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Bret Biornstad

eBooks made simple - 0 views

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    Wobook is an online solution for people who want to publish on the web through an interactive, 3D book. Any document can be turned into a wobook and made available to read online instantly. Wobooks can also be formatted and printed on-the-fly in a PDF format. A digital magazine powered by wobook is attractive, interactive and all sorts of rich media can be embedded in it! There, they can create or effortlessly turn their publications into a web oriented ebook or wobook. Develop your web communication! Create and publish all types of syndication: newspapers, digital magazines, brochures, e-catalogs, or e-books.
Bret Biornstad

Issuu - You Publish - 0 views

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    Issuu is a Web 2 tools that allows you to publish PDFs. You can produce the documents in any program that you like - I prefer PAGES on the Mac. Once you have created a stunning document to impress the world, simply log on to Issuu and upload your PDF. The whole process takes about 2 minutes and you now have a digital magazine style document. This can be embedded into a blog or onto your website.
Bret Biornstad

Cultivating a Learning Environment - 0 views

Fill your school(s) with learners. When interviewing prospective teachers, ask "Tell me about something that you have learned lately." "How did you learn it?" "What are you seeking to learn more ab...

learning

started by Bret Biornstad on 05 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Bret Biornstad

Free online Audio Editor - Aviary.com's Myna - 0 views

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    Creating podcasts is a great alternative way for students to share their thoughts; publish in a format other than pen/paper.
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Questions for Discussing Writing - 0 views

Questions for directing discussion General More than just paper, pencil, & words on a page... what constitutes "writing"? What is the value of writing? What evidence is there that writing needs imp...

writing

started by Bret Biornstad on 31 Dec 11 no follow-up yet
Bret Biornstad

What Does Successful Project Based Learning Look Like - 0 views

The end of the school year presents us with an opportunity for reflection at Envision Schools. We take a final measure of students' progress throughout the school year, celebrate the many Envision ...

PBL projectbasedlearning

started by Bret Biornstad on 06 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Bret Biornstad

Catching Readers Before They Fall an interview with the authors - 0 views

Franki: Pat and Katie, you've both done so much work in learning how best to support struggling readers. Can you share any new learning or thinking you have about this topic? Pat: Sure. I'll go ah...

reading interventions

started by Bret Biornstad on 06 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Bret Biornstad

Sharing Our Lives As Readers With Our Studentts - 0 views

Franki Sibberson As a classroom teacher, sharing my own life as a reader has always been an important part of my teaching. I believe that if we are to have authentic conversations with kids about ...

beginning of the year reading

started by Bret Biornstad on 06 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Bret Biornstad

Differentiating Learning for Teachers - 0 views

  • Differentiating Learning for Teachers Posted by jjohnson on 8/15/11 • Categorized as Best Educational Practices 36Share A few weeks ago I “attended” Principal Lyn Hilt’s session: “Differentiating Learning: It’s Not Just for Students!” at the  Reform Symposium Worldwide E-Conference. A common comment/complaint I’ve heard from other administrators is that their teachers have become complacent, lost their spark or are stuck in their old (teaching) habits.  After attending Lyn’s session, I started to wonder: Why have they become complacent? Why are they not continuing their own professional learning?  Have we given teachers an environment in which they have had an opportunity to continue to grow as professionals? Have we given them the autonomy to expand their knowledge/skills and take risk in the classroom? We are all too familiar with professional development being something that is done to you.  It may have been an outside speaker that came in for what I call a “drive by” in-service or top-down professional development that teachers had no input on.  Maybe you attended a conference and then didn’t take the time to reflect and implement what you learned. What I am learning about professional development is: 1. It must include differentiation for staff 2. It must include deep reflection When an educator is learning something new this is the concrete experience part of the experiential cycle. This could be while reading about
  • When an educator is learning something new this is the concrete experience part of the experiential cycle. This could be while reading about a new strategy, observing another classroom, or learning at a conference. Next they need to try to implement this in their classroom with students.  Then, the teacher needs to have an opportunity for reflection. I’m sure we’ve all been in a conference/training in which we were asked to jot down a thought on an exit slip or a post-it note at the end as a method of reflection (I’ve asked my teachers to do this). While this is better than nothing, it is not enough.  Reflection needs to be deep and involve analysis.  You need to dig deep: this could be blogging, discussing with others. Reflection needs to be systemic and is an expected part of the process in order to be powerful.  Then you will be ready to make conclusions and generate conclusions on the effectiveness of your strategy and its impact on student learning.
Bret Biornstad

The Medium Is the Medium - 0 views

The Medium Is the Medium Recently, book publishers got some good news. Researchers gave 852 disadvantaged students 12 books (of their own choosing) to take home at the end of the school year. They...

reading technology

started by Bret Biornstad on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
Bret Biornstad

Spelling mistakes cost millions - 0 views

Spelling mistakes 'cost millions' in lost online sales 13 July 2011 Last updated at 21:09 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Customer spending on a website can be cut in half by ...

spelling

started by Bret Biornstad on 16 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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Extra Credit - 0 views

I remember being surprised when I first read the results of a survey on extra credit published some years ago in Teaching of Psychology. Almost 20% of the 145 faculty (across disciplines) reported ...

errors extra credit mistakes learning grading

started by Bret Biornstad on 20 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
Bret Biornstad

Surfboard // Experience The Web In A Flippable Newspaper-Like Format - 0 views

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    Surfboard is a very cool service (similar to Flipboard on the iPad) that displays any website in a flippable newspaper-like display. All your different blog entries or pages are displayed and all the links stay alive. This makes the web reading experience a much more enjoyable one. This is a great Web 2 tool for everyone! To use Surfboard all you have to do is enter the url of your favorite website and click "get surfing." That site will then be displayed in a manner that allows you to flip through the site's content without seeing the sidebar widgets and or advertisements. For proper flippable display Surfboard requires the use of the latest versions of Chrome or Safari.
Bret Biornstad

FlipSnack | PDF books that have pages you can turn, hey like a book - 0 views

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    FlipSnack is an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications. It's the ideal solution for those who wish to embed a book, magazine, catalog, newspaper, portfolio or any other kind of document into a website or blog. Once created, you can embed your flipping book collection, download them or share them on social networking websites such as Facebook. P.S. With FlipSnack you can upload several documents at once, allowing you to embed not only one, but multiple page flip publications in the same Flash widget.
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