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Matt LeClair

Free Classroom Guides and Educational Downloads for 2012 | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "A Parent's Guide to 21st-Century Learning Discover the tools and techniques today's teachers and classrooms are using to prepare students for tomorrow -- and how you can get involved. More Resources: How to Strengthen Parent Involvement and Communication A Teacher's Guide to Generation X Parents Facebook Group for Parents blue cover with students Six Tips for Brain-Based Learning By understanding how the brain works, educators are better equipped to help K-12 students with everything from focusing attention to increasing retention. More Resources: Neuro Myths: Separating Fact and Fiction in Brain-Based Learning Brain-Based Learning: Resource Roundup Big Thinker: Neurologist Judy Willis on the Science of Learning Yellow cover with students Ten Tips for Classroom Management Learn how to improve student engagement and build a positive climate for learning and discipline for grades K-12. More Resources: How to Develop Positive Classroom Management Classroom-Management Video Tips for Teachers Positive Discipline Strategies Yield Quick Results Purple cover with faces framed in circles Top Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media Whether you're new to teaching or a classroom veteran, this resource-packed collection of 10 new media tips provides fresh ideas and easy-to-use tools to engage your students and make learning more collaborative. (Updated: 6/14/11) More Resources: Twittering, Not Frittering: Professional Development in 140 Characters Google for Educators: The Best Features for Busy Teachers Social Media in Education: The Power of Facebook Blue 2010 cover with faces framed in circles Summer Rejuvenation Guide Whether it's reading a good book or starting a new hobby, this resource-packed guide highlights ten fun ways to spend your summer. (Updated: 5/24/11) More Resources: Teacher-Tested Travel Grants Creating a Summer Reading Network How to Create a Professional Learning Community Orange c
Matt LeClair

5pm - Project management, task organizer, team collaboration and time tracking software - 0 views

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    "5pm™ is an intuitive web based project management tool Looking for a better way to stay organized? 5pm can be your central location for project and task management, team collaboration, time tracking, reporting and more..." Can also connect SpiderScribe (Mindmapping online program) to incorporate visual mapping functionality
Matt LeClair

Strides - Social Project Management (announcement) - 0 views

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    VMware's Socialcast unit is introducing a social project management tool Friday as public beta. Designed to support Agile project management methodology
Matt LeClair

The Underutilization of Information and Communication Technology-Assisted Collaborative... - 0 views

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    Research exploring barriers to teachers implementing information and communication technology-assisted collaborative project-based learning as a classroom teaching methodology with students.
Michelle Green

Presenters Final.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    more action research project to review
Michelle Green

The Ontario Action Researcher - Welcome - 0 views

  • this journal strives to: Publish accounts of a range of action research projects in education and across the professions with the aim of making their outcomes widely available, providing models of effective action research and enabling educators to share their experiences Demonstrate connections between practice and theory through articles of a general nature on methodological and epistemological issues related to action research Disseminate reviews of books, websites and products related to action research And finally, to provide a forum for dialogue on the various action research projects that are taking place around the province
Matt LeClair

World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others: How to teach when learning is everywhere. - 0 views

