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Sara Wilkie

Using Groups Effectively: 10 Principles « The Window - 2 views

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    "Having students work in groups reaps a bounty of benefits, including boosting students' social skills and upping the number of "happy campers" in the classroom. "
Sara Wilkie

Diving Into Project-based Learning: Our Inquiry |Philip Cummings - 0 views

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    "I decided to use the teacher console on Diigo to create groups for each of my classes. I used handouts and tips from Bill Ferriter's Digitally Speaking Wiki to get everything set up and explain to the student how I wanted them to find, annotate, and share resources and information. (I highly recommend Bill's resources. They saved me a ton of time.) The students had used Diigo for research on a project during a previous school year so I thought with Bill's handouts and the boys' previous experience we were in good shape to begin. I soon learned differently. We have a 1:1 laptop classroom and the boys have a natural tendency to head straight to Google any time they have a question, but it was obvious after the first day that they weren't finding the quality resources they needed. Additionally, some boys still didn't know (or forgot) how to share to a group while others didn't know how to write a quality annotation. I had assumed too much. They needed what Mike Kaechele calls a "teacher workshop" on searching for information and on how to use Diigo. They needed me to model what they should do."
Sara Wilkie

Diigo user guide now available | Bright Ideas - 0 views

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    "We've now posted a user guide to help you get started with the bookmarking tool Diigo. This brilliant service allows you to save, tag and search your own bookmarks. Diigo also lets you create public lists of links and share your bookmarks with other people in groups, such as the #VicPLN Diigo group. Diigo is the perfect way to share bookmarks within your faculty, your class or your learning network."
Shelley Paul

Eracism Project - Home - 6 views

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    "At the Flat Classroom(tm) Conference in Doha, Qatar in January 2009, a visionary group of students proposed that a series of debates be held to promote awareness of racism on a global basis and how we need to work together to solve the world's problems. This multi-national group of four students proposed their project and were promoted through an extensive voting process including a global vote on the next project to be run by the Flat Classroom(tm) project founders, Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay. "
anonymous

These Kids Are 3D-Printing Their Education | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    "A group of junior high and high school students in Cambridge, Mass., are part of an experimental education program that aims to prove they're capable of solving real-world problems early with the help of 3D printers, Arduino and group collaboration."
Sara Wilkie

Team Building Exercises For Small Groups | LIVESTRONG.COM - 0 views

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    "Team-building activities encourage participants to build camaraderie, improve communication, develop collective strategies and establish trust. The successful completion of most team-building tasks requires cooperation, listening to others, sharing of ideas or the willingness to try new approaches."
Sara Wilkie

20 Days to Productive Group Work - 0 views

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    20 Days to Productive Group Work
Sara Wilkie

How a Class Becomes a Community: Theory, Method, Examples For Your Hacking Pleasure | H... - 0 views

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    "About three years ago, I began inviting my student-led, peer-evaluated, collaboratively structured classes to think about the shape of a course: what defined it, what its participants could do to describe and circumscribe its practices, how a group of strangers, all enrolled in the same institutional experience of a "course," could come together as a community of choice, mission, shared purpose, and mutually beneficial learning. "
Sara Wilkie

Knowing the Subject - 0 views

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    Starting with the known and moving to the unknown sounds relatively simple-if everyone in the group has a similar level of existing knowledge. But everyone in a given audience or classroom brings a different set of experiences and thus a different body of existing knowledge. In some cases the difference is relatively small; in other cases it is immense.
Sara Wilkie

Introduction to Cooperative Learning | Cooperative Learning Institute And Interaction B... - 0 views

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    In the ideal classroom, all students would learn how to work cooperatively with others, compete for fun and enjoyment, and work autonomously on their own. Cooperation is working together to accomplish shared goals. Within cooperative situations, individuals seek outcomes that are beneficial to themselves and beneficial to all other group members. it may be concluded that it is the drive for goal accomplishment that motivates cooperative and competitive behavior. Positive interdependence tends to result in promotive interaction, negative interdependence tends to result in oppositional or contrient interaction, and no interdependence results in an absence of interaction.
Richard Fanning

P2PU | Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything - 3 views

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    At P2PU, people work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work, and providing constructive feedback.
Richard Fanning

