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mary heuer

Blogging helps encourage teen writing | Top News | eSchoolNews.com - 9 views

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  • Blogging is helping many teens become more prolific writers.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 09 Jul 10
       
      Wow! What a statement!
    • janae kauffman
      janae kauffman on 09 Jul 10
       
      I know!
  • it and revise their writing on a computer, the report says. Nearly six in 10 students (57 percent) say they edit and revise more frequently when they write using a computer. Teens who use a computer in their non-school writing believe computers have a greater impact on the amount of writing they produce than on the overall quality of their writing. Yet, there is a great deal of ambiguity with respect to the impact of computers in each of these areas. Among teens who use computers in their non-school writing, four in 10 say computers help them do more writing, and a similar number believe they would write the same amount whether they used computers or not. In comparison, only three in 10 teens who write on computers for non-school purposes at least occasionally believe computers help them do better writing–and twice as many (63 percent) say computers make no difference in the quality of their writing. Parents are more likely than teens to believe that internet-based writing (such as eMail and instant messaging) affects writing skills overall, though both groups are split on whether electronic communications help or hurt. Nonetheless, 73 percent of teens and 40 percent of parents believe internet writing makes no difference either way. Most students (82 percent) believe that additional instruction and focus on writing in school would help improve their writing even further–and more than three-quarters of those surveyed (78 percent) think it would help their writing if their teachers used computer-based writing tools such as games, multimedia, or writing software programs or web sites during class. The telephone-based survey of 700 U.S. residents ages 12 to 17 and their parents was conducted last year from Sept. 19 to Nov. 16 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points. Link: "Writing, Technology, and Teens" survey var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname="Blogging helps encourage teen writing"; a2a_config.linkurl="http://www.eschoolnews.com/2008/04/30/blogging-helps-encourage-teen-writing/"; Comments are closed <script language=JavaScript src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/173768/0/vj?z=eschool&dim=173789&pos=6&abr=$scriptiniframe"></script><noscript><a href="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/173768/0/cc?z=eschool&pos=6"><img src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/173768/0/vc?z=eschool&dim=173789&pos=6&abr=$imginiframe" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a></noscript> Recent Stories with Comments Kentucky offers cloud-based software to 700,000 school usersNo access for bad guysU.S. court weighs school discipline for lewd web postsParent video protesting state budget cuts goes viralEditorial: Threats to innovation <SCRIPT language='JavaScript1.1' SRC="http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N5621.125531.9553987353421/B3794502.5;abr=!ie;sz=300x250;click=;ord=996778?"> </SCRIPT> <NOSCRIPT> <A HREF="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/N5621.125531.9553987353421/B3794502.5;abr=!ie4;abr=!ie5;sz=300x250;ord=996778?"> <IMG SRC="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N5621.125531.9553987353421/B3794502.5;abr=!ie4;abr=!ie5;sz=300x250;ord=996778?" BORDER=0 WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=250 ALT="Click Here"></A> </NOSCRIPT> Educator Resource Centers Computing in the Cloud How technology can help with language instruction Communication and Collaboration for More Effective School Management Expert Blog: Security Insights Boost Student Achievement with Connected Teaching Private: Testing ERC Page Solving key IT challenges with virtualization Online Learning: One Pathway to Success Re-imagining Education One-to-one computing: The last piece of the puzzle Recent Entries Customers question tech industry’s takeover spree New rules bring online piracy fight to U.S. campuses Judge orders school newspaper to delete stories Ed-tech grant program aims to boost college readiness Lawmakers tra
  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    "Survey reveals that student bloggers are more prolific and appreciate the value of writing more than their peers"
  • mary heuer on 09 Jul 10
     
    I am trying to get rid of this but cannot delete because it has been annotated by others....that's what I get for playing around ...
Michelle Krill

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

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blog writing web2tool twitter

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  • Michelle Krill on 06 Jul 10
     
    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

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

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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.
Beth Hartranft

Web 2.0 Guru - home - 0 views

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web2.0 resources

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  • What is Web 2.0? So you don't know what Web 2.0 means, simply put, it's the readability and writability of the internet. It's not a new internet, it's all about the interactivity and productivity applications on the internet that provide you with 24/7 ability to produce, communicate, collaborate, share, store, network and learn. One of the best things about these Web 2.0 applications is that they are FREE!!
    • Beth Hartranft
      Beth Hartranft on 27 Jul 09
       
      Good description of Web 2.0
Melissa Wilson

Magazine - Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic - 10 views

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  • By Nicholas Carr
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 13 Jun 12
       