  • Our ability to learn whatever we want, whenever we want, from whomever we want is rendering the linear, age-grouped, teacher-guided curriculum less and less relevant.
  • Experts are at our fingertips,
  • Content and information are everywhere, not just in textbooks.
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  • And the work we create and publish is assessed by the value it brings to the people who read it, reply to it, and remix it.
  • Much of what our students learn from us is unlearned once they leave us; paper is not the best way to share our work, facts and truths are constantly changing, and working together is becoming the norm, not the exception.
  • It's about solving problems together and sharing the knowledge we've gained with wide audiences.
  • Inherent in the collaborative process is a new way of thinking about teaching and learning
  • As connectors, we provide the chance for kids to get better at learning from one another.
  • In fact, we need to rely on trusted members of our personal networks to help sift through the sea of stuff, locating and sharing with us the most relevant, interesting, useful bits.
  • That means that as teachers, we must begin to model our own editorial skills
  • Collaboration in these times requires our students to be able to seek out and connect with learning partners, in the process perhaps navigating cultures, time zones, and technologies.
  • they come into contact with: Who is this person? What are her passions? What are her credentials? What can I learn from her?
  • As Clay Shirky writes in Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, "Knowingly sharing your work with others is the simplest way to take advantage of the new social tools."
  • Fortunately, social tools like wikis, blogs, and social-bookmarking sites make working with others across time and space easier than it's ever been. They are indeed "weapons of mass collaboration," as author Donald Tapscott calls them.
  • The Collaboration Age comes with challenges that often cause concern and fear. How do we manage our digital footprints, or our identities, in a world where we are a Google search away from both partners and predators?
  • What are the ethics of co-creation when the nuances of copyright and intellectual property become grayer each day? When connecting and publishing are so easy, and so much of what we see is amateurish and inane, how do we ensure that what we create with others is of high quality?
  • I believe that is what educators must do now. We must engage with these new technologies and their potential to expand our own understanding and methods in this vastly different landscape.
  • And we must be able to model those shifts for our students and counsel them effectively when they run across problems with these tools.
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    World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others How to teach when learning is everywhere. By Will Richardson Facebook 16 Twitter 25 Share 136 Email Four teachers from High Tech High. Bringing Their A-Game: Humanities teacher Spencer Pforsich, digital arts/sound production teacher Margaret Noble, humanities teacher Leily Abbassi, and math/science teacher Marc Shulman make lessons come alive on the High Tech campuses in San Diego. Credit: David Julian Earlier this year, as I was listening to a presentation by an eleven-year-old community volunteer and blogger named Laura Stockman about the service projects she carries out in her hometown outside Buffalo, New York, an audience member asked where she got her ideas for her good work. Her response blew me away. "I ask my readers," she said. I doubt anyone in the room could have guessed that answer. But if you look at the Clustrmap on Laura's blog, Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference, you'll see that Stockman's readers -- each represented by a little red dot -- come from all over the world. 1 She has a network of connections, people from almost every continent and country, who share their own stories of service or volunteer to assist Stockman in her work. She's sharing and learning and collaborating in ways that were unheard of just a few years ago. Welcome to the Collaboration Age, where even the youngest among us are on the Web, tapping into what are without question some of the most transformative connecting technologies the world has ever seen. These tools are allowing us not only to mine the wisdom and experiences of the more than one billion people now online but also to connect with them to further our understanding of the global experience and do good work together. These tools are fast changing, decidedly social, and rich with powerful learning opportunities for us all, if we can figure out how to leverage their potential. For e
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Resources - The Pillar Summit - 0 views

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    " Resources Here we publish exclusive content to help you develop a successful online community. You are welcome to use these free articles to guide your online community efforts."
Matt LeClair

Teaching Large Classes with an iPad » - 0 views

  •  It allowed the combining of student response, just-in-time teaching, constructivist development and several other educational buzz terms in one simple device.
  • d SplashTop Remote Desktop.  
  • with LectureTools I can present class, pose questions, draw on the screen and still project wirelessly as I stand or walk around the room.
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  • Download SplashTop Streamer (it’s FREE!) and install on your Mac or PC laptop.
  • As long as the iPad and laptop are on the same wireless network you should be able to follow directions to connect the two via “Internet discovery.”
  • we use Doceri. http://doceri.com/ it allows our faculty the full control of a mac (MacBook Pro or a Mac Pro) wirelessly with the iPad w/annotation abilities.
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    Step-by-step guide on how one instructor integrated iPads in the classroom which allowed the combining of student response, just-in-time teaching, constructivist development and several other educational buzz terms in one simple device.
Matt LeClair

Learning about Learning: Kanban--Get your work organized! - 0 views

  • work flow management tool.
  • the tool helps me to identify what I need to do, what I am doing, and what I have done.  
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    Work Flow Management Tool
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INSNA - Social Network Analysis Software - 0 views

  • NodeXL - Network overview, discovery and exploration add-in for Microsoft Excel 2007, Smith, M.
  • ORGAN 1® Social Network Analysis, BENOIT, X.
  • ORA software, Diesner, J.
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  • AutoMap exports data in DyNetML and can be used interoperably with *ORA.
  • terms and themes.
  • Email Analysis
  • Excel 2007 template's \\"Analyze Email Network\\" Ribbon
  • Windows Forms control is one of several graph \\"visualizers\\"
  • VisuaLyzer combines numerous visualization and analysis functions.
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    list of software for social network analysis
Matt LeClair

WORDPRESS GOD: 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog - 0 views

  • eStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages
  • FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
  • FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
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  • FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
  • ics including referrers and popular pages.
  • ics including referrers and popular pages.
  • FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
  • FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
  • FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
  • WP-Post Ratings – Allows readers to rate your posts.
  • nline Ajax Page – Displays a snippet of a post and then allows the reader to click a button to load the full entry without going to another page.
  • Tagboard Widget – Adds an auto-updating tagboard to your site that displays new messages as they are posted.
  • wp-chunk – Truncates long URLs in comments to prevent them from stretching the page.
  • WP-Most Commented Posts – Displays the posts with the most comments in the sidebar.
  • Simple CoComments – Tracks the conversation across blogs.
  • Comment Karma – Digg-style voting on comments.
  • Google Analyticator – Inserts Google Analytics code on every WordPress page.
  • Leprakhauns Word Count – Adds a Java powered word counter to your editing page.
  • Simple Tagging – Simplifies the tagging process to drop down menus and includes the ability import from your current tagging plugins.
  • Playing Music Del.icio.us MP3 Player – Makes links to MP3s in your posts playable and easily postable to del.icio.us. Audio Player – Inserts a simple MP3 player into your posts that plays uploaded audio files. XSFP Player – Flash player that allows you to embed music on your blog via http.
  • WP OnlineCounter – This plugin counts the number of readers currently online, highest number of visitors at the same time, and the total count of visitors.
  • mpress – Display number of users, posts, pages, comments, categories, words, and more on your blog.
  • Limit the size of main page posts – Set the number of words you want each of your main page posts to contain so that if they exceed that limit, a link is provided to a page with the complete post.
  • Phoogle – Add Google Maps with markers you choose to any of your posts.
Matt LeClair

