Skip to main content

Home/ EdTechTalk/ Group items tagged writing

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Bruce Vigneault

Getting Things Done Explained for Students - Getting Things Done - Lifehacker - 0 views

  • turn everything into an action
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      This is a must. The action should describe the behavior that needs to be done.
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      Also, specify 'when' and 'where' this action will take place.
  • Way too many students think of an agenda or a planner as synonymous with a to-do list. It doesn't make any sense to write a new assignment down on a planner under a date—that's deadline-oriented thinking that just begs for procrastination.
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      I do the same thing. By putting it on a calendar, it tells me that I don't have to think about till then....
  • This will probably consist mostly of questions you'd like to ask another student or the teacher.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • if you miss your inbox for a day, that means you won't see it until the day after, which is when it's due
  • Instead, just reserve some time on your calendar to get the work done every week; right after class is actually remarkably efficient, but there's nothing wrong with just scheduling an hour right before your class to hammer out the work.
Nicole Ellenson

West Michigan school district turns on Wi-Fi, encourages students to use iPhones, Black... - 15 views

  • Part of our job is to teach students to use technology responsibly," he said. "If a student writes something inappropriate, you don't take away his pencil. You teach them about consequences."
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      It seems that many of our ideas have more to do with making our jobs easier as opposed to educating!
    • Nicole Ellenson
       
      Students are using this technology outside of school anyway. Why not let school be a safe place where they learn how to use it appropriately.
Fred Delventhal

Shortie Awards - 6 views

  •  
    The Shortie Awards: International Film & News Festival is for students ages 7-18 and their teachers. Deadline April 9, 2010
Denis S

Simple, Social, and Snazzy Storytelling with Storybird - 12 views

  •  
    This website is the best news site, all the information is here and always on the update. We accept criticism and suggestions. Happy along with you here. I really love you guys. :-) www.killdo.de.gg
Fred Delventhal

Five Card Flickr - 20 views

  •  
    You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures. When you are done, you the option to add a title and explanation, then you can save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom (she pay print it out and tape it to the fridge, or she may criticize your creativity, your mileage and mom may vary). Plus we offer the ability to tweet your story! via Langwitches
  •  
    This website is the best news site, all the information is here and always on the update. We accept criticism and suggestions. Happy along with you here. I really love you guys. :-) www.killdo.de.gg
Reuven Werber

Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education | Edutopia - 26 views

  • When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not being so much about who has access to what technology as who knows how to create and express themselves in this new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read or write?
  • But there are rules for telling a story visually that are just as important as grammatical rules or math terms, and you can test people on them as well. There is grammar in film, there is grammar in graphics, there is grammar in music, just like there are rules in math that can be taught. For instance, what emotion does the color red convey? What about blue? What does a straight line mean? How about a diagonal line?
  • If you're going to put together a multimedia project, you need to know that you can't have a fast rhythm track if you're talking about death. It just doesn't work. You're not communicating well.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • All these forms of communication are extremely important, and they should be treated that way. Unfortunately, we've moved away from teaching the emotional forms of communication. But if you want to get along in this world, you need to have a heightened sense of emotional intelligence, which is the equal of your intellectual intelligence.
  • You're already seeing it. You often see very educated people -- doctors and lawyers and engineers -- trying to make presentations, and they have no clue about how to communicate visually and what happens when you put one image after another. So their lectures become very confused because, from a visual perspective, they're putting their periods at the front of their sentences, and nobody understands them.
  • The education world, it seems, thrives on stability and limiting change. There seem to be an awful lot of people protecting the status quo.
  •  
    This website is the best news site, all the information is here and always on the update. We accept criticism and suggestions. Happy along with you here. I really love you guys. :-) www.killdo.de.gg
Clay Leben

CK12.ORG - Commonsense Composition - 19 views

  •  
    A sample online Flexbook at ck12.org that can be used in open courses under CC license. More STEM text books are available.
  •  
    This website is the best news site, all the information is here and always on the update. We accept criticism and suggestions. Happy along with you here. I really love you guys. :-) www.killdo.de.gg
Yuly Asencion

Grisker | Free Online Magazine, Blog, Portfolio in a unique way - 22 views

  •  
    This website is the best news site, all the information is here and always on the update. We accept criticism and suggestions. Happy along with you here. I really love you guys. :-) www.killdo.de.gg
Yuly Asencion

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… - The Best Online Resources To Teach Ab... - 31 views

  •  
    This website is the best news site, all the information is here and always on the update. We accept criticism and suggestions. Happy along with you here. I really love you guys. :-) www.killdo.de.gg
Fred Delventhal

Storybird - Collaborative storytelling - 28 views

  •  
    "Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print."
Bruce Vigneault

Watertown Daily Times | Canton to block some access to Facebook - 3 views

  • "To my knowledge, no other district in our area allows access to Facebook," Mr. Gregory said. "I think the district needs to take a proactive approach. Today it's Facebook, a few months from now there could be something else that comes up."
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      So, is he saying that they should meet every week and decide on what to block next. Or, that it's time, to use this as a 'teachable' moment. Educate the students on it's potential and appropriate use, and consequate students who use it inappropriately?
  • The protests were sparked by a Canton high school social studies teacher who wanted his students to use their own Facebook page as a way to interact with each other for academic-related discussions
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      Gee, an educational use. What nove thinking!
  • Opponents of that move argued the site can pose safety risks, wastes time and exposes students to unmonitored advertising messages.
    • Bruce Vigneault
       
      Are these the same people who sat their young children in front of a TV hours at a time for free babysitting?
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • HIDE COMMENTS var jspath = "http://webapps.wdt.net/usercomments/wdtc_api.php?aid=309269962"; document.write(''); (1)
Fred Delventhal

ShowDocument - 10 views

  •  
    "Show Document is a Net Meeting platform for instantaneous and spontaneous online meetings where people can work together on the same document at the same time. All the Net Meeting collaborative services can be used to work together at the same time. The web meeting platform offers the following interactive services: * Share Documents *Shared Editor *Share Google Maps *File Sharing *Share Viewing a Web Page *Share to Mobile *Interactive Whiteboard *Share YouTube
milesmorales

The Best Educational Tool: The Idea Board - 2 views

Many parents want to spend more time with their kids, but don't always know what to do. Parents needs something that can help educate their kids, that is where The Idea Board comes in. The Idea Boa...

started by milesmorales on 08 Aug 14 no follow-up yet
Rakhi Roy

Tech News - 1 views

  •  
    One of the thrills of writing about technology is that more often than not one gets to blog about the next big thing always lurking just around the corner. Fans of technology have been living in the future forever and today Samsung spoke to the technophiles, sharing some of the upcoming technologies its mobile display unit is aiming to bring to market in 2014 and 2015.
anonymous

NowComment - 6 views

  •  
    This site lets you put documents online and then lets the students enter comments in the margin.
Lynda Way

Dear Santa: 10 Gifts Children Wish for Christmas - 2 views

image

Christmas gift ideas

started by Lynda Way on 03 Dec 15 no follow-up yet
tricepaige liked it
« First ‹ Previous 161 - 180 of 208 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page