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Dimitris Tzouris

mooc.org - 23 views

mooc.org

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  • Dimitris Tzouris on 10 Sep 13
     
    mooc.org is an edX destination. We're working to help educational institutions, businesses and teachers easily build and host courses for the world to take. "
Darren Draper

Reflections of a new-ish blogger « Educational Insanity - 0 views

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blogging elitism

shared by Darren Draper on 13 Apr 08 - Cached
  • I think where I’m going with this is that I worry that the ed. tech. blogosphere is reasonably saturated.  Related to Darren Draper’s post on Twitter Set Theory, I feel like there are some central figures whose spheres overlap considerably and a whole lot of us outsiders trying to penetrate that inner circle.  It’s as if folks like Will Richardson, David Warlick, Wes Fryer, Vicki Davis, Dean Shareski, Stephen Downes, Chris Lehmann…(and, yes, you Scott) are having an awesome cocktail party conversation and I’m standing on the outside staring over their shoulders and listening in, trying to get a word in, but not penetrating that conversation at all.  I know there are LOTS of us on the outside looking in. 
    • Darren Draper
      Darren Draper on 13 Apr 08
       
      What can we do to reduce this feeling of exclusivity? Doubtless there are hundreds of great educators out there that feel this way.
    • Darren Draper
      Darren Draper on 13 Apr 08
       
      I agree with you, David. There is no accurate measure as to the success of a blog - other than the intrinsic measure that each blogger feels about how things are going.
  • My theory is– don’t worry about getting your voice out there, or comments, or rankings, or even being invited to the right parties (inner circle) — rather focus intently on children, your vision, and leaving education better than you found it. Concentrate on helping those within your sphere of influence to make principled changes in education that is in the best interest of kids.
  • anonymous on 03 Oct 13
     
    Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over theworld by Google News.‎Finance - ‎About Google News - ‎Languages and regions - ‎Editors' Pickswww.killdo.de.ggNews Online from Australia and the World ...News headlines from Australia and the world. The latest national, world, business, sport, entertainment and technology news from News Limited news papers.www.killdo.de.ggBreaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines ...Breaking News, Latest News and Current News from FOXNews.com. Breakingnews and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, ...www.killdo.de.gg
Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G)

OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite - 0 views

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shared by Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G) on 02 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G) on 16 Oct 08
     
    OpenOffice.org: The Free, Open Source Office Suite v3.0 Release See Open Office 3.0 Review by PC Magazine at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332502,00.asp
J Black

ed4wb » Blog Archive » The New Bottom-up Authority - 0 views

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shared by J Black on 31 Jan 09 - Cached
  • It appears that most teachers today underestimate the amount of learning that is happening among youth outside of schools.  Since this informal learning sometimes dubbed “hanging out”, “messing around” or “geeking out”  happens outside of the classroom and doesn’t look like traditional learning, it’s easy for educators to miss. The quality and quantity of learning, the process by which it occurs, and the way authority is established in these informal environments, should be something that teachers become familiar with. Will Richardson, who writes extensively on these matters, believes that, “One of the biggest challenges educators face right now is figuring out how to help students create, navigate, and grow the powerful, individualized networks of learning that bloom on the Web and helping them do this effectively, ethically, and safely.” (see article)
  • It appears that most teachers today underestimate the amount of learning that is happening among youth outside of schools.  Since this informal learning sometimes dubbed “hanging out”, “messing around” or “geeking out”  happens outside of the classroom and doesn’t look like traditional learning, it’s easy for educators to miss. The quality and quantity of learning, the process by which it occurs, and the way authority is established in these informal environments, should be something that teachers become familiar with. Will Richardson, who writes extensively on these matters, believes that, “One of the biggest challenges educators face right now is figuring out how to help students create, navigate, and grow the powerful, individualized networks of learning that bloom on the Web and helping them do this effectively, ethically, and safely.” (see article)
  • It appears that most teachers today underestimate the amount of learning that is happening among youth outside of schools.  Since this informal learning sometimes dubbed “hanging out”, “messing around” or “geeking out”  happens outside of the classroom and doesn’t look like traditional learning, it’s easy for educators to miss. The quality and quantity of learning, the process by which it occurs, and the way authority is established in these informal environments, should be something that teachers become familiar with. Will Richardson, who writes extensively on these matters, believes that, “One of the biggest challenges educators face right now is figuring out how to help students create, navigate, and grow the powerful, individualized networks of learning that bloom on the Web and helping them do this effectively, ethically, and safely.” (see article)
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  • Schools, in general, are not taking advantage of the power of peer-based learning or the benefits of a more decentralized type of expertise which lies outside of its ivory walls.
  • The same study later describes a writer’s heightened sense of authenticity that comes from peer feedback as opposed to school evaluations: “It’s something I can do in my spare time, be creative and write and not have to be graded,” because, “you know how in school you’re creative, but you’re doing it for a grade so it doesn’t really count?”
  • J Black on 31 Jan 09
     
