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Sweet Search - 11 views

www.sweetsearch.com search_engines
shared by Julie Shy on 26 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Mark Moran on 26 Jan 10
     
    SweetSearch (http://www.sweetsearch.com/), A Search Engine for Students, is a free custom search engine that searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by our team of Web research experts. It excludes unreliable sites that often rank high in other search engines and waste students' time. With only credible results to evaluate, students can focus their energy on determining which results are most relevant to their research. Here are but two examples where SweetSearch's results are far superior to those of Google or Bing: "Shakespeare" http://bit.ly/7Reg7p vs. http://bit.ly/6lUphg vs. http://bit.ly/6ycRcZ "War of 1812" http://bit.ly/87HMYn vs. http://bit.ly/57hoOO vs. http://bit.ly/5L7xiz It's not just that we exclude obvious spam sites; we also usually exclude marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor, and thus are not citable. As importantly, many of the best academic resources on the Web, such as university or other .edu web sites, make little effort to optimize their search rankings and thus often don't appear till the 3rd or 4th page of Google results. Because SweetSearch searches a smaller, more qualified pool of sites, these academic sites often appear on the 1st page of SweetSearch results. And to most students, the 1st page is the only one that exists. To place a SweetSearch search box on your own Web site, copy the code for our widget onto your site: http://www.sweetsearch.com/widget.html
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  • Ken Stanton on 26 Jan 10
     
    this search engine is quite biased, at least in its "sponsored" results at the top of the page. It appears that a separate search engine is providing these, based on the note in the corner of the search that reads "More results from findingDulcinea".
  • Mark Moran on 26 Jan 10
     
    Ken, findingDulcinea is owned by the same company as SweetSearch. Most search engines put paid advertising links, which are never helpful to students, in the sponsored ads box. SweetSearch puts the most relevant content from findingDulcinea, and clearly labels it as such.
  • yc c on 26 Aug 10
     
       Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts. School Librarians, organized by subject and academic level, Biographies for profiles of 1,000+ significant people...
  • Clif Mims on 18 Jun 11
     
    "SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved."
  • Julie Shy on 06 Jun 12
     
        Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts.         SweetSearch Web Research Tutorial Teaches Web Research Skills to Educators and Students.  SweetSearch4Me is our search engine for emerging learners.      
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Web Site Design Lesson Plans - Lesson plans for high school web site design courses. - 15 views

highschoolwebdesign.com lesson webdesign
shared by Diane Woodard on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Jan 10
     
    From Joel - I'm a business teacher and member of Minnesota Business Educators, Inc. I've put together a little website with some of my lesson plans for high school web site design courses, and I'd like to offer this to other business teachers. The lesson plans are totally free. I'm wondering if you might be interested in adding a link to my website, http://highschoolwebdesign.com, on your Cool Cat Teacher blog. The site contains a complete, twelve week course in high school web site design, including projects with step-by-step instructions and rubrics. Thanks so much and have a great day! Joel Roggenkamp Business Teacher Author, http://highschoolwebdesign.com
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Wikipedia:Wikirace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 6 views

en.wikipedia.org/Wikiracing game wikipedia fun elearning idea
shared by yc c on 31 Jan 10 - Cached
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      yc c on 31 Jan 10
       
      Could be a interesting to do in a class. Can become very educational in many ways depending the chosen word. Eg: In history search a persona of a period they just studied. They learn stuff on the way. Highlights other competence.
  • yc c on 31 Jan 10
     
    A Wikirace is a race by as many people as you wish, using wikilinks to travel from one Wikipedia page to another. The first person to reach the destination page, or the person that reaches the destination using the fewest number of links, wins the race. Waypoints may also be added.
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OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/Design Fundamentals/Key Design Principles - OLPC - 0 views

wiki.laptop.org/...Key_Design_Principles
shared by Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • n which provides a low floor to the inexperienced, but doesn't impose a ceiling upon those who are.
  • tailored to the needs of children in the context of their learning
  • n activity ring that contains icons representing each instance of an open activity
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  • limitations
  • mphasis on discoverability and usability
  • the actual behavior of the activities, the layout of the buttons and tools, and the feedback that the interface provides to the children when they interact with it
  • there is no substitute for user testing
  • imple doesn't necessarily mean limited
  • simple—even minimal—controls can have great expressive power.
  • a "fail-soft" approach to their designs
  • five categories of "bad things" software can do: damaging the laptop; compromising privacy; damaging the children's data; doing bad things to other people; and impersonating the child.
  • without the use of menus, pop-up boxes, passwords, etc., as these approaches are meaningless to most people.
  • no noticeable side-effects
  • When children know they have a fallback plan—a way back to the current state of things—they will much more frequently go beyond their comfortable boundaries and experiment with new tools and new creative means of expression
  • the ability to undo one's actions.
  • Interoperability
  • Towards this end, a view source key has been added to the laptop keyboards, providing them with instant access to the code that enables the activities that they use from day to day. This key will allow those interested to peel away layers of abstraction, digging deeper into the codebase as they learn.
  • (without a mouse or trackpad)
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Bitstrips for Schools - 5 views

www.bitstripsforschools.com ad4dcss comics comic life digital storytelling privacy
shared by Anne Bubnic on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 31 Mar 10
     
