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Linda Piscione

A Nation Without School Librarians - Google Maps - 42 views

maps.google.com/...ms

school librarians

shared by Linda Piscione on 29 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Linda Piscione on 29 Mar 10
     
    This map marks the cities, towns, communities, and states that have made the decision to either eliminate certified school library positions (indicated in blue) or require one school librarian to work with two (2) or more school library programs throughout the week (indicated in red).
Donna Macphee

Official City Sites - 12 views

officialcitysites.org

shared by Donna Macphee on 23 Feb 10 - Cached
Dimitris Tzouris

Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 17 views

chronicle.com/...20888

chronicle news apple ipad technology education

shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
  • Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
  • the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
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  • only 2 percent of students said they bought an e-textbook this past fall semester.
  • The City University of New York, for instance, is looking closely at encouraging e-textbooks as part of an effort to lower student costs. "At end of the day, it's how do you drive savings for our students, who are feeling a great economic impact," said Brian Cohen, CUNY's chief information officer.
  • If students do buy them and begin to carry them around campus, they could be a more powerful educational tool than laptop computers.
  • Jim Groom, an instructional technologist at the University of Mary Washington, expressed weariness with all the hype around the Apple announcement. He said he is concerned about Apple's policies of requiring all applications to be approved by the company before being allowed in its store, just as it does with the iPhone. And he said that Apple's strategy is to make the Web more commercial, rather than an open frontier. "It offers a real threat to the Web," he said.
  • He also pointed out that several PC manufacturers have sold tablet computers before, which have been tried enthusiastically in classrooms. Their promise is that they make it easy for professors to walk around classrooms while holding the computer, while allowing them to wirelessly project information to a screen at the front of the room. But despite initial hype, very few PC tablets are being used in college classrooms, he said. Now that Apple's long-awaited secret is out, the harder questions might be whether the iPad is the long-awaited education computer.
Tony Baldasaro

Virtual kids: Actually they're real, but they go to school online - Kansas City Star - 16 views

www.kansascity.com/...1499852.html

teaching education virtual online vlacs

shared by Tony Baldasaro on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Tony Baldasaro on 14 Oct 09
     
    "Eleventh-grader Philip Marten's second-hour class is orchestra. But first hour, third hour, fourth hour and the rest of his school day are spent not at school but at home in Shawnee. Philip may look like any other high school kid, but in fact he's a "virtual" student. For him and others enrolled in virtual schools online, getting an education involves no bells, no lockers, no school plays, no marching band, no snow days and no cafeteria food."
Gary Cordray

Passages for Rhetorical Analysis - New York City - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - 0 views

grammar.about.com/...NYCpassfitz1.htm

shared by Gary Cordray on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Gary Cordray
      Gary Cordray on 16 Sep 09
       
      Whats up with the cover?
  • the constant flicker of men and women and machines
    • Gary Cordray
      Gary Cordray on 16 Sep 09
       
      The use of polysyndeton and the connotation of the world flicker gives the reader the sense that the people and things surrounding him are merely illusions, almost temporary.
    • Gary Cordray
      Gary Cordray on 16 Sep 09
       
      Again, the polysyndeton gives the piece a stream-of-consciousness feel to it. Like Fitzgerald might have had experiencing this for himself.
  • ...1 more annotation...
    • Gary Cordray
      Gary Cordray on 16 Sep 09
       
      Why not use your first name?
Brian Unruh

Welcome to AEA 267 - 0 views

www.aea267.k12.ia.us

shared by Brian Unruh on 12 May 09 - Cached
  • Congratulations to Helen Hinders, Aplington-Parkersburg Middle School; Krista State, CAL Elementary of Latimer; and Larry Thompson, Four Oaks in Mason City who are this year’s AEA 267 Outstanding Paraeducator Award winners.
  • Visit the AEA booth at the Iowa State Fair
Lauren Mitchell

Thoreau's Walking - 2 - 0 views

thoreau.eserver.org/walking2.html

shared by Lauren Mitchell on 22 Jul 09 - Cached
  • "A white man bathing by the side of a Tahitian was like a plant bleached by the gardener's art compared with a fine, dark green one growing vigorously in the open fields."
    • Lauren Mitchell
      Lauren Mitchell on 22 Jul 09
       
