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Berta Winiker

An Alternative Search Tool for Your Tablet - The Digital Shift - 1 views

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    I quote from the article one of the most salient features/best uses. "What distinguishes Izik is a search tool known as slashtags. This feature enables users What distinguishes Blekko is a search tool known as slashtags. This feature enables users to refine results and build curated collections of select Web pages and then search and share those resources with others. So create a collection of Web resources, then share the slashtag with students, suggests Price. "Now, the only sites they'll be searching are the ones you've selected," he writes.to refine results and build curated collections of select Web pages and then search and share those resources with others. So create a collection of Web resources, then share the slashtag with students, suggests Price. "Now, the only sites they'll be searching are the ones you've selected," he writes." I would be curious as to what you think of this. It's very visual, but has a trendy, pop, "People's Magazine" to it. I searched something and wanted solid results, but couldn't find a source. I wouldn't accept Izik as a source. Started out looking good to me, but having second thought.
Frank Barnes

Survey Gauges Teachers' Views on Ed Tech - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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      This indicates a need for teachers to have a better understanding of what can be done with mobile devices.
  • Despite all the bring-your-own device buzz over the last few years, meanwhile, teachers were chillier to handhelds (smartphones and iPod touches—the devices students tend to bring to school) than other tools. While the percentage of teachers with access to such devices went up to 36 percent, from 26 percent a year ago, the tools were rated below other devices (sixth out of a list of eight, even below projectors) on "potential to enhance education."
  • In general, the survey says, teachers view technology as a "teaching tool used by teachers" rather than an "administrative tool" or a "self-learning tool used by students."
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    • Frank Barnes
       
      This indicates the need to alter teachers' perception of how to engage students with technology. It's ironic that some teachers can make that connection for themselves without linking it to their students' learning experience.
Will Bohmann

K-12 Horizon Report - 0 views

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    An exploration of learning using mobile devices would not be complete without reading the most current Horizon Report.  One of my very favorite pull out concepts from the report is something tech integrators say over and over - "Digital literacy is less about tools and more about thinking". The Horizon Reports lays out a good case for mobile tools and personalized learning. A must read.
Karen Trenosky

Bloom's Taxonomy and iPad Apps | Langwitches Blog - 0 views

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    This article is a must read for me because it contains so many resources in one blog. I also like blogs because they come from real people, like teachers, who are actually living and working with these apps everyday. I relate well to Bloom's Taxonomy and I like the comparisons the blogger makes between apps and Blooms. Its a great tool to keep as a reference. If we really want to be transforming learning with mobile tools this is a great way to start thinking about it in the simplest of ways.
sbriere

How to Use Cell Phones as Learning Tools | TeachHUB - 0 views

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    "Regardless of your school's cell phone policy, the reality in most schools is that students have phones in their pockets, purses, or hoodies. Why not get these tools out in plain sight and use them for good and not evil?"
Frank Barnes

How To Use Google Drive and Evernote To Create Digital Portfolios - 1 views

    • Frank Barnes
       
      Evernote has been extremely helpful in organizing and assisting my own productivity. This sheds some light on how many of it's features can be a powerful addition to teaching and learning.
    • Lucie deLaBruere
       
      Thanks Frank, this was my GEM find for the day. I will use it with my eportfolio group.
  • he Google Drive app now allows for the creation of Documents, Spreadsheets, and Folders. Plus, the ability to upload photos and videos from the camera roll. WIth many PDF annotation apps such as Notability and Paperport Notes now allowing direct upload to Google Drive, the process of curating student work becomes even easier.
    • Lucie deLaBruere
       
      Must show this to my eportfolio team
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  • unanswered question is how do we determine
  • unanswered question is how do we determine
  • that they have also gained greater understanding, reflected on their learning, and mastered content?
  • Evernote provides one possible solution to the challenge. The ability to sync across multiple devices, email directly to a notebook, include photos and audio recordings in notes, and share notes, makes Evernote a powerful assessment and portfolio tool. Teachers can create one notebook per student and then curate their projects by taking photos of physical assignments, sharing digital ones via email to the student’s notebook, recording students’ thoughts and reflections with audio, and typing additional notes for assessment purposes, to create a robust portfolio for each child. These student notebooks could then be shared with colleagues, peers, or parents.
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    Curation and collecting tools for eportfolio. especially helpful if you are using mobile tools to create eportfolios.
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    Frank Shared this amazing article that will inform our work in this class in future weeks.
Lucie deLaBruere

