www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewmw8fUTa0Y

Microsoft announced Illumishare, a project which allows the sharing of digital or physical objects.

3D GameLab, a quest-based online learning platform re-opens our closed beta on March 26, as we kick off with a 3 week online spring camp for teachers and instructional designers, providing you the tools and the training to turn your class into a living game! Work at your own pace with the option to attend live online events. Attend our design academy, and invite up to 60 of your own students to play their way through the curriculum!

http://3dgamelab.org.shivtr.com/

This article by Barr and Tagg is called From Teaching to Learning.

ilte.ius.edu/pdf/BarrTagg.pdf

Listen to the audio on this site...
http://change.mooc.ca/recordings.htm

The induction elements producing the strongest effects included having a mentor from the same field, having common planning time with teachers in the same subject, and having regularly scheduled collaboration with other teachers. Reducing teachers' preparation/course load or providing extra classroom assistance produced only weak effects on any of the outcomes. The researchers concluded that programs should focus on the selection and training of mentors to provide beginning teachers with same-subject mentors, opportunities to collaborate with other teachers, and assurance of high levels of administrative support. Overall, teachers receiving a more comprehensive package of these induction components achieved higher levels on all three outcomes:

teachers' job satisfaction, commitment, and retention; teachers' classroom teaching practices and pedagogical methods; and student achievement.


Multiple resources are available at http://www.all4ed.org/publication_material/issue_policy_briefs

Remix, Make and Share

Hackasaurus makes it easy to mash up and change any web page like magic. You can also create your own webpages to share with your friends, all within your browser.

http://hackasaurus.org/en-US/goggles/

Great paper on solving wicked problems.
http://cognexus.org/id42.htm

Check out their offerings...courses delivered by Stanford profs.
http://www.cs101-class.org/hub.php

The learning management system upstart Instructure is unveiling Canvas K-12 today, a version of its platform aimed - as the name suggests - for the K-12 level. The company says that it's already had over a dozen school districts adopt Canvas, even before this roll-out of a specially designed LMS.

Traditionally the LMS has been something implemented primarily by colleges and universities, but as more and more K-12 schools move to online learning and digital curriculum, there's a growing demand at that level. It's a hot market, and according to research published in December 2011 by Simba Information, "the LMS segment is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 7.3%, reaching $377 million by the 2014-2015 school year."

As such, it's hardly surprising to see some of the big education companies make their move to offer schools these services. The acquisition of Edline by Blackboard last fall made it clear that the learning management giant was serious about its push into that market.

But as the Simba research suggests, it's a market that's still up for grabs. While Blackboard still holds a little over half of the higher ed LMS market, Blackboard, Pearson and Moodle altogether share only about 30% of the K-12 market.

That provides an interesting opportunity for Instructure, which officially launched its cloud-based LMS this time last year.

Check out the video of the Lego-man going into space.

http://erictremblay.blogspot.com/2012/01/learning-because-its-cool.html

The Social Learning Centre is the place where learning professionals can find out more about the use of social media for learning, as well as exchange thoughts and ideas with their peers and leading practitioners and thought leaders around the world.

Become a member of this global learning community and get involved as follows:

* Take part in scheduled (and/or on-demand) online programmes - these offer a structured, albeit informal, approach to learning about social learning
* Participate in webinars - where Jane Hart will be in conversation with leading practitioners and thought leaders
* Join a range of special interest groups - for continuous updates and discussions on social learning topics



http://sociallearningcentre.co.uk/

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