Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at Stanford recently teamed up with NewsTrust, a nonprofit Web site that enables people to review and rate news articles for their level of quality, in a search for lousy journalism.
Nian-Story of A Chinese Monster 年 - YouTube - 19 views
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A high production YouTube video of the Chinese New Year legend of Nian - the monster that returns each year unless it is scared away with fireworks and firecrackers. The CGI cartoon is in Mandarin with English subtitles. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Mandarin+%26+Chinese+culture
Bad News : CJR - 30 views
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the News Hunt is a way of getting young journalists to critically examine the work of professionals. For Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker about the online world and the man credited with coining the phrase “virtual community,” it’s all about teaching them “crap detection.”
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last year Rheingold wrote an important essay about the topic for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Web site
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What Makes Great Teaching? 6 Lessons from Learners by @Powley_R - 24 views
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"At times, students' viewpoints need to be treated with caution. In Do Learners Really Know Best? urban legends about learners as 'digital natives' and 'self-educators' are exploded, whilst Kirschner et al. argue, that students do not always prefer the most effective form of instruction. Despite this, what struck me when reading the Sutton Trust's What Makes Great Teaching was the correlation to student's voice I had done with Year 10 students on their views of effective teaching."
Hispanic Culture - Latin American Culture - Spanish Culture - 14 views
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efer to the set of values, standards, beliefs, art, music, and practices shared by a particular group.
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Thus, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries are referred to as Hispanic America.
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Hispanic or Latino culture encompasses the traditions, language, idioms, religious beliefs and practices, legends, arts, music, literature, cuisine, history, social and family values of the Hispanic people.
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Survey Legend - 82 views
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This is a great looking picture survey creator that can be embedded on to a site. Add a question, choose your images and share the link. The free account allows up to 100 responses. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Tech Talk for Teachers: E2BN is GR8! - 75 views
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 25 views
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STAGE DIRECTOR 1: A lanky fellow enters, reading a book. As he walks, he absentmindedly whistles "Yankee Doodle."
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KNICKERBOCKER: My name is Diedrich Knickerbocker. The year was 1790, and as I wandered the drowsy shadows of the Hollow, I encountered a man named Ichabod Crane
Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff - TechLearnin... - 60 views
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Mixbook (or Mixbook for Educators) is a photo-based creation platform that offers hundreds of layouts and backgrounds to choose from along with customizable frames and text to make your book beautiful. Just pick a layout, drag-and-drop your photos into the photo slots, and edit to your heart's content.
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Though the site's examples suggest using the books to gather wedding, travel, and baby albums, this program can absolutely used to create stories around historic photographs and artifacts, original art, to produce a class yearbook, to share an oral or personal history or journey, to tell the story of a field trip. Mixbook for Educators now offers a secure collaborative environment for sharing their ebooks, as well as discounts on printed products, should you choose to print. (A similar option is Scrapblog.)
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Storybird, a collaborative storybook building space designed for ages 3-13, inspires young writers to create text around the work of professional artists and the collection of art is growing. Two (or more) people create a Storybird in a round robin fashion by writing their own text and inserting pictures. They then have the option of sharing their Storybird privately or publicly on the network. The final product can be printed (soon), watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library. Storybird is also a simple publishing platform for writers and artists that allows them to experiment, publish their stories, and connect with their fans.
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Free Classic AudioBooks. Digital narration for the 21st Century - 3 views
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It's too bad that these are "read" by a computer, at least the one example I listened to of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow certainly sounded that way. It was actually difficult to understand at times because the natural flow of language was well, not natural. Might be better if you are reading along while listening.
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Emma by Jane Austen
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Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Tom Wolfe, Author and Satirist of America, Dies at 88 | Time - 4 views
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American maverick who insisted that the only way to tell a great story was to go out and report it.
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journalism could offer the kinds of literary pleasure found in books.
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Wolfe scorned the reluctance of American writers to confront social issues and warned that self-absorption and master’s programs would kill the novel. “So the doors close and the walls go up!” he wrote in his 1989 literary manifesto, “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast.” He was astonished that no author of his generation had written a sweeping, 19th century style novel about contemporary New York City, and ended up writing one himself, “The Bonfire of the Vanities.”
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