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Vicki Davis

Listening to the Audience (Twitter) at Web 2.0 Expo: The Balance of Value vs Entertainment - 0 views

www.web-strategist.com/...s-off-for-web-20-expo-speakers

shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08 - Cached
  • so I acknowledged them in twitter, and let everyone know we would quickly shift to questions, so the audience could drive the agenda. We received over a dozen questions, and I hope the audience was satisfied, lots of good hard questions from many folks on the ground that are trying to solve these problems: getting management to agree, measuring roi, dealing with detractors, etc. After which, I think we won him over: “Questions made the panel: Love hearing viewpoints from people with boots on the ground”
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
       
      This is the point, the audience (students) want the session to be relevant. They wan tto be part of it. That is WHY you should establish a backchannel. Then, the moderator of the panel should monitor the backchannel. I use a backchannel room on Chatzy. Jeremiah just used twitter. However, I agree that BACKCHANNELING is an essential best practice to a good presentation AND having a backchannel moderator. I would add that I like to also have "google jockey" dropping in links as well!
  • Now, the next panel (Greg Narain, Brian Solis, Stowe Boyd) wasn’t traditional by any sense, it was an experiment, where we crowd-sourced the agenda to the audience –they used Twitter. Greg Narain setup an application where members from the audience could message (@micromedia2) and their tweets (comments, questions, requests, answers, and sometimes jokes made at Scoble’s expense) were seen live on the screen.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
       
      This is a cool idea and something we may do in our NECC presentation about viral professional development.
  • he was waiting for that breakthrough insight.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
       
      This is an important point -- it is not just about being entertained -- people want MEAT and breakthroughs as well, especially if you're one of "those" people with a reputation for break through statements. Don't let backchannels become distracting -- keep focus and let them add to the presentation.
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  • Later, I talked to the gentleman who thought the session was negative, and his reason was because he was left out, and didn’t know how to get twitter started.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
       
      Another good point, people feel left out when they don't know what you're doing. How about some "suggested prerequisites" or links published prior to a panel so that people will "get it??" I think the rules are changing and we are reinventing PD.
  • we can tell as people actually took the time to blog about it
  • I think our culture is being overrun by big mouths & squeaky wheels. Not everyone wants to jump into the mosh pit or finds it boring to have useful information presented in a structured format.
Kate Olson

ErikRingmarABloggersManifesto.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

ia341015.us.archive.org/...kRingmarABloggersManifesto.pdf

all_teachers blog book manifesto ringmar technology

shared by Kate Olson on 20 Apr 08 - No Cached
  • Kate Olson on 20 Apr 08
     
    Erik Ringmar's book "A Blogger's Manifesto" is now available as a free download
Ben W

Seismic Wave Animation (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - 0 views

www.geo.wvu.edu/...38.swf

animation earthquakes flash science seismic waves

shared by Ben W on 21 Apr 08 - No Cached
  • Ben W on 21 Apr 08
     
    Quick animation showing P-, S-, Rayleigh, and Love seismic waves
Marisa P

John Dewey: School and Society: Chapter 4: The Psychology of Elementary Education - 0 views

www.brocku.ca/...Dewey_1915a.html

shared by Marisa P on 16 May 08 - Cached
  • To refuse to try, to stick (97) blindly to tradition, because the search for the truth involves experimentation in the region of the unknown, is to refuse the only step which can introduce rational conviction into education.
    • Marisa P
      Marisa P on 16 May 08
       
