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Vicki Davis

Curriki - ContinuityofLearning - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 27 Aug 09
     
    Just received this in my inbox: "WASHINGTON DC (August 25th, 2009) - Curriki, the largest online community for creating and sharing open source K-12 curricula, was asked by the Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) to provide a continuity of learning plan for states, school districts, and individuals as part of a nationwide readiness initiative for a possible resurgence of the H1N1 virus. Curriki's continuity of learning plan includes access to a free and open repository of teaching and learning resources built on an open platform that can be customized for individual states or school districts. Like an iTunes playlist, users of Curriki can create collections of free and open educational resources, along with repositories of other supplemental content. If a teacher prefers one lesson to another, he or she can easily swap content in or out to meet the individual needs of the students. States or school districts can take advantage of customized landing pages designed to provide specific information, news, resources, and links to their education stakeholders. Additionally, Curriki's group function allow members of a district, school, or community to stay connected and privately share resources, communicate and post news and collaborate on projects from any location. " I think that perhaps online learning is about to completely boom largely as a result of the growing pandemic and the need for isolation and ongoing learning. Curriki has things together for this and I'm going to take a look at this for our school.
Vicki Davis

Sophia Founder to Showcase Free Online Social Teaching and Learning Platform at Educati... - 0 views

www.prnewswire.com/...novation-summit-118775469.html

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shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • "Sophia connects people who want to learn with those willing to teach so that anyone, anywhere can create academically credible content and share it with the world."
  • social teaching and learning application that makes free, credible academic content available to anyone at anytime. It is a mission-driven organization that aims to break traditional cost and access barriers to post-secondary degree attainment. For more information, go to www.sophia.org.
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 11
     
    This press release tells more about Sophia. "Sophia is a social teaching and learning application that makes free, credible academic content available to anyone at anytime. It is a mission-driven organization that aims to break traditional cost and access barriers to post-secondary degree attainment. For more information, go to www.sophia.org."
Vicki Davis

NaNoWriMo shut down after AI, content moderation scandals | TechCrunch - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Apr 25 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 04 Apr 25
     
    So sad to see NaNoWriMo Go! Hat tip to Stephen Downes for telling us about this one. It is an issue with the organization saying it was ok to use AI in creative writing - a stand some best selling authors disagreed with. "Around the same time, the nonprofit was also lambasted for inconsistent moderation on its all-ages forums, which created an unsafe environment for teenage writers, community members claimed. According to NaNoWriMo, these controversies over content moderation and AI did not directly lead to the organization's demise. But they certainly didn't help. "To blame NaNoWriMo's demise on the events of the last year does a disservice to all struggling nonprofits," a NaNoWriMo spokesperson, Kilby, stated in a YouTube video. "Too many members of a very large, very engaged community let themselves believe the service to be provided was free.""
Julie Shy

Spongelab | A Global Science Community | Home page - 17 views

www.spongelab.com

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shared by Julie Shy on 20 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 20 Feb 12
     
    An amazing science site with a large number of magnificent animations and graphics to help you explain science principles. Content suitable for older students. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
  • Julie Shy on 17 Apr 12
     
    mission is to educate students in the sciences by building content-rich immersive teaching tools designed around discovery-based learning that are accessible to educators and learners at school, at home and in the general public. Spongelab Interactive builds their own products and offers custom production services for the global education community. Their unique approach around integrating educational design with advance web & gaming technology is planting the seeds for continued innovation of advanced communication and education products.
Vicki Davis

Download your free 12 Games of Christmas Teaching Pack - TES Topics - 0 views

topics.tes.co.uk/12games

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shared by Vicki Davis on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 30 Nov 11
     
    Here's the content of the 12 games of Christmas teaching pack. NOTE: IF you download, you will probably have to manually enter your school's information, especially if you are from outside the UK as many of us are just coming into the TES platform now.
Martin Burrett

Searcheeze - 12 views

www.searcheeze.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 08 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 08 Mar 12
     
    A great site for making online magazines using content from the internet. Add articles, videos, audio and more in just a few clicks. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Vicki Davis

Content Idea Generator - Portent - 15 views

www.portent.com/title-maker

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  • Vicki Davis on 10 Jun 14
     
    Awesome content idea generator to help you craft blog post titles that will attract attention.
Maggie Verster

AcaWiki: Increasing the Impact of Research Using Web 2.0 - 5 views

acawiki.org/Home

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shared by Maggie Verster on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 07 Oct 09
     
    AcaWiki is like "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible. All content on the site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
  • Maggie Verster on 07 Oct 09
     
    AcaWiki is like "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible. All content on the site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
Sandy Kendell

Making Videos on the Web - A Guide for Teachers - 31 views

content.yudu.com/...index.htm

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shared by Sandy Kendell on 21 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Sandy Kendell on 21 Aug 10
     
    From Richard Byrne. A very well put together guide. Includes instructions on finding copyright free or friendly content on the web.
Ted Sakshaug

openchemistry | Openchemistry makes chemistry learning content free, open and available... - 0 views

