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Blair Peterson

The new way we read: 10 ways digital books are changing our literary lives - The Denver... - 0 views

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  • PRINT BOOKS: We joined book clubs. DIGITAL BOOKS: We discuss them in booklogs.
  • PRINT BOOKS: We find them in libraries, bookstores and bookmobiles. DIGITAL BOOKS: For people who own personal computers, e-readers, smartphones, iPads and other tablets, there's 2 4/7 access to libraries and bookstores for purchasing, borrowing and downloading material.
  • PRINT BOOKS: Scribble notes in the margins. DIGITAL BOOKS: We use Kindle's Public Notes virtual annotation application.
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  • But they could be. Imagine looking up the notes that previous students leave in e-textbooks. Or seeing Jon Stewart's comments in the margins of Sarah Palin's latest tome.
  • PRINT BOOKS: Write to a favorite author, hope for a response by mail. DIGITAL BOOKS: Visit a favorite author's Facebook page to send a message and a friend request; follow that author's Twitter feed.
  • PRINT BOOKS: Collect an author's autograph at a bookstore reading. DIGITAL BOOKS:Use Autography, which debuts next month. It's a software program that allows writers to autograph an e-book using an iPad.
  • PRINT BOOKS: Want to publish a book? You'll need a proposal, an agent, an editor, a publisher and a marketing department DIGITAL BOOKS: Want to publish a book? There's an app for that, and authors can be quite successful. Amanda Hocking, JA Konrath and Karen McQuestion all are authors as famous for their aggressive self-promotion as for their books. However, self-publishing isn't always a good thing.
  • PRINT BOOKS: Donate used books to charity, sell them to a secondhand bookstore. DIGITAL BOOKS: "Used books" don't exist.
  • PRINT BOOKS:Swap books with friends. DIGITAL BOOKS: Until recently, the options were mostly limited to loaning your e-reader (and the books on it) to friends, or resorting to pirated files. Amazon's Lendle allows users to share certain (not all) Kindle titles for 14 days, similar to the way libraries arrange e-book loans.
  • PRINT BOOKS: Find an unfamiliar word in a book? Get a dictionary, look up the meaning. DIGITAL BOOKS:Use your e-reader to highlight the word and click on it, and the definition will display at the bottom of the page.
  • PRINT BOOKS:Collecting rare books, including first editions and antiquarian books. DIGITAL BOOKS:There's no equivalent so far.
Blair Peterson

Rethink Books Gives Us A Glimpse At Social Books (Video Demo) - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 27 Jan 11
     
    This software allows you to share highlights, sticky notes, comments on a book with friends and others who are reading the book.
Shabbi Luthra

Technology and Innovation 2025 - 0 views

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  • Shabbi Luthra on 23 Dec 10
     
    If you are interested in learning about future trends and forces of change, this is one of the must-read reports. The report comes from Toffler Associates - this is Alvin and Heidi Toffler's company. They wrote Future Shock about 40 years ago. The book noted ideas that are being bandied about today by trend-watchers, and the Tofflers identified these trends a generation back. I think I still have a copy of the book I read eons back. I don't know whether a kindle edition is available. It's a must-read for anyone interested in understanding trends.
Blair Peterson

A New Culture of Learning--John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas | HASTAC - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 05 Mar 11
     
    Short commentary on the book, A New Culture of Learning by John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas. Called a "must read book". There is also a link to an interview with the authors.
Blair Peterson

YouTube - The Future of the Book. - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 03 Oct 10
     
    Introduction to Nelson. Shows informational layers, ongoing discussions, check reliability of sources, current discussions and perspectives. Coupland - another digital book program. Alice - interactive reading experience. 
Blair Peterson

SecEd | Features | The efficient classroom - 0 views

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  • must engage in ongoing capacity-building; ideally including a combination of coaching, mentoring, support and training.
  • Not surprisingly, technology investments seldom produce maximal educational returns. To strengthen this weak link, any consideration of purpose-built technologies must benefit from including strong training, professional development, and ongoing professional learning components.
  • Similarly, waiting for equipment set-up (e.g. calibrating an interactive whiteboard), handling network glitches (e.g. security problems), and resolving equipment issues (e.g. burnt-out bulbs and stuck keyboard keys) too often sidetrack teaching, disrupt classroom activities, frustrate users, and ultimately diminish student learning.
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  • These include preventative maintenance, equipment loaner pools, remote helpdesks, and school-site repairs.
  • Teachers benefit because they receive training, professional development and ongoing support that aligns with technology they receive and the work they do in their classrooms. Moreover, they have reliable tech support when they need it.
  • The first involves shifting computers from school tech labs to classrooms and from classrooms to pupils’ backpacks. The second replaces books and print-based analogues with online curricula and digital content. The third removes one-size-fits all, teacher-at-front-of-the room instructional approaches in favour of personalised lessons, assessments, and instructional modalities.
  • Blair Peterson on 11 Oct 10
     
