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Rhondda Powling

Word Mover - ReadWriteThink - 3 views

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    Word mover is designed to help students develop poems and short stories. When students open Word Mover they are shown a selection of words that they can drag onto a canvas to construct adesigned to help students develop poems and short stories. When students open Word Mover they are shown a selection of words that they can drag onto a canvas to construct a poem or story. Word Mover provides students with eight canvas backgrounds on which they can construct their poems. poem or story. Word Mover provides students with eight canvas backgrounds on which they can construct their poems.
Tom March

Putting Technology in Its Place - Lesson Plans Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • October 11, 2008, 3:00 pm Putting Technology in Its Place By Matthew Kay
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      This series has been very insightful. I think teachers who are threatened and against technology don't understand what Matthew Kay eloquently states in this article: it's not about the technology, it's about people and pedagogy.
Ian Guest

ToonyTool - 7 views

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    "ToonyTool.com is a free online cartoon maker and comic creator tool: Create and share your own cartoons, comics and memes online for free. Choose a background or upload your own background. Add your own or our characters en choose from our text clouds"
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    via @rmbyrne
Ian Guest

Out With the Degree, In With the Badge - 4 views

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    Article discussing Badges, their background, examples of use and how you might introduce them in your setting.
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    Article discussing Badges, their background, examples of use and how you might introduce them in your setting.
spicesboard

Getting Started with Firefox extension - Diigo help - 0 views

  •  Feature Highlight: Highlights Diigo saves the day with "highlights". Highlights let you select the important snippets on a page and store them in your library with the page's bookmark. Let's try it. Just open a page, maybe one of your old-school bookmarks or one of your new cat bookmarks, and find the information on that page you actually care about. Select that important text. Got it? Okay, now put your helmet on, 'cause this might blow your mind! Click the highlight icon on the Diigo toolbar. It's the one with the "T" on a page with a yellow highlighter. You will notice that the selected text gets a yellow background. This means that the text has been saved in your library, and as long as you have the Diigo add-on the text will be highlighted on the page! How's that for easy?   Now you've highlighted the text. It will appear in your library within the bookmark for the page it is on. Go to your library and you can see how it works. If you're not sure how to get to your library, just click the second icon on the toolbar (Diigo icon to the left of the search bar) and then select "My Library »".
  • Sticky Notes on the Web What? I can put a sticky note on a web page? How? Oh, that's right! Diigo. Just right-click anywhere on the page and choose to "add a floating sticky note". Type up your note and choose "Post", then move the note anywhere on the page. You have to type a note first, before you move it where you want, otherwise there's nothing to move!
John Pearce

Should Australian schools ban homework? - 3 views

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    "Abolishing homework The recent French announcement has led to calls for the abolition of homework in some German and American schools. So should homework be abolished in Australia? The answer to this question requires a closer look at what homework is supposed to do, and whether it achieves these goals for students of all backgrounds."
Rhondda Powling

Online Tracking: You're Being Watched - Background Check - 5 views

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    Infographic that looks at what advertisers can do. "Advertisers and the tracking companies they employee are able to gather all sorts of information about you, such as the websites you frequent and what kind of products you're interested "
John Pearce

Top 20 Best Free Online Photo Editing Websites - 6 views

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    "...... there are many online web applications which can edit your pictures and images online without the extensive knowledge of any graphics application. Photo Editing is always fun and its pretty essential if you want your pictures to look good. You can apply many cool effects, that can make your photo look better and more enhanced. Some common photo editing techniques include 3D effects, adding textures, adjusting backgrounds, editing text etc. Just choose picture from your computer and it will do the rest. So here are 20 Best And Free Online Photo Editing Websites that can make your photos look better."
Damien Murtagh

Instreamia - The Future of Language Learning - 0 views

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    Instreamia will offer a 12 week 3-credit course for students with no background in Spanish to communicate through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This open course will create and provide resources reusable under creative commons standards. Registration for the course is available immediately, and the course will begin January 21 and run through April 8. Students will be expected to dedicate 6 hours per week, for a total of 72 hours. Although the course cannot provide college credit from an accredited university, capable students will learn the material of a first-year college class, and will receive a letter grade.
Ian Guest

