Skip to main content

Home/ educators/ Group items tagged sources

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Sandy Kendell

Rise Of The iGeneration: Don't Call Me, Text Me | Online Media Gazette - 13 views

omgzam.com/...eneration-dont-call-me-text-me

digital_citizenship genx netgen igen texting cellphone

shared by Sandy Kendell on 21 Feb 10 - Cached
  • According to Nielsen Mobile, in the first quarter of 2009, the average U.S teenager made and received an average of 191 phone calls and sent and received 2,899 text messages every month. By the third quarter, the number of texts jumped to a whopping 3,146 messages per month. This is equivalent to more than 10 text messages per hour.
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 21 Feb 10
       
      Are they communicating with each other less?  or more?  Research seems to indicate that kids are using this hyper-connectedness to actually enrich their personal relationships, not isolate themselves.
  • We are in the midst of four distinct generations: Baby Boomers (born 1946-64), Generation X (1965-79), Net Generation (1980-89) and the new iGeneration (born in the 1990s and beyond). The “i” designation represents the “individualized” nature of their media.
    • Sandy Kendell
      Sandy Kendell on 22 Feb 10
       
      This is one of the most specific categorizations of generations I've seen. I wonder what the writer's source is?
  • David Warlick on 21 Feb 10
     
    According to Nielsen Mobile, in the first quarter of 2009, the average U.S teenager made and received an average of 191 phone calls and sent and received 2,899 text messages every month. By the third quarter, the number of texts jumped to a whopping 3,146 messages per month. This is equivalent to more than 10 text messages per hour.
Ruth Howard

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 16 views

jolt.merlot.org/index.html

e-learning journal teaching learning elearning journals online

shared by Ruth Howard on 01 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 01 Mar 10
     
    open source academic online teaching journal
Vicki Davis

Faceless no more: Facebook admits errors | The Australian - 9 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frg996-1225835350571

education digiteen edu_news

shared by Vicki Davis on 01 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Staff reacted with shock and disbelief as they learned of the defacement of tribute pages set up to honour 12-year-old Elliott Fletcher and eight-year-old Trinity Bates.
  • Facebook stood accused of being faceless in Australia.
  • "Are people really doing that to a tribute page for a dead child? None of us as a group of people wants to see the product that we built used like that. It's awful."
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • If Facebook is subject to the traditional rules of publishing, then it is legally responsible for all the content that it hosts -- a commercially untenable position for a company of just 1000 employees for 400 million users globally.
  • But in fact, there was no security breach -- the people who defaced the Bates and Fletcher tribute sites had Facebook accounts and the tribute groups or pages were left open for anyone to join or comment.
  • but people who set up tribute sites do not have to wait for the website to remove objectionable material. When a person sets up either a group or fan page on Facebook, they can set controls about who is allowed to join or post content and what types of content -- such as comments, photographs or videos -- are permitted. The person running the tribute page can also delete any content they want without any need for a higher authority to intercede.
  • the problem was compounded by the fact the group founder quit and the page was left without an administrator.
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Mar 10
     
    "Staff reacted with shock and disbelief as they learned of the defacement of tribute pages set up to honour 12-year-old Elliott Fletcher and eight-year-old Trinity Bates." This is an important article to discuss with students as the defacement of these pages happened because the group was set up for anyone to join and without moderation. Education Education prevents hurt and harm as happened in this case. Of course, it doesn't change the fact that Facebook, even though it is a global company, seems to have a centralized communications structure.
David Hilton

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time - 11 views

www.usdebtclock.org

debt clock deficit politics finance data curriculum history language social studies economics government civics digitalcitizenship elementary middleschool usa budget military

shared by David Hilton on 12 Jan 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 12 Jan 10
     
    EXTREMELY cool graphic for demonstrating the size of US public debt to students in a clear, visual manner. The sources for the figures seem reliable.
yc c

Xerte - Open Source E-Learning Developer Tools - 5 views

www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte

elearning tool online software toolkit resource

shared by yc c on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
  • yc c on 21 Mar 10
     
