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bomomo - 0 views

bomomo.com interactive graphics game fun painting
shared by anonymous on 03 Aug 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 03 Aug 09
     
    This is a just a fun site that randomly paints.
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DrGeo - OLPC - 0 views

wiki.laptop.org/DrGeo geometry math software open_source
shared by anonymous on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 19 Jun 09
     
    Dr. Geo II is a complete rewrite of Dr. Geo 1.1 GTK for the Squeak/Smalltalk environment. Dr. Geo II is available for the XO laptop and PC workstations (GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OSX). Dr. Geo is a project of the OFSET, Organisation for Free Software in Education and Teaching. See DrGeo 1.1 GTK page to know more about it..
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Faviki - Social bookmarking tool using smart semantic Wikipedia (DBpedia) tags - 0 views

www.faviki.com/welcome bookmarking social tools semantic tagging
shared by anonymous on 02 Jul 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Jul 09
     
    Faviki is a tool that brings together social bookmarking and Wikipedia. It lets you tag your bookmarks using Wikipedia concepts as tags. In Faviki, everybody uses same tags from the world's largest collection of knowledge!
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Readiness Final Report.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

www.mass.gov/...Readiness%20Final%20Report.pdf 21st century skills teacher training Mass
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  • anonymous on 15 May 09
     
    Teacher preparation programs will be equally strong in delivering 21st century content, instructional skills, and field experiences that provide preservice teachers with opportunities for observation, analysis and practice.
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Official Google Docs Blog: For Beginners: 3 Getting Started Guides - 0 views

googledocs.blogspot.com/...-3-getting-started-guides.html google googledocs tutorials
shared by anonymous on 26 Apr 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 26 Apr 09
     
    These three guides cover the basics about Google Docs and have tidbits of information on features you may not know too much about. If you already use Google Docs spreadsheets, but aren't so familiar with presentations, you can read this guide to learn, for example, how to embed an online presentation in your blog.
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Personal Learning Networks Adoption Within Schools: Impact on Learning & Challenges Fac... - 0 views

liveevents.edublogs.org/...t-on-learning-challenges-faced PLN social networks social media
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  • anonymous on 02 May 09
     
    Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) when used effectively extend our learning, increases our reflection while enabling us to learn together as part of a global community. Unfortunately it's hard to make people new to social networking appreciate the importance of developing a PLN because they need to experience its impact themselves.
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Wolfram|Alpha - 0 views

www16.wolframalpha.com knowledge search questions
shared by anonymous on 19 May 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 19 May 09
     
    Making the world's knowledge computable Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing...
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sleeping alone and starting out early: on answers that question the wrong claims - 0 views

jennamcwilliams.blogspot.com/...hat-question-wrong-claims.html media literacies MIT
shared by anonymous on 11 Jun 09 - Cached
  • I’m the kind of person who’s paranoid about having something stuck in her teeth or toilet paper trailing from her shoe, so I always appreciate friends who are willing to point these things out to me. As a member of Project New Media Literacies, then, I’m grateful for the impetus of blogger and author Liz Losh in pointing out places where our hem appears to be showing.
  • I believe, deeply and honestly, that integrating new media literacy practices into the classroom is a matter of social justice.
  • Educational researcher Lisa Delpit, whose work has focused on how schools undermine and devalue the abilities of cultural minorities (mainly black children), identifies five aspects of what she calls "the culture of power":
  • anonymous on 11 Jun 09
     
    Jenna McWillams is a staff member at New Media Literacies
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Why We Learn More From Our Successes Than Our Failures - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...090729121557.htm Learning brain research LD
shared by anonymous on 03 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something right and not when we fail.
  • The study sheds light on the neural mechanisms linking environmental feedback to neural plasticity — the brain's ability to change in response to experience. It has implications for understanding how we learn, and understanding and treating learning disorders.
  • The neural activity following a correct answer and a reward helped the monkeys do better on the trial that popped up a few seconds later.
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      anonymous on 03 Aug 09
       
      So a reward needs to very quickly follow a correct response.
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  • The prefrontal cortex orchestrates thoughts and actions in accordance with internal goals while the basal ganglia are associated with motor control, cognition and emotions. This work shows that these two brain areas, long suspected to play key roles in learning and memory, have full information available to them to do all the neural computations necessary for learning.
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      anonymous on 03 Aug 09
       
