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Beth Panitz

Global Connections: My PLN Story | Powerful Learning Practice - 45 views

plpnetwork.com/...lobal-connections-my-pln-story

PLN lifelong learning

shared by Beth Panitz on 22 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Beth Panitz on 22 Jun 11
     
    Personal Learning Networks for Teachers
Ruth Howard

Twitter for Newsrooms - Twitter Media - 26 views

media.twitter.com/newsrooms

Twitter journalism newsroom media education

shared by Ruth Howard on 30 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 30 Jun 11
     
    Twitter guide by Twitter for journos but replace "newsroom" with "classroom" and you might connect a few more global learners! X
Pam Jeffrey

Digitally Speaking / Blogging - 169 views

digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Blogging

web 2.0 blog

shared by Pam Jeffrey on 18 Oct 09 - Cached

  • Using Feed Readers

     

    Feed readers are probably the most important digital tool for today's learner because they make sifting through the amazing amount of content added to the Internet easy.  Also known as aggregators, feed readers are free tools that can automatically check nearly any website for new content dozens of times a day---saving ridiculous amounts of time and customizing learning experiences for anyone. 

     

    Imagine never having to go hunting for new information from your favorite sources again.  Learning goes from a frustrating search through thousands of marginal links written by questionable characters to quickly browsing the thoughts of writers that you trust, respect and enjoy.

     

    Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?

     

    It's not!  Here's a Commoncraft tutorial explaining RSS Feeds in Plain English:

     

    Feed readers can quickly and easily support blogging in the classroom, allowing teachers to provide students with ready access to age-appropriate sites of interest that are connected to the curriculum.  By collecting sites in advance and organizing them with a feed reader, teachers can make accessing information manageable for their students. 

    Here are several examples of feed readers in action:

     

    Student Blogs

    http://www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/20982438

     

     

    This feed list includes several elementary, middle and high school blogs that students can explore during silent reading or while online at home.

     

     

    Current Events 

    http://www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/16714925

     

    This feed list includes links to several news websites that cover topics that are a part of one teacher's required social studies curriculum. 

     

    Global Warming

    http://www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/22534539

    Used specifically as a part of one classroom project, this feed list contains information related to global warming that students can use as a starting point for individual research. 

     

    While there are literally dozens of different feed reader programs to choose from (Bloglines and Google Reader are two biggies), Pageflakes is a favorite of many educators because it has a visual layout that is easy to read and interesting to look at.  It is also free and web-based.  That means that users can check accounts from any computer with an Internet connection.  Finally, Pageflakes makes it quick and easy to add new websites to a growing feed list—and to get rid of any websites that users are no longer interested in.

    What's even better:  Pageflakes has been developing a teacher version of their tool just for us that includes an online grade tracker, a task list and a built in writing tutor.  As Pageflakes works to perfect its teacher product, this might become one of the first kid-friendly feed readers on the market. Teacher Pageflakes users can actually blog and create a discussion forum directly in their feed reader---making an all-in-one digital home for students. 

     

    For more information about the teacher version of Pageflakes, check out this review:

     

    http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/2008/02/pageflakes-for.html

     

     

    For more information on using feed readers to organize and manage information, check out this handout: 

  • Meredith Stewart on 18 Oct 09
     
    Checklist to use before embarking on a blogging project with students
Gil Anspacher

TakingITGlobal - For Educators / TIGed - 70 views

www.tigweb.org/tiged

shared by Gil Anspacher on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Gil Anspacher on 27 Oct 11
     
    "Welcome to TakingITGlobal for Educators! Watch our video above to explore the programs we offer to help your students understand and act on the world's greatest challenges. We'll help you connect your classroom to the world!"
  • Gil Anspacher on 27 Oct 11
     
    This looks like a great site for connecting students globally in a safe environment. The focus is on seeking solutions to issues in the world. TakingITGlobal has a strong history of success.
Derek Allison

