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Peter Horsfield

Robin Emmons - Extraordinary People Changing the Game - 0 views

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Robin Emmons Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

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  • Peter Horsfield on 08 Jan 14
     
    Can someone who loves gardening as a hobby really make an impact? Robin Emmons did so with the help of volunteers and donors who made Sow Much Good grow from a backyard initiative into a community project. Tired of the rat race, Robin quit her job to do some self-searching. After a couple of weeks, she was told of her brother being held in jail for an undiagnosed schizophrenic outburst. Concerned about her brother's deteriorating health in the mental facility, she volunteered to bring fresh produce from her backyard garden… then realizing that her purpose was just around her-literally. To read more about Robin Emmons visit www.thextraordinary.org
Peter Horsfield

Rachael Chong - Extraordinary People Changing the Game - 0 views

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Rachel Chong Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

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  • Peter Horsfield on 08 Nov 13
     
    Meet the extraordinary young philanthropist and entrepreneur who is most famous for being the founder of Catchafire, a non-profit organization that connects young professionals with various organizations and causes so they can volunteer their skills to helping people, Rachael Chong. Throughout her career, Rachael has been active in philanthropy. "Everyone wins when people volunteer their skills". To read more about Rachel Chong visit www.thextraordinary.org
Martin Burrett

Volunteer Spot - 0 views

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volunteer organise calendar trips

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  • Martin Burrett on 24 Jul 11
     
    A great site that lets you organise volunteers/parents for your events. Useful for meeting your adult/pupil ratio on school trips. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools+-+Miscellaneous
Ruth Howard

Volunteer | Do Something - 0 views

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activism volunteer teens social media

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  • Ruth Howard on 24 Mar 09
     
    Leveraging teens online experience to "do something" of service in the volunteer/ community service sectors.
Peter Horsfield

Barbara Van Dahlen - Free Extraordinary Profiles - 0 views

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Barbara Van Dahlen Inspirational Entrepreneurs

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  • Peter Horsfield on 22 Aug 13
     
    Barbara Van Dahlen is an American psychologist who founded a non-profit organization called Give an Hour in order to help emotionally and mentally injured war veterans through offering free counselling. Give an Hour was founded in 2005 and is now composed of nearly 7,000 volunteers who have given an estimate of 57,000 hours of free service to soldiers who have served in the Middle East. Barbara has taken part in discussions concerning mental issues of men in uniform in Pentagon, Veterans Administration, White House, and Congress.
Cheska Lorena

Teach a Kid to Code a Holiday Card - Contagious Curiosity - 0 views

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technology programming cool-stuff

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  • Cheska Lorena on 13 Dec 10
     
    "Happy holidays from my little volunteer group at www.TeachingKidsProgramming.org. To celebrate the season we've written a new recipe for you to share with your kids - teach them to code and make a custom holiday card at the same time!"
Phyllis Traylor

http://www.volunteerspot.com/pto - 0 views

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tool web2.0 socialmedia SocialNetworking

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  • Phyllis Traylor on 12 Apr 09
     
    Volunteer Scheduling made EASY for PTA, PTO, PSA, Booster Clubs & more!
Jim Farmer

National Lab Day - 6 views

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science education STEM learning resources technology national lab day collaboration web2.0

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  • Jim Farmer on 15 May 10
     
    National Lab Day is a nationwide initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators.
Tero Toivanen

Education Futures - Tapscott: Memorizing facts is a waste of time - 0 views

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tapscott memorizing_waste_of_time

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  • Using the most advanced forms of information search engines, networks, early artificial intelligence, and the aforementioned volunteers, there is an opportunity to leapfrog education beyond any of the competition. This will require fundamental changes in the mission, structure, and curricula of education at all levels.
  • Tero Toivanen on 13 Mar 09
     
    Tapscott: Memorizing facts is a waste of time
Lisa Linn

necc09slplayground » home - 0 views

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NECC SL VOLUNTEER

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  • Lisa Linn on 12 Apr 09
     
    SL playground at NECC '09. Please consider donating a little time to share the love with other educators.
Steve Ransom

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 9 views

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technology schools change critique measurement effectiveness integration

