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Dean Mantz

Yippy - Welcome to the Cloud. - 9 views

clusty.com

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shared by Dean Mantz on 14 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 14 Jul 10
     
    Clustering engine that allows users to narrow down searches to things like images, shopping, gossip, and news
Ben Rimes

Wylio.com - free pictures - 14 views

wylio.com

wylio cc creativecommons images

shared by Ben Rimes on 12 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Ben Rimes on 12 Nov 10
     
    Easy way to search, format, and post creative commons images from Flickr to just about anywhere on the web. Has an easy resizing tool, and copy and paste code for embedding images.
Dean Mantz

Conversations.net - Conversations - 0 views

www.conversations.net

search conversations.net twitter ning web2.0 blogger Plurk Twine

shared by Dean Mantz on 25 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 25 Dec 08
     
    Use this site to search through online websites and conversations from a wide range of sites.
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.
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.
Dean Mantz

12 Best Google Keywords for Finding Classroom Resources | Making Teachers Nerdy - 0 views

mrssmoke.onsugar.com/3021349

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shared by Dean Mantz on 13 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 13 Apr 09
     
    Our very own Mrs. Smoke and her tips/tricks to effective Google searches.
Dean Mantz

Soungle.com - Royalty Free Sound Effects (FX) Library for Download - 0 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 17 Jul 09 - Cached
  • "The simplest way to search and find sounds"
Clif Mims

OER Commons - 0 views

www.oercommons.org

shared by Clif Mims on 16 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 16 Jun 09
     
    The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative. Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared. As a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing. OER Commons has forged alliances with over 120 major content partners to provide a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access over 24,000 items, find and provide descriptive information about each resource, and retrieve the ones they need. By being "open," these resources are publicly available for all to use, and principally through Creative Commons licensing, many thousands are legally available for repurposing, modifying and improving.
Dean Mantz

Wiki.com - 0 views

www.wiki.com

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shared by Dean Mantz on 11 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 11 Sep 09
     
    Learn about wikis and search for the one you need.
drew polly

WWILD Team - List all modules - 0 views

projects.coe.uga.edu/...PPT-search-results.asp

PPT-game game ppt technology-integration 3110

shared by drew polly on 29 Mar 09 - Cached
  • drew polly on 29 Mar 09
     
    PPT Game list on the WWILD Database. Requires free registration
Dean Mantz

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - 4 views

www.archive.org/web.php

archive web history reference search wayback tools archives

shared by Dean Mantz on 25 Feb 10 - Cached
  • The Internet Archive, the Library of Congress and California Digital Library collaborated on a pilot in the spring of 2008 and a full-year program for the 2008/2009 school year, working with a total of 10 elementary, middle and high schools. We are looking to expand this program to new schools in the coming year. You can explore the collections created during the 2008/2009 school year on the Archive-It website here.
  • Dean Mantz on 25 Feb 10
     
    Use this resource to search the web and go back to items posted long ago that are no longer available.
Dean Mantz

Soungle.com - Royalty Free Sound Effects (FX) Library for Download - 21 views

www.soungle.com

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shared by Dean Mantz on 06 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 06 Jan 10
     
    Search for sound effects.
Dean Mantz

YouTube - SearchStories's Channel - 5 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 13 May 10 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 13 May 10
     
    Create video stories based off of your Google searches.
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Google's latest AI experiment lets software autocomplete your doodles - The Verge - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...-sketch-rnn-doodles-quick-draw

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  • Filefisher com on 27 Jun 17
     
    Google Brain, the search giant's internal artificial intelligence division, has been making substantial progress on computer vision techniques that let software parse the contents of hand-drawn...
Clif Mims

First Tweet - Who Tweeted It First? - 6 views

ctrlq.org/first

EdTech Educational-Technology Social-Software Web-Apps

shared by Clif Mims on 28 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Clif Mims on 28 Aug 16
     
    "Enter search keywords, or even a link, and we'll find the first tweet that contains that term."
emily6613

Flickr: Creative Commons - 0 views

www.flickr.com/creativecommons

idt3600 images

shared by emily6613 on 28 Apr 21 - No Cached
  • Mackenzie White on 28 Apr 21
     
    Along with Flicker, you are able to search images. With this you can search images with a certain license.
  • emily6613 on 15 Feb 22
     
    Licensed Images
emily6613

scholar.google.com - 0 views

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  • emily6613 on 15 Feb 22
     
    Credible search results
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