EDT 4 and 5 for Spring 2014

Interesting article about a concept called tpack cool interface also

"Engage and Assess With Nearpod it's easy, really easy. Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves."

Pinterest is a great, and visual way, to save and share your resources

Love my Pinterest. I can organize pictures for my classes. And cool stuff I like but don't want to own

After you finish all of the EDT courses with Alexis, Fresno Pacific offers more opportunities for professional development that count toward advancement on the Peralta pay scale.

"10 terrific science based Pinterest boards and Pinners I really appreciate the visual aspect of Pinterest over other social media sites. With Pinterest, one look at an appealing image and you want to know more, which makes it tailor made for certain content areas such as science. Pictures of nature, weather phenomenon, and outer space are often some of the most impressive image you can find on Pinterest. Beyond the amazing pictures, there is a great deal of useful information to be found."

"Introduction Joan Lucariello, PhD, City University of New York Students do not come to school as blank slates to be filled with instruction. Rather, they come to school with considerable knowledge, some correct and some not. Either way, that knowledge is based on intuition, every-day experience, as well as what they have been taught in other settings. Teachers and researchers generally refer to preinstructional knowledge as preconceptions. Since a considerable amount of our knowledge is organized by subject matter (mathematics, science, etc.), so too are our preconceptions. Before beginning instruction on any new topic, teachers need to know their students' preconceptions because learning, and therefore instruction itself, varies depending on whether students' preconceptions agree with the concepts being taught or contradict those concepts. When preconceptions are consistent with the concepts in the assigned curriculum, student preconceptions are called anchoring conceptions. Learning, in such cases, is much easier. It becomes a matter of conceptual growth, enrichment, or adding to student knowledge. More often, teachers find themselves teaching concepts that are difficult for their students to learn because students' preconceptions are inconsistent with the concepts being taught. In these cases, preconceptions are termed alternative conceptions or misconceptions."

this is more k-12 but has interesting points about facilitating discussion

"Creating timelines is another important digital skill to be added to the the 33 digital skills we have compiled before. Students should be able to easily create their own learning timelines and share them with each other.This can have a huge positive impact on their overall learning process. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has sifted through some of the best free timeline making tools and come up with the list below. Just to refresh your mind, a timeline is " a way of displaying a list of events in chronological order, sometimes described as a project artifact. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates alongside itself and usually events labelled on points where they would have happened.' ( from Wikipedia )."

" 387 1K+ 5 inShare 29 Print! The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Using Technology I just came across this graphic and thought you might be interested to have a look as well. This is basically a list of 7 habits of effective teachers using technology. I really like how these habits are sequenced and I found them to be the habits of every successful teacher and not only those using technology. I don't know if the habits are arranged in order of importance or not but if they are then I would put number seven as the first habit.Overall , the poster is really a great work and it is worth sharing."

"What is Inquiry Pedagogy? Pedagogy is defined as "any conscious activity by one person designed to enhance learning in another" (Watkins & Mortimer, 1999, p. 3). Inquiry pedagogy therefore, is based around a set of teaching and learning strategies that involve student-centred research and investigation that encourages metacognitive thought processes, discussion and collaboration. Carroll defines Inquiry Pedagogy as an understanding about society and its interactions that "requires us to seek out knowledge as well as apply historical skills to determine why events occurred and what motivated the people to take the action they took" (2012). "

"When collaboration goes wrong, it can be toxic for learning and classroom culture. We are all familiar with the scene: a group of students that is supposed to be completing a collaborative project has splintered off into dysfunctional factions. Maybe it's one student who has sullenly separated her- or himself from the rest of the group, or maybe the group has become two non-communicative teams with separate visions. Sometimes these conflicts lead to resentments that have the potential for long-term damage to the classroom community. "

this is one of a growing number of online publishing tools, this one is very pretty, and does have a free option

I am recommending this for the video making tips, which I think are good, the MOOC talk is sort of out of date

Always wanted to draw orbitals? Looking for molecular models of complex systems? Can't wait to balance equations? This is the web site for you and all the chemistry geeks out there