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Mary Beth Messner

5 Fantastic Ways to Use Wallwisher in the Classroom - SimpleK12 - 138 views

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Wallwisher Student Engagement Web 2.0 Speeches Writing Tools Brainstorming Announcements

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 27 Aug 10 - Cached
  • 5 fantastic ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom: Writing activities – Wallwisher has a 160 character limit for each comment/post that you leave on the wall. Which is, in a way, a good thing! It allows for short story/collaborative projects, essay plans, note-taking, memos, poems, etc… the writing possibilities are endless! Brainstorming activities – This is a great ice breaker for the beginning of class! And better yet, it’s a great way to post a homework assignment/food for thought for that evening and then discuss it the next day. Vocabulary/Grammar Activities – You could easily use Wallwisher for practicing tenses, definitions, vocabulary matching (you can even use audio or video!), or even find a theme and have the students fill the sticky notes with their ideas for the vocabulary theme! Speaking activities – I was never one to love speaking in front of people so Wallwisher is a great way to create short speaking activities to help students feel more comfortable in front of a group of people. These activities could be to talk about a photo or video for X minutes, create a story based upon X number of photos, or even put debate topics on a sticky note for the student to create. Notifications – That is the original thought, right? You could use Wallwisher for orientation information, classroom rules, student profiles, daily/weekly plan, or even fun messages to other students who might be out sick or on trips with their families.
anonymous

BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math,... - 31 views

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media teaching education students

shared by anonymous on 21 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Mary Mjelde on 21 Oct 10
     
    This website has great animations (fun too!) that cover a wide range of topics. You can do a free 5 day trial and would then need to subscribe to it. I think it is worth it!
Bill Genereux

Oh My Gosh, It's a Bosch Lesson Plan: Art History for Kids - KinderArt - 101 views

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kids books art fun surrealism lesson lessonplans

shared by Bill Genereux on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Bill Genereux on 04 Oct 10
     
    Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch
Martin Burrett

Pinball - Thinking tools - 76 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 19 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Lynn on 19 Oct 10
     
    PINBALL is here to help you kick start new ideas, to get your thoughts flowing freely, and to develop your creative talents. Bounce your ideas around by using these fun and simple tools, and who knows what ideas might pop up.
  • Martin Burrett on 29 Oct 11
     
    A collection of BBC tools for students to organising thoughts, sparking ideas and planning ahead. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Marc Patton

Blabberize.com - Got a picture? Blabberize it! - 82 views

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Teaching_Tools Fun! Art Language_Arts

shared by Marc Patton on 24 Nov 10 - Cached
  • G L on 25 Aug 11
     
    blabber voki it picture talk talking pln
  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    a site that is similar to Jib Jab where you can animate a picture with your voice
Mr. Stanley

Teaching Document Design, Not Formatting Requirements - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of H... - 69 views

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design teaching formatting document education publishing

shared by Mr. Stanley on 03 Dec 10 - No Cached
    • LuAnne Holder
      LuAnne Holder on 03 Dec 10
       
      This would be a great activity for introductions.
  • One of my colleagues asks her students to sketch their names using a typeface that conveys something about themselves
  • One thing I do is bring in the style manuals from different local companies and show students how each company expects different things
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  • Students in all disciplines are more than capable of producing and analyzing visual work in amazingly rich and complex ways.
  • many faculty members continue to specify detailed formatting requirements for student writing.
  • Your paper must be double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman, with one-inch margins.
  • Such draconian formatting requirements stifle students’ creativity and cut off any critical thinking about what should be a crucial part of any writing-intensive classroom, namely visual design.
  • Teaching Document Design, Not Formatting Requirements
  • well-meaning and thoughtful teachers establish hard and fast formatting rules that may make their lives easier, but do a disservice to their students.
  • By making these requirements, we are telling them not to think critically—or even at all—about the visual layout of their documents.
  • We are telling them we value conformity over creativity, practicality over originality, our needs over theirs.
  • It all starts with students recognizing that design is a part of what they do when they write.
  • the rules we give our students should be negotiable, and in order for them to be negotiable, we need to talk to our students about those rules, why they exist, what the consequences of breaking or following them are, and so on.
  • Your paper should be readable and take into consideration the needs of your audience.  Most importantly, though, you should have fun and be creative with your design.
  • Mr. Stanley on 05 Dec 10
     
    Teachers need to allow their students more room to creatively use visual design, and at the same time, teach students to be aware. Forcing students to follow exact formatting requirements is counterproductive.
Ed Webb

The Ed Techie: Who are the reality instructors now? - 0 views

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techie opinion higher-ed martin weller

shared by Ed Webb on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
  • People from the commercial sector who believe they have some truth to reveal to the misguided people in higher education see themselves very much in the role of what Saul Bellow terms 'Reality Instructors.' The reality instructor is referenced in the marvellous Herzog, ("Moses was irresistible to a man like Simkin who loved to pity and to poke fun at the same time. He was a Reality-Instructor. Many such. I bring them out") but the character is a constant theme in Bellow's novels. It is usually manifest in a male, street-wise character who delights in teaching the main, intellectual character some truths about the 'real world'. But it's worth pointing out that the main character is aware of this, enjoys it, and that these truths are rarely as valuable and as robust as the reality-instructor believes.
  • Instead of universities being told how to operate in a tough financial climate, maybe businesses should be coming to them and asking 'you have managed to maintain a viable business and role in society for hundreds of years. You have adapted without completing ruining your entire system, and, ahem, throwing the world into a deep crisis. How do you do it?'
  • Ed Webb on 10 Mar 09
     