21st Century Fluency Project - 1 views

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    This resource is the collaborative effort of a group of experienced educators and entrepreneurs who have united to share their experience and ideas, and create a project geared toward making learning relevant to life in our new digital age. Our purpose is to develop exceptional resources to assist in transforming learning to be relevant to life in the 21st Century.
Shelley Paul

25centsaday - home - 2 views

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    "Welcome to 25 Cents a day. This wiki is an organizer for school groups and others to connect with each other. We will be keeping a tally of the funds raised and watching all of us help others around the world."
Sara Wilkie

80 Online Tools, References, and Resources | Edutopia Group Discussions by and for Educ... - 3 views

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    "We all know that teachers are always looking for tools, references, and resources for classrooms. Well, here's 80 "must see" trial, free, and paid websites recommended by Edutopia community members. Keep this list in your back pocket! It might come in handy. =) "
Sara Wilkie

brainyard - Information Treasure Hunt Group 1 - 0 views

  • You are investigating exports and imports between the United States and Spain. In preparation for class discussion, you've been given a fact-finding mission for homework. In addition to the GDP (gross domestic product), your social studies teacher wants you to compare the natural resources and land area of the two countries. What might be the most efficient way to search for this information? Is it possible create a single query that will help you answer these questions?
  • You are adding resources to your class Diigo account. Your teacher has asked you to find a list of Internet country codes and domain extensions. Add a URL or link for each resource: Internet Country Codes Domain Extensions
  • You are doing research on the ancient Egyptian pyramids, and have been asked to include the perspective of an expert. Locate the contact information for an expert on the architectural history of these pyramids. How would you search for an expert who is located in Egypt?
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  • . Find information released this week about the Solomi refugees in Kenya. Pull only information from governmental sites. Pull only information from governmental sites in the uk.
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    "click on Discussion tab at the top of this page click on the number of the question you are answering post your answer in the text box please include the first names only of you and your partner(s) click "post to forum" click on Page tab at the top of the page to return to this page"
Richard Fanning

Collaborative annotation of images online | SpeakingImage - 3 views

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    SpeakingImage is an application for creating interactive images and share them with others. You can also create groups, add wikis and set different permissions to manage collaborative work
anonymous

Blogging as Pedagogy: Facilitate Learning | Langwitches Blog - 0 views

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    "Blogging can support the strategies, techniques and approaches to facilitate the learning in your classroom no matter what grade level, age group and subject area. Blogging supports four primary areas: Reading Writing Reflecting Sharing"
Sara Wilkie

Schoology Blog | Schoology - 0 views

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    "Jennifer Symington, the Leader of Pedagogy at at the All Saints Catholic Girls College in Liverpool (Sydney), Australia. Teaching 12-16 year old students geography, English, math, history, and science, Jennifer has used Schoology for two years in her integrated studies course where she blends all the aforementioned subjects. Her video is a shining example of the incredible power of technology to foster global learning."
anonymous

TeachThought100 Twitter Tips For Teachers - 0 views

  • organize those you’re following into different groups.
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      I don't understand lists. That what my hashtags are, no?
  • Create separate accounts. 
  • Learn how to use hashtags.
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  • Choose a recognizable Twitter handle. 
  • Manage your online reputation.
  • Never say anything on Twitter you wouldn’t want people to find out about, or wouldn’t say in any other situation.
  • One of the best ways to connect with students and other academics on Twitter is by asking open-ended questions in your feed.
  • Twitter already forces you to be succinct, but you should keep things under the limit for a reason: when you shorten your tweets, it leaves room for others to chime in and retweet.
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      Never thought about this!
  • Tweet regularly. Twitter isn’t going to do you much good if you don’t ever use it. Develop a regular tweeting schedule both for yourself and for your courses that use Twitter.
  • Ask for help
  • Hold after-class discussions.
  • Ask questions relevant to course material. 
  • Start backchannel talks. 
  • Create a classroom hashtag.
  • Use Twitter for class announcements
  • Share interesting online material.
  • Have a Twitter account for each class.
  • Reward participation. 
  • Tweetdeck. Tweetdeck is an app by Twitter that makes it easier to arrange your feeds, schedule tweets, filter your content, and much more. A must for any Twitter power user.
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      I use this and don't consider myself a power user at all.
    • anonymous
       
      Take a look at these resources!
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