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Vicki Davis

Mr. Tweet -> Your Personal Networking Assistant! - 0 views

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education twitter edu_newapp

shared by Vicki Davis on 06 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 06 Dec 08
     
    Mr. Tweet will do some homework for you - although I still believe in the randomness and greatness of building a network - I often find people that I thought I was following and wasn't. I don't know how this will work, but am goign to test it out!
Vicki Davis

The Kids Open Dictionary Builder - 0 views

dictionary.k12opened.com

education literature edu_trends web2 collaboration literacy elementary_teacher

shared by Vicki Davis on 05 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 05 Mar 09
     
    have your students help build a dictionary
  • Vicki Davis on 27 Jun 11
     
    Collaborative writing and editing continues to move into the classroom. If the pundits didn't like wikipedia, what about a dictionary that students build for themselves? "The purpose of this project is to create a free, open simple dictionary for students to use. This dictionary will ultimately be published in a variety of formats and for multiple platforms.  To add to this project, find a word you'd like to write a definition for or click "Instant Karma" for a random word. Please consult the style guidelines for editorial information."
John Evans

Idea Sandbox :: Big Dig :: Problem Solver - 0 views

bigdig.idea-sandbox.com

innovation innovators

shared by John Evans on 05 Jun 08 - Cached
  • John Evans on 05 Jun 08
     
    This web page contains a "Magic Sandbox." When you click within the sandbox, it delivers bits of random advice, which you can then try to apply to your current situation
Vicki Davis

Take the Don't Fry Day Pledge | SunWise | US EPA - 4 views

www.epa.gov/...dfdpledge.html

education health

shared by Vicki Davis on 09 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 09 Apr 10
     
    If you discuss sun protection in your health program - here is some information for you. I had skin cancer removed when I wasn't even 30 yet! Skin Cancer has been an issue in my family and I hope you discuss this with kids. Here is information from my inbox. "With the UV Index on the rise, it's time to remind your students to Slip! Slop! Slap! and Wrap! In our effort to raise awareness about a health issue that is largely preventable and too often ignored-skin cancer, EPA encourages you to promote sun safety before the second annual Don't Fry Day on the Friday before Memorial Day (May 28, 2010). As millions of us prepare to enjoy the great outdoors this Memorial Day weekend, EPA and the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention are reminding Americans to practice sun-safe behaviors. We need your help; go online and pledge to incorporate sun safety into your spring and summer activities. Take the Pledge: www.epa.gov/sunwise/dfdpledge.html Participating classrooms and informal education organizations will receive a Don't Fry Day poster and a set of sun safety stickers. The stickers feature SunWise animals showing children how to Slip! Slop! Slap! and Wrap! Additionally, you will be entered into a random drawing for a SunWise Prize Pack. The prize pack includes a set of UV-sensitive beads, a real-time UV monitor, UV-sensitive nail polish and other sun safety resources. To learn more about Don't Fry Day, visit the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention's Don't Fry Day resource page, www.skincancerprevention.org, where you can find background information, skin cancer statistics and facts, and public service announcements you can put in your school's newsletter or distribute electronically to parents."
Roland O'Daniel

Five Card Flickr - 18 views

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flickr digitalstorytelling writing web2.0 storytelling

shared by Roland O'Daniel on 26 Dec 10 - Cached
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  • Roland O'Daniel on 26 Dec 10
     
    y version draws upon collections of photos specified by a tag in flickr. You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures.
Dean Mantz

Random Logline Generator - Story/Scene ideas - 8 views

www.lifeformz.com/...idea.fcgi

generator random ideas tools Writing prompt

shared by Dean Mantz on 06 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 06 Feb 11
     
    Randomly create a sentence as a writing prompt or storystarter.
Ted Sakshaug

Story Starters | Scholastic.com - 0 views

teacher.scholastic.com/...storystarter1.htm

writing elementary teaching learning education

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 09 Apr 09
     
    random writing prompts k-6
Vicki Davis

Call for Artwork :: Mission 10,000 Rockets - 3 views

www.artsonia.com/...detail.asp

science art contest edu_news

shared by Vicki Davis on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Every invention starts from a simple drawing on a paper. To celebrate the DigitalGlobe™ satellite launch that will capture high-resolution pictures for Bing™ Maps, we want to borrow kids' imaginations to create the rocket of tomorrow.
  • Of the first 10,000 drawings submitted, every school that submits at least 20 drawings will be entered into a drawing to win a $5,000 donation from Bing™ and a portion of the book proceeds.
  • Vicki Davis on 12 Oct 09
     