      Nicholas Carr also wrote The Shallows an entire book about the effect the Internet is having on our brains - I highly recommend it. http://www.theshallowsbook.com/
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      I know that we used online sources mainly for my Bachelor Senior Thesis compared to going through stacks of books and papers in the library. Google has made research a lot quicker for all of us.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      I can relate. I have the Google application on my phone which I use almost daily to check something such as a bus schedule, movie time, game score, etc.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      I am the same way on my phone. On car rides, dinner, you name it with my wife and one of us will say, "I wonder..." and the phones are out and we're finding answers.  Sometimes I want to just wonder though...
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    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      I would be interested to see a study done like this in the United States. In my one undergraduate class on politics and media we talked about "info snacking" which is the idea that people look for small bits of information at a time instead of reading the entire article. This is exactly what Carr is talking about here.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      I agree Charles. However I would suggest that I think that people will have to develop a way to info. snack and be able to do conventional reading too. It seems as though there is something lost when all you are able to do is skim and scan. 
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      The other thing that I wonder quite a bit about this entire article is does "info snacking" stem from the internet or does it stem from being a generation that was raised on frequent tv, video, video games, and the internet altogether. It would seem to me that those other factors would have to have something to do with it as well. 
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      Let's also not forget the constant stream of data to our mobile device(s) as well when thinking about that.  Should this make us better, not worse, at multi-tasking. 
  • ity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited. Th
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  • that provide access to journal articles, e-books, and other sources of written information. They found that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activ
  • As part of the five-year research program, the scholars examined computer logs documenting the behavior of visitors to two popular research sites, one operated by the British Library and one by a U.K. educational co
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 14 Jun 12
       
      This is the point I read until I got distracted. The ads on the side are distracting to me, and I also needed to get going because of the time.
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      I am finding the sticky notes to be distracting. I keep skipping from the article to the notes.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      That is a very good point. I personally find it easier to read articles on paper instead of the computer screen because there are less distractions.
  • My mind would
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      My mind wandered off here, because of the picture to the side. 'I was thinking I wonder if this is the author?' and then I saw the caption and thought, "I wonder what those words are?"
  • Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      A friend of mine and I are going to soon put this to the test by reading the Infinite Jest, which is a very long read if you are unfamiliar with the book. I anticipate it being a difficult task. I wonder if it would have been less difficult before the net.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      What a good analogy. Before when you swam and simmered in the information and had to take time to digest, now we can just move from one thing to another quickly. 
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      Do you feel that this style allows for anything further than "In one ear, out the other"? How do you best capture the features of the web?
  • It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.
  • “We are not only what we read,” says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. “We are how we read.”
  • Nietzsche’s friends, a composer
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      Wagner, I believe. 
  • Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.”
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 14 Jun 12
       
      I wonder if Nietzsche would think of the Internet as Good or Evil, or even if he would consider it being part of the Overman. 
  • The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded. “The perfect recall of silicon memory,” Wired’s Clive Thompson has written , “can be an enormous boon to thinking.” But that boon comes at a price. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. 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.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      This segment pretty much summarizes that Carr believes that we are losing our ability to sustain deep cognitive thought. He acknowledges the tremendous benefit of the internet, but cautions that it might be coming at a price...that we have yet to fully realize.
  • Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      Carr's argument is that although we are perhaps reading more than ever...due to text messaging, social media sites, etc we are not taking the time to really delve into what we read and contemplate. Moreover, this premise seems plausible to a degree, as it seems generally that much of what is sent through social media may be trival or meaningless information.
  • 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.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      Although I didn't read it (how appropriate - LOL = ) ) Carr's book on "The Shallows" alludes to this concept...in that our brains may in fact be coming re-wired, due to the common every day distractions that cause us to lose focus on thought-provoking topics. His argument is that the collective human attention span is becoming reduced, essentially due to our environment of perpetual distraction- spawned by the internet.
  • With the approval of Midvale’s owners, he recruited a group of factory hands, set them to work on various metalworking machines, and recorded and timed their every movement as well as the operations of the machines. By breaking down every job into a sequence of small, discrete steps and then testing different ways of performing each one, Taylor created a set of precise instructions—an “algorithm,” we might say today—for how each worker should work. Midvale’s employees grumbled about the strict new regime, claiming that it turned them into little more than automatons, but the factory’s productivity soared.
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      I enjoyed learning of this story. Personally, i'm always looking for ways to be more highly efficient when I observe human systems or partake in a job or task sequence. Taylor obviously laid much of the ground work for "industrial efficiency."
  • The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network’s reigning business model as well. The faster we surf across the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements. Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link—the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction
    • jan Minnich
      jan Minnich on 19 Jun 12
       
