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Unhangout - 0 views
Beyond Substitution: The SAMR Model | 2011 Summer Tech Institute - 0 views
What is Technology Integration? - 1 views
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Integration is when classroom teachers use technology to introduce, reinforce, extend, enrich, assess, and remediate student mastery of curricular targets.
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Integration is an instructional choice that generally includes collaboration and deliberate planning—and always requires a classroom teacher’s participation.
Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?: The Reasons Are Many | Edutopia - 1 views
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In particular, it must support four key components of learning: active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts
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The Web connects students to experts in the real world and provides numerous opportunities for expressing understanding through images, sound, and text.
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When technology is effectively integrated into subject areas, teachers grow into roles of adviser, content expert, and coach.
Media Literacy: Visual Literacy - 0 views
Life on the Screen: Visual Literacy in Education | Edutopia - 0 views
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nstead we need to teach students how to tell a story.
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This is more than just teaching kids how to use computers. Kids already know this. They know how to use computers before they get to school.
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People seem to forget this fact, and often these are the same people who are running the society. They would rather spend money on the military than on the educational system, unaware that the military will bring them zippo. It's not a great idea to want to take over the world if you don't know what to do with it and how to run it. Nothing is accomplished through conquest. Everything is accomplished through education.
How Users Read on the Web - 0 views
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meaningful sub-headings (not "clever" ones)
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one idea per paragraph (users will skip over any additional ideas if they are not caught by the first few words in the paragraph)
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Credibility can be increased by high-quality graphics, good writing, and use of outbound hypertext links. Links to other sites show that the authors have done their homework and are not afraid to let readers visit other sites.
How we read online. - Slate Magazine - 0 views
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And it's not you who has to change. It's me, the writer: One idea per paragraphHalf the word count of "conventional writing"! (Ouch!) Other stuff along these lines
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If you want to beat the Internet, you're not going to do it by blogging (since even OK thinkers occasionally write a great blog post) but by offering a comprehensive take on a subject (thus saving the reader time from searching many sites) and supplying original thinking (offering trusted insight that cannot be easily duplicated by the nonexpert).
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When we're really engaged in a text, it's like being in an effortless trance.
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Understanding Visual Hierarchy in Web Design | Webdesigntuts+ - 0 views
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SizeObjects that are bigger demand more attention. Using size as a hierarchal tool is an effective way of guiding a viewer’s eye to a particular portion of the page. Because size is one of the most powerful forms of organization, it’s important to correlate size with importance in a design. The biggest elements should be the most important in most cases; the smallest elements should be the least important.
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. When used as a personality tool, color can extend beyond into more sophisticated types of hierarchy; Using lush, comforting colors can bring an emotional appeal to a page.
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Within a page there might be widgets that are separated from each other by space; within those widgets there is a new hierarchy of title, subtitle, and content.
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