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Nelly Cardinale

Where can I find free public domain images and pictures? - 24 views

www.computerhope.com/...ch000845.htm

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shared by Nelly Cardinale on 29 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Nelly Cardinale on 29 Dec 09
     
    Places to find royalty free photos and clip art.
Megan Black

Widgetbox › World's best place to find and make web widgets - 9 views

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shared by Megan Black on 22 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Megan Black on 22 Apr 10
     
    Design your own widgets or find one already created and shared
Michael Johnson

Writing Can Improve Reading Skill, Study Finds - Curriculum Matters - Education Week - 14 views

blogs.edweek.org/...ng_can_improve_reading_sk.html

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shared by Michael Johnson on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Michael Johnson on 19 Apr 10
     
    Specific writing strategies can play an important role in boosting reading comprehension. That's the bottom-line finding of a new analysis of research. The report, out today from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, says that teachers can improve students' reading skills by having them write about what they are reading, teaching them writing skills, and increasing how much they write.
Dave Truss

Seth's Blog: The future of the library - 15 views

sethgodin.typepad.com/...the-future-of-the-library.html

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shared by Dave Truss on 16 May 11 - No Cached
  • They need a librarian more than ever (to figure out creative ways to find and use data). They need a library not at all.
  • Librarians that are arguing and lobbying for clever ebook lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending library as warehouse as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher and impresario.
  • Post-Gutenberg, the scarce resource is knowledge and insight, not access to data.
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  • The next library is a house for the librarian with the guts to invite kids in to teach them how to get better grades while doing less grunt work. And to teach them how to use a soldering iron or take apart something with no user servicable parts inside. And even to challenge them to teach classes on their passions, merely because it's fun. This librarian takes responsibility/blame for any kid who manages to graduate from school without being a first-rate data shark.
  • The next library is filled with so many web terminals there's always at least one empty. And the people who run this library don't view the combination of access to data and connections to peers as a sidelight--it's the entire point.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 16 May 11
       
      This is brilliant... librarian as information tapper & recognizing the value of peer-to-peer information networks!
  • Dave Truss on 16 May 11
     
    They need a librarian more than ever (to figure out creative ways to find and use data). They need a library not at all. ...librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher and impresario.
Ashley S.

http://www.lumifi.com/lumifi/index.jsp - 0 views

www.lumifi.com/index.jsp

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shared by Ashley S. on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ashley S. on 25 Sep 09
     
    Lumifi - Enlighten your Research Lumifi is a new way to find, analyze, organize and share information on any topic, from any source (including your own documents). Let lumifi read for you, highlight terms relevant to your interest, and discover information you might have missed.
  • Ashley S. on 25 Sep 09
     
    umifi - Enlighten your Research Lumifi is a new way to find, analyze, organize and share information on any topic, from any source (including your own documents). Let lumifi read for you, highlight terms relevant to your interest, and discover information you might have missed.
Vicki Davis

ICDL - International Children's Digital Library - 1 views

en.childrenslibrary.org

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shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Julie Radachy on 23 Oct 09
     
    You can find a variety of books online, in many languages and reading levels (mostly Elementary). The titles are searchable just as you would in a library catalogue, and you can enlarge the text.
  • Vicki Davis on 31 Dec 11
     
    International Children's Library includes many ebooks that you can download onto your Kindle. The books are organized by grade level and there are over 10,000 of them. (A big hat tip to Peter Fogarty who shared this resource over at the TES forum, a place where I find a ton of great things for my classroom.)
anonymous

Carsonified » Meet @HelloApp, Making Conferences More Fun - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 22 Sep 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 22 Sep 09
     
