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Unit Structures - Twitter as Courseware - 0 views

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When I log into BlackBoard, I see about 30 different things I can do, and for each I have to click a link and go to a page to do the action.  Twitter strips away the features, instead using an inherently flexible textual space to facilitate communication, accomplishing the same goal of other feature-ridden “course technology.
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I see Twitter’s artificial limit on post size as an important factor in classroom success.  First, it keeps the information space managable, meaning information is economized and easily retrievable
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Twitter’s short form as a communication equalizer
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Twitter is the opposite of segmentation, forcing all communication through a single, flexible channel.  This creates the impression of activity, again stimulating discussion.
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“overfunctioning” leads to a segmentation of communication,
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or example, a class must have an email list, a forum, website/CMS, each with its own space and identity.
- Cris Harshman on 26 Feb 09
  
  With newer web-based applications, this is no longer the case. For example, Wordpress will deliver RSS (replaces listserv), a static front page with organized sub-pages and articles (replaces CMS) and a built-in forum. There's no need to adopt Twitter, which replaces only the listserv.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">With newer web-based applications, this is no longer the case. For example, Wordpress will deliver RSS (replaces listserv), a static front page with organized sub-pages and articles (replaces CMS) and a built-in forum. There's no need to adopt Twitter, which replaces only the listserv.</div>
  
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k12online08presenters » Dennis Richards - 0 views

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Tom Daccord on 03 Feb 09

Dennis is a former English teacher and administrator in urban and suburban schools for many years. Dennis has always gravitated toward K12 leadership, learning and technology topics. He has graduate degrees from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English and Harvard University's School of Education. In addition to blogging about K12 learning, leading and web 2.0 tools/pedagogies at innovation3.edublogs.org, he is president of the Massachusetts affiliate of ASCD, a member of the Leadership Council for ASCD; a member of the Massachusetts Working Group for Educator Quality; Co-Facilitator of the Massachusetts High School Redesign Task Force; and a member of Massachusetts STEM Summit V Planning Committee. The web 2.0 conversation is not about technology tools; it is about student learning. Dennis subscribes to the definition of Professional Learning Communities that Rick and Becky DuFour and many other leaders of education have espoused. In simple terms, * learning (for us and for students) is our purpose, * we can improve student learning if we learn together collaboratively, and * monitoring student learning is the only way to know: 1. what students are learning, 2. how we are teaching and 3. how we get better at it. A former English teacher and administrator in urban and suburban schools for many years, he has always gravitated toward K12 leadership, learning and technology topics. He has graduate degrees from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English and Harvard University's School of Education. He is married with three children and four grandchildren. Among other things, he loves running, cycling, kayaking, contemporary poetry, photography and the outdoors. In the summer of 2007 his professional life changed when he attended the Building Learning Communities Conference 2007 and in three days experienced, for the first time, the power of Web 2.0 tools and their potential for transforming schools and learning. That experience

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Dennis is a former English teacher and administrator in urban and suburban schools for many years. Dennis has always gravitated toward K12 leadership, learning and technology topics. He has graduate degrees from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English and Harvard University's School of Education. In addition to blogging about K12 learning, leading and web 2.0 tools/pedagogies at innovation3.edublogs.org, he is president of the Massachusetts affiliate of ASCD, a member of the Leadership Council for ASCD; a member of the Massachusetts Working Group for Educator Quality; Co-Facilitator of the Massachusetts High School Redesign Task Force; and a member of Massachusetts STEM Summit V Planning Committee. The web 2.0 conversation is not about technology tools; it is about student learning. Dennis subscribes to the definition of Professional Learning Communities that Rick and Becky DuFour and many other leaders of education have espoused. In simple terms, * learning (for us and for students) is our purpose, * we can improve student learning if we learn together collaboratively, and * monitoring student learning is the only way to know: 1. what students are learning, 2. how we are teaching and 3. how we get better at it. A former English teacher and administrator in urban and suburban schools for many years, he has always gravitated toward K12 leadership, learning and technology topics. He has graduate degrees from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English and Harvard University's School of Education. He is married with three children and four grandchildren. Among other things, he loves running, cycling, kayaking, contemporary poetry, photography and the outdoors. In the summer of 2007 his professional life changed when he attended the Building Learning Communities Conference 2007 and in three days experienced, for the first time, the power of Web 2.0 tools and their potential for transforming schools and learning. That experience</div>

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Behaveyourself.com: Online Manners Matter | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 02 Dec 08 - Cached

But there's no one out in cyberspace to make sure they wash behind their digital ears and refuse cookies from online strangers. Given this potentially dangerous void, schools will increasingly extend their supervisory reach, giving lessons at every grade level on netiquette -- call it Online Manners and Ethics 101.
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Dennis OConnor on 02 Dec 08

Understanding how to interact online safely and effectively is, and will be, ever more critical. As today's students grow older, they'll be using the Internet to apply to colleges and jobs, and to communicate and network with colleagues. Yet our children, however much they seem to have been born with iPods growing out of their ears, haven't learned to handle digital communications by osmosis, any more than they innately knew how to write a résumé or hold a fork.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Understanding how to interact online safely and effectively is, and will be, ever more critical. As today's students grow older, they'll be using the Internet to apply to colleges and jobs, and to communicate and network with colleagues. Yet our children, however much they seem to have been born with iPods growing out of their ears, haven't learned to handle digital communications by osmosis, any more than they innately knew how to write a résumé or hold a fork.</div>

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YouTube - Social Strife is cause of Violence in Orissa? - 0 views

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Are the reasons for Violence in Orissa rooted in the fact that Christian communities are supporting its believers financially and economically (with jobs, ed...

