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Lynley Greer

Audioboo - 20 views

shared by Lynley Greer on 16 Jan 10 - Cached
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    "Record and playback digital recordings up to 5 minutes long which can then be posted on" to your personal Audioboo profile page. You can record your "boos" by phone, with the iPhone app or through your web browser. AudioBoo is iTunes ready making it the easiest way to begin podcasting.
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    This is my new favorite way of incorporating the Internet in my classroom. The site allows you to voice record short memos. You could introduce a new topic this way in order to change up the routine of the classroom. Students could also use this site as a way to present a project or presentation.
Ben Rimes

Pennsylvania Civil War Trails in Google Earth - 10 views

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    Explore historic places, monuments, and museums from Pennsylvania about the Civil Way in Google Earth. State Historical markers are included with short "story stops", battlefields, and several panoramic photographs that cover significant locations. Every placemarks includes links to other locations nearby of interest and direct links to the Pennsylvania Civil War Trails website with additional information.
April H.

30 Goals 2011 | Teacher Reboot Camp - 18 views

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    Accomplish 30 short-term and goals related to education in 30 days. Very cool goal setting and life-changing activity. Great for all educators or anyone wanting to make change in themselves or organizationally.
Clif Mims

WordAhead: Vocabulary Videos - 24 views

shared by Clif Mims on 11 Oct 09 - Cached
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    "This website has a collection of short, simple and fun video clips to correctly define and provide examples of around 800 words in context. The videos are entirely appropriate for middle and high school students. The students are encouraged to play with words,create their own vocabulary videos and upload their work to the website. Teachers may direct activities and assign word projects to the students. The Study Room allows personalized list creation and sharing. Visitors can also sign up to receive a word of the day in the email."
Clif Mims

Research and Digital Technologies - 2 views

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    "Research is a process. It is a continuum of stages that together make up a research plan. Below is a tentative sketch of what we think are the seven important steps of a research plan. For each of these stages we featured a short collection of web tools to help you carry it out."
Sherrill Didymus

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Fabin Bearil

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Sherrill Didymus

How To Find Out That Same Day Installment Loans Helpful In Meeting Your Financial Goals? - 0 views

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Chiki Smith

The Handbook of Cheating Changed The Way I Want My Marriage to Work - 1 views

My hubby and I were married for 2 years but we have been with each other for seven years before we got married. So, it was devastating when I discovered he is cheating on me with his co-worker. I r...

relationships advice

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Chiki Smith

The Handbook of Cheating Changed The Way I Want My Marriage to Work - 0 views

My hubby and I were married for 2 years but we have been with each other for seven years before we got married. So, it was devastating when I discovered he is cheating on me with his co-worker. I r...

relationships advice

started by Chiki Smith on 15 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Stacy King

BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math,... - 0 views

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    Brain Pop allows teachers to stream short videos related to their content area.
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    It is a educational website for all subjects. The website offers excellent information in the form of video and then as a follow up to what is taught a quiz to test comprehension is given.
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    Animated games, movies and activities that teach science, math, "social studies" and "language arts".
Anna Miller

Effective Make My Assignment Solutions - 0 views

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    For most of the students, homework and assignments are no less than any nightmare. Quite often, students throw their hands up in the air and yell " Who will Help to Make My Assignment?" or " Who will Do My Homework ?" Sometimes, students fall short of time and see their grades dropping due to huge project loads.
Barbara Lindsey

