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Dana Huff

Integrate SMS polling into Keynote with Poll Everywhere - 46 views

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    If you're using PollEverywhere and have Keynote for Mac or PowerPoint, the good news is you can make them work together.
Jonathan Wylie

The Top 5 Free Browsers For Mac Computers: Speed vs. Style - 73 views

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    Why stick with just one web browser when you have so many to choose from? Here's my list of the top five free browsers for Mac users everywhere. Give them a try!
Jennifer Carey

Poll Everywhere - A free/Cheap Alternative to Polling Hardware - 69 views

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    A very cool free/cheap tool for in-class polling using cell phones or twitter!
Jennifer Carey

Using Poll Everywhere - Day #2 « Indiana Jen - 94 views

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    Would love to hear my colleagues' thoughts about these lesson plans and practices.
Peter Beens

YouTube for Teachers « doug - off the record - 202 views

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    A really significant announcement came through from YouTube this past week that should make educators everywhere stand up and take notice.
jhave2

"Completely implausible"-a controversial paper exists, but so do black holes | Ars Tech... - 11 views

  • If correct, this applies everywhere
    • jhave2
       
      incorrect.
    • jhave2
       
      nothing applies everywhere.
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    "In order to conclude that black holes don't exist, she claims to have united general relativity with quantum mechanics"
trisha_poole

Where Does Google+ Fit In Education? - Edudemic - 99 views

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    Google's recent debut of its social networking platform Google+ was widely hailed as presenting unique possibilities for social interaction between students and teachers. Even though Google+ was an invitation-only service until just recently, over the summer many educators immediately began brainstorming ways to use Google+ for education everywhere from elementary school to online college.
Roland Gesthuizen

Top Tips: How To Take Great Photos With Your Smartphone - 4 views

  • While phone cameras still can’t replace good SLRs, they’re a very good match for the compact cameras, and since your phone comes everywhere with you anyway, it also becomes your go-to camera
  • Just because your phone is your default camera, however, doesn’t mean you need to be taking bad photos
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    "The tips above, when followed, can help you create some beautiful photos with your mobile device. Naturally, it still requires creativity and a good eye, but following some technical pointers is always a good start."
Tonya Thomas

Here's how Adobe Captivate 6 could have been a Game-Changer for mLearning | The mLearni... - 3 views

  • the new Fluid Grid Layout functionality in Dreamweaver
  • Responsive Design is the best way for us in eLearning and mLearning to develop learning experiences once and deploy them everywhere and on any device.
  • Adobe Shadow in my mind is one of the best pieces of technology to have come out from Adobe in recent memories. Shadow allows you to connect multiple devices to your desktop wirelessly and then as you browse pages on your computer, all of you devices display the same page accordingly. I use this all the time to test my Blog on my Mac, iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire and Droid 2. It’s awesome.
Martin Burrett

Grammar and Spell Checker for Better English Communication - Ginger Software - 71 views

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    Free Grammar and Spell Checker Everywhere. Effortless. Seamless. It just works.
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    This is an intelligent spelling and grammar checker which sits in the background in Office and your browser until you need it. It constantly looks for examples of your sentence on the internet and decides whether it is correct and gives alternatives. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Dennis OConnor

Information Investigator 3 by Carl Heine on Prezi - 101 views

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    What if every student (and educator) was a good online researcher?  I know, you don't have the time to teach information fluency skills.  What if you could get a significant advance is skills with just a 2 -3  hour time commitment?  Here's a great Prezi 'fly by" of the new Information Investigator 3.1 online self paced class.  Watch the presentation carefully to find the link to a free code to take the class for evaluation purposes. 
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    Of course you could always have you school librarian/media specialist teach information skills to your students! That's what they do!
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    I couldn't agree more. Library Media Specialists, especially when they can collaborate with classroom teachers, are the best resource for teaching these skills. However the problem of access to a Librarian and the issue of scale are real barriers. I've been creating content for Librarians for a decade. They are the best! You'll find years of free resources at: http://21cif.com This resource will help them reach more students. We had 1000 teens take this course at the Center for Talent Development. It really does work. We're hoping to reach teachers and librarians everywhere so we can pass along the skills and the opportunity. If American education was marginally rational there would be professionally staffed library media centers in every school. Since that isn't the case, I hope Internet based resources can keep the lights on for a new generation that really needs information fluency.
Tracy Tuten

The real economics of massive online courses (essay) | Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

