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Shahi - A visual dictionary | Blachan Lab - 63 views

blachan.com/shahi flickr google image yahoo dictionary picture
shared by Kelvin Thompson on 16 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Jim Birchfield on 17 Dec 09
     
    The visual appeal is great, but watch out for inappropriate images with younger students! Just type in the word "apology" and watch what comes up. Maybe, there's a way to filter images?
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Paul's E-Learning Resources - 83 views

sites.google.com/...technologyenhancedlearning
shared by Dana Voso on 19 Dec 10 - Cached
    • Dana Voso
      Dana Voso on 09 Mar 11
       
      This site has all the links in one place!
    • Dana Voso
      Dana Voso on 09 Mar 11
       
      Has some useful videos!
    • Dana Voso
      Dana Voso on 09 Mar 11
       
      I really like some of these sites! Comic strips can be used in so many disciplines!
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      Dana Voso on 09 Mar 11
       
      My summer school librarian used this for library sign up! It was so nice to have constant access to the lab sign-up "book."
    • Dana Voso
      Dana Voso on 09 Mar 11
       
      MIght be able to use these when the Windows 7 upgrade happens to the entire county.
    • Dana Voso
      Dana Voso on 09 Mar 11
       
      Try here for help with session 6's activites.
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Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist - 27 views

www.economist.com/17723223 phd academia university education doctoral degrees
shared by sha towers on 31 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • There is an oversupply of PhDs. Although a doctorate is designed as training for a job in academia, the number of PhD positions is unrelated to the number of job openings. Meanwhile, business leaders complain about shortages of high-level skills, suggesting PhDs are not teaching the right things. The fiercest critics compare research doctorates to Ponzi or pyramid schemes.
  • A graduate assistant at Yale might earn $20,000 a year for nine months of teaching. The average pay of full professors in America was $109,000 in 2009
  • America produced more than 100,000 doctoral degrees between 2005 and 2009. In the same period there were just 16,000 new professorships.
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  • PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly underbelly of academia”, do much of the research these days.
  • In some areas five years as a postdoc is now a prerequisite for landing a secure full-time job.
  • About one-third of Austria’s PhD graduates take jobs unrelated to their degrees. In Germany 13% of all PhD graduates end up in lowly occupations. In the Netherlands the proportion is 21%.
  • In America only 57% of doctoral students will have a PhD ten years after their first date of enrolment. In the humanities, where most students pay for their own PhDs, the figure is 49%.
  • in 1966 only 23% of science and engineering PhDs in America were awarded to students born outside the country. By 2006 that proportion had increased to 48%. Foreign students tend to tolerate poorer working conditions, and the supply of cheap, brilliant, foreign labour also keeps wages down.
  • The earnings premium for a PhD is 26%. But the premium for a master’s degree, which can be accomplished in as little as one year, is almost as high, at 23%
  • PhDs in maths and computing, social sciences and languages earn no more than those with master’s degrees
  • the skills learned in the course of a PhD can be readily acquired through much shorter courses.
  • In one study of British PhD graduates, about a third admitted that they were doing their doctorate partly to go on being a student, or put off job hunting.
  • The more bright students stay at universities, the better it is for academics. Postgraduate students bring in grants and beef up their supervisors’ publication records.
  • Writing lab reports, giving academic presentations and conducting six-month literature reviews can be surprisingly unhelpful in a world where technical knowledge has to be assimilated quickly and presented simply to a wide audience.
  • Many of those who embark on a PhD are the smartest in their class and will have been the best at everything they have done. They will have amassed awards and prizes. As this year’s new crop of graduate students bounce into their research, few will be willing to accept that the system they are entering could be designed for the benefit of others, that even hard work and brilliance may well not be enough to succeed, and that they would be better off doing something else.
  • sha towers on 13 Apr 11
     
    article from the Economist "The Disposable Academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
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backchan.nl -- Conferences - 72 views

backchan.nl backchannel Collaboration Tools
shared by Scott Floyd on 24 Jan 11 - Cached
  • backchan.nl is tool for involving audiences in presentations by letting them suggest questions and vote on each other's questions. backchan.nl is intended for conference or event organizers who want a new way to solicit questions from the audience and make better use of question and answer time.
  • Kevin Jarrett on 24 Jan 11
     
