Skip to main content

Home/ EdTechTalk/ Group items tagged Words

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Cara Whitehead

February: Black History Month - 0 views

  •  
    February is Black History Month. Here's a word list to add to your lesson plans! This list can be used to play all of the games and activities on our site. http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2851114
tech vedic

How to fix the error: "Microsoft Word Starter cannot be opened."? - 0 views

  •  
    This type of error stems up while opening any of the constituent Microsoft Office Starter applications.
tech vedic

How to disable Microsoft Office 2013's start screen? - 0 views

  •  
    Though Microsoft office 2013 has much to boast of, you may dislike some of its newly introduced features. Once such is the inclusion of start screen with Word, Excel, Outlook or other applications.
Jonathan Wylie

The Best Education Blogs for Teachers Who Love Technology - 0 views

  •  
    Teachers love to share their best ideas and resources with others. In the past, this was done by word of mouth, but today they blog about it.
Danielle Klaus

NoodleTools : NoodleBib Express - 0 views

  •  
    Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe -- simply generate them in NoodleBib Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool.
Fred Delventhal

DEN Blog Network » Discovery Student Adventures Pilot Trip Application Now Open! - 0 views

  •  
    A virtual drum roll please… We are thrilled to officially open the application process for the Discovery Student Adventures Pilot Program. Join us as we discover more of our incredible planet earth together with adventure trips to Australia, South Africa, and China. In order to participate in this pilot trip, you must be a STAR Discovery Educator. Not only are you able to take part in this once in a lifetime opportunity, each STAR selected will be able to choose four of their students to join them on the adventure! This is at no cost to you or your students! So with no further ado… here's the official wording and post importantly the link to apply.
Allison Kipta

Asus Planning Cheap Eee Smartphone | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - 0 views

  •  
    "This news comes with nary a hint of specifications, launch date, design or price, but the words came straight from the mouth of Jonney Shih, chairman of Asustek. Shih says that Asus is planning yet another Eee, this time a smartphone. In an interview with the New York Times, he said that the phone will be the command center at the heart of "the digital home", kind of like the way the iPhone works as a remote for iTunes, only it will control the whole house."
Fred Delventhal

DearIE6 - So Long - 0 views

  •  
    So what's this all about? Well we think IE6 has run its course, so do many others as you can see. This is a place for you to say your parting words to IE6, and bid it farewell goodbye. Wanna say goodbye? Great, simply follow DearIE6 and send your goodbye as a @DearIE6 reply... we'll look after the rest
Fred Delventhal

Passwords Are Like Underwear (Pic) | MakeUseOf.com - 0 views

  •  
    Just enough of an attention grabber to make a teacher read it and maybe understand that their name or the word "teacher" doesn't make a good password.
  •  
    This is just the attention grabber my teachers need.
Peter Shanks

Anki - a friendly, intelligent spaced learning system - 0 views

  •  
    Anki is a program designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that information to optimally schedule review times. Theoretically this will greatly increase the amount of material you remember, making study more productive. Free and open source, binaries available for Win, Mac and Debian ^_^
  •  
    this is the type of software mentioned in the wired article: Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak
anonymous

innovation3: In Their Own Words ~ Students Learning with Web 2.0 or Two Master Teachers... - 0 views

  •  
    Chris Harbeck and Darren Kuropatwa are mathematics teachers in Canada; Chris at Sargent Park School, a junior high school in Winnipeg and Darren at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate only a few blocks from Sargent Park. In April 2008 they brought a few of their students to Manitoba for the Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum to speak about their learning experiences in their respective math classes using Web 2.0 tools. Listen to Chris and Darren and their students speak.
anonymous

Ways To Enhance Your Utopia (DiscoveryUtopias) - 0 views

  •  
    This page is for any students who are looking to put more than just words into their Utopia proposal. Please use the following resources to embed multi-media into your proposal so that your reader can more fully understand what your utopia looks like and feels like. If you find any other resources that you think might be useful to your fellow utopians, please add them below.
Bruce Vigneault

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008) - 0 views

  • It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.
    • Bill Guinee
       
      I have a stack of books I should be reading right now, but I am cruizing the internet instead.
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
  • As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      Maybe we are learning a new mental skill and as a choice are letting go of a skill that we no longer find useful?
  • ...12 more annotations...
  • The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing.
  • He speculates on the answer: “What if I do all my reading on the web not so much because the way I read has changed, i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?”
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      I'm not sure that this is necessarily a 'bad thing'?
  • I’ve lost the ability to do that
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins.
  • “We are how we read.
  • mere decoders of information
  • Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings.
  • our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.
  • The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      It is scary to beleive that this organic change to our brain is being driven by commercialism!
  • In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      Ahhh... so with each new step in technology this same 'scare' is felt by the elite ;)
  • The Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectual laziness, making men “less studious” and weakening their minds.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.
  •  
    What the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Fred Delventhal

Addictionary :: What's your word? - 0 views

  •  
    Not for kids. Some of the stuff on the front page when this was bookmarked was very inappropriate.
Fred Delventhal

We've Looked at Clouds From Both Sides Now - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

  •  
    Take from this what you will. In any case, both candidates would do well to watch what they say on the Interwebs: Every word counts.
Carolynn Bruton

Read The Words - 0 views

  •  
    krossbow: Step 1: Tell Us What You Want To Read * Upload MS Word * Upload Adobe PDF * Upload HTML File * Write Text Content * Cut & Paste Text * Website Address * RSS Feed
Allison Kipta

State of the Art - In Sync to Pierce the Cloud - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  •  
    "Everyday consumers are doing cloud computing, too, maybe without even realizing it. When you use an Internet-based backup service, or Google's online word processor or spreadsheet, or a Gmail or Yahoo mail account, you're working with data on a secure Internet server somewhere - not on your hard drive."
Jeff Johnson

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - 0 views

  •  
    Through our interactive projects, journals, games and publications, this treasure trove from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages with affirmation of the human spirit, encouragement of their own creativity and sense of fun, and words of comfort and healing." />metas Make Beliefs, make beliefs for children, make beliefs for adults, make belief, make beliefs cartoons, make beliefs comics by Bill Zimmerman
Danielle Klaus

Password Chart - 0 views

  •  
    PasswordChart is a simple little web-based tool that allows you to create complex passwords out of easy-to-remember phrases or words. Simply enter a phrase into the first space provided and PasswordChart generates a random chart, which number in the millions. Next, with the chart generated, simply enter in a password that you won't have any problems remembering, and a password is generated that is infinitely more secure than the one you entered. Use this new secure password everywhere and if you ever forget it, just go back to passwordchart.com
« First ‹ Previous 41 - 60 of 132 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page