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Kathleen N

Windows SteadyState - 30 views

www.microsoft.com/...default.mspx

admin winXP Freeware

shared by Kathleen N on 24 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Kathleen N on 24 Nov 09
     
    Great for Schools!
Linda Morosko

SlideFest Do & Don't - 110 views

www.microsoft.com/...do-and-dont.aspx

powerpoint presentations slidefest Don't Let History Repeat Itself design slides videos

shared by Linda Morosko on 08 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Linda Morosko on 08 Apr 11
     
    These short videos highlight all of the "What not to do's" in a slide presentation. Funny way to educate folks about good design.
Steve Ransom

SlideFest Do & Don't - 156 views

www.microsoft.com/...do-and-dont.aspx

powerpoint tips video funny humor

shared by Steve Ransom on 10 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 10 Apr 11
     
    5 great videos that mock the misuse of any presentation tool... along with tips to improve
Steve Ransom

Look Both Ways Before Crossing Powerpoint - 152 views

www.slideshare.net/...re-crossing-powerpoint-9632569

powerpoint presentation skills gr8

shared by Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 11
     
    Great and visual slideshare press
  • Kirstie Truluck on 14 Oct 11
     
    Anyone know of a presentation like this aimed at secondary education? As a teacher I think about the same issue - get a point - all the time. Power Point can, unfortunatly, become a useless and boring mess of stolen text and fancy slide transitions. I could see using this in an educational setting even though the aim feels business related.
  • Steve Ransom on 14 Oct 11
     
    Kirstie, you can find many such presentations on Slideshare... just a matter of weeding through them. Here's a lighthearted approach to the many concepts that students might relate to: http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint-slidefest/do-and-dont.aspx
Michele Rosen

TouchDevelop - 45 views

www.touchdevelop.com

shared by Michele Rosen on 25 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 25 Jul 13
     
    This is a fab suite of programming tools and toys from Microsoft Research. The site using HTML 5 which means that it works across most devices from PCs, Apple, Android and more. It has a get tutorial section to get you started and you are able to pick apart coding from other public projects. You can share your finished scripts and programmes with a link to play on most devices and even export it to the Windows Store. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Shelley Hull

Microsoft Word - BlockingSchedules.rtf - CAREI BlockingSchedules.pdf - 25 views

conservancy.umn.edu/...CAREI%20BlockingSchedules.pdf

shared by Shelley Hull on 02 Dec 14 - No Cached
    • Shelley Hull
      Shelley Hull on 02 Dec 14
       
      " Early advocates of bloc scheduling identified the block schedule as the ca talyst, or vehicle, for bringing about desired changes in secondary education (Carroll, 1990; Canady and Rett ig, 1995)"
  • Research examining student achievement in block-scheduled schools compared to traditional schools showed mixed and inconclusive results
  • Most research about block scheduling and classroom instruction, as with research on school climate, used student, teacher, and parent questionnaires and surveys.
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  • The levels of engagement were much better in the first year under the block schedule, while in the second year the ratings were the same as under the traditional schedule.
  • Students reported “thinking hard about ideas” and “having indepth discussion” significantly more often under block schedules.
  • his may also be supported by Bexell (1998) who found teachers on block schedules using teaching strategies requiring more interaction than teachers on a traditional schedule
  • It would seem that the small amount of change in the way teachers teach after switching to a block schedule would be disappointing to block scheduling advocates
  • Important questions hover over these findings. What is an effective amount of teacher lecture? Or group work? Or individual work?
  • One thing that is missing from the observation instrument used in this study is any judgment about the quality of a lecture, quality and depth of a discussion, or the complexity of group or individual work
Kristine Goldhawk

Any plans to add tablet PC "inking" functionality to Diigo? - 77 views

I third it! Demetri Orlando wrote: > Just wondering if Diigo developers are considering the possibility of adding inking functionality to allow Tablet PC users to insert digital ink on web pages. I...

tablet ink

started by Demetri Orlando on 24 Dec 08 3 follow-ups, last by Kristine Goldhawk on 11 Feb 09
Celia Emmelhainz

Flip This Library: School Libraries Need a Revolution - 82 views

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/...CA6610496.html

shared by Celia Emmelhainz on 23 Jun 11 - Cached
  • One of the biggest business battles of our time is between Microsoft and Google. The two have very different business models.
    • Rob Darrow
      Rob Darrow on 23 Jun 11
       
