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Ty Hoggins

Qwiki - 10 views

www.qwiki.com

search information innovative

shared by Ty Hoggins on 27 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 27 Jan 11
     
    Qwiki's goal is to forever improve the way people experience information. Whether you're planning a vacation on the web, evaluating restaurants on your phone, or helping with homework in front of the family Google TV, Qwiki is working to deliver information in a format that's quintessentially human - via storytelling instead of search. We are the first to turn information into an experience. We believe that just because data is stored by machines doesn't mean it should be presented as a machine-readable list. Let's try harder.
  • anonymous on 27 Jan 11
     
    an online encyclopedia complete with sounds, beautiful images...
  • Ty Hoggins on 05 Jun 11
     
    Great new tool - Facebook, meets Google, meets Wikipedia
carlos villalobos

CHEMystery: Organic Chemistry: Organic Families and Their Functional Groups - 8 views

library.thinkquest.org/...functionalgroups.html

química orgánica science

shared by carlos villalobos on 27 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • carlos villalobos on 27 Feb 11
     
    Organic Chemistry
Mrs. Duarte

Can a Facebook page replace the need for a website? - 23 views

humancapitalleague.com/...11076

shared by Mrs. Duarte on 12 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • One thing is for certain: Custom Facebook page landing tabs have a huge impact on encouraging users to convert into followers.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Feb 11
       
      If schools and nonprofits wish to make money they should also have initiatives on Facebooks.
    • Reba Gordon Matthews
      Reba Gordon Matthews on 12 Feb 11
       
      Our family has a non-profit organization and it is wonderful to learn about this Facebook initiative.
  • Guy Kawasaki’s post on how he chose a Facebook page
    • shawnsieg
      shawnsieg on 12 Feb 11
       
      Guy is a great resource!!
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Feb 11
       
      Yes he is and the alltop education is very useful to give people that don't want to use an RSS reader.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Feb 11
       
      Demonstrating to educators the power of annotated web.
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  • Vitaminwater
    • shawnsieg
      shawnsieg on 12 Feb 11
       
      following Vitaminwater on FaceBook :) -shawnsieg
  • A targeted subsection of another site: If you need to brand and market a subset of your organization and the gap between the markets or messages is too diverse, a Facebook page might offer you a home on the web without the need to develop another site. That said, WordPress can be an easy way to get a strong site up and running – we’d recommend giving it a good look before ruling out another site.
    • Mrs. Duarte
      Mrs. Duarte on 12 Feb 11
       
      Testing a sticky note...
Barry Peterson

The Best Live Education Tool Available - 32 views

barpet.gvowebcasts.com

administrator all_teachers bestpractices edublogger grants curriculum history literature math science technology language edu_news edu_trends edu_newapp web3d web2 edublog professionaldevelopment techintegrator digitalcitizenship elementary middleschool

shared by Barry Peterson on 23 May 11 - No Cached
  • Barry Peterson on 23 May 11
     
    Dear Educators, With this webcasting tool, you can connect live face to face with anyone, anywhere, anytime.....family, friends, students, teachers, colleagues, administrative groups, principals meetings, etc. without having to travel. You can even promote world peace by connecting with teachers and students in their classrooms worldwide and learning more about each other's country and culture The tools for your use include the ability to have live video chat, make PowerPoint presentations, stream video, share your desktop, record and share your presentation, and much more. Guests do not have to download any software. They simply click on the link to your conference that you send them, no cost, no travel and better yet, no wasted time. This tool is affordable and easily fits into a classroom, school or administartive office budget. As a former superintendent in the education system with more than 50 schools spread out 400 miles along a major highway, the ability to communicate with everyone in an efficient, effective and economical manner was essential. Hope you find this helpful. Best wishes, Barry
Greg Noack

TEACHER APPRECIATION: appreciation links teacher - Famous Teachers - A short history - 5 views

www.teacher-appreciation.info/...A_short_history.asp

teaching history

shared by Greg Noack on 16 Jun 11 - Cached
  • One of the most learned men of all time, Confucius (561B.C.), became the first private teacher in history. Born of a once noble family fallen on hard times, he found himself as an adolescent with a thirst for knowledge and nowhere to drink, since only the royal or noble were allowed an education. Because all the teachers were government officials, th
Tess Alfonsin

DigiTales - 6 views

www.digitales.us/

shared by Tess Alfonsin on 08 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Tess Alfonsin on 08 Aug 11
     
    Educational experiences fully funded to middle and high schools across the U.S.
Vicki Davis

Parental Involvement and Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis / Browse Our Publications... - 10 views

www.hfrp.org/...nt-achievement-a-meta-analysis

education research parenting all_teachers administrator

shared by Vicki Davis on 27 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 27 Aug 11
     
    Parent involvement is highly correlated with student success. Here is an overview of some meta analysis done through Harvard's school of education.
Thomas Ho

Meaningful, Engaged Learning - 0 views

www.ncrel.org/engaged.htm

learning engagement

shared by Thomas Ho on 23 Jul 09 - Cached
  • They are also energized by their learning; their joy of learning leads to a lifelong passion for solving problems, understanding, and taking the next step in their thinking
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 23 Jul 09
       
      I'm like this, BUT my students often are NOT!
  • Collaboration around authentic tasks often takes place with peers and mentors within school as well as with family members and others in the real world outside of school.
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 23 Jul 09
       