      Do you think Thoreau would get one of those spray tans?
  • Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
  • Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
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  • omitting other flower plots and borders, transplanted spruce and trim box, even gravelled walks
  • In Literature, it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad, in all the scriptures and mythologies, not learned in the Schools, that delights us. As the wild duck is more swift and beautiful than the tame, so is the wild-the mallard-thought, which, 'mid falling dews wings its way above the fens. A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the west, or in the jungles of the east.
  • I confess that I am partial to these wild fancies, which transcend the order of time and development. They are the sublimest recreation of the intellect.
  • all good things are wild and free
  • The seeds of instinct are preserved under the thick hides of cattle and horses, like seeds in the bowels of the earth, an indefinite period.
  • I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society.
  • strange and whimsical as it may seem, that I finally and inevitably settle south-west, toward some particular wood or meadow or deserted pasture or hill in that direction. My needle is slow to settle — varies a few degrees, and does not always point due south-west, it is true, and it has good authority for this variation, but it always settles between west and south-south-west. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side. The outline which would bound my walks, would  be, not a circle, but a
Lara Kessler

Charlottesville : A Green City - 0 views

www.charlottesville.org/index.aspx

Eco-Friendly Project

shared by Lara Kessler on 08 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Lara Kessler on 08 Aug 09
     
    A site about things Charlottesville is already doing to conserve energy and become more "green."
Marianne Hart

Video in the Classroom.com -- About - 0 views

www.needleworkspictures.com/...index.html

shared by Marianne Hart on 14 Jul 09 - Cached
  • urban cities
    • Marianne Hart
      Marianne Hart on 14 Jul 09
       
      And in our rural communitites too!
  • analyze and synthesize information
    • Marianne Hart
      Marianne Hart on 14 Jul 09
       
      Media images children are exposed to include Sponge Bob, Hannah Montana, MTV and on and on.....
Lee-Anne Patterson

Our City Podcast - 1 views

www.learninginhand.com/...index.html

podcast podcasting web2.0 projects audio elementary edtech Our City news

shared by Lee-Anne Patterson on 28 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 28 Apr 09
     
    Our City Podcast is a podcast for kids and by kids. Students from around the globe are invited to submit a recording all about the City they live in (with the help of their teachers or parents).
Miss Miller

A Scavenger Hunt in Italian Cities - 1 views

www.italylogue.com/...n-italian-cities-whaiwhai.html

shared by Miss Miller on 19 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Miss Miller on 19 Apr 09
     
    may be cool idea to use in class
Andrew Williamson

Australia - 360 Cities - 1 views

www.360cities.net/australia

cities 360

shared by Andrew Williamson on 03 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Andrew Williamson on 03 Mar 09
     
    you can do the world as well
Ed Webb

Open the Future: Flunking Out - 0 views

www.openthefuture.com/...flunking_out.html

shared by Ed Webb on 05 Feb 09 - Cached
  • This is about as close to getting it wrong as I could imagine.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 05 Feb 09
       
      Yep
  • Too bad they couldn't have found room for politics (which is not the same as policy), economics (sorry, finance isn't the same thing, either), demographics, history, cities and urban planning, trade and resources, or war, let alone art, media, psychology, or cultural studies, too.
  • almost nothing about the consequences
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 05 Feb 09
       
      Well, nothing about the consequences for the rest of us, as these new masters of the universe make their money.
Kimberly Vance

The Trouble with Black Boys - - by Pedro A. Noguera / Education Rights / In Motion Magazine - 0 views

www.inmotionmagazine.com/...pntroub1.html

noguera education Academic Performance of Black Males Black Males

shared by Kimberly Vance on 07 Jan 09 - Cached
  • The effects of growing up in poverty, particularly for children raised in socially isolated, economically depressed urban areas, warrants greater concern, especially given that one out of every three Black children is raised in a poor household.(20) Here the evidence is clear that the risks faced by children, particularly African American males, in terms of health, welfare, and education, are substantially greater.(21) A recent longitudinal study on the development of children whose mothers used drugs (particularly crack cocaine) during pregnancy found that when compared to children residing in similar neighborhoods from similar socio-economic backgrounds, the children in the sample showed no greater evidence of long term negative effects. This is not because the incidence of physical and cognitive problems among the sample was not high, but because it was equally high for the control group. The stunned researchers, who fully expected to observe noticeable differences between the two groups, were compelled to conclude that the harmful effects of living within an impoverished inner-city environment outweighed the damage inflicted by early exposure to drugs.(22)
    • Kimberly Vance
      Kimberly Vance on 07 Jan 09
       
      This observational data seems to be confirmed by this study using EEG results - http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/12/02_cortex.shtml
  • Kimberly Vance on 07 Jan 09
     
    The Trouble with Black Boys - - by Pedro A. Noguera / Education Rights / In Motion Magazine
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