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Justin Reeve

TeachAde - Free Educational Resources for Educators and Teachers - 1 views

www.teachade.com

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shared by Justin Reeve on 13 Dec 12 - Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 13 Dec 12
     
    Similar to parts of Edutopia and the WordPress Buddypress plugin, TeachAde hosts a number of useful discussion groups and offers plenty of free education resources. Billing itslef as "the first social networking website designed specifically for educators that is completely free and easy to use," TeachAde promises a host of activities, nearly 60,000 resources, core materials, a daily digital planner, and even a 'find a colleague' feature that I personally find the most compelling reason to try out the site. After all, isn't connected learning all about actually, you know, connecting with your fellow learners? TeachAde holds great promise and all the parts are there. Now it just needs your help and input. I've been tinkering with TeachAde for a few weeks now and it's proven to be very useful for finding peer-reviewed resources.
Justin Reeve

Commons In A Box - 2 views

commonsinabox.org

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shared by Justin Reeve on 07 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 07 Jan 13
     
    Commons In A Box (CBOX) is a free software project aimed at turning the infrastructure that successfully powers the CUNY Academic Commons into a free, distributable, easy-to-install package. Commons In A Box is a project of the City University of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY and is made possible by a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. CBOX takes the complexity out of creating a Commons site, helping organizations create a space where their members can discuss issues, collaborate on projects, and share their work.
Justin Reeve

Twiducate - 0 views

www.twiducate.com

socialnetworking education network networking social

shared by Justin Reeve on 13 Dec 12 - Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 13 Dec 12
     
    This is one of the fastest-rising educational social networks you should know about. Twiducate got me excited from the start with the unique approach to setting up your classroom online: the teacher does all the work and then students just get a simple code to punch in. Then, voila! They're all set up and have an account! Twiducate was started in 2009 and focuses on giving teachers more control than they'd typically expect to find in a free social network. Twiducate is all about creating a "safer online learning environment" and it shows. The site, even from the start as I mentioned, takes great care in putting the power of the tool in the hands of the teacher. Whether you agree with the tact or not, it's worth checking out Twiducate.
Justin Reeve

OpenScholar - 2 views

openscholar.harvard.edu/home

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shared by Justin Reeve on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 04 Oct 10
     
    A full-featured web site-creation package solely for the academic community. Scholars create web sites in seconds and can easily manage everything themselves (for free)
Stephen Lazowski

Viigo for Blackberry (RSS reader) - 8 views

It say Highlight a key point...This is not an article resource, it is an application review resource. I did not have a key point just features.

viigo technology RSS PLC

started by anonymous on 06 Oct 10 2 follow-ups, last by Stephen Lazowski on 07 Oct 10
tsurridge

Want to be a great teacher? Don't go to PD. - 6 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...eat-teacher-dont-go-to-pd.html

PLN Professional Development Technology

shared by tsurridge on 06 Sep 10 - Cached
  • tsurridge on 06 Sep 10
     
    I have led professional development, and shaped a series of professional development classes, to assist teachers in the adoption of one to one laptop programs. Saying that, I couldn't agree with this blog post more. The dynamic change in resource for teachers, and the ever shifting landscape of technology, makes many teachers feel a sense of frustration in attempting to get a handle on what's "out there". This post articulates, and I believe my experience validates, that the answer to engaging these issues does not lie in more and more professional development, but rather, assisting teachers in the creation of their own learning networks for both support and guidance. PLN's are not only more effectual, professional development is expensive. I brought someone in to help our teachers establish personal PLN's, but I don't believe I properly considered how important this was to the process. As I'm quickly learning, PLN creation and engagement may well be at the foundation of any school transformation. ts
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  • Dennis Lecker on 06 Sep 10
     
    In 13 years of teaching, I remember only one PD that was worth its salt. The gathering included a presentation pertaining to the use Microsoft Excel to organize various educational particulars. However, on the other hand, that we then acquired GradeQuick, EasyGradePro, and finally another grading program rendered any and all information acquired during the PD moot. I did use Excel, however, to organize data related to my other job, that having been the management a large private club along the lines of a Moose, Elks or Legion. But getting back to the link, I have to admit that I was very amused at the attached video which showed two professionals trapped on an escalator. The situation brought to mind a quote from Robert Pirsig when he wrote: "It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away." … In summary, that most PDs are constructed from detached administrators who have lost touch with what is actually occuring "on the ground" may be partly responsible with the author's dislike of PDs. ...Regarding assisting teachers in the creation of their own learning networks, I can point to a wonderful article on the benefits of having "exemplary" teachers in a school. http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss2/seminal/article1.htm
  • Lisa Dawley on 06 Sep 10
     
    >>As I'm quickly learning, PLN creation and engagement may well be at the foundation of any school transformation. This was one of those "wow" statements for me, and really hit home. I'm currently in Australia finishing up some PD in online curriculum design with a group of really talented teachers at MLC School. While I'm not ready to throw out live PD (we learned and did so much in 3 days!), your sentence caused me to reflect on the importance of teacher education programs and schools helping teachers learn how to establish a successful PLN that meets their needs. Love it...thanks for helping me to refocus with this simple and powerful statement.
  • Eric Ebbs on 07 Sep 10
     