Teaching With Documents - US History - 102 views

www.archives.gov/...lessons

socialstudies history resource ushistory primarysource

shared by Derek Allison on 01 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Teaching With Documents: Lesson Plans
  • This section contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.
Tricia Hunt

How to Teach with Technology: Social Studies | Edutopia - 74 views

www.edutopia.org/eration-social-studies-lessons

technology edutopia socialstudies web2.0 education interactive

shared by Tricia Hunt on 03 Sep 13 - Cached
    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 03 Sep 13
       
      I find that having a "back channel" conversation during a presentation to actually do the opposite.  I am so busy commenting on what was just presented that I miss what is being talked about next.
  • "I think it's a good idea to use Skype (10) for learning about other states and countries.
    • Tricia Hunt
      Tricia Hunt on 03 Sep 13
       
      I like the idea of Skyping with people from other countries.  I could get the kids to come up with a list of questions first.  My biggest question is HOW do I connect/find someone from another country?
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  • For more information on Lykowski's Global Explorers Project (including rubrics and other resources), go to Global Explorers (13).
  • FreePoverty is a geography game that presents you with a city or landmark. You have a short amount of time (5-10 seconds) to locate it on a map. The closer you are to the target, the more cups of water are donated to people in need around the world. (FreePoverty is seeking a nonprofit organization to work with to help turn the site's revenues into water donations.)
Kelvin Thompson

A Glossary to DEMYSTIFY the jargon of the online world | The Edublogger - 54 views

theedublogger.com/...the-jargon-of-the-online-world

eme5050 blog blogging edublogs PLN education K12 connecting primer glossary introduction

shared by Kelvin Thompson on 14 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The purpose of tagging is to help make it easier for the content to be easily found.
  • Blogs, wikis, podcasting, video sharing websites (e.g. YouTube and Vimeo), photosharing websites (e.g. Flickr and Picasa), social networking sites (e.g. FaceBook, Twitter) are all examples of Web 2.0 technologies.
  • Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are all about using web tools such as blogs, wiki, twitter, facebook to create connection with others which extend our learning, increases our reflection while enabling us to learn together as part of a global community.
  • Kelvin Thompson on 14 Aug 10
     
    Lengthy, substantive piece on blogging for educators, starting from "what is a blog," continuing through Web2.0 tools, and ending with Personal Learning Networks. Something for everyone here.
Mark McDonough

Diigo 101 - Student Learning with Diigo - 110 views

sites.google.com/...introduction-to-diigo

diigoproject diigo bookmarking research tools web2.0

shared by Mark McDonough on 17 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Diigo is much more than a simple web annotation or social bookmarking tool. It is an online research and collaborative research tool that integrates tags, digital highlights, interactive sticky notes, captured snapshots, and group-based collaboration, allowing a whole new process of online information management, learning, and teaching in the 21st Century.
    • terenceonline
      terenceonline on 17 Feb 11
       
      Good Summary of Diigo
  • My Network is a new Diigo social features that adds to the product's strength. My Network creates a "content-centric social network," in which people are connected by what they clip, tag, and highlight. Users will be able to collaborate with other users based not on who is a friend to whom, but rather by who is interested in what. My network delivers web content specifically tailored to a user interests and shows users with similar interest. Participation in a larger network is made possible with its community features that connects users with people with common interests; thus, building global communities around topics and knowledge, tags, and sites.
  • Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other Stuff (Diigo) is a powerful free social bookmarking website with annotating capabilities.
    • Mark McDonough
      Mark McDonough on 23 Jun 12
       
      Bold the first letters of the Diigo acronym: Digest, Internet, Information, ...
  • terenceonline on 17 Feb 11
     
    Diigo is much more than a simple web annotation or social bookmarking tool. It is an online research and collaborative research tool that integrates tags, digital highlights, interactive sticky notes, captured snapshots, and group-based collaboration, allowing a whole new process of online information management, learning, and teaching in the 21st Century. 
  • Sharon Cleaveland on 03 Apr 12
     
