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About | Youth Voices - 0 views

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    Youth Voices is a meeting place where students and their teachers share, distribute, and discuss their inquiries and digital work online. It's a space where teachers nurture student-to-student conversations, collaborations, and civic actions that result from publishing and commenting on each others texts, images, audio and video.
anonymous

Collier school district working to reduce absences among its top students : Education :... - 0 views

  • While the attendance rate for the district is very good, Stockman said, 26.6 percent of the Top 50 students in the district’s seven high schools have missed between 10 and 19 days of school and 6.3 percent missed 20 days or more.
  • “We have students who miss 50 days of school and graduate in the Top 50 of their class. And we know the reasons. A lot of them are working on Florida Virtual School to get (Advanced Placement) and honors credits.”
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      What does this say about what goges on in school? What does it say about the hybrid model of Brick and Mortar schools and cyber schools?
  • students who have accrued 10 or more absences in a semester to the intervention team to be considered for denial of credit. Credit denial results in an “L” being placed next tot he semester grade on the student’s report card and in the student’s grade history. The grade will not be figured into the student’s grade point average.
    • anonymous
       
      Fair?
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  • Stockman said the consequences reflect the School Board’s philosophy that “the classroom experience is of unique value and it cannot be duplicated by make-up work. Student interaction and the development of ideas through discussion are lost when a student is absent.”
    • anonymous
       
      Is this board simply resisting the inevitable change? Or, do you agree that the classroom experience cannot be duplicated and is essential to the education of the student? Or, is it just that the quality of the makeup work is poor?
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    Is this a sign of things to come? What do YOU think of the idea of punishing the kids who don't come to school yet get good grades?
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    I responded about this in a message to you. You are free to share that message (comment) with the group. Didn't realize this was here until just now.OOPS! LOL
Michelle Krill

Write4net: Publishing is a matter of click. - 0 views

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    Publish full articles without needing a blog or site. There's no setup or login. Just write your text and Write4net will publish it using your Twitter account. That's it. So easy. And free! You can format your text with several features, including pictures and YouTube, Vimeo and DailyMotion videos. Your text will be published and instantly tweeted. Plus you get a personal page, blog style, where everybody can find all your articles (it even has RSS!).
Michelle Krill

MyFolio - 0 views

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    MyFolio is a new online community of artists and creatives. Our website allows users to upload and share their videos, images, audios, files and to also build a personalized portfolio. While MyFolio was created with a single vision of becoming one of the largest art sharing websites, its purpose is anything but singular. Designed by the creative mind, for the creative mind, MyFolio.com is the ultimate destination for creatives and art enthusiasts looking to connect with other artists, prospective employers, and the general public.
Michelle Krill

Yodio - Add voice to photos - 0 views

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    Yodio offers an integrated, one-stop digital publishing service where anyone can go to self-record, produce, and share audio recordings (podcasts) and personal broadcasts (audio synchronized with digital photos). Using Yodio's free production system, most anyone can combine digital photos with their recorded audio to create rich media presentations. What is a rich-media presentation? Think voice narrated power point presentations or photo albums. Now think of them being shared in a player similar to YouTube, so they can be streamed throughout the internet or the player can be embedded in other websites, blogs, etc. This is personal broadcast with the sharing part operating on steroids! You can link, e-mail, embed, and in many cases download as an MP3 file. It's made to share memories and photos that are made more interesting and informative by adding your own voice.
Michelle Krill

100 Incredible & Educational Virtual Tours You Don't Want to Miss | Online Universities - 0 views

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    "One of the wonders of the Internet is that it can bring the world to you instead of your needing to find the time and money to explore the traditional way. The following virtual tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space. You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized whale, and visit ball parks and theme parks. There is even a section of incredible virtual tours that Google Earth has compiled that shares the world in a whole new way."
anonymous

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

  • 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
       
      America......are you listening??????????????????????????
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      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      WOW!
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    What i f every kid had access to a computer in school every day?
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    What i f every kid had access to a computer in school every day?
N Butler

