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Heart and Voice: A Digital Storytelling Journey - National Writing Project - 0 views

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    Heart and Voice: A Digital Storytelling Journey
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Curriculum Barriers Mentor - 0 views

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    This model shows how a teacher might examine planned curriculum materials and methods for a 3rd grade science unit on plants. Each method or material, listed at left, is aligned with student qualities. The third column highlights barriers created by the interaction between materials, methods, and student weaknesses and points out missed opportunities created in the intersection between materials, methods, and student strengths or interests.
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Best Practices in Teaching - The Center for Teaching and Faculty Development - 0 views

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GLT Overview: Animation Demo on Vimeo - 0 views

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    Help Explore Tools Upload Videos Me Couch Mode
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Universal Design for Learning Online Training Module - The Center for Teaching and Facu... - 0 views

  • Audio Versions
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      Multiple representations of the content provided here: audio, vide and text
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Year End Reflection 2010-2011 - 0 views

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    A teacher's use of Google Forms for end of the year feedback.
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I Came, I Saw, I Learned...: eLearning: Finding Google Images You Can Actually Use - 0 views

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    Why I prefer using creative commons or morguefile
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Assessment Rubrics - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Ed... - 0 views

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    Thanks to Felipe Morales
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You Tube Star Teacher Academy Interview w/ Enrique Legaspi - YouTube - 0 views

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    Shared with us by Aidalí Aponte-Avilés, a member of our community of practice!
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The Saylor Foundation: Connecting the Dots - YouTube - 0 views

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    Interesting take on oer for learning.
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Principle III. Provide Multiple Means of Engagement | National Center On Universal Desi... - 0 views

  • Offering learners choices can develop self-determination, pride in accomplishment, and increase the degree to which they feel connected to their learning. However, it is important to note that individuals differ in how much and what kind of choices they prefer to have. It is therefore not enough to simply provide choice. The right kind of choice and level of independence must be optimized to ensure engagement.
  • In an educational setting, one of the most important ways that teachers recruit interest is to highlight the utility and relevance, of learning and to demonstrate that relevance through authentic, meaningful activities. It is a mistake, of course, to assume that all learners will find the same activities or information equally relevant or valuable to their goals. To recruit all learners equally, it is critical to provide options that optimize what is relevant, valuable, and meaningful to the learner.
  • Vary activities and sources of information so that they can be:  Personalized and contextualized to learners’ lives  Culturally relevant and responsive  Socially relevant Age and ability appropriate  Appropriate for different racial, cultural, ethnic, and gender groups
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  • The level of perceived challenge The type of rewards or recognition available The context or content used for practicing and assessing skills The tools used for information gathering or production The color, design, or graphics of layouts, etc. The sequence or timing for completion of subcomponents of tasks
  • it is important to build in periodic or persistent “reminders” of both the goal and its value in order for them to sustain effort and concentration in the face of distracters.
  • Prompt or require learners to explicitly formulate or restate goal Display the goal in multiple ways Encourage division of long-term goals into short-term objectives Demonstrate the use of hand-held or computer-based scheduling tools Use prompts or scaffolds for visualizing desired outcome  Engage learners in assessment discussions of what constitutes excellence and generate relevant examples that connect to their cultural background and interests 
  • Mastery-oriented feedback is the type of feedback that guides learners toward mastery rather than a fixed notion of performance or compliance.
  • Provide feedback that is frequent, timely, and specific Provide feedback that is substantive and informative rather than comparative or competitive
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What Makes Siri Special? | PCWorld - 0 views

  • Siri still makes mistakes. With Siri, however, speech recognition is a conversation, and people are accustomed to dealing with misunderstandings in conversation.
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      Natural language processing, speech recognition as conversation-this could be an excellent support tool for language learners.
  • Apple developers have "actually taken some of the capabilities out currently, so I fully expect it to evolve quickly," SRI's Winarsky says. One of the features Apple removed was the ability to book a table at a restaurant automatically. It seems likely that Apple is inking deals and polishing features as fast as it can to restore that functionality to the app.
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    Think about the possibilities for use with language learners!
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How to Outsmart Tracking Cookies on the Web - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • To have the most privacy options, upgrade to the latest version of the browser you use.
  • All popular browsers let users view and delete cookies installed on their computer.
  • Once you've deleted cookies, you can limit the installation of new ones.
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  • Internet Explorer lets you set rules for blocking cookies based on the policies of the cookie-placer.
  • No major browsers let you track or block beacons without installing extra software known as "plug-ins," as described under advanced steps.
  • All major browsers offer a "private browsing" mode to limit cookies. Chrome calls it "Incognito." Internet Explorer calls it "InPrivate Browsing," but this option is available only in the latest version, IE8.
  • It deletes cookies each time you close the browser or turn off private browsing, effectively hiding your history.
  • "Flash Cookies"
  • Flash is the most common way to show video online. As with regular cookies, Flash cookies can be useful for remembering preferences, such as volume settings for videos. But marketers also can use Flash cookies to track what you do online.
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      So every time you see a flash video (YouTube is an example) you are being tracked.
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SafeConnect › University of Connecticut - 0 views

