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mbarek Akaddar

Best WebQuests . com - What WebQuests Are (Really) - 5 views

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shared by mbarek Akaddar on 08 Jun 10 - Cached
  • mbarek Akaddar on 08 Jun 10
     
    A well-designed WebQuest uses the power of the Internet and a scaffolded learning process to turn research-based theories into dependable learning-centered practices.
David Wetzel

PowerPoint Presentations Beyond Note Taking: Education Technology Applications That Imp... - 17 views

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shared by David Wetzel on 10 Aug 10 - Cached
  • David Wetzel on 10 Aug 10
     
    The use of PowerPoint presentations in schools takes advantage of education technology integration strategies and techniques. However, student learning is not improved when these presentations are merely a substitute for note taking bullets from older overhead projectors. To take advantage of the power of this technology, the elimination of boring slide shows must be replaced with interactive story telling that keeps students engaged.
Paul Beaufait

The Ning Thing - 5 views

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 18 Aug 10 - Cached
  • it would be folly for educators having suffered inconvenience at best, data loss at worst, to commit their content yet again to a potentially unreliable cloud provider. Alec Couros sees this kind of thing happening more and more in the crystal ball future and suggests that schools and educators would be better off investing in self-hosting using FOSS, free and open source software (Couros, 2010).
  • As suggested above, the only reliable alternative to Ning is to host your community yourself, or at a trusted institution, where you do your own regular backups, and your content is safe behind a firewall, with a UPS power source in case of power outages, and perhaps some sort of RAID system to keep you running through system crashes.
  • Paul Beaufait on 18 Aug 10
     
    Vance Stevens recaps recent Ning corporate decisions influencing virtual educational community developers, and outlines alternatives
David Wetzel

What Does the Online Digital Footprint in Your Classroom Look Like? - 3 views

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shared by David Wetzel on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • David Wetzel on 13 Sep 10
     
    In contrast to the digital footprint you use for your personal learning network, this focus is on the online digital footprint students' use in your science or math classroom. The power of a well designed digital footprint brings the capacity to transform a classroom into an online learning community. Within this community your students use digital tools to create and develop a personal learning network.
Paul Beaufait

elearnspace: The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn - 0 views

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 08
     
    Introduces a September 18, 2008 [sic] article from Scientific American Mind Magazine: The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secrets-of-storytelling
  • Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 08
     
    George Siemens ponders whether: "scientific method [is] a testament to the power of a logical framework to banish myth and superstition," and "how...emotional and cognitive effects of a narrative influence our beliefs and real-world decisions" (2008.08.25).
Carla Arena

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

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shared by Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08 - Cached
  • hyperlinks don’t merely point to related works; they propel you toward them.)
  • They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins
  • ...15 more annotations...
  • We are not only what we read
  • We are how we read
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace
  • Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      So, how can we still use "power browsing" and teach our students to interpret, analyze, think.
  • The human brain is almost infinitely malleable. People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood. But brain researchers have discovered that that’s not the case
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      That's what a student of mine, who is a neurologist, calls neuroplasticity.
  • Still, their easy assumption that we’d all “be better off” if our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling. It suggests a belief that intelligence is the output of a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps that can be isolated, measured, and optimized. In Google’s world, the world we enter when we go online, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      Scary...
  • It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      more hyperlinking, more possibilites for ads, more commercial value to others...
  • The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
    • Carla Arena
      Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
       
      we really need those quiet spaces, the white spaces on a page to breathe and see what's really out there.
  • If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “content,” we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.”
  • As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.”
  • Carla Arena on 10 Jul 08
     
    I bought the Atlantic just because of this article and just loved it. It has an interesting analysis of what is happening to our reading, questions what might be happening to our brains, and it inquires on the future of our relationship with technology. Are we just going to become "pancake people"? Would love to hear what you think.
John Evans

25 Incredible Skins, Resources & Tools for the Gmail Power User - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 20 Jul 08 - Cached
  • John Evans on 20 Jul 08
     