The Committed Sardine - blog - 0 views

  • Chris Sherman, president of Searchwise, said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and newcomer WolframAlpha are the four main search engines that benefit researchers.
  • Social media, I think it's a fad. I think it will not have lasting value as a search medium. I think that there's a lot of focus on searching Facebook and searching Twitter and things like that. I just don't see it. I see lots and lots of problems with that," he said.
  • Social media, I think it's a fad. I think it will not have lasting value as a search medium. I think that there's a lot of focus on searching Facebook and searching Twitter and things like that. I just don't see it. I see lots and lots of problems with that," he said.
    • N Butler
       
      He is kidding....right?
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    Chris Sherman, president of Searchwise, said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and newcomer WolframAlpha are the four main search engines that benefit researchers.
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    Chris Sherman, president of Searchwise, said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and newcomer WolframAlpha are the four main search engines that benefit researchers.
anonymous

Official Google Blog: Google heads to grade school: New resources for K-12 teachers and... - 0 views

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    This is an important change! Make sure you take this to your tech person and building principal.
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    To help address schools' email security needs, Google Message Security (GMS) will be offered free to current and new eligible primary and secondary schools globally that opt in by July of next year. GMS filters out email messaging threats, and education IT departments can customize the filtering rules and group messaging lists to suit their schools
Michelle Krill

Issuu - You Publish - 0 views

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    Upload files and have them turned into flash - to embed onto your pages. Great for kids works, too. If you thought Myebook was interesting, this is another variation
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    Upload files and have them turned into flash - to embed onto your pages. Great for kids works, too
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    Issuu is the place for quality publications: Magazines, catalogs, documents, and stuff you'd normally find on print. It's the place where you become the publisher: Upload a document, it's fast, easy, and totally free. Find and comment on thousands of great publications. Join a living library, where anyone finds publications about anything and share them with friends.
anonymous

Global SchoolNet: Home - 0 views

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    Global SchoolNet's mission is to support 21st century learning. We engage teachers and students in meaningful project learning exchanges with people around the world to develop literacy and communication skills, foster teamwork and collaboration, encourage workforce preparedness and create multi-cultural understanding. We prepare youth for full participation as productive and effective citizens in an increasing global economy.
Geneva Reeder

WebTools4u2use - Webtools4U2Use - 0 views

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    "The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them."
Michelle Krill

Poll Authority: The Authority on Free Online Polls And Video Polls - 0 views

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    Poll Authority is a recognized leader in polling software. Our unique approach to poll creation allows anyone to create customized polls to add to their website, blog, or personal page. There's no expensive database to maintain, no developer to hire, and no complicated installation or set-up. Signup for your FREE Poll Authority account today and see how easy adding a poll to your website can be! In less than a minute you can be creating unique and custom polls that match your website theme and style!
Michelle Krill

easy and free voicemail and sharing it via web, email, podcast, and more, phone.io: an ... - 0 views

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    A service of drop.io designed for recording voicemail directly to the web, and podcasting. In two clicks you get a custom phone line and record MP3s instantly to the web. You can then share via web (URL), email, iTunes, rss, twitter, and facebook 'outputs'.
Michelle Krill

ClassChatter | Safe and Effective Web Tools For the Classroom - 0 views

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    Welcome! ClassChatter offers free blogging and web tools for teachers at all levels of education. Our first goal is to provide a safe haven for teachers and students on the web. You will find a secure and private environment, free of any advertising directed at your students. We hope that you will discover useful tools that will help move your students more rapidly into 21st century communications and collaboration!
anonymous

End of Europe's Middle Ages - The Impact of the Printing Press - 0 views

  • Printing was considered vulgar and only for the poor. Many aristocratic bibliophiles refused to disgrace their collections with the presence of a non-manuscript text. It fell to the lower classes to recognize the importance of the printing press. And they did - by the end of the fifteenth century, more than one thousand printers had printed between eight and ten million copies of more than forty thousand book titles.
    • anonymous
       
      Change is difficult, isn't it? :-)
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    "Printing was considered vulgar and only for the poor. Many aristocratic bibliophiles refused to disgrace their collections with the presence of a non-manuscript text. It fell to the lower classes to recognize the importance of the printing press. And they did - by the end of the fifteenth century, more than one thousand printers had printed between eight and ten million copies of more than forty thousand book titles. "
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    Change is difficult, isn't it? We're going through a big change in Education right now, where Social ANYTHING is considered taboo. You'll live long enough to see folks laughing at how foolish we were.
anonymous

