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100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom | Online College Tips - Online ... - 4 views

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    "Facebook isn't just a great way for you to find old friends or learn about what's happening this weekend, it is also an incredible learning tool. Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class."
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ClassroomQ: A Better Way to Ask and Manage Questions - Nick's Picks For Educational Tec... - 2 views

  • Teachers see an ordered list of student requests along with any optional comments that students may have provided. Simply clicking on a student’s name removes them from the list. A Better Workflow ClassroomQ can play an important role in the workflow of the student-centered classroom. Students requesting help no longer have to sit with their hands up, doing nothing for extended periods of time. Teachers can give their full attention to the student(s) they are working with, knowing that other students have been acknowledged. ClassroomQ Accounts Free accounts are limited to a maximum of five students in the queue at one time (which should be plenty for most classrooms). Paid accounts ($19.99/yr.) are unlimited and also offer the ability to view who has checked in to a class along, and the option to download data from each class session. Copyright secured by DigiproveSome Rights ReservedOriginal content here is published under these license terms: X License Type:Non-commercial, Attribution, Share AlikeLicense Summary:You may copy this content, create derivative work from it, and re-publish it for non-commercial purposes, provided you include an overt attribution to the author(s) and the re-publication must itself be under the terms of this license or similar.License URL:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/Don't Miss a Pick - Follow Us http://edtechpicks.org/wp-content/plugins/social-media-feather/synved-social
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    "The ease of use and simplicity of design are what really make ClassroomQ stand out. After creating an account, teachers can start a class session with one click. "Students join the session by going to classroomq.com/students, enter their teacher's name and class code. They can then ask for assistance and will be added to the teacher's queue with the push of a button. They can also see how many students are ahead of them at any time."ClassroomQ Assistance Button "Teachers see an ordered list of student requests along with any optional comments that students may have provided. Simply clicking on a student's name removes them from the list." Looks like a cool solution -- but wouldn't working in groups be a help? T/h to Nick LaFave
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Four reasons your school should use Facebook | Dr. Brian J. Dixon - 1 views

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    "Communicating with and engaging your school community (parents, students, and donors) is essential is growing a great school. Facebook is a tool that school principals, admissions directors, and development teams should use to build this engagement. Here are four great reasons to use Facebook as a central tool for your school's engagement strategy" These 4 are ease of use, accessibility, ubiquity, and ease of management. Most of these reasons are the same as for blogs, but Fb seems the hot one today, and it is pretty easy to use. One important feature is that you can now put all your schools accounts in one place, and you and/or your students can protect page access. This should salve the worries about Internet safety. One problem may remain: Fb does get shut down in various countries for a variety of political reasons. Caveat user!
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100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom [Updated] » Online Co... - 3 views

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    "Read on, and you'll find a wealth of resources, assignments, and amazing uses for Facebook in any type of classroom." You have to folow each link further, but there is a lot of great material and food for thought here.
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R. Stannard on Facebook: teachertrainingvideos.com - Wall - 3 views

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    Russell Stannard now has a Facebook fan page with links to sites beyond those he has made training videos for. Like and follow.
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How Educators Are Using Learnist | MindShift - 1 views

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    "Learnist, as many have already pointed out, works much like Pinterest - a way to catalog online resources on a topic and share them with the user's social network. And like Pinterest, it looks like a digital bulletin board with pictures and messages, and connects with Facebook accounts. In fact, the site's "learning boards" look quite a bit like Facebook's timeline feature, and Facebook membership is required to use Learnist at this point. In its current closed beta form, Learnist, launched by Grockit, is still very much in its infancy, but some curious teachers have already jumped on the wagon. Time will tell whether educators will stick with Pinterest, or migrate to Learnist because of its association with Grockit, which already has a large and loyal following as a social learning tool." Nice article on how educators are using Learnist. Hope this one makes it past Beta.
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Creating Photo Mosaic Effects - 3 views

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    "Create photo mosaics with ease. Upload multiple images from your desktop or facebook. Overlay with a large picture to generate effect. Adjust transparency settings, tile sizing and color blending. Save to your desktop, publish to facebook wall or make a cool gift on a mug, greeting card, notebook and more." Could be a fun tool for students to use in digital media projects.
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Study Shows Students Are Addicted to Social Media | News | Communications of the ACM - 2 views

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    An interesting article on student "addiction" to social media: ""The students did complain about how boring it was [to] go anywhere and do anything without being plugged into music on their MP3 players," says Moeller. "And many commented that it was almost impossible to avoid the TVs on in the background at all times in their friends' rooms. But what they spoke about in the strongest terms was how their lack of access to text messaging, phone calling, instant messaging, email and Facebook, meant that they couldn't connect with friends who lived close by, much less those far away." "Texting and IM-ing my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort," wrote one student. "When I did not have those two luxuries, I felt quite alone and secluded from my life. Although I go to a school with thousands of students, the fact that I was not able to communicate with anyone via technology was almost unbearable." The student responses to the assignment showed not just that 18-21 year old college students are constantly texting and on Facebook-with calling and email distant seconds as ways of staying in touch, especially with friends-but that students' lives are wired together in such ways that opting out of that communication pattern would be tantamount to renouncing a social life."
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The Complete Facebook For Educators! | Tech the Plunge - 4 views

