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Clif Mims

OER Commons - 0 views

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    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.
Walter Antoniotti

textbooksfree.org - 0 views

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    Collection of Internet Materials to enhance the movement to replace expensive paper textbooks with les expensive and often free Internet learning Materials.
Jennifer Lamkins

The New Heroes . For Teachers: Classroom Materials | PBS - 5 views

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    The For Teachers section includes free classroom materials written for students in grades 6-12 to deepen their understanding of the world and related social issues. These activities are intended to raise awareness of individuals who make a difference and show how problem solvers begin and carry out their work.
Ben Rimes

How the companies line up | Greenpeace International - 4 views

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    Comparison of how different computer and electronic manufacturers compare to each other when it comes to the amount of toxic materials, un-recyclable materials, and other waste that goes into making their electronics. Also includes a date of last update, to let people know how "fresh" the information is.
Ben Rimes

Apple - Environment - Life Cycle Impact - 3 views

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    Apple's life cycle of a computer and what types of materials go into their laptops. Includes a list of toxic materials that aren't used to make their computers, as well as a comparison of how much packaging is used today. Apple also includes what percentages of their manufacturing process goes to producing greenhouse gases over the life cycle of their equipment.
James Liu

Free TOEFL Study Material Online - 0 views

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    TOEFL Network helps you to prepare TOEFL test. We provide ibt TOEFL practices, teaching materials, high-quality TOEFL sample practices, sample questions & TOEFL listening practice
James Liu

BestMyTest TOEFL Course Introduction | TOEFL Study Material | Vimeo - 0 views

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    TOEFL Study Material - BestMyTest TOEFL® online course was not only developed for students to practice TOEFL® exam questions, but was also designed to help students improve their overall English language abilities.
Barbara Lindsey

Fluid Learning | the human network - 0 views

  • 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.
Mitch Weisburgh

Open SUNY : Instructor Home Page - 7 views

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    A free online course in how to use OER materials.
Ninja Essays

Top 10 HTML5 eLearning Authoring Tools | DigitalChalk Blog - 0 views

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    "As the eLearning industry continues to evolve, the educational system becomes dependent upon HTML5. Due to the fact that the curriculums are becoming more interactive than ever, nearly all students and teachers rely on their devices to when they want to access or present the studying materials. The developers from the eLearning industry constantly create and design new concepts that change the way people learn and teach. HTML5 is one of the main tools used by eLearning professionals, mainly because of its versatility and flexibility."
Jennifer Lamkins

HipHop Beyond Busta Rhymes - 4 views

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    groundbreaking 60-minute documentary that examines representations of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. It is a "loving critique" of certain disturbing developments in rap music culture from the point of view of a fan who challenges the art form's representations of masculinity. includes vignettes and educational materials on masculinity, gender violence, homophobia and media literacy
Dean Mantz

Instructional Software Resources Plagiarism Copyright - 0 views

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    Here is a list of resources ranging from tools to detect plagiarism to webquests explaining plagiarism to teaching materials.
Walter Antoniotti

Microsoft Word Internet Library - 0 views

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    Free learning materials for Word for all level of user.
Walter Antoniotti

Free Internet Libraries - 0 views

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    Collection of free Internet learning materials located in about fifty libraries.
anonymous

Concord.org - Software - 0 views

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    Free model-based learning resources and software We are delighted to be able to offer a growing collection of free software and student materials that use this software. Finding it is a bit of a treasure hunt. Sorry. The software is being developed in different projects, so we have not collected it all in one place. The following describes the major places to look. * Three powerful modeling environments * Activity authoring * Algebra interactives * Sustainable development education * VideoPaper builder * License and copyright You may also wish to visit our complete Software Download Center.
Sarah Hanawald

Read The Words - 1 views

  • What is ReadTheWords.com? ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that assists people with written material. We do this by using TTS Technology, or Text To Speech Technology. Users of our service can generate a clear sounding audio file from almost any written material. We generate a voice that reads the words out loud, that you request us to read.
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    Text to voice.
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    Interesting site that reads text to you in a remarkably un-annoying voice. Special educators might like this one.
drew polly

Langwitches » Smartboard Training Workshop - 0 views

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    Smartboard training materials
drew polly

National School Reform Faculty - 0 views

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    Materials and protocols for teachers from the National School Reform Faculty.
Dean Mantz

ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Letter Generator - 0 views

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    Interactive website that explains how to properly write letters for mailing.
Walter Antoniotti

Excel Internet Library - 0 views

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    Free Internet MS Excel learning materials grouped as follows. 1) Beginners 2) Intermediate 3) Advanced 4) Business 5) Statistics 6) Educators 7) blogs 8) Free Templates 8)
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