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Dennis OConnor

Information Investigator 3 by Carl Heine on Prezi - 14 views

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21cif Information fluency selflearning self-paced online learning research

shared by Dennis OConnor on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 30 Sep 11
     
    What if every student (and educator) was a good online researcher?  I know, you don't have the time to teach information fluency skills.  What if you could get a significant advance is skills with just a 2 -3  hour time commitment?  Here's a great Prezi 'fly by" of the new Information Investigator 3.1 online self paced class.  Watch the presentation carefully to find the link to a free code to take the class for evaluation purposes. 
Leslie Healey

Reading Literature, A Spiritual Practice - 0 views

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reading learning literature tools

shared by Leslie Healey on 03 Apr 11 - No Cached
  •  Do you want to get closer to God?  Settle down with a good book. McEntyre notes that, in the ancient practice of lectio di
  • It can change the way we listen to the most ordinary conversation. It can become a habit of mind. It can help us locate what is nourishing and helpful in any words that come our way—especially in what poet Matthew Arnold called “the best that has been thought and said”—and it can equip us with a personal repertoire of sentences, phrases, and single words that serve us as touchstones or talismans when we ne
  • “equipment for living
  • Leslie Healey on 03 Apr 11
     
    AMEN--you do not have to be a religious person to get this. Too often, I understand this idea, but forget to share it with my students. Reading as "equipment for living"
Vanessa Alander

Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom - 12 views

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assessment formative summative

shared by Vanessa Alander on 09 May 11 - No Cached
    • Vanessa Alander
      Vanessa Alander on 09 May 11
       
      Use of exit slips as formative assessments!  
  • self-evaluation is a logical step in the learning process.
  • students keeping ongoing records of their work not only engages students, it
andrew bendelow

Digital Youth Network: Creating New Media Citizens through the Affinity Learning Model | IJLM - 9 views

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IJLM affinity model network youth new media creating media citizens web2.0 resources writing tools teaching reading

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  • andrew bendelow on 14 Jul 11
     
    Composing online is not writing alone, as students have done. When he produces an artifact, the networked student creates a communal effort on the Internet.
Leslie Healey

Video Games Are Ruled Protected Speech, Now What? - 2 views

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gaming teaching 21stcenturylearning

shared by Leslie Healey on 27 Jun 11 - No Cached
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 27 Jun 11
       
      this is true! why gaming is legitimately a path fro educators to formulate learning strategies
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 27 Jun 11
       
      also--they ask why there are not more erudite games, just as there is "classic" literature--I think games are still a new art form. And aren't there are many fluff books as there are fluff or violent games
  • More important than that historic ruling is the reminder by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice that video games, like books, plays and movies, communicate ideas.
  • Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat," Scalia wrote. "But these cultural and intellectual differences are not constitutional." It raises the question, what video games live up to that legacy of great literary works? And why aren't there more of them?
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  • Now that this distraction is out of the way, lets see the creation of more games like Bioshock, like Shadow of the Colossus, like Flower, games that make you think, that explore new ideas, that shake up preconceived notions.
Brian Baron

Transcript | This American Life - 4 views

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shared by Brian Baron on 05 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • the story I'm working on
    • Brian Baron
      Brian Baron on 05 Feb 16
       
      Right now it's just a story she's working on; the audience is separate. Within a short time frame, she'll bring the audience on board and we'll feel as though we're on the journey with her. 
  • apparently I do,
  • feels undignified
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  • Tyler
  • thing I learned from this exercise, which is no big shocker, I guess
  • arah Koenig
  • Here's the case I've been working on.
  • take a leak
  • arah Koe
  • store. On the
  • of course
  • oosey-goose
  • obsession" is maybe too strong a word
  • That sounds like a good thing.
  • named Jay.
  • somebody is lying here. Maybe Adnan really is innocent. But what if he isn't? What if he did do it, and he's got all these good people thinking he didn't?
  • Detective This is a taped
  • Adnan's in a maximum security prison in western Maryland
  • is hour and change
  • ussing cell tower techn
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