      What if the connections are not working well?
  • anonymous on 03 Aug 09
     
    An article about how we learn more from success than failure. More info about neuro-science and learning
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Tapped In Home - 0 views

tappedin.org/tappedin community technology web2.0 edtech
shared by anonymous on 26 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.
  • anonymous on 26 Sep 09
     
    The online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.
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Google Sites Data API - Google Code - 0 views

code.google.com/sites google API documents sharing
shared by anonymous on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The Google Sites Data API allows client applications to access, publish, and modify content within a Google Site. The API is available to both Google Account and Google Apps users.
  • The Google Sites Data API allows client applications to access, publish, and modify content within a Google Site. The API is available to both Google Account and Google Apps users.
  • Here are some of the things you can do with the API: Retrieve, create, modify, move, and delete pages, comments, attachments, and other content. Review the revision history across the Site. Monitor all add, modify, and delete activity for a Site. Upload/download attachments and files. Create customized gadgets for your users.
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  • Here are some of the things you can do with the API: Retrieve, create, modify, move, and delete pages, comments, attachments, and other content. Review the revision history across the Site. Monitor all add, modify, and delete activity for a Site. Upload/download attachments and files. Create customized gadgets for your users.
  • The Google Sites Data API allows client applications to access, publish, and modify content within a Google Site. The API is available to both Google Account and Google Apps users.
  • The Google Sites Data API allows client applications to access, publish, and modify content within a Google Site. The API is available to both Google Account and Google Apps users.
  • anonymous on 25 Sep 09
     
    The Google Sites Data API allows client applications to access, publish, and modify content within a Google Site. The API is available to both Google Account and Google Apps users.
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MySecureCyberspace: Children Online: Getting Younger and Continuing to Take Risks - 0 views

www.mysecurecyberspace.com/...-continuing-to-take-risks.html social networks online safety
shared by anonymous on 15 Nov 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Nov 08
     
    Young kids are online with little supervision
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Powerpoint_narration.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

library.wlu.ca/...Powerpoint_narration.pdf
shared by anonymous on 05 Apr 08 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 05 Apr 08
     
    Recording a PowerPoint Narration in Camtasia and them converting it to a flash flie.
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Bloom's Taxonomy and the Digital World - Open Education - 0 views

www.openeducation.net/...taxonomy-and-the-digital-world bloomstaxonomy digital learning
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  • anonymous on 24 Apr 08
     
    Open Education blog post about the new Bloom's Taxonomy and the digital age.
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» Paul Allison at EBAFF, Bronx, NY Youth Twitter - 0 views

www.youthtwitter.com/...paulallison blog twitter
shared by anonymous on 24 Apr 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 24 Apr 08
     
    Twitter for students
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K12LTSP - K12 Linux Terminal Server Project - 0 views

www.k12ltsp.org/contents.html open source linux networks
shared by anonymous on 21 Dec 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 21 Dec 08
     
    K12LTSP is based on RedHat Fedora Linux and the LTSP terminal server packages. It's easy to install and configure. It's distributed under the GNU General Public License . That means it's free and it's based on Open Source software.
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Laptops for Learning Task Force Report Cover - 0 views

etc.usf.edu/Cover.html 1:1 laptops olpc
shared by anonymous on 25 Jun 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 25 Jun 08
     
    Final report and recommendations of the laptop for learning task force
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University of Manitoba: Information Services and Technology - Michael Wesch and the Fut... - 0 views

umanitoba.ca/...podcast_wesch.html education web2.0 wesch
shared by anonymous on 12 Jul 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 12 Jul 08
     
    Mike Wesch and the Future of Education, a lecture at the U of Manitoba
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Textbooks, free and illegal, online - The Boston Globe - 0 views

www.boston.com/...tbooks_free_and_illegal_online pirated textbooks web 2.0
shared by anonymous on 21 Jul 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 21 Jul 08
     
    Students are downloading free copies of college text book to beat their high cost.
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Linux for Education - 0 views

www.linux-for-education.org linux e-learning applications
shared by anonymous on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 19 Jun 09
     
    Welcome to the GNU/Linux Educational Server. Here you will find collections of useful courses to help you better use the educational applications found on the educational distributions. There are also forums, chatrooms, courses, and help materials at your disposal.
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