Get Google and iOS Living Together in Perfect Harmony - 0 views

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    A great tutorial for Google and Mobile Tools
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    For those using Google and Mobile Tools, check out this article
Jane Wilde

buzztouch | Free iPhone and Android App Builder and Content Management System - 1 views

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    Simple explanation of how the app creation cycle works using this creation tool. It ends up being a native iOS app in Xcode.
Berta Winiker

Teaching Google Natives To Value Information - 0 views

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    This very short and concise article has been in my thinking as I've worked with students especially recently and pulled together other resources on Common Core. Amidst the glut of information and feeding frenzy tendencies, structure and guidance is needed from all of us to be deliberate. As we design instruction, consider learning expectations, select tools and resources and raise the bar for students, "re-impress upon digital natives the importance of thinking in absence of endless - and endlessly accessible - data sources." I urge you to shake up completely the animal, planet or country report. (I doubt that you are doing this cookie-cutter work, but spread the word). If a simple Google search can answer the question, throw out the assignment.
Lucie deLaBruere

Visual Recording on the iPad - YouTube - 0 views

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    Brushes,  AirSketch,  Adobe, Sketchbook Pro reviewed for visual recording and visual animation 2010.  There is probably more tools that have come out since then, and also updated feature.  But the concept and the ideas are well done.  
Morgan Potter

Evernote for Educators - LiveBinder - 1 views

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    Evernote is a great multiple use tool for organization and workflow that I would recommend for transforming mobile learning.
Berta Winiker

6 tech tools to bring out the A student in you - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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    for reading comprehension and text to speech
Berta Winiker

10 Fun Tools To Easily Make Your Own Infographics - Edudemic - 0 views

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    What About me? looks interesting. Can some personal curation be done with this?
sbriere

How to display your Android screen on your desktop - 1 views

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    "Thanks to flyingclimber for introducing me to Droid@Screen. This tool enables you to display your android screen on your desktop in portrait/landscape mode and does image scaling too. Making screen shots and videos of your android device is also supported. If the video performance is not so good, try changing the frame-rate settings."
sbriere

Classroom Management of Mobile Devices: The Traffic Signal Approach | TeachBytes - 0 views

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    "It's the big question circulating through my school, and probably most of yours right now: Should I let my students use mobile devices in class? As you probably already know, cell phones can be a great tool for instruction."
Lucie deLaBruere

iBooks Tutorial for iPad/iPod Touch/iPhone. Part 1. - YouTube - 0 views

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    iBooks Tutorial
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    Here is a video tutorial for those who need an orientation to iBooks.
Frank Barnes

The ultimate guide on how to annotate PDF files on the iPad - 1 views

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      This can be said about every device and tool out there. One size does not fit all no matter the context.
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    We will be comparing IPad annotation systems. This article did an excellent job helping you to understand the potential choices.
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    In Week 3 we will be reading and annotating on the iPad.
Dena Marger

Student Information Literacy in the Mobile Environment (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views

  • A recent survey explored the strategies used by postsecondary students to gather information using Internet-capable cell phones, or smartphones. Notably, users of iPhone and Android devices are beginning to use new search input tools, such as spoken keywords, geographic location, camera images, and barcode or quick-response code scans. Most of the student respondents who conducted information searches on these devices understood the need to evaluate the reliability of what they found. Even though students claim they can read on their smartphones without being distracted, the evidence shows that disruptions did occur in homework sessions and during class time.
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    Published in March of 2011, this article reports on the results of a survey conducted of students at the University of Scranton on the strategies used by postsecondary students to gather information using Internet-capable cell phones, or smartphones. The article concluded: Information literacy instructors should become familiar with new search methods (such as quick response codes) to help students use them effectively and efficiently. Students should be encouraged to review a range of search results, particularly when searching for academic information. Information literacy instructors should help students understand how to evaluate information, especially when it is presented in a nontraditional form, such as a native app. Students may need assistance from educators in applying information literacy skills they have learned while searching on a laptop or desktop to the mobile environment.
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