    At first I laughed at the video on the page because I thought it was funny that the people were unwilling to move without the assistance of others until I realized that at one time I was one of the people on the escalator. I believed strongly in learning from PD and did not have many contacts or connections. It was through those PD sessions though, I was able to begin building a PLN. I was able to acquire email addresses and phone numbers from members attending, and they were able to give me access to links, listservs, web blogs, etc. to increase my knowledge. I have access to free PD when available through my PLN. I'm not quite ready to give up my PD, as I still glean useful information and contacts from my sessions to add to my PLN. I believe that PD should be used to enchance your PLN and allow you more opportunities. The PLN should not be the end of PD either. Both should be available to allow users to expand their knowlege.
  • aeckel on 08 Sep 10
     
    What a great visual of such a helpless attitude that schools and teachers can have! It was interesting for me to read how PD can be a lazy approach to professional knowledge. I had never quite thought of it that way before but it makes sense. It is knowledge that is handed to you rather then knowledge that is discovered. In a lot of my EdTech courses I have learned that learning is done best when there is some form of personal interaction. It makes sense that PLNs are a better way of motivating and learning. I really enjoyed this article and love seeing visuals like this that connect to a bigger concept. Powerful stuff!
  • glorihinck on 09 Sep 10
     
    Timothy, what are your thoughts on the future of PLN's at your workplace? What can you do to help guide the process? Perhaps a final project could be be related to this topic?
  • tsurridge on 09 Sep 10
     
    If I were to be honest (and I guess, why not), I would like to develop professional development that would assist learners toward meaningful understanding and engagement of PLN's. For me, the missing link is the PLE. I'm still grappling with that myself. What should my computer screen look like? I get your dingo's, the elephant head thing, tweetering, et al. I still struggle with a mental picture of how my new computer screen looks. What exactly is going on there? I think that is step one in this. Somehow. I'm going to figure this out. Somehow. And yes, I get the irony of posting a PD is dead reflection-and than wanting to create PD. Kind of not functionally getting it.....still missing something visually.....hmmmmm.....(love the process though:)..... ts
  • glorihinck on 12 Sep 10
     
    Timothy, I am confident that by the end of the term you will have a handle on this brave new world- including your computer screen.
Lisa Dawley

Suggestions? - 16 views

GREAT questions! OK, so if you are 1) contributing to YouTube, that means you are uploading your own videos, yes? and if you are 2) responding to YouTube contributions of others, it means you wil...

started by josh worsham on 21 Sep 10 3 follow-ups, last by Lisa Dawley on 23 Sep 10
Justin Reeve

Grouply - 0 views

www.grouply.com

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shared by Justin Reeve on 03 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 03 Oct 10
     
    Open source social network.
Todd Anderson

ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education - 1 views

classtools.net

shared by Todd Anderson on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Create free educational games
    • Todd Anderson
      Todd Anderson on 04 Oct 10
       
      I love educational games, and instead of having to filter through all the websites out there, I would prefer to just make my own. I'm going to give this a try.
anonymous

Comparison of Wikipedia and Grolier - two online resource databases. - 3 views

I chose two similar programs, Wikipedia is the first exposure most of us have had with a wiki, it is free and able to be edited by anyone and Grolier Online is a paid resource database often purcha...

Grolier Wikipedia PLC comparison databases resources

started by anonymous on 12 Oct 10 no follow-up yet
Lora Evanouski

The Case For Social Media in Schools - 5 views

mashable.com/...social-media-in-school

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shared by Lora Evanouski on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
    • Lora Evanouski
      Lora Evanouski on 06 Oct 10
       
      Very interesting, students are using social media anyways might as well teach them how to use it more effectively and safely.
    • Lora Evanouski
      Lora Evanouski on 06 Oct 10
       
      I couldn't agree more!
  • Lora Evanouski on 04 Oct 10
     
    The article is a good display of how to use social media in a school. I especially liked the first comment I highlighted because it states plainly what we already know that kids are accessing social media sites, we should move with them and teach them how to use those sites safely and for good purposes. The article goes on to explain about sites that can be used for free that are kid and school friendly like edmodo, edublogs and kidblog.org. The article also offers teacher input from those teachers willing to try social media in their class and the results it produced. I think Elizabeth Delmatoff made a strong case for using and keeping her pilot social media program. I couldn't agree more with the concluding statement, "The teachers and parents who embrace social media say the best way to keep kids safe, online or offline, is to teach them."
anonymous

Librarians Who Lead - 0 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx

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shared by anonymous on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of investing in scads of state-of-the-art computers and expensive commercially produced courseware, she says, the school district has made a remarkable investment in the high school’s human resources.
  • there was an improvement on the annual Connecticut Academic Performance Test.”
  • We have six years’ worth of analysis of annotated bibliographies, which we consider the hallmark of higher-order thinking— evaluation of reading, as opposed to regurgitation.
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  • Luhtala and other members of the high school’s Information and Communication Technology team have woven Moodle, the free, open-source, online course management software, into the curriculum.
  • “We work with a fair amount of data to measure student learning in information and communication technology. We also rely on emerging technology to communicate and collaborate with students and teachers.”
  • The library media center’s home page entices students, teachers and parents to click on a colorful lineup of icons familiar to everyone who enjoys connecting via social media: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google, and VoiceThread, which the library has been using to promote book chats and reading for pleasure. Luhtala also regularly posts instructional videos on the Web for students and teachers.
  • “A librarian today is a facilitator and a leader for the teachers, for curricular learning, for interdisciplinary instruction, and is also a professional development person,” Luhtala says. “But we’re still school-based teachers. And it’s actually kind of beautiful. We like it just that way.”
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