    This is a great resource on Diigo and how to use.
A Gardner

We Must Help Students Connect and Collect | Powerful Learning Practice - 124 views

plpnetwork.com/...p-students-connect-and-collect

21stcenturylearning teaching reform learning students technology web2.0 resources

shared by A Gardner on 16 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • It started a discussion in class about how having an audience (in this case, a global audience) changes the way we write.
Jennie Snyder

Design Thinking in Schools: An Emerging Movement Building Creative Confidence in our Yo... - 46 views

gettingsmart.com/...ding-creative-confidence-youth

creativity designthinking design education innovation

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  • design thinking is a set of tools, methods, and processes by which we develop new answers for challenges, big and small.
  • Through applying design thinking to challenges, we learn to define problems, understand needs and constraints, brainstorm innovative solutions, and seek and incorporate feedback about our ideas in order to continually make them better. The more we apply design thinking to the challenges we see, the deeper we strengthen the belief in our ability to generate creative ideas and make positive change happen in the world.
  • If you are interested in finding a program or resources to help integrate design thinking in your school, the directory offers a great set of organizations already listed for inspiration and new connections.
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  • We are living in an age of increased complexity, and are facing global challenges at an unprecedented scale. The nature of connectivity, interactivity, and information is changing at lightening speed. We need to enable a generation of leaders who believe they can make a difference in the world around them, because we need this generation to build new systems and rebuild declining ones. We need them to be great collaborators, great communicators, and great innovators.
  • As we help today’s students build their foundation of core academic knowledge and skills, we also need to look at the ways we are helping our youth build their confidence in their abilities to create.
Julie Bisher

ePals Global Community - 39 views

en.community.epals.com/...children-around-the-world.aspx

self awareness and connection

shared by Julie Bisher on 14 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Julie Bisher on 14 Jul 12
     
    Great project for building self awareness and confidence as well as getting an opportunity for self-expression; great way to begin a connection with epals
Nigel Coutts

Why build a Personal Learning Network? - 51 views

thelearnersway.net/...ld-a-personal-learning-network

PLN learning education Twitter

shared by Nigel Coutts on 20 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 20 Sep 15
     
    'Inside the Black Box' was written by Black and William in 1998 and in it they describe the classroom as a black box with inputs and outputs but what occurred inside was a mystery. For many teachers the reality has been that what occurs in their classroom has been both private and isolating, a matter between the teacher and his or her students but a task largely tackled alone. But this isolationist view is, in the age of the social media and networking increasingly challenged and more and more teachers are finding their voice, sharing their ideas and gaining valuable insights from a global community of connected educators.
laeasu

The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies - 53 views

www.ncte.org/...21stcentdefinition

literacy 21stCenturySkills technology standards

shared by laeasu on 08 Dec 15 - Cached
    • laeasu
      laeasu on 08 Dec 15
       
      Which of these practices do you do in college and in your life?
  • Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology;Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought;Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes;Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information;Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts;Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments.
pjimison

Technology is Too Powerful | infuselearning - 38 views

www.infuselearning.com/?p=460

shared by pjimison on 25 Oct 13 - Cached
  • We want to: promote educational change through empowering teachers and bringing students to the center of the learning conversation through simple, easy to use technology.
  • Technology is too powerful to not allow teachers to provide unique and differentiated learning opportunities and effective questions to meet the variety of students in today’s classrooms.
  • Technology is too powerful to not provide accessibility features that fill in the gaps where a different learning style or special need or other exceptionality would typically or potentially impede learning.
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  • Technology is too powerful to be confined to the walls of one classroom and not connect and reach a global audience and link learners across oceans and cultural differences and languages.
  • Technology is too powerful to continue in a failed system of bubble sheets and a single “right” answer; our kids deserve better systems of teaching and learning.
  • Technology is too powerful to not be leveraged for the benefit of our students.
  • pjimison on 25 Oct 13
     
