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Dave Truss

Digital Mavericks: Cyberbullying & Internet Safety - 0 views

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cyberbullying newliteracy

shared by Dave Truss on 15 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 15 Apr 08
     
    A great resource with a lot of links still to explore.
Vicki Davis

Google Health - 0 views

www.google.com/...ServiceLogin

edu_newapp education google

shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 08 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 08
     
    Google health - a new place to organize your medical records. Wow! This is new. I wonder if anyone has used this.
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 08
     
    Google health - cool to explore
Vicki Davis

Harvest of History | The Farmers' Museum - 0 views

www.harvestofhistory.org/explore.html

education history farming elementary curriculum

shared by Vicki Davis on 18 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 18 Mar 09
     
    Great website for those who want to teach about food production and farming.
  • Vicki Davis on 18 Mar 09
     
    Website to teach you about how the food got to you! This is a really neat website for elementary teachers who discuss food production. There is a resource for teachers as well. As a farm girl, it is great to see a site that discusses the importance of farming. This is so important for kids to understand. We garden at our school and it is great!
Mike Sansone

Albert Einstein - Powerset - 0 views

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encyclopedia powerset research

shared by Mike Sansone on 12 May 08 - Cached
  • Mike Sansone on 12 May 08
     
    This example of PowerSet shows just one way the toolset can be used. As the front page says: Discover Factz, Unlock Meaning, Scan Summaries. I like!
Robin Ellis

Daylife - A New Way to Explore the World - 0 views

www.daylife.com

all_teachers media news newspaper

shared by Robin Ellis on 29 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
     
    Why don't they have an education category? That bothers me, I guess.
Vicki Davis

More Google Products - 0 views

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all_teachers edu_newapp education google

shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Book Search Search the full text of books
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 08
       
      I use this to search books and find the page number when I want to find something that I remember was in a book but cannot find it.
  • Desktop Search and personalize your computer
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 08
       
      I use this- it helps me find things on my compute r- I don't use gadgets b/c they slow my pc down.
  • Earth Explore the world from your compute
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 08
       
      This is an excellent tool for geography teachers. Also, Google Pro is free for eduators.
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 08
     
    A list of every product that Google has -- I use well over 75% of these.
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 08
     
    Every single tool from Google teacher Academy
Zaid Ali Alsagoff

101 Free Learning Tools - 142 views

Dear All, I have updated my list of free learning tools, and made it more visual: "Let's explore the idea that there is at least one excellent free learning tool (or site) for every learning prob...

learning teaching thinking tools

started by Zaid Ali Alsagoff on 18 Aug 08 no follow-up yet
Ruth Howard

MIT OpenCourseWare | Special Programs | SP.291 Learning Seminar: Experiments in Educati... - 0 views

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mit opencourseware special learning education all_teachers administrator professionaldevelopment

shared by Ruth Howard on 26 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 26 Feb 10
     
    MIT opencourseware Course Highlights This course features an extensive reading list on alternative educational approaches. Course Description This seminar explores experiments in education and discusses how education and learning might be done, through reading and discussion. This seminar is not a survey of experiments in education, but rather, its goal is to determine how learning should happen and what kinds of contexts allow it to happen.
Suzie Nestico

Spicynodes : Home - 14 views

www.spicynodes.org/index.html

education technology presentation web2.0

shared by Suzie Nestico on 07 Jan 10 - Cached
  • yc c on 07 Jan 10
     
    Nice interactive way of displaying data. SpicyNodes is a way to visualize online information that mimics that way that people look for things in the real world. Bits of information - such as text, links, photos, and other media - are placed into "nodes," which are then linked together in an appealing interface that invites exploration. SpicyNodes can be used for everything from mind maps and content portals to organizational charts and lesson plans.
  • Suzie Nestico on 02 Apr 11
     
    Animated org charts. Cool tool for students to create and link ideas
Adrienne Michetti

AJET 19(1) Boyle (2003) - design principles for authoring dynamic, reusable learning ob... - 1 views

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education programming elearning pedagogy design learning

shared by Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • delineate a coherent framework for the authoring of re-purposable learning objects
  • significant changes in the creation of learning objects
  • nternational work directed at developing learning object standards
  • ...33 more annotations...
  • a learning object is defined as any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training. IEEE
  • ork on metadata and learning object packaging
  • cohesion
  • ke any learning object and provide a 'wrapper' around this object
  • learning object is thus 'packaged' in a standard container format
  • learning objects must be developed with potential reuse, and especially repurposing in mind. The principal aim of this paper is to explore and delineate principles underlying authoring for reuse and repurposing.
  • taxonomy
  • This mapping suggests that each learning object should be based on one learning objective or clear learning goal.
  • The principle of cohesion, however, indicates that there should be a separate learning object for each type of loop. An immediate advantage is that the tutor can select the order in which these learning objects are combined. A tutor dealing with experienced student may wish to deal with these in sequence; another tutor with a different group of students may intersperse these learning objects with object dealing with other features of the language.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10
       
