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Power Searching with Google is back - Inside Search - 0 views

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    "If you missed Power Searching with Google a few months ago or were unable to complete the course the first time around, now's your chance to sign up again for our free online course that aims to empower our users with the tools and knowledge to find what they're looking for more quickly and easily. The community-based course features six 50-minute classes along with interactive activities and the opportunity to hear from search experts and Googlers about how search works. Beginning September 24, you can take the classes over a two-week period, share what you learn with other students in a community forum, and complete the course assessments to earn a certificate of completion. "
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Virtual Choir 3: Water Night - Eric Whitacre - 0 views

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    Virtual Choir 3, 'Water Night', received 3746 videos from 73 countries around the world and launched on April 2nd 2012 at a live event at Lincoln Center, webcast on Lincoln Center Website, and revealed online. The directors, Cake, developed creative solutions for this volume of material to a brief, working closely together with Eric to develop the final film inspired by the Virtual Choir community and the text from Water Night by Octavio Paz:
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Stories from a School Makerspace, #1 (The Prototype Process) - The Disruption Department - 0 views

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    "This is the first installment in a series of reflections from our pilot makerspace at Grand Center Arts Academy in St. Louis.  The point is to not only document the process so we can improve when we go to full-time programming in August, but also to share the process with others who might want to try catalyzing a Makerspace at their school or community center".)  These thoughts may be random, many times not chronological, but when taken as an opus, provide a good deal of insight into how we've learned about how a makerspace works."
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How Learning Spaces Reflect Our View of Children | DMLcentral - 0 views

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    Many school buildings are in a terrible state. Even in seemingly advanced western nations many old schools resemble architectural catastrophes that, along with post-war urban tower blocks and the shopping malls of the 1950s, have largely been left to the crumble of rust. In the last few years, though, there has been a renaissance in school building design based on a reimagining of learning spaces (pdf) that has mirrored the advance in our understandings of education-oriented information and communication technologies (ICT)
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About Interactive Communications and Simulations - 0 views

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    Place Out Of Time is a simulation of a trial, where students play guests who come from a range of places and times throughout history to discuss some of the great issues of humankind. Our trial takes place (virtually) at the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. Place Out of Time is a writing intensive project for middle and high school students, meant to draw upon their sense of play and the hook of having an audience for their ideas to engage them in putting a twist on the study of history. Student participants and university mentors debate issues and perspectives in character, and move from reading and studying about their characters to a series of opportunities for original research--both historical and creative--as they decide what their character would say about issues that took place in places far distant (in time and geography) from their lives.
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LCstudentwiki - The Right Tools (students) - 1 views

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    Matrix of Web 2.0 Tools.  This wiki breaks down tools into categories of write, create, present, collaborate, communicate online, and more.
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A Hand-Cranked Tablet Unveiled at CES - Technology Review - 0 views

  • More than 50 new tablet computers are expected to debut at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. But only one is meant for people in the poorest regions of the world, and comes with a hand crank as an accessory. Known as the XO 3.0, the rugged green and white device has an eight-inch screen and was designed by the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child, which in 2008 launched the XO laptop, a device for people who are normally far from the minds of most computing companies. At a press preview held before the official opening of CES on Tuesday, OLPC's chief technology officer, Edward McNierney, told Technology Review that the new device could be used by children as young as five. "We're trying to provide a low-power, low-cost environment for education," he said. "One of the things we're working on now is software experiments to see if children in completely illiterate communities, who don't go to school, can teach themselves to read."
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    More than 50 new tablet computers are expected to debut at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. But only one is meant for people in the poorest regions of the world, and comes with a hand crank as an accessory. Known as the XO 3.0, the rugged green and white device has an eight-inch screen and was designed by the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child, which in 2008 launched the XO laptop, a device for people who are normally far from the minds of most computing companies. At a press preview held before the official opening of CES on Tuesday, OLPC's chief technology officer, Edward McNierney, told Technology Review that the new device could be used by children as young as five.
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Creativity in Teaching: Ideas for Comic Strips (Part 1) - PrometheanPlanet - 0 views

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    I've made them because sometimes I need to make a custom image to illustrate a specific idea when I'm writing about a topic. During this process, I've found some simple tools that I've used to create an illustration with a specific scene, add characters and props, and even write captions for characters. Here's one I made trying to explain an idea about formative assessment:
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