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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.
Erica Hartman

Home (GoogleApps ePortfolios) - 0 views

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    E PORTFOLIO CONNECTIONS
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    How great is this? If you wanted to see what our portfolios are going to look like, this is a great collection of samples and how-to's.
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.”
    • Patrick Higgins
       
      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.
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