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scott klepesch

Digital Textbooks: Three Simple Shifts Can Speed Up Adoption | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

  • Shift #1  – Let’s make the curriculum map the curriculum map. That’s not a textbook’s job.
  • Better yet, can we build our curriculum maps to be digital frameworks, on which we can hang the additional digital resources that we use to help teach our students, standards and content?
  • then our coordinators need to be good at more than just instructional implementation. They also need expertise in publishing on the Web and in resource development and distribution
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    Ideas for making the shift to digital texts. The Internet is the best source of content that's ever been. The challenge for schools and districts and parents and famillies and municipalities is getting that information into the hands of our students. It made sense to hand them a book when the experts were far away and the libraries were scarce and only had a few copies of everything. But it doesn't have to be that way now. In fact, in many ways, it's not.
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    The Internet is the best source of content that's ever been. The challenge for schools and districts and parents and famillies and municipalities is getting that information into the hands of our students. It made sense to hand them a book when the experts were far away and the libraries were scarce and only had a few copies of everything. But it doesn't have to be that way now. In fact, in many ways, it's not.
Debra Gottsleben

ProfessorWord: Improve your vocabulary while you surf the web - 0 views

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    Professor Word is a bookmarklet that works in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. When you are on a webpage click on the Professor Word tool and it wll highlight vocabulary words on that page. You can also use it to find definitions for unfamiliar words on a webpage.
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    This site is incredible! Easy to use and it is free!
Debra Gottsleben

Free Technology for Teachers: Take an Interactive Journey Through U.S. History - 0 views

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    "Mission U.S. offers two interactive journeys through two important eras in U.S. History. The journeys are designed as role-playing games or missions. Both games can be played entirely online or downloaded for play on your PC or Mac (you do need an Internet connection to save a game in progress"
Debra Gottsleben

New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Another article on what lies deep within the web.
scott klepesch

Local news is going mobile. | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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    "Local news is going mobile. Nearly half of all American adults (47%) report that they get at least some local news and information on their cellphone or tablet computer. "
scott klepesch

HSI: Historical Scene Investigation - 0 views

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    "The Historical Scene Investigation Project (HSI) was designed for social studies teachers who need a strong pedagogical mechanism for bringing primary sources into their classroom. With the advent and accessibility of the internet, many libraries, universities and government agencies are housing their historical documents online. Simultaneously, there has been a push in K-12 history education to give students experiences that more closely resemble the work of a real historian. "
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    Promising website for the integration of primary source materials into the classroom. Students are detectives.
Debra Gottsleben

Jog The Web - 0 views

  • JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique. Give it a try and start creating your own Jogs.
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    JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique. Give it a try and start creating your own Jogs.
Debra Gottsleben

Cybraryman Internet Catalogue: Flipped classroom resources - 0 views

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    many links to information on flipped classrooms from cybraryman
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    lots of resources on flipped classrooms
Debra Gottsleben

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask - 1 views

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    From Berkeley a guide to evaluating websites
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    Useful guidelines for website evaluation
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