    The top-down, authoritarian model found in most classrooms today looks very different from the model many students experience when they learn online. The classroom's hierarchical approach, with the sage on the stage, requires, (and, ultimately demands) passivity and deference on the part of the learner. Informal, interest-driven networked learning, with its access to large stores of information and variety of opinion, on the other hand, takes a much different view of authority. It's usually peer based, largely democratic, meritocratic, often creates dissonance due to variety and demands evaluation. Knowing what we do about active learning, one would seem clearly superior to the other.
Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G)

Camtasia Studio Demo of MeindMeister - 0 views

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shared by Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G) on 08 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G) on 08 Oct 08
     
    Read About Concept/Mind Mapping at... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_mapping and http://homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/ss/mindmap.htm You can find a list of Concept or Mind Mapping software at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mind_mapping_software Next, evaluate MindMeister at http://mindmeister.com/ and Webspiration at http://webspiration.com/ to determine which you feel is appropriate to you. Finally, your assignment is to create an account and Concept/Mind Map. Then bookmark it using Diigo and share it with the group.
Jeff Johnson

Publishing audio at will | ISTE's NECC09 Blog - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 02 Apr 09
     
    Blogs are naturally "publish at will" platforms. While blogs certainly CAN be configured to have new posts "moderated" by someone serving in the role of a gatekeeper, by default most blogs allow users to publish INSTANTLY. If you're interested in setting up a blog for moderated posting by students, I'd recommend using Class Blogmeister for this purpose. Wordpress blogs can be configured for contributor posts to be moderated as well, but this requires a bit of configuration. (This is the setup we're using here on ISTEconnects, btw.) On the Wordpress dashboard, under SETTINGS - GENERAL SETTINGS, we've checked the MEMBERSHIP box ANYONE CAN REGISTER and set the "New User Default Role" to be CONTRIBUTOR. With these configuration settings, new posts must be reviewed by a user designated as an "editor" or "administrator" before they become "live" on the site. For more on this, see the Wordpress.org CODEX article "Roles and Capabilities." To setup a free classroom or personal Wordpress blog you don't have to host yourself, I recommend using EduBlogs or Wordpress.com. Blogs setup with Blogger can similarly be setup as "team" blogs with moderated contributions from members which can include students and/or teachers. See the Blogger help article "How do I create a team blog?" for more details. My post from July 2008, "How can our school set up a team blog for teachers?" also gives more information about this for Wordpress users.
J Black

Where's the Innovation? | always learning - 0 views

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shared by J Black on 04 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Tom refers to this as the “Red Queen Effect” after a scene in Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass, where Alice is shocked to be standing in the same place after running quite fast for an extended period of time and the Red Queen explains, “if you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.”
  • nother Hong Kong presenter, Stephen Heppell, was also careful to emphasize that the biggest challenge today is the pace of change: exponential. With this rapid pace of change there is no time for the “staircase mentality” (pilot, review etc).
  • what are we mistakenly not valuing now?
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  • Tom explained that innovation falls squarely in quadrant 2 of Steven Covey’s matrix: it’s “Important”, but “Not Urgent”. For example, we absolutely have to have a new math/science/reading/social studies program. The teachers can’t teach without one, so picking a new one is going to fall in quadrant 1, and ultimately, innovation gets put off until tomorrow. However, innovation has an urgency all its own and those that don’t place innovation as a priority will find themselves displaced.
  • his is a good example of the difficulty people face in conceptually realizing the advantages of bold innovation: we naturally assume that slow steady progress will be best (as we are taught from an early age, when the tortoise wins the race).
  • The time for innovation is now, as Stephen described (and Marco Torres’ slide below emphasizes), “learning is at a crossroads:” we’re looking at a choice between productivity and new approaches, those new approaches being: student portfolios; making huge leaps in our model of education, not tiny steps forward; working to produce ingenious, engaged, inspired, surprising, collegiate students; and developing learning experiences that are open-ended, project-focused, multidisciplinary.
  • I can’t remember who said this first but, “technology is just an amplifier” - technology doesn’t change the quality of teaching or learning, it will only amplify it, either in a positive or negative way. What we need to be looking at is changing our approaches to learning, not modifying our curriculum to a “newer” version of what we’ve already had for the past 20 years.
  • bsolutely fabulous. This is great stuff. I just wrote a post on Thursday arguing that the “learning management system” paradigm prevents innovation and change. If we don’t break out of it, we’re destined to get out-innovated, as you suggest.
  • I came across a great quote from Frank Tibolt this morning: “We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
  • “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” - Alan Kay
  • J Black on 04 Jun 09
     
