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Michelle Green

Shaping Outcomes Module D: Evaluation throughout the Logic Model - 0 views

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    from Indiana University
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
Michelle Green

Design Thinking » thoughts by Tim Brown - 0 views

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    Brown's professional blog
Michelle Green

New Designs for Learning: A Conversation with IDEO Founder David Kelley | LFA: Join The... - 0 views

  • Basically its taking these what they're calling 21st-century skills, and applying them to the stuff you have to do. A
Matt LeClair

iPod Touch & iPad Resources - LiveBinder - 0 views

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    General Information, How To, Binders for specific classes ( Math, Social Studies, etc)
Michelle Green

iPad - The 50 Best Inventions of 2010 - TIME - 0 views

  • reinventing a product category that its competitors have given up on
Matt LeClair

Edutopia Quiz: What's Your Emotional Intelligence? | Edutopia - 0 views

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    " 13Share on email Edutopia Quiz: What's Your Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence -- the ability to empathize, persevere, control impulses, communicate clearly, solve problems, and work with others -- can be a critical skill for teachers. This quiz should help you learn more about how you manage emotions. It takes less than five minutes to complete and provides personalized tips for how to improve the way you manage your classroom and interact with your students. Think about the last week as you answer the following questions. How often have you engaged in the behavior or activity described while at school?"
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

Personality Test - Keirsey Temperament Website - 0 views

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    like whole brain assessment
Matt LeClair

iPad Academy - Learn How to Use the iPad | Tutorials, Tips & Training - 0 views

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    ipad tips/tutorials, app tips/tutorials, news, app collections, accessories
Matt LeClair

SuccessTypes Survival Strategy - 0 views

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    John W. Pelley, Ph.D. author of "SuccessTypes In Medical Education" Survival Strategy Learning Style Type Indicator he developed the SuccessTypes Survival Strategy as a realistic way of helping at-risk medical students improve their academic performance. If you are currently at-risk, you are dealing with several big problems at once. The root problem is probably not what you fear, that is, that you are not smart enough. Instead, the problem is probably in the way you learn, your learning style. Secondary problems are: 1) coping with the panic that sets in as the threat of failure becomes increasingly real, 2) coping with the challenge to your self identity as a successful student, and 3) coping with an increasing mountain of new material. "
Matt LeClair

Instructional Design - Comprehensive site w/ resources - 0 views

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    "This site is designed to provide information about instructional design principles and how they relate to teaching and learning. Instructional design, also know as instructional systems design, is the analysis of learning needs and systematic development of instruction. Instructional designers often use instructional technology or educational technology as tools for developing instruction. Instructional design models typically specify a method, that if followed will facilitate the transfer of knowledge, skills and attitude to the recipient or acquirer of the instruction. Obviously paying attention to "best practices", and innovative teaching methods will make any instructional design model more effective."
Michelle Green

Center For Collaborative Action - developing the literature review - 0 views

  • The Purpose of a Literature Review is to do one or more of the following.. Ground your problem in the content of those who have struggled with the problem or issue in the past. Describe how your approach will be similar or different from what what has been tried in similar settings in the past. Suggest new ways of a solving a problem by combining or contrasting past approaches. Describe a conflict that you are going to explore by trying one or more strategies. Establish the need for your research.
  • Don't be worried if you find someone has already done your study. This is a valuable resource. It will give you clues as to what you might or might not find. It is very useful--your study will be different, because you are in a different setting, so don't worry. Replication is an important part of science.
  • You are welcome to use this form and the spreadsheet as a template and modify it for your own purposes.
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  • WHEN TO PARAPHASE AND WHEN TO QUOTE.... When should you use a quote and how should you reference the work of others? You use a direct quote ONLY for one of these three reasons... ARTFUL WORDS The text is so wonderfully written that no matter how hard you try to put it in your own words something critical is lost. You cannot paraphrase it. Use the quote and be sure to include the author, publication date and page number.FROM THE EXPERT -The importance is not the words but the fact that a certain person said them. For example, a politician might make a statement that has meaning because of WHO said it. The words might be less then poetic but the reason for the quote is to ties the words to the author. Again you need to indicate the source and if it is cited in an article from another source the correct way to list it is. (Bush, 2004 cited in Steward, 2004, p35). CONCEPTS AS PROPERTY The quote contains a phase or concept that you want to tie to a person. For example "communities of practices" (Lave and Wenger, 1991) But beware of writing in the words of others because you are afraid to interpret a the text. This is a common mistake in graduate student writing. You have a right to make sense of the writing. And with a citation you can paraphrase the results of the study using some of the words that are in the study. Don't be afraid to put it in your own words. Now there are a number of ways to cite the person --Suppose you want to quote Riel for the phrase/idea --"Technology is shared minds made visible"...here are four different ways of doing this.
Matt LeClair