      This sounds tailor-made for social networking, doesn't it?
  • artifacts to assess what they actually know and can do.
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 23 Jul 09
       
      a learning STREAM is an artifact created as a "natural" byproduct of the learning process as documented by social media
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  • Instruction encourages the learner to construct and produce knowledge in meaningful ways.
  • Truly collaborative classrooms, schools, and communities encourage students to
  • lead conversations
  • work-related conversations
  • Flexible grouping, which allows teachers to reconfigure small groups according to the purposes of instruction
  • facilitator, guide, and learner
  • they become producers of knowledge, capable of making significant contributions to the world's knowledge
Kimberly Brosan

TI-SmartView™ Emulator Software for the TI-84 Plus Family by Texas Instrument... - 0 views

education.ti.com/...us_smartview.html

math calculator software Teaching

shared by Kimberly Brosan on 08 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Kimberly Brosan on 08 Apr 09
     
    Can be projected on smartboard or other interactive whiteboard
Fabian Aguilar

What Do School Tests Measure? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/...what-do-school-tests-measure

nytimes all_teachers math science

shared by Fabian Aguilar on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 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.
Jazzper I

Voxopop - a whole new way to talk online - 12 views

www.voxopop.com

audio voice web2.0 podcast chat speaking voxopop chinswing

shared by Jazzper I on 19 Oct 09 - Cached
  • That's right! Voxopop talkgroups let you discuss your interests and passions with people from all over the world, using your real voice. It's a whole new way to talk online. Find talkgroups to join, or start your own and spread the word. Great for families & friends, interest groups, website owners, bloggers, podcasters and teachers. Start talking, it's FREE!
    • Jazzper I
      Jazzper I on 20 Dec 09
       
      Me like!
Barry Peterson

Communication - The Key To Understanding Others - Communicate Face to Face With Anyone,... - 10 views

Connect live face to face with Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime.....family, friends, students, teachers, Promote world peace by connecting teachers and students in their classrooms worldwide. http://tinyu...

administrator all_teachers bestpractices edublogger grants curriculum history math literature techintegrator digitalcitizenship edu_newapp edu_trends edu_news language technology science professionaldevelopment edublog web2 web3d elementary middleschool

started by Barry Peterson on 30 Apr 11 no follow-up yet
Brendan Murphy

Education scholar Soo Hong finds education innovation in Logan Square, Mary Schmich say... - 1 views

www.chicagotribune.com/...0427-20110427,0,7354864.column

education scholar parent

shared by Brendan Murphy on 07 May 11 - No Cached
  • trained by the Logan Square Neighborhood Association to work in the schools
  • Parents. Everywhere.
  • families need support before student performance will improve. 
Suzie Nestico

Google Plus Tips & Shortcuts - 11 views

www.localseoguide.com/google-plus-shortcuts-tips

Google+ google plus tips shortcuts all_teachers edu_news edu_trends techintegrator technology education

shared by Suzie Nestico on 04 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • According to Picasa, If you’ve signed up for Google+ photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards your free storage. (hat tip to Greg Grothaus)
  • To add people who have added you to their circles, but you haven’t add them, go to the “People who’ve added you” tab and select “Not yet in circles” from the sort menu.  All the people not in your circles will be listed first (hat tip to Owen Prater)
  • Right click on a circle and select “View circle in tab”. This is a terrific way to see who’s in a circle and allows you to do neat things like drag all the people inside it to another circle.
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  • If you have a lot of Circles and/or a lot of people in your various Circles views (e.g. “People in your circles”, “People who’ve added you”, etc.”), Mac users can use the pinch functionality to make the Circles section smaller so you can view all of your Circles.
  • Order of Circles in Left-Hand Nav: Default Circles appear first in this order – Friends, Family, Following, and Acquaintances. Then your personal circles are arranged alphabetically. You can rename any of the circles, including the default ones, and renaming a default one makes it part of the normal alphabetized list. Put an underscore in front of one that you want at the top of the list. You could also delete the default circles and start over in the order that you want.(hat tip to Donna Fontenont and Joe Hall)
  • Suzie Nestico on 04 Jul 11
     
    List of links and shortcuts for working/playing with the various functions and features of Google+
Meredith Johnson

Increasing Engagement in School Web Sites - 10 views

http://www.vizu.com/index.html Easy to use resource that could increase family involvement in education!

polling engagement web sites

started by Meredith Johnson on 28 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
Ed Webb

Lucy Kellaway: what my students have taught me about race | Financial Times - 1 views

www.ft.com/...cf-ac8f-4027-86d5-70e2550003e3

opinion education race racism teaching students

shared by Ed Webb on 12 Jul 20 - Cached
  • By the time I left the FT I had spent the best part of six decades associating almost exclusively with people who had been to top universities and did grandish jobs and were all white. I sometimes felt sheepish about this but never thought it was my fault. I was merely a product of class, generation, education and profession. 
  • this uncomfortable audit began, not with the killing of a black man in Minnesota, but three years earlier, when I started teaching in a school in Hackney. At the age of 58 I was lifted out of a world in which everyone was like me into a world where I was in a minority as a white Brit. My pupils’ families came from all over the place: first-, second- and sometimes third-generation immigrants from Nigeria and Ghana, from the Caribbean, from Turkey and Bangladesh and Vietnam.
  • It wasn’t a question of being “politically correct”. The matter was as simple as this: if I say something that causes offence, then I have to learn to stop saying it. Right away. 
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  • I know my heart is in the right place on race, but I also know my heart is an irrelevant organ when it comes to traversing this minefield. I need instruction. 
  • what things used to be like is an irrelevance to these young women. What matters to them is the present — and their account of it is both important and distressing.
  • In the absence of any better ideas, all I think I can do for now is to listen to my students talking about their world, while continuing to talk to them about mine. I am educating them. And they are educating me.
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