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Jessica Pressman on Electronic Literature | FiveBooks | The Browser - 4 views

thebrowser.com/...ssman-on-electronic-literature literature E-Books electronicliterature
shared by Rick Beach on 20 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 20 Oct 12
     
    Describes examples of features of EL books
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AP Classes Are a Scam - John Tierney - The Atlantic - 12 views

www.theatlantic.com/...263456 inequality wealth schools
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  • Rick Beach on 17 Oct 12
     
    How AP courses enhance stratification within schools between AP versus non-AP courses.
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New e-book export feature enabled on Wikipedia - Wikimedia blog - 4 views

blog.wikimedia.org/...t-feature-enabled-on-wikipedia
shared by Rick Beach on 23 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 23 Sep 12
     
    Create e-pub books from Wikipedia articles for mobile devices
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Back to school means back to testing | StarTribune.com - 1 views

www.startribune.com/...169385816.html testing school teachers standardization
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  • Rick Beach on 12 Sep 12
     
    This critique of excessive testing posits the need to recognize that we're not just "testing to the test," we're "teaching human beings."
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Testing mandates flunk cost-benefit analysis - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 7 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gJQACqfsDW_blog.html testing NCLB textbook policy schooling
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  • Rick Beach on 30 Jun 12
     
    Smagorinsky nails the real origins of NCLB testing as a $20 billion cost to states that profit the testing/textbook companies.
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Cowbird · A witness to life - 9 views

cowbird.com storytelling digitalstorytelling
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  • Rick Beach on 26 Feb 12
     
    Corbird: contributors share their stories about everyday life, organized by topics and themes.
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Teaching Publishing is a 21st Century Literacy | DMLcentral - 11 views

dmlcentral.net/...blishing-21st-century-literacy publishing literacy
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  • Rick Beach on 11 Nov 11
     
    Posit the value of publishing students' writing as a 21st Century literacy
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Mixel lets you create and share iPad art | Macworld - 6 views

www.macworld.com/...create_and_share_ipad_art.html art ipad
shared by Rick Beach on 10 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 10 Nov 11
     
    Mixel, iPad app for collecting and remixing images for collages.
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Moglue - Create Play Share - 13 views

www.moglue.com ebook reading ebooks
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  • Rick Beach on 13 Oct 11
     
    Tool for creating interactive ebooks
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Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on 'Edchats' - NYTimes.com - 8 views

learning.blogs.nytimes.com/...-on-twitter-q-and-a-on-edchats twitter reading edchat
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  • Rick Beach on 01 Oct 11
     
    NYTimes article on Edchat Twitter groups to share and acquire information, for example, #Engchat
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Mobile Learning: Creating an ePublication | CEHD | U of M - 9 views

www.cehd.umn.edu/...default.html ebook Pages
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  • Rick Beach on 23 Sep 11
     
    Create ePub ebooks using Word and Pages
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How to Collect Student Files with Dropbox | K-5 Computer Lab - 8 views

oakdome.com/...student-files-with-dropbox.php dropbox web2.0 files filestork
shared by Rick Beach on 21 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 21 Sep 11
     
    Useful tools for uploading and storing students' files on DropBox
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Learning From YouTube: YOUTUBE IS ... - 7 views

vectors.usc.edu/...learningfromyoutube youtube learning ebook
shared by Rick Beach on 18 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 18 Feb 11
     
    This "videobook" describes different uses of YouTube in the classrom.
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The Future of the Book. on Vimeo - 3 views

vimeo.com/15142335 book ideo ebooks design literacy
shared by Rick Beach on 16 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 16 Feb 11
     
    IDEO's Nelson, Coupland, and Alice for responding to and connecting with books and readers
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A Manifesto for Media Education - 6 views

www.manifestoformediaeducation.co.uk media education manifesto literacy
shared by Rick Beach on 24 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 24 Jan 11
     
    media educators voice their idea about the need for media literacy education
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Turn the entire Web into a Learning Environment with Apture | Kirsten Winkler - 10 views

www.kirstenwinkler.com/arning-environment-with-apture information search Apture
shared by Rick Beach on 22 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 22 Jan 11
     
    Use Apture to mark words and then find out more about those words.
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Digital Is | Digital Is ... - 11 views

digitalis.nwp.org NWP writing digital
shared by Rick Beach on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 05 Nov 10
     
    The new National Writing Project site: Lots of resources
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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: How New Media is Transforming Storytelling: A New ... - 6 views

henryjenkins.org/...new_media_is_transforming.html storytelling digital narratives
shared by Rick Beach on 24 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 24 Oct 10
     
    video series on digital storytelling
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jmle.org » Blog Archive » D'Angelo - 7 views

jmle.org/blog power control media
shared by Rick Beach on 20 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Rick Beach on 20 Oct 10
     
    Activities for studying social control and power through films and graphic novels.
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Kindle for Mac - 1 views

www.amazon.com/...ref=pe_107430_16914390_pe_03 mac kindle
shared by Rick Beach on 18 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 18 Sep 10
     
    Free Kindle for Mac to access Kindle books: requires OS 10.5 or above.
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