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Patrick Higgins

Flickr: Photo-A-Day for Schools - 0 views

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    This looks fun. Would be great for a year end retrospective.
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    Take a photo a day in your school and share it on flickr. I tried this a few years back, but never stuck with it.
Patrick Higgins

Employment Opportunities - The Future of Work - TIME - 0 views

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    Time's annual series on the future of something. This year it's work and the workplace. Especially interesting is the notion of where will work will occur.
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    In case you were wondering if what you were doing with your students this year has value, read through some of the changes to the idea of work that some experts feel they will go through shortly.
Patrick Higgins

Doug Johnson Website - dougwri - Designing Research Projects Students (and Te... - 0 views

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    Doug Johnson's article from 10 years ago about how to create engagin research projects with students. This should be required for every high school English teacher.
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    Take a good look at this one. How do you want your students doing research?
Patrick Higgins

2008 Election ProCon.org -- Which candidate would make the best U.S. President? - 0 views

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    great resource.
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    Pro-con's page about the election this year. Straightforward.
Patrick Higgins

Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Chris Jordan talks about how to he uses data and represents it visually. These images made the rounds last year, but his talk really shows how well they transfer the information he is trying to get out to people.
Patrick Higgins

Auto Sales - Markets Data Center - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Anyone talking about recession?
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    great graphs from the WSJ concerning auto sales this year compared to last.
Patrick Higgins

Plan B - Skip College - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Perhaps no more than half of those who began a four-year bachelor’s degree program in the fall of 2006 will get that degree within six years, according to the latest projections from the Department of Education.
  • Of the 30 jobs projected to grow at the fastest rate over the next decade in the United States, only seven typically require a bachelor’s degree, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Among the top 10 growing job categories, two require college degrees: accounting (a bachelor’s) and postsecondary teachers (a doctorate)
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  • this growth is expected to be dwarfed by the need for registered nurses, home health aides, customer service representatives and store clerks. None of those jobs require a bachelor’s degree.
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    I think there is validity to this one.
Patrick Higgins

BBC Motion Gallery - Home Page - 0 views

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    High-quality stock footage for those of you thinking video projects with students next year.
Patrick Higgins

A 90 Year Old Example of Forced Perspective Photography - 2 views

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    Just cool
Patrick Higgins

Portfolios (Authentic Assessment Toolbox) - 3 views

  • Portfolio: A collection of a student's work specifically selected to tell a particular story about the student
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      This is what I am really leaning towards: students telling the story of their work. Can we accomplish that?
  • A portfolio is not the pile of student work that accumulates over a semester or year. Rather, a portfolio contains a purposefully selected subset of student work. "Purposefully" selecting student work means deciding what type of story you want the portfolio to tell.
  • 1. Growth Portfolios a. to show growth or change over time b. to help develop process skills such as self-evaluation and goal-setting c. to identify strengths and weaknesses d. to track the development of one more products/performances 2. Showcase Portfolios a. to showcase end-of-year/semester accomplishments b. to prepare a sample of best work for employment or college admission c. to showcase student perceptions of favorite, best or most important work d. to communicate a student's current aptitudes to future teachers 3. Evaluation Portfolios a. to document achievement for grading purposes b. to document progress towards standards c. to place students appropriately
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      Which one do you think fits our purposes? Or should we leave that up to the students?
Patrick Higgins

Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

  • We can agree or disagree with Kevin, but the world keeps spinning. Screens are made and used in instructive and destructive ways. As an educator I need to learn to use screens as learning platforms so that I can model constructive informative behavior for the students I interact with. So here is how I came to write this post. I subscribe to Will Richardson's blog weblog-ed in my Google Reader. He shared a link to Kevin Kelly's blog Technium. As I read the blog post I used Diigo to underline and add sticky notes. I now have this annotation in my Diigo groups. I will Twitter this and add a link in the New Literacies Institute Ning at newlit.org. Kevin will sell a few more books, which I have hundreds of, and add more readers of his blog.
  • This article is very interesting because it made me think.And I thougt that I was right when I bought a computer for my 81st birthday.It has a wide screen,and I could enlarge the letters to be able to read it because my eyes are bad. I felt that I was not anymore excluded of the world.I had entered the 21st century. The last 12 or some years I spend writing a book by hand.Nobody would ever read a single word of the more than 400 pages.No editor would have accepted it.But is has been typed and now it is on the web.Everybody can read it,and sites of military history,dutch and french,published it or parts of it(I wrote it in french)because it is about the 1940-campaign. Thank you,dear author,you made me feel I was right.
  • Bring on the technology, we have plenty of idle brain space waiting to make use of it.
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    Kevin Kelly writes about how reading has changed from a silent, individual pastime to one that is collaborative, more physical pursuit.  
Patrick Higgins

cooltoolsforschools - Presentation Tools - 0 views

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    I thought some of you might want to let students play around with these next year. Also, there is a section on the page called "Publishing Tools" that shows you how to create class online magazines.
Patrick Higgins

edtech VISION - Visionary uses of edtech » ONE Project: FOUR Formats - 0 views

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    I love several elements about this one. One is how the students had choice in choosing the topic based on their interest, and two how they chose the outcome they wanted. This looks like a good fit for the Self-Awareness unit that the 8th grade did in the beginning of the year.
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    Colette Cassinelli's description of a project she completed with her students.
Patrick Higgins

Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Future of the newspaper looks grim.
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    This is an article I have been waiting for. Interesting to start to see the future of news. Yet, I still wonder how many people are getting their news from sources other than print or TV.
Patrick Higgins

Turtles: Moving Quickly Toward Extinction | Britannica Blog - 0 views

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    Perhaps a cause for any of your units this year?
Patrick Higgins

The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com - 0 views

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    How great is this image?
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    Use this.
Patrick Higgins

Home :: World Without Oil - 0 views

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    If you are planning on doing anything with gas prices, fuel, or alternative energy next year, you should check this out.
Patrick Higgins

Class Struggle - When teachers reject the Internet - 2 views

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    What do you think of this? For the best part of the article, be sure to read the comments.
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    Interesting article and comments but it all just makes me mad. I work to hard everyday and spend to much time away from my baby to hear constant criticisms about teaching, especially when I go above and beyond to put everything online yet no one ever looks at it. Great now I"m annoyed Thanks Pat :) LOL not your fault.
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    Danielle, Sorry about that; the intent was not to upset you, but rather to let everyone see that there is a balancing act that is going on all over the country. One of the commentors stated that "this is here to stay, so everyone get used to it," and while I didn't appreciate his or her closed tone, he or she has a point: it's here. Finding a balance between what is communicated, how it is communicated, and how to best maximize the time we spend doing the communicating in addition to the lives that we lead outside of school is now a huge issue. It is now a major discussion point in many of the meetings I attend, and I think the answer will come out after we muddle through it for a little while. There are so many new changes this year regarding openness and transparency, I think we will find that balance after a bit of trial and error with it.
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