      great quote
  • It should also be stated that practically it has not as yet been possible, in many cases, to act adequately upon the best ideas obtained, because of administrative difficulties, due to lack of funds —difficulties centering in the lack of a proper building and appliances, and in inability to pay the amounts necessary to secure the complete time of teachers in some important lines. Indeed, with the growth of the school in numbers, and in the age and maturity of pupils, it is becoming a grave question how long it is fair to the experiment to carry it on without more adequate facilities.
  • The aim, then, is not for the child to go to school as a place apart, but rather in the school so to recapitulate typical phases of his experience outside of school, as to enlarge, enrich, and gradually formulate it.
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  • Since the aim is not "covering the ground," but knowledge of social processes used to secure social results, no attempt is made to go over the entire history, in chronological order, of America
  • His experiments are modes of active doing—almost as much so as his play and games. Later he tries to find out how various materials or agencies are manipulated in order to give certain results. It is thus clearly distinguished from experimentation in the scientific sense—such as is appropriate to the secondary period —where the aim is the discovery of facts and verification of principles.
  • means to ends
  • These subjects are social in a double sense. They represent the tools which society has evolved in the past as the instruments of its intellectual pursuits. They represent the keys which will unlock to the child the wealth of social capital which lies beyond the possible range of his limited individual experience. While these two points of view must always give these arts a highly important place in education, they also make it necessary that certain conditions should be observed in their introduction and use. In a wholesale and direct application of the studies no account is taken of these conditions. The chief problem at present relating to the three R's is recognition of these conditions and the adaptation of work to them.
  • 1) The need that the child shall have in his own personal (105) and vital experience a varied background of contact and acquaintance with realities, social and physical. This is necessary to prevent symbols from becoming a purely second-hand and conventional substitute for reality.
  • The need that the more ordinary, direct, and personal experience of the child shall furnish problems, motives, and interests that necessitate recourse to books for their solution, satisfaction, and pursuit. Otherwise, the child approaches the book without intellectual hunger, without alertness, without a questioning attitude, and the result is the one so deplorably common: such abject dependence upon books as weakens and cripples vigor of thought and inquiry, combined with reading for mere random stimulation of fancy, emotional indulgence, and flight from the world of reality into a make-belief land.
  • The final use of the symbols, whether in reading, calculation, or composition, is more intelligent, less mechanical; more active, less passively receptive; more an increase of power, less a mere mode of enjoyment.
  • third period of elementary education
  • the second period
Marie Coppolaro

goldrush_index.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - 0 views

21cif.imsa.edu/...goldrush_index.swf

advanced_internet_tutorial advanced_internet_use advanced internet search

shared by Marie Coppolaro on 04 Oct 08 - No Cached
  • Marie Coppolaro on 04 Oct 08
     
    games to strengthen scanning skills
  • Marie Coppolaro on 04 Oct 08
     
    games to strengthen internet scanning skills
adina sullivan

Report- Ready t oInnovateTCB.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

www.aasa.org/...RreportReadytoInnovateTCB.pdf

all_teachers research

shared by adina sullivan on 05 May 08 - No Cached
  • adina sullivan on 05 May 08
     
    Per David Warlick blog - "A recent report (Ready to Innovate/pdf) from The Conference Board and Americans for the Arts, in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), reminds us that creativity, and integral part of innovation, is among the top five skills that will become more important over the next five years. Yet, according to their survey, school superintendents and American business executives differ in some significant ways in what this means."
Dean Mantz

Edusim - Inventing the future, one classroom at a time - 0 views

edusim3d.com/alpha

all_teachers collaboration edu_newapp edu_trends edusim ideas iwb resources software technology web 2.0

shared by Dean Mantz on 12 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 12 Sep 08
     
    Here is an open source education software package from Greenbush. It is a virtual world environment that is to be used on interactive boards. A major advantage is the application permits collaboration among those using the software regardless of location.
cory plough

SWANSONCitiesInCrisis040108.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

www.americaspromise.org/...WANSONCitiesInCrisis040108.pdf

edu_trends education educationreform hsdropout reform

shared by cory plough on 04 Apr 08 - No Cached
  • cory plough on 04 Apr 08
     
    Recent report on HS Dropouts and geography. Funded with help of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Editorial Projects in Education Research Center
Janice Stearns

The Connected Classroom: DIG-ging diigo... - 0 views

khokanson.blogspot.com/...dig-ging-diigo.html

del.icio.us diigo socialbookmark

shared by Janice Stearns on 30 Mar 08 - Cached
  • But I recently read something, somewhere that diigo had a new improved tool bar and started to read up on the other Diigo features including the ablility for messaging, creating lists of bookmarks, the ability to turn bookmarks into slideshows, tagrolls and linkrolls, a Firefox sidebar, a Facebook application, blog integration
    • Tony Richards
      Tony Richards on 08 Apr 08
       
