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Michael Sheehan

Futility Closet - An entertaining collection of educational related curiosities - 59 views

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  • Michael Sheehan on 22 Jan 14
     
    An entertaining website that shares strange and curious stories from history, language, literature, math, science, art, philosophy and more.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: List 25 - Lists that are educational and entertaining - 104 views

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shared by Michael Sheehan on 29 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Sheehan on 29 Jan 13
     
    Read lists that are educational and entertaining with topics like history, geography, science, arts and literature.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Futility Closet - An Entertaining Collection of Curiosities - 6 views

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learning futility closet entertaining collection curiosities

shared by Michael Sheehan on 14 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Sheehan on 14 Feb 13
     
    A collection of curiosities from history, science, literature, math, art, and philosophy. Fun to read with material that can make your lessons more interesting.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Colonial Williamsburg Online - Check Out Their Multimedia Section - 35 views

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shared by Michael Sheehan on 07 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Sheehan on 07 Mar 13
     
    Colonial Williamsburg's multimedia section offers both educational and entertaining resources.
Martin Burrett

Gorilla - 62 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 06 May 13
     
    This is a wonderfully entertaining maths game where players adjust the force and angle to throw bananas at the opponent gorilla to score points. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Jon Tanner

Jesse Schell's mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010) « fox @ fury - 54 views

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shared by Jon Tanner on 26 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Jon Tanner on 26 Jul 11
     
    Here is an interesting (and very entertaining) presentation at game designer conference, talking about the way game design is invading the real world. It's a fascinating look at future possibilities, including the intentional influence on school and society- making people behave better through game design. Be warned, he uses some words that are inappropriate for school.
Martin Burrett

CBBC Newsround: Newsround RSS feeds - 39 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 17 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 17 Nov 11
     
    RSS feeds from the BBC's children's NewsRound site. Add child friendly news, entertainment and sport headlines to your class site. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Martin Burrett

The Great Piggy Bank Adventure - 96 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 17 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 17 Jul 12
     
    This is a beautifully made 3D animated virtual board game which teaches about money and finance in a fun and entertaining way. Add money to your piggybank by completing tasks and making good choices. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Trevor Cunningham

Students Find Ways To Hack School-Issued iPads Within A Week : All Tech Considered : NPR - 68 views

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  • "Children are growing up today [with] the iPad used as a device for entertainment. So when the iPad comes into the classroom, then there's a shift in everybody's thinking." And sometimes that shift is hard for everybody. Hobbs says this isn't the first time educators have tried to co-opt things that lots of people use for fun. "Back in the 1930s, there was a big initiative to use radio in education," says Hobbs. "It was the original distance education." But, Hobbs says, that all fizzled out. "Within a decade, we discovered that the commercial use of radio, for soap operas and music shows and game shows, actually eclipsed the educational use of radio. And the entertainment function is just so [dominant]. You can't compete," Hobbs says.
    • Trevor Cunningham
      Trevor Cunningham on 09 Jan 14
       
      This is so very true! Trying to engage students with what adults think are their trends bears terrible potential for perceptual error. A European study recently reported a decline in teen use of Facebook as parents and schools were beginning to get more and more involved. Engagement in learning is accomplished through meaningful experience. The context for which is unique to the learning outcomes and not necessarily what's trending.
Connie Pilato

SlideBoom: Share Live Powerpoint Presentations - slideboom.com - 55 views

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  • Connie Pilato on 20 Oct 13
     
    SlideBoom is a free service for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the web. Everyone can publish their slideshows for business, education, entertaining and just fun. The membership is free.
Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G)

TED: Ideas worth spreading - 0 views

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  • Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G) on 23 Dec 08
     
    TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. Initially an annual conference, the scope of TED has expanded to include a bi-annual global conference, a humanitarian prize, and free audio/video podcasts of extraordinary talks.
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
nicole lamoreaux

KneeBouncers | Free Toddler, Preschool, Educational Games and Fun - 53 views

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  • nicole lamoreaux on 09 Feb 10
     