    Web-based Comics. BitStrips for Schools places it on a private virtual network where teachers can moderate content and review all characters and comics. Students can flag inappropriate comments or bullying, which is then instantly removed pending teacher review. There is a nominal fee of $9.95 per month for up to 40 students.
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Letters from the Internment Camps - 7 views

gallaudet.voicethread.com/...23 21st century learning lesson plan digital citizenship ad4dcss
shared by Anne Bubnic on 10 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 10 Mar 10
     
    Great lesson plan that ties in social studies curriculum with 21st century learning and digital citizenship. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products using Web 2.0 technologies, including Voice Thread.
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Mobile Learning Institute [Video] - 9 views

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shared by Anne Bubnic on 08 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 08 Apr 10
     
    The Mobile Learning Institute's film series "A 21st Century Education" profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. "A 21st Century Education" compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.
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Cybersafety Games (K-12) - 19 views

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shared by Anne Bubnic on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 31 Mar 10
     
    Looking for games online that might help students learn important cybersafety concepts? Add this collection from around the world to your digital citizenship training efforts.
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21st-Century Skills: Evidence, Relevance, and Effectiveness - 17 views

thejournal.com/...levance-and-Effectiveness.aspx ad4dcss 21st century skills iste nets curriculum digital literacy
shared by Anne Bubnic on 08 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 08 Apr 10
     
    Several states have taken the NETS standards one to several steps further in identifying what K-12 education must achieve in terms of facilitating student proficiency in the defined skills. These efforts have, in some cases, led to standards being issued by each state for its own students to meet, including:
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Create Comics with Chogger - 12 views

chogger.com education comics graphic novels
shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 29 Apr 10
     
    Chogger lets you create and share web comics online! You can build comic strips by adding drawings, photos, and speech balloons
  • Vicki Davis on 27 Oct 13
     
    Another free comic creator that does not require a login.
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A Call for Technology Leadership - 16 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx
shared by Ben Rimes on 10 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • (1) modeling the use of new technologies in communicating to students, teachers and the general public; (2) ensuring that technology becomes integral to teaching 21st-century skills from critical thinking and problem solving to collaboration and information literacy in the classroom; (3) boosting Web 2.0 applications and tools as key components of student learning; (4) offering professional development in these technologies and deploying the online tools that help teachers create learning communities among themselves; and (5) requiring better balanced assessments of student work—including project-based learning enhanced by technology tools—in an age driven by NCLB-oriented testing and better use of data from the assessments to help students improve their performance.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 10 Jan 11
       
      Asking any leader to model effective strategies makes sense, but shouldn't the imperative of offering professional development in newer communications tools come first? Some district leader's I can see jupming into new tools and ways to communicate, but you can't expect all veteran leaders to adopt new tools without the development and support they'll need.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 10 Jan 11
       
      I'm curious to know in how many districts does the Superintendent serve as the curriculum leader capable of making the sweeping changes to move a district towards project-based learning. I have an inkling that many superintendents find niches that make them valubale, whether it's focusing on assessment, community relations, curriculum, or something else.
  • The revised edition also includes a self-assessment for superintendents to evaluate how far their districts have come along the technological curve. CoSN’s CEO Keith Krueger explains that his organization’s research shows that many district leaders are behind that curve, and the new document opens with a letter:
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 10 Jan 11
       
      Not surprising at all...
  • e cautions that the large-scale changes CoSN is advocating are most likely to happen for district leaders who are not engaged in dozens of other initiatives. “Everybody wants the superintendent to be in the middle of everything,” Reeves explains. “The real acid test is whether you can execute the ‘not-to-do list,’” adding that superintendents need to resist establishing too many priorities. Each of the five areas featured in “Empowering the 21st Century Superintendent” includes a set of resources and a series of action steps for superintendents and district leadership teams. For instance, in the 21st-century skills section, leaders are urged to improve their own such skills, create a vision for integrating them into K12 instruction, audit the district’s strategic plan to see which might be missing and adjust professional development accordingly.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 10 Jan 11
       
      Love the pragmatism in this quote. Good acknowledgement that district superintendents are engufed in far too much at times, and thus tech-integration may not realistically happen. Good to know that the framework provided by CoSn also includes some directions for district tech teams.
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Quicklyst: Take Outline Notes and Study from Your Amazon Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Android ... - 13 views

www.quicklyst.com notetaking ipad apps notes quicklyst technology
shared by Deb Henkes on 01 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 01 Feb 11
     
    online outline creator tool. links and notes can be added easily. 
  • Deb Henkes on 16 Dec 11
     
