harleston County School District may soon be investing in the iPod touch as a learning tool for students.
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The Digital Narrative - Find your story - 18 views
iPod Touch to help improve student learning - Live5News.com | Charleston, SC | News, We... - 8 views
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"Everything from vocabulary, to e-book reading, to art, to science," said CCSD Media Services Coordinator Connie Dopierala. CCSD hopes to invest in a set of 40 iPod Touches for every school in the district, at $150 each. Students can learn math or grammar on inexpensive application programs. "We can download a 99-cent app and load it on all 40 iPod Touches or however many, and that's very cost-effective with taxpayer dollars," said Dopierala.
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I'm not sure how the licensing is working for them. I didn't think you could have one app and share on 40 ipods, but that is what the Charleston County School District says they are doing. From the article: ""Everything from vocabulary, to e-book reading, to art, to science," said CCSD Media Services Coordinator Connie Dopierala. CCSD hopes to invest in a set of 40 iPod Touches for every school in the district, at $150 each. Students can learn math or grammar on inexpensive application programs. "We can download a 99-cent app and load it on all 40 iPod Touches or however many, and that's very cost-effective with taxpayer dollars," said Dopierala."
10 Futuristic Inventions in Wearable Tech - Life Scoop - 6 views
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A fun discussion topic with technology students, this blog post about futuristic inventions in wearable tech includes buttons that are really mp3 players, a dress with room for a sim card that makes it funciton as a mobile phone when you lift your wrist, and the one I want -- the Massage Me Massage Video game - that makes a game out of having someone massage your back! (Oh yeah!) This would be a great area to review and then have students invent their own.
How Is New Media Reshaping the Work of Historians? - 7 views
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There is some ambiguity about what they actually published online, however. The question asked them not to include digital versions of their print books or journal articles in their count, but most said their work was published on a journal’s site (Figure 5)
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And we expect students to read the instructions! If they did, I suspect a lack of understanding about the sites involved.
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Use of new media to do something new or different with the scholarship was a very minor consideration, however. Less than 40 percent of the respondents who had considered publishing online listed linking to other materials, publishing additional sources, or telling their stories in a new way as part of their thinking.
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there was a significant difference between the power users and the rest of the published historians on these issues, as they were two to three times more likely to emphasize doing something new or different with the medium as the value of publishing online.
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Historians using digital technologies for reading and publishing.
19Pencils - Results for Civil War - 4 views
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2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, and these impressively informative websites will help... From a Penn State Live Story: A new project, "The People's Contest: a Civil War Era Digital Archiving Project" aims... My students are beginning a unit in which they will be reading Civil War historical fiction.
Patriot Acts: 10 Cool, Crazy Superhero Nationalists | Underwire | Wired.com - 3 views
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10 nationalist superheroes for U.S. comic books.
simplebooklet - 9 views
Climate Change Denial: The danger of false balance in journalism - 2 views
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"undue attention to marginal opinion"
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editorial decisions should be guided by where the scientific consensus might be found on any given topic
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doesn't mean you should give equal space or airtime to established truth on the one hand and reality-challenged people who don't like it on the other.
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To try to be fair, many journalists may print what someone says, print what the other side says and call it a day. The trouble is, there isn't always equal merit on both sides. Think climate change.
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To try to be fair, many journalists may print what someone says, print what the other side says and call it a day. The trouble is, there isn't always equal merit on both sides. Think climate change.
Scratch Cards - 15 views
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A link to my Scratch Cards which are a training aid to help master MIT's successful Scratch software that teaches programming thru various possible projects such as interactive art apps, interactive story telling apps, game development and simulations
World's largest honey bee makes rare hallucinogenic honey | MNN - Mother Nature Network - 1 views
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