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Michelle Krill

ScreenCastle | One Click Screencasting - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 11 Apr 09
     
    This Java-based tool will record a select region of your screen and any audio from your computer's microphone. It then hosts it for you, complete with download links so you or your users can download a local copy for offline viewing.
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  • anonymous on 22 Aug 09
     
    If you've not seen this, do check it out. Show this to your social studies teachers.
  • anonymous on 22 Aug 09
     
    kmlfactbook.org can use either Google Maps or the Google Earth browser plugin to preview the KML files that you create. To switch between the two modes press the 2D Map and 3D Map buttons to the right in the screen. The Preview in Map button will show the selected data-set in the Google Maps or Earth plugin preview window. The Download KML file button will download the same file to be saved locally on your disk or opened in the standalone Google Earth application.
Kathe Santillo

EnviroMapper for Water - 0 views

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  • Kathe Santillo on 01 May 09
     
    allows mapping of water pollution, watershed information from national to local levels.
Kathe Santillo

WELCOME to DR. NOUS' PLANET PITTSBURGH! - 0 views

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  • Kathe Santillo on 01 May 09
     
    The University of Pittsburgh's local NASA page. Lots of links to other science sites.
Michelle Krill

Fair Use Evaluator - 6 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 04 Jan 10
     
    "# Help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code. # Collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation. # Provide you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records, which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it. # Provide access to educational materials, external copyright resources, and contact information for copyright help at local & national levels."
Jason Heiser

Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: The Reflective Principal: A Taxonomy of Reflection (Part IV) - 4 views

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  • Jason Heiser on 12 Jan 10
     
    The Reflective Principal: A Taxonomy of Reflection (Part IV) Reflection can be a challenging endeavor. It's not something that's fostered in school - typically someone else tells you how you're doing! Principals (and instructional leaders) are often so caught up in the meeting the demands of the day, that they rarely have the luxury to muse on how things went. Self-assessment is clouded by the need to meet competing demands from multiple stakeholders. In an effort to help schools become more reflective learning environments, I've developed this "Taxonomy of Reflection" - modeled on Bloom's approach. It's posted in four installments: 1. A Taxonomy of Reflection 2. The Reflective Student 3. The Reflective Teacher 4. The Reflective Principal It's very much a work in progress, and I invite your comments and suggestions. I'm especially interested in whether you think the parallel construction to Bloom holds up through each of the three examples - student, teacher, and principal. I think we have something to learn from each perspective. 4. The Reflective Principal Each level of reflection is structured to parallel Bloom's taxonomy. (See installment 1 for more on the model) Assume that a principal (or instructional leader) looked back on an initiative (or program, decision, project, etc) they have just implemented. What sample questions might they ask themselves as they move from lower to higher order reflection? (Note: I'm not suggesting that all questions are asked after every initiative - feel free to pick a few that work for you.) Bloom's Remembering : What did I do? Principal Reflection: What role did I play in implementing this program? What role did others play? What steps did I take? Is the program now operational and being implemented? Was it completed on time? Are assessment measures in place? Bloom's Understanding: What was
Dianne Krause

Office of Educational Technology (OET) - 4 views

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  • Dianne Krause on 10 Mar 10
     
    "Secretary Arne Duncan announced the draft National Educational Technology Plan on March 5 This plan describes how information and communication technologies can help transform American education. It lays out a set of concrete goals to inform state and local educational technology plans, as well as recommendations to inspire research, development, and innovation."
Darcy Goshorn

40 iPad Apps That Librarians Love - 11 views

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shared by Darcy Goshorn on 20 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 20 Jan 11
     
    "Librarians wear many hats at one time. Besides managing their space, they also organize events, reach out to the community and enhance the feel of the library, making it a timeless treasure that is making a major comeback. Libraries now stock DVDs new and old, the latest bestsellers and magazine and newspapers that we can't always find at our local stands."
anonymous

