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Qt Development Tools - Qt - A cross-platform application and UI framework - 0 views

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  • chris deason on 24 Sep 10
     
    Qt Development Tools - Qt - A cross-platform application and UI framework
chris deason

7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers - 0 views

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  • chris deason on 17 Oct 10
     
    7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers
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5 Innovative Classroom Management Tools for Teachers - 0 views

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  • chris deason on 01 Dec 10
     
    5 Innovative Classroom Management Tools for Teachers
chris deason

GoAnimate - Make your own cartoons and animations easily. Our tools are free and you do... - 0 views

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  • chris deason on 23 Sep 10
     
    GoAnimate - Make your own cartoons and animations easily. Our tools are free and you don't need to learn Flash.
chris deason

Collaborize - Web-based tool that helps your group identify, refine & respond to import... - 0 views

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  • chris deason on 09 Nov 10
     
    Collaborize - Web-based tool that helps your group identify, refine & respond to important questions & ideas
Andrew Barras

Richard Byrne Online Web Tools Site - 0 views

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  • Andrew Barras on 10 Nov 10
     
    Great site for useful teaching web tools!
chris deason

iRubric: Home of free rubric tools: RCampus.com - 1 views

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  • chris deason on 03 May 11
     
    "Rubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards. "
chris deason

Web Meeting, Document Sharing Free instant and fully synchronized sessions - 1 views

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shared by chris deason on 20 Sep 10 - Cached
  • chris deason on 20 Sep 10
     
    This tool is fantastic for sharing your course syllabus.
chris deason

ConceptShare: - 0 views

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  • chris deason on 26 Oct 10
     
    ConceptShare is a simple, cost-effective tool for gathering feedback from team members and clients. Easily share media and invite others to add and reply to comments, approve artwork, and markup on visuals.
chris deason

Welcome to ARTstor - 0 views

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    research resources learning tools teaching
Andrew Barras

The Ed Tech Journey and a Future Driven by Disruptive Change -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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shared by Andrew Barras on 14 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • What is “disruptive change”?
  • On April 28, 2003, Apple launched the iTunes Music Store, and on April 3, 2008, less than five years later, it became the largest music retailer in the US, with 50 million customers and 4 billion songs sold. Then about two years down the road, this past February, Apple more than doubled that sales figure to 10 billion songs. This is what I consider to be disruptive change.
  • As educators, we must ask: Could there be a parallel in our own industry, or the potential for other disruptive changes ahead? What might higher education look like in a future filled with disruptive change?
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  • a quick historical review of the digital revolution shows us: huge increases in data speeds and transfer rates, exponential growth in computer power, massive increase of storage capacity—again, all while the technology is getting cheaper and smaller.
  • In a 1960s lecture hall you might typically find TV monitors
  • Then if you jump 30 years into the future, to the 1990s, you find that analog technology was replaced by digital technology: projection systems that were considered very, very sophisticated at that time.
  • ask yourself: What did not change? The instructors still lectured, delivering in a broadcast/absorb model the very same way they did in the 1960s. In terms of learning, this was just a little bit of a shift. While the digital revolution disrupted so much of our society and our lives, it impacted education only in small, incremental ways. And generally, that is still true today in 2010.
  • I often make the argument that over the past 50 years, we’ve been primarily focused on automating education
  • but we haven’t really geared up to change or transform the basic way we’re teaching
  • Open Education Trends
  • At the core of the open content movement in higher education are illustrious efforts that have been going on now for almost a decade, to make high-quality university-level course materials free and openly available to the world, via the web.
  • Connexions has focused on building an environment that allows experts to collaborate on developing textbook content.
  • People have raised questions about the sustainability of open content models.
  • But what we’re starting to see now—and it is still relatively early in the unfolding story of open content—is a commercial ecosystem beginning to grow up around existing open content.
  • Impact of Open Content
  • We’re on the verge of seeing the cost of education content fall dramatically. The $150, $200 textbook model, I believe, is simply unsustainable, and we are going to see that model fall apart in the not-too-distant future.
  • I also think we may see an important movement toward best-of-breed content.
  • For example, I might put out a particular piece of educational material. Someone may take that material, modify or tweak it, and bring his own innovation to it. Over a relatively short period of time, we end up with high-quality, innovative, best-of-breed materials.
  • We’re entering an age when it’s becoming more and more ridiculous that our faculty are, every year, re-creating Econ 101 over and over again at our institutions.
  • largest population of users of MIT/OCW materials are not educators, and they’re not students. They are self-directed learners. They’re people who are coming to MIT because they have a passion to learn something.
  • Personal and Open Learning
  • Let’s move on and look at learning technology trends, especially the emergence of the personal learning environment [PLE] and the open learning network [OLN], e-portfolios, and the semantic web.
  • you’re probably aware of the “post-LMS era” that people feel we’re entering.
  • I have yet to find a standard definition of the PLE, but some of its characteristics include that it tends to be a highly customized environment, built by the learner himself.
  • Learners use web 2.0 tools to aggregate content and connections—so you can gather information from many sources, while at the same time making connections with other people around that content.
  • we see that while the LMS has been out there and in development for 10-20 years or so, it has really been built just to support status quo teaching—lecturing and very traditional forms of education—while personal learning environments like mine tend to be much more open and participatory, as well as learner-centric.
  • The question becomes: Will the LMS and the PLE diverge?
  • The idea here is to leverage some of the open standards that are emerging—the IMS Common Cartridge and Learning Tools Interoperability standards, plus standards outside of education like the open social API standards from Google—and to use these standards to allow us to mash up the LMS and personal learning environment.
  • Next, electronic portfolios: Since 2003, the use of e-portfolios on our campuses has tripled.
  • Reflection is a critical component of any really good e-portfolio implementation; it’s a great way for students to engage in learning.
  • A missing piece, I would argue, especially on the reflective side of e-porfolios, is a credentialing model. A new credentialing model will open the doors for better uses of e-portfolios, and possibly unlock the floodgates of disruption in fundamental education practices.
  • Andrew Barras on 14 Sep 10
     
