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Phil Taylor

Education 2.0 - Edmodo - Free Private Microblogging For Education - 28 views

www.edmodo.com

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  • strong and growing. Thank you!

    Mrs. Smokorowski

    Middle School Teacher
    Andover, Kansas

    Site of the Week
     
    • Kalin Wilburn
      Kalin Wilburn on 19 May 11
       
      If you are fearful of Facebook and MySpace then you need to create an Edmodo account. Edmodo was designed specifically for educational purposes. You must be a teacher, student, or parent to gain access. It allows you all the amenities of those other social networking sites but with a lot more security/privacy.
    • Maryalice Kilbourne
      Maryalice Kilbourne on 30 Jul 11
       
      You are so right. I already love edmodo!
    • Denise Krefting
      Denise Krefting on 08 Sep 11
       
      Is it COPPA Compliant?
    • Luv2ride
      Luv2ride on 12 Oct 11
       
      I've used Edmodo for 3 years now. It has revolutionized my teaching to the degree that I don't know what I'll do if I ever have to stop using it.
    • Herb Schulte
      Herb Schulte on 07 Nov 11
       
      That is great question. And do you need parent permission for students to use it?
    • Jordan Moody
      Jordan Moody on 07 Feb 12
       
      Is it free?
    • Gil Anspacher
      Gil Anspacher on 07 Feb 12
       
      Yes, it is free and you can manage student accounts. It is only open to those you invite in and only educators may obtain an account. You may monitor and moderate all conversations, administer quizes, embed media, etc. The groups feature is very effective and you may grant access to your group to other classes. We just had 700+ students interacting in a global collaboration project, Digiteen. Students do not need an email address to use Edmodo, so under 13 is OK for CIPA. It looks much like Facebook, so kids love it and parents need some education on it as they fear it at first. Parents can get monitoring access so they may monitor their child's activity. It is a great tool to show parents how social media is used in education.
  • Melissa Enderle on 18 Jul 10
     
    Social networking for teachers & students. Send homework, links, videos, participate in discussions, share ideas.
pjt111 taylor

When the Social, not the Medium, is the Message: On the spaces we make for vi... - 28 views

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  • pjt111 taylor on 08 Apr 11
     
    "Periodically I find myself confused about my online presence and contributions. Am I using wikis, blogs, twitter, social networks, and email effectively? Effective by what criteria? Indeed, who am I trying to influence? My explorations of what others say about this recently has led me to a position-albeit a provisional one... The social, not the medium (or technology), should be the primary consideration. The criterion we need to apply in designing our online presence and contributions could be something like: "Am I welcoming and cultivating apprentices who are getting prepared to go on and cultivate the kinds of interaction in virtual and physical space that support their own work?" "
Glenn Hervieux

#etmooc (Written June 2012): Why Networks Matter | Penny Bentley - 10 views

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  • Glenn Hervieux on 13 Feb 13
     
    Great rationale for why networks matter. Peggy Bentlley does a marvelous job of using Tweets to support the points she makes in her blog post. Must read!
Greg Limperis

Technology Integration in Education - Seamlessly integrating technology into the K-Coll... - 0 views

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  • Greg Limperis on 08 Sep 09
     
    Great New Professional Network focusing on sharing free webinars, useful mp3s, videoas and pictures for professional development, great groups for networking. Be part of this site in its growing stages and help to mold it into a site useful for you. Link up with professionals from companies aroung the world and join the larger group on Linkedin.
Philip Pulley

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: A New Workflow for Me: Ipad, Keyboard, iPhone - 1 views

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    • Philip Pulley
      Philip Pulley on 09 Jun 12
       
      Using Splashtop streamer at school, it both computer (laptop) and iPad are on the same wireless network you can control the computer from your iPad. If a hard wired internet connection on a desktop you can access it though your Google account.
  • I finished this post on my PC in the office because the Zemanta plug in
    • Philip Pulley
      Philip Pulley on 09 Jun 12
       
      A blogging tag tool, I need to check it out down the road when I am blogging more.
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  • and used the PowerTeacher
  • Philip Pulley on 09 Jun 12
     
    Blog with resource information for iPad, iPhone and iPad keyboard.
Clint Heitz

Critical Issue: Providing Professional Development for Effective Technology Use - 127 views

www.ncrel.org/...te1000.htm

shared by Clint Heitz on 09 Feb 13 - Cached
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  • Practice logs can promote these helpful activities. Such logs can show how often teachers use a new practice, how it worked, what problems occurred, and what help they needed (Sparks, 1998).
    • Clint Heitz
      Clint Heitz on 09 Feb 13
       
