Martin
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Fantastic project Greg and thanks for sharing. Our grade 6 and 7 students in West Vancouver are just now completing a year-long magazine publishing project. Each student selected a topic of interest and throughout the year they have been taught various writing and publishing techniques. We have partnered with a local university graphic design department and their first year design students have been assisting our students with their layout and design, to produce dramatic publications. Our students have been so motivated the entire year. Giving the students choice and a bit of freedom to experiment and collaborate has been enlightening. We really have noticed a significant level of engagement and ownership with all students, including some boys who are not that keen to write.Our completed magazines will be posted on our ISSUU site http://issuu.com/mandrews. Several samples have been posted.
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Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling - 0 views
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Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music.
Into the Book: About this Project - 0 views
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"About this Project Into the Book is a multimedia package designed to improve students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum. Based on current research, the project focuses on eight learning strategies: * Using prior knowledge * Making connections * Questioning * Visualizing * Inferring * Summarizing * Evaluating * Synthesizing"
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"Teaching children which thinking strategies are used by proficient readers and helping them use those strategies independently creates the core of teaching reading. If proficient readers routinely use certain thinking strategies, those are the strategies children must be taught. For the kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade reading curriculum to focus primarily on those strategies, we need a new instructional paradigm: Our daily work with children must look dramatically different from the approaches in wide use in our schools today."
Blogs-as-Web-Based-Portfolios.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
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Jeff's great pdf on portfolios using blogs.
Teach Science and Math - 0 views
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Forget Math homework and "showing working!" What is Wolfram Alpha? It is a supercomputing brain. It provides calculates and provides comprehensive answers to most any science or math question. Unlike other search sources, you and your students can ask questions in plain language or various forms of abbreviated notation. Contrary to popular belief, Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine. Unlike popular search engines, which simply retrieve documents based on keyword searches, Wolfram computes answers based on known models of human knowledge. It provides answers which are complete with data and algorithms, representing real-world knowledge.
Performous - What is it? - 0 views
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"While Performous might be classified as a karaoke program, it is actually much more than that. Instead of just displaying the lyrics, notes are also displayed and the performance is scored based on how well you actually hit the notes. Unlike in most other games in this genre, you will also see the precise pitch that you are singing, so that you can see what you are doing wrong and easily (well, everything is relative) correct your pitch."
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Robyn, this could be for you?!
An entire unit of work based on "Where the Wild things Are" - HOME - Edgalaxy... - 0 views
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Grade 5-6 unit on Where the wild things are! Damn i loved this movie
Behind the News - 0 views
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Excellent website about current events. Has streamed video and teaching notes based on the new bloom's taxonomy, with links to more useful websites.
Student Learning with Diigo - 0 views
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"Educators, worldwide, have enjoyed the use of this social bookmarking site. Diigo is a great web-based tool for teachers to utilize, to motivate, and to engage students of all ages in the learning process."
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Diigo with your kids! A diigo stole my learning!
Exploratory and Collaborative Learning with Diigo - 0 views
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"What is Diigo? For those of you unfamiliar with Diigo, it is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to annotate, archive and organize websites. With Diigo, you can save websites into a public or private library, highlight information within text and images, add sticky note comments directly on websites, tag sites for easy retrieval later, and share bookmarks with friends, groups, and networks. Diigo integrates the use of tags and folders, highlighting and clipping, sticky notes and group-based collaboration to better manage online information."
20 Indispensable Browser Based Apps | Design Informer - 0 views
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Here, we bring you 20 indispensable web apps, which once you've tried, you'll never want to live without again. Most of the apps explored below are free, so there's nothing stopping you from giving them a go.
Nik's Quick Shout: Create Authentic Web Based Research Tasks With Mashpedia - 0 views
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I've just discovered Mashpedia and I have to say I really like it. It's a combination of a search engine and an encyclopedia. It's very simple to use, you just type in a search query and hit search.
Top 7 Semantic Search Engines As An Alternative To Google - 0 views
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There's no denying the power and popularity of the Google search engine, and in comparison to other similar search engines such as Bing, where results are based on page rankings and algorithms, they excel. But there are other ways to search the web, using what are known as semantic search engines. Using a semantic search engine will ensure more relevant results based on the ability to understand the definition of the word or term that is being searched for, rather than on numbers. Semantic search engines are able to understand the context in which the words are being used, resulting in smart, relevant results.
Wolfram Alpha Takes on Education With Algebra, Calculus & Music Theory Apps - 0 views
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"Wolfram Alpha is on a mission to develop an "app for every course." The company launched its first three subject-specific iPhone apps on Tuesday, and all three - Algebra, Calculus, and Music Theory - look to be promising educational tools. The apps are based on Wolfram Alpha's computational search engine, which can do things like solve integration problems, calculate flying times between cities or plot a person's life on a timeline."
CIBL - Center for Inquiry-Based Learning - 0 views
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Hands on Sci-Lit Inquiry activities/starters, could be good for the classsroom as tuning in and front loading
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Some excellent ïnquiry based exercises"but also useful for some vertical grouping activities within summer camp
The Power of Student Action in Inquiry-based Learning | iClassroom - 1 views
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Nice blog on learning and pyp
EdTech Toolbox: Student Designed E-books: Challenge Based Learning - 0 views
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OMG some very cool use of web2.0 tech here. What could we use?
Teachers' Domain: Acids and Bases: Testing Rocket Cars - 0 views
Teachers' Domain: Acids and Bases: Making a Film Canister Rocket - 0 views
Teachers' Domain: Acids and Bases: Testing Rockets - 0 views
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Grade 4/5
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