Skip to main content

Home/ LTMS600/ Contents contributed and discussions participated by L Butler

Contents contributed and discussions participated by L Butler

Simple Middle Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics
1More

Shareist - 0 views

www.shareist.com/dashboard curation publish notebook
shared by L Butler on 31 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • L Butler on 31 Jul 12
     
    Shareist is a publishing platform which brings notebooks online. Create a notebook to capture ideas, bookmark interesting stuff you find online, and keep it either private or share it with others. Current in Beta.
1More

TweetChat - 0 views

tweetchat.com Twitter chat
shared by L Butler on 27 Jul 12 - Cached
  • L Butler on 27 Jul 12
     
    Easy was to take part in a Twitter chat - it will automatically add the hash tag for you too!
4More

Social Media and Student Engagement | Pearson Blog - 0 views

www.pearsonlearningsolutions.com/...l-media-and-student-engagement
shared by L Butler on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The article – “Teachers Embrace Social Media in Class” – describes the divide in college faculty perspectives on social media. One side sees social media as a distraction negatively impacting student engagement (and mentions one institution who blocked access to social sites for a week) and the other sees social media as a tool to reach students where they are and focus them in on the learning process.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      Which side are you?
  • In 2011, college faculty shared which social media are most valuable to them in teaching, with online video as most valuable and Twitter as least valuable.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      The survey was for college professors, do you think the data would be the same for teachers in your building?
2More

BYOD and Distraction - 0 views

www.ryanbretag.com/blog
shared by L Butler on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • more important questions:
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      Great questions for reflection and discussion points with teachers/admins/students who still think the device deserves all the blame.
13More

7 Ways To Keep Students Focused While Using Technology | Edudemic - 1 views

edudemic.com/...focused-while-using-technology
shared by L Butler on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • 1. Encourage direct engagement.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      What would this look like in your classroom?
  • 2. Ask for more participation.
  • 3. Delve into a topic.
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • 4. Make use of online resources in class.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      Think about all the tools and resources you have uncovered in this class.
  • 5. Assign research topics.
  • 6. Use real-world problems.
  • real-life situations and current events
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      Take a current topic, like the Olympics, how could you tie that into a lesson? Stats, geography, charts, science of sports, language, etc.
  • 7. Review what they’ve learned.
  • The recitation of these ideas helps students to process what they have learned.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      If the students have a place to share the videos with friends and classmates, they will. Which will further develop the pool of common knowledge.
2More

Museum 2.0: Engagement, Distraction, and the Puzzle of the Puzzle - 1 views

museumtwo.blogspot.com/...distraction-and-puzzle-of.html
shared by Ryan Donnelly on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • there's a fine line between something that is inviting versus something that is distracting,
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      The debate with engagement vs distraction extends beyond the classroom. We are in such a sensory overload environment that things like art museums are also trying to adapt to re-capture attention.
9More

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

www.educause.edu/...ent-wireless-devices-classroom distraction engagement devices
shared by L Butler on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • 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
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • 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.
2More

A Principal's Reflections: Learning Tool or Educational Distraction? - 0 views

esheninger.blogspot.com/...rning-tool-or-educational.html
shared by L Butler on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Do you consider social media a tool for learning or a source of distraction and why?
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      So what do you think?
1More

Free Technology for Teachers: Use the YouTube Upload Widget to Collect Videos from Stud... - 0 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...-upload-widget-to-collect.html youtube video collect
shared by L Butler on 24 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Last week YouTube released two new tools that you can put into your website or blog to collect video feedback from visitors. The YouTube Upload Widget and YouTube Direct Lite can be installed on your blog or website to allow vistors to upload videos and or record videos directly through their webcams. The videos they submit will go to your YouTube account.
1More

Apps Playground - 0 views

www.appsplayground.com/apps apps iPad
shared by L Butler on 12 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • L Butler on 12 Jul 12
     
    The best iPhone and iPad apps for kids.
2More

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

www.theatlantic.com/...6868
shared by Melissa Wilson on 13 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • 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/
1More

http://d97cooltools.blogspot.fr/2012/03/design-your-digital-classroom.html - 0 views

d97cooltools.blogspot.fr/...gn-your-digital-classroom.html research flipped multimedia tools web2.0
shared by L Butler on 07 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • L Butler on 07 Jun 12
     
    "The focus was on how to use technology as a tool for learning to support all learners in the 24/7 classroom." Interactive presentation on designing a digital classroom.
9More

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

ideasandthoughts.org/...great-moments blog Skype podcasting wiki RSS
shared by Charles Black on 06 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
    • 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.
  • 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.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • 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.
1More

audiolip.com - micro podcasting - 0 views

audiolip.com podcasting audio
shared by L Butler on 01 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • L Butler on 01 Jun 12
     
    Micro podcasting instead of microblogging. Provides a toll-free number for people to call and record the audio. The recording can be Twitted or Shared on Facebook.
1More

Readlists - 2 views

readlists.com ebooks epub list
shared by L Butler on 23 May 12 - No Cached
  • L Butler on 23 May 12
     
    "What's a Readlist? A group of web pages-articles, recipes, course materials, anything-bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone. "
1More

Twitter for Teachers: Home - Twitter for Teachers - 3 views

twitterforteachers.wetpaint.com twitter
shared by L Butler on 17 May 12 - Cached
  • L Butler on 17 May 12
     
    Guide for teachers using Twitter
1 - 20 of 64 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page