      Perfect use for reflective blogging on the teacher's part.
  • Professional development for technology use should demonstrate projects in specific curriculum areas and help teachers integrate technology into the content.
  • Specific content can help teachers analyze, synthesize, and structure ideas into projects that they can use in their classrooms (Center for Applied Special Technology, 1996).
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  • The best integration training for teachers does not simply show them how to add technology to their what they are doing. "It helps them learn how to select digital content based on the needs and learning styles of their students, and infuse it into the curriculum
  • A professional development curriculum that helps teachers use technology for discovery learning, developing students' higher-order thinking skills, and communicating ideas is new and demanding and thus cannot be implemented in isolation (Guhlin, 1996)
  • teachers need access to follow-up discussion and collegial activities
  • The only way to ensure that all students have the same opportunities is to require all teachers to become proficient in the use of technology in content areas to support student learning.
  • An effective professional development program provides "sufficient time and follow-up support for teachers to master new content and strategies and to integrate them into their practice,
  • teachers need time to plan, practice skills, try out new ideas, collaborate, and reflect on ideas
  • The technology used for professional development should be the same as the technology used in the classroom. Funds should be available to provide teachers with technology that they can use at home or in private to become comfortable with the capabilities it offers.
  • he Commission suggests partnering with universities and forming teacher networks to help provide professional development activities at lower cost.
    • Clint Heitz
      Clint Heitz on 09 Feb 13
       
      This was well before development of Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)! Twitter, Facebook, Ning, and such all provide opportunities to make this idea happen.
  • consists of three types: preformative evaluation, formative evaluation, and summative evaluation.
  • Preformative evaluation
  • formative evaluation,
  • summative evaluation,
  • Such a program gives teachers the skills they need to incorporate the strengths of technology into their lesson planning rather than merely to add technology to the way they have always done things.
  • School administrators may not provide adequate time and resources for high-quality technology implementation and the associated professional development. They may see professional development as a one-shot training session to impart skills in using specific equipment. Instead, professional development should be considered an ongoing process that helps teachers develop new methods of promoting engaged learning in the classroom using technology.
Martin Burrett

PLNning to Inspire - 118 views

ictmagic.wordpress.com/...plnning-to-inspire

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  • Martin Burrett on 27 Aug 11
     
    Blog post that encourages all teachers to get online to improve their practice and sharing what they do to a personal learning network. Download the PDF poster to put in your staffroom.
Marc Patton

Six Lingering Obstacles to Using Technology in Schools | MindShift - 1 views

blogs.kqed.org/...to-using-technology-in-schools

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  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    Though educators are finding smart ways to integrate technology and learning, the road has been and continues to be challenging on multiple fronts. The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 Edition, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium, the Consortium for School Networking, and the International Society for Technology in Education, takes the birds-eye view and encapsulates some of the significant challenges that must still be addressed and offers the following assessment.
Shelly Locke

Scare in the Square: Tracking the Failed Times Square Bomber - The Learning Network Blo... - 11 views

learning.blogs.nytimes.com/...the-failed-times-square-bomber

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  • Shelly Locke on 11 May 10
     
    New York Times Newspaper's Learning Network. Lesson Plans for real problems relating to current events.
trisha_poole

The 10 Best and Worst Ways Social Media Impacts Education - Edudemic - 102 views

edudemic.com/...social-media-education

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  • trisha_poole on 26 Jul 11
     
    Social networking communities are here to stay. Facebook has over 500 million users, while Twitter has over 200 million. That's not even counting blogs or YouTube video blogs. There's no doubt that students are actively engaged in online communities, but what kind of effects are these sites having and how can parents counteract the bad and bolster the positive?
Jennifer Carey

The 10 Best and Worst Ways Social Media Impacts Education - Edudemic - 79 views

edudemic.com/...social-media-education

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  • Jennifer Carey on 22 Jul 11
     
    Social networking communities are here to stay. Facebook has over 500 million users, while Twitter has over 200 million. That's not even counting blogs or YouTube video blogs. There's no doubt that students are actively engaged in online communities, but what kind of effects are these sites having and how can parents counteract the bad and bolster the positive?
Roland Gesthuizen

The Innovative Educator: Think you're a Digital Immigrant? Get Over It! - 103 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...igital-immigrant-get-over.html

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • educators hesitant to use the modern tools of today, to stop relying on others and take ownership of their learning and suggests this can be done through developing a personal learning network
  • educators must take ownership of their learning rather than waiting for/relying on others to provide it.
  • Teachers do not need to be technology experts to allow students to use it to retrieve information, collaborate, create, and communicate
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 27 Oct 10
     
    There is less tolerance for educators who do not believe it is their responsibility to move their teaching out of the past. Those stuck in the past... those who are not developing their own personal learning networks... those not taking ownership for their learning... are doing a great disservice to our students and themselves.
Donal O' Mahony

Nearly three… | eLearning Island - 43 views

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  • Donal O' Mahony on 28 Jan 12
     
    My blog is approaching its third birthday - I write why I think Twitter is the most important application for developing your personal learning network.
Martin Burrett

Diipo - 157 views

diipo.net

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  • Martin Burrett on 31 Jan 12
     
    A beautifully made Twitter-like social network for schools that supports photos, videos, files and embed html. The site also has a blog feature, calendar and many other fab features. You can set your class to private or public. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Roland Gesthuizen