Project Vote Smart's VoteEasy ™ - 4 views

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  • anonymous on 23 Feb 11
     
    Check out this great interactive map about the candidates. Get down to your local area. Find out who the candidates are and what their voting record is - and more
anonymous

Mapping America - Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • anonymous on 23 Feb 11
     
    "Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates. "
  • anonymous on 23 Feb 11
     
    Check out the More maps and see income, education, and more
Darcy Goshorn

2011 Horizon Report K12 - 5 views

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  • Darcy Goshorn on 19 May 11
     
    The NMC Horizon Report series is the mostvisible outcome of the NMC Horizon Project, anongoing research effort established in 2002 thatidentifies and describes emerging technologieslikely to have a large impact on teaching,learning, research, or creative expression withineducation around the globe. This volume, The NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K-12 Edition examines emergingtechnologies for their potential impact on and use inteaching, learning, and creative expression within theenvironment of pre-college education. The hope isthat the report is useful to educators worldwide, andthe international composition of the advisory boardreflects the care with which a global perspective wasassembled. While there are many local factors affectingthe practice of education, there are also issues thattranscend regional boundaries, questions we all facein K-12 education, and it was with these in mind thatthis report was created. The NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K-12 Edition is the third in the K-12 series of reportsand is produced by the NMC in collaboration withthe Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), andthe International Society for Technology in Education(ISTE), with the generous support of HP's Office ofGlobal Social Innovation.
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QUTUB MINAR FACT HISTORY DELHI - 0 views

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  • shahbazbashi17 on 18 Feb 19
     
    Qutub Minar is an iconic building which spells out the story of Delhi similar no another. It paperwork character of the Qutub Complex including the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, Alai Darwaza, Alai Minar, Madrasa and Tomb, Iron Pillar, Tomb of Imam Zamin, Sanderson's Sundial and Major Smith's Cupola. The greatest stone tower in the general is supposed to be created at the efforts of Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan. Located in Mehrauli the antique history magazine of Delhi, the exclusive locality is beside the venue for each year three-day Qutub Festival equipment of artists, artists, and actresses.
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  • verifiedebay on 22 Apr 24
     
    Buy Google Reviews Introduction Customers who use Google to look for local businesses are probably going to see a list of establishments with star ratings. These star ratings, which come from Google Reviews, can significantly influence whether or not clients choose to work with you.
  • verifiedalipay on 22 Jun 24
     
    Buy Google Reviews Introduction Customers who use Google to look for local businesses are probably going to see a list of establishments with star ratings. These star ratings, which come from Google Reviews, can significantly influence whether or not clients choose to work with you.
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  • buyusaco2025 on 06 Apr 25
     
    You may be wondering, "Why should I even bother?" The answer is simple: because it works! Reviews are a powerful tool for getting more business and boosting your credibility. When someone searches for maps in your area, they'll see that you have dozens of positive reviews on the first page. This will convince them to contact you instead of one of your competitors who don't have any ratings yet. And once they've used your services or purchased something from you, they'll leave another review which helps build trust with future customers and attract more clients!
  • seosmmseller458 on 21 Apr 25
     
    Google Maps Reviews are a great way to get your business listed on the first page of search results. There are many different types of reviews, including Google Places Reviews, Local Guide Reviews and My Business Reviews. All of these help people find your business when they're searching on Google or one of their other platforms. The more positive reviews you have from real customers who have used your services or products then the higher up in rankings you will be displayed when someone searches for something related to what you offer!
  • buy5starshop1951 on 06 May 25
     
    Google Maps Reviews are a great way to get your business listed on the first page of search results. There are many different types of reviews, including Google Places Reviews, Local Guide Reviews and My Business Reviews. All of these help people find your business when they're searching on Google or one of their other platforms. The more positive reviews you have from real customers who have used your services or products then the higher up in rankings you will be displayed when someone searches for something related to what you offer!
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  • buyusaco2025 on 06 Apr 25
     
