This Web provides:
l A review of the past 30 years of key research findings on the importance of involving families in their children's learning.
l Examples of family involvement efforts that are working.
l Concrete ways in which different participants in the family involvement partnership can help achieve success.
Links within this document will bring you to:
l The seven (7) chapters of Strong Families, Strong Schools.
l The reference list of Strong Families, Strong Schools, where you will find additional links to ERIC abstracts.
l Other Web sites related to families and family involvement in education.
So why do I use Diigo?
I like its ability to enhance my bookmarking with highlights and sticky notes, that are retained with the page when I go back to it.
I like that you can highlight and publish easily from Diigo to you blog or an email, and a reference appears automatically along with the posting.
I like the ability to create lists on specific topics that can be shared.
I like the ability to create groups to pool resources for specific subjects. I recently joined a few Diigo groups and have had some very useful sites brought to my attention.
I like that you can access and search the bookmarks anywhere by full-text and tags.
I like to search for the most popular bookmarks on a particular subject.
I like the different ways to share and aggregate information that Diigo offers. I have set it up so that a list of my new bookmarks appears on this blog on a weekly basis but this is just one option. You can now choose to automatically
The tool bar is easy to download and makes it easy to use and aspect of Diigo whenever you are on line.
Of course you can keep things private if you choose to but that is really defeating the purpose of Diigo in the first place.
Diigo also began offering, on Sept 19th, a Diigo Education Account Facility. I haven’t investigated this yet but a post about it was put onto the SLAV Bright Ideas blog. It is worth looking at. From Diigo
‘The Diigo Educator Accounts offer a suite of features that makes it incredibly easy for teachers to get their entire class of students or their peers started on collaborative research using Diigo’s powerful web annotation and social bookmarking technology.’
For an educator account, you do have to apply and fill out how/why you want to use Diigo in your school.
Watch. Practice.
Learn almost anything for free.
With a library of over 2,400 videos covering
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 125 practice exercises, we're on
a mission to help you learn whatever you want, whenever you want, at your
own pace.
feet wet, you may want to try some of the videos in the
"Algebra I Worked Examples" playlist.
Simple
Equations
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Algebra: Linear
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Algebra: Solving
Inequalities
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The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. They are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.
We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.
"We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World. "
Khan Academy is a widely know and used cross-curricular educational video site. While there is some content for younger students, most videos are for older students and adults.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Despite being the work of one man, Salman Khan, this 2100+ video library is the most-used educational video resource as measured by YouTube video views per day and unique users per month.
Web 2.0 services are generating what is truly a personal learning renaissance.Here's a comment from teacher Elizabeth Davis at Classroom 2.0:"Following and reading blogs, participating in ning, contributing to wikis, writing in my blog, I haven't thought this much in years. It truly is an amazing phenomenon. I feel so intellectually alive. I'm inspired and challenged constantly. The blogs I read lead me to question and explore new tools and Websites. I haven't written this much since I was in school. It is all so exciting and energizing. For me, classroom 2.0 could just be about my own growth and learning and that would be enough."A good example of a free Web 2.0 service is Wikispaces. Here's a class wiki made with the service - A Broken World, the World War I wiki of a Grade 9 class. Their teacher comments:You are now "textbook writers." Your goal is to make a better, more interesting textbook than that overweight, boring, 20th Century history textbook you're now using. And to do work of such high quality that you can include it on your resume as another example of your academic skills in your "digital portfolio."Here are some other School 2.0 online services:* Diigo- for "social bookmarking" of Web sources.* Blogger - to create a class weblog.* Ning - to build your own social network]
The Chronicle
on Higher Education reports on College ACB:
Millsaps blocked access to the site a month ago after student leaders
suggested a review of the site contents, said Brit Katz, vice president for
student life and dean of students, in an e-mail to The Chronicle.
Millsaps had also banned JuicyCampus.
Dawn Watkins, vice president for student affairs and dean of students at
Washington and Lee University, said administrators there pulled the plug late
last year after their numerous requests to Mr. Frank to remove most content
mentioning the university were denied. Ms. Watkins said a number of reported
cases of cyberbullying among first-year female students prompted those
requests.
When asked whether restricting access to the site was a freedom-of-speech
issue, Ms. Watkins and Mr. Katz both said their primary responsibilities were to
prevent anonymous postings that name individuals
Are you a teacher? Sign up now. It's free!
As a teacher you create a network for you and your students.