    Mark Weston Article on 3 trends in technology for education. No surprises on the three. Shifting computers from classroom to backpacks; replacing print based books with online curricula and digital content and changing from teacher at front of the room to personalized lessons, assessments and instructional modalities. The key information comes on building the capacity of teachers and making sure that tech issues don't hold back teaching and learning.
Shabbi Luthra

Manifesto for 21st century school librarians - 1 views

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  • You market, and your students share, books using social networking tools like Shelfari, Good Reads, or LibraryThing.
  • Your students blog or tweet or network in some way about what they are reading
  • You review and promote books in your own blogs and wikis and other websites. (Also Reading2.0 and BookLeads Wiki for book promotion ideas)
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  • You know that searching various areas of the Web requires a variety of search tools. You are the information expert in your building. You are the search expert in your building. You share an every growing and shifting array of search tools that reach into blogs and wikis and Twitter and images and media and scholarly content.
  • You open your students to evolving strategies for collecting and evaluating information. You teach about tags, and hashtags, and feeds, and real-time searches and sources, as well as the traditional database approaches you learned way back in library school.
  • You work with learners to exploit push information technologies like RSS feeds and tags and saved databases and search engine searches relevant to their information needs.
  • You know that communication is the end-product of research and you teach learners how to communicate and participate creatively and engagingly. You consider new interactive and engaging communication tools for student projects. ● Include and collaborate with your learners. You let them in. You fill your physical and virtual space with student work, student contributions—their video productions, their original music, their art.
  • Know and celebrate that students can now publish their written work digitally. (See these pathfinders: Digital Publishing, Digital Storytelling)
  • Your collection–on- and offline–includes student work. You use digital publishing tools to help students share and celebrate their written and artistic work.
  • You welcome and host telecommunications events and group gathering for planning and research and social networking.
  • You realize you will often have to partner and teach in classroom teachers’ classrooms. One-to-one classrooms change your teaching logistics. You teach virtually. You are available across the school via email and chat.
Blair Peterson

'Just My Type - A Book About Fonts' by Simon Garfield - Review - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 22 Aug 11
     
    Looks like a must read for our budding graphic designers.
Blair Peterson

one world one company 20 min - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 19 Mar 13
     
    If you only watch the first story in the first two minutes this is worth it. I think that the rest is good as well. Fredrik wrote the Ideas Book which is excellent. He tried to get him for Innovate but he was too expensive.
Blair Peterson

The Age of the Image | Stephen Apkon; Foreword by Martin Scorsese | Macmillan - 2 views

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  • he rules that define effective visual storytelling—much like the rules that define written language—do in fact exist, and Stephen Apkon has long experience in deploying them, teaching them, and witnessing their power in the classroom and beyond.
  • Amaris Obregon on 31 May 13
     
    One of the most interesting books on the subject that I've come across in a long time. The whole book is a great read, but the chapter called "Teaching a New Generation" should be required reading for every teacher.
  • Blair Peterson on 03 Jun 13
     
    This text may be good for our Language and Literature students or our film students. I think that I'm going to have to read it this summer.
Colleen Broderick

http://www.ksde.org/Portals/21/BookStudySuggestions.pdf - 2 views

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  • Colleen Broderick on 20 Aug 12
     
    Great go to list of book study resources focused on 21st century learning
Blair Peterson

Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 08 Dec 11
     
    How Re-Captcha is helping to scan books digitally. The words that we are typing into Captcha are verifying words that aren't recognized by the scanner. 100 million words a day. Amazing!
smenegh Meneghini

Flipped Learning: Turning learning on its head! - 1 views

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  • smenegh Meneghini on 14 Feb 12
     
    This is the personal blog/website of Jon Bergmann, who along with Aaron Sams, are considered two of the pioneers in the Flipped Class Movement. They co-wrote the book on the Flipped Classroom. It will be available from ISTE Press in June of 2012.
Blair Peterson

Trends | Infographic: US Students Prefer Digital Over Paper Textbooks | edtechdigest.com - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 18 Sep 12
     
    There will no doubt be a movement toward digital in the near future.
Blair Peterson

Why the Internet Isn't Making Us Stupid - TIME - 0 views

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  • so you can build this social newspaper that you're the editor of. You get to decide what you see and what you don't see. And you get to interact with people in a different way. Imagine if you could interact with the stories in The New York Times in a social context?
  • That consumers aren't coming back. They're looking for these new digital experiences in every single type of thing they consume — whether it's the clothes that they wear, the cars that they buy, the newspaper that they read.
  • it's just that the traditions we've had in the past are different now.
  • Blair Peterson on 08 Oct 10
     
    Interview with Nick Bilton who wrote the book "I Live in the Future & Here's How it Works". 
Blair Peterson

YouTube - Macrowikinomics Murmuration - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 31 Oct 10
     
    Interesting concept by Don Tapscott from his book Marco-Wikinomics. it's the visuals of the starlings in murmuration that really makes one think.  
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