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PearBudget | Really simple budgeting. - 3 views

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  • Julie Altmark on 22 Mar 10
     
    a simple (and cheap) answer to your personal finance needs. For just $3 a month, it can track your monthly expenses and help you increase your savings.To get started the site takes you through a quick five-step planning process, beginning with an assessment of how and where you want to save.  Then it inquires about your expenses (both fixed monthly and irregular). Finally you fill in your income.  The site will then create a review of your spending habits, including a dynamic list of savings for future purchases. Each month you'll fill in the your expenses using the Receipts category (this comes in handy at tax time as well, since you don't need to store them in a shoe box anymore). There's even a tag feature that allows you to group expenses together. Unlike Mint, Pear Budget emphasizes speed and simplicity. If you decide to register, you can set up an account in less than five minutes (and you can sign up for a free 30-day trial).
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westwood - Open Sim Tutorials and Instructions - 3 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 30 Mar 10
     
    My ninth graders have completed a module documenting how to do various tasks in OpenSim, the virtual world we use that is hosted by Reactiongrid. This wiki has the links, instructions, and other pages with tutorials on how to do various items. I was assessing this today and thought I'd pass it along as there is some great information to show you how to do things. (If you are a beginning second lifer you may also learn some things.)
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21st Century Educators Don't Say "Hand It In." They say, "Publish It!" - 12 views

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shared by Anne Bubnic on 14 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The authentic publication of student work should be a part of EVERY SINGLE UNIT OF STUDY. If an educator can’t figure out a way to help students publish anything in a unit of study they need to either 1) Rethink the unit or 2) Rethink the assessment.
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LectureTools - 32 views

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  • yc c on 22 May 10
     
    LectureTools provides a range of student response options plus it allows students to Take notes synchronized to lecture slides,Draw on and save the instructor's lecture slides,Pose clarifying questions that can be answered asynchronously during class or after class andSelf-assess their understanding during lecture.
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Technology Integration Matrix | Arizona K12 Center - 29 views

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  • Kevin Jarrett on 17 Jan 11
     
    Outstanding examples of technology-infused projects at all levels.
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  • Kevin Jarrett on 17 Jan 11
     
    Arizona's answer to Florida's outstanding tool of the same name. If you are interested in seeing what technology infused teaching looks like at a variety of integration and curricular levels, you will love this resource. Highly recommended.
  • Dean Mantz on 18 Jan 11
     
    Arizona K12 Technology Integration matrix along with classroom videos mapped to certain parts of the matrix.
  • Ben Rimes on 09 Mar 11
     
    Matrix of technology integration levels indexed with different skills. Includes example lesson plans, and provides a nice rubric like self assessment tool for where your teaching falls. Might be nice for PD leaders of small groups working with tech integration focus.
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sciencecourseware.org - 14 views

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  • Ted Sakshaug on 25 Jan 11
     
    The Virtual Courseware Project produces interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science field studies. The activities are designed to enhance an existing curriculum and include online assessments. They can be used by students ranging from middle school, high school, or college classrooms.
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Shaping Curriculum From Common Core Standards - Curriculum Matters - Education Week - 11 views

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  • Suzie Nestico on 16 Feb 11
     
    Discusses the importance of shaping curriculum or the "meat" of instruction.  Addresses the notion that we've focused too much on developing the standards and rushing to assessment without paying enough attention to the "middle".
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Learning Event Generator - 14 views

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shared by Patrick Green on 09 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Patrick Green on 09 Mar 11
     
    The L.E.G randomly assigns ways of demonstrating knowledge.  This version allows the teacher to come up with the knowledge to be demonstrated, while the LEG selects the assessment task.
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Going Beyond NCLB and Assessing Schools Differently | Edutopia - 14 views

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  • edutopia .org on 11 May 11
     
    RAND Education and Sandler foundation recommends new measurements of school performance to federal government.
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Differentiation Assessment: A Different Type of Vocabulary Test « Co-Creating... - 31 views

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 10 May 11
     
    Denise Finley's unique perspective on differentiating vocabulary instruction. 
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SoapBox - Transform your lecture in real-time - 18 views

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shared by Megan Black on 06 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Megan Black on 06 Oct 11
     
    This Back channel tool has a profanity filter that does not allow most inappropriate messages to be posted. Below is from their website.  Teach more effectively. SoapBox is a controlled digital space, designed to improve student engagement by breaking down the barriers students face when deciding whether or not to participate in class, and gives teachers a concrete assessment of student comprehension, in real time.
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Cooperative Catalyst - 15 views