Copyright Alliance Education Foundation - 2 views

  • Educators' Workshop The material in this guide will help librarians and media specialists in their efforts to inform other educators about copyright. It includes a quiz, tips on designing a workshop, and a chart of available classroom materials. Educators' Guide This comprehensive 13-page guide is designed for teachers of all grades and subject areas and includes: an overview of copyright, FAQ section, glossary and standards charts for all the classroom curricula available on this web site.
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    "The issues surrounding copyright have never been more visible. But the classroom presents its own copyright-related challenges, for students and teachers alike. How is an educator to know what the rules are? How do those rules apply in the classroom? And how can we make sure that students know the rules as well?"
anonymous

A Fistful of Challenges for Ed Tech -- THE Journal - 2 views

  • In the fourth slot was nothing short of the "fundamental structure of the K-12 education establishment," specifically, as the authors described it, "resistance to any profound change in practice."
    • anonymous
       
      What do you think of that statement?
  • The lack of congruence between what students are learning outside of school and what they're being taught in the classroom is causing a disconnect in educational practices.
    • anonymous
       
      Hasn't this ALWAYS been the case? What makes it different now?
  • The existence of a wealth of online tools and communications tools is allowing teachers to "to revisit our roles as educators."
    • anonymous
       
      Yes, it makes it easy to revisit their roles, but DO they?
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  • "As IT support becomes more and more decentralized, the technologies we use are increasingly based not on school servers, but in the cloud,
    • anonymous
       
      But what if they can't afford or choose not to ensure adequate bandwidth?
  • "The digital divide, once seen as a factor of wealth, is now seen as a factor of education
    • anonymous
       
      Powerful statement, no?
  • Digital literacy will also play an increasing role in career advancement, according to the report.
    • anonymous
       
      But wait - I thought the kids were supposed to be Digital Natives and come to us digitally literate. No?
  • The ways we design learning experiences must reflect the growing importance of innovation and creativity as professional skills."
    • anonymous
       
      I think it's interesting that the students themselves resist this kind of learning. Care to guess why?
  • "It has become clear that one-size-fits-all teaching methods are neither effective nor acceptable for today’s diverse students," according to the report. "Technology can and should support individual choices about access to materials and expertise, amount and type of educational content, and methods of teaching."
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    In the fourth slot was nothing short of the "fundamental structure of the K-12 education establishment," specifically, as the authors described it, "resistance to any profound change in practice."
anonymous

Wolfram|Alpha Blog : Save the Date for Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day: October 21, 2009 - 0 views

  • During Homework Day, scholars, experts, and members of the Wolfram|Alpha team will explore a wide variety of subjects relevant for K–12 to college students. Segments throughout the day will be tailored for specific age groups and show how students and teachers are already using Wolfram|Alpha in the classroom
    • anonymous
       
      I LIKE this! I hope LOTS of folks can tune into this event.
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    "Join us on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at noon CDT, for the start of Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day, a groundbreaking marathon live interactive web event that brings together students, parents, and educators from across the United States to solve their toughest assignments and explore the power of using Wolfram|Alpha for school, college, and beyond."
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    I plan to tune in just to hear the kinds of questions being asked.
N Butler

Mission to Learn - Know Better. Live Better. - 0 views

  • If you are like me, you know from practical experience that your memory doesn’t tend to function as well when you are sleep-deprived
  • The bottom line: Sleep is important; get enough of it if you want to make sure your memory is functioning properly.
  • standard 7-8
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  • but there seems to be a reasonable body of evidence suggesting that physical fitness and cognitive fitness are linked
  • least 30 minute
  • stress is known to have an impact on cognitive function, and this includes memory
  • For starters, stress can interfere with sleep, which we have already identified as important to memory. But stress also impacts the brain more directly in both positive and negative ways.
  • So what are some approaches to managing stress? Getting enough sleep and exercising regularly are an excellent starting point
  • Ten Openers: (WE-ALL-LEARN) 1. Web Searching in the World of e-Books 2. E-Learning and Blended Learning 3. Availability of Open Source and Free Software 4. Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare 5. Learning Object Repositories and Portals 6. Learner Participation in Open Information Communities 7. Electronic Collaboration 8. Alternate Reality Learning 9. Real-Time Mobility and Portability 10. Networks of Personalized Learning
    • N Butler
       
      This is a great way to think of Web 2.0 tools
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    sleep is important..
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