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Valentina Dodge

the online magazine of our lives: share your stories - 3 views

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    The YouTellYou magazine is a tool you can use to create on online magazine about your life. It is organized in pages and can be shared.
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    Interesting tool, perhaps a project we could work on ?
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    I agree. It would make a really nice project. Do you have any specific ideas?
Vanessa Vaile

Diigogo Blog Integration - Send to Blog Basics - 1 views

  • Browsing the web frequently inspires people to write something to their blogs, either simply to quote, or to quote and comment. This process is now made extremely smooth and effortless with Diigo's annotation features and "Send to Blog" -- another unique blog-integration feature exclusive to Diigo!
  • simply highlight and add sticky notes
  • incorporate your highlights and notes to your blog with the "Send to Blog" feature.
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  • pre-populated with your highlights (including pictures, tables of data, etc.), any associated sticky notes, public page comments, and a link to the web page
  • With our rich text editor, edit based on what you "Send to Blog" with, preview, then publish to your blog
  • go to "Send to Blog" in "My Tools" section, click "Add a blog", then enter the full URL of your blog
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    convert highlighted text, other web page content + link into blog posts
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    Very useful app. Thanks, Vanesa!
Beatriz Lupiano

ToolsZone - 4 views

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    One of the pages in the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (c4lpt) website listing tools for learning in a very clear and organised way. According to the site, about 70% of the tools listed are free
Vanessa Vaile

A special report on managing information: Data, data everywhere | The Economist - 3 views

  • the world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. Managed well, the data can be used to unlock new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into science and hold governments to account.
  • also creating a host of new problems
  • the proliferation of data is making them increasingly inaccessible
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  • Scientists and computer engineers have coined a new term for the phenomenon: “big data”.
  • Epistemologically speaking, information is made up of a collection of data and knowledge is made up of different strands of information. But this special report uses “data” and “information” interchangeably because, as it will argue, the two are increasingly difficult to tell apart.
  • business of information management
  • Chief information officers (CIOs)
  • statistician and storyteller/artist
  • many reasons for the information explosion
  • technology
  • digitising lots of information that was previously unavailable
  • access to far more powerful tools
  • many more people who interact with information
  • shift from information scarcity to surfeit has broad effects
  • “Data exhaust”
  • in aggregate the data can also be mined
  • In a world of big data the correlations surface almost by themselves.
  • The way that information is managed touches all areas of life. At the turn of the 20th century new flows of information through channels such as the telegraph and telephone supported mass production. Today the availability of abundant data enables companies to cater to small niche markets anywhere in the world.
TESOL CALL-IS

Fotobabble - Talking Photos - 3 views

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    This would be a great project base for students. They take photos, upload them and then record a voice description. Has connect to Facebook option also.
TESOL CALL-IS

100 Video Sites Every Educator Should Bookmark | AccreditedOnlineColleges.org - 3 views

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    "By Alvina Lopez It doesn't matter if you're a veteran teacher or a newbie just now taking college courses - finding new ways to get students engaged in the classroom is always a great thing. One way many teachers are reaching out is with the multitude of material found on the web, allowing them to turn everyday lessons into a multimedia experience. You can find a great amount of helpful material on these sites, including videos to augment your lessons, lectures to inspire students, documentaries to show them how things work, and loads of additional videos to help you become a better, smarter teacher."
Nelba Quintana

Text 2 Mind Map - The text-to-mind-map converter - 3 views

  • Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind maps.
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    Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind maps.
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    Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind maps.
Vanessa Vaile

AnswerGarden - Plant a Question, Grow Answers - 3 views

  • AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for online brainstorming with your team or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook.
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    Great tool, Vanesa! Thanks for sharing your finds.
Vanessa Vaile

critical-thinking - home - 2 views

  • Join Howard Rheingold and other noted educators in creating a world-class resource for teaching critical thinking and Internet literacies. We are building a framework in the pages linked in the menu to the left. Get started by adding to the list of tools and the list of important vocabulary. Check out the latest bookmarks on the Diigo Resources page. You can join the Diigo group and subscribe to the RSS feeds. Your experiences and insights matter! (Note: we are accepting all interested folks but there may be a 24-hour delay while the system admits you.)
TESOL CALL-IS

Profweb : From Character Blogs to VoiceThreads: Exploring Points of View - 2 views

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    Describes ways to use images, video, music, voice, and text in teaching literature with advanced level students to improve writing and pronunciation skills. Students engaged in online discussion through commenting and VoiceThread. By Jane Petring.
TESOL CALL-IS

Schoology - Your Digital Classroom - 2 views

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    Yet another course management system. Might be worth a try. Claims to combine social networking with learning management, and has a very nice interface. And it's free.
Vanessa Vaile

What is a PLN, anyway? - Teaching Village - 2 views

  • PLN is an acronym for Personal Learning Network. The acronym is relatively new, but the idea is not
  • The pre-Internet 80s
  • Most information was shared face to face.
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  • The  biggest change has been in the way I meet and communicate with people in my PLN.
  • Most of the resources are in the form of links
  • social bookmarking
  • Discussion groups
  • Nings are like subject area resource rooms in a large school.
  • They’re social networks connecting teachers with common interests. In addition to discussion forums, members keep blogs, share resources, and plan group activities.
  • attended more conferences than ever before, but travel much less
TESOL CALL-IS

Electronic Village Online / Call for Proposals 2011 - 2 views

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    "The CALL Interest Section of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) offers language teachers world-wide the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2011 Convention in New Orleans, LA, USA. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL convention-goers and those who can participate only virtually. Interest Sections, Affiliates, E-groups, and other member groups of TESOL in particular are invited to sponsor sessions related to the convention. "
TESOL CALL-IS

Storybird - TeacherTrainingvideos.com - 2 views

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    Collaborative storytelling beginning with excellent pictures from which children can develop stories. Share, read, and print.
TESOL CALL-IS

Twitter for Teachers: A Guide for Beginners | The Creative Education Blog - 2 views

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    A nice article about how to create a Twitter worthy of a professional. One might use Twitter as an e-portfolio, for example.
Vanessa Vaile

Artifacts of sensemaking | Learning and Knowledge Analytics - 2 views

  • sensemaking attempts include: blog posts, summary Moodle forum posts, images, analysis of discussion forum activity, social network analysis, etc.
  • Creating and sharing artifacts of sensemaking is an important activity in open online courses.
  • filtering (or forming sub-networks/groups/discussion clusters) happens once the course is underway
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  • learners are a diverse group
  • uniformity of university program tracks masks the differences of learners.
  • In an open course, participants aren’t filtered in the same way.
  • Higher education generally homogenizes learners through pre-requisites or subject streams (programs).
  • we begin to connect with those who respond favorably, we gravitate toward those who we find interesting (but not so interesting that we feel no connection),
  • One of the primary ways of connecting with others in an open course is through creating and sharing artifacts of sensemaking.
  • When our learning is transparent, we become teachers.
  • Essentially, we form small sub-networks that connect (lattice-like) to other sub-networks
  • fluidity of interaction across novice-intermediate-expert networks is one of the main points of value in open courses.
Mariel Amez

First Steps Toward Becoming a 21st Century Educator | always learning - 2 views

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