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    Link to other blogs that discuss ways to use Facebook--from Kindergarten to college.
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Sign language expands to include science terms - CEC SmartBrief - 1 views

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    This crowd-sourcing movement seems the model for other types of expansions as well.
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simplebooklet.com - 2 views

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    "All you need is your web browser and a few short minutes to create a multipage digital brochure, product guide, slider or flip book with one click publishing to facebook, email, websites, blogs, and more. Build it from scratch or convert your existing PDF. " This might be very good for a class project. Supposedly just takes minutes to set up a booklet, and you can convert from pdf.
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Learning Never Stops: PicMark - Brand your pictures before sharing them - 1 views

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    A nice way to enhance project-based learning, and PicMark lets you share on several common social websites such as Google+, Twitter, and Fb. "PicMark is a simple tool that allows you to brand your pictures with a custom frame before you post them online. Adding a mark is as simple as uploading your picture to their site, choosing a frame, and sharing it to Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. The site allows you to further enhance your frames by choosing colors, styles, and typing messages on the frame. If you'd like, you can even design your own custom frame to use anytime. PicMark is great for teachers to share class pictures on their class web page or with students in projects. PicMark is free to join and it makes sharing pictures just a little bit more fun."
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http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/print_display.php?id=617382 - 1 views

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    How to get students to focus when technology is all too distracting: "A tech break starts with the teacher asking all students to check their texts, the Web, Facebook, whatever, for a minute and then turn the device on silent and place it upside down on the desk in plain sight and "focus" on classroom work for 15 minutes. The upside down device prohibits external distractions from vibrations and flashing alerts and provides a signal to the brain that there is no need to be internally distracted since an opportunity to "check in" will be coming soon. "At the end of the 15-minute focus time the teacher declares a tech break and students take another minute to check in with their virtual worlds followed by more focus times and more tech breaks. The trick is to gradually lengthen the time between tech breaks to teach students how to focus for longer periods of time. I have teachers using this in classrooms, parents using it at the dinner table or at a restaurant, and bosses using tech breaks during meetings with great success. So far, though, the best we can get is about 30 minutes of focus thanks to Steve Jobs for making such alluring, distracting technologies."
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Snagit, Mac and Windows screen capture software from TechSmith - 0 views

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    Snagit is a little older than Jing, but does a couple of interesting additional things, like enhancing the images with stamps, text, and effects. It also is easy to share on social media sites like Facebook.
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@Ignatia Webs: Designing #mLearning for people with #disabilities or learning difficulties - 1 views

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    Ignatia suggests using a private wiki because of text-to-speech options, and secure social media-driven learning locations, such as a movie archive on Facebook. Subtitle options may be difficult with, e.g., YouTube, if you have an accent, but it can be done with an audio recorder (though it is labor intensive). This might be a good blog to follow further.
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How to use Keek from R. Stannard's Teacher Training Videos - 2 views

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    A video on how to use Keek to make and share short video messages. Although limited to only 36 secs, this might be a good application for beginning learners, or for a quick pronunciation quiz (you will see who is taking that quiz!) You can also embed a finished recording in your blog or wiki, as well as sending it by email. A good way to have students create a short, practiced conversation. Also has smartphone apps for mobile recordings, RSS feed to follow, and links to Facebook, Yahoo, and Twitter.
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Life Feast: Draw and record your voice - 1 views

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    "Drawing and recording your voice is not an easy task. What I've discovered is that once you start drawing, and your focus shifts to the image, there are few barriers to speaking. "The tool I'd like to share today is EDUCREATIONS . I haven't explored it to its full potential but what I've seen so far is good enough. The free tool allows you use your mouse or your finger (ipad) to draw stick figures while you record your voice. You can also upload an image and draw and record your voice at the same time. Once finished, look at the right side below the twitter and facebook buttons for the URL and the embed code which allows you publish the recording."
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MakeBeliefsComix | Facebook - 0 views

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    "Each day author/teacher Bill Zimmerman is offering excerpts from a new ‘’Make Beliefs’’ book aimed at encouraging students to express their thoughts through writing and drawing, as well as to spur their creative imaginations. They are in the form of comic strip panels in which comic characters raise a provocative question and students can write their responses by creating comic strips at MakeBeliefsComix. com, a free educational resource. " These are imaginative prompts and many could also be used for writing activities.
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The BBC Learning Experience | Learnist - 5 views

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    "As one of the largest producers and owners of educational content in the world, the BBC has created a global classroom for teachers, students, and passionate life-long learners. " This is really an eye-catching site with wonderful resources from the BBC laid out with visual links. Too many different ideas to even begin to catalog them. Give it a try. Learnist, the host site, is like Facebook but with a more serious leaning (almost wrote "learning" there...)
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How To Use Learnist | Learnist - 5 views

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    Farb Nivi tells how and why Learnist was created. This looks like an education-oriented version of Facebook. Collect, archive, curate your personal learning journey, and teach others about it. Social learning on many levels for "socially-driven lessons."
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