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Andrew Barras

Blogs Wikis Docs Chart - 0 views

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  • Andrew Barras on 07 Sep 10
     
    Great comparison chart of Blogs and Wikis
Tom Lucas

100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students & Educators | Accredited Online Colleges.com - 0 views

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    Google Doc tips, naturally.
Andrew Barras

From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons - 0 views

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education abundance technology nell

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  • While most of our classrooms were built under the assumption that information is scarce and hard to find, nearly the entire body of human knowledge now flows through and around these rooms in one form or another, ready to be accessed by laptops, cellphones, and iPods. Classrooms built to re-enforce the top-down authoritative knowledge of the teacher are now enveloped by a cloud of ubiquitous digital information where knowledge is made, not found, and authority is continuously negotiated through discussion and participation.
  • This new media environment can be enormously disruptive to our current teaching methods and philosophies.
  • Our physical structures were built prior to an age of infinite information, our social structures formed to serve different purposes than those needed now, and the cognitive structures we have developed along the way now struggle to grapple with the emerging possibilities.
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  • Stadium seating, sound-absorbing panels and other acoustic technologies are designed to draw maximum attention to the professor at the front of the room.
  • The “message” of this environment is that to learn is to acquire information, that information is scarce and hard to find (that's why you have to come to this room to get it), that you should trust authority for good information, and that good information is beyond discussion (that's why the chairs don't move or turn toward one another). In short, it tells students to trust authority and follow along.
  • Most of our assumptions about information are based on characteristics of information on paper.
  • Even something as simple as the hyperlink taught us that information can be in more than one place at one time
  • Blogging came along and taught us that anybody can be a creator of information.
  • Wikipedia has taught us yet another lesson, that a networked information environment allows people to work together in new ways to create information that can rival (and even surpass) the content of experts by almost any measure.
  • Our old assumption that information is hard to find, is trumped by the realization that if we set up our hyper-personalized digital network effectively, information can find us.
  • It is like continuously working with thousands of research associates around the world.
  • Unfortunately, many teachers only see the disruptive possibilities of these technologies when they find students Facebooking, texting, IMing, or shopping during class.
  • We have had our why's, how's, and what's upside-down, focusing too much on what should be learned, then how, and often forgetting the why altogether.
  • All of this vexes traditional criteria for assessment and grades. This is the next frontier as we try to transform our learning environments.
  • Content is no longer king, but many of our tools have been habitually used to measure content recall.
  • Andrew Barras on 03 Sep 10
     
    Great article about the abundance of information
Andrew Barras

Derek's Blog » Creativity vs. stress - 0 views

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education creativity nell

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  • an article from Newsweek titled “the Creativity Crisis“. It begins with the assertion that for the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining.
  • The Newsweek article cites a recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the No. 1 “leadership competency” of the future. And yet it is declining (apparently), both in society as a whole, and in our schools in particular. The authors identify two of the possible reasons for the decline…
  • the impact of television and the number of hours kids now spend in front of the TV and playing videogames rather than engaging in creative activities
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  • the lack of creativity development in our schools, there’s no concerted effort to nurture the creativity of all children.
  • n her writing about The Neuroscience of Joyful Education, Judy Willis highlights the importance of novelty in our teaching, stress-free classrooms, and pleasurable associations linked with learning as essential pre-cursors to joyful learning and the development of creativity. She goes on to suggest that when planning for the ideal emotional atmosphere we should be mindful of the following;
  • Allow independent discovery learning – students are more likely to remember and understand what they learn if they find it compelling or have a part in figuring it out for themselves.
  • Give them a break – students can reduce stress by enjoying hobbies, time with friends, exercise, or music.
  • Create positive associations – by avoiding stressful practices like calling on students who have not raised their hands, teachers can dampen the stress association.
  • Prioritize information – helping students learn how to prioritize and therefore reduce the amount of information they need to deal with is a valuable stress-buster.
  • Make it relevant – when stress in the classroom is getting high, it is often because a lesson is overly abstract or seems irrelevant to students.
  • Others, including Richard Millwood who has written about ‘delight’ in learning, emphasise similar conditions for learning – minimising stress and allowing for more risk-taking, learning from mistakes, discovery and so forth.
  • Andrew Barras on 01 Sep 10
     
    Nice article about classroom environments
Andrew Barras

After Watching This Video, You Will Like to Be an Astronaut Too - 0 views

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  • I've never seen anything like this: The Earth captured in time lapse by an astronaut at the International Space Station, cruising at 17,239 miles per hour—that's 7.7 kilometers per second, or 4.7 miles per second.
  • Andrew Barras on 02 Sep 10
     
