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Karlana Kulseth

Wonderful Web2 tools for classrooms | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age - 0 views

  • Recently I was approached by an aspiring teacher.  She wanted to know which five Web2 tools I use the most, or see as the most valuable…well, the problem was obvious:  How do you choose only five?! 
Karen LaBonte

teachweb2 » home - 9 views

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    A group of teachers into web2.0- explore, review, integrate
The0d0re Shatagin

Library 2.0 - The Network for Library 2.0 Stuff! - 4 views

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    A Ning for Librarians, especially School Librarians. It's just gone through a shift in sponsorship
Clifford Baker

80 Online Tools, References, and Resources | Edutopia Group Discussions by and for Educ... - 8 views

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    "80 "must see" trial, free, and paid websites recommended by Edutopia community members."
Clifford Baker

Technology Tools - 10 views

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    Good Web 2.0 resource compilation
Leslie Healey

Creative Nonfiction: a definition and appreciation - 14 views

  • For a while the NEA experimented with “belles-lettres,” a misunderstood term that favors style over substance and did not capture the personal essence and foundation of the literature they were seeking. Eventually one of the NEA members in the meeting that day pointed out that a rebel in his English department was campaigning for the term “creative nonfiction.” That rebel was me.
  • literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To p
  • real demarcation points between fiction, which is or can be mostly imagination; traditional nonfiction (journalism and scholarship), which is mostly information; and creative nonfiction, which presents or treats information using the tools of the fiction writer while maintaining allegiance to fact.
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  • George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, and Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff are classic creative nonfiction efforts—
  • communicate information (reportage) in a scenic, dramatic fashion.
  • offers flexibility and freedom while adhering to the basic tenets of reportage. In creative nonfiction, writers can be poetic and journalistic simultaneously
  • inematic techniques, from scene to dialogue to description to point of view, to write about themselves and ot
Leslie Healey

Digital Learning Day :: Splash - 14 views

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    Great idea to showcase what your school does across disciplines
Dana Huff

SideVibe - 12 views

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    "A simple way to place useful, formative classroom lessons over any Web page. "
Leslie Healey

Will hyperconnected millennials suffer cognitive consequences? (Audio) | Pew Research C... - 8 views

  • multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders,
  • mostly positive between now
  • and 2020
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  • exhibit a thirst for instant gratification and quick fixes, a loss of patience, and a lack of deep-thinking ability due to what one referred to as “fast-twitch wiring.”
  • In the report, Weinberger wrote, "Whatever happens, we won't be able to come up with an impartial value judgment because the change in intellect will bring about a change in values as well."
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    note last line: there will be a change in values as a result of the changes in learning provoked by  he internet.We have embarked on the biggest social experiment of the century by accident.
Nik Peachey

YouTube - Using Crocodoc for collaborative homework marking - 7 views

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    Video tutorial showing how to use Crocodoc for peer and collobarative homework marking.
meenoo rami

Google Docs - Digital Inspiration - 11 views

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    google docs resources
Clifford Baker

Free Technology for Teachers: New Sharing and Editing Options in Google Docs - 8 views

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    "Google announced that they would be rolling-out the new version of the document editor to all users over the next couple of weeks. The new version includes real-time updates (no more refreshing to see what your collaborators have written), chatting with collaborators within your documents, margin settings, and floating images."
meenoo rami

Sweet Search - 4 views

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    possible search tool for students
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