From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons - 0 views

  • The message of Wikipedia is not ā€œtrust authorityā€ but ā€œexplore authority.ā€ Authorized information is not beyond discussion on Wikipedia, information is authorized through discussion, and this discussion is available for the world to see and even participate in. This culture of discussion and participation is now available on any website with the emerging ā€œsecond layerā€ of the web through applications like Diigo which allow you to add notes and tags to any website anywhere.
  • Many faculty may hope to subvert the system, but a variety of social structures work against them.
  • Our physical structures were built prior to an age of infinite information, our social structures formed to serve different purposes than those needed now, and the cognitive structures we have developed along the way now struggle to grapple with the emerging possibilities.
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  • The physical structures are easiest to see, and are on prominent display in any large ā€œstate of the artā€ classroom. Rows of fixed chairs often face a stage or podium housing a computer from which the professor controls at least 786,432 points of light on a massive screen. Stadium seating, sound-absorbing panels and other acoustic technologies are designed to draw maximum attention to the professor at the front of the room. The ā€œmessageā€ of this environment is that to learn is to acquire information, that information is scarce and hard to find (that's why you have to come to this room to get it), that you should trust authority for good information, and that good information is beyond discussion (that's why the chairs don't move or turn toward one another). In short, it tells students to trust authority and follow along.
  • at the base of this ā€œinformation revolutionā€ are new ways of relating to one another, new forms of discourse, new ways of interacting, new kinds of groups, and new ways of sharing, trading, and collaborating. Wikis, blogs, tagging, social networking and other developments that fall under the ā€œWeb 2.0ā€ buzz are especially promising in this regard because they are inspired by a spirit of interactivity, participation, and collaboration. It is this ā€œspiritā€ of Web 2.0 which is important to education. The technology is secondary. This is a social revolution, not a technological one, and its most revolutionary aspect may be the ways in which it empowers us to rethink education and the teacher-student relationship in an almost limitless variety of ways.
  • Even in situations in which a spirit of exploration and freedom exist, where faculty are free to experiment to work beyond physical and social constraints, our cognitive habits often get in the way
  • Most of our assumptions about information are based on characteristics of information on paper.
  • Even something as simple as the hyperlink taught us that information can be in more than one place at one time
  • Blogging came along and taught us that anybody can be a creator of information.
  • Our old assumption that information is hard to find, is trumped by the realization that if we set up our hyper-personalized digital network effectively, information can find us.
  • Taken together, this new media environment demonstrates to us that the idea of learning as acquiring information is no longer a message we can afford to send to our students, and that we need to start redesigning our learning environments to address, leverage, and harness the new media environment now permeating our classrooms.
  • Nothing good will come of these technologies if we do not first confront the crisis of significance and bring relevance back into education. In some ways these technologies act as magnifiers.
  • Usually our courses are arranged around ā€œsubjects.ā€ Postman and Weingartner note that the notion of ā€œsubjectsā€ has the unwelcome effect of teaching our students that ā€œEnglish is not History and History is not Science and Science is not Art . . . and a subject is something you 'take' and, when you have taken it, you have 'had' it.ā€ Always aware of the hidden metaphors underlying our most basic assumptions, they suggest calling this ā€œthe Vaccination Theory of Educationā€ as students are led to believe that once they have ā€œhadā€ a subject they are immune to it and need not take it again.5
  • As an alternative, I like to think that we are not teaching subjects but subjectivities: ways of approaching, understanding, and interacting with the world. Subjectivities cannot be taught. They involve an introspective intellectual throw-down in the minds of students. Learning a new subjectivity is often painful because it almost always involves what psychologist Thomas Szasz referred to as ā€œan injury to one's self-esteem.ā€6 You have to unlearn perspectives that may have become central to your sense of self.
  • We can only create environments in which the practices and perspectives are nourished, encouraged, or inspired (and therefore continually practiced).
  • So while the course is set up much like a typical cultural anthropology course, moving through the same readings and topics, all of these learnings are ultimately focused around one big question, ā€œHow does the world work?ā€
  • Students are co-creators of every aspect of the simulation, and are asked to harness and leverage the new media environment to find information, theories, and tools we can use to answer our big question. Each student has a specific role and expertise to develop. A world map is superimposed on the class and each student is asked to become an expert on a specific aspect of the region in which they find themselves. Using this knowledge, they work in 15-20 small groups to create realistic cultures, step-by-step, as we go through each aspect of culture in class. This allows them to apply the knowledge they learn in the course and to recognize the ways different aspects of culture--economic, social, political, and religious practices and institutions--are integrated in a cultural system.
  • The World Simulation itself only takes 75-100 minutes and moves through 650 metaphorical years, 1450-2100. It is recorded by students on twenty digital video cameras and edited into one final "world history" video using clips from real world history to illustrate the correspondences. We watch the video together in the final weeks of the class, using it as a discussion starter for contemplating our world and our role in its future. By then it seems as if we have the whole world right before our eyes in one single classroom - profound cultural differences, profound economic differences, profound challenges for the future, and one humanity. We find ourselves not just as co-creators of a simulation, but as co-creators of the world itself, and the future is up to us.
  • I have often found myself writing content-based multiple-choice questions in a way that I hope will indicate that the student has mastered a new subjectivity or perspective. Of course, the results are not satisfactory. More importantly, these questions ask students to waste great amounts of mental energy memorizing content instead of exercising a new perspective in the pursuit of real and relevant questions.
  • When you watch somebody who is truly ā€œin it,ā€ somebody who has totally given themselves over to the learning process, or if you simply imagine those moments in which you were ā€œin itā€ yourself, you immediately recognize that learning expands far beyond the mere cognitive dimension. Many of these dimensions were mentioned in the issue precis, ā€œsuch as emotional and affective dimensions, capacities for risk-taking and uncertainty, creativity and invention,ā€ and the list goes on. How will we assess these? I do not have the answers, but a renewed and spirited dedication to the creation of authentic learning environments that leverage the new media environment demands that we address it.
  • The new media environment provides new opportunities for us to create a community of learners with our students seeking important and meaningful questions.
  • This is what I have called elsewhere, ā€œanti-teaching,ā€ in which the focus is not on providing answers to be memorized, but on creating a learning environment more conducive to producing the types of questions that ask students to challenge their taken-for-granted assumptions and see their own underlying biases.
Dean Mantz