      I liked the blog - just unlearning del.icio.us to learn Diigo - http://www.edtechcrew.net
  • I have presented del.icio.us at LEAST a dozen times to large audiences.
    • Janice Stearns
      Janice Stearns on 08 Apr 08
       
      Today, for the first time, I'm going to present Diigo instead of Delicious. It's time to build a community of users that I work with.
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  • Diigo is not just a bookmarking tool, it is a bookmarking, sharing, discussing, and learning tool LParisi : posted on twitter..My quick take on Diigo..while I have not spent much time creating links, tags, etc, I see it as much more powerful a network than delicious. and I couldn't agree more..
  • F Foxworth on 30 Mar 08
     
    This blog post from The Connected Classroom by Kristin Hokanson is a detailed "how-to" guide for getting started with Diigo.
Vicki Davis

yWriter4 - word processor for authors - 0 views

www.spacejock.com/yWriter4.html

edu_newapp education language literature professionaldevelopment techintegrator

shared by Vicki Davis on 09 May 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 09 May 08
     
    yWriter is a free, highly rated, novel writing program that I found through a very complimentary review in PC Magazine. It is for the PC. Just save your file as an RTF with chapter headings and it will import right into ywriter.
  • Vicki Davis on 09 May 08
     
    This fascinating tool for writing novels has other applications for writing books with chapters.
Erin Sawyer

senses.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...senses.swf

education science senses.swf

shared by Erin Sawyer on 28 Apr 08 - No Cached
  • Erin Sawyer on 28 Apr 08
     
    Game for testing senses
Marie Coppolaro

20072004.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

ies.ed.gov/...20072004.pdf

all_teachers best_practice edu_trends learning_strategies pedagogy

shared by Marie Coppolaro on 24 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Marie Coppolaro on 24 Jun 08
     
    A recent "practice guide" from the federal National Center for >> Education Research >> distills what its panel of scholarly authors believe are seven of the >> best research-based instructional strategies teachers can use to >> improve student learning
Shaun Fletcher

CBC Radio | Quirks & Quarks - 0 views

www.cbc.ca/quirks

podcast science

shared by Shaun Fletcher on 30 Mar 08 - Cached
    • Shaun Fletcher
      Shaun Fletcher on 30 Mar 08
       
      Podcasts are also playable in google reader.
  • Podcasting!Quirks & Quarks is part of CBC Radio’s podcasting project. For more information about podcasting and the CBC programs available, go to CBC.ca’s podcasting info page.To access the Quirks podcast, right click on one of the links below, copy the URL and paste it into your podcast software application. Quirks & Quarks Podcast - show in segments podcast or if you have iTunes installed Subscribe in iTunesQuirks & Quarks Podcast - show in one file or if you have iTunes installed Subscribe in iTunes(hint - iPod users might prefer the whole show in one file)
  • Shaun Fletcher on 30 Mar 08
     
    Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment. We cover every aspect of science, from the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom...and everything in between.
yc c

Illuminations: Dynamic Paper - 20 views

illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx

generator pdf online tool grid geometry print_resource mathematics

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
Ruth Howard

EOTL - Semaphore Poster.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

www.wilderness.org.au/...L%20-%20Semaphore%20Poster.pdf

poster eotl semaphore pdf End of the Line fishing fisheries Wilderness Society conservation extinction Australia Homeconomics Food technology science

shared by Ruth Howard on 23 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 23 Feb 10
     
    Chefs, Homeconomists, Scientists, concerned citizens Described as the 'Inconvenient Truth' of our oceans, this internationally acclaimed film has been screened to packed audiences across Australia. Featuring brilliant underwater footage, sweeping cinematography and interviews with scientists, activists and fishermen, The End of the Line reveals the devastating impacts of overfishing on our oceans plus the simple solutions to the problem. Want to find out more about the film? Visit www.endoftheline.com/film/.
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