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Kathy Schwarz

*** Call for Expressions of Interest to join the Review Panel for the MERLOT Journal of... - 1 views

*** Call for Expressions of Interest to join the Review Panel for the MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) *** In response to continual increases in the volume of manuscript submi...

education

started by Kathy Schwarz on 30 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Christie Robertson

Build a Feed You Can Cut 'n Paste - 1 views

feed2js.org/index.php

RSS feed javascript tools web2.0

shared by Christie Robertson on 16 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Christie Robertson on 16 Jan 12
     
    A quick way to build RSS feeds. 
Kathy Schwarz

Instructional Design Guru App - 1 views

By Simply Useful Tools, LLC http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instructional-design-guru/id452974687?mt=8

education teaching

started by Kathy Schwarz on 22 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Kathy Schwarz

A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster - 1 views

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/848/well-read-a-theory-of-fun-for-game-design

started by Kathy Schwarz on 23 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Christie Robertson

What Ottawa's new copyright laws will mean for Canadians | Canada Politics - Yahoo! News - 1 views

ca.news.yahoo.com/...-mean-canadians-203351106.html

copyright canada resources

shared by Christie Robertson on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Christie Robertson on 30 Sep 11
     
    Copyright law is back on the table
Kathy Schwarz

A System Approach to Building a World-Class TeachingProfession: The Role of Induction - 1 views

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 co...

started by Kathy Schwarz on 15 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Kathy Schwarz

Some Secrets Hurt - Blackboard's security issues - 1 views

http://www.instructure.com/blog/2012/01/24/some-secrets-hurt/

started by Kathy Schwarz on 30 Jan 12 no follow-up yet
anonymous

Native apps versus mobile websites: three simple rules | Econsultancy - 1 views

econsultancy.com/...le-websites-three-simple-rules

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  • anonymous on 24 Oct 11
     
    Good article - adds to our current discussion on mobile apps or mobile web.
Kathy Schwarz

Composite Learning Index from the Canadian Council on Learning - 1 views

http://cli-ica.ca/en.aspx How do we compare with the national average? Check it out.

started by Kathy Schwarz on 23 Jan 12 no follow-up yet
Kathy Schwarz

OpenStudy - 1 views

OpenStudy (openstudy.com) makes it easy for groups of students who are studying the same material at the same time to find each other, set up collaboration spaces, and both create and spend social ...

started by Kathy Schwarz on 23 Jan 12 no follow-up yet
anonymous

Mobile Initiatives 'Breaking Down the Walls of the Classroom' at Abilene Christian U --... - 1 views

campustechnology.com/...om-at-abilene-christian-u.aspx

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  • anonymous on 27 Oct 11
     
    "Mobile Initiatives 'Breaking Down the Walls of the Classroom' at Abilene Christian U Small private college Abilene Christian University has entered the fourth academic year of its mobile education initiatives, and the program's momentum and influence is still growing. The Texas institution, which has added the Apple iPad to its list of devices made available to students and faculty, along with the iPhone and iPod touch, recently hosted a Connected Open House, with attendance by people from dozens of other schools. The university is also running numerous mobile-oriented research projects among its faculty and recently opened three new mobile research centers sponsored by a sizeable grant from AT&T."
Christie Robertson

Open Education Sites Offer Free Content for All | MindShift - 1 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...tes-offer-free-content-for-all

education OER resources

shared by Christie Robertson on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Christie Robertson on 27 Oct 11
     
    Open education sites exemplify how technology is democratizing education. These sites allow both learners and teachers to create their own curriculum, whether it's used in or out of the classroom.
anonymous