http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/jack/arplanner.htm - 0 views

  • expression and communication of these values is essential in any valid explanation of your educational influence in your own learning and in the learning of others.  I am thinking here of values such as freedom, justice, care, love, compassion, respect and knowledge-creation
  • three assumptions
  • 'How do I improve what I am doing?'  in  your professional practice.
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  • onversations between pairs of practitioner-researchers in which we take some 4 minutes each to outline our contexts, what really matters to us, and what we would like to improve
  • motivating you to improve your practice it often helps in the development of realistic action pla
  • After the initial conversation on values and context in relation to your desire to improve practices that relate to helping students, yourself and/or colleagues to improve their learning, I believe that you may find the following action planning process most useful.
  • 'How do I improve what I am doing?'
  • tions, ideas and actions that can distinguish an action reflection cycle: 1) What do I want to improve? What is my concern? Why am I concerned? 2) Imagining possibilities and choosing one of them to act on in an action plan 3) As I am acting what data will I collect to enable me to judge my educational influence in my professional context as I answer my question?  4) Evaluating the influence of the actions in terms of values and understandings. 5) Modifying concerns, ideas and actions in the light of evaluations.
  • Making public a validated explanation of educational influences
  • 7) As I evaluate the educational influences of my actions in my own learning and the learning of other, who might be willing to help me to strengthen the validity of my explanation of my learning about my influence with responses to questions such as: i)               Is my explanation as comprehensible as it could be? ii)             Could I improve the evidential basis of my claims to know what I am doing? iii)            Does my explanation include an awareness of historical and cultural influences in what I am doing and draw on the most advanced social theories of the day? iv)            Am I showing that I am committed to the values that I claim to be living by?
  • nhancing professionalism with TASC (Thinking Actively in a Social Context)
  • .  In producing a valid explanation for our educational influences in the learning of others I believe it to be necessary for the other's explanation of their own learning to be included in our explanation. 
  • ecognises the creativity of the other in engaging with ideas
  • I believe that Sally's writings make an original contribution to educational knowledge whilst showing that she has found useful some of my own ideas  in making this contribution.
  • Educational Enquiry (EE), Research Methods in Education (RME), Understanding Learners and Learning (ULL) and Gifts and Talents in Education (G & T) you can access these at: http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/mastermod.shtml .
  • To see the criteria used in assessing these units click on this link for the MACriteria.
  • virtual learning space for this CPD project go to http://www.spanglefish.com/livingvaluesimprovingpracticecooperatively/ . You can also read Walton's (2011 a&b) ideas on developing a collaborative inquiry.
  • In an inclusional way of being and knowing an individual recognises that they exist in a relational dynamic of space and boundaries. Hence one of the tasks of the practitioner-researcher is to express and communicate this relational dynamic in explanations of educational influence.
  • An example here would be the use of Foucault's (1977) ideas on Power/Knowledge to understand the relationships between the Truth of Power and the Power of Truth in the workplace when seeking academic legitimation for new living standards of judgment.
  • Appendix 1 Action Planner
  • You can access this curriculum at http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/bishops/bish99.pdf
  • How do we contribute to an educational knowledge base
  • Hymer, B. (2007) How do I understand and communicate my values and beliefs in my work as an educator in the field of giftedness?
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    "Action Planning In Improving Practice And Generating Educational Knowledge In Creating Your Living Educational Theory"
Matt LeClair

7 Things You Should Know About Agile Development | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    "7 Things You Should Know About Agile Development"
Matt LeClair

Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing - 0 views

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    "Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. "
Michelle Green

Education, Social Media, and Ethics: Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education - 2 views

  • Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, discusses the GoodPlay Project, an ongoing study that explores the ways in which young people’s use of social-networking sites, blogging, online games, and other forms of digital media are shaping their “ethical minds” in that realm.
  • Related posts:School change: Social media, it’s everywhere … except schools.’ Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh) Spreadsheet of Tech Tools & Social Media in Schools KidBlog & Club Penguin: Social Media for the Little Guy Crowd! Classroom 2.0 LIVE show: Using Social Media with Students, Parents and Faculty
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