    SiteJabber is a review site for small business owners to leave reviews about their experiences with local businesses. In other words, it's a platform where people can share their experiences with local businesses and help others make informed decisions about where they want to spend their money
  • seosmmseller458 on 21 Apr 25
     
    You may have heard of this platform as "Yelp" or "Google My Business." But what makes SiteJabber different? It's actually quite simple: while Yelp requires users to pay up front before posting any reviews (and then charges them monthly fees), SiteJabber offers its services free of charge as long as you're willing to accept ads on your website or social media accounts in exchange for this perk!
  • buy5starshop1951 on 06 May 25
     
    # The Sitejabber Reviews is an online review platform where you can get reviews for your business. It's one of the most popular review sites on internet. This site is helpful for small businesses and startups to show their product or service to customers. You can get reviews from customers who have already bought your products or services from other websites such as Amazon, Facebook etc…
Darcy Goshorn

Write Comics - 9 views

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  • Darcy Goshorn on 05 Dec 10
     
    reeeeeeally simple comic creator
Michelle Krill

Speak Up Press Release - 0 views

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  • The 2007 online survey collected authentic, unfiltered views and ideas from over 367,000 education stakeholders representing schools in all 50 states, bringing the total of survey participants to over 1.2 million over the past 5 years.
  • This disconnect is evident in the fact that 66% of school administrators, 47% of teachers, and 43% of parents say "local schools are doing a good job preparing students for the jobs and careers of the future," but over 40% of middle and high school students stated that teachers limit their use of technology in schools. Forty-five percent of middle and high school students indicated that tools meant to protect them, such as firewalls and filters are inhibiting their learning.
  • "It is in our nation's best interest that we support and facilitate student usage of technology for learning."
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  • 46% said they would like to receive specific professional development on how to effectively integrate gaming technologies into curriculum.
  • With the release of Speak Up 2007 results, Evans called upon education leaders at all levels to put aside their own "digital immigrant" paradigms and to listen to students who are not only on the cutting edge of technology innovation but whose future is dependent upon our ability to deliver upon the promise of a world quality, global 21st century education.
  • Michelle Krill on 14 Apr 08
     
    Students Want the 21st Century Classroom, but Schools Not Meeting Student Expectations, According to Latest National Study
Michelle Krill

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad ©? - 10/1/2008 - School Library Journal - 0 views

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  • As a result, there are intellectual property laws that are so routinely ignored that they have become meaningless—and enforcing them makes librarians appear to be martinets.
  • Making free copies of copyrighted online materials and passing them out to students, downloading digital videos (such as YouTube’s) onto a local hard drive, and converting analog materials to digital formats to be used with an interactive whiteboard or slide-show software for whole group instruction are all regularly done by teachers. These uses have either no or minimal impact on a copyright holder’s profits. Overly strict enforcements of the letter of copyright laws will lead to creating scofflaws of not just students, but teachers, and make all copyright restrictions suspect.
  • Until something is proven illegal, assume it’s legal.
  • Michelle Krill on 13 Oct 08
     
