Is Video Game School Training a Generation of Professional Princess Rescuers? | Design ... - 16 views
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Is this really necessary? And how promising is it?
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A very well-intentioned, but ignorant piece on the role of video games in the classroom. Non-educators should stay out of the education arena and write what they know about!! "On the other hand, does it really take a videogame to make learning fun? Surely, there are better ways, which are less likely to be dated the second they're finished."
Our Known Universe in Six Minutes | Open Culture - 22 views
Inkling lets textbook makers embrace the iPad - 17 views
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readers by making it possible to hop around a book, to hand out individual chapters as assignments, and to take notes in highlighter yellow right on the text. The notes are sharable among a social network of students and instructor.
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A caption, simultaneously spoken by a voiceover (They call this karaoke mode. It turns out to help memory better than either text or speech by itself) instructs me to tap the cells nucleus three times to simulate its breakdown.
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learning modules built with Inkling will be priced individually on iTunes,
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Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 10 views
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So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
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Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
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the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
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A visual reader of text- Amazing!!! - 62 views
How to Use Microblogging in Workplace Learning | Upside Learning Blog - 34 views
Free Technology for Teachers: Free Royalty Free Music for Education - 60 views
The five secrets of instructional design - 0 views
Will You Wave? 24 Google Wave Resources | Teacher Reboot Camp - 45 views
Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Visually Appealing Ways to Publish Documents Online - 58 views
Amazon's e-book sales beat paperbacks; profit up 8% - USATODAY.com - 0 views
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and it's on top of continued growth in paperback sales." Since the beginning of the year, Amazon says that for every 100 paperbacks it has sold, 115 Kindle books have been sold. Kindle book sales are triple that of hardcovers.
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Net income rose 8% to $416 million, or 91 cents per share, topping the estimate of 88 cents per share of analysts polled by FactSet. That compares with $384 million, or 85 cents per share, in the year-ago period. Revenue rose 36% to $12.95 billion. Analysts had expected $13.02 billion.
Writing Blogs People will Read - 0 views
Kindle Cloud Reader - 30 views
55 Awesome Online Photo Editors - 0 views
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An online photo editor tool if used professionally can bring a lot of difference to the image. A colossal presence of photo editors available online for free really makes it difficult for user to choose the best one. To help our readers in making the best choice for themselves BestDeignTuts.com has made a collection of 55 online photo editors.
For improving early literacy, reading comics is no child's play - 31 views
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Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that comics are just as sophisticated as other forms of literature, and children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other types of books.
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If reading is to lead to any meaningful knowledge or comprehension, readers must approach a text with an understanding of the relevant social, linguistic and cultural conventions," she said. "And if you really consider how the pictures and words work together in consonance to tell a story, you can make the case that comics are just as complex as any other kind of literature.
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Although commercial publishers of comics have yet to recapture children's imaginations, Tilley says that some librarians and teachers are increasingly discovering that comics can be used to support reading and instruction.
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