    ! Of the first 10,000 drawings submitted, every school that submits at least 20 drawings will be entered into a drawing to win a $5,000 donation from Bing™ and a portion of the book proceeds. We understand this is quite a tight deadline. To help you out, we are going to provide you with some educational materials. The first 500 teachers to fill out an information request form on Artsonia will get a poster for the classroom, along with a satellite and rocket fact sheet and some fun rocket trading cards. You may also download pdf printable versions of the educational materials. In addition, students can watch the Delta II rocket launch video on www.10000rockets.com. Then, in early November, Bing™ will have a panel of scientists talking about rockets and you can use that for further inspiration in the classroom. As the students are learning about rockets, we want to get 10,000 of them to draw the rocket of tomorrow. Drawings can be uploaded on Artsonia from 10/8/09-11/25/09. We will do a few things with the drawings: * The first 10,000 drawings will be published in your Artsonia school gallery and showcased on a dedicated gallery website, www.10000rockets.com. * Schools who submit at least 20 drawings will be entered into a drawing to win* one of eight $5,000 donations. * Each drawing will be judged by a panel of Microsoft employees in conjunction with scientists. The judges will select one from each grade group (K-5, 6-8, 9-12) that inspires them and turn these student drawings into 3-D models to honor their invention. * The first 10,000 qualified drawings will be placed into a commemorative book and sold on 10000rockets.com. Proceeds from the book will be donated to 8 of the schools who have students featured in the book, chosen at random.
Martin Burrett

Kindness by @sheep2763 - 0 views

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kindness

shared by Martin Burrett on 28 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 28 Feb 18
     
    "It may always be possible but life is busy and although I don't think that most people (including me) intend to be unkind they can sometimes be thoughtless rather than unkind. At school amongst other bits and pieces, I oversee the School Council. Our School Council consists of children from Y1 to Y6 and at a recent meeting, they brought their suggestions as to what we could do to make our school even better. They came up with several suggestions including Reintroduce Random Acts of Kindness awards Reintroduce Headteacher awards"
Martin Burrett

A picture speaks a thousand words by @CambridgeMaths - 3 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 24 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 24 Nov 17
     
    "I love patterns, diagrams and pictures. Ask me to record information and it gets plastered over a page in bubbles, a mind map or random boxes. I'm not particularly artistic but I find I like to store information in this way. Even with telephone numbers - I remember the pattern the digits make, not the number itself."
Martin Burrett

Webinar about eBooks: Books for every reader - How digital can make a difference, with ... - 3 views

ukedchat.com/...webinar-ebooks

webinar ebooks

shared by Martin Burrett on 28 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 28 Oct 20
     
    The original webinar took place on 28th October 2020 and explored how eBooks can augment your existing library and reading book schemes, both at primary and secondary schools. Experts Hannah Monson and Meredith Wemhoff talk to Martin Burrett about how eBooks can help in the current pandemic situation and beyond. They also tackle viewers' questions. Have a question? Get in touch via one for the methods below. Submit your details here for the chance to win a 10 inch Samsung Tab. One winner will be chosen at random on 30th November 2020.
Vicki Davis

AI Therapy Breakthrough: New Study Reveals Promising Results | Psychology Today - 0 views

www.psychologytoday.com/...tudy-reveals-promising-results

healthcare AIchatbot AI

shared by Vicki Davis on 01 Apr 25 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Apr 25
     
    This really concerns me but also points to a need to train humans to supervise AI chatbots. "An artificial intelligance (AI) chatbot trained by Dartmouth researchers to deliver cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) significantly reduced depression, anxiety, and eating disorder symptoms. The randomized clinical trial of Therabot, published in NEJM AI, found that an AI-trained therapy chatbot could play a vital role in expanding access to CBT."
Vicki Davis

Triptico | Inspiration for Imaginative Teachers | Interactive Resources for Imaginative... - 6 views

www.triptico.co.uk

education iwb all_teachers edu_trends

shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Megan Black on 28 Feb 11
     
    This is a free downloadable desktop app that assists in many classroom management jobs like random student selection, timers, starter activities, and more
  • Vicki Davis on 04 Nov 11
     
    Interesting resources for whiteboards including word magnets. It is adobe air powered and has a ton of resources included in it.
nate stearns

Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices - New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...25math.html

shared by nate stearns on 28 Apr 08 - Cached
  • That idea may be wrong, if researchers at Ohio State University are correct. An experiment by the researchers suggests that it might be better to let the apples, oranges and locomotives stay in the real world and, in the classroom, to focus on abstract equations, in this case 40 (t + 1) = 400 - 50t, where t is the travel time in hours of the second train. (The answer is below.)
  • Dr. Kaminski and her colleagues Vladimir M. Sloutsky and Andrew F. Heckler did something relatively rare in education research: they performed a randomized, controlled experiment. Their results appear in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.
    • nate stearns
      nate stearns on 04 May 08
       
      Yes! Only problem. Why isn't the study linked to from the NYT article?
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
Aaron Grant

