People from the commercial sector who believe they have some truth to reveal to the misguided people in higher education see themselves very much in the role of what Saul Bellow terms 'Reality Instructors.' The reality instructor is referenced in the marvellous Herzog, ("Moses was irresistible to a man like Simkin who loved to pity and to poke fun at the same time. He was a Reality-Instructor. Many such. I bring them out") but the character is a constant theme in Bellow's novels. It is usually manifest in a male, street-wise character who delights in teaching the main, intellectual character some truths about the 'real world'. But it's worth pointing out that the main character is aware of this, enjoys it, and that these truths are rarely as valuable and as robust as the reality-instructor believes.
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5 EASY Techie Tools for Social Studies Projects - The Techie Teacher - 101 views
How to Do 11 Techy Things in the New School Year - 286 views
ICT and Social-media policy for school students | eLearning Island - 35 views
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This is my latest blog post - it is about my draft ICT / Social media policy for secondary (high) schools. You can read and comment on it here. I would really like your feedback. Here is an excerpt! My primary source was Katie Lepi's Crowdsourced School Social Media Policy Now Available (here). Her work is based on over four-hundred crowd sourced edits! I have specifically included her in the Creative Commons license. I was also influenced by Doug Belshaw's Acceptable Use Policy - feedback required! (here).The comments on his posting are very interesting! I was inspired by Max Senge's A hippocratic Oath for Techies & Policymakers (here). Its simplicity is its strength!
Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year - 125 views
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Excellent ideas on ways to integrate technology into the curriculum and to help students achieve in the classroom.
Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year - 80 views
Free Technology for Teachers: How To Do 11 Techy Things In the New School Year - 163 views
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A quick-start guide for teachers who want to try something new in the 2010-2011 school year.
The Ed Techie: Who are the reality instructors now? - 0 views
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Instead of universities being told how to operate in a tough financial climate, maybe businesses should be coming to them and asking 'you have managed to maintain a viable business and role in society for hundreds of years. You have adapted without completing ruining your entire system, and, ahem, throwing the world into a deep crisis. How do you do it?'
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Beautifully put.
Ideas to Inspire - Techy Tips for Non-Techy Teachers - 0 views
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looks like a really good site.
Ecosia - The green search - 57 views
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Cleanse your techie soul a little by using this fully functional Bing/Yahoo search engine that donates money to the WWF to protect the rainforest. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
Great stuff!!!! Librarians' Internet Index - 61 views
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This is a list of sites compiled by librarians to safe use internet sites. A great reference for school administrators, techies and teachers. It is a maintained directory of sorts and you can submit safe sites.
New Tech City: Screens and Kids: Do Techies Have Different Rules than the Rest of Us? -... - 46 views
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Recommended by David Allen
Free Technology for Teachers: 77 Web Resources for Teachers to Try This Summer - 420 views
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How to use the August vacation to explore and experiment with 77 new techy resources things that you might be able to incorporate into your teaching in the new school year.
The Ed Techie: You can stop worrying about MOOCs now - 50 views
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You can stop worrying about MOOCs now
Teach the Web (MOOC) - 3 views
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Laura Hilliger blog zythepsary.com here discusses the mozilla Teach the web" MOOC to start may 2. content to include: Introduction to Webmaker is all about community, openness and collaboration. Remix and Contextualize is all about putting web literacy skills into other types of learning plans. Do and Share is about experimenting with collaborative, participatory learning spaces and using the online community to improve your practice. Within each topic are 3 subtopics - Those are the themes we'll be focusing on weekly. 9 themes, 9 week MOOC - nice how that worked out, don't cha think? For each theme, we'll be MAKING things to explore ideas because, you know, you learn lots when you make. We'll have a chance to look at each other's makes, give feedback, and hack on ideas throughout the 9 weeks. There will be several ways to follow along. Here's what we're thinking for communication channels: Sign up to the webmaker.org/teach list to participate Keep your eye on hivenyc.org/teachtheweb Submit your blog for aggregation Join G+ Webmaker Community Use #teachtheweb on Twitter Bookmark the Big Blue Button link for May 2nd, 23rd, and June 13th, 4pm UTC Check the calendar for Twitter chats and Big Blue Button sessions
The Techy Coach Blog: Timesaver Tip: Track Student Progress This Year - 4 views
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Track student progress with a spreadsheet and a sparkline.
The Ed Techie: Innovating Pedagogy report - 0 views
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Here at IET in the OU, a bunch of us, led by Mike Sharples, were asked to produce an annual report on how changes in teaching and learning (related to technology) were changing the current landscape. ... Think of it as like a Horizon's report with more focus on pedagogy. We adopted the same methodology as the Horizon report also.