    KneeBouncers is a whole lotta fun. Educational games, fun and activities to stimulate your baby or toddler and begin the learning process. Colorful animated graphics combined with great sound effects, excite and entertain babies and toddlers alike. Kneebouncers is educational. Your budding genius will start to understand the cause and effect principle, ABC's, numbers, colors, shapes, but mostly they'll just squeal with delight. So if you have a little one clamoring for the keyboard, plop them on your knee and let the bouncing (and learning) begin!
Tracy Sheehan

Spreety TV Online : Watch TV Shows Online Free - 90 views

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shared by Tracy Sheehan on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Tracy Sheehan on 21 Mar 10
     
    There is an amazing amount of free TV online. The challenge in enjoying is simply knowing where to look. As a guide of online TV, Spreety provides easy to navigate links to the highest quality, legal entertainment choices, including popular online TV shows, classic TV shows, music videos, news, online sports, and movies online. Our research of trusted online TV sites is the foundation for the free and safe guides of Spreety TV Online and iPhone TV Online.
Debra Spear

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Video on TED.com - 49 views

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shared by Debra Spear on 15 May 10 - Cached
  • Peter Beens on 15 May 10
     
    Excellent summary of the realities of teaching a subject like mathematics or physics, with some tips on how to overcome the hurdles. Equally applies to CS.
  • Debra Spear on 26 Jun 12
     
    entertaining and short. Great video to share with peers who teach all subjects - not just math. Works well with CCSS prof. dev.
Jonathan Wylie

Elementary Music Games: Online Resources for Music Teachers - 104 views

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  • Jonathan Wylie on 28 Feb 11
     
    The sites that follow are as entertaining as they are educational so you can be sure that they will bring the fun factor to your elementary music lessons.
maureen greenbaum

Edu-Traitor! Confessions of a Prof Who Believes Higher Ed Isn't the Only Goal | HASTAC - 52 views

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shared by maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • many brilliant, talented young people are dropping out of high school because they see high school as implicilty "college prep" and they cannot imagine anything more dreary than spending four more years bored in a classroom when they could be out actually experiencing and perfecting their skills in the trades, the skills, and the careers that inspire them.
  • The abolishing of art, music, physical education, tech training, and shop from grade schools and high schools means that the requirement for excellence has shrunk more and more right at the time when creativity, imagination, dexterity, adaptability to change, technical know-how, and all the rest require more not less diversity. 
    • Peg Mahon
      Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
       
      AMEN!
  • we make education hell for so many kids, we undermine their skills and their knowledge, we underscore their resentment, we emphasize class division and hierarchy, and we shortchange their future and ours,
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  • There are so many viable and important and skilled professions that cannot be outsourced to either an exploitative Third World sweat shop or to a computer, that require face-to-face presence, and a bucketload of skills--but that  do not require a college education:  the full range of IT workers, web designers, body workers (ie deep tissue massage), yoga and pilates instructors, fitness educators, DJ's, hair dressers, retail workers, food industry professionals, entertainers,  entertainment industry professionals, construction workers, dancers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, landscapers, nanny's, elder-care professionals, nurses's aids, dog trainers, cosmetologists, athletes, sales people, fashion designers, novelists, poets, furniture makers, book keepers, sound engineers, inn keepers, wedding planners, stylists, photographers, auto mechanics, and on and on.  
  • maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11
     
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  • Carol Ansel on 09 Aug 11
     
    In general, I agree. However, novelists and poets don't need college?? And perhaps less so to artists and musicians? Perhaps... but what better way to learn the history and analysis of their Art, in order to place their own work in context?
  • Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
     
    I could not agree more with you Maureen. As a long time middle school teacher in Oakland and Mpls I am thoroughly convinced that our nation and our states are nuts to have cut all of the tech and arts classes out of elementary, middle and high schools. EVERY student should learn a trade/skill set in high school. The hs drop out rate is horrifying and no surprise that the crime rate follows. We have a nation of under achieving teens because the adults have not kept up with funding the myriad of opportunities that would capture and harness their interests and creativity. I look forward to reading your book Maureen and to following you on here.
Derrick Grose

Contemporary West African Griot - 2 views

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  • Derrick Grose on 11 Oct 11
     
    Adwoa Badoe explains how, "Like the traditional West African Griot, I inform, entertain and inspire society." Her children's books and novels for young adults provide students with a glimpse of traditional and contemporary West African culture and the lives of immigrants.
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