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Charles Black

Free Technology for Teachers: 47 Alternatives to Using YouTube in the Classroom - 2 views

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  • Charles Black on 12 Jun 12
     
    This article talks about many different resources available to teachers to use in the classroom when YouTube is not available as some school districts block it. The only one I have used is Hulu because I enjoy catching up on television shows online, but looking over this list makes me realize there are many tools for showing videos to students. I think it would be easier to use one of these instead of showing an old video tape on the television for several reasons including you could post the links online so students who miss class can watch them which is not always possible when you use regular videos.
  • Melissa Wilson on 13 Jun 12
     
    Great lists. I have used a few of these sites. I have watched Ted Talks several times, but I tend to use it for my personal growth rather than in the classroom. How Stuff Works and The Future Channel are both great sites to use in the classroom. I have used both as a launch into a lesson. I have The Future Channel set up to notify me when new videos are available.
  • anonymous on 14 Jun 12
     
    I wish the title didn't say "alternatives to youtube" but rather, "47 video sites - OTHER THAN Youtube." Youtube is powerful for its content, most of which is not available on the other sites. This harkens back to when schools would say, "We block youtube but we have teacher tube." It's not about having a 'tube.' It's about the content. Maybe I'm picking too much, but it drives me up a wall! :-)
anonymous

WackWall - Social Network Builder | Create a Social Network Free - 1 views

wackwall.com

ning alternatives

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  • anonymous on 27 Jul 10
     
    Alternative to Ning
anonymous

Ning Alternatives: Best Social Networking Platforms And Online Group Services - MindMei... - 1 views

www.mindmeister.com/48706364

ning alternatives

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  • anonymous on 27 Jul 10
     
    Shared tonight on the Elluminate session with Steve Hargadon
anonymous

13 Alternative Search Engines That Find What Google Can't - 0 views

www.makeuseof.com/...nes-that-find-what-google-cant

search

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  • anonymous on 12 Oct 09
     
    lots of interesting search engines
anonymous

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com - 0 views

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reading book reports

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  • anonymous on 20 Jul 09
     
    What do you think of this list? Can you discover the depth of understanding of your students with some of these suggestions?
anonymous

CogDogRoo - StoryTools - 0 views

cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

digitalstorytelling

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  • anonymous on 20 Jul 09
     
    Keep this one handy. Lots of links to excellent tools for digital storytelling - powerpoint alternatives.
L Butler

From Distraction to Engagement: Wireless Devices in the Classroom (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) ... - 0 views

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distraction engagement devices

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  • From Distraction to Engagement: Wireless Devices in the Classroom
  • devices in the classroom threaten to distract student attention but also offer opportunities for student engagement
  • creative options for making wireless devices part of instruction
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  • Mobile phones, for instance, are considered distracting because of problems with ringing during class, cheating, or multitasking,1 and the camera that comes with many phones can raise privacy issues as well. Similar complaints might also be made about laptops in the classroom.
  • a whole spectrum of methods for dealing with such distractions, ranging from technical control to pedagogical innovation. In this article, I discuss these methods with a special emphasis on engaging students to minimize the negative effects of distraction by laptop computers or other wireless devices.
  • laptops and smart phones do not cause more distraction than windows through which students look at birds and flowers, “yet you don’t seal the windows just because of that
  • Whose fault is it if distracting activities are going on in the classroom? What caused the distractions other than the availability of technology? Will alternative distractions occur if the technological tools are removed? Without implying that students are always right, I would say that the issue gives educators a reason to reflect on their own teaching or, rather, the instructional process as a whole.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      Good reflective questions for figuring out why something is a distraction and how to remedy the situation.
  • Another method for engaging students is to deconstruct a traditional, 50-minute lecture by breaking it up, re-mixing it, and redistributing it in a variety of formats and settings.
Charles Black

Microsoft PowerPoint and other presentation software - 0 views

alternatives.rzero.com/present.html

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  • Charles Black on 15 Aug 12
     
    I believe that PowerPoint is often overused, and as Learning Technology students we should be exploring new and exciting tools. This handy list provides several other presentation resources besides PowerPoint. Even though PowerPoint is listed as the top, I am eager to try some of the other tools.
Charles Black

Great Moments in EdTech History | Ideas and Thoughts - 3 views

ideasandthoughts.org/...great-moments

blog Skype podcasting wiki RSS

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  • journey into educational technology and share a few instances of “aha moments” that I think many can relate to
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 06 Jun 12
       