    Few subjects spark more disagreement and confusion than copyright.
anonymous

Education Week: Filtering Fixes - 0 views

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  • Instead of blocking the many exit ramps and side routes on the information superhighway, they have decided that educating students and teachers on how to navigate the Internet’s vast resources responsibly, safely, and productively—and setting clear rules and expectations for doing so—is the best way to head off online collisions.
  • “We are known in our district for technology, so I don’t see how you can teach kids 21st-century values if you’re not teaching them digital citizenship and appropriate ways of sharing and using everything that’s available on the Web,” said Shawn Nutting, the technology director for the Trussville district. “How can you, in 2009, not use the Internet for everything? It blows me away that all these schools block things out” that are valuable.
  • While schools are required by federal and state laws to block pornography and other content that poses a danger to minors, Internet-filtering software often prevents students from accessing information on legitimate topics that tend to get caught in the censoring process: think breast cancer, sexuality, or even innocuous keywords that sound like blocked terms. One teacher who commented on one of Mr. Fryer’s blog posts, for example, complained that a search for biographical information on a person named Thacker was caught by his school’s Internet filter because the prohibited term “hacker” is included within the spelling of the word.
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  • The K-2 school provides e-mail addresses to each of its 880 students and maintains accounts on the Facebook and Twitter networking sites. Children can also interact with peers in other schools and across the country through protected wiki spaces and blogs the school has set up.
  • “Rather than saying this is a scary tool and something bad could happen, instead we believe it’s an incredible tool that connects you with the entire world out there. ... [L]et’s show you the best way to use it.”
  • As Trussville students move through the grades and encounter more-complex educational content and expectations, their Internet access is incrementally expanded.
  • In 2001, the Children’s Internet Protection Act instituted new requirements for schools to establish policies and safeguards for Internet use as a condition of receiving federal E-rate funding. Many districts have responded by restricting any potentially troublesome sites. But many educators and media specialists complain that the filters are set too broadly and cannot discriminate between good and bad content. Drawing the line between what material is acceptable and what’s not is a local decision that has to take into account each district’s comfort level with using Internet content
  • The American Civil Liberties Union sued Tennesee’s Knox County and Nashville school districts on behalf of several students and a school librarian for blocking Internet sites related to gay and lesbian issues. While the districts’ filtering software prohibited students from accessing sites that provided information and resources on the subject, it did not block sites run by organizations that promoted the controversial view that homosexuals can be “rehabilitated” and become heterosexuals. Last month, a federal court dismissed the lawsuit after school officials agreed to unblock the sites.
  • Students are using personal technology tools more readily to study subject matter, collaborate with classmates, and complete assignments than they were several years ago, but they are generally asked to “power down” at school and abandon the electronic resources they rely on for learning outside of class, the survey found. Administrators generally cite safety issues and concerns that students will misuse such tools to dawdle, cheat, or view inappropriate content in school as reasons for not offering more open online access to students. ("Students See Schools Inhibiting Their Use of New Technologies,", April 1, 2009.)
  • A report commissioned by the NSBA found that social networking can be beneficial to students, and urged school board members to “find ways to harness the educational value” of so-called Web 2.0 tools, such as setting up chat rooms or online journals that allow students to collaborate on their classwork. The 2007 report also told school boards to re-evaluate policies that ban or tightly restrict the use of the Internet or social-networking sites.
  • Federal Requirements for Schools on Internet Safety The Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, is a federal law intended to block access to offensive Web content on school and library computers. Under CIPA, schools and libraries that receive funding through the federal E-rate program for Internet access must: • Have an Internet-safety policy and technology-protection measures in place. The policy must include measures to block or filter Internet access to obscene photos, child pornography, and other images that can be harmful to minors; • Educate minors about appropriate and inappropriate online behavior, including activities like cyberbullying and social networking; • Adopt and enforce a policy to monitor online activities of minors; and • Adopt and implement policies related to Internet use by minors that address access to inappropriate online materials, student safety and privacy issues, and the hacking of unauthorized sites. Source: Federal Communications Commission
  • “We believe that you can’t have goals about kids’ collaborating globally and then block their ability to do that,” said Becky Fisher, the Virginia district’s technology coordinator.
  • anonymous on 15 Sep 09
     
    This is an excellent article. I think every school should take this to a meeting with Administrators to discuss bringing sanity to this issue once and for all.
anonymous

