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Katherine Ruddick

Diigo Tools - 0 views

www.diigo.com/tools

diigo social bookmarking

shared by Katherine Ruddick on 01 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Katherine Ruddick on 01 Sep 11
     
    Bookmarklets, web browser extensions and more to make bookmarking and sharing on Diigo easy.
Patty Silvey

HispanicSurf - 0 views

www.hispanicsurf.com/index.html

Teachers Spanish Publications Directories Media

shared by Patty Silvey on 06 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Patty Silvey on 06 Dec 10
     
    Connecting everyone to everything Hispanic. HispanicSURF (www.hispanicsurf.com) is an independent directory listing of the best Hispanic/Latino web sites on the Internet. This directory was created to give Internet users, quick and easy access to the best Latino web sites on the Internet.
Barbara Lindsey

educational-origami - Starter Sheets - 0 views

edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets

teachers technology digital citizenship Bloom's Taxonomy professional development

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 16 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • dorie conlon on 15 Mar 10
     
    The Starter Sheets are resources for the classroom teacher. The intention of each sheet is to introduce a tool, technology or activity that could be easily adapted for use in the classroom. Each sheet is created to a template design and should have the following features: must be two pages must have pictures that illustrate process and outcomes process must be straight forward must be simple to read and understand must have clear benefits for the teacher in the classroom, the exemplar should be easy to adapt to a variety of classroom settings must have an alternative - web based or application must be linked to Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and Sensory learning styles using VARK
Barbara Lindsey

NYC school uses collaborative wikis to cut costs and save time - 0 views

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teachers administrators wiki budget collaboration

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 29 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The wikis include everything from test scheduling (internal) to early dismissal information (external).
  • "We've saved lots of money," Cohen said. "But the real drag of using [expensive collaboration products] was you have these elaborate systems; parents had to get accounts; you had to give vendors the students' names; there was lots of work just to get it to work."
  • With the Wikispaces, Cohen can just set the program up and have users do the work for him. Privacy concerns are minimal because the only publicly accessible information is the student's name and time of meeting,
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  • Cohen also likes the project because it was a simple way for teachers to "get their toes wet" with collaborative technology with a shallow learning curve and a high return on investment. For the spring semester, he said, teachers would actually have to sit and field calls for scheduling parent-teacher appointments.
  • Demonstrating the value of collaborative technology, while teaching how to use it, is the hardest challenge in its adoption, said Zeus Kerravala, a Yankee Group analyst. "The success depends more on the utilization of the tools than the tools themselves," Kerravala said. Keeping it simple and easy to access increases the chance of success.
  • Much of the essential documentation for teachers is now on wikis at the school, but Cohen still fields requests for how to do this, or for hard copies of those forms. He regularly denies such requests and points the users to the appropriate wiki page.
  • "Kids only use technology for the things they want to use it for," Cohen said. "They won't necessarily check the website for their homework."
  • Barbara Lindsey on 29 Aug 09
     
    Excellent article on why and how a NYC school uses wikis
Barbara Lindsey

animoto - for education - getting started - 1 views

animoto.com/...getting_started

teachers students web tools photos video classroom materials

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 04 Sep 09 - Cached
  • dorie conlon on 15 Mar 10
     
    Turn your photos & videos into pure amazing. Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.
Barbara Lindsey

Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating - 0 views

digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/ial-Bookmarking-and-Annotating

technology teachers students

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Many of today's teachers make a critical mistake when introducing digital tools by assuming that armed with a username and a password, students will automatically find meaningful ways to learn together.  The results can be disastrous.  Motivation wanes when groups using new services fail to meet reasonable standards of performance.  "Why did I bother to plug my students in for this project?" teachers wonder.  "They could have done better work with a piece of paper and a pencil!"
  • With shared annotation services like Diigo, powerful learning depends on much more than understanding the technical details behind adding highlights and comments for other members of a group to see.  Instead, powerful learning depends on the quality of the conversation that develops around the content being studied together.  That means teachers must systematically introduce students to a set of collaborative dialogue behaviors that can be easily implemented online.
  • intellectual philanthropy and collective intelligence
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  • While these early interactions are simplistic processes that by themselves aren't enough to drive meaningful change in teaching and learning, they are essential because they provide team members with low risk opportunities to interact with one another around the topics, materials and instructional practices that should form the foundation of classroom learning experiences.
  • A tagging language is nothing more than a set of categories that all members of a group agree to use when bookmarking websites for shared projects.
  • In Shirky's terms, teams that embrace social bookmarking decrease the "cost" of  group transactions.  No longer do members resist sharing because it's too time consuming or difficult to be valuable. Instead, with a little bit of thought and careful planning, groups can make sharing resources---a key process that all learning teams have to learn to manage---remarkably easy and instant.
  • Imagine the collective power of an army of readers engaged in ongoing conversation about provocative ideas, challenging one another's thought, publicly debating, and polishing personal beliefs.  Imagine the cultural understandings that could develop between readers from opposite sides of the earth sharing thought together.  Imagine the potential for brainstorming global solutions, for holding government agencies accountable, or for gathering feedback from disparate stakeholder groups when reading moves from a "fundamentally private activity" to a "community event."
  • Understanding that there are times when users want their shared reading experiences to be more focused, however, Diigo makes it possible to keep highlights and annotations private or available to members of predetermined and self-selected groups.  For professional learning teams exploring instructional practices or for student research groups exploring content for classroom projects, this provides a measure of targeted exploration between likeminded thinkers.
  • Diigo takes the idea of collective exploration of content one step further by providing groups with the opportunity to create shared discussion forums
Lynn Dombroskas

Website for FLES teachers - 9 views

http://www.yodibujo.es/ I found this website that would be great for the lower level FLES teachers. It incorporates current topics in an easy way for children to understand.

Teachers Students Spanish

started by Lynn Dombroskas on 19 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
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