      I believe this segment is akin to "data mining" where companies look at human tendancies to advertise and create greater opportunities to feature their products by the locations (physically or virtually) of their prospective customers, clients or buyers. This idea (data mining) is relatively new to me, but there is no doubt that it will be a prevalent part of marketing in the future. During the reading of this article I received 5 text messages (responded to 2), but was disciplined enough not to check my email until I was finished. What portion of today's younger generation is disciplined enough to stay on task...until an assignment is completed?!?
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      This paragraph lost my attention.
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      If adults are noticing a change in reading attitude, what about children who have grown up with the internet?
  • We can expect as well that the circuits woven by ou
  • r use of the Net will be different from those woven by our reading of books and other printed works.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      I never really thought about this. Our brains are adapting to the net earlier than ever before now thanks to web tools that are being implemented earlier in the classroom. I do not remember using computers on an active basis to at least fourth grade, and I know they are starting much earlier with them.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      It is much easier to type things out because of time and speed. I think this could be a good and bad thing. I don't remember the last time I wrote out by hand a letter or something long.
  • tual technologies is reflected in the changing metaphors we use to explain ourselves to ourselves. When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating “like clockwork.” Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them as operating “like computers.
  • al of Gutenberg’s printing press, in the 15th century, set off another round of teeth gnashing. The Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectua
  • manist H
  • laziness, making men “less studious” and weakening their minds.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      The world would be so different without all of the great technology advances. I think back to when I had my first cell phone and it became easier to stay connected with my friends through phone calls, and now with smart phones we can be connected to the world at all times. Some people may fear change, but I think it is good to embrace it.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 20 Jun 12
       
      Overall, I do not think Google is making us stupid. I think it is our society as a whole has become so fast paced, and we need information quicker so online resources are the first thing we go to. I think as long educators keep students focused on analyzing and deep thought, we won't let Google or other web tools make our society less intelligent. 
    • Jenn Wilson
      Jenn Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      The idea of not being able to sustain attention to a lengthy article or book makes me think about how difficult it is more and more kids to sustain attention to tasks in class. It seems to get worse as the years go by and I feel like more and more kids are being diagnosed with ADD. Perhaps that type of attending "problem" is going to be the norm.
    • Jenn Wilson
      Jenn Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      This is the point where I scrolled down to see how much further I have to read and thought "I don't think I can make it!"
    • Jenn Wilson
      Jenn Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      I find this to be very true in the computer age as well. It is so easy to type something and change it multiple times now. I wonder if we actually give as much thought to what we are typing as we once did when changing a line meant getting a new piece of paper and starting over causing minutes or hours of extra work rather than seconds.
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      I would agree with this statement. I feel that as I have gone through my education, I was taught all of the skills to read and analyze appropriately. Now that I have mastered those skills, I am only expected to recall information. If I can gather the information in a quicker/more efficent way, I will use it. But am I really learning?
  • The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      The question is, what skill do we focus our teaching on? Locating and accessing, or not being able to cover as much information but analyzing it further?
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      I find myself struggling to make it all the way through a longer blog post or video file. I need quicker gratification. Books are quickly sliding out of the picture
  • I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has change
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      The skimming strategy gives students the false sense that they are really reading. Actually, they are just finding the words that they know in a story and piece the parts they understand together.
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      At this point in the reading, I have found myself loosing focus on the article
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      Even when I have full intentions, I find myself bookmarking more pages and never end up actually going back and exploring them.
  • Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      Interesting, I didn't realize that reading wasn't a natural skill. Does that explain why some people have so much trouble becoming good readers.
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 20 Jun 12
       
      The internet has certainly taken over my life. When the internet goes down at school I find myself thinking, "Now how am I going to teach."
    • Matthew Rogers
      Matthew Rogers on 20 Jun 12
       
      Although it is a different language, I am intrigued that the Chinese process of reading follows a different neural path than the English language
    • Melissa Wilson
      Melissa Wilson on 21 Jun 12
       
      This sounds very similar to the grumbling I hear from teachers when they complain that standardized tests are taking all of the creativity out of teaching. Interesting that the complaints started so long ago.
Michelle Krill

Carryout Text - 0 views

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text2speech assistive mp3 web2tool

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  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    "Copy / Paste text in CarryoutText to convert it to a MP3 file that can be downloaded and used in your favorite MP3 Player. "
anonymous

Word Clouds for Open Response (Free Text) Polls - Poll Everywhere's Blog - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 15 Aug 11
     
