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John Evans

How to breathe new life and increased performance back into an iPad that has become slo... - 1 views

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ipad update

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  • John Evans on 18 Jun 15
     
    "So, you've got an iPad and it's starting to get a little slow on you. Stop me if this sound familiar- first, you do your best to free up as much storage space as you can muster by deleting old, unused apps. Next, you decide to offload your photo library and data to iCloud, or whatever other preferred cloud service you choose. Still not enough? While these are very intuitive, and useful steps, there are still a few additional methods available to you to bring your iPad back to life and make it feel like it's a newer device once again. In no particular order…"
Phil Taylor

School 2.0 & the Academic Digital Divide « Emerging Technologies Librarian - 6 views

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school digital technology education plan

shared by Phil Taylor on 03 Jul 10 - Cached
  • What are the core educational tech competencies? – What are the missing skills that most impact on performance & academic success? How do you tell the story? – What are the tools people most need to be comfortable with? Are these different for faculty and students? – What are the causes of an academic digital divide?
nixx t

::Creative websites:: - 0 views

www.inetseoexpert.com

Professional web design company india

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    We perform,Website design, Web development, Logo design, Flash Website Design, Graphic Design, Webhosting & Search Engine Optimization
John Evans

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 11 views

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pbl project-based learning students educational projects leadership ASCD edcuationalleadership

shared by John Evans on 26 Oct 10 - Cached
  • launching a project with an "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning
  • Students created a driving question
  • product of students' choice created by teams
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  • each team regularly paused to review how well they were collaborating and communicating, using rubrics they had developed with the teacher's guidance
  • generated a list of more detailed questions
  • more meaningful if they conduct real inquiry
  • student teams critiqued one another's work
  • emphasizes that creating high-quality products and performances
  • A Publicly Presented Product
John Evans

This Week's Education Humor - 6 views

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education humour humor

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  • John Evans on 15 Nov 10
     
    "This Week's Education Humor A Weekly Update from the Learning Laffs Archives"
John Evans

Brain Odyssey Offers Brain Exercises in a Social Game - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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brain odyssey neuroscience babyboomers

shared by John Evans on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • On Wednesday, Posit Science, a company specializing in games that are designed to exercise the brain, introduced Brain Odyssey, a social online game that is meant to help the brains of baby boomers. The company says its site uses “clinically proven” neuroscience research to improve cognitive performance.
John Evans

The Essential iPad Guide for Principals « Eduleadership - Justin Baeder on pr... - 2 views

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ipad administration principal principals essential guide

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  • John Evans on 17 Nov 10
     
    "The Essential iPad Guide for Principals"
John Evans

Well-Connected Parents Take On School Boards - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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parents schoolboards connected socialnetworking

shared by John Evans on 09 Feb 09 - Cached
  • For a new generation of well-wired activists in the Washington region, it's not enough to speak at Parent-Teacher Association or late-night school board meetings. They are going head-to-head with superintendents through e-mail blitzes, social networking Web sites, online petitions, partnerships with business and student groups, and research that mines a mountain of electronic data on school performance.
John Evans

Presentation Zen: Lessons from the art of storyboarding - 0 views

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storyboarding digitalstorytelling presentation elearning digital_storytelling development

shared by John Evans on 06 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Applying the conceptsHow can you visualize your presentation like a comic? No, not literally perhaps — but something like the sequential flow of a comic or rough sketches in storyboard form. You can do this on a whiteboard, but one of the best analog ways is with sticky notes (Post its) on a wall on in a notebook (a technique Bert Decker, Nancy Duarte, and others have talked about before as well).
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      John Evans on 06 Feb 09
       
