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carlos villalobos

Why Multiphysics? - COMSOL - 1 views

www.comsol.com/multiphysics

comsol multiphysics all_teachers

shared by carlos villalobos on 29 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • carlos villalobos on 29 Mar 11
     
    It's a Multiphysics World The real world is multiphysics in nature. Consider your mobile phone. The antenna receives electromagnetic waves, the touch screen or buttons are mechanical and electrical components, the battery involves chemical reactions and electrical current, and so on. A single device, but multiphysics. Since it's a multiphysics world, your simulation tool must be multiphysics capable in order to correctly capture the important aspects of your design. The COMSOL Multiphysics approach starts with first principles like transport phenomena, electromagnetic field theory, and solid mechanics as the basic fibers of the software. Then, in an elegant and flexible user interface, you can weave these fibers together in a self-consistent way to solve your particular simulation needs. "COMSOL allows us to couple mechanisms in a very nice and simple way, allowing us to understand their combined effect. This is the true power of simulation." -- Dr Roberto Suarez-Rivera of Schlumberger. COMSOL Multiphysics delivers the ideal tool to build simulations that accurately replicate the important characteristics of your designs. Its unparalleled ability to include all relevant physical effects that exist in the real world is known as multiphysics.
Ed Webb

U. of Pennsylvania Students Build Course-Management Software - Wired Campus - The Chron... - 3 views

chronicle.com/...30475

education Blackboard LMS

shared by Ed Webb on 11 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Ed Webb on 11 Apr 11
     
    Comment section more interesting than the article
Vicki Davis

Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record - 18 views

www.screenr.com

edapp eduapp screencast technology

shared by Vicki Davis on 19 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 27 Mar 12
     
    An excellent screencaster- you can post to YouTube or send wherever. You don't need to install software to run this one.
Joao Alves

FlipSnack | PDF to Flash page flip - flipping book software - 24 views

www.flipsnack.com

pdf ebook flipsnack tools embed flash

shared by Joao Alves on 04 May 11 - No Cached
  • Deb Henkes on 04 May 11
     
    FlipSnack is a free online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications. It's the ideal solution for those who wish to embed a book, magazine, catalog, newspaper, portfolio or any other kind of document into a website or blog.
Suzie Nestico

Jim Klein :: Weblog :: To those who would lead... - 9 views

community.saugususd.org/...1375.html

education technology K-12 21 Century Classroom 21stcentury teaching learning administrator all_teachers bestpractices edu_trends

shared by Suzie Nestico on 05 May 11 - No Cached
  • What we must never forget, no matter what circumstances are forced upon us, is that without failure, there is no success. We learn when we fail. We grow when we fall. Science is all about learning from failure, and failure is a key component of innovation, without which nothing would ever be tried. The right technology brings with it the opportunity to create environments where students have the opportunity to not just fail, but to fail gracefully, recover quickly, and move forward having learned from the experience in a non-threatening way.
    • Suzie Nestico
      Suzie Nestico on 05 May 11
       
      Seems, by far, to be one of the most powerful statements in this blog.  As educators, we need to remind our students how very important failure can be.  Not to suggest we purport failure as a good thing, but that we emphasize it as part of a growth model.
  • As is so well stated by Weston & Bain (2010), "Bransford et al (2000), Jonassen (2000, 2004, 2006, 2008), and Jonassen et al. (1999), fix the future of educational technology in cognitive tools that shape and extend human capabilities. Cognitive tools blur the unproductive distinctions that techno-critics make between computers and teaching and learning (Bullen & Janes, 2007; Hukkinen, 2008; Kommers et al., 1992; Lajoie, 2000). When technology enables, empowers, and accelerates a profession's core transactions, the distinctions between computers and professional practice evaporate.
  • For instance, when a surgeon uses an arthriscope to trim a cartilage (Johnson & Pedowitz, 2007), a structural engineer uses computer-assisted design software to simulate stresses on a bridge (Yeomans, 2009), or a sales manager uses customer-relations-management software to predict future inventory needs (Baltzen & Phillips, 2009), they do not think about technology. Each one thinks about her or his professional transaction." 
  • Suzie Nestico on 05 May 11
     
    Must read about considerations for the future directions of our schools and developing the 21st Century learner.
Vicki Davis

GeoGebra - 11 views

www.geogebra.org/cms

education learning math

shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Nov 11
     
    This open source mathematics software includes graphics, algebra, and spreadsheet capabilities and is increasing in use. This is one of those "must loads" on your school or university websites.
Martin Burrett

Prowise Presenter entirely free of charge - 0 views

ukedchat.com/...prowise-free

prowise resources

shared by Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 18
     
    "Prowise has made all the unique education possibilities that Prowise Presenter has to offer accessible to everyone, for free. This applies to non-paying, paying and new users. From now on, everyone has free access to all the functionalities the education software has to offer. This way the company, based in Birmingham, makes progress towards their ambition to make digital education accessible for everyone, globally."
Brendan Murphy

K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents | Reuters - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...database-idUSBRE92204W20130303

shared by Brendan Murphy on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 06 Mar 13
       