    "People have been using Poll Everywhere to make word clouds and tag clouds for years. Now, we've made it even easier with a simple two-step process for our favorite word cloud services: Wordle, Tagxedo, and Tagul. You'll find a new view called "Word cloud" on your Free Text Polls."
  • anonymous on 15 Aug 11
     
    (Did you see this when I tweeted it?)
anonymous

remind101 | Text Messaging For Teachers - 1 views

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  • anonymous on 15 Sep 11
     
    " A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free. "
L Butler

Google SMS on your mobile phone - 0 views

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  • L Butler on 11 Oct 09
     
    I had heard about doing this - but I had not tried it until today. They have really easy shortcuts for looking up info - I am going to try this in my spanish classroom. However, the cell phone should have unlimited text messages because the Google response is 2 texts.
L Butler

LGDTXTR.COM - 0 views

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translation texting

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  • L Butler on 14 Jul 09
     
    Interesting glossary/translator of teen texting phrases.
  • Heather Marsh on 14 Jul 09
     
    I was actually discussing this topic with the Chair of the Business Division at HACC. This abbreviated language that has developed out of texting and instant messaging reminded her of how Court Reporters use similar abbreviations for words and phrases. They're thinking of referencing the similarities to encourage high school graduates to consider court reporting for a career and a major at HACC.
Charles Black

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

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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.
anonymous

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

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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.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 30 Sep 09
       
      Change is difficult, isn't it? :-)
  • anonymous on 30 Sep 09
     
    "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 on 30 Sep 09
     
    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.
N Butler

2009_teen_survey_internet_and_wireless_safety.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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cyber bully safety texting sexting

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  • N Butler on 11 Jul 09
     
    New report regarding sexting, texting, online and wireless safety survey
Michelle Krill

Digital scrapbooks for student creativity, self-expression, and imagination - Beeclip EDU - 0 views

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scrapbook poster web2.0 web2tool glogster

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  • Michelle Krill on 02 Nov 12
     
    "Amazing digital scrapbooks for student creativity, imagination, and self-expression. Combine images, videos, text, and more Manage students, classes, and projects Collaborate, share, download & print Astoundingly easy to use"
anonymous

iPiccy - Online Picture Editor - 0 views

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editing photo_editor photos

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  • anonymous on 31 Jan 12
     
    "iPiccy makes your photo awesome with many easy to use photo tools. Edit pictures, apply beautiful photo effects, add text and even paint! Enjoy free photo editing online and show your creativity with iPiccy editor!"
Michelle Krill

A List of Free Must Have PDF Tools for Educators - 0 views

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pdf web2tools hotlist

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  • Michelle Krill on 17 Jul 12
     
    "Web 2.0 technologies have provided us with some free awesome tools to interact with this document format. We can now annotate, highlight, customize text font, add colours, add hyperlinks and many more, things which were until recently impossible to do on PDFs. "
anonymous

Twitter Blog: Introducing Fast Follow, and other SMS tips - 0 views

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twitter

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  • anonymous on 18 Jun 12
     
    Fast Follow. Anyone in the US can receive Tweets on their phone even if they haven't signed up for Twitter. This is a simple way for people to get information they care about in real-time. For example, let's say you want to get Tweets from New York City's office of emergency management (@NotifyNYC). Just text 'follow NotifyNYC' to 40404 in the US.
Charles Black

Texting With Teachers Keeps Students in Class -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • Charles Black on 17 Jun 12
     
    I stumbled upon this neat article that looks about teacher to student communication 2.0 where communication is done with cell phones that are free to students in a school in Canada. The pilot program in a 10th grade class helped improve grades and attendance. One teacher even used the cell phones to send out a daily journal topic before class. I was very surprised by this article because this idea never even occurred to me as a way of communication in education with students. I personally think it is a good idea for high school students because it can allow for students to increase how they are connected to their education, and hold them more accountable. I thought the school took the right approach with a strict policy being explained right at the start of the pilot. I am very curious what the teachers in the class think about this program.
Chris Helm

ThingLink on the App Store on iTunes - 1 views

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shared by Chris Helm on 15 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • Chris Helm on 15 Jun 15
     
    Create an interactive picture that contains links of websites, photos, videos and text. Students can explain a concept using a variety of methods. This fits und redefinition in the SAMR model and and multimodal and image tools in the web 2.0 clusters.
Michelle Krill

DrPic.com - 0 views

www.drpic.com

web2tool image graphics tools images editor

shared by Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    Free Web Picture Editor and Image Host - Crop, Resize, Text. The easiest FREE online picture editor is now called DrPic!
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