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Sheryl A. McCoy

n2teaching: Opportunity to Comment: Activating Links - 0 views

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    Commenting on a blog post helps the reader/commentator and the blog author. The author of the blog always benefits from the feedback of their colleagues and other readers, while the commentator benefits by sharing their ideas and related links.
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    some tips for making active links in blogger
Dean Mantz

On Intelligence - Welcome - 0 views

  • The first set of links provides information for people who have not yet read the book or have a general interest. It contains: Bios of the authors Reviews of the book, what people are saying The table of contents An excerpt from the book, "The Prologue" A list of venues and dates where the authors will be speaking The second set of links contains resources for people who have read the book and want to learn more about the theory. Here you will find: An online discussion forum Additional resources including an expanded bibliography and source code for simulations Q&A section for asking the authors questions A form for emailing the authors
Dean Mantz

Directory of E-Learning Tools: Course Authoring Tools - 0 views

  • These tools include authoring tools as well as as delivery/tracking platforms like course and learning management systems.
Sheryl A. McCoy

IBM Research | IBM Research | Paul Keyser - 0 views

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    Science accounts for more of the texts surviving from antiquity than any other sort of writing, and yet is rarely studied or even read because the texts are relatively hard to find in translation.\n\nMr. Keyser, with Georgia L. Irby-Massie, wrote the science source book: Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook w/ updated translations
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    This would be a valuable library resource for education majors; an especially valuable personal resource for science/math/history teachers interested in the real story of the sophisticated level of knowledge in "ancient" times".
Dean Mantz

Scholastic Videos - 0 views

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    Video and activity resources for educators from Scholastic.
Dean Mantz

YTPodcaster - Convert Youtube User Videos to Video Podcasts for iPod/iTunes, Zune and more - 0 views

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    Select the author of a YouTube video and use this tool to download their videos and convert them to video podcasts
Dean Mantz

Welcome To Seussville! - 0 views

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    Dr. Seuss from Seussville.com
Sheryl A. McCoy

Femoral Neck Fractures: Evidence Versus Beliefs About Predictors of Outcome - 0 views

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    this is an excellent meta-analysis of surgeon perceptions vs. actual predictive data on the survival rate and some variables that were not considered in the past. PLUS, this would be a great article to explain how to do excellent meta-analysis research in education.
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    This would be a great example of the types of research that teachers can do to improve practice. The authors have explained various types of research better than most texts.
Dean Mantz

Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Teaching the iGeneration - 0 views

  • The resources included videos for those who learned by more kinesthetic and auditory modalities, written newspaper reports for those who learned best by visual modalities, and even interactive websites for those with a more tactile and kinesthetic learning style.
  • For example
  • Instead of showing the video in class, you might have them watch it on YouTube as a homework assignment.
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  • access the video 24/7
  • using technology to enhance education doesn't mean that we should move classes totally online. Students need face-to-face social interaction, especially in the primary and middle school grades.
  • The point is not to "teach with technology" but to use technology to convey content more powerfully and efficiently.
  • Baby Boomers, in general, prefer face-to-face or telephone communication
  • seem to embrace both cell phones and e-mail, with a bit of instant messaging thrown in.
  • Gen Xers
  • Net Generation
  • social networks like Facebook, instant messages, Skype, and texting.
  • iGeneration, a phone is not a phone. It is a portable computer
  • born between about 1925 and 1946 are often called the Traditional or Silent generation
  • Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, they are characterized by a belief in common goals and respect for authority.
  • Baby Boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964, tends to be optimistic, idealistic, and communicative and to value education and consumer goods.
  • born between 1965 and 1979, were defined by Douglas Coupland (1991) as Generation X
  • not as easily categorized.
  • 1980s and the birth of the World Wide Web
  • Generation Y, simply meaning the generation after X.
  • Don Tapscott's (1999) term—the Net Generation
Dean Mantz

Literature-Map - The tourist map of literature - 0 views

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    Search for a Literature related writer or term and view a graphical distribution of it's connections.
Dean Mantz

squeakland : home of squeak etoys - 0 views

  • Etoys is . . . an educational tool for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways a media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system a free software program that works on almost all personal computers
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    Free software for visual programming
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