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Tammy Worcester's Tech Tip of the Week - 7 views

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shared by Kyle Pace on 13 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Kyle Pace on 13 Mar 12
     
    Great weekly Tech Tips from Tammy Worcester. Add the RSS feed to Google Reader as well. These are great tech tips to easily share with others too.
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SpeakPipe - receive voice messages from your audience directly on your website. - 29 views

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shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 25 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 25 Mar 12
     
    Want to listen to your website visitors, customers or readers? Set up a voicemail widget on your website or add the voicemail application to your Facebook page
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Implementing Common Core: What are we waiting for? - 106 views

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  • Roger Sevilla on 13 Jul 12
     
    This seems to be restricted access... Anyone able to see this resource?
  • Charlotte Sherman on 13 Jul 12
     
    No it is not available!
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Victor Reader Stream, the versatile, powerful DAISY player - 1 views

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shared by Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12
     
    Download your favourite books and MP3s on your Stream and leave home with your library in the palm of your hand. This versatile, powerful DAISY-MP3 and NISO player lets you read and navigate through complex books, such as reference manuals and school books, as well as novels and magazines. You can also use its built in text to speech to read books in text format such as Bookshare. And thats not all there are many more functions, including an integrated microphone to record voice notes. No other DAISY player offers you so much in such a small package and at such an affordable price.
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Getting Kids Reading - Helping your child to become a better reader - 157 views

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shared by Eric Arbetter on 12 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Eric Arbetter on 12 Dec 11
     
    Activities, books, and tips for reading.
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Tops and Bottoms - 82 views

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  • Brandi Knight on 01 Dec 11
     
    Large list of websites that go with a soty in Third Grade Reader (WV)
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Truly random numbers - 41 views

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shared by Jac Londe on 29 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • At a quantum scale, the motion of electrons and protons is completely and genuinely random, since it doesn’t follow a clear path of cause and effect. You basically have no idea what’s going to happen. If you can measure this somehow, than you’ve got yourself an absolutely random value.
  • “If you want to defeat an adversary who is trying to hack into your system, basically you need large quantities of random numbers,”  Sussman said.
  • “…a truly random number generator will provide impenetrable encryption for communications — be they military transmissions, secure banking, or online purchasing — that underpin the modern connected world.”
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  • The researchers used pulses of laser light, which only last a trillionth of a second, that were directed through a diamond. The light comes and goes through the diamond, however when it exists it’s changed, since it has to pass through quantum vacuum fluctuations, the microscopic flickering of the amount of energy in a point in space. Scientists can measure these pulses of light that emerge from the experimental set-up, measurements which are the truly random.
  • random numbers
  • with quantum physics
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Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 06 Dec 11 - Cached
  • Students should never use information in Wikipedia (or any other online encyclopedia) for formal purposes (such as school essays) until they have verified and evaluated the information based on external sources. For this reason, Wikipedia, like any encyclopedia, is a great starting place for research but not always a great ending place.
  • It is possible for a given Wikipedia article to be biased, outdated, or factually incorrect. This is true of any resource. One should always double-check the accuracy of important facts, regardless of the source. In general, popular Wikipedia articles are more accurate than ones that receive little traffic, because they are read more often and therefore any errors are corrected in a more timely fashion. Wikipedia articles may also suffer from issues such as Western bias, but hopefully this will also improve with time. For more information
  • Although the majority of edits attempt to improve the encyclopedia, vandalism is frequent.
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  • If an anonymous or relatively new user changes a statistic or date by even a little bit, without justifying their edit, they are particularly likely to raise a red flag. If an individual continues to vandalize after being warned, then they may even be blocked from further editing.
  • keeps a full history of every change to every article
  • It is for this reason that readers must be particularly diligent in verifying Wikipedia against its external sources, as discussed above. It is also a good idea, if you feel uncomfortable about an article, to check its history for recent "bad-faith" edits. If you find a piece of uncorrected vandalism, you might even decide to help future users by correcting it yourself. That's a great feature of Wikipedia.
  • Wikipedia can be an excellent starting place for further research.
  • Students can compare information in Wikipedia with information in other encyclopedias or books in the library. As a general rule, contributors to Wikipedia are encouraged to cite their sources, but, of course, not all do. For the sake of verifiability, it is advisable to cite an article that has listed its sources. Most of our better articles have sections such as "References," "Sources," "Notes," "Further reading," or "External links," which generally contain such information.
  • The 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools is a selection of 5,500 articles deemed suitable for school children and has been checked and edited for this audience and protected against editing or vandalism. It contains about the equivalent content to a 20 volume encyclopaedia organized around school curriculum subjects, and is available online and as a free download for use by schools.
  • Educators can use Wikipedia as a way of teaching students to develop hierarchies of credibility that are essential for navigating and conducting research on the Internet.
  • Wikipedia's objective is to become a compendium of published knowledge about notable subjects.
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Cut and Paste Reportage: The Rise of "Whatever Journalism" | text2cloud - 64 views