    I love their vision - to promote educational change through empowering teachers and bringing students to the center of the learning conversation through simple, easy to use technology. Amen?!
anonymous

Why Schools Must Move Beyond One-to-One Computing | November Learning - 139 views

novemberlearning.com/...ve-beyond-one-to-one-computing

shared by anonymous on 04 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • I’m concerned that most one-to-one implementation strategies are based on the new tool as the focus of the program. Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources.
    • Michael Stocks
      Michael Stocks on 03 Mar 14
       
      I don't think this idea applies to just 1 to 1 but many other school implementations.
    • DON PASSENANT
      DON PASSENANT on 18 Jul 14
       
      It is not the devices but the inability to create and implement standards that lead to 21st century skills.  Too much buying stuff without expert advice and guidance.
  • Then, teachers are instructed to go! But go where?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 13 Jul 15
       
      VISION first! You have the device. You know how to access some cool interactive tools. But now what? This is the key!!
  • I believe every student must have 24-7 access to the internet.
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  • it is a simplistic and short- sighted phrase that suggests if every student had a device and if every teacher were trained to use these devices, then student learning would rise automatically.
  • Adding a digital device to the classroom without a fundamental change in the culture of teaching and learning will not lead to significant improvement.
  • Let’s drop the phrase “one-to-one” and refer instead to “one-to- world.”
  • The planning considerations now evolve from questions about technical capacity to a vision of limitless opportunities for learning.
  • As soon as you shift from “one- to-one” to “one-to-world,” it changes the focus of staff development from technical training to understanding how to design assignments that are more empowering—and engage students in a learning community with 24-hour support
  • Perhaps the weakest area of the typical one-to-one computing plan is the complete absence of leadership development for the administrative team
  • Craft a clear vision of connecting all students to the world’s learning resources.
  • Model the actions and behaviors they wish to see in their schools.
  • Support the design of an ongoing and embedded staff development program that focuses on pedagogy as much as technology.
  • Move in to the role of systems analyst to ensure that digital literacy is aligned with standards.
  • Ensure that technology is seen not as another initiative, but as integral to curriculum.
  • support risk- taking teachers
  • creating cohorts of teachers across disciplines and grades who are working on innovative concepts
  • Mathtrain.TV.
  • how much responsibility of learning can we shift to our students
  • How can we build capacity for all of our teachers to share best practices with colleagues in their school and around the world?
  • How can we engage parents in new ways?
  • How can we give students authentic work from around the world to prepare each of them to expand their personal boundaries of what they can accomplish?
  • publishing their work to a global audience.
Phil Higgins

TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve. - 40 views

www.tigweb.org

global collaboration activism education youth web2.0

shared by Phil Higgins on 12 Aug 10 - Cached
    • Phil Higgins
      Phil Higgins on 12 Aug 10
       
      This seems like it can be a great way to harness the youth's appetite for Web 2.0. I am seeking a collaboration project with another school in some other part of the world other than the United States. I would like to group my students on Diigo with student at another school to work on something together. Anyone interested?
  • Ryan Kinnett on 13 Aug 10
     
    Hi Phil, Not sure if you want to use the environment or sustainability as theme, but Caretakers of the Environment International (CEI) partners are often seeking ongoing collaboration with environmental projects that students can share. It might take some digging, but I suggest going to http://www.caretakers4all.org, click on some of the national branch links and try connecting with people. I coordinate a group from Salem, OR and we have partners in Chicago and NY. Good luck!
Rob Kovacs

Nine Reasons to Twitter in Schools - 97 views

www.techlearning.com/...17340

twitter

shared by Rob Kovacs on 15 Oct 10 - No Cached
    • Rob Kovacs
      Rob Kovacs on 15 Oct 10
       
      Virtual staffroom - numbers Global connections Reflective practice and support Gather ideas/opinions Trends and "latest/greatest" Networked professional development Quality of information? Disciplined writing
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