    This is mostly for Joe but these vids are amazing!
Andrew Barras

Project-Based Learning Strategies and Research for Educators - 0 views

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pbl project research

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  • This resource will direct you to a variety of resources on this approach, the research behind it, and how you can use it in your class to transform your students into engaged and interested independent thinkers.
  • Andrew Barras on 02 Sep 10
     
    A page with lots of links to PBL pages
Andrew Barras

Collaborative highlighting in documents - Official Google Docs Blog - 0 views

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  • You can now see the text that other editors are highlighting as they select it. So if someone is about to delete something on your screen or drag text somewhere else, you’ll see them highlight that text before anything changes.
  • Andrew Barras on 02 Sep 10
     
    Maybe a good way to deal with lit reviews and such?
Tom Lucas

paper.li - read Twitter as a daily newspaper - 0 views

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    This website takes a Twitter feed, the twitters you follow, or searched topics and turns it into a newspaper-style digest of the days tweets. An interesting way to view your Twitter-based information.
Tom Lucas

Flavors.me - 0 views

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website web2.0

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    Website creator that uses your social networking content to create website.
chris deason

One Day On Earth - The World's Story is Yours to Tell - 0 views

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    One Day On Earth - The World's Story is Yours to Tell
chris deason

Dipity - 0 views

www.dipity.com

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    timeline generator
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    Yo. This tool is hype.
Andrew Barras

WoWinSchool: A Hero's Journey - Anatomy of a Typical Week - edurealms.com - 0 views

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  • So, what in the world does this look like?  How is the Moodle set up?  Though we’re not quite ready to offer guest access to the Moodle yet, I thought I’d give a sneak-peak of some examples of what we’re doing.
  • One feature we’ve added recently, and as instructors are having a blast with, is in-class achievements.  For example, we challenged students to successfully “friend” each of their classmates in the game.
  • Andrew Barras on 01 Sep 10
     
    A look at producing a Moodle module using World of Warcraft
chris deason

My Diggo - 0 views

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    drdeason Diggo
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    Dr.Deason's Diggo
Reo McBride

Follow Great People With Great Ideas on Twitter - 0 views

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learner centered learning

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  • I believe students should experience their success and failure not as reward and punishment but as information. Author of For the Love of Learning.
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      This is a sticky note for educators
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      Page for educators II
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    A great thought on teaching students
Kelly Purdy

Blog U.: Student Affairs and Technology - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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Student Affairs and Technology

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  • Most of our students are not on Twitter. In fact, most people are not on Twitter. Do these statements dissuade me from promoting the use of Twitter when I speak at conferences? Not at all. Twitter is an amazing communication and engagement tool. I am frequently on Twitter asking questions, sharing information, and networking with other higher education professionals. Web-based microblogging is an exceptionally powerful medium.
  • ow many people are following your account. In fact, when it comes to prospective students, I would posit that followers, while an interesting metric, are not all that important. Twitter is like a tuning fork for student opinions, feedback, and observation. Using targeted Twitter search queries, an admissions officer can find out quite a bit of information.
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    Hello
chris deason

Educational Hash Tags - 1 views

cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html

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  • Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites
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      Great source for educational Twitter hash tags
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    Yo, explore these hype educational hash tags.
Lisa Smith

Digital Overload: Your Brain On Gadgets : NPR - 1 views

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technology neurology psychology

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  • While out in the wild, the scientists — skeptics included — noticed something significant happening on the third day they couldn't use their hand-held devices, computers and mobile phones. "You start to feel more relaxed. Maybe you sleep a little better. Maybe you don't reach for your phone pinging in your pocket," Richtel says. "Maybe you wait a little longer before answering a question. Maybe you don't feel in a rush to do anything — your sense of urgency fades."  Richtel terms it the "three-day effect."
  • "When you check your information, when you get a buzz in your pocket, when you get a ring — you get what they call a dopamine squirt. You get a little rush of adrenaline," he says. "Well, guess what happens in its absence? You feel bored. You're conditioned by a neurological response: 'Check me check me check me check me.' "
Sue Bedard

Patriots 2010 - 0 views

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Downtime

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    Ready for football
Tom Lucas

OneRiot.com - Realtime Search for the Realtime Web - 0 views

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trends searchengine

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  • Trending right now across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and Digg
  • Tom Lucas on 01 Sep 10
     
    An excellent site for observing Internet trends
  • Tom Lucas on 01 Sep 10
     
    Fantastic trending engine!
Kelly Purdy

The Innovative Educator: The PLN Matures. The Progression of the 21st Century Personal ... - 1 views

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  • People organically develop their PLNs when chosing to participate in social media like Twitter, Facebook , blogs, and through learning networks like Classroom 2.0.
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