Flip the Switch - Home - 1 views

www.fliptheswitchworkshop.com

PD

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  • anonymous on 17 Jan 12
     
    Why attend Flip the Switch? I love to teach, just like others at Cornell, but the bad news is that while we all are teaching, 64% of our students are texting!! Out of my frustration, I've been experimenting successfully with using mobile devices and to turn my students away from distraction and towards interaction. At a deeper level, I am now connecting better with ALL students, not just the ones that always raise their hands. In the process I started to wonder if I could somehow help other faculty members do this. The Workshop My team has put together an intimate, hands-on workshop specifically focused on creating an action plan for each participant's courses/teaching needs, on how to make use of cellphones and other devices to intrigue and engage students, deploy digital video to renew attention spans and implement innovative "apps" to engage the YouTube generation in order to improve the learning environment.
  • anonymous on 17 Jan 12
     
    ANother idea for May PD:
Kathy Schwarz

Designing Sims the Clark Aldrich Way - 1 views

Here is the link to his book... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27077549/Designing Sims the Clark Aldrich Way.pdf

started by Kathy Schwarz on 29 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
anonymous

Debating the Value of College in America : The New Yorker - 1 views

www.newyorker.com/...110606crat_atlarge_menand

college learning

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  • anonymous on 10 Jun 11
     
    "If you prefer the second theory, then you might consider grades a useful instrument of positive or negative reinforcement, but the only thing that matters is what students actually learn. There is stuff that every adult ought to know, and college is the best delivery system for getting that stuff into people's heads. "
anonymous

Moving Beyond Technology -- Campus Technology - 1 views

campustechnology.com/...moving-beyond-technology.aspx

technology

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  • anonymous on 23 Apr 12
     
    "Most Significant Metatrends for the Next 10 Years 1. The world of work is increasingly global and increasingly collaborative. 2. People expect to work, learn, socialize, and play whenever and wherever they want to. 3. The internet is becoming a global mobile network--and already is at its edges. 4. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based and delivered over utility networks, facilitating the rapid growth of online videos and rich media. 5. Openness--concepts like open content, open data, and open resources, along with notions of transparency and easy access to data and information--is moving from a trend to a value for much of the world. 6. Legal notions of ownership and privacy lag behind the practices common in society. 7. Real challenges of access, efficiency, and scale are redefining what we mean by quality and success. 8. The internet is constantly challenging us to rethink learning and education, while refining our notion of literacy. 9. There is a rise in informal learning as individual needs are redefining schools, universities, and training. 10. Business models across the education ecosystem are changing. Excerpts of the 10 top metatrends identified in A Communiqué from the Horizon Project Retreat, January 2012, an NMC Horizon Project publication under Creative Commons attribution license. "
Tyler Wall