BeFunky.com - Photo effects with one click, Turn your photos into artwork. - 2 views

www.befunky.com

photos web2.0 tools photography

shared by Aaron Grant on 16 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Jun 08
     
    Cool website that turns real photos into cartoons uvatar (looks more like you than a random avatar) and video cartoonizer (cool) which takes video and turns it into a cartoon. This should be another cool website to enjoy w/ your digital photography and eventually videos.
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Jun 08
     
    Cool website for cartoonizing photographs and eventually videos.
Ed Webb

Seen Not Heard- Boing Boing - 3 views

boingboing.net/...security.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 11 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Cameras don't make you feel more secure; they make you feel twitchy and paranoid. Some people say that the only people who don't like school cameras are the people that have something to hide. But having the cameras is a constant reminder that the school does not trust you and that the school is worried your fellow classmates might go on some sort of killing rampage.
  • Some people say youngsters are more disrespectful than ever before. But if you were in an environment where you were constantly being treated as a criminal, would you still be respectful? In high school, one of my favorite English teachers never had trouble with her students. The students in her class were the most well behaved in the school--even if they were horrible in other teachers' classes. We were well-mannered, addressed her as "Ma'am," and stood when she entered the room. Other teachers were astonished that she could manage her students so well, especially since many of them were troublemakers. She accomplished this not though harsh discipline, but by treating us with respect and being genuinely hurt if we did not return it.
  • The Library and a few good teachers are what kept me from dropping out.
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  • Schools today are not training students to be good citizens: they are training students to be obedient.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 11 Mar 10
       
      Schools have always attempted to teach this. And they have always ended up teaching how not to get caught.
  • I even read about a girl who ran a library of banned books out of her locker.
  • the football team got a bigger budget than the Library
  • @SchoolSecurityBlog, the issue is that in schools your constitutional rights are completely ignored. Random bag searches are not conducted with probable cause or a search warrant. If students spend the first part of their life in an environment where their rights are ignored, then they will not insist on them later in life. Someone might make the argument that since students are minors that they don't have rights. It is a weak argument. For one thing, I reached the age of majority while still in public school, and they still ignored my rights.
  • most of these so called "reasonable risk reduction measures" are not reasonable nor do they reduce risk. Cameras are entirely ineffective in preventing crime or violence. My school had a camera watching the vending machines, but a student still robbed them and was not even caught (he took the simple measure of obscuring his face). I acknowledge that there have been many court ruling that make what schools do legal. However, even with the "in loco parentis" policy in place, even my parents would not have a legal right to search my stuff without my permission when I turned 18 (which is how old I was my senior year). Yet the school could search my bag if they wanted to. Or my friends car (I am pretty sure he was also 18 when that happened, he was only a few months younger than I). That means that once a kid turns 18, the school system technically had more control over the kid than his parents do. Another problem that I have with in loco parentis is that the school really is not a students parent. A parent presumably has the child's best interests at heart, if they didn't it could be grounds for the state to take the child away from the parent. Unfortunately, school faculty members do not always have the student's best interests at heart. They should and often do, but many times some faculty members just like messing with people. It is an unfortunate fact, and one that I am sure many people would like to ignore, but the fact of the matter is that bullies are not confined to the student body. Also parents go to extraordinary measures for their children. They pay to keep them clothed and fed and cared for. They devote endless hours taking care of them. Therefore it makes sense that they should be granted extraordinary legal measures to take care of their children. To grant these same legal measures to an arbitrary school faculty member is really in insult to the hard and loving work of parents everywhere.
  • The schools of decades past seemed to get by without universal surveillance. Why is it all of the sudden essential today? Could many of these security measures be over reactions stemming from mass publicized incidents of school violence?
Nicole Hill

Security Guide for Windows - Random Password Generator - 0 views

www.pctools.com/password

password generator tools web

shared by Nicole Hill on 07 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Nicole Hill on 07 Aug 09
     
    Need secure passwords for student accounts?
Dennis OConnor

The class was what I needed to help me get focused for school! « Random Thoug... - 0 views

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uw-stout e-learning online class librarian 21cif

shared by Dennis OConnor on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Learn how to locate authentic digital primary sources in multiple formats to enhance your curriculum. Develop age appropriate learning activities that promote higher level questioning and critical thinking skills while adding excitement to student learning through engaging activities. The course is especially helpful for teachers of AP classes, teachers addressing state and national standards requiring the use of primary sources, and teachers working with National History Day activities. Materials fromTPS Direct, the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources professional development program, will be incorporated in the class.
  • Dennis OConnor on 17 Aug 09
     
    Primary Sources, Where have you been? Why have I never used primary sources? I didn't use them because I didn't know where to find the resources.I never considered all of the possibilities.
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