      Read the blog post and see what you agree with. The dates might change, but what is powerful and transformative remains the same.
  • The beginning of cheap failure.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 06 Jun 12
       
      Great concept = cheap failure. We have the opportunity for almost everything we create to be a work in progress. You can always learn and build upon your initial attempts. This should give people more freedom to try without the feeling of absolute and unrecoverable failure.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 06 Jun 12
       
      Not just cheap failure but also instant failure, which is important to our students as well. We talk about rapid prototyping in the program and some in my classroom, which I think is an important note about this technology and an important concept for our students to grasp/be able to deal with. It's a vehicle for learning. 
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 06 Jun 12
       
      'instant failure' - great phrase. It is important that they can make mistakes in a safe environment and have the guidance to learn from the mistakes.
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 06 Jun 12
       
      I guess my question is why would be considered a cheap failure, constant better/cheaper alternatives, integration in today's technology?
  • I did ask a few folks on twitter about their great moment in edtech history.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 06 Jun 12
       
      Notice the use of Twitter and Storify.
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  • I’d encourage you to create your own list or add your ideas here.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 06 Jun 12
       
      What would be on your list? Make sure your comments are not private, but visible to the LTMS600 group.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 06 Jun 12
       
      I think my list, off the top of my head, would be Google Docs, Twitter, Cloud Servers/Saving, and Mobile Devices. 
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 06 Jun 12
       
      And I forgot the first time around, the almighty text message. Who could forget the text message?
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 06 Jun 12
       
      My list would be Facebook, Twitter, Google Docs, and Mobile Devices/Text messages.
  • I believe it was 640 x 480 resolution.
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 06 Jun 12
       
      Funny. I think I still have one in my cabinet at school. Amazing how far digital photography has come in a short time.
  • Melissa Wilson on 06 Jun 12
     
    Funny. I think I still have one in my cabinet at school. Amazing how far digital photography has come in a short time.
agshuey

Award-winning learning management system for teachers and school administrators | Schoo... - 0 views

www.schoology.com/home.php

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  • N Butler on 27 Jan 12
     
    Alternative to Edmodo, no age restrictions.
  • agshuey on 08 Jun 15
     
    Schoology is an innovative learning management system (LMS) and social network that makes it easy to create and share academic content. Sign up today.
Michelle Krill

TextArc ~ An alternate way to view a text - 0 views

textarc.org

english visual text languagearts web2tool

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  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    A TextArc is a visual represention of a text-the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning.
Lucy Chubb

We can't let educators off the hook | Dangerously Irrelevant - 2 views

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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Oct 10
       
      What do you think? Is ignorance of the tools of the web excusable? Should we let them off the hook?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Oct 10
       
      Oh, and read down through the comments, as well. The discussion continues there.
    • Martin Meier
      Martin Meier on 22 Oct 10
       
      "...if you're not doing what needs to be done, then you should get out of the way to make room for someone who will." This statement assumes everyone who uses digital technology "know what needs to be done." After viewing many videos during our class I believe there is a direction we should be going in, but nobody really 'knows' what needs to be done. Just like every politician and irrate blogger seems to have the answer. The "get with us or get out of the way" statments concern me the most. If a student doesn't subscribe to what we're teaching do we then shuffle them off to alternate school? No, we try something different whether it's Web 2.0 or something else. It's what we call the 'art' of teaching. Whether we're teaching students or educators, as long as we're willing to try something new, not just jump on the bandwagon, then our students will learn to adjust and be flexible also.
    • Mary Richards
      Mary Richards on 23 Oct 10
       
      Lurkers are good - if everyone is talking than no one is listening.
    • Kati Hoover
      Kati Hoover on 23 Oct 10
       
      I don't think we can let educators off the hook. I feel like some just ignore where the world is going and feel save and comfortable in what they know. Well, who isn't. We don't become better teachers, friends, parents, or people by keeping things to same. You have to change and adapt in order to be successful. We aren't just teaching students. We are preparing the future generation. Those students will become all of things we are and we know - if we don't prepare them for what their world WILL look like, what are we doing? Are we even doing our job? We must be held accountable.
    • Sandra Benedict
      Sandra Benedict on 23 Oct 10
       
      No, we should not allow colleges who train our teachers off the hook either. We need to support and train teachers in these various tools. We also need to make sure they have the hardware was well as our kids. All too often these authors think everyone including kids have access to computers/internet 24/7. Some of our teachers do not have this access in their homes.
    • Lucy Chubb
      Lucy Chubb on 23 Oct 10
       
      information shared to the faculty helps counter the "blue pill"
    • Lucy Chubb
      Lucy Chubb on 23 Oct 10
       
