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John Evans

Kid-Cast.COM - Podcasts for kids and by kids - 0 views

  • Kid-cast.com is a website for kids to publish their own Podcasts so that other kids can listen. The idea is to make sure that there's a kid-safe Podcast out there for our young minds to hear. Contribution by kids makes it that much better, by allowing kids to listen to their peers on subjects they love!
Phil Taylor

Mixbook | Education Program - Free Digital Storytelling Software for Educators - 0 views

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    Mixbook for Educators, a program that allows educators even easier access to a suite of digital storytelling tools on the web.
John Evans

Apple - Challenge Based Learning - About - 0 views

  • Traditional teaching and learning strategies are becoming increasingly ineffective with a generation of secondary students that have instant access to information, are accustomed to managing their own acquisition of knowledge, and embrace the roles of content producer and publisher.
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      Couldn't disagre more my overhead still works!
  • Today’s high school curriculum presents students with assignments that lack a real-world context and activities that lead to uninspired projects and end in a letter grade.
  • Students embrace media that presents participants with a challenge and requires them to draw on prior learning, acquire new knowledge, and tap their creativity to fashion solutions.
John Evans

Tech n' Take Book Generators: Farr-Out Links to Learning - 0 views

  • There are some great online book generators, as well as templates that you can use with students to make publishing easier. The books and templates I am sharing today can be printed on one side of paper.
doris molero

Weblogg-ed - 2 views

  • “Do use our network to connect to other students and adults who share your passions with whom you can learn.” “Do use our network to help your teachers find experts and other teachers from around the world.” “Do use our network to publish your best work in text and multimedia for a global audience.” “Do use our network to explore your own creativity and passions, to ask questions and seek answers from other teachers online.” “Do use our network to download resources that you can use to remix and republish your own learning online.” “Do use our network to collaborate with others to change the world in meaningful, positive ways.”
John Evans

The Innovative Educator: Let's Stop Making Students Power Down at School - 4 views

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    When school started this Fall, I was impressed with 9-year old Sarah's two-minute recorded response to President Obama's speech, posted to YouTube. She had 187,632 views, 1600 comments, and a 4 star rating. Talk about authentic assessment, authentic audience, and real learning.
John Evans

Teachers: Watch this and Try not to Cry - Then DO SOMETHING! : Stager-to-Go - 8 views

  • 60 Minutes just aired a two-part story that stands in their grand tradition of breathtaking journalism. The report tells the story of Gospel for Teens, a non-profit arts organization created in Harlem, NYC by the radio broadcaster, publisher and theatre producer, Vy Higginsen. Her original goals were modest; teach kids to sing gospel music so that this important African American art form endures. The lessons Ms. Higginsen, the teenagers and the 60 Minutes audience learn are much more profound and life-altering.
Phil Taylor

More powerful pencils: 1:1 Laptop Programs and 21st century learning « 21k12 - 6 views

  • it is not because they had a 1-1 program in itself that made them so, but because they had a classroom culture of student inquiry, of research, collaboration, and on-line publishing, all of which were well supported by the laptops in students’ hands.
  •   “Laptop computers [would not be] technological tools; rather, [they would be] cognitive tools that are holistically integrated into the teaching and learning processes of their school.”
  • One of the best sections of this article speaks right to this, as it advocates schools to bring the students to the table: But it’s not just teachers who experts say must be involved in the 1-to-1 planning process—students should be, too.
Phil Taylor

Pearson and Google Jump Into Learning Management With a New, Free System - Wired Campus... - 10 views

  • Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has teamed up with the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS
  • It enters a market that has been dominated by costly institution-anchored services like Blackboard, and open-source but labor-intensive systems like Moodle.
John Evans

Walking Benefits: 20 Minute Stroll Could Highly Benefit Your Health, Study Finds - 0 views

  • A brisk walk each day for a minimum of 20 minutes could lead to considerable health benefits, according to a new study that suggests the sedentary lifestyle is responsible for twice as many deaths as obesity.The good news is that even a modest amount of exercise could make a difference as long as it's regularly performed, say the researchers, whose study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
alxa robert

New IT policy designed to promote e-service delivery - 0 views

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    http://egov.eletsonline.com/about-us/ The eGov magazine enjoys the distinction of being Asia's first magazine on e-Governance. Founded in 2005, the monthly magazine is published in both print and online formats, and is focussed exclusively on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for bringing efficiency, accountability and transparency to various citizen and business related initiatives of the government.
alxa robert

"There is actually no conflict between UID and NPR" | eGov Magazine - 0 views

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    Dr C Chandramouli, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India Dr C Chandramouli, the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, has overseen one of the most dramatic improvements in the time taken for Census data to be published. An amendment to the Citizenship Act 1955 has now made him the Registrar General of Citizens
alxa robert

Magazine 2012 | eGov Magazine - 0 views

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    The eGov magazine enjoys the distinction of being Asia's first magazine on e-Governance. Founded in 2005, the monthly magazine is published in both print and online formats, and is focussed exclusively on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for bringing efficiency, accountability and transparency to various citizen and business related initiatives of the government. No other magazine in Asia offers readers such in-depth coverage of new e-Governance models. We cover all aspects of e-Governance - from new technological advances in ICT to the ways in which common citizens benefit when their interactions with government departments are through digital interfaces and the myriad issues involved in implementation of e-Governance initiatives.
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