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 23 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 23 Mar 09
     
    OPENCHEMISTRY MAKES CHEMISTRY LEARNING CONTENT FREE, OPEN AND AVAILABLE TO THE WORLD
Vicki Davis

SimpleLeap Software - Mobile applications for your BlackBerry and iPhone | Cram - Test ... - 0 views

www.simpleleap.com/cram.htm

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shared by Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08
     
    Tools are emerging to move content to student cell phones.
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08
     
    Interested to see this software. Hope to get a copy and see how it works with my students. I have no doubt that moving content to mobile devices is going to be an incredibly useful thing to be able to do in the coming years. Do it now or do it later? How about 1:1 cell phone schools instead of laptops.
Vicki Davis

Past Issues - UI Design Newsletter - 0 views

www.humanfactors.com/...sep08.asp

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shared by Vicki Davis on 02 Oct 08 - Cached
  • You can ask them what they noticed, but self reporting of this sort is notoriously inaccurate – if you ask people to point to what they look at, and meld that with an eyetracking overlay of where their eyes actually went there is a startling gap.
  • applied eyetracking methodologies to measure the attention-drawing effects of new and newly modified elements of search results pages.
  • there is a strong correlation where people look and where they click on search results pages
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  • They look a bit like hurricane maps. People get most excited about findings where the gaze patterns are highly organized... and look a bit like a well-formed hurricane.
  • The visual design works!"
  • So, the visual design objective of a website is to draw your attention to move around the page.
  • longest looking times may not. In fact, longest looking times can, in some cases, reflect multiple lookbacks and dwell time indicating confusion or uncertainty about a next step, a label or an interaction.
  • If there is no fixation we cannot possibly process the content. If there is no fixation we can't be influenced. Amazing, but the part we should pay attention to in our eyetracking results is probably the area that is NOT highlighted!!
  • Vicki Davis on 02 Oct 08
     
    Article about how people look at web pages.
  • Vicki Davis on 02 Oct 08
     
    As you design web pages for use with your students -- do you wonder why they don't sometimes SEE what you're putting in front of them -- it is because of eye movement. It is design!!! This paper writes about the effect of website design on eye movement. Those who are desigining online curriculum need to understand this. My sister, Sarah, has been an onlien professor for Savannah College of Art and Design for a while, ,and this is something she talks about in her courses and shares with me. This is why I emphasize wiki layout and design w/ my students (like having a table of contents and white space.) If it is not attractive, it just doesn't exist, because it IS NOT READ! Educators will do well to remember that!
Angela Maiers

ASCD - 0 views

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shared by Angela Maiers on 18 Sep 08 - No Cached
  • Angela Maiers on 18 Sep 08
     
    Great article for content literacy
Dean Loberg

Education Week's Digital Directions: Building Gaming Into Science Education - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...04sciencegames_web.h01.html

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shared by Dean Loberg on 13 May 08 - Cached
  • "I've had teachers tell me,” says Eklund, “that after they introduced the game to their students, the classroom went completely silent because all of the kids were just reading." "You just don't get that kind of engagement and involvement with the story" with a textbook, he says.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 13 May 08
       
      Is this because of the visual appeal or the storyline? I can see this happening, but does silence mean high levels of engagement?
    • Dean Loberg
      Dean Loberg on 13 May 08
       
      Assuming that they are not sleeping I think it does mean engagement, but engagement does not equal education. It depends on the content as well.
  • A report written by researchers about The River City Project for a 2006 conference concluded "that students learned biology content, that students and teachers were highly engaged, that student attendance improved, that disruptive behavior dropped, that students were building 21st-century skills in virtual communication and expression, and importantly, that using this type of technology in the classroom can facilitate good inquiry learning."
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 13 May 08
       
      Is this limited to only the River City Project alone though? How does it promote more inquiry, problem and project-based learning in other content?
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  • "I'm in a unique situation where there's a computer at every lab table," he says, pointing out that many teachers do not have that ratio of students to computers.
  • when the games don't work properly, but most teachers don’t have that level of technical skill, she points out.
  • "There are little things you need to know," she says, to keep the games running smoothly. "[Otherwise], it's not going to work in the classroom, and teachers aren't going to use it."
  • "If [the game] doesn't have a focus or clear reason for what they're doing, it really doesn't work," says Pokrzywinski. Adapting games to the curriculum is possible, she says, but it takes time—something many teachers don't have.
  • Brian C. Smith on 13 May 08
     
    Science and gaming
  • Dean Loberg on 13 May 08
     
    Science and gaming
yc c

Illuminations: Dynamic Paper - 20 views

illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx

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shared by yc c on 04 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web. Instructions   This applet allows you to create the following: Nets – two-dimensional outlines of three-dimensional shapes, including regular polyhedra, prisms, pyramids, cylinders and cones Graph Paper – coordinate graphs, polar coordinates, logarithmic graph paper Number Lines – including positive and negative coordinates Number Grids – hundreds boards and the like Tessellations – tiling patterns involving triangles, quadrilaterals, and hexagons Shapes – pattern blocks, attribute blocks, and color tiles Spinners – up to 16 sectors, with adjustable sizes
David Hilton

