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Amanda Nichols

What Do Kids Know About Online Privacy? More Than You Think | MindShift - 0 views

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    "Tweens value privacy, seek privacy from both strangers and known others online, and use a variety of strategies to protect their privacy online," write researchers Katie Davis and Carrie James, who conducted in-depth interviews with 42 middle-school students for the study. "Tweens' online privacy concerns are considerably broader than the 'stranger danger' messages they report hearing from teachers."
Amanda Nichols

Online Ed. Less Expensive Than Blended, Traditional Models - Digital Education - Educat... - 0 views

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    "Those pursuing online learning will see that, though there is no 'silver bullet' solution, there is evidence to suggest that virtual learning (both part-time and full-time) can provide significant opportunity to save money," the report said. "Future innovation should include careful tracking of quality and outcomes to continue to provide more robust options for those experimenting with lower-cost delivery of instruction."
Amanda Nichols

TrackStar : Home - 0 views

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    From the website: "TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too!"
Melissa Rykse

OCW Consortium - 0 views

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    The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
Amanda Nichols

Collaborize Classroom - Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students - 0 views

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    A free resource to build secure online classroom communities
Amanda Nichols

Online Tools - Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - 0 views

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    Web 2.0 tools for educators, organized by purpose or use.
Amanda Nichols

Educational Videos | Teacher Videos for Students | SnagLearning - 1 views

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    "high quality, award-winning documentaries to an online audience around the world - all for free"
Amanda Nichols

Schools look for best ideas to protect kids on Internet - The Denver Post - 0 views

  • "It's an unacceptable and unreasonable expectation for parents to be Internet police for a school-provided device," Morin said.
  • "From a school standpoint, he's got to do what keeps the school from any liability — I get that," Walter said. "From a personal aspect, we monitor where our kids go online. It wouldn't have been an issue at our household. But there are others where it would have been."
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    Who's responsible for online activity on school-issued devices once they leave the filtered safety of the campus?
Melissa Rykse

Apple - iTunes U - Learn anything, anywhere, anytime. - 0 views

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    iTunes U - a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours - is an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students.
Amanda Nichols

Free Internet lessons challenge textbook market for public schools - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • Seventy-four percent of elementary school teachers reported that they used free Internet resources for lessons that they flashed on computerized white boards or offered on desktops or other gadgets, compared with 65 percent who said their digital content came from commercial providers, according to a January survey by Simba Information, a market research company.
  • The survey found that middle and high school teachers also gravitated more toward free online content.
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    Teachers across grade levels are forsaking traditional resources such as textbooks for free, online, and collaboratively-created instructional materials.
Amanda Nichols

LD OnLine - 0 views

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    "The world's leading website on learning disabilities and ADHD"
Melissa Rykse

Academic Earth - 0 views

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    AcademicEarth is dedicated to breaking down the barriers to a "world class education.'' College-level video classes and supplemental materials are available from universities such as Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale. They are listed by subject, university, or instructor, and are also available as Playlists, themetic collections of lectures picked by the AcademicEarth editors.
Amanda Nichols

Going online, teachers aim for cheap, custom textbooks | Minnesota Public Radio News - 0 views

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    Alternative to print-based textbooks - creating your own to match your curriculum
Amanda Nichols

The Landscape: 15 Free Online Apps to Get Your Students Creating - 0 views

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    These resources look at Bloom's Taxonomy and are identified by the blogger as tools that will allow students to create based on their learning and knowledge.
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