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Michelle Krill

Notely : Student Organisation Made Easy - 0 views

www.notely.net

productivity calendar organization studyskills web2.0 web2tool

shared by Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    Notely is the new tool for students of all ages looking for help to get better grades. Notely has all the tools a student could need, schedule, calendar, note-taking, homework planner and more.
Michelle Krill

Revizr - Document Revision and Review - 0 views

www.revizr.com

collaboration document writing web2tool wiki editing

shared by Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    Revizr is a new way for content creators to interact with their audience, in public or in private. You decide if you want to communicate privately, socially, or wiki-style to improve and update your work. Your revisers don't change your documents directly. They provide you with contextual comments and editing suggestions you can use at your discretion. You have the control you need when you're responsible for the results.
Michelle Krill

MyFolio - 0 views

myfolio.com

portfolio art folio web2tool web2.0

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  • Michelle Krill on 07 Jul 10
     
    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

Find Public Domain (Copyright-Free) Content on the Internet via Creative Commons - 0 views

www.labnol.org/...8996

cc creativecommons copyrightfree cczero cc0

shared by Michelle Krill on 09 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 09 Jul 10
     
    CC Zero is a new Creative Commons license to help content creators distribute their work on the Internet copyright-free. They can publish presentations, photographs, songs, web pages, screencast videos or any other form of content in the public domain via CC0.
Mary Richards

Diigo in your classroom - 18 views

Hi Jim, I thought I would use Diigo for kids to post links to news articles. Perhaps assign each student a week where he/she is responsible to find a news article about something that has implicati...

classroom

started by anonymous on 22 Jun 09 1 follow-up, last by Mary Richards on 28 Jul 09
anonymous

diigobuzz's videos on Vimeo - 0 views

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diigo video

shared by anonymous on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 30 Sep 09
     
    Four videos showing the new features of Diigo v4
  • anonymous on 30 Sep 09
     
    This is a good place to point teachers who are investigating/considering using Diigo with students
Michelle Krill

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

www.onlineuniversities.com/...al-tours-you-dont-want-to-miss

virtualfieldtrips tours virtual

shared by Michelle Krill on 17 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 17 Jul 10
     
    "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."
Michelle Krill

Reading in a Whole New Way - 1 views

www.smithsonianmag.com/...eading-in-a-Whole-New-Way.html

reading literacy shift

shared by Michelle Krill on 17 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Krill on 17 Jul 10
     
    "As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? " ~ Smithsonian Magazine
Jeff Rothenberger

Free Technology for Teachers: How To Do 11 Techy Things In the New School Year - 0 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...echy-things-in-new-school.html

technology web2.0 resources google twitter techtips

shared by Jeff Rothenberger on 12 Aug 10 - No Cached
  • mary heuer on 12 Aug 10
     
    follows up 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try this Year
  • Jeff Rothenberger on 14 Aug 10
     
    Great step by step directions on the 11 Web 2.0 tools listed.
  • Jeff Rothenberger on 14 Aug 10
     
    Great site for step by step directions. This resource was added to the bottom of our Day 6 Homework section in Moodle.
anonymous

Google Earth Basics - 0 views

www.gearthblog.com/basics.html

googleearth

shared by anonymous on 10 Aug 11 - Cached
  • anonymous on 10 Aug 11
     
    If you are new to Google Earth (GE), there are some useful stories written in the Google Earth Blog which might give a beginner, or even an experienced user, some insights about this exciting program. If you are looking for more advanced things, try going to the GEB home page and use the categories or Search option for things like: GPS, Geocaching, GIS, network links, image overlays, and more. On this page are links to stories which might help guide you to learning enough about Google Earth that you will soon be a GE expert.
anonymous

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

blog.polleverywhere.com/-open-response-free-text-polls

polls wordcloud

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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?)
Gail Rebuck

Projects: A better way to work in classroom groups - 1 views

blog.wikispaces.com/...-work-in-classroom-groups.html

wikispaces projects

shared by Gail Rebuck on 07 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Gail Rebuck on 07 Sep 11
     
    New projects feature of wikispaces for keeping student teams' pages together
L Butler

