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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Cate Tolnai

Cate Tolnai

Audioboo / Horses boo - 0 views

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    5th grade students share horse safety advice suing Audiboo.fm as a social media tool to capture audio but also share it out to the larger community for comments and sharing. There's so much potential with this one!
Cate Tolnai

Anti-bullying Pink Project 2012 - YouTube - 0 views

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    1500 students across 11 school in the Northeast region of America came together to virtually celebrate acceptance of differences using Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" as their soundtrack. The scenes were/are broadcasted on YouTube to share with a larger audience and also document the work of these students - social media and education aligned!
Cate Tolnai

Bill Gates on 'Fakebook'! Create a Fake Facebook Profile Wall using this generator - 0 views

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    Students create a fake profile for Bill Gates that presents major life moments. "Friends" created by the fakebook page author can comments. Fellow students can also comments, making this a rich resource for research and academic social networking.
Cate Tolnai

Tolnai-History8 - Current Events for the Month of April 2011 - 0 views

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    8th grade students research current events and share their responses via their class wiki. This broadens their audience to their peers, thus impacting their own evaluation of their work and their peers' work.
Cate Tolnai

St Mary's Catholic PS - eTwinning - Quality Label - British Council - Learning - 0 views

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    2 5th grade classes in Germany use Skype to connect about culture and traditions as well as practice using social media in this capacity. They used Skype to communicate and also documented their learning using other technology.
Cate Tolnai

Collaborize Classroom Library: Once a bully, always a bully? - 0 views

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    Middle School students use evidence from a main text ("The Clay Marble") to explore the topis of bullying via the Collaborize Classroom platform. This is a powerful way for students to reflect and also gain perspective from their peers.
Cate Tolnai

A Really Different Place | EL Student Blog - 0 views

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    Student bloggers contribute to this general school blog and share their reflections, thoughts, projects, and work in this format. The mission statement of the blog mentions that it aims to get these students to be thoughtful and responsible social networkers. What better way than to have them actually do it!
Cate Tolnai

Elementary Media Festival / Overview - 0 views

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    Elementary students at Council Rock School District participate in an annual Media Festival where they showcase their media-based projects for both a local and global community. This is a great way for teachers to see the creative possibilities of media integration.
Cate Tolnai

elementary school | The ISBerne social media project - 0 views

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    Students at the International School of Berne in Berne, Switzerland document their daily life and share out on this blog with fellow educators and community members. This blog aims to "chronicle student life."
Cate Tolnai

ElementaryVoicethreads - home - 0 views

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    Students from around the world use Voicethread to capture their individual voices. Then, they post the Voicethread project to this wiki to broaden the audience base. Awesome elementary resource!!
Cate Tolnai

10 Strategies for Building and Maintaining a Positive Digital Footprint - 0 views

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    This video provides helpful tips for educators and students who are interested in addressing their digital footprint. Cate Tolnai suggests strategies to clean up your online identity and start making a more positive and active presence for yourself online. References: http://easybib.com/key/97ff37
Cate Tolnai

Education-2020 - Connectivism - 19 views

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    SUMMARY: This page found on the Education 2020 Wiki details Connectivism theory and provides resources that help clarify the unique components of this theory compared to others. I found myself exploring the site more deeply and I appreciated the vast amounts of resources and clarifications available on this wiki. Feel free to get lost in it too!
Ashley Eivins

Making Content Relevant Using Connectivism - 6 views

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    Great blog post that walks you through Connectivist theory simply. The theme of relevancy is noted as is the necessity to arm our students with the skills and confidence to build their learning network so that their learning continues as they grow.
Cate Tolnai

Professional Development and Communities of Practice - 4 views

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    SUMMARY: This resource is geared towards school and district leaders to better understand the necessity of CoPs for not only their teachers but also themselves. It provides simple strategies to infuse educational environments with rich resources that lead to growing PLCs and CoPs.
Cate Tolnai

Online Communities of Practice in Practice | Connected Educators - 5 views

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    SUMMARY: I especially appreciate this resource as it points you in several exciting directions to online CoPs to help you as a consumer of informatioin understand what constitutes a CoPs. I was pleased to see that I already belong to a few of these CoPs and I am excited to look into the others.
Cate Tolnai

EDUCAUSE: Connectivism - 2 views

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    SUMMARY: This PDF highlights crucial points of "then" and "now" to help the viewer understanding the depth of change of modifications occurring under this theory to learners, spaces, relationships, and roles. This PPT could be incredibly useful in simply teaching the basics of the theory to newcomers.
Cate Tolnai

What is a MOOC? - YouTube - 3 views

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    SUMMARY: MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are designed to take advantage of social networks and track the learning of specific topics and specific users across tools, sites, apps, and more. MOOCs can be a part of your PLE, or your PLE can be an integral part of your MOOCs. Either way, Connectivism is at the heart of every MOOC.
Cate Tolnai

Connectivism - Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology - 11 views

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    SUMMARY: Connectivism teaches students skills that are not attached to time or space. Rather they are necessary in the fast-paced, ever-changing whirlwind we live in. The chart near the end clearly compares major educational theories and helped me see the connections and disconnects between them.
Cate Tolnai

PLE vs. LMS - disaggregate power, not people. » Dave's Educational Blog - 0 views

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    SUMMARY: Disaggregation of educational control leads to empowerment of individual learners.PLEs are presented as rebellious teenagers of the education domain, and yet by the end of the post you start to understand that often times, progress demands rebellion. And here we are.
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