  • SafeConnect continually assesses your computer to ensure it meets the minimum security standards established in accordance with the statement of intent.
  • You do not need to be connected to the University network to install the software
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40 Coolest iPad Apps for Language Learners | Online College Tips - Online Colleges - 0 views

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    Still lots of isolated skills
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12 Tech Tools That Will Transform The Way You Teach! | Catlin Tucker, Honors English Te... - 0 views

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    As always, check to see if these are free, freemium or pay for apps and also what limitations they carry if free.
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Ira Socol on Universal Design for Learning | LearnCentral - 0 views

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SpeEdChange: Testing cannot be anything but political - and abusive - 0 views

  • That's assessment. Teachers, those much maligned, overpaid, underworked teachers of your speeches, do that every day. But let us remember, that is not comparative assessment. It does not tell you that player (a) is "better" than player (b), and it can not help you compare team (a) to team (b) or coach (a) to coach (b). It is simply a way of helping people reach their potential.
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      This is the quote to note: "it is simply a way of helping people reach their potential."
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Teachable Moment - plagiarism - 0 views

  • Let's assume you have engaged students in worthwhile class work and it is time for them to involve themselves in an inquiry related to it and of interest to them. Forget about "research," forget about "the term paper,î abandon the often calcified list of "subjects." Here is a proposed series of steps and assignments for the process.
  • * "significant learningî ó that which raises questions and problems whose answers and solutions promote further curiosity and learning that have the potential to develop into a lifelong pursuit.
  • Assignment A: Ask students to prepare three carefully worded questions on a matter related to classwork whose answers they might like to pursue.
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      I will do this from now on with our moderator questions and blog posts.
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  • If you feel there is no time for such a procedure (and if you are correct in your assessment), then you have the following options: Launch a campaign with other teachers directed at the problems and/or people responsible for making time unavailable so that it can be made available. If that fails, at least eliminate "research" and "term papers" from the curriculum on educational grounds.Use as much of the procedure as you can to promote inquiry and to eliminate as much plagiarism as possible.Continue to teach as in the past.Quit and find a more honorable line of work.
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    A must read for those who are concerned about plagiarism with online students.
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Stop Chasing High-Tech Cheaters | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • It has long been academe's dirty little secret that bad instructors and bad assignments create cheating.
  • "In today's information age, where a body of information in all but the narrowest of fields is beyond anyone's ability to master, why aren't colleges teaching students how to research, organize and evaluate the information that is out there?"
  • If, however, processing information is the issue, if creative solutions are being sought, if students are being asked to develop new syntheses, then cheating will be much rarer, and much more difficult, technology use will become essential, and learning will be far more relevant.
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  • So schools do not teach effective use of Google, of text-messaging, of instant-messaging. They don't teach collaboration. They barely teach communication outside the stilted prose only academics use. No wonder students are prepared for nothing except more school.
  • There is also the issue of educational discrimination. When schools fight against technology, they are fighting access to education for people who learn and function differently. Technology, from computers to calculators to classroom cellphones, enables a wide variety of students who would otherwise be left out to participate and succeed. Technology in the hands of all students allows disabilities and functional deficits to be invisibly accommodated so that knowledge can be developed, nurtured, and evaluated on terms fair to everyone.So, no, the problem is not cheating. The problem is firmly one of instructional and evaluation technique. It will not be solved until teachers and professors figure out that understanding and the ability to work with knowledge is what counts, and that anything you can instantly Google, or store in your calculator, or retrieve via quick text-message or phone call need not be remembered, nor tested, because, obviously, you will always be able to instantly Google it, or store it in your cellphone, or get someone to text it to you. 
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