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alexandra m. pickett

Favorite Resources - 125 views

Hi. Here was my top 10 list in february 2008 twitter - http://twitter.com - microblog, community of practice, communication, support Second Life - https://secure-web14.secondlife.com/join/- to cr...

Favorite Resources

started by Clif Mims on 09 Mar 08 5 follow-ups, last by alexandra m. pickett on 09 Apr 08
Clif Mims

effective practices using blogs and wikis at the college level - 123 views

We begin a new semester today and this will be the first time that I'll be using a wiki with one of my classes. It is a special topics seminar for graduate students. My intent is to provide them w...

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started by alexandra m. pickett on 03 Jun 08 2 follow-ups, last by Clif Mims on 15 Jul 08
Clif Mims

20 Free Literary Podcasts Worth Listening To - 2 views

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Podcast Literacy Literature Teaching Resources Audio Language-Arts

shared by Clif Mims on 17 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 17 Dec 08
     
    Literary podcasts are a great way to hear about new stories and explore all of your old favorites. This list details where you can find some of the most popular literary podcasts, including podcasts based around classic literature, poetry and contemporary works.
Clif Mims

Snippage - Make desktop widgets out of any website - 0 views

snippage.gabocorp.com

2.0 Web-Design Web-Apps Resources Widgets

shared by Clif Mims on 07 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 07 Jan 09
     
    Take pieces of your favorite web sites and put them on your desktop? Things like that auction you've got your eye on, your web mail's inbox, or even that search box you're always using.
Clif Mims

WingClips - Free Inspirational Movie Clips for Sermon Illustrations and Teaching - 0 views

wingclips.com

Video Christian Resources Dual-Coding

shared by Clif Mims on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 27 Jul 09
     
    Now you can view inspirational movie clips from many of your favorite films. These WingClips™ can also be downloaded to use in your church, school or other non-profit organization for FREE.
Barbara Lindsey

Fluid Learning | the human network - 0 views

blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=94

mark pesce higher ed technology learning control

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 26 Dec 08 - Cached
  • There must be a point to the exercise, some reason that makes all the technology worthwhile. That search for a point – a search we are still mostly engaged in – will determine whether these computers are meaningful to the educational process, or if they are an impediment to learning.
  • What’s most interesting about the computer is how it puts paid to all of our cherished fantasies of control. The computer – or, most specifically, the global Internet connected to it – is ultimately disruptive, not just to the classroom learning experience, but to the entire rationale of the classroom, the school, the institution of learning. And if you believe this to be hyperbolic, this story will help to convince you.
  • A student about to attend university in the United States can check out all of her potential instructors before she signs up for a single class. She can choose to take classes only with those instructors who have received the best ratings – or, rather more perversely, only with those instructors known to be easy graders. The student is now wholly in control of her educational opportunities, going in eyes wide open, fully cognizant of what to expect before the first day of class.
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  • it has made the work of educational administrators exponentially more difficult. Students now talk, up and down the years, via the recorded ratings on the site. It isn’t possible for an institution of higher education to disguise an individual who happens to be a world-class researcher but a rather ordinary lecturer. In earlier times, schools could foist these instructors on students, who’d be stuck for a semester. This no longer happens, because RateMyProfessors.com effectively warns students away from the poor-quality teachers.
  • If we are smart enough, we can learn a lesson here and now that we will eventually learn – rather more expensively – if we wait. The lesson is simple: control is over. This is not about control anymore. This is about finding a way to survive and thrive in chaos.
  • The battle for control over who stands in front of the classroom has now been decisively lost by the administration in favor of the students.
  • That knowledge, once pooled, takes on a life of its own, and finds itself in places where it has uses that its makers never intended.
  • This one site has undone all of the neat work of tenure boards and department chairs throughout the entire world of academia.
  • When broken down to its atomic components, the classroom is an agreement between an instructor and a set of students. The instructor agrees to offer expertise and mentorship, while the students offer their attention and dedication. The question now becomes what role, if any, the educational institution plays in coordinating any of these components. Students can share their ratings online – why wouldn’t they also share their educational goals? Once they’ve pooled their goals, what keeps them from recruiting their own instructor, booking their own classroom, indeed, just doing it all themselves?
  • the possibility that some individuals or group of individuals might create their own context around the lectures. And this is where the future seems to be pointing.
  • the shape of things to come. But there are some other trends which are also becoming visible. The first and most significant of these is the trend toward sharing lecture material online, so that it reaches a very large audience.
  • Why not create a new kind of “Open University”, a website that offers nothing but the kinds of scheduling and coordination tools students might need to organize their own courses?
  • In this near future world, students are the administrators.
  • Now since most education is funded by the government, there will obviously be other forces at play; it may be that “administration”, such as it is, represents the government oversight function which ensures standards are being met. In any case, this does not look much like the educational institution of the 20th century – though it does look quite a bit like the university of the 13th century, where students would find and hire instructors to teach them subjects.
  • The lecturer now helps the students find the material available online, and helps them to make sense of it, contextualizing and informing their understanding. even as the students continue to work their way through the ever-growing set of information. The instructor can not know everything available online on any subject, but will be aware of the best (or at least, favorite) resources, and will pass along these resources as a key outcome of the educational process. The instructor facilitates and mentors, as they have always done, but they are no longer the gatekeepers, because there are no gatekeepers,
  • The classroom in this fungible future of student administrators and evolved lecturers is any place where learning happens.
  • At one end of the scale, students will be able work online with each other and with an lecturer to master material; at the other end, students will work closely with a mentor in a specialist classroom. This entire range of possibilities can be accommodated without much of the infrastructure we presently associate with educational institutions. The classroom will both implode – vanishing online – and explode – the world will become the classroom.
  • Flexibility and fluidity are the hallmark qualities of the 21st century educational institution. An analysis of the atomic features of the educational process shows that the course is a series of readings, assignments and lectures that happen in a given room on a given schedule over a specific duration. In our drive to flexibility how can we reduce the class into to essential, indivisible elements? How can we capture those elements? Once captured, how can we get these elements to the students? And how can the students share elements which they’ve found in their own studies?
  • This is the basic idea that’s guiding Stanford and MIT: recording is cheap, lecturers are expensive, and students are forgetful. Somewhere in the middle these three trends meet around recorded media. Yes, a student at Stanford who misses a lecture can download and watch it later, and that’s a good thing. But it also means that any student, anywhere, can download the same lecture.
  • Every one of these recordings has value, and the more recordings you have, the larger the horde you’re sitting upon. If you think of it like that – banking your work – the logic of capturing everything becomes immediately clear.
J Black

