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alexandra m. pickett

E-learning and Web 2.0 tools for schools - 4 views

mindomo.com/...511abbfb7e4145a33dbe6453d0f8af

web2.0 elearning mindmap tools mindmapping

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 15 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Joy Quah Yien-ling on 16 Jul 10
     
    Fascinating! I found the categories very helpful to get an overview of the entire tool landscape. Thanks lots.
  • Joan Erickson on 16 Jul 10
     
    this link is useful to me, will save the link in my Teacher's Resources module
Joan Erickson

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Video on TED.com - 1 views

www.ted.com/..._math_curriculum_makeover.html

module 4 assignment

shared by Joan Erickson on 19 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Joan Erickson on 19 Jul 10
     
    great video on how current math curriculum is set up wrong----great and inspirational MUST USE FOR online and f2f!
  • Joan Erickson on 19 Jul 10
     
    Dear professor and classmates, Please pardon me for sharing 20+ math links in one clip. I didn't want to share a link and later regret it. so I have been saving and deleting in my private list. I wasn't ready to share until now. Sorry.
  • Victoria Keller on 21 Jul 12
     
    You are absolutely right!! This was a very inspiration video. I loved how he was able to take the math problems from the book and break it up to make it more engaging.
Joy Quah Yien-ling

Melissa's Fuzzwich Creation | Social Studies Another Way - 0 views

melissapietricola.edublogs.org/...my-fuzzwich-creation

fuzzwich web2.0 tools social studies

shared by Joy Quah Yien-ling on 13 Aug 10 - Cached
    • Joy Quah Yien-ling
      Joy Quah Yien-ling on 13 Aug 10
       
      This is delightful, Mrs P.!!
Melissa Pietricola

Student Evaluations, Grade Inflation, and Declining Student Effort - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

chronicle.com/...24926

grade inflation

shared by Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The less rigorous professors even get good performances out of their students in the courses taught but those students subsequently, in follow up courses, do poorer than the more rigorous professors who do more than teach to the standardized test. Sounds reasonable to me.
  • would note that student evaluations began to become popular during the 1960s and early 1970s as a common evaluation tool for faculty. I would also note that most of the great grade inflation in America has occurred since evaluations began, with national grade point averages probably rising from the 2.5 or 2.6 range in about 1960 to well over 3.0 today
  • The colleges of education, which in my judgment should be put out of business (topic for another blog), are the worst offenders, but the problem is pretty universal.
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  • Alternatively, colleges could by mandate or the use of financial incentives encourage faculty to become more rigorous in their grading
  • Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10
     
    Inflations as a reaction to student evaluations
Melissa Pietricola

Study hits 'grade inflation' in New York state testing of pupils | SILive.com - 0 views

www.silive.com/...y_hits_grade_inflation_in.html

grade inflation

shared by Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10 - Cached
  • middle-school students who passed their math and English Language Arts tests are likely to struggle on their high school Regents exams
  • tudents who scored a Level 3 on their state tests -- which is considered passing -- would likely earn a 65 on their Regents exams, but that a score of 80 was typically needed to earn college credit for a course, according to the News.
  • Steiner is also calling for longer tests with more rigorous questions.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10
       
      Does longer mean better? Does a longer test necessarily mean it will better assess the learning objective?
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  • Critics have long been saying the tests appeared to be getting easier, and have wondered whether the scoring was adjusted to make politicians look better.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10
       
      Do regents and middle level state tests give kids "false sense of hope" as she states? My kids could care less what the state says. They are worried about their daily grades.
  • "But by any measure -- including the highly respected NAEP exams, state tests, and graduation rates -- due to the bold reform agenda implemented by this administration, the significant progress made by New York City students has far outpaced that of students in the rest of New York state."
  • Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jul 10
     
    NYS example of grade inflation; focusing on the middle level
Kelly Hermann

AbleData: Library - 0 views

www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm

module 4 assignment

shared by Kelly Hermann on 27 Jul 10 - Cached
  • AbleData's Publications include fact sheets and informed consumer guides to help you select various types of assistive products and to better use our services.
  • earchable listing of articles, books, papers and other paper and electronic publications about assistive technology
  • Kelly Hermann on 27 Jul 10
     