  • Is there a model out there, or an institution/student mix that could effectively utilize MOOCs in such a way as to get around this flaw? It’s hard to tell. Recent articles on Inside Higher Ed have suggested that distance education providers (like the University of Maryland’s University College – UMUC) may opt to certify the MOOCs that come out of these elite schools and bake them into their own online programs. Others suggest that MOOCs could be certified by other schools and embedded in prior learning portfolios.
  • The fatal flaw that I referred to earlier is pretty apparent:  the very notions of "mass, open" and selectivity just don’t lend themselves to a workable model that benefits both institutions and students. Our higher education system needs MOOCs to provide credentials in order for students to find it worthwhile to invest the effort, yet colleges can’t afford to provide MOOC credentials without sacrificing prestige, giving up control of the quality of the students who take their courses and running the risk of eventually diluting the value of their education brand in the eyes of the labor market.
  • In other words, as economists tell us, students themselves are an important input to education. The fact that no school uses a lottery system to determine who gets in means that determining who gets in matters a great deal to these schools, because it helps them control quality and head off the adverse effects of unqualified students either dropping out or performing poorly in career positions. For individual institutions, obtaining high quality inputs works to optimize the school’s objective function, which is maximizing prestige.
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  • We also know that there are plenty of low- to no-cost learning options available to people on a daily basis, from books on nearly every academic topic at the local library and on-the-job experience, to the television programming on the National Geographic, History and Discovery channels. If learning can and does take place everywhere, there has to be a specific reason that people would be willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars and several years of their life to get it from one particular source like a college. There is, of course, and again it’s the credential, because no matter how many years I spend diligently tuned to the History Channel, I’m simply not going to get a job as a high-school history teacher with “television watching” as the core of my resume, even if I both learned and retained far more information than I ever could have in a series of college history classes.
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    On why MOOCs are flawed
A Gardner

Connecting to the 21st-Century Student | Edutopia - 110 views

  • This new generation of digital learners -- call them the MEdia Generation -- take in the world via the filter of computing devices: the cellular phones, handheld gaming devices, PDAs, and laptops they take everywhere, plus the computers, TVs, and game consoles at home.
Rebecca Frazee

Tablet computers are a game-changer in professional sports - CNN.com - 25 views

  • Tampa, Florida (CNN) -- In the halls of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers practice facility, players can be seen carrying iPads everywhere they go. They're not goofing off or taking a break, it's part of their weekly football practice.
    • Rebecca Frazee
       
      Here's my comment!
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    "Tablet computers are a game-changer in professional sports"
bella1007

Planbook & Lesson Planner. Free for Teachers. Common Curriculum - 88 views

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    Lesson/Unit planning online. Make a change in one place and it changes everywhere
Kathy Favazza

Simple Text Message Voting | Poll Everywhere - 85 views

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    quick easy polls
Nancy Schmidt

Langwitches Blog » 21st Century PD- Practice What you Preach - 74 views

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      Anyone have ideas on how to model 21st century skills in an environment which blocks many of these web2.0 tools?
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    Nancy: You need a phased attack. Phase one involves marshaling the technologies you do have handy to create communication with parents. Use Twitter for homework updates, essential questions about reading assignments, a "writer's tip of the day" etc. This is what I call a "tier 1" communication. This technology gives few details, but provides parents talking points during dinner conversation with their kids. Then use your website to add the major details, evaluation rubrics, blogging, etc. What I like to provide are "desktop" videos that capture you using or modeling Web 2.0 technologies, and their potential in the classroom. Post these on your website and say something like, "Blocked here at [your school] but you can perhaps use these tools at home..." When parents start to see the same text appear over and over as a caption or comment in your video, they just might get angry enough to go to the superintendent, or the IT "integration specialist" and say, "Enough! Give this teacher the tools she needs!" We're fighting this battle everywhere. Educators are being treated like children who don't have a clue. Keep fighting the good fight and good luck!
Debbie Blair

14 Technologies Educators Should Watch in 2010 -- THE Journal - 174 views

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    I think we'll be purchasing a Green Screen shortly which will be great for the video work that we do at PCE.
Trevor Cunningham

Connect your classroom to the world | Skype in the classroom - 86 views

  • connect with classes from around the world
    • Nancy White
       
      Exciting new way to find teachers and classrooms to connect with!
    • Joan Sentís
       
      Let's see next year!
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    Social Network for teachers looking to connect with classrooms around the globe.
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    "Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It's a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms."
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    Social Network for teachers looking to connect with classrooms around the globe.
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    Digital citizenship reinforcement: Use live synchronous video interaction rather than hiding behind text.
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