Technology and Education | Box of Tricks - 0 views

  • Big Huge Labs is a collection of utilities and toys that allow you to edit and alter digital pictures. You can create puzzles, movie posters, magazine covers, mosaics, calendars, badges, billboards and many more besides.
  • abberize.com allows you to animate pictures to make the people, animals or objects in them appear as if they are talking. It only takes three simple steps.
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    "These are some of the best free internet resources for education. This page is constantly updated; every time I come across a new piece of software or an exciting website, I list it here. This list is not exhaustive in any way. In fact, if you think there is a tool or application for use in education that should be added to this list, please don't hesitate to get in touch and suggest it!"
Matt LeClair

Online converter - convert video, images, audio and documents for free - 0 views

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    "Convert media files online from one format into another"
Matt LeClair

30+ Really Useful Infographics Tools & Resources - 0 views

  • Wordle – Generates beautiful, customizable word clouds from your own text. Copy & paste your own words, or enter any RSS feed to automatically parse & scrape text.  Tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts and color schemes.
  • Wordle – Generates beautiful, customizable word clouds from your own text. Copy & paste your own words, or enter any RSS feed to automatically parse & scrape text.  Tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts and color schemes.
  • ds from your own text. Copy & paste your own words, or enter any RSS feed to automatically parse & scrape text.  Tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts and color schemes.
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  • ds from your own text. Copy & paste your own words, or enter any RSS feed to automatically parse & scrape text.  Tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts and color schemes.
  • Wordle – Generates beautiful, customizable word clouds from your own text. Copy & paste your own words, or enter any RSS feed to automatically parse & scrape text.  Tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts and color schemes.
  • Visualize.me – Another visual résumé service that turns your work history and experience into beautiful infographics! Connect your LinkedIn account for easy integration with Visualize.me’s visual résumé tool.
  • Tableau – Robust, premium data visualization solution for analyzing and presenting data in more meaningful ways.  Try Tableau Desktop for free, which includes sample workbooks and data sets.
  • Tagxedo – Online tool that turns words (quotes, slogans, themes, articles–anything you want) into visually stunning word clouds. Great for incorporating into infographics, blogs, and websites.
  • Online Chart Tool – A simple, free browser-based tool for creating charts and graphs.  Point & click to create Bar, Line, Area, Pie, Bubble charts and more. Customize your creations with colors and fonts, then save & share.
  • acoo – Create eye-catching diagrams online with real-time collaboration! User-friendly drawing tool that enables you to create a variety of diagrams like sitemaps, wireframes, and network charts. Free version is more limited, but still powerful.
Matt LeClair

An Outline of Integral Learning - 0 views

  • Human learning is deepened and amplified by integration our multiple ways of knowing. Teach to ENGAGE and INTEGRATE all modes of processing regardless of personal thinking style.
Michelle Green

Democracy and Education, by John Dewey - 0 views

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    full copy ebook
Matt LeClair

Online Courses from the World's Experts | Udemy - 0 views

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    Take and build online courses on any subject
Matt LeClair

Progressive inquiry with a networked learning environment the FLE-Tools - 0 views