Share inspiration, ideas, readings, thoughts
Post discussions, deadlines, homework
Embed pictures, links and video
Keep parent
Twitter-like website for educators and children to use as a class or school. Embed text, images, videos, links and even Google Docs files. The site has a live chat functure open to just the class.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
What other people are saying: By Jennifer Alman for the Emergent Technologies in a collaborative class at Full Sail University. Features and benefits of using Twiducate for collaboration in an educational setting. Are you a teacher? Sign up now. It's simple and free!twiducate is the perfect solution for elementary and secondary students.
ifferent styles and approaches will suit different learners so no one video will necessarily be the most suitable for every age, stage or level of undertanding of any given topic
"In addition to the education channels or categories within the wider YouTube and Vimeo tools, there are some sites which have been specifically set up to share videos aimed at use in an educational setting (some adding further value to the videos with related resources):"
This is an amazing site for any educator with an Android device. See reviews about the best apps and tips on how to use them effectively in your class.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
What happens to schools and classrooms and learning in a 2.0 world? New website for Will Richardson he will no longer be updating http://weblogg-ed.com/
Will Richardson is know for his expertise in web technologies and its integration in student learning. He is a resourceful individual worth gleaning from.
Feed readers
are probably the most important digital tool for today's learner because they
make sifting through the amazing amount of content added to the Internet
easy. Also known as aggregators, feed readers are free tools that can
automatically check nearly any website for new content dozens of times a
day---saving ridiculous amounts of time and customizing learning experiences for
anyone.
Imagine
never having to go hunting for new information from your favorite sources
again. Learning goes from a frustrating search through thousands of
marginal links written by questionable characters to quickly browsing the
thoughts of writers that you trust, respect and enjoy.
Feed readers can
quickly and easily support blogging in the classroom, allowing teachers to
provide students with ready access to age-appropriate sites of interest that are
connected to the curriculum. By collecting sites in advance and organizing
them with a feed reader, teachers can make accessing information manageable for
their students.
Here are several
examples of feed readers in action:
Used specifically as
a part of one classroom project, this feed list contains information related to
global warming that students can use as a starting point for individual
research.
While there are literally dozens of different feed reader
programs to choose from (Bloglines andGoogle Reader are two
biggies), Pageflakes is a favorite of
many educators because it has a visual layout that is easy to read and
interesting to look at. It is also free and web-based. That
means that users can check accounts from any computer with an Internet
connection. Finally, Pageflakes makes it quick and easy to add new
websites to a growing feed list—and to get rid of any websites that users are no
longer interested in.
What's even
better: Pageflakes has been developinga teacher version of their tooljust for us that includes an online grade tracker,
a task list and a built in writing tutor. As Pageflakes works to perfect
its teacher product, this might become one of the first kid-friendly feed
readers on the market. Teacher Pageflakes users can actually blog and create a
discussion forum directly in their feed reader---making an all-in-one digital
home for students.
For more
information about the teacher version of Pageflakes, check out this
review:
Instructional materials like these imply that teachers can stop inappropriate
use of sources through three strategies: (1) teaching students from early grades
the nuts and bolts of crediting all sources they use; (2) designing
plagiarism-proof assignments that spell out how works should be cited and that
include personal reflection and alternative final projects like creating a
brochure; and (3) communicating to students that you're laying down the law on
plagiarism ("I'll be on the lookout for this in your papers, you know").
Any worthwhile guide to preventing plagiarism should
Discuss intellectual property and what it means to "own" a text.
Discuss how to evaluate both online and print-based sources (for
example, comparing the quality and reliability of a Web site created by an
amateur with the reliability of a peer-reviewed scholarly article).
Guide students through the hard work of engaging with and
understanding their sources, so students don't conclude that creating a
technically perfect bibliography is enough.
Acknowledge that teaching students how to write from sources
involves more than telling students that copying is a crime and handing them a
pile of source citation cards.
That pedagogy should both teach source-reading skills and take into
consideration our increasingly wired world. And it should communicate that
plagiarism is wrong in terms of what society values about schools and learning,
not just in terms of arbitrary rules.
through formal education, people learn skills they can apply elsewhere—but
taking shortcuts lessens such learning.
communicate why writing is important. Through writing, people learn, communicate
with one another, and discover and establish their own authority and identity.
Even students who feel comfortable with collaboration and uneasy with individual
authorship need to realize that acknowledged collaboration—such as a coauthored
article like this one—is very different from unacknowledged use of another
person's work.
Sydney Lacey on 20 Apr 10This Web provides: l A review of the past 30 years of key research findings on the importance of involving families in their children's learning. l Examples of family involvement efforts that are working. l Concrete ways in which different participants in the family involvement partnership can help achieve success. Links within this document will bring you to: l The seven (7) chapters of Strong Families, Strong Schools. l The reference list of Strong Families, Strong Schools, where you will find additional links to ERIC abstracts. l Other Web sites related to families and family involvement in education.
