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Michael Wacker

The Human Skeleton - KLB School Science Interactivie Exercises - - 0 views

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skeleton science interactive biology school

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  • Michael Wacker on 30 Nov 09
     
    The Human Skeleton interactive science
Donna Hebert

KU Matrix Learning Games Initiative - 0 views

matrixgames.altec.org

math games elementary middle_school reading

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  • Donna Hebert on 09 Nov 08
     
    University of Kansas project "to improve middle school reading and math achievement through the development of interactive educaitonal games hat use PDAs, iPods and video cameras, along with web-based resources . . ."
Donna Hebert

Online Exhibitions - 0 views

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k12 literature social_studies webquests

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  • Donna Hebert on 27 Jun 08
     
    These interactive U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum online exhibitions would make a great addition to a webquest.
Donna Hebert

OLogy - 0 views

www.amnh.org/ology

elementary gt museum science webquests

shared by Donna Hebert on 11 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Donna Hebert on 11 Jul 08
     
    American Museum of Natural History interactive science website for kids.
Donna Hebert

Well - A Guided Tour of Your Body - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...20080513_WELLGUIDE.html

health high_school middle_school science

shared by Donna Hebert on 01 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Donna Hebert on 01 Jul 08
     
    This is an interesting site about the human body.
Donna Hebert

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard - 0 views

www.storyofstuff.com

business environment high_school middle_school science

shared by Donna Hebert on 27 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Donna Hebert on 27 Jun 08
     
    This interactive site could be a great addition to webquests about ecology or business.
Donna Hebert

Acropolis of Athens - 360 Virtual Tour - 0 views

www.acropolis360.com

acropolis geography googleearth k12 social_studies

shared by Donna Hebert on 28 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Donna Hebert on 28 Jun 08
     
    Take an interactive virtual tour of the Acropolis. The site claims to be also working on a Google Earth tour.
Donna Hebert

BBC - Schools - KS2 Bitesize Revision - Maths - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...maths

complimentary_math_resources elementary math

shared by Donna Hebert on 11 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Donna Hebert on 11 Aug 08
     
    BBC Schools interactive math page for younger students.
J Black

Web 2.0 Tools - Web 2.0 That Works: Marzano & Web 2.0 - 0 views

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marzano web2.0 tools technology education

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  • J Black on 13 Feb 09
     
    Web 2.0 Tools From Web 2.0 That Works: Marzano & Web 2.0 Jump to: navigation, search Master List of Web 2.0 Tools "Y" Under each category indicates that this tool can be used with this strategy. "Free +" Indicates that the tool is free at the basic level, but that more advanced versions are available at a cost. Category Key: SD = Identifying Similarities and Differences CL = Cooperative Learning SNT = Summarizing and Note-Taking ER = Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition HP = Homework and Practice NR = Nonlinguistic Representation OF = Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback HYP = Generating and Testing Hypotheses QCO = Questions, Cues, and Advance Organizers Tool Link Desc Cost SD CL SNT ER HP NR OF HYP QCO Notes Ajax13 [[1]] Online Graphic Editor Free Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Requires Firefox 1.5 (or higher) Browser Backpack [[2]] Online Personal Organizer Free + Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Basecamp [[3]] Online Project Collaboration Free + Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Blogger [[4]] Blog Hosting Website Free Y Y Y Y Y Y bubbl.us [[5]] Online Brainstorming Free Y Y Y Y del.icio.us [[6]] Online Social Bookmarks Free Y Y Y Y Diigo [[7]] Online Social Annotation Free Y Y Y Y Y Y EditGrid [[8]] Online Spreadsheets Free + Y Y Y Y Y Integrates with Facebook and iPhone EduBlogs [[9]] Blog Hosting Website Free Y Y Y Y Y Y Exploratree [[10]] Online Graphic Organizer Free Y Y Y Y Y Y Interactive, pre-made graphic organizers that can be edited online Flickr [[11]] Photo Hosting Website Free + Y Y Y Y Part of Zoho Suite of Online Apps Gliffy [[12]] Online Diagramming Software Free + Y Y Y Google Documents [[13]] Online Word Processor Free Y Y Y Y Y Y Also contains Spreadsheets & Presentations Google Earth [[14]] Dynamic Global Geographic App Free Y Y Downloads to computer Google Maps [[15]] Online Ma
J Black