    After four tiring-exciting-stressful-fun days, we'd like to introduce you to our new little buddy, HelloApp. The idea is simple: When you arrive at a conference, you just say where you're sitting, via Twitter. Once you do that, you can … 1. Search for people with a certain skill-set (ie PHP, jQuery, CSS3, marketing, etc) and see where they're sitting 2. View the seating diagram colored based on Twitter follower count 3. Search for a specific person in the audience and find out where they're sitting 4. View the seating diagram colored based on whether people are Designers, Developers or Businessmen 5. Earn badges and points by meeting people and completing tasks. If you earn a high enough rank, you'll be able to post public messages to the entire audience and win prizes.
  • anonymous on 22 Sep 09
     
    After four tiring-exciting-stressful-fun days, we'd like to introduce you to our new little buddy, HelloApp. The idea is simple: When you arrive at a conference, you just say where you're sitting, via Twitter. Once you do that, you can … 1. Search for people with a certain skill-set (ie PHP, jQuery, CSS3, marketing, etc) and see where they're sitting 2. View the seating diagram colored based on Twitter follower count 3. Search for a specific person in the audience and find out where they're sitting 4. View the seating diagram colored based on whether people are Designers, Developers or Businessmen 5. Earn badges and points by meeting people and completing tasks. If you earn a high enough rank, you'll be able to post public messages to the entire audience and win prizes.
Vicki Davis

From Groups to Teams: The Key to Powering up PBL | Edutopia - 8 views

www.edutopia.org/...ct-based-learning-thom-markham

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shared by Vicki Davis on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • But its ultimate benefit is to help students think, learn, and operate in the new century by challenging them at deeper levels. That requires reversing the equation between skills and content: PBL is method for teaching students to find, process, understand, and share information, not a way to extend the industrial landscape of regurgitation and recall.
  • Vicki Davis on 13 Apr 11
     
    Nice article at Edutopia by Thom Markam.My favorite quote about pbl is: "But its ultimate benefit is to help students think, learn, and operate in the new century by challenging them at deeper levels. That requires reversing the equation between skills and content: PBL is method for teaching students to find, process, understand, and share information, not a way to extend the industrial landscape of regurgitation and recall."
  • Vicki Davis on 13 Apr 11
     
    Excellent article about PBL
Brett Campbell

Giving teachers bonuses for student achievement undermines student learning, study finds - 8 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110404173245.htm

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  • Brett Campbell on 13 Apr 11
     
    Economist finds bonuses encourages test coaching and cheating. "education officials should separate the provision of incentives and the measurement of student and educator performance by using separate testing programs for these two tasks"
Suzie Nestico

Teacher suspended over alleged Facebook comment - NorthJersey.com - 1 views

www.northjersey.com/...her_is_being_investigated.html

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shared by Suzie Nestico on 03 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • A first-grade teacher was suspended Thursday following alleged comments on her Facebook page in which she said she felt like a "warden" overseeing "future criminals," according to a district official.
  • "This is not first time I've heard something like this from a teacher," Best said. "Overall, I think we have really good teachers. But there's also a significant population of teachers here to collect the paycheck and don't have the best interests of the students in mind."
  • "There might be others (who share the sentiments of the online remarks) but all I've dealt with have shown no signs like that," said the Rev. Barry Graham, assistant pastor at Canaan Baptist Church
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  • Graham, whose congregation works closely with the school and recently awarded 130 honor roll students there, recognized that "any one of us on a bad day could lash out."
    • Suzie Nestico
      Suzie Nestico on 03 Apr 11
       
      Yes, any one of us can have a bad day and lash out.  But, if you are a teacher, you are held to higher principles and practices.  Don't do it!  Find something good and post online about that.  The good can be contagious, too!
  • Suzie Nestico on 03 Apr 11
     
    Why teachers should not ever publicly talk like this online.  Period.  Find the good and talk about that.
Vicki Davis

Find Copyright Free, Properly Cited Images for Student Use - 7 views

edtechpicks.org/...ht-free-images-for-student-use

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shared by Vicki Davis on 02 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 02 Nov 15
     
    Photos for Class is a great place to find photos and download them with the perfect citation. Awesome tool.
Martin Burrett