Google For Educators - Web Search - 0 views

  • Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students - and we've heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.
Mitch Weisburgh

ZumLink.com | Create short URLs and summarize several URLs into one! - 5 views

shared by Mitch Weisburgh on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
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    shorten urls, and also combine multiple urls into one
Dean Mantz

IntelĀ® Education: Intel Teach Elements: Project-Based Approaches - 8 views

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Dean Mantz

Digital Stories :: Introduction - 12 views

  • This multimedia archive on digital storytelling shares the results of a multi-campus study of student learning and digital storytelling in humanities classrooms. Digital stories are multimedia projects combining text, images, audio and video files into short film clips.
Dean Mantz

100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration (Part 2) by Ozge Karaoglu - 7 views

  • Voxopop is a message board system which lets you create talk groups that you can talk, discuss and collaborate using your own voice.
  • EtherPad is a web based word processor that lets you work with others at the same time
  • Survs lets you create your online surveys collaborating with others in multi user accounts
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  • Mindmeister is an online collaborative mind mapping tool that you can brainstorm with others real-time.
  • TextFlow is a way to review document versions instantly to produce a final draft
  • Tgether allows you to communicate in small groups by emails.
  • StoryBirds are short and simple stories that connect you with others.
  • WebCanvas is a collaborative painting project.
  • AwesomeHighlighter
  • Protagonize is a community that writes collaborative, interactive fiction.
  • Mixbook is a site that lets you create picture books with others.
  • Thinkature places an instant message inside a visual workspace with voice chat.
  • Voicethread.
  • LucidChart is another way to collaborate on a document simultaneously.
  • built-in group chat that makes it easier for you to collaborate.
  • Wikispaces is the best way to create collaborative web pages that you can edit and share together
  • Senduit lets you upload your files and share them with private links with your team.
  • Stintio, you can create your own chat in seconds
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  • Yuuguu is an instant screen sharing and video conferencing
  • Voxli allows you to hold voice conferences online. You can have a voice chat up to 200 people.
  • Wridea is an online idea management service and a collection of brainstorming tools
  • store, manage,organize and share
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    Part 2 of 100 Web Tools to enhance collaboration
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