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shared by Kate Pok on 13 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 13 Jan 12
     
    What is plagiarism? A case study of a news story that keeps growing as the headlines change--racism, whites only screening, outrage--even though each story is simply a rewriting of a summary of a letter to the editor. The problem, ultimately, isn't the technology; it's the generation of readers and writers who prefer outrage to curiosity.
  • Kate Pok on 14 Jan 12
     
    interesting article about writing
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Blogs vs. Term Papers - NYTimes.com - 8 views

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shared by Katt Blackwell-Starnes on 03 Feb 12 - Cached
    • Sara Thompson
      Sara Thompson on 03 Feb 12
       
      It sounds like he's saying that term papers must, by their very nature, NOT be interesting. 
  • The National Survey of Student Engagement found that in 2011, 82 percent of first-year college students and more than half of seniors weren’t asked to do a single paper of 20 pages or more, while the bulk of writing assignments were for papers of one to five pages.
  • “It doesn’t mean there aren’t interesting blogs. But nobody would conflate interesting writing with premise, evidence, argument and conclusion.”
    • Katt Blackwell-Starnes
      Katt Blackwell-Starnes on 19 Feb 12
       
      Does he mean confuse or does he mean that there is no way for an argumentative assignment to be interesting? I'm also curious if Reeves is reading any academic and/or professional blogs. Perhaps I'm just angry at this sentence because I'm a blogger who works hard to make my argumentative posts interesting and valid to my readers..
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Accessing Your Zotero Library on an iPad with Mendeley - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of ... - 52 views

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shared by Kate Pok on 17 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • And the greatest drawback to this method: it’s one-way. If you make any changes to a reference within Mendeley, those changes will not be reflected in Zotero. This drawback is most apparent to me when I read PDFs. Let’s say I have a reference with an attached PDF in Zotero and I want to read it on my iPad (the Mendeley App has a native PDF reader, but you can also open PDFs in external apps, like iAnnotate). If I’m using the Zotero→Mendeley Desktop→Mendeley iPad app method, and I open that PDF on my iPad, any annotations I make on the PDF will not show up in Zotero.
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Education Rethink: 11 Reasons Teachers Aren't Using Technology #edchat #edtech - 51 views

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    • Louisa Guest
      Louisa Guest on 15 Jul 12
       
      If any of these reasons resonate with you, please let's make time for a chat and work together to overcome them
  • Fear:
  • Low Self-Efficacy:
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  • What they lacked was a belief in their own ability to create tech-integrated lessons.
  • Testing
  • Consumerism
  • reading is viewed culturally as educational while all things techie tend to be viewed culturally as entertainment.
  • Lack of Leadership
  • Inconsistent Paradigms
  • Personal Experience:
  • If teachers themselves have never used these tools in their free time and schools haven't used these in professional development, the tools will always seem strange.
  • Humility: It takes a certain level of humility to say, "my non-tech approach is wrong and maybe I need to consider technology." 
  • It's Optional
  • : I am not a fan compliance-driven leadership. However, in a culture of compliance, some teachers will only do what leaders mandate them to do. So, technology isn't required. Somehow, we treat it as if it's a matter of personal choice in a way that we would never do with pedagogy. Someone is still allowed to be a "good teacher" and use virtually no technology whatsoever. Failure isn't an option, but irrelevance is. Somehow we've screwed up our priorities. Somehow we've allowed teacher comfort level to drive what we use with students.
  • Lack of Technology:
  • Lack of Research:
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eSchool News - 2012-13 Readers' Choice Awards - 5 views

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  • Denise Kreiger on 31 Jul 12
     
    50 ed-tech products and services that are making a difference in schools - award winners.
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The Project - Technology for Learning - 1 views

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      David Longman on 15 Feb 12
       
      First section is clearly written. Perhaps this first paragraph could have been very explicit so as to guide the reader in.
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Ten Videos Every Educator Should Watch (and Reflect on) | Eductechalogy - 3 views

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  • Libbey Kitten on 03 Mar 12
     
    The internet abound with videos for educators, some contextual and benefit educators in particular situations at a particular time (e.g. tools tutorials) while others are timeless by focusing on what really matters in education. Below are 10 videos that every educator should watch and reflect on his teaching context.
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Fluid Environments for Teaching, Learning, and Technology - 2 views

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shared by Michele Brown on 01 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Help students shift from being passive receivers to active readers, evaluators, thinkers, and innovators. Explore the potential of emerging cross-genre, multi-platform, transmedia resources as tools for
  • Michele Brown on 01 Mar 12
     
    Using multiple modes of communication to experience and convey a complex, interactive message.  Information flows smoothly from one media to the next.
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