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Home - Social Networking, Social Media, Social Software - Research Guides at Thompson R... - 2 views

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 11 Jul 13
     
    Here is how a local university is orienting students to social media outside the classroom.
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Free Video Editing Tools: Guide To The Best Software And Web-Based Services - 4 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 21 Jun 10 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 21 Jun 10
     
    Comparison of various free video editing software
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Free Online Lesson Planbook Software for Teachers - 7 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 07 Jan 12 - Cached
  • The Easier Way To Get Plans Done. Never struggle with lesson planning again. Your plans are available anywhere and are simple to create.
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Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • MIDDLE SCHOOL students are champion time-wasters. And the personal computer may be the ultimate time-wasting appliance. Put the two together at home, without hovering supervision, and logic suggests that you won’t witness a miraculous educational transformation.
  • Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households. Taking widely varying routes, they are arriving at similar conclusions: little or no educational benefit is found. Worse, computers seem to have further separated children in low-income households, whose test scores often decline after the machine arrives, from their more privileged counterparts.
  • At that time, most Romanian households were not yet connected to the Internet. But few children whose families obtained computers said they used the machines for homework. What they were used for — daily — was playing games.
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  • Catherine Maloney, director of the Texas center, said the schools did their best to mandate that the computers would be used strictly for educational purposes. Most schools configured the machines to block e-mail, chat, games and Web sites reached by searching on objectionable key words. The key-word blocks worked fine for English-language sites but not for Spanish ones. “Kids were adept at getting around the blocks,” she said. How disappointing to read in the Texas study that “there was no evidence linking technology immersion with student self-directed learning or their general satisfaction with schoolwork.” When devising ways to beat school policing software, students showed an exemplary capacity for self-directed learning. Too bad that capacity didn’t expand in academic directions, too.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 13 Jul 10
     
    This article was referenced in the M4T intermediate course recently.
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Technology a key tool in writing instruction | Community | eSchoolNews.com - 1 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 22 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The report found that the use of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, and comics-creating software can heighten students’ engagement and enhance their writing and thinking skills in all grade levels and across all subjects.
  • “The experience of these nine teachers reminds us of the central role they play in true education reform. It’s teachers who are the technology drivers, seeking out digital tools, learning them, testing them, and finally implementing them successfully in their classrooms,” said Sharon J. Washington, executive director of NWP.
  • Students also must have an opportunity to write about real issues and for a real audience outside of their classroom. They should be able to get responses from other students in and out of the classroom, and to collaborate on writing projects. All of these things, Eidman-Aadahl said, can be done by using the internet.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 22 Jul 10
     
    This is an article on the use of Web 2.0 tools in writing classes.
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eClassroom News - Strong communication key to online learning - 3 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 01 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Teaching in an online environment isn't the same as teaching in a traditional classroom, and online instructors need special skills and approaches to be successful. For example, communication can pose a challenge in online-learning environments, because online educators can't rely on visual cues as their colleagues can in bricks-and-mortar schools. Now, a new research brief from the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) looks at this challenge in greater detail, examining how successful programs and teachers are ensuring effective communication.
  • Teachers must use eMail, frequent telephone conversations, and collaborative tools, such as threaded discussions and synchronous chats, to closely connect with students.
  • Effective online teaching practices must include quickly responding to student and parent inquiries.
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  • Teachers must know, and be skilled at using, web-based technologies that offer students opportunities for collaborative learning.
  • Synchronous instruction brings teachers and students together simultaneously in virtual spaces, which "implies that virtual teachers need to become skillful at using chat room and collaborative software," says the report.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 01 Jan 10
     
    This is the beginning of a report on communication needs for online learners.
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