    The library is the part of the AbleData site that I will most likely use most in the course.  There is detailed information available in the consumer guides about particular assistive technology tools as well as a searchable database of articles and papers written about assistive technology.  
  • Kelly Hermann on 27 Jul 10
     
    Since the audience of my course is mainly faculty and staff, I thought the library section of this site would be a valuable resource for them.  The library includes a searchable listing of articles and papers (which I have highlighted here) that they may use to learn more about assistive technology and see some of the research that is out there.
alexandra m. pickett

Amy's Blog - 0 views

amyvarano.edublogs.org

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 09 Aug 08 - Cached
  • I never realized that five hours could feel like fifteen minutes once I get engaged in my work. 
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 09 Aug 08
       
      eureaka!!! that is exactly what engaged learning is!! Thank you for this observation. I am so glad to hear you had this experience!! Now you know what it feels like and what you are going for with your own students.... this is what I mean when i say "engagement over content." thanks for sharing. : ) me
Robert Braathe

MERLOT Business Portal - 0 views

business.merlot.org

business business_education

shared by Robert Braathe on 22 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Welcome to the MERLOT Business Portal, where we share:   Tips for using technology to teaching business courses People who participate in our community of educators' Learning Materials that you can use in your classes' Beyond MERLOT includes resources outside MERLOT that can help you as a faculty member Showcase features some of our award winning websites in the business discipline
    • Robert Braathe
      Robert Braathe on 22 Jul 08
       
      This section is going to be useful for me in my business courses to allow me to use up to date resources
  • Robert Braathe on 22 Jul 08
     
    A useful section of Merlot directly related to Business Education
  • Robert Braathe on 22 Jul 08
     
    A great resource to connect and utilize up to date resources
Geralynn Demarest

facilitator - 0 views

www.sonoma.edu/...facilitator.htm

discussion education facilitator learning online

shared by Geralynn Demarest on 21 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Role of Discussion Facilitator: Encourage and guide the discussion Be clear about the purpose and expected outcomes of the discussion Encourage participants to respond to each other as well as to the facilitator Recognize participants via private and public messages Share information and resources and encourage others to do the same Create a welcoming environment Tie together the threads of the discussion and summarize it Enforce the discussion group ground rules, if necessary Keep the discussion focused on the topic Clarify the questions and comments of participants, if necessary Act as an unbiased, neutral commentator Participate regularly, actively and thoughtfully Ask leading questions; resist being too chatty Decide when to resolve conflict/hostile interaction
    • Geralynn Demarest
      Geralynn Demarest on 21 Jul 08
       
      This is like a quick reference guide of things to remember when creating an online course and facilitating discussions.
  • Geralynn Demarest on 21 Jul 08
     
    Quick reference for tips to keep in mind while creating discussions in an online environment.
  • Geralynn Demarest on 21 Jul 08
     
    While creating my course, hiking101, I want to keep in mind the role of discussion facilitator. This source was found through Merlot, and provides a quick snapshot of things to remember.
s k

IP Addressing and Subnetting - 0 views

www.merlot.org/...viewMaterial.htm

shared by s k on 16 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Description: IP addressing and subnetting tutorial presentation. Contains audio, video and assignments.
    • s k
      s k on 16 Jul 08
       
      This multimedia lesson is a perfect fit for my course.
Aubrey Warneck

Essay & Poster Contest: Building a Classroom Community - 0 views

www.youthuniversity.ca/...annual_essay_contest

community building online education teaching presence

shared by Aubrey Warneck on 16 Jul 08 - Cached
  • “Together we are even better: Great things happen when my class is like a community”. The goal of this essay contest is to promote discussion in Ontario classrooms about the meaning of a sense of community and the ways that students and teachers can create a positive classroom community of learners.
    • Aubrey Warneck
      Aubrey Warneck on 16 Jul 08
       
