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Vicki Davis

Dress the Christmas Tree on your Interactive Whiteboard - 10 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 13 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 13 Dec 11
     
    Remember the old feltboards we used to use? Now, we have one for your Interactive whiteboard. Talk about the different words as you pull them into the tree. You could decorate the tree and have it on your board during your class party!
Martin Burrett

OneZoom - Tree of Life Explorer - 11 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 06 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 06 Nov 12
     
    This is beautiful site showing a zooming tree of life with links to more information for thousands of species. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Ted Sakshaug

Tree of Life Web Project - 14 views

www.tolweb.org/tree

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 02 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 02 Dec 10
     
    The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).
Martin Burrett

Tree Octopus - 2 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 12 Mar 18
     
    "A wildlife conservation site which aims to save the rare Pacific Northwest tree octopus from extinction… except it isn't. A great site to use that illustrates that not all information on the web can be trusted."
Martin Burrett

Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus - 2 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Jul 12
     
    A wildlife conservation site which aims to save the rare Pacific Northwest tree octopus from extinction... except it isn't. A great site to use that illustrates that not all information on the web can be trusted. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Martin Burrett

Make a Christmas - 3 views

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Christmas tree design

shared by Martin Burrett on 25 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 25 Dec 11
     
    Design and print a Christmas Tree with this great click and drag application. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas
yc c

ludios.org | Greek Gods Family Tree - 11 views

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history ancient greek gods familytree visualisation interactive

shared by yc c on 29 Dec 09 - Cached
  • yc c on 29 Dec 09
     
    Horizontal scrollbar is down below. Use at your own risk; Greek mythology is ambiguous. Click a name for its Wikipedia article. Download the PowerPoint version. Other Greek Gods trees: from Edith Hamilton's Mythology * by Jimmy Joe * on Wikipedia
Vicki Davis

Dropbox Blows Up the Box, Connecting Every App, File, and Device | Wired Business | Wir... - 5 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 09 Jul 13
     
    If you're not already using Dropbox - you should. They had a developer conference and will likely end up everywhere in every app. Some very cool things coming. Just like Evernote - who has a powerful "trunk" features where developer work is showcased - Dropbox is going to find that opening up to development opens a whole new marketplace and ingenuity beyond what they have in house.  Some info from the wired article.  "But after all that single-mindedness, Houston and Ferdowsi now want to let their baby sing. Today, at Dropbox's first-ever developers conference, the company is officially launching a new set of coding tools designed to push Dropbox into every corner of your digital life. Not content to stay sequestered inside the box, the company's co-founders are unveiling ways for developers to meld their service with every app on every device you own. For the first five or so years of its existence, Dropbox was synonymous with its "magic folder." Save your files in the Dropbox folder on your computer, and they "magically" reappear in your Dropbox apps on your phone and tablet and in your Dropbox account on the web. Now, if developers take to the company's new tools, the service will escape the confines of this folder, fusing with third-party apps running on practically every computer and smartphone operating system. Houston wants Dropbox to become the "spiritual successor to the hard drive." He says the hard drive needs to be replaced because so many of us are doing so much computing on devices that don't fit the traditional paradigm for working with files. Users don't interact with files on iOS, Android, or the web the way they do on PCs. Apps don't have "open" or "save" options that launch a separate window where you tap through a folder tree."
Jeff Johnson

AlertNow - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 02 Feb 09
     
    AlertNow, designed specifically to address school communication needs, supplements conventional school communications and replaces outdated phone trees and automated dialing tools that require staff resources and large blocks of time to deliver messages to multiple recipients. AlertNow is the industry's only rapid communication service that displays the school phone number on caller identification devices (Caller ID) for non-emergency calls and distinguishes urgent emergency calls with a "411" caller ID display.
Anne Bubnic

Summer Photo Contest for Kids on Biodiversity - 0 views

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  • Anne Bubnic on 13 Jun 09
     
    National Geographic, Airbus, and ePals have partnered to raise awareness of biodiversity worldwide, especially among young people. A major component of this effort is a summer photo contest for students age 6-16, called "See the Bigger Picture". Students can submit digital photos online or via mailed electronic media until September 8th. The contest is open to kids aged between 6 and 16*. Submit one color image that you think captures the spirit or idea of biodiversity. It could be a favourite tree or a plant, an animal or an insect, even a whole ecosystem (from your own back yard to somewhere you've visited on vacation) - your image should show people why biodiversity is a good thing that we should try to preserve.
Vicki Davis