    Beautifully put.
Ed Webb

Imagining College Without Grades :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for N... - 0 views

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education grading

shared by Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09 - Cached
  • A professor who tells his students that “grades are the death of composition.” Another said: “Grades create a facade of coherence.”
    • Dana Huff
      Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
       
      Interesting. I agree. I wish that we didn't have to grade student writing and could just give written or oral feedback. I love the "facade of coherence" comment.
  • politically impossible
    • Dana Huff
      Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
       
      Key words. Grading is political.
  • grades were squelching intellectual curiosity.
    • Dana Huff
      Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
       
      Totally true in more places than prestigious law schools
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  • growing use of e-portfolios
    • Dana Huff
      Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
       
      I like portfolios for demonstrating learning, but I haven't learned how to effectively integrate them into my own classroom.
  • most professors and students are much more likely to complain about grading than to praise its accuracy or value.
    • Dana Huff
      Dana Huff on 28 Jan 09
       
      Amen!
  • Done right, she said, eliminating grades promotes rigor.
  • the elimination of grades — if they are replaced with narrative evaluations, rubrics, and clear learning goals — results in more accountability and better ways for a colleges to measure the success not only of students but of its academic programs.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      This strikes me intuitively as correct. Grades are a substitute for thoughful assessment of learning outcomes, not an equivalent to it.
  • the idea of consistent and clear grading just doesn’t reflect the mobility of students
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      Absolutely. My own institution, Dickinson College, sends ~70% of its students abroad for at least a semester, and most often a year. I have experience in education in different national contexts, and grading conventions simply do not translate.
  • ending grades can mean much more work for both students and faculty members.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      Aye, there's the rub. Those of us who are serious about learning - students and faculty - have to recognize that better learning is more work. On the other hand, it's more fun, too.
  • When faculty members are providing written, detailed analyses of multiple course objectives and are also — for majors — relating performance to larger goals for the major, so much more is taking place she said, than in a letter grade.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      Yes. Grades are a terrible assessment tool.
  • the training that colleges provide to professors before they start producing narrative evaluations, and officials of the no-grades colleges all said that training was extensive, and that faculty members needed mentors as they started out.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      And how much training do faculty get before they start handing out grades?
  • they end up favoring the evaluation system
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Jan 09
       
      This is the point. Users have to be educated in the advantages of the system - once they have been, they are likely to favor it over grading.
Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G)

The DO Lectures | 4th - 8th September 2008 - 0 views

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lectures do doers speakers inspire change

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  • Terry Elliott on 21 Dec 08
     
    TED channelled through Wales. Awesome talks. Great sense. Fun.
  • Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G) on 22 Dec 08
     
    Held on 4th - 8th September 2008, The DO lectures will be about getting a handful of speakers down here in the hope that they may inspire you to do something. To give you the tools and the desire to change the things you care about.
Stein Brunvand

SqoolTools: Free Eucational Resources that Make Learning Fun - 0 views

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virtual learning environments virtual classrooms

shared by Stein Brunvand on 18 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Stein Brunvand on 18 Mar 09
     
    This is another virtual learning environment tool for k12 educators to use to create an online learning classroom for their students.
Marge Runkle

13 Fantastic and Fun Image Generators - 1 views

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  • Marge Runkle on 23 Aug 09
     
    Whether you're artistically inclined or not, sometimes you just need to whip up an illustrative or entertaining image for a blog post or presentation. The tools
Ed Webb

Photos of mullets, leotards return to haunt online by AP: Yahoo! Tech - 0 views

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online identity photos facebook

shared by Ed Webb on 20 Sep 09 - Cached
  • But some people do care, especially when someone else has uploaded an unflattering photo or video. Los Angeles screenwriter Mike Bender, who runs AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com devoted to such photos from the past, said a woman who shared a family photo later wrote to say that she was drunk when she submitted it and that her family was upset with her. Bender removed the picture immediately, but it was already all over the Internet. What happens online can have a direct effect on someone's real life reputation, Van Der Heide said, yet people posting photos of others aren't giving them a chance to respond or control how they appear. He said unwarranted photos, videos or comments made about you could potentially "assassinate your credibility."
  • Today, Rea is a high school math teacher in St. Louis, having given up her modeling dreams. "It's making fun of myself, letting the world know we've all had embarrassing moments," she said. What if her students saw that photo online? "I think it would be funny," she said. "It's good for my students to know that it's OK to make mistakes."
  • Ed Webb on 20 Sep 09
     
    How responsible should educators be for encouraging students to think about managing their digital identities?
Deanya Lattimore

Fredericksburg.com - We've got your Twitterature - 0 views

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Twitterature Twitter fun

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  • Deanya Lattimore on 27 May 09
     
    Twitterature
Betty Powell

Fun & Games / Easter / Egg Sizes Matching Game - 0 views

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eggs science

shared by Betty Powell on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Betty Powell on 09 Sep 09
     
    What types of organisms lay eggs? Interactive learning site.
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