      Maybe having students do an on-line poster contest or essay contest describing/depicting what makes a classroom community work is a good place to start with community building exercises int he online classroom. It will also create teaching presence in that the students will be teaching one another about what they think creates a successful community.
  • Aubrey Warneck on 16 Jul 08
     
    Building classroom community.
Joe Walker

Cooperative Learning - 0 views

tlt.suny.edu/...cooperative.htm

shared by Joe Walker on 16 Jul 08 - Cached
    • Joe Walker
      Joe Walker on 16 Jul 08
       
      The 15 common mistakes in cooperative learning link is good general information to use as a checklist when creating a group activity of setting up your online course.
    • Joe Walker
      Joe Walker on 16 Jul 08
       
      7 tips is some repeat information for us but a good quick checklist
    • Joe Walker
      Joe Walker on 16 Jul 08
       
      15 Common mistakes is a nice check list of things to avoid when creating an online course or group activity. I plan to use this for my first module, making sure I avoid these mistakes.
Jarrod McEntarfer

educational-origami » Bloom's Digital Taxonomy - 0 views

edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom's+Digital+Taxonomy

shared by Jarrod McEntarfer on 08 Jun 08 - No Cached
  • loom's as a learning process. Bloom's in its various forms represents the process of learning. It has been simplified in some case like the three story intellect (Oliver Wendell Holmes and Art Costa), but it still essentially represents how we learn. Before we can understand a concept we have to remember it Before we can apply the concept we must understand it Before we analyse it we must be able to apply it Before we can evaluate its impact we must have analysed it Before we can create we must have remembered, understood, applied, analysed, and evaluated.
    • Jarrod McEntarfer
      Jarrod McEntarfer on 08 Jun 08
       
      When I did this the first time I tried to have them create analysis questions first, because I had modeled so many analysis questions I though it would be easy for them. It was a mistake not to start at the very bottom at knowledge.
    • Jarrod McEntarfer
      Jarrod McEntarfer on 08 Jun 08
       
      I should say that I was attempting to teach my students how to ask questions using the Blooms Taxonomy
  • I don't think it is. The learning can start at any point, but inherent in that learning is going to be the prior elements and stages.
    • Jarrod McEntarfer
      Jarrod McEntarfer on 08 Jun 08
       
      I don't agree it. It is important to scaffold the questioning process for the students
Geralynn Demarest

How to Write Clear Objectives - 0 views

tlt.its.psu.edu/...Write_Objectives.shtml

distance education effective_online_practices learning objectives

shared by Geralynn Demarest on 21 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Geralynn Demarest on 21 Jul 08
     
    Writing clear objectives, a source found through Merlot.
  • Geralynn Demarest on 21 Jul 08
     
    This source was found in Merlot. As I move through creating my own online course structure, I thought it might be helpful to review best practices in creating clear objectives.
Geralynn Demarest

Plagiarism - 0 views

www.indiana.edu/...plagiarism.shtml

plagiarism

shared by Geralynn Demarest on 16 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Jeanne Cousineau on 27 May 09
     
    This is excellent. I will use it with my current on-line students.
Geralynn Demarest

Instructions for Using Diigo to Comment on Documentation - mobicents-public | Google Groups - 1 views

groups.google.com/...a0762f9851d3a56f

shared by Geralynn Demarest on 21 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Geralynn Demarest on 21 Jul 08
     
    I haven't included the use of diigo in my course, but I'm considering having the students include web sites in their discussions. I'm rethinking now and considering the use of diigo in the class. This web site had some instruction on best practices for using Diigo and I could point the students to this source.
Amy M

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

www.educause.edu/...162420

shared by Amy M on 28 May 09 - Cached
  • 30 million people today qualified to enter a university who have no place to go. During the next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week.
  • Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, which has provided free access to a wide range of courses and other educational materials to anyone who wants to use them.
  • Web 2.0,
    • jessica mascle
      jessica mascle on 28 May 09
       