      Another great use for Post-It Notes!
  • Here is a good short video reviewing the art of the storyboard as it's used in story development and production in the motion picture industry.
  • Storyboards are an effective, inexpensive way to develop the story. You can "board it up" on the wall and see if it works. Because ideas can be changed easily and quickly, storyboarding works. The key is to put down in your storyboards the minimum amount of information that gives a dynamic and quick read of the content (and the emotions) of the sequence.
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  • A good storyboard artist is a good storyteller.
  • Walt Disney, they say, was an amazing pitchman/storyboard artist. Walt's great ability was his passion and vision behind the pitch. The storyboard pitch is one of the great performance arts developed in the 20th century at Disney (yet no one ever gets to see it). The use of storyboards is one of the reasons Walt Disney's early films were so remarkable; the practice was soon copied.
  • With storyboarding you tell the story in the simple form (storyboard reels) before entering the more complex form. The storyboard lets the whole team in on what's going on with the production. The storyboard is "an expensive writing tool, but an inexpensive production tool." The storyboard can cut out a lot of unnecessary work. Storyboards allow you to see what is not working (and toss the bits out that don't work).
  • Kevin Costner: "If I can make things work on paper, then I can make them work on the set."
  • John Evans on 06 Feb 09
     
    Very nice discussion about storyboarding.
John Evans

TALL blog » Blog Archive » Not 'Natives' & 'Immigrants' but 'Visitors' & 'Res... - 0 views

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digital_native digital_resident edtech natives visitor

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  • In effect the Resident has a presence online which they are constantly developing while the Visitor logs on, performs a specific task and then logs off.
  • The Visitor is an individual who uses the web as a tool in an organised manner whenever the need arises.
  • The resident is an individual who lives a percentage of their life online.
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  • This underlying motivation lead us to outline two main categories of distance learning student.
Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Learning in the Digital Age:The New WWW: Whatever, Whenever, Whe... - 10 views

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leadership www web2.0 pitfalls opportunity plan

shared by Phil Taylor on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
  • counteract the New WWW's potentially harmful impact on youth, educators must use technology to create learning experiences that are real, rich, and relevant.
  • Next will come 4G, in which data rates are expected to be 100 times faster than those in this first 3G wave. As the delivery platform of broadband content and functionality shifts from computer to personal device, we will be surrounded by a multimedia aura that accompanies us wherever we go
  • The plan is that you'll use your phone to spend money everywhere, all the time.
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  • What choices do we expect them to make if their pockets are loaded with cash and the shelves bulge with penny candy—especially when there's no parent in sight? The choice won't be between yes and no, but between what kind? and what next? Maybe someone needs to watch over this New WWW.
  • We can “hand students over to themselves.” We can engage them in the joys of learning, of making meaning, of being part of something larger than themselves, of testing themselves against authentic challenges. We can shift them from passivity and consumption to action and creativity. And believe it or not, the New WWW can help us.
  • engaging in personally meaningful actions, and performing service to something larger than themselves.
  • we must also acknowledge that schools have too much of both. But the joy of learning has neither! One of the most powerful definitions of teaching I know comes from Maria Harris: “Teaching is the creation of a situation in which subjects, human subjects, are handed over to themselves”
  • Children believe that getting whatever they want will make them happy. As adults, we know otherwise.
  • New WWW shifts learning power to the students themselves.
  • students can demonstrate their learning in a persuasive essay, a sardonic blog, a moving short film, a robust wiki entry, or a humorous podcast, why would we demand deadening conformity?
  • I call this kind of Web site a ClassAct Portal: Class because the site involves a whole class of students; Act because it supports authentic, active learning; ClassAct because it provides a real-world forum for students to exercise their best efforts; and Portal because the site serves as a window to resources, information, activities, and communities.
John Evans

Why is e-learning just plain wrong? - 3 views

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elearning

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  • Now think about your e-learning program. Does it let your learners naturally explore new information? Does it allow them to practice applying that information, until they’re confident they can get the right results in the real world? Or is your program more e-reading than e-learning? Maybe you’re getting sucked into that vortex of page-by-page, PowerPoint-like courses! If you are, that really does suck...and it's wrong, because your learners aren't getting all they need to perform at top levels.
John Evans

