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Bryan Lee

ViewPure - Videos without clutter - 0 views

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  • Watch YouTube videos without comments, suggestions, or the 'other' things
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 29 Mar 11
       
      If you've ever wanted to use YouTube, but didn't want either all the garbage on the side of the screen, or the (sometimes foul-mouthed) replies at the bottom of the page, you should use ViewPure: a way of filtering that stuff out.
Tim Yocum

Twitter Strategies « My Island View - 0 views

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  • Tim Yocum on 23 Mar 11
     
    A primer on using Twitter to become a lifelong learner. Build your Twitter skills from the ground up.
Bryan Lee

10 years after laptops come to Maine schools, educators say technology levels playing f... - 2 views

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  • Ten years later, each seventh- and eighth-grader in Maine public schools and every grades 7-12 teacher has a laptop paid for by state taxpayers, at an annual cost of $11 million
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      Do these laptops follow the students around throughout high school I wonder, or are they just dedicated to the middle schools?
  • The annual cost for the high school laptops is about $7 million, or $242 per student
  • The price includes technical development for teachers, support and repair.
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  • And, through the Maine Department of Education, 60 percent of Maine high-schoolers have laptops, paid for by local property taxpayers. That's a total of 72,000 laptops, according to the DOE
  • students do not get to keep the laptops
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      I poked around and found the Maine site containing the information: http://www.maine.gov/mlti/index.shtml 
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      ...but do students get to take the laptops home?  What is their acceptable use policy?  What user agreement do they use?
  • Writing test scores have improved
  • schoolwork more interesting
  • A 2009 study by David Silvernail of the Maine Education Policy Research Institute at the University of Southern Maine showed that laptops helped students become better writers, boosting writing test scores statewide
  • math skills have jumped
  • Educators credit the method of teaching math in middle school: laptops, no textbooks.
  • In 2001-02, Freeport Middle School's eighth grade passing rate on basic math tests was about 50 percent. In 2009-10, it was 91 percent, math teacher Alex Briasco-Brin said
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      It's got to be more than just the laptops.  I can't see how the laptops themselves are panaceas.  What lesson changes is the article not mentioning?
  • Gov. Angus King's proposal to give every seventh-grader in Maine a laptop
  • equal access
  • In physical education classes, students create movies to show their juggling skills and gross motor skills
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      LOL, brilliant; not what I think of when I think of PE, but brilliant.
  • learn advertising and to analyze media
  • math teachers doing online skill-based type of things and online quizzes
  • Glogster where they create digital posters, and upload photos and music for reports.
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      Used this in class.  It's fun, the kids like it, and it's easy.
  • They'd throw their wallet at the problem. Those kids came in with professional-looking documents,” Robinson said, compared to plain-looking reports from students whose parents did not have as much money. Having laptops means all students can do the same quality report, regardless of their parents' income, “because they all have the same tools,” Robinson said.
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      This sort of echoes the helicopter parent problem mentioned at the in-service, when parents alleviate stress by either doing the kids' project, or offsetting problems with dollars.  It comes down to an issue of educational equity.
  • “I got used to knowing when to go on Skype: after my homework is done; when to go on Facebook: after my homework is done. As I got better, my grades started to go back up,” Trevor said.
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      He's learning digital citizenship as well as personal responsibility.
  • the laptops go home, where kids have access to all sites
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      At FETC, Verizon Wireless claimed to be able to block sites through the coverage they provide.  That was specifically for cellular handhelds in class.  Does the same hold for wireless access?  Could it?
  • Learning happens best when you make mistakes
  • “Part of it is supervision, he said. You don't hand the keys to your car to your teenager without rules.
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      Amen, and again I say Amen.
  • Pennsylvania started a program but closed its doors when funding went away
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      In Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff", the Mercury astronauts mentioned what it was that launched those rockets.  It was funding.  "No bucks, no Buck Rogers."  It's the same everywhere.
  • 'I want this device to be an extension of their arm, a routine way to learn,'”
    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 23 Mar 11
       
      Dr. Elliot Solloway from U. of Michgan thinks likewise.
Scott Thomas

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Wiki Wiki Teaching: The Art of Using Wiki Pages to Teach (Remix) - 0 views

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  • Scott Thomas on 18 Mar 11
     
    fairly thorough list of steps for implementing blogs into a class
Scott Thomas

Preparing Your School for an iPad Implementation - iPads in Education - 0 views

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  • Scott Thomas on 18 Mar 11
     
    Not sure if this is in here already, but a great list of questions for any tech implementation, not just iPads.
Scott Thomas

Five Reasons for Integrating Technology | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Scott Thomas on 18 Mar 11
     
    Some very powerful points about moving into the 2.0 age
Bryan Lee

Corkboard.me - 0 views

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corkboard collaboration technology web2.0 teaching edtech connection classroom

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  • Bryan Lee on 17 Mar 11
     
    This is an instant microblogging application available online for free.  I've seen it used for breakout sessions at faculty meetings and in-service sessions.  It's effective and simple to use.  You just use the corkboard to post notes on.  There can be a guiding question that a group must respond to.
Bryan Lee

DinAra Design - 1 views

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  • Bryan Lee on 16 Mar 11
     
    These fonts come from many of the movies and tv shows we recognize.  Now you can use the same fonts in your own presentations and documents.
Bryan Lee

Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures - 1 views

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shared by Bryan Lee on 16 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Bryan Lee on 16 Mar 11
     
    These are free lectures available from Academic Earth.  The participating universities is quite illustrious.
Bryan Lee

Fall 98 NCLC-349-Internet Literacy, Section 002 - 0 views

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internet literacy analyzing

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  • Bryan Lee on 15 Mar 11
     
    This is a course homepage for critiquing internet resources.
Todd Orlando

DAILY INSIGHT: Emerging Technologies to Watch - 3 views

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  • Tim Yocum on 11 Mar 11
     
    I like this. It will be interesting to see what pans out and what does not. How many of these emerging technologies will happen a little more quickly than predicted?
Bryan Lee

Pearson Custom Publishing - Index page - 0 views

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  • Bryan Lee on 10 Mar 11
     
    This is a site where you can add content to a custom textbook, paying only for the copyrights you actually will use.
Bryan Lee

The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine) - 0 views

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plagiarism copyright writing culture mashup article

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    • Bryan Lee
      Bryan Lee on 10 Mar 11
       
      There are annotations toward the bottom of the article.
  • Bryan Lee on 10 Mar 11
     
    Cool article on our culture's ability to plagiarize, and the tendency of artists to do just that.
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