    Take Smart Notes: Quicklyst uses DuckDuckGo to provide you with instant access to Wikipedia and the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Study Anywhere: Take your notes with you on an Amazon Kindle, Android, iPhone, smartphone, or tablet device. We Love Science: Quicklyst allows you to use LaTeX formatting to include mathematical formulas and equations in your notes easily. Bring Your Friends: Whether they use Quicklyst or not, you can share printable study guides with a couple clicks.
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butwait - EduCon2.3 Reflections - 10 views

butwait.wikispaces.com/EduCon2.3+Reflections educon reflections
shared by Phil Macoun on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • as I come across EduCon2.3-related content, I'll be adding it here. If you have a wikispaces account, you should be able to make additions as well (I welcome your help!).
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Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education - 20 views

www.sophia.org video math science
shared by Kathy Benson on 21 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Julie Shy on 06 Jun 12
     
    Sophia is a free social teaching and learning platform that offers academic content to anyone, anywhere, free of charge. The website, which has been described as a mashup of Facebook, Wikipedia, and YouTube that is focused solely on education, also lets educators supplement their instruction with tools to create a customized learning environment in a private or public setting. Sophia.org has enhanced its social teaching and learning platform to include more than 25,000 free tutorials on math, science, English, and more-all in an ad-free environment. What's more, the site has become a key destination for teachers who are looking to "flip" their classrooms, its makers say.
  • Kathy Benson on 04 Nov 12
     
    Mostly middle school and up, has a learning preferences survey, like Khan Academy
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Best of free typing games - Typing games : improve typing skills - 27 views

www.mytypinggames.com free games Keyboardingsites keyboarding typing
shared by Megan Black on 16 May 11 - No Cached
  • Sandy Kennedy on 17 May 11
     
    An awful lot of ads at the top of these; some of them encouraging them to download stuff. Think I'll pass on this one.
  • Megan Black on 19 May 11
     
    I have the Adblock app from Firefox on all my student computers so they did not show up. This helps with a lot of free educational sites. You might want to give it s try. It installs quickly.
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Tenured Radical - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

chronicle.com/...-dont-teach-in-graduate-school autism education opinion educators
shared by Ed Webb on 26 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • there is little to no attention being paid to giving full-time faculty the training to teach students who have a wide range of capacities when it comes to what counts for normal classroom discipline:  sitting still for an hour and taking notes, being in crowded rooms where they risk being bumped and touched, overcoming obsessive behavior to get to class or hand in a paper on time, working in small groups with other students, or being in large classes with crowds of strangers.  It is also happening in a context in which being full-time faculty is becoming anomalous, and the financial “flexibility” of running higher education on per-course labor makes it unlikely that the vast majority of faculty will be eligible, or open to making unpaid time available, for the training that would make their classrooms accessible to autistic students
  • People with autism, Gilman notes, also tend to have disordered sleep, affecting the capacity to function at high-stress times of the semester when we assume that most students are pulling all-nighters.  They have difficulty relating to someone they are intimate with (much less an impatient, overworked faculty member who wants all students to act like the adults they appear to be), what they are experiencing and what is wrong, which would make even the most generous office hours not useful. So when we are putting together arguments for hiring full-time faculty in the next round of budget cuts and declarations from foundations that tenure is holding us back, think about adding this one in.  The demands on faculty to be well-trained, knowledgeable, creative and flexible teachers are growing — not subsiding — and attention to this will make all the difference in keeping our classrooms truly inclusive
  • colleges and universities don't have the infrastructure to replicate what these students have relied upon in high school
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  • please don't generalize from specific autistic traits to all the students on the spectrum. Our autistic daughter isn't a visual learner, she's a voracious reader. Still, the number of times people have assumed that she learns in a visual or tactile way, in the style of Temple Grandin? Too many to count.
  • a good first step would be to listen to autistic undergraduates themselves and to put the needs they express first instead of responding primarily to the perspective of the neurotypical parents of autistic children. The perspective of autistic undergraduates, which seems to me to be the most important on the subject, is entirely missing from this post
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Tips and Tricks for Wikis in the Classroom - 0 views

ctipsharing.wikispaces.com/Wiki+work ad4dcss web 2.0 wiki classroom best_practices digital_learning
shared by Anne Bubnic on 26 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 26 Apr 09
     
    Fourteen tips for teachers. Includes a downloadable parent letter and permission form
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Summer Photo Contest for Kids on Biodiversity - 0 views

education.zdnet.com ad4dcss digital_youth digital_communication digital_media
shared by Anne Bubnic on 13 Jun 09 - Cached
  • 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.
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