Web Watch: How Do You Define Professional Development? - 2 views

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professionallearning PD PL resources educators

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  • NSDC's re-write of the definition thus goes considerably further, stipulating (among other things) that PD should: foster collective responsibility among educators for student performance; be team-based and facilitated by school-based leaders; take place several times per week in a "continuous cycle of improvement"; define clear teacher-learning goals based on data analysis; and inform ongoing improvements in student learning.
John Evans

How to Use Microblogging in Workplace Learning | Upside Learning Blog - 2 views

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microblogging Twitter workplace learning

shared by John Evans on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Twitter has become the number 1 tool for learning in just three years – voted by hundreds of learning professionals in this survey at Jane Hart’s site. Microblogging platforms are a great tool to keep you updated with latest trends & get real time support or answers to questions. You could even search for information on these tools themselves and get some good links to follow. As a personal learning tool, Twitter is great but it’s a public platform and what you share on it is available to everyone, some organizations may need tools which can be installed behind their firewalls (Laconica, Yonkly) or that is available as a secure private service (Yammer). All these tools have functionality that’s similar to Twitter. Organizations are using these tools for workplace learning and performance support. Here’s what for:
John Evans

Why Social Media Curriculum is Critical in Schools - 140 Character Conference by Lisa N... - 5 views

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web2.0 social socialmedia media resources Teaching Technology

shared by John Evans on 09 Apr 10 - No Cached
  • It is unfortunate that in the 21st century many schools have deemed adolescent socialization among each other or with their teachers as inappropriate. This is the pervasive outlook despite the fact that educators are fully aware that 1) A healthy part of adolescent development includes socialization and 2) Research from those like the National School Board Association indicate that most students use social media to discuss educational topics and other studies (like this one from the CCSE) indicate students who are using social media to discuss schoolwork perform better.
  • Across the nation, most schools have banned students from accessing authentic communication hardware or software, positioning school as a place where socialization is kept to a minimum, learning is teacher directed, and conversations are teacher, rather than student, driven and/or maintained. This of course does little to prepare students from effectively navigating the online environments they have access to and should be prepared to navigate outside of school.
  • Schools that have taken the "don't ask, don't tell" approach to the social media curriculum are neglectfully choosing to look the other way as students communicate, collaborate, and connect in worlds devoid of adults. The result can be that just as in the real world, without any adult supervision, students could be at risk and are existing without models for appropriate behavior.
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  • Additionally if educators refuse or are prevented from becoming a part of these online places they are not speaking the language or joining in the real-world environments of their 21st century students. That said, I don't believe there should be an actual "social media curriculum" but rather social media must be integrated into the curriculum. Additionally, we need another name for these environments. Yes they can be social, but they are often more than primarily social environments.
  • The other important piece to this equation is educating parents, guardians, families
John Evans

YouTube - TEDxBlue - Jaimie P. Cloud - 10/18/09 - 3 views

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youtube tedxblue sustainability

shared by John Evans on 15 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Jaimie is the founder and president of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Educationin New York City. The Cloud Institute monitors the evolving thinking and skills of the mostimportant champions of sustainability and transforms them into educational materials and apedagogical system that inspire young people to think about the world, their relationship to it,and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way. Cloud is one of the pioneers of Educationfor Sustainability (EfS) in the U.S. and has produced a set of EfS Standards and PerformanceIndicators that schools are using to innovate their own curricula to educate for sustainability.
John Evans

The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of Your Day - Peter Bregman - Harvard Busines... - 7 views

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learning reflection effectiveness work performance

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  • There's a simple reason for it: we rarely take the time to pause, breathe, and think about what's working and what's not. There's just too much to do and no time to reflect. I was once asked: if an organization could teach only one thing to its employees, what single thing would have the most impact? My answer was immediate and clear: teach people how to learn. How to look at their past behavior, figure out what worked, and repeat it while admitting honestly what didn't and change it.
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