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Martin Burrett

SetupSketchyPhysics3.2-Dec2.exe - sketchyphysics - SketchyPhysics 3.2 windows installer... - 41 views

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google sketchup google 3d model physics download plugin

shared by Martin Burrett on 09 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 09 Jul 11
     
    A superb plugin for Google Sketchup that brings physics into your models. You will be amazed what you and your class will learn with this tool. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
Tracy Tuten

A guide to online educational resources. - NYTimes.com - 90 views

www.nytimes.com/...18openbox-t.html

education NYTimes guide DE courses

shared by Tracy Tuten on 22 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Richard Ludlow started the nonprofit Academic Earth two years ago after M.I.T.'s OpenCourseWare helped him pass linear algebra as a Yale undergraduate. His site offers the courses of 10 elite universities — 130 full courses and more than 3,500 video lectures. Viewers can turn the tables on professors and grade courses. Other guidance includes "Editor's Picks" and "Playlists," lectures selected around a theme like "First Day of Freshman Year" and "You Are What You Eat."
  • Connexions, started at Rice University 10 years ago, debundles education for the D.I.Y. learner. Anyone can write a "module," the term for instructional material that can be a single sentence or 1,000 pages. Connexions hosts more than 16,000 modules that make up almost 1,000 "collections." A collection might be, say, an algebra textbook or statistics course.
  • Daniel Colman is a curator of sorts. He sifts through the vast amount of free courses, movies and books offered online to find what he considers the very best in content and production value. Then he features them on Open Culture, the Web site he founded in 2006. It's a task in keeping with his mission as associate dean and director of Stanford's continuing education program.
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  • At last count, the site had 2,700 audio and video lectures from more than 25 universities; 268 audio books; and 105 e-books. Dr. Colman says he looks for lectures that "take ideas and make them come to life." And so you can learn 37 languages on Open Culture, or stream Jane Austen audio books, Hitchcock films and a John Hopkins biology lecture.
  • Why pay for test prep? M.I.T. OpenCourseWare has culled introductory courses in physics, calculus and biology, along with problem sets and labs, to help students prep for the Advanced Placement exams. (Not to miss an opportunity, there’s a link to the admissions office.)
  • Sydney Lacey on 22 Apr 10
     
    Thousands of pieces of free educational material - videos and podcasts of lectures, syllabuses, entire textbooks - have been posted in the name of the open courseware movement. But how to make sense of it all? Businesses, social entrepreneurs and "edupunks," envisioning a tuition-free world untethered by classrooms, have created Web sites to help navigate the mind-boggling volume of content. Some sites tweak traditional pedagogy; others aggregate, Hulu-style.
  • Tracy Tuten on 23 Apr 10
     
    Amazing online resources for education
meldar

Strategies for online reading comprehension - 92 views

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comprehension

shared by meldar on 01 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • We traditionally think of reading in terms of sounding out words, understanding the meaning of those words, and putting those words into some contextual understanding.
  • If the kind of text our students are encountering in these online travels is embedded with so many links and media, and if those texts are connected to other associated pages (with even more links and media), hosted by who-knows-whom, the act of reading online quickly becomes an act of hunting for treasure, with red herrings all over the place that can easily divert one’s attention.
  • As educators, we need to take a closer look at what online reading is all about and think about how we can help our students not only navigate with comprehension but also understand the underlying structure of this world.
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  • How is traditional, in-class reading different from online reading?
  • to begin addressing the hyper-reading of young people might start with the process of elimination, by helping readers remove the clutter on the web pages they encounter.
  • Colorado State University offers a useful guide to reading on the web. While it is aimed at college students, much of the information is pertinent to readers of all ages and could easily be part of lessons in the classroom.
  • Synthesize online reading into meaningful chunks of information.
  • Use a reader’s ability to effectively scan a page, as opposed to reading every word.
  • Avoid distractions as much as necessary.
  • Understand the value of a hyperlink before you click the link.
  • Navigate a path from one page in a way that is clear and logical. This is easier said than done, since few of us create physical paths of our navigation
Tricia Rodriguez

Education Week: Publishers Turn to Cloud Computing to Offer Digital Content - 47 views

www.edweek.org/...01cloud.h05.html

education

shared by Tricia Rodriguez on 12 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • struggling to strike a balance between print and digital curricula for students, textbook publishers are taking to the cloud to house new digital resources and curricula.
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 12 Nov 11
       
      Just as with "hybrid education" schools must find a way to balance the types of resources we are providing our students. Funding is key here as well as the consideration of sustainability. 
  • cloud computing
  • dip their toes into
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  • lack of resources
  • nformation and power available from servers hosted by a separate, off-site entity
  • bandwidth and hardware support,
  • cloud-based textbook is stored on the Internet by servers not operated by school districts themselves
  • Web 2.0 forma
  • start discussions with each other about the content, complete interactive assessments and activities, and search Google or Wikipedia for further information.
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 12 Nov 11
       
      Students are able to interact with the content and not act as passive consumers. This is key as the classroom struggles to catch up with the true status of society.
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    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 12 Nov 11
       
      In actuality, this publishers has provided a CMS embedded with their curriculum. This is probably where text-book providers will need to move to in order to stay competitive. 
  • upgraded its online bandwidth
Jac Londe

google-blockly - A visual programming language - Google Project Hosting - 2 views

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programming blockly visual scratch learning code

shared by Jac Londe on 09 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming language. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required.
Adrienne Michetti

2009 Horizon Report » Technologies to Watch - 0 views

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shared by Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Now, many common devices can automatically determine and record their own precise location and can save that data along with captured media (like photographs) or can transmit it to web-based applications for a host of uses.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      This is pretty amazing, though slightly scary.
  • a collection of technologies that are used to configure and manage the ways in which one views and uses the Internet.
  • imbuing ordinary objects with the ability to recognize their physical location and respond appropriately, or to connect with other objects or information.
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  • mobiles firmly in the near-term horizon as the capabilities of phones have continued to develop rapidly. Innovations over the last year have brought third-party applications, easy GPS, and intuitive interfaces to mobile devices, blurring the boundary between phone and computer.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      You'd be a silly or naive educator to not make mobile use part of your classroom learning in the near future - if you're not already.
Dimitris Tzouris

View2gether - Welcome to Social Viewing - 0 views

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view2gether video social web2.0

shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Dimitris Tzouris on 24 Aug 09
     
    Social video viewing with group chat.
  • Dimitris Tzouris on 24 Aug 09
     
    Good for social / group viewing of videos hosted on popular websites.
Amy Burns

WeVideo - Collaborative Online Video Editor in the Cloud - 114 views

www.wevideo.com

video editing vídeo web2.0 videoediting tools editing wevideo editor

shared by Amy Burns on 24 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 24 Sep 11
     
    This is a superb collaborative video editing suite. You and your class can invite each other as collaborators. It has a great range of tools and toys to make some great movies. Host your video on the site or export to YouTube or Vimeo. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams
  • Amy Burns on 07 Dec 12
     
    Offers a lite or VERY reasonably priced education account.
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