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  •  I believe it is ideal to invite the student to participate in understanding and creating the goals of their learning.
  • We should allow them to be an active part of the conversation and thinking around the what, how and why of their learning.
  • By always dictating the outcomes, we turn our leaning into checklist to be completed, passively learning what is expected of us and never reaching beyond the boundaries of the rubrics or standards.
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  • should be utilized as sign posts or maps of where learning can and might go. I personally believe that rubrics and standards can be as limiting as they are useful.
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Virtual Libraries Are Teaching Treasures (Edutopia) - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 02 Apr 09
     
    Thousands of articles, videos, slide shows, expert interviews, blog entries, and other resources highlight success stories in K-12 education. Core concepts include integrated studies, project learning,technology integration, teacher development, social and emotional learning, and assessment."
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12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives | bridges.org - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 07 Jun 09
     
    Important article for integrators and IT directors to read.
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Jun 09
     
    Excellent reading for IT Directors and Technology Integrators - I particularly like the part about doing your homework and the thorough needs assessment - this fits with excellent books like the Influencer that have researched positive change.
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Yacapaca! - Home - 0 views

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  • Ashley S. on 25 Sep 09
     
    YacaPaca! - Management for Teachers and Students With YacaPaca users can create quizzes, surveys, tests,and more. Discover modify and share assessments.Set work for the whole class with a few mouse clicks, and analyse with tools that improve your teaching.
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Social Studies Central - 0 views

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  • Ted Sakshaug on 19 May 09
     
    Social Studies Central is intended to provide resources with a focus on the Social Studies, to support teachers as they improve their instruction and to help educators engage kids in learning. You will find lesson plans, new web sites, links to standards and assessment advice, technology integration resources and information about workshops and staff development.
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What Do School Tests Measure? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • According to a New York Times analysis, New York City students have steadily improved their performance on statewide tests since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took control of the public schools seven years ago.
  • Critics say the results are proof only that it is possible to “teach to the test.” What do the results mean? Are tests a good way to prepare students for future success?
  • Tests covering what students were expected to learn (guided by an agreed-upon curriculum) serve a useful purpose — to provide evidence of student effort, of student learning, of what teachers taught, and of what teachers may have failed to teach.
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  • More serious questions arise about “teaching to the test.” If the test requires students to do something academically valuable — to demonstrate comprehension of high quality reading passages at an appropriate level of complexity and difficulty for the students’ grade, for example — then, of course, “teaching to the test” is appropriate.
  • Reading is the crucial subject in the curriculum, affecting all the others, as we know.
  • An almost exclusive focus on raising test scores usually leads to teaching to the test, denies rich academic content and fails to promote the pleasure in learning, and to motivate students to take responsibility for their own learning, behavior, discipline and perseverance to succeed in school and in life.
  • Test driven, or force-fed, learning can not enrich and promote the traits necessary for life success. Indeed, it is dangerous to focus on raising test scores without reducing school drop out, crime and dependency rates, or improving the quality of the workforce and community life.
  • Students, families and groups that have been marginalized in the past are hurt most when the true purposes of education are not addressed.
  • lein. Mayor Bloomberg claims that more than two-thirds of the city’s students are now proficient readers. But, according to federal education officials, only 25 percent cleared the proficient-achievement hurdle after taking the National Assessment of Education Progress, a more reliable and secure test in 2007.
  • The major lesson is that officials in all states — from New York to Mississippi — have succumbed to heavy political pressure to somehow show progress. They lower the proficiency bar, dumb down tests and distribute curricular guides to teachers filled with study questions that mirror state exams.
  • This is why the Obama administration has nudged 47 states to come around the table to define what a proficient student truly knows.
  • Test score gains among New York City students are important because research finds that how well one performs on cognitive tests matters more to one’s life chances than ever before. Mastery of reading and math, in particular, are significant because they provide the gateway to higher learning and critical thinking.
  • First, just because students are trained to do well on a particular test doesn’t mean they’ve mastered certain skills.
  • Second, whatever the test score results, children in high poverty schools like the Promise Academy are still cut off from networks of students, and students’ parents, who can ease access to employment.
  • Reliable and valid standardized tests can be one way to measure what some students have learned. Although they may be indicators of future academic success, they don’t “prepare” students for future success.
  • Since standardized testing can accurately assess the “whole” student, low test scores can be a real indicator of student knowledge and deficiencies.
  • Many teachers at high-performing, high-poverty schools have said they use student test scores as diagnostic tools to address student weaknesses and raise achievement.
  • The bigger problem with standardized tests is their emphasis on the achievement of only minimal proficiency.
  • While it is imperative that even the least accomplished students have sufficient reading and calculating skills to become self-supporting, these are nonetheless the students with, overall, the fewest opportunities in the working world.
  • Regardless of how high or low we choose to set the proficiency bar, standardized test scores are the most objective and best way of measuring it.
  • The gap between proficiency and true comprehension would be especially wide in the case of the brightest students. These would be the ones least well-served by high-stakes testing.
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