PSU LIB 510

Dropbox is a robust independent file syncing tool (which Apple once tried to buy) that recently hit the 100m user milestone. It's arguably the most popular cloud service around, and for good reason. One of the key advantages of Dropbox is that it's so easy to use-you simply set it up and then forget about it - but if you dig a bit deeper into the application you'll find that it has more strings to its bow than you might have realized.

Here's a page with links to many more ways to use Twitter. I thought this was a good extension from the article we read by Steven Anderson early in the term (though he isn't referenced in this one).

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Sir Ken Robinson's inspirational talk on education.

Even better than power point!

Looks like a great resource for teachers on a variety of subjects.

For the innovation economy, dispositions come into play: readiness to collaborate, attention to multiple perspectives, initiative, persistence, and curiosity. While the content of any learning experience is important, the particular content is irrelevant. What really matters is how students react to it, shape it, or apply it. The purpose of learning in this century is not simply to recite inert knowledge, but, rather, to transform it.1 It is time to change the subject.

A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive it as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented Project Based Learning (PBL) is meaningful in both ways.

Teachers start by defining cooperative grouping jobs for peer editing that are appropriate for the the level and needs of the learners in the class. While students are writing drafts, teachers take advantage of opportunities to work with small instructional groups to focus on specific job-related writing tasks to prepare students to put their new skills to work and contribute to the peer editing process. Here is an overview of some of the integrated writing supports available in Google Docs to include in small group instruction to that will empower students and help redefine the writing process. Peer Editing Job ideas: Word Smith, Big Picture Person, Tense Tracker, Fact Checker, Punctuation Person

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