  • progressive inquiry model
  • , Future Learning Environment Tools (FLE-Tools
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  • design of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments
  • Participation in progressive inquiry is facilitated by asking a user who is preparing a discussion message to categorize the message by choosing a "category of inquiry scaffold" (e.g., Problem, Working theory, Summary) corresponding to the PI-Model (based on the practices of Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1993). These scaffolds are designed to encourage students to engage in expert-like processing of knowledge; they help to move beyond simple question-answer discussion and elicit practices of progressive inquiry.
  • ther important aspect of inquiry, and a critical condition of developing conceptual understanding, is generation of one’s own working theories — one’s conjectures, hypotheses, theories or interpretations — for the phenomena being investigated (Carey & Smith, 1995; Perkins, Crismond, Simmons, & Under, 1995; Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1993).
  • Through evaluating whether and how well the working theories explain the chosen problems, the learning community seeks to assess strengths and the weaknesses of different explanations and identify contradictory explanations, gaps of knowledge, and limitations of the power of intuitive explanation
  • Progressive discourse occurs, for instance, in the sciences demonstarting both accumulation and deepening of knowledge.
  • Each question opened one knowledge-buiding thread, e.g., "How does the new information and communication technology support development of students’ expertise in different contexts?" or "What kind of new pedagogical problems may emerge in networked learning environments?"
  • Specific problems addressed included the following: 1) What is the nature of KB messages produced by the participants? 2) How does the KB represent the model of progressive inquiry? 3) How did the students used the scaffolds provided by the FLE-Tools?
  • During the nine-week course the students posted 125 messages.
  • The postings to the database KB Module constitute the data analyzed in this study. The database material was analyzed with qualitative and quantitative methods in order to evaluate the process of knowledge advancement. The methods applied to analyzing the date aim at providing a richer view on the content and the progression of the discussion (see Chi, 1997).
  • ded to elicit in-depth inquiry
  • The following categories of inquiry scaffolds were also used to analyze how the students categorized their messages: Problem, Working theory, Deepening knowledge, Comment, Metacomment, and Summary (Help has been left out of the analysis because it was not used by the students)
  • To analyze the reliability of segmentation, an independent coder classified approximately 15 percent of the messages. The inter-coder reliability was .91, indicating that the reliability of segmentation was satisfactory.
  • each segment or idea was classified according to five principal "idea categories" identified in the coding process: Problem, Working theory, Scientific explanation, Metacomment, and Quote of another student’s idea. All of the propositions fitted in these five categories of ideas, which were regarded to be mutually exclusive.
  • database was considered to show remarkable connectedness (Hewitt, 1996).
  • FLE-Tools environment was used in a pilot course to facilitate progressive inquiry in university education
  • The students were asked to categorize their posting to the database by using a set of cognitive scaffolds. However, the content analysis indicated that the students' productions often did not correspond with the scaffold they chose. The students showed a bias for selecting a Category of Inquiry
  • A thematic analysis of the discussion suggested that a tutor's "just-in-time" participation could have significantly changed this pattern, judging from the evaluations and reflections of the students.
  • First, although the students were introduced the PI-Mode
  • Second, it is possible that it is not natural for the students to partition their posting in a way that corresponds to the given scaffolds; the students wrote rather long entries (often half a page) in which they set up as well as explained their problems.
  • examination of the database indicated that there was a substantial knowledge-management problem.
  • only the KB module was tested.
  • model of progressive inquiry
  • the students apparently need strong community support that would induce them to participate and guide them in doing so
  • Surpassing ourselves. An inquiry into the nature and implications of expertise. Chicago, IL
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    The design of a web-based, networked learning environment, Future Learning Environment Tools (FLE-Tools) embodies a model of progressive inquiry. In this paper, we introduce the progressive inquiry model and describe how different modules FLE-Tools are designed to facilitate participation in this kind of inquiry. Results of a pilot experiment of using FLE-Tools in higher education are presented. The study was based on an analysis of 125 messages posted by thirteen university students to the FLE-Tools database. The results indicated that the course provided positive evidence for an integration of progressive inquiry and online discussion. The pedagogical and design challenges with which we are currently struggling are discussed: the problems of creating a learning community for students collaborating at distance or managing large number of entries in FLE's database.
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