      So the real problem, according to the edtech company, is they are spending money at the school for personal when they could be funneling that money to the edtech company. No thought of putting that money to use in the classroom (unless it is tech related)
  • Most data-driven software has only been tested on a small scale; results are often mixed.
Dean Mantz

Online Group Brainstorming, Decision Making Software - GroupMap - 3 views

www.groupmap.com

brainstorming mindmapping online

shared by Dean Mantz on 09 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 09 Apr 13
     
    Too bad the pricing plans are not real friendly. 
Martin Burrett

Musink - 4 views

www.musink.net

music composition software

shared by Martin Burrett on 19 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 19 Dec 12
     
    This is a lovely downloadable programme to compose pieces of music on a digital stave which will play you creations back to you. Just drag the note and rests into the positions you want. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts
Vicki Davis

Beautiful web-based timeline software - 3 views

www.tiki-toki.com

timeline edu_newapp

shared by Vicki Davis on 17 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Apr 13
     
    This timeline maker is one of the coolest looking I've seen. My students are selecting a timeline app.
Martin Burrett

Grammar and Spell Checker for Better English Communication - Ginger Software - 7 views

www.gingersoftware.com

grammar spelling writing

shared by Martin Burrett on 13 Apr 13 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 Apr 13
     
    This is an intelligent spelling and grammar checker which sits in the background in Office and your browser until you need it. It constantly looks for examples of your sentence on the internet and decides whether it is correct and gives alternatives. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Martin Burrett

AudioSauna - Online Music Software - 9 views

www.audiosauna.com/studio

shared by Martin Burrett on 25 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 25 Apr 13
     
    This musical site gives you a virtual synthesiser to create wonderful tunes and sound effects on. It's easy to use and versatile. You can play the middle octave with your computer keyboard or plot the music along a timeline for greater accuracy. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts
Martin Burrett

GameSalad - 7 views

gamesalad.com

programming apps computing game builder software

shared by Martin Burrett on 09 Nov 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 09 Nov 12
     
    A great downloadable programme for making computer games for a variety of platforms and devices. Drag and drop items to make your creations. It's provides a more mature environment than tools like Scratch and there are many more options and advance settings for talented students. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Ed Webb

Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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development computers literacy education technology

shared by Ed Webb on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • what we did was deliver the computers without preparing the teachers
  • the missteps may have actually widened the gap between children able to benefit from the computers and those ill-equipped to do so
  • Inter-American Development Bank researchers were less polite."There is little solid evidence regarding the effectiveness of this program," they said in a study sharply critical of the overall OLPC initiative that was based on a 15-month study at 319 schools in small, rural Peruvian communities that got laptops."The magical thinking that mere technology is enough to spur change, to improve learning, is what this study categorically disproves," co-author Eugenio Severin of Chile told The Associated Press
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  • OLPC laptops, which are rugged and energy efficient and run an open-source variant of the Linux operating system, are in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mongolia and Haiti, and even in the United States and Australia. Uruguay, a compact South American nation of 3.5 million people, is the only country that has fully embraced the concept and given every elementary school child and teacher an XO laptop
  • no increased math or language skills, no improvement in classroom instruction quality, no boost in time spent on homework, no improvement in reading habits
  • On the positive side, the "dramatic increase in access to computers" accelerated by about six months students' abstract reasoning, verbal fluency and speed in processing information
  • "We knew from the start that it wouldn't be possible to improve the teachers," he said, citing a 2007 census of 180,000 Peruvian teachers that showed more than 90 percent lacked basic math skills while three in five could not read above sixth-grade level.
  • Each teacher was supposed to get 40 hours of OLPC training. That hardly helped in schools where teachers had never so much as booted up a computer. In Patzer's experience "most of them barely knew how to interact with the computers at all."
  • In the higher grades, Martinez said, children's use of the machines is mostly social
  • "For them, the laptop is more for playing than for learning,"
  • Negroponte thinks the main goal of technology educators should be simply getting computers into poor kids' hands.His proposal last year to parachute tablet computers from helicopters, limiting the involvement of adults and "educators," caused some colleagues to wince. But Negroponte is dead serious, and has begun a pilot project in two Ethiopian villages to test whether tablets alone, loaded with the right software, can teach children to read.
  • The OLPC team always considered Internet connectivity part of the recipe for success. They also insisted that each child be given a laptop and be permitted to take it home.Uruguay, a small, flat country with a far higher standard of living and ubiquitous Internet, has honored those requirementsPeru did not
  • Some schools didn't have enough electricity to power the machines.And then there was the Internet. Less than 1 percent of the schools studied had it.
Martin Burrett

School Report Writing Software for Teachers - FREE & ONLINE - 6 views

www.schoolreportwriter.com

school reports assessment

shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Jul 12
     
    This site allows you to save sentences and lists of activities and projects to easily customise your school reports. Build your own comment back to avoid careless errors and save it until next year. Easily change between he/she him/her and more by using hashtags. It not a comment bank, it's just a smarter way to use your own words in an organised way. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Planning+%26+Assessment
Clare Greenup

IBM What is big data? - Bringing big data to the enterprise - 3 views

www-01.ibm.com/...bigdata

data digitalcitizenship

shared by Clare Greenup on 12 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Clare Greenup on 12 Sep 12
     
    we use this for discussions with students on their digital footprint 
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