially creating a novel research resource in the process

people can find each other by their alleles

most of the controversy centered on the medical applications. Customers can learn their genetic risk, compared with the general population, of myriad diseases, including Alzheimer's, diabetes, macular degeneration, and cancer. But many scientists and physicians say that it's unclear whether the average user can truly comprehend this information, and whether knowing her genetic risk will actually improve her health

allows people to compare their genome with those of family members, friends, and even strangers who have offered up their DNA data

Tags: genome socialnetworking

Posted by: sarahhanawald

8 Easy Firefox Tweaks for Super Fast Web Browsing by mad WAHM

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:01:00 -0000

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Posted by: riptide