Digital Divide and Social Media: Connectivity Doesn't End the Digital Divide, Skills Do... - 42 views

blogs.scientificamerican.com/...d-the-digital-divide-skills-do

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Dec 11
     
    Whether we like it or not, we live in a very unequal and stratified world. We live in societies in which inequality is ignored in education, science, and in the social media. As Internet technologies are rapidly evolving and new digital divides on the Internet emerge, we must move beyond, at some point, a singular concern over Internet access and technological infrastructure issues. We must tackle socio-cultural differences, we must focus on Internet skills, literacies and social media usage.
summitlibrary

What's So Hard about Research? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network - 77 views

blogs.scientificamerican.com/...whats-so-hard-about-research

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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 06 Jun 14
       
      So many of my middle school students would come and ask, "Is this what you want?"  Then, they would get frustrated when I responded, "Well, what do you think?  Is that the best answer you can come up with for the question?"  
  • Many students were very uncomfortable with the idea that they would be making the decision about what form their project will take, and continually tried to get a stamp of approval.
  • Students today are accustomed to instant gratification, and therefore can be overwhelmed by tasks that require time-consuming research.
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 06 Jun 14
       
      I'm finding that I am becoming more like the students and wanting that instant gratification as well!  We are becoming scanners more than readers.
  • They do not stop researching and begin another activity because they got distracted;  in our experience, they are more likely to spin themselves in circles making no progress for an entire class period because they do not want to go through a cognitive process that will take “forever.”
  • · When students are given a research prompt by their teacher, students often do not care enough about the topic to really persevere.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 06 Jun 14
       
      Use this strategy to help students become more invested: STRATEGY: I'm going to show you 30 seconds of this video and I want you to write down 3-4 questions you think this video is going to answer. Turn and talk to a neighbor to share your questions. After looking at the video clip, have students determine if their questions were answered and what questions they still need to answer. THEN, students are invested and have things they WANT to know about the topic.
  • There are very few things in life that our students have to wait for today
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 13 Jun 14
       
      I am sad to say that I am just as bad as the students in that I want to know things immediately and not have to wait.
  • anonymous on 06 Jun 14
     
    NetTrekker PD article for discussion
Tracy Tuten

Preparing to use Diigo « social media in education - 122 views

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    • Tracy Tuten
      Tracy Tuten on 11 Mar 10
       
      May need to ask Matt Long how to do this
  • Invite students using their University e-mail addresses; also invite the course administrator and another tutor (so that the Diigo work doesn’t get lost if you fall ill). Create a link from Diigo to the VLE (using the HTML code that Diigo provides) so that updates are posted to the VLE (I got the idea of using widgets found in Mason and Rennie’s on E-learning and Social Networking Handbook, 2008:83) – and possible show your Diigo ‘education pioneer’ badge too… See the screenshot from my Blackboard VLE below.
  • Justin Shorb on 10 Mar 10
     
    Checklist for using Diigo in education.
  • Tracy Tuten on 11 Mar 10
     
    Blog post on using Diigo with one's class and linking Diigo to Blackboard
Ed Webb

The Trouble With Twitter - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 23 Aug 09 - Cached
  • To those who Twitter, the reporter who investigates a story before offering it to the public must also seem tediously ruminant. On Twitter, the notes become the story, devoid of even five minutes of reflection on the writer's way to the computer. I can see that there are times —an airplane landing in the Hudson, a presidential election in Iran—when this type of impromptu journalism becomes a necessity, and an exciting one at that. Luckily, reporters still exist to make sense of information bytes and expand upon them for readers—but for how much longer? I worry that microblogging cheats my students out of their trump card: a mindful attention to the subject in front of them, so that they can capture its sights and sounds, its smells and tactile qualities, to share with readers. How can Twittering stories from laptops and phones possibly replace the attentive journalist who tucks a digital recorder artfully under a notepad, pencil behind one ear, and gives full attention to the subject at hand?
  • I went home after the lecture and—hypocritically, I admit—updated my Facebook status and my blog to declare how much I despise Twitter.
  • Twitter serves as a source of links to longer news stories.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 23 Aug 09
       
      Which is one of its main uses in journalism. As Jay Rosen (@jayrosennyu) and others have put it, through services like Twitter and, indeed, Diigo we edit the web for one another. We can see it as acting as human filters, intelligent gatherers and sifters of information for the various networks in which we are nodes.
Kathleen N

Wordle Blog: How to make Wordle safe for classroom use. - 0 views

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  • Kathleen N on 21 Aug 09
     
    FROM the Creator/Owner of WORDLE: "I'm happy to announce that from now on, the Wordle front page will never feature images or links that are inappropriate for classroom use. It's now possible to configure an institution's "site-blocking" software to keep Wordle safe for classroom use." Simply have your networking administrator block the following base URLs1: * http://www.wordle.net/gallery * http://www.wordle.net/next * http://www.wordle.net/random
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