    Each day seems to produce a new hack, tool or tip for better Gmail use. In this post, I want to highlight only the very best, hand-picked from hundreds of resources. This is not another resource list you'll bookmark and never look at again. These tips, monster resources and tools will change the way you use Gmail.
anamaria menezes

Motivator: Create your own customized motivational poster - 0 views

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shared by anamaria menezes on 17 Jun 08 - Cached
  • anamaria menezes on 17 Jun 08
     
    Create your own customized motivational posters. Armed with a digital camera and that non-stop wit of yours, you now have the power to turn a simple photograph into a humorous or inspirational message. Print it, frame it! Make two-we know you've got hundreds of digital images and photos to spare!
mbarek Akaddar

Create Online Surveys and Forms - 7 views

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shared by mbarek Akaddar on 23 Dec 10 - Cached
  • mbarek Akaddar on 23 Dec 10
     
    Powerful Online Survey Creator, Simple and Free
Ileana Visea

Prezi - 0 views

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shared by Ileana Visea on 14 May 11 - Cached
  • Ileana Visea on 14 May 11
     
    Absolutely awesome presentation tool. Some call it "the new power point". Powerful and engaging teaching tool.
susana canelo

How to Compliment A Person's Abilities With Appreciative Words | eHow.com - 0 views

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  • susana canelo on 10 May 09
     
    How to Compliment A Person's Abilities With Appreciative Words. Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good will on earth.
Paul Beaufait

Slimming Down and Power Up Your Mac's Service Menu | MakeUseOf.com - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 29 Apr 09
     
    advice on using and refining the Mac Services menu
  • Paul Beaufait on 29 Apr 09
     
    For Mac users
  • Paul Beaufait on 29 Apr 09
     
    For Mac users
Kathleen N

Student Response Network - 1 views

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student response virtual clicker

shared by Kathleen N on 04 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Kathleen N on 04 Aug 09
     
    Student Response Network (SRN) is a powerful "virtual Clicker" student response system designed for use in school computer labs or with wireless laptop groups. It does away with the need for personal handheld "clicker" devices by providing a software-only solution for use with networked Windows desktops or laptops. free version limits the number of users, but prices are very reasonable: $49 one server/40 clients $99 unlimited servers/40 clients Very easy to set up!
Paul Beaufait

Writing Prompts that Motivate - 1 views

www.spellingcity.com/ing-prompts-that-motivate.html

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 27 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 25 Jul 11
     
    One of many spelling, vocabulary, and writing resources on the Vocabulary and Spelling City site, this page explains, "Asking a child to write about something that matters to him [sic] right now is a powerful motivator. This is where writing prompts come in. Writing prompts are simply ideas or subjects offered as a foundation for students to build a writing assignment on" (¶3, 2011.07.25). It includes tips for preparing writing prompts as well as examples for elementary, middle school, and high school students. Thanks to Cara Whitehead (Learning with Computers) for pointing out this site.
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shared by Weekend Payday Loans on 23 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Weekend Payday Loans on 23 Jan 16
     
    You can be able to get cash backing within a same day without any hassle
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Popcorn Time android - 0 views

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Popcorn Time

shared by freefastapp on 15 Aug 18 - No Cached
  • freefastapp on 15 Aug 18
     
    app Popcorn Time for online movie and serials without the need to download to your mobile, Bobcorn is the largest and most powerful application that has worked on a big bang in the world and loves and follows up both new movies and TV shows and provides download links via torrent files https://freefastapp.net/android-apps/popcorn-time.html #popcorn_time
  • freefastapp on 15 Aug 18
nkshastriji

World no.1 Vashikaran Specialist in Delhi | Powerful Vashikaran Astrologer - Powerful V... - 0 views

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Vashikaran Specialist in Delhi

shared by nkshastriji on 25 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • nkshastriji on 25 Jan 19
     
    The Vashikaran specialist in Delhi, as we all know, the Vashikaran specialist is something that has created a bit of enthusiasm in society and this is the only thing that can guarantee a life without problems. People are ready to use the vashikaran and they want a vashikaran specialist in Delhi to get the real vashikaran specialist in Delhi for them.
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