    Xerte is a fully-featured e-learning development environment for creating rich interactivity. Xerte is aimed at developers of interactive content who will create sophisticated content with some scripting, and Xerte can be used to extend the capabilities of Xerte Online Toolkits with new tools for content authors.
Lisa M Lane

Three Promising Alternatives for Assessing College Students... [pdf] - 4 views

www.google.com/url

articles assessment

shared by Lisa M Lane on 12 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Lisa M Lane on 12 Mar 10
     
    THREE PROMISING ALTERNATIVES FOR ASSESSING COLLEGE STUDENTS' KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS Trudy W. Banta, Merilee Griffin, Teresa L. Flateby, and Susan Kahn Foreword by Jillian Kinzie (Dec 2009) National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment 1) ePortfolios, 2) a system of rubrics for evaluating student writing and thinking across the curriculum, and, 3) online assessment communi- ties that facilitate facassessment practices. centers on the establishment of online assessment communities. These are basically groups of faculty who take time out to discuss how students can be Cited in: http://bit.ly/cyE2KH March 2010 overview by Lorenzo Associates
Ted Sakshaug

10 useful Google Chrome Experiments - 14 views

www.networkworld.com/...e-chrome-experiments-test.html

google useful 10

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 13 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 13 Apr 10
     
    new apps being developed for Google Chrome
David Wetzel

Elearning Replaces the Traditional Model of Teaching and Learning - 7 views

distance-education.suite101.com/...model-of-teaching-and-learning

elearning online learning distance web 20 emerging technology management systems social open source content personal

shared by David Wetzel on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • David Wetzel on 20 Apr 10
     
    Emerging Web 2.0 technologies are discussed in the perspective of how elearning is evolving into a future dominated by personal learning environments.
yc c

Fedena - 14 views

www.fedena.com/index.html

opensource school manager software education

shared by yc c on 01 May 10 - Cached
  • Fedena is an open source school/campus management system developed by people like you! It is a one stop solution for all school management related issues and helps you manage student databases and all other activities online.
  • Fedena gives you complete control over how you want to manage your school's databases and provides many tools to organize its activities.
  • yc c on 01 May 10
     
    Requirements: Ruby on RailsDemo: http://www.fedena.com/tour.htmlLicense: Apache License
Bret Willhoit

Sakai Project - an Open Source suite of learning, portfolio, library and project tools ... - 7 views

sakaiproject.org

opensource sakai e-learning collaboration portfolio eportfolio

shared by Bret Willhoit on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Bret Willhoit on 26 Apr 10
     
    Possible alternative to Mahara.
Vicki Davis

TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP... - 1 views

www.truecrypt.org

education productivity opensource edu_trends

shared by Vicki Davis on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 26 Apr 10
     
    Use this to create an encrypted drive for your financial records if you have them on your laptop! Remember to backup the folder as well! It is free. I would also recommend this for those who have private files on their computer like guidance counselors.
David Warlick

Commentary - 10 views

blackboard.usi.edu/...learningUnitItem.jsp

shared by David Warlick on 03 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • it is a powerful teaching and learning methodology.
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 03 Jan 11
       
      A link to an interview with a teacher who has used service learning would be good here.
  • thoughtfully organized service experiences
  • structured time to reflect
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • clear connections to academic curriculum
  • a great deal of time and learning takes place before the service even happens
  • National Youth Leadership Council
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 03 Jan 11
       
      It can be found here -- http://www.nylc.org/
  • Essential Elements of Service Learning
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 03 Jan 11
  • Practitioners that utilize service-learning understand that the process of identifying community needs, giving students an active role in designing, implementing, and evaluating the project and encouraging students to reflect on their learning allows young people to develop new understandings and applications beyond what they would gain from typical classroom instruction.
  • Cleaning up a river is service.Sitting in a science classroom, looking at water samples under a microscope is learning.Students taking samples from local water sources, analyzing the samples, documenting the results and presenting scientific findings to a local pollution control agency is service-learning.
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 03 Jan 11
       
      This is important and it should be formatted appropriately...
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 03 Jan 11
       
      It might be interesting to stop here, and as reader to write down, from this brief explanation, what they think are the essential elements of "service-learning."
« First ‹ Previous 261 - 280 of 336 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page