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Ginger Lewman

FlashPanos | Players, plugins, tutorials and more for delivering panoramas and virtual ... - 0 views

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  • Ginger Lewman on 18 Jan 09
     
    PanoSalado: The Open Source Flash panorama player
Peter Kimmich

Teachers Use Technology to Beat Online Cheaters - 0 views

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  • Peter Kimmich on 15 Dec 08
     
    You're taking a test for your online Econ course, and you figure It shouldn't be too hard to just find the answers online and ace this thing, right? Suddenly, a chat window opens, and your professor is live on your screen...
Barbara Lindsey

Fluid Learning | the human network - 0 views

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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

Mahara - Open source e-portfolio and social networking software - 2 views

mahara.org

Portfolios Free Open-Source Teaching Teacher-Education Content-Management

shared by Clif Mims on 30 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Toby Fischer on 30 Jan 09
     
    eportfolio tool that works with Moodle
Dean Mantz

Best Free Software - School Computing - 0 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 23 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 23 Jan 09
     
    This page lists a variety of "free" software. Truly free and open source software is marked with an asterisk. Items without asterisks are no-cost proprietary software
Dean Mantz

Visual Understanding Environment - 0 views

vue.tufts.edu

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  • Dean Mantz on 23 Jan 09
     
    The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.
Dean Mantz

Learning Tools Directory - 0 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 23 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 23 Jan 09
     
    This Directory contains over 2,600 tools for learning in two main sections: 1. for creating, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions 2. for personal learning and productivity, for sharing resources, as well as group collaboration (also includes some enterprise tools) The tools in this Directory are both freeware/open source and commercial.
Dean Mantz

Stellarium - 0 views

www.stellarium.org

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shared by Dean Mantz on 30 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
  • Dean Mantz on 30 Jan 09
     
    Open source application for multiple platforms. 3D realistic sky just like you would see in a planetarium.
Dean Mantz

Celestia: Home - 0 views

www.shatters.net/...index.html

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shared by Dean Mantz on 09 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 09 Feb 09
     
    3D science exploration open source software for free.
  • Dean Mantz on 09 Feb 09
     
    Free open source software that brings you outerspace in 3D.
April H.

The Xerte Project - The Xerte Wiki - 0 views

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xerte wiki e-learning elearning

shared by April H. on 04 Jan 10 - Cached
  • April H. on 04 Jan 10
     
    A community wiki for information related to the Xerte Project. Xerte is a free and open source tool to develop e-learning.
Michael Johnson

STRIDE Handbook 8: E-Learning ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes - 0 views

www.downes.ca/51318

Twitter Online Learning Books

shared by Michael Johnson on 16 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Michael Johnson on 16 Jan 10
     
    The STRIDE handbook on e-learning has now been released and is an essential introductory resource. The book contains five conceptual overviews, including Perdagogical Affordances by Som Naidu and Managerial Perspectives by Tony Bates. Following are 20 technology-specific chapters, from Electronic Mail by Sanjaya Mishra, my own Blogs in Learning, Social Networking by Terry Anderson, and Twitter by Any Ramsden. Sanjaya Mishra, ed., Indira Gandhi National Open University, January 16, 2010.
Clif Mims

HippoCampus - Free Educational Multimedia - 2 views

www.hippocampus.org

EdTech Technology-Integration Free Video Math Science Resources Social-Studies

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  • Clif Mims on 11 Dec 12
     
    "HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. HippoCampus was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. HippoCampus content has been developed by some of the finest colleges and universities in the world..."
jodi tompkins

Glossopedia Home - 1 views

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encyclopedia science glossopedia search research

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  • jodi tompkins on 24 Mar 10
     
    This site is designed especially with the young learner in mind with its age-appropriate content and emphasis on visual and auditory learning. Glossopedia is the kind of site that you can leave open for students to explore and find a fast fact of the day, find their favorite image, or video Glossopedia Categories Geography and Places Nature and the Environment Technology Animals Earth and Space People and Cultures Human Body Chemistry Natural Forces This site is simple and visually pleasing. The font size is great for young learners. Words are hyperlinked to an audio pronunciation that is a real person, speaking really slowly at first then more quickly, and finally the written meaning of the word. Images and photos have a print button prominently displayed.
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FileFisher - How to install the Opera browser? - Download Latest Software - www.filefis... - 0 views

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    Opera browser is a most popular alternative to the default browsers that get nearer preloaded with you computer, including Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. The subsequent sections contain steps on how to install Opera Browser with internet explorer & Google Chrome? Install Opera Browser! Open yo…
Mitch Weisburgh

Open SUNY : Instructor Home Page - 7 views

opensuny.coursesites.com

oer courseware course education pd teachers tools

shared by Mitch Weisburgh on 16 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Mitch Weisburgh on 16 Jan 13
     
    A free online course in how to use OER materials.
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