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Are the reasons for Violence in Orissa rooted in the fact that Christian communities are supporting its believers financially and economically (with jobs, ed...</div>

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Innovative Teachers Network - 0 views

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Welcome! We are a global community of educators who value innovative uses of information and communication technology to enhance teaching and learning experiences.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Welcome! We are a global community of educators who value innovative uses of information and communication technology to enhance teaching and learning experiences.</div>

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Twitter breaks down barriers in the classroom - Ars Technica - 0 views

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Elizabeth Koh on 28 Mar 09

users like David Parry are finding that the technology breaks down barriers and creates instant communities in unexpected environments. It also fills the void between e-mail and instant messaging, providing a quick and easy medium for asynchronous communication and general discussion.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">users like David Parry are finding that the technology breaks down barriers and creates instant communities in unexpected environments. It also fills the void between e-mail and instant messaging, providing a quick and easy medium for asynchronous communication and general discussion. </div>

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YackPack - Simply Connected - 0 views

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Paige Coker on 30 Jun 09

Voice-driven communication device which can be private or public on a website for all. Ability to send and share information, instructions privately to one or many is key. Imagine multilingual instructions, different instructions for different students, parent communication and more!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Voice-driven communication device which can be private or public on a website for all. Ability to send and share information, instructions privately to one or many is key. Imagine multilingual instructions, different instructions for different students, parent communication and more!</div>

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ISTE | NETS for Students 2007 - 0 views

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"2. Communication and Collaboration Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"2. Communication and Collaboration Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media."</div>

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Microsoft Learning: Rapidly Create Online Courses - 0 views

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shared by Glenn Hoyle on 04 May 10 - Cached

Glenn Hoyle on 04 May 10

The Microsoft Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a free tool that enables the Microsoft Learning community to create high-quality, interactive, online courses. The LCDS allows anyone in the Microsoft Learning community to publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactive activities, quizzes, games, assessments, animations, demos, and other multimedia.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Microsoft Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a free tool that enables the Microsoft Learning community to create high-quality, interactive, online courses. The LCDS allows anyone in the Microsoft Learning community to publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactive activities, quizzes, games, assessments, animations, demos, and other multimedia.</div>

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Advise the Advisor: Melody Barnes | The White House - 9 views

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Advise the Advisor is a new program to help senior staff at the White House stay connected to the American people.

Providing our nation’s students with a world-class education is a shared responsibility. It’s going to take all of us – teachers, parents, students, philanthropists, state and local governments, and the federal government – working together to prepare today’s students for the future.

This week, Melody Barnes, Director of the Domestic Policy Council and one of President Obama’s senior advisors on education policy, is asking for feedback from parents, teachers and students about what’s working in their communities and what needs to change when it comes to education.

You can add your voice to the conversation by answering one or all of the following questions:
- Parents: Responsibility for our children’s education and future begins in our homes and communities. What are some of the most effective ways you're taking responsibility at a personal and local level for your child’s education?
- Teachers: President Obama has set a goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020. How are you preparing your students for college and career? What’s working and what challenges do you face?
- Students: In order to compete for the jobs of the 21st century, America’s students must be prepared with a strong background in reading, math and science along with the critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity needed to succeed in tomorrow’s workforce. How has your education prepared you for a career in the 21st century? What has worked and what challenges do you face?
Past Questions

David Plouffe, Senior Advisor to the President, kicked off the series by asked for your feedback on how American innovation affects your community and the obstacles to innovation you see where you live. Check out David’s video and read his follow up blog post responding to some of the major themes we saw in reading your feedback.

Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, posted the second edition of Advise the Advisor asking for feedback from small businesses about the obstacles they face in getting off the ground. Austan responded to some of your feedback during a live chat at the Winning the Future Forum on Small Business in Cleveland.
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Responsibility for our children’s education and future begins in our homes and communities. What are some of the most effective ways you're taking responsibility at a personal and local level for your child’s education?
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Tom Daccord on 11 Mar 11

"Advise the Advisor is a new program to help senior staff at the White House stay connected to the American people."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Advise the Advisor is a new program to help senior staff at the White House stay connected to the American people."</div>

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Why Teachers Shouldn't Friend Students on Facebook & Social Media Sites - 0 views

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shared by Jonathan Wylie on 05 Aug 11 - No Cached