Literacy Creep at The Core Knowledge Blog - 13 views

blog.coreknowledge.org/...literacy-creep

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shared by David Hilton on 12 Jan 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 12 Jan 10
     
    An article in last week's Education Week looks at the increasingly common practice of reading aloud to middle and high school students. In discussing the practice with Mary Ann Zehr (I'm quoted briefly in the piece) I made the point that while there is certainly nothing wrong with reading out loud to teenagers, it is symptomatic of what I call "literacy creep" - the tendency of elementary school-style instructional techniques to find their way deeper into K-12 education across all content areas.
  • David Hilton on 12 Jan 10
     
    Yet another beautiful analysis of a major problem in education today by the good people at Core Knowledge.
Darren Kuropatwa

NASSP - Shifting Ground - 14 views

www.principals.org/...sec.asp

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shared by Darren Kuropatwa on 06 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Moreover—and perhaps most damning—by blocking and banning many of the tools and Web sites that form the cornerstone of teenagers’ experiences, educators deny themselves access to the conversations that students are having about how to use these tools intelligently, ethically, and well. And given the overwhelming flow of information that students can access using such tools, it is essential that educators become part of those conversations.
  • Districts have spent thousands of dollars installing interactive whiteboards—which are a more powerful, more engaging chalkboard. And yes, they are a tool with some very useful functions, and yes, we have them at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, where I am principal. But let me be clear: interactive whiteboards only enable a teacher-centric style of teaching to be more engaging than it would have been with a traditional chalkboard. Much of the prepackaged educational gaming similarly makes the same mistake.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 06 Dec 09
       
      I've just never bought into these as a good way to spend money other than perhaps in Kindergarten and Grade 1 where students can interact and engage with text and shapes in front of their peers.
    • Darren Kuropatwa
      Darren Kuropatwa on 07 Dec 09
       
      I disagree with both you and Chris here. If you use an IWB to teach in a teacher centric way then *maybe* it'll be more engaging for students than it was before the IWB but I doubt it; I think kids are smarter than that. Teachers who teach in student centred ways find IWBs amplify not just engagement with the teacher, but with each other and the content they are wrestling with; they learn more deeply because we can bring a more multifaceted perspective to bear on every issue/problem discussed in class. When the full content of the internet can be brought to bear on every classroom discussion (including my twitter and skype networks) we are able to concretely illustrate the interconnectedness of all things. We don't have to tell kids this, they see it as it happens, every day. You might be able to do something like this without an IWB but it would be a little more clunky in execution.
  • The single greatest challenge schools face is helping students make sense of the world today. Schools have gone from information scarcity to information overload. This is why classes must be inquiry driven. Merely providing content is not enough, nor is it enough to simply present students with a problem to solve. Schools must create ways for students to come together as a community to ask powerful questions and dare them to bring all of their talents to bear on real-world problems.
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  • Schools can and must be empowering—what held down the progressive school movements of the past 100 years was not that the ideas were wrong, but rather that it often just took too long to create the authentic examples of learning.
  • The idea of community has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, and that idea should be reflected in classrooms.
  • Once students have worked together, the question must become, What can they create?
  • But it is not enough for educators to simply be aware of social networking; they have an obligation to teach students the difference between social networking and academic networking
  • Educators can help them understand how to paint a digital portrait of themselves online that includes the work they do in school and help them network, both locally and globally, to enrich themselves as students.
  • Dave Truss on 06 Dec 09
     
    by blocking and banning many of the tools and Web sites that form the cornerstone of teenagers' experiences, educators deny themselves access to the conversations that students are having about how to use these tools intelligently, ethically, and well. And given the overwhelming flow of information that students can access using such tools, it is essential that educators become part of those conversations.
  • Darren Kuropatwa on 07 Dec 09
     
    by blocking and banning many of the tools and Web sites that form the cornerstone of teenagers' experiences, educators deny themselves access to the conversations that students are having about how to use these tools intelligently, ethically, and well. And given the overwhelming flow of information that students can access using such tools, it is essential that educators become part of those conversations.
Suzie Nestico

Best content in educators | Diigo - Groups - 17 views

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  • Some major computer science programs at top universities are seeing a slight uptick in the number of women going into the programs
  • Vicki Davis on 11 Mar 10
     
    Educators Group on Diigo - over 1400 educators share in this group which also has standard tags to help us categorize and share.
  • Suzie Nestico on 28 Jun 11
     
    Best content in educators
David Wetzel

Online Learning Tools for Continuing Education: Advantages of Using the Internet for Li... - 10 views

continuingeducation.suite101.com/...tools-for-continuing-education

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shared by David Wetzel on 23 Mar 10 - Cached
  • David Wetzel on 23 Mar 10
     
    The availability of free open textbooks, Webinars, Podcasts, and open source content college courses are described as to how they support and influence adult learning.
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