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Elysio Soares

DailyLit: Read books online by daily email and RSS feed - 0 views

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    Read books by email. Discuss in community forums. 5 Minutes of Daily Literature - an activity which gets students reading 5 mins of literature each day:
Paul Beaufait

Athabasca University Press - Mobile Learning - 0 views

  • This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology.
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    "This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology." (Details, ¶1)
Paul Beaufait

Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology | Tomorro... - 1 views

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    Towards the end of this book review Barlow noted: "Many colleges have processes certifying teachers in uses of technology, yet I have heard of none that certifies its technologists in the ways of teaching or in educational psychology."
Dr. Nellie Deutsch

Free Moodle for Teacher EVO for 2014 (M4TEVO14) - 2 views

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    Step by Step Instructions for Week 1: 1. Create an account on http://moodle4teachers.org 2. Enrol in http://moodle4teachers.org/course/view.php?id=16 3. Read the news announcement: http://moodle4teachers.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=603 4. Take the Moodle Experience choice activity:http://moodle4teachers.org/mod/choice/view.php?id=656 5. Follow this task by moving the arrows:http://moodle4teachers.org/mod/book/view.php?id=593 6. Access the tab for week 1: http://moodle4teachers.org/course/view.php?id=16&section=1 7. Introduce yourself: http://moodle4teachers.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=520 8. Follow this: http://moodle4teachers.org/mod/book/view.php?id=519
anonymous

The Future of Tablets in Education: Potential Vs. Reality of Consuming Media | MindShift - 0 views

  • deep integration of new learning technologies into classrooms requires substantially rethinking pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, and teacher practice (someday
  • teachers need to start somewhere (Monday
  • Both pathways are important to teacher growth and meaningful, sustained changes in teaching and learning.
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  • four dimensions
  • consumption of media to curation, creation, and connection
  • flexible, mobile device for creating multimedia performances of understanding
  • foster critical reading of text, images, audio, and film
  • read in communal settings, leveraging social technologies to allow users to share notes, highlighted passages, questions, and ideas.
  • Focused and connected modes of reading are both vital, but they require different habits, disciplines, and settings, and they serve different ends.
  • focused reading mode, we hope young people will engage deeply with a text.
  • imagine how differentiated reading experiences in classes could be more social, how literature circles or book groups could collaborate in reading at home and then discuss their insights together in class.
  • it will be practices rather than apps that help students develop the capacity to read deeply.
  • learn both habits of mind for disciplined reading and how to control their technology environment to minimize distraction.
  • recognize how to strike the right balance between exploring a networked of hyperlinked texts while not wandering away from the core purpose of one’s reading
  • naming “attention” as a skill: having students reflect metacognitively on their attention strategies and weaknesses and think about how best to exercise their own attention muscles.
  • iOS 6 has a Guided
  • shutting down all apps before reading can be a kind of ritual of concentration, like clearing way books and papers from a desk before sitting down to read
  • develop new habits to make the most of our new tools. If our tools can distract us, then we need to learn more about focusing attention and managing distraction.
  • We ask them to quickly synthesize multiple
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    Consumption
Paul Beaufait

Macmillan's DynamicBooks Lets Professors Rewrite E-Textbooks - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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    "Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes" (Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally, para. 1).
mbarek Akaddar

FlipSnack | PDF to Flash page flip - flipping book software - 3 views

  • Make beautiful flipping books!
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    Too bad it's Flash technology. Doesn't work on popular iPads, iPhones, iPods... iOS systems.
Diethild Starkmeth

Internet Time Blog : Peeragogy - 2 views

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Sheryl A. McCoy

Present Shock - 0 views

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    perception of time and our place; s imilar to topic of "time famine" in Arianna Huffington
Barbara Lindsey

Philosophy | Intrepid Teacher - 2 views

  • The 21st century classroom must be a place to network, to create, to publish, to share.
  • The new classroom does not integrate technology into an outdated curriculum, but rather infuses technology into the daily performance of classroom life.
  • In this new classroom, the teacher is not the sole expert or the only source of information, but rather the teacher is the lead member of a network—guiding and facilitating as students search for answers to questions they have carefully generated.
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  • It is important to note that some students may be quietly sitting in the corner engrossed in an old fashioned text.
  • Daily and total access to computers allows students to realize that technology is not something they “do” when they go to the lab or when the teacher has checked out the laptop cart, but rather technology is something they can use everyday in class to help themselves learn.
  • In this new classroom, students will begin to understand that their computer is not simply a novelty to take notes with, but it is their binder, their planner, their dictionary, their journal, their photo album, their music archive, their address book.
  • tudents will begin to understand that their computer is not simply a novel
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    Outstanding teaching philosophy that gets at the heart of how and why technology should be used in learning.
Paul Beaufait

free mp3 poetry Poets' Coop - 1 views

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    "poetic manuscripts ... available for ... free download", a counterpart of "Pay to Print" and "Print & Listen" collections from the Poets' Coop.
Nicole Lakusta

Enabling Education through Technology Symposium - 0 views

  • Enabling Education Through Technology Symposium
  • we will feature video captures of the presentations on this webpage -- so please book mark this site and check back.
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