      That is my favorite paragraph!
    • Lauren Hummel
      Lauren Hummel on 23 Oct 10
       
      I also like this paragraph. The idea of life-long learnining has to embrace change. I understand that adapting is difficult because it requires teachers to constantly reconstruct their teaching. However, I agree that this needs to take place in order for education to effectively meet the needs of students.
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  • If you’re a teacher / administrator / librarian / education professor that somehow ‘doesn’t even realize [yet] that there’s a decision to be made,’ should you even be working in a school or university? Don’t our children and our school systems need and deserve someone who’s in a different place than you are?
  • It’s about our students: our children and our youth who deserve at the end of their schooling experience to be prepared for the world in which they’re going to live and work and think and play and be. That’s the obligation of each and every one of us. No educator gets to disown this.
    • Lucy Chubb
      Lucy Chubb on 23 Oct 10
       
      Taking responsibility for your learning--we expect it from our students, why not our faculty?
    • Lucy Chubb
      Lucy Chubb on 23 Oct 10
       
      I'm very glad that I am able to discuss and add input to help create change.
  • anonymous on 03 Oct 10
     
    "If you're a teacher / administrator / librarian / education professor that somehow 'doesn't even realize [yet] that there's a decision to be made,' should you even be working in a school or university? Don't our children and our school systems need and deserve someone who's in a different place than you are? It's one thing to still be a learner; heck, we're all learners with this technology stuff. It's another to opt out or not even recognize the choice. If we look at what our kids need, shouldn't we replace you with someone else? "
  • anonymous on 03 Oct 10
     
    What do you think of this post? Look for the sticky note and let's discuss it.
anonymous

Weblogg-ed » If Every Student Had a Computer - 0 views

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education weblogg

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  • 120 or so teachers from Victoria who are part of a pilot where all of their students will have netbooks in hand in the next few months. There seems to be a growing commitment here to put technology in the hands of kids (instead of spending huge sums on stuff that students can’t use outside of the classroom) and to thinking about how practice and pedagogy changes when that happens. T
    • Mrs Huber
      Mrs Huber on 25 Jul 09
       
      America......are you listening??????????????????????????
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 25 Jul 09
       
      Of course, there's more to this story, isn't there? Once you purchase the equipment (not cheap) there is also the need to make sure that your network can handle it. If not, nobody will use the laptops - at least not to the extent that they COULD be used. And then, the idea of suggesting that districts increae their budgets so that the program could be sustained, is a tough sell. Yet, the alternative is to remain stuck in the 20th century mentality and approach to teaching and learning.
  • E5 (pdf) that I’ll be giving some more attention to on the plane ride home but that at first blush has some interesting language that focuses more on learning than teaching.
    • Mrs Huber
      Mrs Huber on 25 Jul 09
       
      I want to check this out.
  • It’s not just about if every student had a computer; it’s about if every teacher had a computer as well. (As opposed to if every teacher had a whiteboard.) Imagine if our students were being taught in systems where technology was just a natural part of the way we created and constructed and connected and learned, that it was how we do our business. S
    • Mrs Huber
      Mrs Huber on 25 Jul 09
       
      I hope this comes before I retire!
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  • powerful potential in a world where every student AND every teacher has a computer and access to the sum of human knowledge we’re building online.
    • Mrs Huber
      Mrs Huber on 25 Jul 09
       
      WOW!
  • Mrs Huber on 25 Jul 09
     
    What i f every kid had access to a computer in school every day?
  • anonymous on 25 Jul 09
     
    What i f every kid had access to a computer in school every day?
Mrs Huber

Justin Reich - Better Strategies Needed for School Internet Access - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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filtering

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  • Mrs Huber on 14 Jul 09
     
    Just how effective are filters at protecting children? Not very, according to this article. So, why are they in place again?????
  • Heather Marsh on 14 Jul 09
     
    It just goes to show that the technology has prevailed once again! If these types of filters are not working, an alternative would be to teach "Safe Surfing" to students and educate them on how to use the internet ethically, responsibly, and safely.
anonymous

PDF to Word Converter - 100% Free - 0 views

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pdf word converter

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  • diane foose on 20 Jul 09
     
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  • Emily Reinert on 21 Jul 09
     
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  • anonymous on 26 Jul 09
     
    Good one; thanks.
  • anonymous on 07 Jul 11
     
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