      ?
    • Amy M
      Amy M on 04 Jun 12
       
      Web 1.0 was individuals accessing information.  Web 2.0 is the "social web."  Users focusing on social interaction rather than just getting conent.
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  • from access to information toward access to other people.
  • What do we mean by “social learning”?
  • e that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning.5
  • Students in these groups can ask questions to clarify areas of uncertainty or confusion, can improve their grasp of the material by hearing the answers to questions from fellow students, and perhaps most powerfully, can take on the role of teacher to help other group members benefit from their understanding (one of the best ways to learn something is, after all, to teach it to others).
    • Shoubang Jian
      Shoubang Jian on 03 Jun 10
       
      The dichotomy between Cartesian and Social Learning is problematic, and this is one of the reasons why. If Social Learning still comes down to group learning from each other, it remains unclear what would be the "alternative" model of learning/teaching between group users, if not substance/pedagogy.
  • But viewing learning as the process of joining a community of practice reverses this pattern and allows new students to engage in “learning to be” even as they are mastering the content of a field.
    • Irene Watts-Politza
      Irene Watts-Politza on 02 Jun 12
       
      Schools of Ed/teacher prep programs are being charged with providing "clinically rich" programs that engage candidates more actively, earlier, and more frequently in their program of study. This is proving to be difficult to actualize in the current wave of APPR uncertainty.
  • apprenticeship
  • open source movement
    • Shoubang Jian
      Shoubang Jian on 03 Jun 10
       
      Open Source Project may be a model for building up knowledge base among devoted users who are willing to follow the "path" set by predecessors. It is quite another issue whether it is a model for education.
  • Digital StudyHall (DSH)
    • Shoubang Jian
      Shoubang Jian on 03 Jun 10
       
      It's not clear in what sense this DSH method is an example of social learning.
  • We now need a new approach to learning—one characterized by a demand-pull rather than the traditional supply-push mode of building up an inventory of knowledge in students’ heads. Demand-pull learning shifts the focus to enabling participation in flows of action, where the focus is both on “learning to be” through enculturation into a practice as well as on collateral learning.
  • open participatory learning ecosystems
    • b malczyk
      b malczyk on 30 May 12
       
      Not only is it a matter of "if" such campuses are a possibility, but "should" such campuses be a priority. If online and distance education can yield at least comparable results to traditional academic settings, then their ease of accessibility and lower overhead costs warrant further exploration as a viable possibility.
  • “I think, therefore I am,” and from the assumption that knowledge is something that is transferred to the student via various pedagogical strategies, the social view of learning says, “We participate, therefore we are
  • provided students with opportunities to observe and then to emulate how experts function
    • b malczyk
      b malczyk on 30 May 12
       
      How does the open source idea fit with fields like medicine or chemistry where knowledge is less "socially constricted"? 
    • Amy M
      Amy M on 04 Jun 12
       
      Open Source/Access research.  One of the problems right now is that the NIH or fed government will pay for research, but the public then had to pay for the results of that research.  We are paying for the same research twice.  Open Access Journals (see Harvard Memo) hopes to change this.
  • seeking the knowledge when it is needed in order to carry out a particular situated task.
    • b malczyk
      b malczyk on 30 May 12
       
      Knowledge that is obtained when "needed" then answers the famous question many high school students ask their teachers, "When will I ever use this?" 
    • Irene Watts-Politza
      Irene Watts-Politza on 02 Jun 12
       
      I grew to see high school as a time for exposure to all disciplines in order to find what best suited one in preparation for college or the workplace. Now I am wondering if the multiplicity of disciplines will be "tailored" to fit the personal interests of the learner. Will differentiating for all eradicate the question Ben mentions?
  • all student writing was done on public blogs
    • b malczyk
      b malczyk on 31 May 12
       
