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Online Stickies - lino - 0 views

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Very feature rich online "sticky note" app. Similar to wallwisher but you can upload pictures and files and attach them to the notes.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Very feature rich online "sticky note" app. Similar to wallwisher but you can upload pictures and files and attach them to the notes.</div>

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PBS resources video elementary middle high interactive

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Tony Bollino on 30 Aug 11

Great site from PBS with video resources for free!

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Aviary Education - Home - 0 views

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tools free editing music images aviary

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Tony Bollino on 30 Aug 11

Suite of free online editing tools for music, audio, and images. Like having Photoshop, Audacity, and Garage Band.

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6 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom [Video] - SimpleK12 - 1 views

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Very good ideas for some upper level literature classes

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100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals - 0 views

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digital_photography digital_storytelling PhotoStory Photography Tutorials photoshop

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This content could be really helpful for a workshop on digital photography. Especially if we're going to be doing any instruction for students using digital cameras and PhotoStory. Going over the "Rule of 3s" and white balance are really powerful before the students start collecting digital images.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This content could be really helpful for a workshop on digital photography. Especially if we're going to be doing any instruction for students using digital cameras and PhotoStory. Going over the "Rule of 3s" and white balance are really powerful before the students start collecting digital images.</div>

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Getting Started Videos - 2011 Geo Teachers Institute - 0 views

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googleearth video tutorial

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Tony Bollino on 25 Aug 11

Video tutorials of Google Earth 5.0

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Behold | Search High Quality Flickr Images - 0 views

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An easy way to search Flikr

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ShowMe - The Interactive Learning Community - 0 views

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Tony Bollino on 20 Aug 11

ShowMe site. iPad users create whiteboard presentations like Khan academy and put them up here.

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Michael Hakkarinen on 20 Aug 11

Great idea. Last week I was at Stone Ridge in Bethesda where the teachers in 7th grade got iPads. They were asking exactly how to do this. I'm trying it now.

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Using an iPod Touch in the Primary Classroom - 0 views

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Welcome to Flubaroo - 1 views

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google googleforms flubaroo assessment

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Tony Bollino on 09 Aug 11

Great Google Script for grading Google Forms taken as tests by students. This is MUCH easier than writing IF.. statements!

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2011 Horizon Report | NMC - 0 views

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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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Learn Out Loud - 0 views

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Browse the Net's largest Catalog of educational audio books, podcasts, downloads, & free audio & video. Over 25,000 titles from hundreds of authors and publishers.

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Thinkfinity - 0 views

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Verizon Thinkfinity offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by our content partners - the most respected organizations in each academic subject and literacy. The easy-to-navigate K-12 resources are grade-specific and are aligned with state standards.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Verizon Thinkfinity offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by our content partners - the most respected organizations in each academic subject and literacy. The easy-to-navigate K-12 resources are grade-specific and are aligned with state standards. </div>

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Cybraryman Internet Catalogue - 0 views

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QR code

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Tony Bollino on 29 Jul 11

Page of QR Code resources.

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Piazza, a Homework Help Site, Has a Social Networking Twist - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Tony Bollino on 28 Jul 11

Very nice tool for AP students to get homework help from peers in a social format.

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

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elementary mathematics students who acted out text in word problems were more accurate and less distracted than those who didn’t.
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Embodied, or grounded, cognition posits that meaning in language comes when words or phrases are mentally mapped onto memories of real experiences and perceptions.
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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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Tony Bollino on 28 Jul 11

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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Tony Bollino on 21 Jul 11

Seven good virtual field trips from SimpleK12 Blog #edchat

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Data Wall (Smartboard) - 0 views

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Michael Hakkarinen on 18 Jul 11

BES is looking for a way to set up a Data Wall like the one in the video but with ActivInspire.

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LiveScribe Pulse Pen - 0 views

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livescribe pulse smartpen echo tutorial resources

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Tony Bollino on 11 Jul 11

Another LiveBinder of resources for the LiveScribe pens ...

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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.
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Another benefit of clickers over traditional active learning methods is that they follow the principles of game-based learning.
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Best Practices for Implementing Clickers in the Classroom*
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The best way to help instructors is to provide mentoring and support from other instructors using clicker systems.
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Tony Bollino on 08 Jul 11

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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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. </div>

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