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Why 1:1 can actually be dangerous for our students. | The L.I.T Ladies - 0 views

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    Never mind the digital divide, it is the distraction divide from which we need to protect our students.
Cally Black

A Beginner's Guide To Setting Up An eBook Library On Your iPad - 1 views

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    "A Beginner's Guide To Setting Up An eBook Library On Your iPad"
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Simply the best - 0 views

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    Please go to this site and add the digital resources you couldn't do without. The ones you really love, the tried and tested sites that really bring about learning. This could be an amazing resource for us all. Once on the site double click on the wall, give your resource a short title and paste the URL after clicking on the link icon.
Cally Black

Yes, We're A Tech Site. Yes, We're Suggesting You Spend Less Time Online - 0 views

  • I was struck this week by this article on Forbes.com by a CEO who outlawed email at his company for a week and discovered that everybody actually got more work done. More important, they all felt more sane and less frantic as "a sense of calm descended." The CEO, Shayne Hughes, argues that a lot of what email does is just get us all wound up, stressed out - spinning our hamster wheels but going nowhere. 
  • I've even had people from Google - the most wired of wired environments - talk to me about the importance of going "off the grid," and how this makes people more productive.
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    I've been thinking a lot lately about how much time I spend on the Internet, and worrying that it's too much.
Cally Black

Learning and Teaching with iPads: Students construct knowledge with their own iBooks - 1 views

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    I was recently at Our Lady of the Angels Rouse Hill doing a workshop with them in creating iBooks using iBooks Author.  The Principal Eva La Rocco and the teachers saw the main benefit for the software as a way of students demonstrating their own understanding and knowledge by creating  an iBook that incorporated all their work.  The focus being for the students to create content rather than it being pushed to them via a teacher created iBook textbook.
Cally Black

ImageCodr: Easy Attribution for Flickr CC Photos | Bright Ideas - 0 views

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    "Correctly citing an image with a Creative Commons licence can be a tricky task for both educators and their students. ImageCodr is a website that aims to help by providing a generator that will construct attributions for Flickr Creative Commons photos that can be embedded into blogs and websites."
Cally Black

Avoid disaster by backing up your data | Bright Ideas - 0 views

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    "One of the great advantages of the internet is the convenience of cloud based services where you can store documents, pictures, bookmarks or notes and access them on any device with an internet connection. Despite this level of convenience it is still important to maintain backups of your data in the case of unforeseen circumstances, such as your account being hacked or a service shutting down. Here we will take a look at a few ways to backup your online data from some of the most popular services like Diigo, Google and Evernote."
Cally Black

The 20 Best Learning Management Systems - Edudemic - 1 views

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    "From Moodle to Edmodo to Inquisiq r3, there's a lot of tools you can use to manage, track, and deliver courses and training programs in your school. They're called Learning Management Solutions (LMS) or sometimes Learning Management Systems. Either way, how do you pick which is the best? A new infographic from Capterra spells it out in simple stats."
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