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

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  • The noted philosopher once said, "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." My fear is that instead of knowing nothing except the fact of our own ignorance, we will know everything except the fact of our own ignorance. Google has given us the world at our fingertips, but speed and ubiquity are not the same as actually knowing something.
  • Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate. We need to approach the contemporary knowledge explosion and the technologies propelling this new enlightenment in just that manner. Otherwise, the great knowledge and communication tsunami of the 21st century may drown us in a sea of trivia instead of lifting us up on a rising tide of possibility and promise.
  • A child born today could live into the 22nd century. It's difficult to imagine all that could transpire between now and then. One thing does seem apparent: Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate. We need to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
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  • Every day we are exposed to huge amounts of information, disinformation, and just plain nonsense. The ability to distinguish fact from factoid, reality from fiction, and truth from lies is not a "nice to have" but a "must have" in a world flooded with so much propaganda and spin.
  • For example, for many years, the dominant U.S. culture described the settling of the American West as a natural extension of manifest destiny, in which people of European descent were "destined" to occupy the lands of the indigenous people. This idea was, and for some still is, one of our most enduring and dangerous collective fabrications because it glosses over human rights and skirts the issue of responsibility. Without critical reflection, we will continually fall victim to such notions.
  • A second element of the 21st century mind that we must cultivate is the willingness to abandon supernatural explanations for naturally occurring events.
  • The third element of the 21st century mind must be the recognition and acceptance of our shared evolutionary collective intelligence.
  • To solve the 21st century's challenges, we will need an education system that doesn't focus on memorization, but rather on promoting those metacognitive skills that enable us to monitor our own learning and make changes in our approach if we perceive that our learning is not going well.
  • Metacognition is a fancy word for a higher-order learning process that most of us use every day to solve thousands of problems and challenges.
  • We are at the threshold of a worldwide revolution in learning. Just as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the wall of conventional schooling is collapsing before our eyes. A new electronic learning environment is replacing the linear, text-bound culture of conventional schools. This will be the proving ground of the 21st century mind.
  • We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfare. According to Huff and Saxberg, immersive technologies—such as multitouch displays; telepresence (an immersive meeting experience that offers high video and audio clarity); 3-D environments; collaborative filtering (which can produce recommendations by comparing the similarity between your preferences and those of other people); natural language processing; intelligent software; and simulations—will transform teaching and learning by 2025.
  • So imagine that a group of teachers and middle school students decides to tackle the question, What is justice? Young adolescents' discovery of injustice in the world is a crucial moment in their development. If adults offer only self-serving answers to this question, students can become cynical or despairing. But if adults treat the problem of injustice truthfully and openly, hope can emerge and grow strong over time. As part of their discussion, let's say that the teachers and students have cocreated a middle school earth science curriculum titled Water for the World. This curriculum would be a blend of classroom, community, and online activities. Several nongovernmental organizations—such as Waterkeeper, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and Water for People—might support the curriculum, which would meet national and state standards and include lessons, activities, games, quizzes, student-created portfolios, and learning benchmarks.
  • The goal of the curriculum would be to enable students from around the world to work together to address the water crisis in a concrete way. Students might help bore a freshwater well, propose a low-cost way of preventing groundwater pollution, or develop a local water treatment technique. Students and teachers would collaborate by talking with one another through Skype and posting research findings using collaborative filtering. Students would create simulations and games and use multitouch displays to demonstrate step-by-step how their projects would proceed. A student-created Web site would include a blog; a virtual reference room; a teachers' corner; a virtual living room where learners communicate with one another in all languages through natural language processing; and 3-D images of wells being bored in Africa, Mexico, and Texas. In a classroom like this, something educationally revolutionary would happen: Students and adults would connect in a global, purposeful conversation that would make the world a better place. We would pry the Socratic dialogue from the hands of the past and lift it into the future to serve the hopes and dreams of all students everywhere.
  • There has never been a time in human history when the opportunity to create universally accessible knowledge has been more of a reality. And there has never been a time when education has meant more in terms of human survival and happiness.
  • To start, we must overhaul and redesign the current school system. We face this great transition with both hands tied behind our collective backs if we continue to pour money, time, and effort into an outdated system of education. Mass education belongs in the era of massive armies, massive industrial complexes, and massive attempts at social control. We have lost much talent since the 19th century by enforcing stifling education routines in the name of efficiency. Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth.
  • If we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
  • anonymous on 07 Sep 09
     
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