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Brenda Sherry

FotoFlexer tutorial to resize your photos - YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Brenda Sherry on 15 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Brenda Sherry on 15 Jan 14
     
    Here is a 9 minute tutorial that shows you how to resize your photos using Fotoflexer - the same tool that some of us used for our 6 word stories! Sometimes you need make your photos smaller to fit on a web page a little better.
Cindy Brown-Leigh

Kids' Games, Animals, Photos, Stories, and More -- National Geographic Kids - 0 views

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shared by Cindy Brown-Leigh on 21 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Cindy Brown-Leigh on 21 Jan 14
     
    This is a great website for researching animals for primary students
  • Kendra Spira on 21 Jan 14
     
    I loved the bullfrog picture.
Christine Marsden

Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views

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  • science of attention
  • When the tape stopped, the philosopher asked how many people had counted at least a dozen basketball tosses. Hands went up all over. He then asked who had counted 13, 14, and congratulated those who'd scored the perfect 15. Then he asked, "And who saw the gorilla?"
  • I raised my hand and was surprised to discover I was the only person at my table and one of only three or four in the large room to do so
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  • Attention blindness is the fundamental structuring principle of the brain, and I believe that it presents us with a tremendous opportunity
  • Fortunately, given the interactive nature of most of our lives in the digital age, we have the tools to harness our different forms of attention and take advantage of them.
  • our ability to pinpoint a problem and solve it, an achievement honed in all those years in school and beyond—may be exactly what limits us
  • Multitasking is the ideal mode of the 21st century, not just because of information overload but also because our digital age was structured without anything like a central node broadcasting one stream of information that we pay attention to at a given moment. On the Internet, everything links to everything, and all of it is available all the time.
  • So we relented and said any student could have a free iPod—just so long as she persuaded a professor to require one for a course and came up with a learning app in that course. Does that sound sneaky? Far be it from me to say that we planned it.
  • When we gave a free iPod to every member of the entering first-year class, there were no conditions. We simply asked students to dream up learning applications for this cool little white device with the adorable earbuds, and we invited them to pitch their ideas to the faculty.
  • Pod experiment
  • In the iPod experiment, we were crowdsourcing educational innovation for a digital age. Crowdsourced thinking is very different from "credentialing," or relying on top-down expertise. If anything, crowdsourcing is suspicious of expertise, because the more expert we are, the more likely we are to be limited in what we conceive to be the problem, let alone the answer.
  • The 20th century taught us that completing one task before starting another one was the route to success. Everything about 20th-century education, like the 20th-century workplace, has been designed to reinforce our attention to regular, systematic tasks that we take to completion
  • Working together, and often alongside their professors, they came up with far more learning apps for their iPods than anyone—even at Apple—had dreamed possible
  • crucial part of our brain on the Internet
  • Students who had grown up connected digitally gravitated to ways that the iPod could be used for collective learning. They turned iPods into social media and networked their learning in ways we did not anticipate.
  • iPod experiment back into the classroom. I decided to offer a new course called "This Is Your Brain on the Internet," a title that pays homage to Daniel J. Levitin's inspiring book This Is Your Brain on Music (Dutton, 2006)
  • his class was structured to be peer-led, with student interest and student research driving the design. "Participatory learning" is one term used to describe how we can learn together from one another's skills. "Cognitive surplus" is another used in the digital world for that "more than the sum of the parts" form of collaborative thinking that happens when groups think together online.
  • "collaboration by difference." Collaboration by difference is an antidote to attention blindness.
  • I had the students each contribute a new entry or amend an existing entry on Wikipedia, or find another public forum where they could contribute to public discourse
  • But it got me thinking: What if bad writing is a product of the form of writing required in college—the term paper—and not necessarily intrinsic to a student's natural writing style or thought process?
  • Research indicates that, at every age level, people take their writing more seriously when it will be evaluated by peers than when it is to be judged by teachers. Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers
  • They pointed out that I had used entirely conventional methods for testing and evaluating their work. We had talked as a class about the new modes of assessment on the Internet—like public commenting on products and services and leaderboards (peer evaluations adapted from sports sites)—
  • Almost instantly, students figured out that they could record lectures on their iPods and listen at their leisure.
  • I also liked the idea of students' each having a turn at being the one giving the grades. That's not a role most students experience, even though every study of learning shows that you learn best by teaching someone else
  • and mine was simply to extend the concept of peer leadership to grading
  • That says to me that we don't believe people can learn unless they are forced to, unless they know it will "count on the test."
  • If you give people the means to self-publish—whether it's a photo from their iPhone or a blog—they do so. They seem to love learning and sharing what they know with others
  • Christine Marsden on 28 Jan 14
     
    Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age By Cathy Davidson Cathy talks about attention blindness, and that it's the fundamental structuring principle of the brain, she believes that it presents us with a tremendous opportunity. Her take is different from that of many neuroscientists. Multitasking is the ideal mode of the 21st century, not just because of information overload but also because the digital age was structured without anything like a central node broadcasting one stream of information that we pay attention to at a given moment. On the Internet, everything links to everything, and all of it is available all the time. Research indicates that, at every age level, people take their writing more seriously when it will be evaluated by peers than when it is to be judged by teachers. Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.
  • Christine Marsden on 28 Jan 14
     
    Sorry guys...didn't realize the annotations were posted too!...quite a lot!
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