Digitally Speaking / Voicethread - 0 views

digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Voicethread

web2.0 techtips

shared by L Butler on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • School is one of the few times when they can get together with their friends and they use every unscheduled moment to socialize - passing time, when the teacher's back is turned, lunch, bathroom breaks, etc. They are desperately craving an opportunity to connect with their friends; not surprisingly, their use of anything that enables socialization while at school is deeply desired.
  • informal social learning
  • This drive to connect provides a unique opportunity for school teachers:  Incredibly high levels of student motivation paired with a predefined fluency with electronic communication tools.
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  • One tool that can help educators to do just that is Voicethread.
  • Known as a “group audio blog,” Voicethread allows users to record text and audio comments about uploaded images.
  • Voicethread is Asynchronous:
  • Voicethread is Engaging:
  • Begin by carefully selecting a topic that will promote conversation and debate between students—and that can be conveyed through images currently available to you.
  • don’t be afraid to disagree with something
  • Initial comments should be somewhere between 1 and 3 sentences long. 
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      As a teacher, this will be a challenge. The brief intro is what makes the difference between presentation and social education dialogue.
  • The best Voicethreads are truly interactive—with users listening and responding to one another. 
  • They come to the conversation with an open mind, willing to reconsider their own positions—and willing to challenge the notions of others. 
  • carefully script out short opening comments for each image that include a question for viewers to consider. 
  • help other listeners know what it is that has caught your attention.
  • finish your comment with a question that other listeners can reply to.  Questions help to keep digital conversations going!
  • To be an active Voicethreader, start by carefully working your way through a presentation.   While viewing pictures and listening to the comments that have been added by other users, you should:   Gather Facts:  Jot down things that are interesting and new to you  Make Connections:  Relate and compare things you are viewing and hearing to things that you already know.  Ask Questions:  What about the comments and presentation is confusing to you?  What don’t you understand?  How will you find the answer?  Remember that there will ALWAYS be questions in an active thinker’s mind!  Give Opinions:  Make judgments about what you are viewing and hearing.  Do you agree?  Do you disagree?  Like?  Dislike?  Do you support or oppose anything that you have heard or seen?  Why? Use the following sentence starters to shape your thoughts and comments while viewing or participating in Voicethread presentations.  Comments based on these kinds of statements make Voicethreads interactive and engaging.   This reminds me of… This is similar to… I wonder… I realized… I noticed… You can relate this to… I’d like to know… I’m surprised that… If I were ________, I would  ______________ If __________ then ___________ Although it seems… I’m not sure that…
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      These student suggestions are the missing link I was looking for to successfully incorporate into my classroom.
  • Just be sure to disagree agreeably
  • Assessing Voicethread Participation
  • Essentially mirroring the reflective aspects of Konrad Glogowski's system for pushing reflective blogging, I've decided to ask my students the following four questions while we're working with a new Voicethread:
  • To craft careful answers, they must truly consider the comments of others---an essential skill for promoting collaborative versus competitive dialogue---and compare those comments against their own beliefs and preconceived notions. 
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      Competitive dialogue motivates the students, but collaborative dialogue is the life skill they need to learn.
  • Voicethread Handouts  
  • Voicethread Do's and Don'ts
  • Citing Images
  • Voicethread allows users to upload documents to their strands of conversation as well.  That means that users can create a "Works Cited" page in a word processing application and upload it at the end of their Voicethread presentations. 
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      Very useful info - I have been individually citing each picture, and its unsightly.
  • This one-page handout is designed to introduce students to some general tips for participating in Voicethread conversations. 
  • L Butler on 14 Oct 09
     
    Detailed guide to creating/using/evaluating VoiceThread in the classroom. There are great examples and guides to download. The question prompts for students to consider when replying are simple, yet perfect.
anonymous

Wolfram|Alpha Blog : What We've Been Doing This Summer - 0 views

blog.wolframalpha.com/...at-weve-been-doing-this-summer

wolframalpha search

shared by anonymous on 21 Aug 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 21 Aug 09
     
    What's new at Wolfram Alpha. Can it get even better?
anonymous

http://bit.ly/PBVTh - 0 views

bit.ly/PBVTh

Test Measures

shared by anonymous on 05 Aug 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 05 Aug 09
     
    New York State - Article on What do School Tests Measure - some good commentary on the article - Interesting.
anonymous