Jonathan Wylie on 05 Aug 11

The popularity of social media sites among today's youth means that they have become the default communication tools for a new generation of children looking to communicate with the world around them. But is it appropriate for teachers to friend their students? Of course it isn't.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The popularity of social media sites among today's youth means that they have become the default communication tools for a new generation of children looking to communicate with the world around them. But is it appropriate for teachers to friend their students? Of course it isn't.</div>

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The Social Network Paradox | TechCrunch - 18 views

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Instead, there is a new trend happening: We’re not really paying attention to our friends we’re connected to online. Take Twitter, for example. Twitter used to be a great place for many early adopters to talk tech. It wasn’t so long ago that there were few enough people on Twitter that you could read every single tweet in your stream. But as the network began to become more dense, and people found more people they knew and liked on Twitter, they began following hundreds of people, and reading all those tweets became impossible. This is such a fact of life that entire companies are based on the premise that you have too many friends on Facebook and Twitter to really pay attention to what they’re saying.
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Therein lies the paradox of the social network that no one wants to admit: as the size of the network increases, our ability to be social decreases.
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As the number of bits, photos and links coming over these networks grew, each of those invisibly began to decrease in worth.
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But as the number of friends begins to increase—particularly over that magic Dunbar number of 150—the spell begins to wear off. At this scale, we simply can’t easily keep track of it all. When our number of connections rises above 150 everything becomes simply comments, as real conversations tax our already limited ability to interface with the network.
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That mythical thing, social connection, doesn’t flow over these networks; information flows over these networks. The only reason the network ever felt meaningful was because, at small scale, the network operated like a community. But that breaks apart at large scale.
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The thing about all these is that they’re not a shared experience—they are my experiences, which I am sharing with you, but you probably cannot experience with me—my thoughts or fascination with the article I just posted, the feeling of getting on that plane, or the thrill of watching the Sharks tie the game. Perhaps you can compare your notes of your own experience of these things; that’s what most Twitter conversation seems to be, to me, but the experiences are not shared. This differs from a discussion in a community, such as the type that occurs on SB Nation game day threads. The conversation does not center around any one individual’s experience, but rather the collective condition of the community. The conversation is the experience. Each comment is driven with the purpose of evoking and expressing the emotions that the community experiences, and particularly the ones they hold in common.
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Steve Ransom on 29 Aug 11

Great article.

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Welcome to Massively Minecraft « - 18 views

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"The purpose of this community project is to trial the use of the game Minecraft (http://www.minecraft.net) in schools as part of voluntary student activity. The community will engage in exploration and research, not to decide or direct any particular application of the game but, to understand where students might take it and how they and their teachers visualise possibilities for it use within the curriculum."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The purpose of this community project is to trial the use of the game Minecraft (<a href="http://www.minecraft.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.minecraft.net</a>) in schools as part of voluntary student activity. The community will engage in exploration and research, not to decide or direct any particular application of the game but, to understand where students might take it and how they and their teachers visualise possibilities for it use within the curriculum."</div>

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Top News - State targets student-teacher communication - 9 views

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Louisiana forbidding tchers 2 communicate w/ students using technologies/personal devices that the school cant' track.

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The Two Faces of Social Networking - iPads in Education - 0 views

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"Whether through Facebook, Twitter, Facetime or others, mobile devices allow us to develop "learning communities" beyond the boundaries of any physical location. In giving workshops to educators and parents, I often highlight the concept of learning community as one of the most important advances of a 21st century education."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Whether through Facebook, Twitter, Facetime or others, mobile devices allow us to develop "learning communities" beyond the boundaries of any physical location. In giving workshops to educators and parents, I often highlight the concept of learning community as one of the most important advances of a 21st century education."</div>

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Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Apr 11

An intresting blog post by Sam about social and emotional aspects of connecting through social networks.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An intresting blog post by Sam about social and emotional aspects of connecting through social networks.</div>

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Internet Etiquette in Online Learning - 37 views

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Jorge Gonçalves on 03 Jun 11

Technology is changing the way we communicate, as well as the way we learn. The Internet has made online learning almost instant: students can interact with each other through e-mail, online chat, and other communication software. For both students and teachers, it is important to set rules for how

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Technology is changing the way we communicate, as well as the way we learn. The Internet has made online learning almost instant: students can interact with each other through e-mail, online chat, and other communication software. For both students and teachers, it is important to set rules for how</div>

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How to stay out of your inbox, communicate more effectively and be more productive. - T... - 0 views

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Email is costing you money! - Stop it! As we come to email's 22nd birthday we need to ask whether we still want it around. Despite the speed of communication becoming nearly instant we spend more time than ever trying

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Email is costing you money! - Stop it! As we come to email's 22nd birthday we need to ask whether we still want it around. Despite the speed of communication becoming nearly instant we spend more time than ever trying</div>

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Business Communication - Characteristics & Types of Business writing - 0 views

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Business writing, a subset of business communication, is used in a professional setting It has a purpose to convey the required information to the reader in a clear, compact and effective manner

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