    Tom explained that innovation falls squarely in quadrant 2 of Steven Covey's matrix: it's "Important", but "Not Urgent".
Travis Kramer

elearnspace blog - 0 views

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shared by Travis Kramer on 14 Apr 09 - Cached
  • While reading OECD’s publication Education Today, I noticed a StatLink option under each of the tables/charts. StatLink is part of OECD’s ongoing initiative to make data available in original form. A simple click and data is downloaded into a spreadsheet for happy manipulation by the user. A simple, but important idea. OECD also offers a tool to visualize data. The data is somewhat limited (employment, productivity, educational attainment, GDP, etc) in scope, but the willingness to share not only original data but also software to assist in making sense of data is a welcomed gesture!
  • Travis Kramer on 14 Apr 09
     
    One of my favorite blogwriters
Rover Rovers

Watch and Learn: 20 Free Educational Video Sites! « Curriki's Blog - 0 views

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  • Curriculum + Wiki = Curriki « Virtual Education Reality I Spy…Writing Resources » Watch and Learn: 20 Free Educational Video Sites!
  • Are you a visual learner? Bring content to life with educational
  • videos! Here are twenty easy-to-use sites compiling and producing
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  • educational videos for student and teacher use:
  • Rover Rovers on 19 Dec 10
     
    Gratis educatieve video's
Paul Beaufait

Create a Google Map from a Spreadsheet | Zadling - 33 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 07 Sep 11
     
    This tutorial by Zachary Zawarski explains "how to create a map with custom locations that you can publish on your website" (¶1). "The greatest benefit of this tool is that current entries can be edited and new entries can be added to the map through the Google spreadsheet without having to update the map's code..." (¶2, retrieved 2011.09.07). Thanks to Denise Krebs for pointing it out, and demonstrating how to do it in a recorded RSCON3 session (Elluminate recording entitled: Where in the world? Or, adding a directory map using a spreadsheet to your wiki.  For more info., please see her blog posts: http://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/2011/07/28/posting-a-directory-map-at-rscon3/ http://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/2011/08/06/mapping-our-connections-my-rscon3-session/
Tom Daccord

Teaching History With Technology - 1 views

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  • Tom Daccord on 07 Jun 09
     
    EdTechTeacher.org presents The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for histlaptop classory and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about new and emerging technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, ipods, and online social networks and explore innnovative ways of integrating them into the curriculum. Find out how others are using technology in the classroom.
Child Therapy

Developing Self Confidence In Children - 1 views

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Paul Beaufait

JSTOR: The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 36, No. 6 (Feb., 1936), pp. 456-460 - 9 views

www.jstor.org/...995914

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  • Paul Beaufait on 27 Feb 13
     
    Dolch, E. W. (1936). A basic sight vocabulary. The Elementary School Journal, 36(6), 456-460. Published by: The University of Chicago Press Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/995914
mrobe421

Xtra math - 0 views

https://xtramath.org/#/home/index Xtra math is a math fact fluency program to help students master math facts.  Students log in and complete practice problems.Students can recall subtraction, ...

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started by mrobe421 on 07 Sep 16 no follow-up yet
Miriam Benes

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Martin Burrett

Tate Kids - Colour Colour - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 14 Apr 12
     
    This is a good virtual art colouring activity from the Tate Art Gallery. See full screen at http://kids.tate.org.uk/games/colour-colour/colour.swf http://j.mp/Hzjr9o http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design
Paul Beaufait

About LessonCast « LessonCast - 52 views

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 03 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 03 Jun 12
     
    "A lessoncast is a spreadable example of the what, why, and how of effective teaching.  Lessoncasts feature one lesson idea or management strategy in 2 minutes 30 seconds or less. Lessoncasts include teacher-created downloadable resources to help implement the ideas. A lessoncast is NOT a lesson plan, but rather a quick how-to overview meant to inspire and support teachers looking for effective resources" (About LessonCast.org, ¶2, 2012.06.04).
Martin Burrett

Poetry Foundation - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 03 Feb 12
     
    The poetry Foundation site is a great place to find poems and information about the world's most famous poets Also, download the Poetry Foundation App for iPhone and Android handsets at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/mobile/ to get a great collection of poetry and information to use in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
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