Pepys' Diary - 1 views

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    "In 1660, at age 26, Samuel Pepys began his diary. He stopped a decade later. From 2003 until 2012 this site featured a daily entry from the diary accompanied by thoughts from readers. The complete diary, and the associated background information, is now an archive of this period of London history."
John Pearce

What-Makes-Google-Glass-Work.jpg (1280×3078) - 0 views

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    This infographic from Droid-Life.com gives an outline on some of the inner workings of Google's newest and most ambitious pet project, Google Glass. The graphic shows that a small projector projects an image through a prism, which puts the image directly on the user's retina, creating a small layer over the reality in the background. The "Google Glass" component's position on the frame is also adjustable, making the display layer able to be positioned in various areas within the user's field of vision.
John Pearce

Augmented Reality: Coming Soon to a School Near You? | MindShift - 4 views

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    Thanks to technologies like GPS and QR codes, these games combine real-world experiences with virtual information. The games can capture geo-tagged audio recordings, for example, or photos and videos that student players can view when they reach a particular place or meet a particular character. Characters can talk with students, provide information, exchange items or respond to tasks. Authors can also create virtual items that players can retrieve and exchange. The key is the ARIS platform, which enables teachers, designers, artists, and students to create place-based narratives. Game designers say the open-source platform is easy to use; educators don't need a programming background to get started because the work is done with an online authoring tool.
Roland Gesthuizen

Watch Wikipedia Activity Stream In Real-Time - 7 views

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    This is absolutely amazing. We know that Wikipedia gets additions, edits, and deletions all of the time, but without a visualization we just have to assume that's the case. With Wikistream, we can see exactly what's happening on Wikipedia in real-time. The background image on the page updates randomly, and sometimes the stream goes so fast it's impossible to even see what's going on.
Aaron Davis

George Siemens Gets Connected - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • Learning is not just about the content of a lesson. It is about belonging to a community.
  • "If you're always moving away from something, you'll be lost," Mr. Siemens remembers a priest telling him. "Always be moving toward something."
  • "For me, we can't even talk like that," Mr. Cormier tells me. "It's messy, and it's always going to be messy, and those sort of clean lines are not even something we should strive for."
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  • "If you care about it," he tells me, "you should make it something that can outlast you, that people can make their own."
  • 'Knowledge is ambiguous, you have to be able to understand that what the teacher tells you is a guidepost, a framework for you to develop your thinking,'
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    An interesting piece on George Siemens and Connectivism. Good background to MOOC's and how the original concept is different from that offered by companies such as Coursera and edX.
Camilla Elliott

The existential threat to bitcoin its boosters said was impossible is now at hand - Quartz - 2 views

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    Background & future difficulties for Bitcoin.  Good explanations do how it works. 
Ian Guest

The Learning Theory Podcast - 1 views

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    "This bi-weekly series takes a critical look at some of the major and minor learning theories. In each episode we will explore the historical background and basic tenets of a unique theory of learning, and discuss the theory's application and implications."
John Pearce

Coming soon to you: the information you need - 0 views

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    "The day when your hat can extrapolate your mood from your brain activity and make a spa appointment on your behalf may not be far away. The next big thing in the digital world won't be a better way for you to find something. If a confluence of capabilities now on the horizon bears fruit, the next big thing is that information will find you. Welcome to contextual search, a world where devices from your phone to your appliances will join forces in the background to make your life easier automatically."
John Pearce

Concepts in Game Development (GamesDev) | Open2Study - 3 views

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    "There are lots of different skills that go into game development. This course is about key technical concepts in game development, and has been developed for people of many different backgrounds and skills. Some programming experience would be nice but is not required. We start by looking at the central role of game design and common development processes used in the industry. You will see how game software can be broken into parts that work together, and in particular the idea of game engines. We'll explore the relationship between game design, balance and player experience. Lastly we'll look at enhancing player experience though the use of AI techniques."
Rhondda Powling

Canva- A Great Web Tool for Creating Mini-posters for Class ~ Educational Technology an... - 5 views

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    "Canva is another web tool you can use with your students to create mini-posters for your class. Canva is easy to use and has user friendly interface. The process of creating a visual through Canva is as simple as drag and drop. Canva provides you with a wide variety of images and clip arts that you can modify to suit your purposes. You can even upload your own images to use as background in your graphics."
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