    Great article about disruptive change in education!
Tom Lucas

Rubrics and Rubric Makers - 0 views

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shared by Tom Lucas on 20 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Tom Lucas on 20 Sep 10
     
    A nice list of various online rubric making tools.
  • chris deason on 20 Sep 10
     
    Great resource. Thanks man.
Andrew Barras

The Wild World of Massively Open Online Courses « Unlimited Magazine - 0 views

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  • In a traditional university setting, a student pays to register for a course. The student shows up. A professor hands out an outline, assigns readings, stands at the front and lectures. Students take notes and ask questions. Then there is a test or an essay.
  • But with advancing online tools innovative educators are examining new ways to break out of this one-to-many model of education, through a concept called massively open online courses. The idea is to use open-source learning tools to make courses transparent and open to all, harnessing the knowledge of anyone who is interested in a topic.
  • George Siemens, along with colleague Stephen Downes, tried out the open course concept in fall 2008 through the University of Manitoba in a course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, or CCK08 for short. The course would allow 25 students to register, pay and receive credit for the course. All of the course content, including discussion boards, course readings, podcasts and any other teaching materials, was open to anyone who had an internet connection and created a user profile.
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  • Course facilitators, Siemens and Downes, gave learners control over how they learned.
  • The concept was enough to lure in D’Arcy Norman
  • He was one of the 2,300 students who signed up for a free account that would allow him to access class documents, receive emails from the facilitators and participate in online class discussions.
  • Norman was one of the more passive participants, while others participated fully, doing all the reading and the assignments, without receiving recognized credit for their work. The instructors only marked papers and the final project from for-credit students, but others were free to post papers on the course website for other students to view and comment on.
  • “At the beginning, we had quite a number of students feeling quite overwhelmed because you would get 200 or 300 posts going into a discussion forum per day and that’s just about impossible to follow,” Siemens says.
  • “You have people in there who were really interested, but they were afraid to explore the technologies that were being used and they got lost,” Lane says.
  • Even if students in massively open online courses master the technology and overcome their virtual stage fright, a third problem remains: how to recognize the value of a learning experience that isn’t for credit.
  • “If you’re in a business and you’re a young professional and you want to take an open class, how do you get your superiors to respect that, and say ‘Wow, that’s really good professional development. We should put that in your personnel file,’” Lane questions. “If it’s open and everyone can drop in and drop out, it’s just not seen in the same way.”
  • Wend Drexler, a professor and grant administrator at the University of Florida who also took Siemen’s class as a for-credit student, says that as more professors are posting their content online, figuring out how to recognize non-credit learning will continue to be an issue.
  • “You could really piece together a good undergraduate education based on what’s available out there, but how do you prove to an employer that you have done that?” Drexler questions. “I don’t know, but it’s something that everyone is trying to work through.”
  • Andrew Barras on 21 Sep 10
     
    More details on MOOC
chris deason

Wiggio - Makes it easy to work in groups. - 1 views

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  • Tom Lucas on 08 Oct 10
     
    Awesome group productivity tool, includes many social networking features and file uploading capability. It's free and fills in a lot of the gaps in communication that FSO creates.
  • chris deason on 09 Nov 10
     
    Wiggio - Makes it easy to work in groups.
Andrew Barras

Educators as Collaborators: 25+ Resources | Teacher Reboot Camp - 1 views

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  • These are my favorites free tools to get your students and you collaborating! Included is a brief description and helpful links to facilitate using these tools more effectively.
  • Andrew Barras on 03 Nov 10
     
    Great list for collaboration online
Tom Lucas

GameSalad - Feed your inner game designer ™ - GameSalad.com - 0 views

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  • Tom Lucas on 18 Nov 10
     
    "GameSalad is the world's most advanced game creation tool for non-programmers. "
Tom Lucas

Gogofrog - FREE 3D web site with FREE hosting - 0 views

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  • Tom Lucas on 16 Dec 10
     
    "3D templates and interactive objects that provide Educators globally with powerful, highly engaging, Project, Inquiry & Challenge based learning tools. Students and Teachers engaged in-world via chat, voice and web cam."
chris deason

About Creaza - Creaza - 1 views

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    "About Creaza Creaza offers you an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time. You use the toolbox along with various fully developed thematic universes: historical periods, fairy-tales, fantasy worlds, and current challenges, such as climate/environment. Creaza integrates professional and user-generated content, creative tools and a social network in a new and innovative way. Users on Creaza have the opportunity to share their work with other Internet users and can give each other comments and suggestions on the products they choose to share. To use this service, all you need is Internet access, a web browser, and the Flash plug-in. Creaza is available for PC, MAC, and Linux users alike. Creaza is fully integrated with Fronter, who provides a platform for learning and collaboration. Fronter offers Creaza as a PlusPack integrated in their platform"
chris deason

Macware Products | Mac Business Software | Mac Software | Mac Professional Software - 0 views

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  • chris deason on 25 Jan 11
     
    "owerfully simple logo design, vector drawing and illustration on your Mac. Vector design features, including Bézier tools and Boolean operations, allow you to create a sharp look at any size. If you need some ideas to jumpstart your creativity, use any of the 1000+ pre-designed logo templates or 2800+ editable vector graphics (in SVG format) to add a "Wow!" factor to your look. "
chris deason

K12 Guide to going Google - 0 views

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  • chris deason on 10 Feb 11
     
    "This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, and alumni ready and excited about what's coming."
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