How to kill innovation, in five easy steps | TechRepublic - 1 views

www.techrepublic.com/...8348

innovation creativity

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  • Tyler Wall on 01 Jun 11
     
    How to kill innovation, in five easy steps
Jackie Doherty

McElvaney - 1 views

www.cjlt.ca/...257

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  • Free and easy-to-use technologies offer new ways to find, organize, create, and interact with information.
  • The 2009 Horizon Report defines personal webs as "customized, personal web-based environments . . . that explicitly support one's social, professional, [and] learning . . . activities via highly personalized windows to the networked world" (Johnson, Levine & Smith, 2009, p. 19), and heralds them as an emerging learning trend.
  • This paper explores personal web technologies (PWTs) and their learning applications. Examples are given of commonly used, customizable technologies such as: social bookmarking, personal publishing tools, aggregators, and metagators.
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  • learning needs extend far beyond the culmination of a training session or degree program. Working adults must continually update their skills and behaviours to conform to the constantly changing demands of the workplace (Lewis & Romiszowski, 1996)
  • some needs may best be addressed by the individual him/herself.
  • PLE) to manage their own learning resources; whether these are wikis, news feeds, podcasts, or people.
  • The use of PWTs for learning directly supports several principles of connectivism, a learning theory outlined by Siemens (2006): (i) Knowledge rests in networks, (ii) Knowledge may reside in non-human appliances, and learning is enabled / facilitated by technology, and (iii) Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities (p. 31).
  • If individuals can sufficiently develop their ability to find, organize, and manage these connections, their available knowledge does not have to be limited by the confines of their own skulls.
  • To navigate the Internet more efficiently, individuals can assemble a virtual toolbox from an ever-growing list of free, and often open-source, technologies to aid in aggregating, organizing, and publishing information online.
  • To create a personal web for learning, it is first necessary to explore what personal web technologies are, where to find them, and how to use them.
  • Social bookmarking and research tools allow users to save web pages, articles, and other media (usually to an online storage location) and organize them in personally meaningful ways.
  • n general, the length and full-featured capabilities of blogging offer learners the opportunity to explore topics in depth and reflect, while the speed and simplicity of micro-blogging lends itself more towards posing questions and collaborative brainstorming (King, 2009).
  • esides enriching and enlivening a post, these tools make it possible for an individual to publish artifacts that are ill-served by text-only displays.
  • Micro-blogs, such as Twitter (twitter.com), allow users to post short messages from their computer or mobile phone.
  • Users can also 'follow' other members to receive a stream of their posts.
  • asily "ask and answer questions, learn from experts, share resources, and react to events on the fly"
  • ndividuals who follow multiple blogs and/or regularly visit news or media sites may find juggling the disparate streams of information overwhelming. For this reason, it can be helpful to subscribe to these streams (or “feeds”) by using an aggregator.
  • Metagators, also called portals or start pages, can aggregate feeds, social networks, and widgets to create a central, personalized location for an individual's Internet usage
  • Netvibes and iGoogle
  • Widgets are small, adaptable, programmable, web-based gadgets that can be embedded into a variety of sites or used on mobile phones or desktops (
  • Due to the fact that they are user-created, there is no exact definition of a PLE (PLE, n.d.). In general, a PLE is the sum of websites and technologies that an individual makes use of to learn.
  • PLEs may range in complexity from a single blog to an inter-connected web of social bookmarking tools, personal publishing platforms, search engines, social networks, aggregators, etc.
  • http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Ple
  • Once an individual creates a PLE or PLN, there is no need to sit in front of a computer to access it. The majority of PWTs have mobile-friendly versions available, allowing individuals to take their learning to go.
  • Instead of limiting learning to traditional environments, mobile versions of PWTs give learners more options on where and when to learn.
  • However, there is a catch: PWTs may clash with traditional, linear, teacher-centered instruction (see Figure 2)
  • Learners who use PWTs must learn to question sources, verify information, compare and contrast various perspectives and become more independent
  • need to focus on building critical media and information literacy skills, so that students can effectively navigate the online maze and avoid being fooled by false or misleading information.
  • students have already experimented with a personal web technology, such as social networking, but, "few of them are being taught how to leverage its potential and benefit from the deep learning that can ensue"
  • In higher education, PWTs could be of great use for researching, developing PLNs, and creating online portfolios.
  • An undergraduate student who uses a research tool such as Zotero will graduate with a searchable, organized collection of annotated resources that could be valuable in the workplace or in future academic undertakings.
  • As the individual becomes increasingly connected to their PLN, they may become increasingly disconnected to those who are physically around them, such as family and friends
  • Using PWTs to incessantly check for new articles, status updates, and activity may become a drain on one’s attention and productivity
  • Valuable or innovative ideas put forth by lesser-known individuals can easily become lost in the noise.
  • ndividuals who wish to learn from their personal network must strive to create a diverse PLN populated with voices that may dissent, challenge, or provoke. Otherwise, the PLN cannot foster critical and creative thinking,
  • anything they publish on the Internet may be found by supervisors, peers, teachers, a
  • uture hiring managers (Harris, 2007)
Kathy Schwarz

Sim School - 1 views

Welcome to simSchool, the classroom simulator for educators Through simSchool, pre and in-service teachers, instructors, administrators, and others experience and improve knowledge and confidence...

education teaching

started by Kathy Schwarz on 19 Jun 12 no follow-up yet
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