    New free backchanneling tool from the MIT media lab.
  • Steve Fulton on 01 Feb 11
     
    One of the aspects of Backchan.nl that I'm excited about is the option to create multiple channels ahead of time. This will be a useful time-saver on the days when I have four consecutive classes and I want each class to have its own channel. Richard Byrne
  • Stacy Olson on 20 Feb 12
     
    A tool for creating a backchannel.
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Lesson: Mitosis & Meiosis on the Table - 93 views

www.indiana.edu/...gen.mm.html Reproduction meiosis mitosis
shared by Elizabeth Hobbs on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • y (lab) is designed to help students to learn the critical distinctions between what happens to chromosomes during mitosis vs meiosis. Students manipulate pipe-cleaner chromosomes on a template showing stages of
  • Deborah Steinmiller on 09 Feb 11
     
    Elizabeth, I do a similar activity with my students, and this year we are using a flip video camera to create a movie of the phases. Students will move the chromosomes, narrate from a summary script that they have written for each phase, and then put the clips together to make the video. They love to watch and listen to their explanations, and the videos can be used as a review.
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From Lab to Red Carpet - NYTimes.com - 24 views

www.nytimes.com/...01angier.html education persistence science
shared by D. S. Koelling on 01 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • If anything, stories like Ms. Portman’s show that great success, like DNA, is constructed of a few basic building blocks: tenacity, focus, and the old Woody Allen line about just showing up.
  • D. S. Koelling on 01 Mar 11
     
    Actors who were also good students
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Steve Hargadon: Thoughts on Social Networking in Education - 46 views

www.stevehargadon.com/...s-on-social-networking-in.html social networking education classroom20
shared by Bob Rowan on 02 Mar 11 - Cached
  • the act of blogging, and becoming a part of the blogging conversation, were important for teacher professional growth
  • blog "to the empty room" for 9 months
  • It would take away the personal benefit of the journeys that they had been on to get where they were
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  • "I don't know anyone here."
  • threaded discussion forum
  • On a blog, the main author is on a pedestal, and blogs tend to favor posts which reflect the self-importance of the blogger or comments which tend toward extremism
  • What makes social networking for professional development so powerfu
  • not geographically or physically bounded
  • takes place 24X7
  • llows for asynchronous contribution
  • contribution by those who would never previously have written an article for a journal or made a formal presentation
  • Bob Rowan on 02 Mar 11
     
    Comments on the founding of Classroom 2.0 and how teachers who were not previously participating in online social networking were more comfortable using the Classroom 2.0 site than maintaining and otherwise participating in blogs
  • Bob Calder on 03 Mar 11
     
    NSDL recently underwent a reorganization into discipline subsections with intense work by degree candidates. One of them from WCU was denied credit for work and publication because there were no page numbers. The head of the project called her advisor and fixed the problem, but they rethought the model and added separate online journals for contributors. At this point, the chemistry portal is a model of how the whole thing should turn out. http://chemdl.org It has moodle modules, a textbook, lessons, virtual labs. I will link to a google spreadsheet with all URIs in a few days. Right now my kids are putting it together. ;-) Bob
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Apps in Education - 201 views

appsineducation.blogspot.com iPad apps objectives
shared by Jennifer Diaz on 03 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Glenda Baker on 31 Aug 11
     
    Looking for flexibility in an iPad app suited for use by teachers in the classroom when observing students working e.g. Science labs
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Home . Fizzy's Lunch Lab | PBS KIDS GO! - 41 views

pbskids.org/lunchlab health food science nutrition interactive kids
shared by Amy Roediger on 22 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Amy Roediger on 22 Jul 11
     
    A PBS site devoted to good nutrition and physical activity.
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Google Squared - 105 views

www.google.com/squared google search googlesquared labs
shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 09 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Dimitris Tzouris on 09 Oct 09
     
    Cool for research and comparisons.
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TiltShift Generator - Art&Mobile - 67 views

labs.artandmobile.com/tiltshift image editing Photography digital photos
shared by Mr. Loftus on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • TiltShift Generator is a web service that adds cool camera effect to your picture on the fly.
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