Directory of free web2 tools - 82 views

Darren - Thanks! I've added it to several groups. Nice resources! Appreciative of your sharing -- JBlack Darren Walker wrote: > Hi, my name is Darren Walker and I am a secondary school teacher...

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started by Darren Walker on 08 Nov 08 1 follow-up, last by J Black on 19 Feb 09
Foo Stephanie

Wiimote Interactive Whiteboard - 38 views

The latest Smoothboard version (http://www.smoothboard.net) now does not require manual Bluetooth connection but handle automatic connection with the computer through a Bluetooth adaptor using MS B...

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started by Wiipenmaker Klein on 15 Apr 09 1 follow-up, last by Foo Stephanie on 15 Sep 09
david holm

New LogMeIn App for Iphone to Access PC Remotely - 2 views

LogMeIn application is a remote access application which allows your iPhone to be the extension of your computer. By one-click it offers access to your LogMeIn computers, directly from your Apple ...

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started by david holm on 14 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Mark Cruthers

WiZiQ free Virtual Classroom - 58 views

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started by Mark Cruthers on 11 May 08 no follow-up yet
ted jordan

good curriculum for setting up iptv based TV station in school? - 28 views

hi anyone know of any good curriculum or courseware for setting up a school TV station via IPTV? we have a group of about 20 kids that want to get something rolling. Open Source software preferre...

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started by ted jordan on 12 Jan 09 no follow-up yet
Dean Mantz

ALA | AASL Best Web sites for Teaching and Learning Top 25 Award - 0 views

www.ala.org/...bestwebsitestop25.cfm

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shared by Dean Mantz on 22 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Diigo  Need help in organizing your favorite websites? Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows users to save websites, as well as tag them, add sticky notes and annotations, and share them with other users in various groups. Tip: Sticky notes are an effective way to start a virtual conversation among teams of students on the merits of a website.
  • Our Story  Create your story! Our Story permits users to develop and save collaborative timelines that can be personalized with annotations, photos, and videos. Stories (timelines) can be printed in book format, archived on DVD, or even sent as postcards. Tip: Teach your students to develop content-specific timelines that are linked to the teaching of research and information literacy skills.
  • Primary Access  Capture your students' imagination with movie narratives based on primary sources. Primary Access is an online tool that allows students and teachers to combine text, visual, and sound elements, which are then combined to convey information about their chosen historical event or time frame. A library of Primary Access movies is available through a catalog by historical time period. Tip: Encourage active learning: have students choose a historical event or time frame to research and synthesize their information through a Primary Access movie.
Dean Mantz

Online Art Games - 7 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 23 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Welcome to my favorite online art games for kids! 
Ninja Essays

Top Writing Tools of Famous Authors - 0 views

www.ninjaessays.com/...riting-tools-of-famous-authors

Education technology Resources tools web2.0 learning

shared by Ninja Essays on 27 May 14 - No Cached
  • Ninja Essays on 27 May 14
     
    From Mark Twain to everyone's favorite George R.R. Martin, here is what some of the most famous writers used to produce their works!
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