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2011 Horizon Report | NMC - 0 views

  • NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.
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Cybraryman Internet Catalogue - 0 views

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    Page of QR Code resources.
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Piazza, a Homework Help Site, Has a Social Networking Twist - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Students post questions to their course page, which peers and educators can then respond to. Instructors moderate the discussion, endorse the best responses and track the popularity of questions in real time.
  • Piazza’s platform is specifically designed to speed response times. The site is supported by a system of notification alerts, and the average question on Piazza will receive an answer in 14 minutes.
  • At Stanford, the first to start using the service, more than half of the undergraduates are registered users.
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  • a computer science professor at Princeton, started using Piazza for her programming systems class last semester.
  • Piazza gave the students a community, especially in the middle of the night, when the instructors were sleeping,” Professor Rexford said. “The students were more interactive in general, and it was a time saver all-around.”
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    Very nice tool for AP students to get homework help from peers in a social format.
Tony Bollino

Education Week: Studies Find Students Learn More by 'Acting Out' Text - 0 views

  • elementary mathematics students who acted out text in word problems were more accurate and less distracted than those who didn’t.
  • Embodied, or grounded, cognition posits that meaning in language comes when words or phrases are mentally mapped onto memories of real experiences and perceptions.
  • When we as readers are thinking about what we’re reading, we are embodying it even if we aren’t literally moving our arms. We are calling upon our experiences,”
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    Good research on the use of visualization to solve math problems.
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7 Virtual Field Trips Every Teacher Ought to Know About - SimpleK12 - 0 views

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    Seven good virtual field trips from SimpleK12 Blog #edchat
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LiveScribe Pulse Pen - 0 views

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    Another LiveBinder of resources for the LiveScribe pens ...
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LiveScribe in the Classroom - 0 views

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    A LiveBinder Binder of LiveScribe ideas and resources
Tony Bollino

Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • The benefits of active learning are widely acclaimed in higher education. According to Guthrie and Carlin,1 modern students are primarily active learners, and lecture courses may be increasingly out of touch with how students engage their world.
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  • Clickers help instructors actively engage students during the entire class period, gauge their level of understanding of the material being presented, and provide prompt feedback to student questions.
  • Another benefit of clickers over traditional active learning methods is that they follow the principles of game-based learning.
  • Best Practices for Implementing Clickers in the Classroom*
  • The best way to help instructors is to provide mentoring and support from other instructors using clicker systems.
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    Interesting study about the use of Clickers in the classroom.  This study does not show statistically significant differences between Clickers and Traditional Discussion but the perceptual survey indicates students prefer using the SRS system.  
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Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders - 0 views

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    Take a collection of web sites, images, and videos and package it into a nice "all in one" presentation.  Sort of like Share Tabs but a little more feature filled.
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50+Ways - home - 0 views

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    50 Digital Story Telling tools.
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CogDogRoo - StoryTools - 2 views

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    50 Web 2.0 tools to use.
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iClone - Solution for Real-time 3D Animation 3D Stereo Video - 0 views

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    Let's make our own 3D videos
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Wow! 3D Content Awakens the Classroom -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    Imagine stepping inside the human body to learn about the systems. Now we can!
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Office 2010 | Technology Services - 0 views

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    Office 2010 Update Support - Training Courses, Interactive Guide (Where did it go?) Features, quick tips
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YouTube - Khan Academy on the Gates Notes - 0 views

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    Sal Khan has been teaching via YouTube for over two years and has Bill and Melinda Gates helping him run his Academy.  This is a great model for instruction which frees up teachers to be me.  Students at  Bullis are watching the videos in advance of class to learn the skill, then come to class to practice.  The teacher spends his time coaching and helping. Advanced students work ahead and do enrichment.
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Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff - TechLearnin... - 0 views

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    a long list of possible alternatives
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UMD To Offer Cyber Camp for High School Students This Summer - 0 views

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    A great opportunity for students to learn more about the career of Cyber Security.
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Flip Alternatives: 5 Great Pocket Video Cameras - 0 views

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    Now that Flip is gone and we are not ready to adopt tablet and mobile devices, we should look at these.
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Group items tagged math - Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom | Diigo Groups - 1 views

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    A listing of Math links from the Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom group.
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Livescribe Education | Livescribe Education - 0 views

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    Lesson plans and ideas to use LiveScribe in the classroom
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