      This would, then, make them easier to edit and manipulate in the future. I can follow this article.
  • the principle of 'de-coupling', or more accurately minimised coupling.
  • unit (software module/learning object) should have minimal bindings to other units.
  • independently of the other (
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10
       
      Right - and the goal is complete independence so as to be able to manipulate and change later.
  • The learning object should, as far as possible, be free standing.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10
       
      YES! Can we please apply this to items as simple as Word documents and HTML? It would make things so much easier. This also reminds me of good pedagogical design principles BEFORE we had digital learning -- the same should be true for worksheets, handouts, textbooks, etc. It needs to be able to be changed.
  • adaptation
  • The challenge is to maintain this richness in a system composed of reusable components.
  • We must face the challenge of creating learning objects that are cohesive, decoupled and pedagogically rich. This design challenge is associated with the issue of 'repurposability' as we might expect rich learning objects to provide further options for adaptation by local tutors.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10
       
      Yes, yes, and yes. We need to think beyond our own immediate purposes.
  • n the Java language
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10
       
      quite honestly, I would have preferred a non-computer programming example. These principles apply to all technology design, not just programming. Something more accessible would have made this paper stronger.
  • The project involves intervention in syllabus development, the social organisation of learning and the introduction of new eLearning materials. The eLearning resources are being based on the authoring of rich, reusable learning objects. This development provides the focus for the present discussion.
  • The learning objects are being developed both to meet immediate pedagogical needs and to serve this larger goal. This produces extra pressure initially. However, it provides the potential to divide the eventual task among a number of contributing partners, exploiting considerable advantages of scale.
  • A key challenge for the project is to resolve the tensions in a creative and productive way.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10
       
      Basically, you have to take it all apart and put it back together again. This is fundamental to learning a new way to design anything, really.
  • A compound object consists of two or more independent learning objects that are linked to create the compound.
  • A further important feature is that each simple component object can be reused independently.
  • They thus provide a basis for pedagogical richness that fully exploits the opportunities offered by the technology.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10
       
      YES! use the tech to its best.
  • manage the bindings between one object and others
  • they should be able to reconfigure this to shape their own compound object.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10
       
      This is so crucial. Each educator must be able to restructure it, use to his/her advantage within context.
  • main types of binding: navigational bindings through URLs and non-URL based content bindings. This design pattern deals with the issue of URL based bindings.
  • we must have a design mechanism for managing these bindings.
  • learning object consists of a core and zero or more expansions. A default object is presented with the core with certain expansions added. These expansions aim to provide added pedagogical value to help in attaining the learning objective.
  • the relationship between learning objects and the syllabus, course or other higher organising structure in which they are delivered.
  • the syllabus navigation structure operates at a different layer of organisation for the learning object resources
  • . These syllabi objects operate at a different layer from that of main content objects
  • The key message is the need to establish distinct layers of organisation in eLearning
  • The central challenge is to design for reuse and repurposing.
  • Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10
     
    painful reading with the example of Java - but the point remains that all learning objects should be managed and designed with the purpose of being able to use them in the future in ways that are dynamic and reusable. This means de-coupling them and ensuring they are made of distinct pedagogical units.
Anne Bubnic

5 Stellar Ways to Explore Space Using Social Media - 11 views

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science social media NASA

shared by Anne Bubnic on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 22 Mar 10
     
    Here's a spaced-out selection of sites and social media resources that will have you reading the thoughts of astronauts, taking a virtual tour of the International Space Station, and viewing galaxies far, far away.
David Wetzel

Algebraic Thinking Through Problem Solving: Exploring Problems That are Not Limited to ... - 9 views

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algebra problem solving based learning project

shared by David Wetzel on 17 Mar 10 - Cached
  • David Wetzel on 17 Mar 10
     
    For students to make connections in algebraic thinking in problem solving situations, it is important they learn to use algebra symbolism to represent known and unknown information. To this end they must express problem solving situations as linear, quadratic, or exponential models. This way of thinking also requires students to model, represent, analyze, and generalize contextualized problems in a variety of problem solving situations as they begin to think algebraically.
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