Class begins with the students away from the game, as Levin explains the goals for the day. Then they go to work, often in pre-built worlds created by Levin which feature specific tasks to accomplish or puzzles to solve. But they always need to work together.
Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool - 6 views
Irresistible Ideas for play based learning - 8 views
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Blog with play game activities for young children. Australian teacher group blog. Inspiration for teachers.
Digital Storytelling | We jam econo - 8 views
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Open course on digital storytelling starting Januay 10, 2011. Just do it!
The $2 Interactive Whiteboard | Action-Reaction - 8 views
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Teachers should be spending their precious lesson planning time designing lessons to engage kids mentally and push them to higher levels, not creating flashy Powerpoints .. Instead of thinking about how to get your students to interact with a $2,000 electronic whiteboard, think about how you can get your students to interact with each other using a $2 whiteboard.
Web-based Digital Storytelling Tools and Online Interactive Resources | Danny Maas, Eme... - 8 views
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Blog post describes about 10 sites that offer interactive story building tools.
Web 2.0 Storytelling Emergence of a New Genre - 8 views
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Educause article by Bryan Alexander and Alan Levine. New equals nonlinear, branching, interactive, cross-media, and unpredictable.
Challenges, change and trends 2011 - 8 views
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Derek Wenmouth produced this slideshare "Introducing some of the challenges, changes and trends facing schools and teachers in NZ in 2011"
JewelBeat: Royalty Free Music Clips, Instrumental Background Production Music for Video... - 8 views
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Royalty Free audio sound effects and loops. Need to acknowledged source. Great resource if students are creating movies
File:Enwp screencast4.theora.ogv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 8 views
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Screencast video that explains how to create a PDF or ODT book from a collection of Wikipedia articles.
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Very handy utility and nice illustration how to use this tool.
BBC News - Plagiarism: The Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V boom - 8 views
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Plagiarism: The Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V boom
Project Based Learning - 8 views
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"Welcome to PBL-Online, a one stop solution for Project Based Learning! You'll find all the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students."
Educational building blocks: how Minecraft is used in classrooms - 9 views
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Levin actually views these negative behaviors as a positive aspect of the lesson, and will often stop the game to address these concerns. He sees it as a way to help shape the way his students behave in an online environment, showing them the importance of acting in a responsible and considerate manner.
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"With its open-ended nature and robust creation tools, Minecraft has been used to create some amazing things. And as one teacher learned, those very same elements that make the game so compelling also make it a great educational tool.
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A fun game to try out, don't let the graphics distract or confuse you. This is easy to use, bigger and much more complicated than it first looks. Good learning potential.
Getting Started with Google Cloud Print - 8 views
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"Google Cloud Print is built on the idea that printing can be more intuitive, accessible, and useful. Using Google Cloud Print you can make your printers available to you from any Google Cloud Print enabled web, desktop or mobile app. To get started printing using Google Cloud Print, connect a printer to your account. Google supports both cloud ready and classic printers: "
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Printing via the cloud, fascinating idea I can hardly wait to tryout.
Inkling for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 8 views
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"Inkling is a platform for interactive textbooks, built from the ground up for iPad. It turns paper-based textbooks books into engaging, interactive learning experiences while staying compatible with the print book for classroom use."
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Nice interactive app that schools with iPads should consider exploring as a replacement for traditional textbooks.
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Platform for interactive books. Conversion of books to iPad. Add video and QA to content. Purchase chapters or textbook. McGraw Hill platform.
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - 8 views
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A stick figure comic of the play originally by Shakespeare, but adapted by Dan Carroll
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How about perhaps getting students to adapt another play in this way? A whole year group maybe could make some inroads? Re-organising and rethinking content in this way would surely help with understanding and might entice in some of those reluctant Shakespeare-ophobes.
Five Alternative Devices To Replace The Now-Dead Flip Cam - 10,000 Words - 8 views
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Five Alternative Devices To Replace The Now-Dead Flip Cam
MissionV - 8 views
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"MissionV is providing a highly creative, totally immersive, game based learning environment for primary and post primary students. We're putting the focus on 21st century skills, helping chidren to become original digital creators with 3D modeling and programming skills. MissionV allows high potential students from all backgrounds to connect, create and collaborate in a 3D world entirely of their own making."
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com - 4 views
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"As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy."
List.ly - 8 views
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Make collaborative, shareable lists Embed interactive lists in your website/blog
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How about having students generate the list i.e. find a bunch of resources on a particular topic (Although sign-on via FBook/Twitter might be a problem). They can then vote for the resources they find most helpful, thereby helping the next bunch of students that come along to that topic
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