Research for @OfstedNews finds that a quarter of teachers have seen off-rolling happen ... - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 14 May 19
     
    "Teachers want to see more support for parents to help them resist the practice of 'off-rolling'. New research for Ofsted finds that a quarter of teachers have seen off-rolling - when a child is removed from the school roll for the school's benefit, rather than in the child's best interests - happen in their schools. Two-thirds of these teachers believe the practice is on the rise. The study, based on survey responses from over 1000 teachers, paints a concerning picture of the extent of off-rolling in England's schools. Teachers believe that parents with less understanding of the education system and their rights are most likely to be pressured into taking their child out of school."
Martin Burrett

Climate education for kids increases climate concerns for parents, research finds - 0 views

ukedchat.com/...climate-education

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shared by Martin Burrett on 10 May 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 10 May 19
     
    "A new study from North Carolina State University finds that educating children about climate change increases their parents' concerns about climate change. "There's a robust body of work showing that kids can influence their parents' behavior and positions on environmental and social issues, but this is the first experimental study demonstrating that climate education for children promotes parental concern about climate change," says Danielle Lawson, lead author of a paper on the work and a Ph.D. student at NC State."
Ed Webb

Literacy Levels Among College Students | Faculty Focus - 0 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...-levels-among-college-students

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shared by Ed Webb on 19 Oct 20 - Cached
  • While we’d like to think that our students are prepared for the challenging content we assign, collegiate students are still developing as readers and we need to help them in this process.
  • Looking at the average literacy levels for students enrolled in two- and four-year institutions, the authors report that while college students on average score significantly higher than the general adult population in all three literacy types, the average score would be characterized at the intermediate literacy level.
  • some important findings for those institutions of higher education whose missions include working with first-generation college students or with international students. Students whose parents are college graduates score significantly higher across all literacy types than those students whose parents did not attend any post-secondary education. Foreign-born students score significantly lower across every literacy type than their US-born peers.
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  • researchers did not find significantly different literacy levels when comparing students at public vs. private institutions or at selective vs. nonselective institutions. While the findings may be a little disheartening, the report shows that ALL institutions of higher education need to be aware of their students’ literacy levels.
Vicki Davis

Workarounds for Clipping Web Pages into Evernote on iOS - 9 views

support.evernote.com/...Web-Pages-into-Evernote-on-iOS

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shared by Vicki Davis on 21 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Nov 12
     
    If you use Evernote on the ipad, these instructions for installing the Evernote clipper into your bookmark bar works very well. I use evernote quite extensively now and find it very helpful. You can also install it on your iphone as well.
Martin Burrett

Muzy - 16 views

muzy.com/apps

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shared by Martin Burrett on 21 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 21 Nov 12
     
    This is a wonderful photo designer site with a range of web apps. Design a photo collection using the 'PhotoBox' tool which uses a range of templates by Upload images or finding photos lots of places online. Make a mini poster with the 'Thoughts' app. Design a 'verses' poster where you set two things side by side. You can also make collages, photo piles, edit images with PicMonkey and many more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images
Martin Burrett

Unused Words - 15 views

unusedwords.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 14 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 14 Nov 12
     
    This is a fab literacy site where you can find interesting and rare English words. Browse for words to make children's work stand out from the crowd and play 'guess the meaning' with your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Martin Burrett

My Favourite Scientist - 10 views

www.favscientist.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 16 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 16 Nov 12
     
    This is a great video site showing the life and careers of famous scientists. Find out about Richard Feynman, Rosalind Franklin, Gregor Mendel and even Mister Spock in interviews with scientists in their field today. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Martin Burrett

Pixabay - 23 views

pixabay.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 23 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 23 Nov 12
     
    This is a great site for finding quality images to use in your projects. The images can be used for both personal and commercial projects and you don't even need to sign in to download them. The images have been uploaded by users for the public good. Upload your images to help others. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images
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