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  • Critics counter that, absent clear proof, schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward when they press to upgrade first and ask questions later.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      A valid criticism when technology implementation is decoupled from meaningful and effective pedagogy. You can't buy measurable change/improvement.
  • district was innovating
  • how the district was innovating.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Again, this is very different than how TEACHERS are innovating their PRACTICES. It's much more challenging than making a slick brochure that communicates how much technology your district has.
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  • there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again
  • “We’ve jumped on bandwagons for different eras without knowing fully what we’re doing. This might just be the new bandwagon,” he said. “I hope not.”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      There's a confidence building statement for you....
  • $46.3 million for laptops, classroom projectors, networking gear and other technology for teachers and administrators.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Exactly... and how much was spent on equipping teachers to change their practices to effectively leverage this new infrastructure?
  • If we know something works
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      And what is that "something"? New technology? If so, you missed the boat.
  • it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training
  • The high-level analyses that sum up these various studies, not surprisingly, give researchers pause about whether big investments in technology make sense.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Why does the argument for making schools relevant and using current cultural tools need to be backed with performance data? Give politicians and superintendents horses instead of cars and see how long that lasts.
  • Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Finally, a valid point.
  • “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Exactly. But somehow, "value" has been equated with test scores alone. Do we have a strong body of research on pencil effectiveness or clay effectiveness or chair effectiveness?
  • “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”
  • “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.”
  • “They’re inundated with 24/7 media, so they expect it,”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      And you expect them to always engage enthusiastically with tools that are no longer relevant in their culture?
  • The 30 students in the classroom held wireless clickers into which they punched their answers. Seconds later, a pie chart appeared on the screen: 23 percent answered “True,” 70 percent “False,” and 6 percent didn’t know.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Okay... and you follow up with a totally trivial example of the power of technology in learning.
  • term” that can slide past critical analysis.
  • engagement is a “fluffy
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Very true
  • rofessor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty, which cannot be sustained.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      If that is so, why not back up your claim by linking to the source here. I have a feeling he has been misquoted and taken out of context here.
  • that computers can distract and not instruct.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Computers don't really "instruct". That's why we have teachers who are supposed to know what they are doing and why they are doing it... and monitoring kids while keeping learning meaningful.
  • guide on the side.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      But many teachers are simply not prepared for how to do this effectively. To ignore this fact is just naive.
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Are they in love with Cuban or something? Perhaps they should actually look at the research... or interview other authorities. Isn't that what reporting is all about? I think this reporter must be a product of too much Google, right?
  • But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Again, the fact that any supporter is happy that their kids are learning PowerPoint illustrates the degree of naiveté in their understanding of technology's role in learning.
  • creating an impetus to rethink education entirely
  • Mr. Share bases his buying decisions on two main factors: what his teachers tell him they need, and his experience. For instance, he said he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Herein lies another huge problem. Mr. Director of Technology seems to base no decisions on what the learning and technology literature have to say... nor does he consult those who would be considered authorities on technology infused learning (emphasis on learning here)
  • This is big business.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      No kidding.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?” she said. “It’s a very valid time to ask the question, right before this goes on the ballot.”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Anyone who asks that should volunteer to have their home and work computer confiscated. After all, it's just a distraction, right?
MATTHEW TradeSkillsLLC Tripp

SNOW SERVER XGRID - 0 views

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PENTAGON CORRUPTION GLOBAL ECOSYSTEMS CASCADE FAILURE

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  • MATTHEW TradeSkillsLLC Tripp on 03 Nov 09
     
    Show the virtual reality game of university administration as process outline modification effects.... for the creative commons iPhone flowchart flashcard application bluetooth projector by blockposters.com wall mural (flowmotion book style) process outline overlay GTD flowchart plus middle school conflict resolution, auto mechanic, restaurant dishwasher / salad or fry and prep, kid's homework flowchart to clean their room GTD podcast, college dorm lifestyle and roommates like kitchen / bath / laundry / living room house rules troubleshooting flowchart which at restaurant stations switches mural posters not like the poster sales places but on a leftright slide shuffle... and the following of the twitter, ning, facebook, blogs, professional journals, real time information (dissertation and thesis context realtimeline maps the duration of your college experience non-tenure) as research assistant for ecology students + sociology or anthropology + political science + nursing students... their curriculum is so technically dense that they have no time to correlate real time media to their studies... then the newsletter goes to friends and other students each week or month for 25 cents to one dollar... price decreases until the best green bloggers take over the task and perform the service for free off the ad revenue without india greenwashing. FLASH. Access free software personal development audio library (+ reverse peer review is quantification by the accreditation of the materials used by students where the quality of the paper produced by the student dictates the price of the material highlighting the reference correlations of the new paper from the scientific journal) {this means that if you write crap and students try to use it for reference and the student can only make a crap paper from your professional writing (including books) you will be heavily TAXED on your profits to reinvest into research which makes the actual intellectual collaboration advancements whic
samboy01

DADDY'S LITTLE HERO - 0 views

Summary; Dan is a brave little boy who wants to grow up to ba a fireman, just like his Daddy. Dan tries to help with the Australian bushfire by sneaking into to his Daddy's fire truck. But Dadd...

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