      This form of education was also based on what could be called an industrial style of education. They education system became an extension of industry--students were passed along on the assembly line from one course to the next, year after year and came out a finished produce with similar skills and altitudes as their peers. Now education has and can become more narrow and niche based and less industrial.
  • This involves acquiring the practices and the norms of established practitioners in that field or acculturating into a community of practice.
    • Irene Watts-Politza
      Irene Watts-Politza on 02 Jun 12
       
      This is the model embraced by most teacher ed programs.
    • Amy M
      Amy M on 04 Jun 12
       
      Which has its advantages and disadvantages. 
  • In this open environment, both the content and the process by which it is created are equally visible, thereby enabling a new kind of critical reading—almost a new form of literacy—that invites the reader to join in the consideration of what information is reliable and/or important.
  • And at the third level, any participant in Second Life could review the lectures and other course materials online at no cost. This experiment suggests one way that the social life of Internet-based virtual education can coexist with and extend traditional education.
    • Irene Watts-Politza
      Irene Watts-Politza on 02 Jun 12
       
      Will the professions embrace as colleague one who excels in a non-credit course of study or will opportunities continue to be closed to those who don't present the "right" credentials?
  • Through these continuing connections, the University of Michigan students can extend the discussions, debates, bull sessions, and study groups that naturally arise on campus to include their broader networks. Even though these extended connections were not developed to serve educational purposes, they amplify the impact that the university is having while also benefiting students on campus.14 If King is right, it makes sense for colleges and universities to consider how they can leverage these new connections through the variety of social software platforms that are being established for other reasons.
    • Irene Watts-Politza
      Irene Watts-Politza on 02 Jun 12
       
      I am wondering if "leveraging" these networks will become a basis for funding in the case of state colleges and universities.
  • he site’s developers note: “We fundamentally believe that the new electronic environment and its tools enable us to revive the humanistic spirit of communal and collaboratively ‘playful’ learning of which the Decameron itself is the utmost expression.”
    • Irene Watts-Politza
      Irene Watts-Politza on 02 Jun 12
       
      The notion of 'playful' learning is my ideal; this seems to be at odds with the test drill environment I am currently observing in grades 3 - 6. Currently, it seems as though there are two tracks developing in "Learning 2.0": assessment-driven and learner-driven.
  • As more of learning becomes Internet-based, a similar pattern seems to be occurring. Whereas traditional schools offer a finite number of courses of study, the “catalog” of subjects that can be learned online is almost unlimited. There are already several thousand sets of course materials and modules online, and more are being added regularly. Furthermore, for any topic that a student is passionate about, there is likely to be an online niche community of practice of others who share that passion.
  • that will support active, passion-based learning: Learning 2.0. This new form of learning begins with the knowledge and practices acquired in school but is equally suited for continuous, lifelong learning that extends beyond formal schooling.
    • Irene Watts-Politza
      Irene Watts-Politza on 02 Jun 12
       
      Surely the content and skills currently being taught and assessed Pk-12 must give way to a new set of literacies.
  • In addition to supporting lecture-style teaching, Terra Incognita includes the capability for small groups of students who want to work together to easily “break off” from the central classroom before rejoining the entire class. Instructors can “visit” or send messages to any of the breakout groups and can summon them to rejoin the larger group.
  • CyberOne Classroom in Second Life
  • Jeanne Cousineau on 28 May 09
     
    Social View of Learning
alexandra m. pickett

Spanish on Twitter | Spanish Only - 0 views

www.spanish-only.com/...spanish-twitter

twitter spanish

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 04 Jun 09 - Cached
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 04 Jun 09
       
      Barbara: this is a wonderful list of potential spanish teachers to follow in twitter! check it out! : ) me
  • @spanishblog - I enjoy learning Spanish and teaching it to my kids. Love to hike, read and take photographs.
Jennifer Boisvert

My PathFinder Web Site - 0 views

www.albany.edu/...pathfinder.htm

interviewing resume cover_letter thank_you_letter

shared by Jennifer Boisvert on 05 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Jennifer Boisvert on 05 Jun 09
     
    A web site that I created on job searching and components of the interview (resume, cover letter, and thank you letter samples).
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