The End in Mind » A Post-LMS Manifesto - 0 views

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Blackboard Moodle LMS Achievement

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      J Black on 09 May 09
       
      This is a very profound statement that we should closely look at. Do LMS do nothing more than perpetuate the traditional classroom model?
  • Technology has and always will be an integral part of what we do to help our students “become.” But helping someone improve, to become a better, more skilled, more knowledgeable, more confident person is not fundamentally a technology problem. It’s a people problem. Or rather, it’s a people opportunity.
  • The problem with one-to-one instruction is that is simply doesn’t scale. Historically, there simply haven’t been enough tutors to go around if our goal is to educate the masses, to help every learner “become.”
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  • Through experimental investigation, Bloom found that “the average student under tutoring was about two standard deviations above the average” of students who studied in a traditional classroom setting with 30 other students
  • We can extend, expand, enhance, magnify, and amplify the reach and effectiveness of human interaction with technology and communication tools, but the underlying reality is that real people must converse with each other in the process of “becoming.”
  • Because the LMS is primarily a traditional classroom support tool, it is ill-suited to bridge the 2-sigma gap between classroom instruction and personal tutoring.
  • undamentally human endeavor that requires personal interaction and communication, person to person.
  • here is, at its very core, a problem with the LMS paradigm. The “M” in “LMS” stands for “management.” This is not insignificant. The word heavily implies that the provider of the LMS, the educational institution, is “managing” student learning. Since the dawn of public education and the praiseworthy societal undertaking “educate the masses,” management has become an integral part of the learning. And this is exactly what we have designed and used LMSs to do—to manage the flow of students through traditional, semester-based courses more efficiently than ever before. The LMS has done exactly what we hired it to do: it has reinforced, facilitated, and perpetuated the traditional classroom model, the same model that Bloom found woefully less effective than one-on-one learning.
  • n the post-LMS world, we need to worry less about “managing” learners and focus more on helping them connect with other like-minded learners both inside and outside of our institutions.
  • We need to foster in them greater personal accountability, responsibility and autonomy in their pursuit of learning in the broader community of learners. We need to use the communication tools available to us today and the tools that will be invented tomorrow to enable anytime, anywhere, any-scale learning conversations between our students and other learners
  • However, instead of that tutor appearing in the form of an individual human being or in the form of a virtual AI tutor, the tutor will be the crowd.
  • The paradigm—not the technology—is the problem.
  • Building a better, more feature-rich LMS won’t close the 2-sigma gap. We need to utilize technology to better connect people, content, and learning communities to facilitate authentic, personal, individualized learning. What are we waiting for?
  • J Black on 09 May 09
     
    A very insightful look into LMS use and student achievment. Highly recommended read for users of BB or Moodle.
Donna Hebert

CIESE - Curriculum: K-12 CIESE Online Tele-Collaborative Classroom Projects - 1 views

www.ciese.org/collabprojs.html

chemistry gt k12 physics science

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  • Donna Hebert on 11 Jul 08
     
    The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education interactive website for students.
J Black

Little Love for the Mobile Web in App-Adoring World - Advertising Age - Digital - 0 views