Funschool - Fun Blaster - Super Hyper Spider Typer - 17 views

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education typing technology

shared by Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 11
     
    super hyper type spider recommended by @fsinfo on Twitter for typing. "Hungry lizards with words on their backs are after Berry the hairy spider! Save Berry from these colorful, wacky creatures by typing words quickly as they appear on their backs and help her from becoming someone's lunch! Type in the letters or words you see on the lizard's backs as soon as they appear on the screen to clear them away. Some words will be harder than others so type really fast to win! Each round will end when the spider reaches the top of the tree. "
Martin Burrett

Cyber Tree House - 5 views

www.cybertreehouse.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Jul 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Jul 12
     
    A well made, child friendly flash site with videos, interactive games and other resources about Internet safety and smart thinking online. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Ed Webb

Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 06 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • instead of sticking to one study location, simply alternating the room where a person studies improves retention. So does studying distinct but related skills or concepts in one sitting, rather than focusing intensely on a single thing. “We have known these principles for some time, and it’s intriguing that schools don’t pick them up, or that people don’t learn them by trial and error,” said Robert A. Bjork, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Instead, we walk around with all sorts of unexamined beliefs about what works that are mistaken.”
  • The brain makes subtle associations between what it is studying and the background sensations it has at the time, the authors say, regardless of whether those perceptions are conscious. It colors the terms of the Versailles Treaty with the wasted fluorescent glow of the dorm study room, say; or the elements of the Marshall Plan with the jade-curtain shade of the willow tree in the backyard. Forcing the brain to make multiple associations with the same material may, in effect, give that information more neural scaffolding.
  • Cognitive scientists do not deny that honest-to-goodness cramming can lead to a better grade on a given exam. But hurriedly jam-packing a brain is akin to speed-packing a cheap suitcase, as most students quickly learn — it holds its new load for a while, then most everything falls out. “With many students, it’s not like they can’t remember the material” when they move to a more advanced class, said Henry L. Roediger III, a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis. “It’s like they’ve never seen it before.”
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  • cognitive scientists see testing itself — or practice tests and quizzes — as a powerful tool of learning, rather than merely assessment. The process of retrieving an idea is not like pulling a book from a shelf; it seems to fundamentally alter the way the information is subsequently stored, making it far more accessible in the future.
  • “The idea is that forgetting is the friend of learning,” said Dr. Kornell. “When you forget something, it allows you to relearn, and do so effectively, the next time you see it.”
  • An hour of study tonight, an hour on the weekend, another session a week from now: such so-called spacing improves later recall, without requiring students to put in more overall study effort or pay more attention, dozens of studies have found.
  • “Testing not only measures knowledge but changes it,” he says — and, happily, in the direction of more certainty, not less.
  • “Testing has such bad connotation; people think of standardized testing or teaching to the test,” Dr. Roediger said. “Maybe we need to call it something else, but this is one of the most powerful learning tools we have.”
  • The harder it is to remember something, the harder it is to later forget. This effect, which researchers call “desirable difficulty,”
Dave Truss

CTV.ca | Kielburgers join forces with Oprah on new campaign - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 26 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 26 May 08
     
    Some "O Ambassador" projects include: * Building a package of school supplies for a classroom in need * Planting a tree on school grounds * Creating "AIDS Awareness" posters * Organizing "Read-A-Thons" * Collecting old blankets and sleeping bags for local homeless shelters
Phil Macoun

Library | Navigator - 21 views

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shared by Phil Macoun on 08 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The carefully selected press clippings and resources in this section have been chosen to provide a clear sense of both the forest and the trees in the landscape of emerging technology. Included are not only information about the technologies themselves but also clues to the context within which they are developed and used.
Kelly Christopherson

The rise of the Digital Refuseniks - Newspaper Tree El Paso - 0 views

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shared by Kelly Christopherson on 31 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Kelly Christopherson on 31 Mar 09
     
    Great article that debunks the whole immigrant/native thing.
Tania Sheko

The golden age of dinosaur discovery - Ockham's Razor - ABC Radio National (Australian ... - 7 views

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dinosaur abc australian

shared by Tania Sheko on 29 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • You don’t have to imagine very hard. Dinosaurs didn’t die out when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago. In fact, wherever you live, you can probably step outside and look up into the trees and skies to find them: birds are dinosaurs and they are all around you.
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