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Patrick Higgins

50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom - 0 views

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    I still think Skype is an under-utilized resource in our classrooms.
Patrick Higgins

getawayfromwindow.jpg.gif (image) - 0 views

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    worth thinking about.
Patrick Higgins

CriticalThinking.org - Critical Thinking Model 1 - 0 views

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    A great model to help students, and teachers, ask the right questions and figure out how to completely surround an issue with thought.
Patrick Higgins

Ideas from the Hive by Clarence Fisher - 0 views

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    great idea for students to post ideas to.
Patrick Higgins

Student Blogging Guidelines | always learning - 0 views

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    These could easily be adapted for Moodle discussion boards.
Patrick Higgins

Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

  • “Online collaboration is becoming more and more central to the way in which knowledge is created and assembled worldwide,” said computer scientist Luca de Alfaro, who runs the UCSC Wiki Lab and led the WikiTrust project. “There are more and more services that simply cannot exist without some notion of user reputation and trust in the content.”
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    "Online collaboration is becoming more and more central to the way in which knowledge is created and assembled worldwide," said computer scientist Luca de Alfaro, who runs the UCSC Wiki Lab and led the WikiTrust project. "There are more and more services that simply cannot exist without some notion of user reputation and trust in the content."
Patrick Higgins

Blooms Taxonomy Tutorial FLASH - CCCS Faculty Wiki - 0 views

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    This may help when you are trying to create lesson plans or are striving to take an idea to the next practical level.
Patrick Higgins

How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Many of you already do some of these, but still they will help you get your kids from passive to active.
Patrick Higgins

Official Google Blog: More books in more places: public domain EPUB downloads on Google... - 0 views

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    Google books makes downloading books in the public domain possible through their site.
Patrick Higgins

Between Classes...living a balanced life as a quality teacher - 0 views

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    I really like the piece she infuses here about the limits on student writing--there shouldn't be. Too often we only allow students to write that which we can grade. Why?
Patrick Higgins

Three-Minute Fiction : NPR - 0 views

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    How great is this for lessons in brevity and essential elements of storytelling. And it's just plain fun too.
Patrick Higgins

Wordle Blog: How to make Wordle safe for classroom use. - 0 views

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    no more offensive wordles
Patrick Higgins

Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • People are correct when they say online education will take things out the classroom. But they are wrong, I think, when they assume it will make learning an independent, personal activity. Learning has to occur in a community.”
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      This is a key point in making those who feel that there are huge flaws in online learning. While there is definite potential for the "correspondence course" model they mention above to still be present, there are myriad ways in which online learning can be extremely communal. What I love about it is that it automatically eliminates pacing concerns in that students can move through material at a rate that is more to their style.
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    Very interesting one.
Patrick Higgins

Developing Questions for Critical Thinking - 0 views

  • “Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.”
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    Who doesn't need another refresher when it comes to Bloom's Taxonomy or Anderson's revised categories?
Patrick Higgins

21st century Pedagogy | Educational Origami - 0 views

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    Couple this one with the list of beliefs about writing, and it's amazing to see how we have created this class very similarly to the graphic.
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