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

www.ascd.org/..._Would_Socrates_Say%C2%A2.aspx

shared by anonymous on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The noted philosopher once said, "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." My fear is that instead of knowing nothing except the fact of our own ignorance, we will know everything except the fact of our own ignorance. Google has given us the world at our fingertips, but speed and ubiquity are not the same as actually knowing something.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      What an interesting difference this turn of phrase creates, isn't it?
  • Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate. We need to approach the contemporary knowledge explosion and the technologies propelling this new enlightenment in just that manner. Otherwise, the great knowledge and communication tsunami of the 21st century may drown us in a sea of trivia instead of lifting us up on a rising tide of possibility and promise.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      I'd love to hear your thoughts on this paragraph
  • A child born today could live into the 22nd century. It's difficult to imagine all that could transpire between now and then. One thing does seem apparent: Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate. We need to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
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  • Every day we are exposed to huge amounts of information, disinformation, and just plain nonsense. The ability to distinguish fact from factoid, reality from fiction, and truth from lies is not a "nice to have" but a "must have" in a world flooded with so much propaganda and spin.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      Would we not ALL agre on this? What argument can you think of that might contradict this? If this is true, then what should change?
  • For example, for many years, the dominant U.S. culture described the settling of the American West as a natural extension of manifest destiny, in which people of European descent were "destined" to occupy the lands of the indigenous people. This idea was, and for some still is, one of our most enduring and dangerous collective fabrications because it glosses over human rights and skirts the issue of responsibility. Without critical reflection, we will continually fall victim to such notions.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      I think schools talk about the Manifest destiny idea early on. It's too bad that it's not revisited when kids are older and can reflect on that idea more.
  • A second element of the 21st century mind that we must cultivate is the willingness to abandon supernatural explanations for naturally occurring events.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      What do you think?
  • The third element of the 21st century mind must be the recognition and acceptance of our shared evolutionary collective intelligence.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      The mere fact that you're reading this supports the idea of colective intelligence, doesn't it?
  • To solve the 21st century's challenges, we will need an education system that doesn't focus on memorization, but rather on promoting those metacognitive skills that enable us to monitor our own learning and make changes in our approach if we perceive that our learning is not going well.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      TONS of people say this. Yet, the state and federal governments continue to push standardized tests. The world needs problem solvers but our educational system produces kids who are either good at memorizing or who aren't good at memorizing. Agree? Disagree?
  • Metacognition is a fancy word for a higher-order learning process that most of us use every day to solve thousands of problems and challenges.
  • We are at the threshold of a worldwide revolution in learning. Just as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the wall of conventional schooling is collapsing before our eyes. A new electronic learning environment is replacing the linear, text-bound culture of conventional schools. This will be the proving ground of the 21st century mind.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      "Mr Tech Director, tear down that (filter) wall."
  • We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfare. According to Huff and Saxberg, immersive technologies—such as multitouch displays; telepresence (an immersive meeting experience that offers high video and audio clarity); 3-D environments; collaborative filtering (which can produce recommendations by comparing the similarity between your preferences and those of other people); natural language processing; intelligent software; and simulations—will transform teaching and learning by 2025.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      We're SAYING that now, but kids and teachers still lack the skills to make it a reality. Until kids have a friendly way of organizing and accessing the resoures they find (Diigo?) they cannnot be at this point. Agree? Disagree?
  • So imagine that a group of teachers and middle school students decides to tackle the question, What is justice? Young adolescents' discovery of injustice in the world is a crucial moment in their development. If adults offer only self-serving answers to this question, students can become cynical or despairing. But if adults treat the problem of injustice truthfully and openly, hope can emerge and grow strong over time. As part of their discussion, let's say that the teachers and students have cocreated a middle school earth science curriculum titled Water for the World. This curriculum would be a blend of classroom, community, and online activities. Several nongovernmental organizations—such as Waterkeeper, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and Water for People—might support the curriculum, which would meet national and state standards and include lessons, activities, games, quizzes, student-created portfolios, and learning benchmarks.
  • The goal of the curriculum would be to enable students from around the world to work together to address the water crisis in a concrete way. Students might help bore a freshwater well, propose a low-cost way of preventing groundwater pollution, or develop a local water treatment technique. Students and teachers would collaborate by talking with one another through Skype and posting research findings using collaborative filtering. Students would create simulations and games and use multitouch displays to demonstrate step-by-step how their projects would proceed. A student-created Web site would include a blog; a virtual reference room; a teachers' corner; a virtual living room where learners communicate with one another in all languages through natural language processing; and 3-D images of wells being bored in Africa, Mexico, and Texas. In a classroom like this, something educationally revolutionary would happen: Students and adults would connect in a global, purposeful conversation that would make the world a better place. We would pry the Socratic dialogue from the hands of the past and lift it into the future to serve the hopes and dreams of all students everywhere.
  • There has never been a time in human history when the opportunity to create universally accessible knowledge has been more of a reality. And there has never been a time when education has meant more in terms of human survival and happiness.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      Woud you agree?
  • To start, we must overhaul and redesign the current school system. We face this great transition with both hands tied behind our collective backs if we continue to pour money, time, and effort into an outdated system of education. Mass education belongs in the era of massive armies, massive industrial complexes, and massive attempts at social control. We have lost much talent since the 19th century by enforcing stifling education routines in the name of efficiency. Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 09
       
      I like this. What do YOU think?
  • If we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
Mrs Huber

New Entries | Mrs. Huber's Classroom Blog - 0 views

huberbrecknock.edublogs.org/...new-entries

blog

shared by Mrs Huber on 16 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Mrs Huber on 16 Jul 09
     
    My attempt at starting a blog.
N Butler

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

www.cox.com/...ternet_and_wireless_safety.pdf

cyber bully safety texting sexting

shared by N Butler on 11 Jul 09 - No Cached
  • N Butler on 11 Jul 09
     
    New report regarding sexting, texting, online and wireless safety survey
Emily Reinert

Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your...Brains by Ryan Mecum - 0 views

www.zombiehaiku.com

haiku

shared by Emily Reinert on 24 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Emily Reinert on 24 Jun 09
     
    A new and innovative look at haiku!
  • Emily Reinert on 24 Jun 09
     
    This isn't for the faint of heart, nor is it for young students. But it is a fun way to wrap up a unit on poetry, especially around Halloween!
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