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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!"
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

WebVideoFetcher.com - Download and Convert videos directly from Youtube, Facebook, Goog... - 0 views

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    Resource for downloading videos online - similar to Zamzar
Amanda Nichols

FACEBOOK: LIKE? | More Intelligent Life - 0 views

  • The internet allows three things, broadly speaking: access to content (video, music, things to read), self-expression (blogs, Twitter) and communication (e-mail, chat, Skype). Facebook competes with it on all these fronts
  • “If you’re a start-up today, you can leverage the world’s largest social network. For free. Why would you want to do the really hard thing, which is recreate a social network, when what you can do is focus on the technology you want to build, and use the one that already exists?”
  • “You didn’t come to Facebook because we’re so awesome. You came to Facebook because your friends are awesome. They’re doing interesting things and you want to know about it. Time that you’re spending conscious of Facebook as a thing probably means we made a mistake.”
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  • The culture of “why not this too?” keeps the giant growing and constantly changing. 
  • The plain lower-case logo looks almost sorry to bother you. Tiffani Jones Brown, who oversees the writing of much of the text on the site, says that its personality must be nothing more than “simple, human, clear and consistent”. The music app is called…Music. The photos app is called Photos. The message service is called Messages. Everything on the site is to be written so that an 11-year-old can read it—even though Facebook likes its users to be at least 13.
  • This highlights a key feature of Facebook: it is the anti-Apple. Apple’s products are designed down to their molecules so that you never forget who made them. The colours, fonts and distinctive shapes give Apple an ever-present personality. This reflects the top-down, “we know best” culture cultivated for decades by the brilliant authoritarian Steve Jobs. Facebook could not be more different. “‘Authority’ is just not a word here,” Bosworth says with a laugh. “It’s not a thing we use.”
  • “The things people complain about in real life, it’s like they rediscovered them on Facebook. It’s like gossip never existed before, as if your history never followed you around before. I’m not saying there’s not some differences—but these aren’t Facebook problems, they’re just fundamentally human problems.”
  • Even if Facebook should fall—as Friendster and MySpace rose and fell—its reverberations will be lasting. Google made the internet navigable. Apple made it portable, through intuitive, brilliant devices. Now Facebook has made it social, raising a generation that will never again expect things to be otherwise.
  • Facebook has not replaced social life. It has tightened the social fabric, in a way that fits many people, and which many just as clearly chafe against. The social ills ascribed to it are, by and large, not new. Once people suffered from hysteria and melancholy; in the modern age, they have anxiety and depression. Once they suffered gossiping and bullying; now it’s “Facebook official” drama and cyber-bullying. Once they could envy the greener grass on their neighbour’s side; now it’s “Facebook anxiety” about his (or, more likely, her) online photos. Once they wondered if their social lives were fulfilling enough; now they suffer FOMO—fear of missing out—and get to see all the pictures from the party they weren’t invited to. New labels for old problems. But these problems are larger-looming and becoming ever-present for the mill
  • ions who can’t get enough of their social networks
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    Interesting article on how Facebook permeates daily life and online interactions
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

WeVideo - Collaborative Online Video Editor in the Cloud - 1 views

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    Free online video creation tool - described as "iMovie + Google Docs)
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

Dabbleboard - Online whiteboard for drawing & team collaboration - Interactive whiteboa... - 0 views

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    Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that's centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that's actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Finally the whiteboard enters the digital age!
Amanda Nichols

Stroome | mix it up. mash it out. - 0 views

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    Online video creation tool - described as "Movie Maker + Google Docs"
Amanda Nichols

iPads in class energize kids as teachers test how to use them - The Denver Post - 1 views

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    From the article: "Still, students have had to learn to think of the iPads primarily as a learning tool, not a toy. Teachers and administrators have developed new strategies to deal with some apps' inherent distractions. And, perhaps most significantly, the use of iPads as a take-home device has raised questions about Internet safety: Who's responsible for a student's online behavior once they leave school?"
Melissa Rykse

Project2Manage - Project Management Software - 2 views

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    "Project2Manage is an online project management application that helps you stay up-to-date, on task and connected with your team. We've taken the hard work of staying organized and simplified it for you."
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

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.
Matt McCarty

Sophia - 1 views

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    Online, community-developed learning resources
Amanda Nichols

Bugscope - 0 views

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    Online electron microscope - focus on insects
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