      This article was written in 2008. I wonder how many libraries have changed since then?
  • libraries
    • Celia Emmelhainz
      Celia Emmelhainz on 15 Mar 13
       
      Good framework for what a learning commons could be - but how can we do it in narrow library centers?
Clint Heitz

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens - Scientific ... - 25 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...reading-paper-screens

reading digital resources

shared by Clint Heitz on 20 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • The matter is by no means settled. Before 1992 most studies concluded that people read slower, less accurately and less comprehensively on screens than on paper. Studies published since the early 1990s, however, have produced more inconsistent results: a slight majority has confirmed earlier conclusions, but almost as many have found few significant differences in reading speed or comprehension between paper and screens. And recent surveys suggest that although most people still prefer paper—especially when reading intensively—attitudes are changing as tablets and e-reading technology improve and reading digital books for facts and fun becomes more common.
  • Compared with paper, screens may also drain more of our mental resources while we are reading and make it a little harder to remember what we read when we are done. A parallel line of research focuses on people's attitudes toward different kinds of media. Whether they realize it or not, many people approach computers and tablets with a state of mind less conducive to learning than the one they bring to paper.
  • Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.
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  • At least a few studies suggest that by limiting the way people navigate texts, screens impair comprehension.
  • Because of their easy navigability, paper books and documents may be better suited to absorption in a text. "The ease with which you can find out the beginning, end and everything inbetween and the constant connection to your path, your progress in the text, might be some way of making it less taxing cognitively, so you have more free capacity for comprehension," Mangen says.
  • An e-reader always weighs the same, regardless of whether you are reading Proust's magnum opus or one of Hemingway's short stories. Some researchers have found that these discrepancies create enough "haptic dissonance" to dissuade some people from using e-readers. People expect books to look, feel and even smell a certain way; when they do not, reading sometimes becomes less enjoyable or even unpleasant. For others, the convenience of a slim portable e-reader outweighs any attachment they might have to the feel of paper books.
  • In one of his experiments 72 volunteers completed the Higher Education Entrance Examination READ test—a 30-minute, Swedish-language reading-comprehension exam consisting of multiple-choice questions about five texts averaging 1,000 words each. People who took the test on a computer scored lower and reported higher levels of stress and tiredness than people who completed it on paper.
  • Perhaps, then, any discrepancies in reading comprehension between paper and screens will shrink as people's attitudes continue to change. The star of "A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work" is three-and-a-half years old today and no longer interacts with paper magazines as though they were touchscreens, her father says. Perhaps she and her peers will grow up without the subtle bias against screens that seems to lurk in the minds of older generations. In current research for Microsoft, Sellen has learned that many people do not feel much ownership of e-books because of their impermanence and intangibility: "They think of using an e-book, not owning an e-book," she says. Participants in her studies say that when they really like an electronic book, they go out and get the paper version. This reminds Sellen of people's early opinions of digital music, which she has also studied. Despite initial resistance, people love curating, organizing and sharing digital music today. Attitudes toward e-books may transition in a similar way, especially if e-readers and tablets allow more sharing and social interaction than they currently do.
douglasteach

Microsoft Word - The Trouble with Texting - The Trouble with Texting.pdf - 11 views

cguhsd.blackboard.com/...20Trouble%20with%20Texting.pdf

shared by douglasteach on 18 Aug 16 - No Cached
    • douglasteach
      douglasteach on 18 Aug 16
       
      Q: How do you increase your digital dexterity? A: I think the constant practice with texting increases the speed and accuracy of texting.
  • But personal challenges aside, texting is not the way to negotiate a relationship.
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  • meone who is all thumbs with my thumbs
Jeff Andersen

Office Accessibility Center - Resources for people with disabilities - Office 365 - 0 views

support.office.microsoft.com/...cf-d143-4fe8-a2ff-6cd596bddc6d

accessibility

shared by Jeff Andersen on 29 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • Jeff Andersen on 29 Mar 20
     
    Office is committed to inclusive design and accessible products and content. We are constantly working to offer more to boost every user's productivity. On this page, find resources for people with disabilities and find out how to make your content accessible for all.
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