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  • What's more, phones will overtake PCs as the most common device to access the internet worldwide by 2013, according to a study from information-technology research company Gartner. So why are mobile sites taking a backseat to iPhone apps? Blame the Apple aura.
  • by presenting a user experience never before seen in mobile.
  • Apps can also use other hardware features on a phone, like its camera or compass, while mobile sites can only really tell where a user is located. Plus, with slow-load speeds, categories popular in apps, such as gaming, are not feasible on the web. Because an app runs offline, users don't have to worry about a slow or spotty network connection.
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  • It remains to be seen how long the iPhone app addiction will last, but the mobile web -- what Mr. Outlaw calls "device-agnostic" since it works on any operating system -- will eventually break through when the iPhone buzz dies down and the consumer can get equally rich app experiences on non-Apple operating systems.
  • "App development is not easily scalable," said Mr. Outlaw. It's expensive and time-intensive to get apps on different phones.
  • iPhone's slice of the pie will shrink as more feature-phone users sign up for their first smart device.
  • Right now we're in the Age of the App, but as browsers become more sophisticated, mobile websites will be on the rise and users will barely be able to tell the difference between the app experience and the browser,"
  • "The mobile web will have to be addressed this year," said Mr. Ting. "If you don't have a mobile website up now, it's going to feel like the year 2000, when brands didn't have websites up."
  • Don't just re-create a PC website for mobile, but pare down content for exactly what consumers are looking for on that device. "When you're on the phone, it's a different context," he said. "Consumers are snacking on content; they don't want the full experience." Good mobile websites should feel like apps for consumers. New features like drop-down menus and expandable panels are expected soon. The little things, like a mobile site that redirects when a user taps in the web URL, will make mobile-web adoption smoother.
  • People don't care whether it is a web site or an application. All they care about is they can do "x" simply and pleasantly.
  • . All they care about is they can do "x" simply and pleasantly.
  • If you are trying to decide whether you should build an app or a mobile web site, you probably need to step back and think about a bigger problem - why you aren't able (or are unwilling) to build both.
  • With the release of HTML 5.0 developers will be able to take advantage of GPS, accelerometer, design, etc that will make mobile sites similar to apps in terms of functionality.
  • A game makes more sense on an app but a shopping site may find a happier home on the mobile web. This is because a mobile web developer has a choice of a number of online payment options for a limited fee. Where an iPhone developer must use iTunes and give up 30% of the revenue.
  • "mobile touch web" when deployed with the tools that HTML-5 promises to deliver will be the next important phase towards consuming content on demand and further penetration of location based services (including point of purchase)
  • Engagement may be measured by increased time per session, high frequency of sessions, interactions, and/or some combination thereof.
J Black

JeopardyLabs - Online Jeopardy Template - 2 views

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game education web2.0 template jeopardy interactive

shared by J Black on 07 Jul 10 - No Cached
  • J Black on 07 Jul 10
     
    JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use our simple editor to get your game up and running.
J Black

How to Use Twitter Without Twitter Owning You - 5 Tips - 0 views

www.fourhourworkweek.com/...hout-twitter-owning-you-5-tips

twitter

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  • . Do interact, but don’t try to respond to everyone. Don’t overuse Twitter out of a compulsion to please others.
  • For those who want to stronger methods for preventing time wastage, download Firefox and use LeechBlock
  • you can better prevent entering the hyperlink blackhole. I read friends’ updates after 5pm and use Ping.fm, which automatically shortens URLs,
  • J Black on 26 Feb 09
     
    5 useful tips to control Twitter use and time
J Black

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus - 0 views

www.visuwords.com/?word=pythagorean

dictionary thesaurus interactive visual

shared by J Black on 08 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus! Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists. The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection. No membership required.
  • J Black on 08 Feb 09
     
    Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. * It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus! * Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists. * The online dictionary is available wherever there's an internet connection. * No membership required. Visuwords™ uses Princeton University's WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.
J Black

TCEA Top Story - Web 2.0: What does the future hold for schools? - 0 views

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web2.0 education future

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  • "Web 1.0 was largely a ‘push' operation, taking already existing content and posting it online," said Bower. "Web 2.0 is driven by ‘pull,' not push. ... Kids can create their own content and interact."
  • Before the internet, Bower said, the two most important developments from an educational perspective were the invention of the printing press and the creation of a university system. But both of these developments were "push" operations, he said--meaning they pushed information out to students, rather than letting students experience learning for themselves.
  • Now that we have the right medium, Bower said, we have to figure out how to take advantage of it. When any new technology comes out, he explained, we typically superimpose our old ways of doing things on this new medium--and education has been no different.
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  • We haven't figured out how to leverage Web 2.0 yet" in schools, Bower said. Instead of pushers and producers of content knowledge, he added, teachers must become pullers and directors.
  • "If we're not engaging these kids, they're not learning."
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