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Dean Mantz

Google Docs in the Classroom « Not All Who Wonder Are Lost - 0 views

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    Good insight and advice regarding the integration of Google Apps (Docs)
Dean Mantz

News: Questioning a Degree's Value - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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    Does a Master's Degree mean your a good educator?
Clif Mims

DogEared Book Blog - National Geographic Kids - 0 views

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    "DogEared is a blog ALL about books. Good books, funny books, adventure books. Books about animals, friendship, pirates, faraway places... Books about, well, almost EVERYTHING!!"
Dean Mantz

Teacher Magazine: Why I Hate Interactive Whiteboards - 0 views

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    This blog post does provide some good points in opposition to IWBs. Good conversation piece.
Dean Mantz

Kudda - 0 views

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    Videos for PE teachers to assist in explaining a variety of sports. Good use of video technology in PE.
Dean Mantz

Digital Textbooks: Three Simple Shifts Can Speed Up Adoption | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

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    3 good points that support the shift to digital textbooks.
Dean Mantz

CriticalPast.com: Historic Stock Footage and Archival Video Clips and Photo Images from... - 0 views

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    Decades worth of historical video footage available for download.  Could be good green screen video options. 
Sheryl A. McCoy

History of organic farming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    a good example of why we should not depend on wikipedia; the information in this article covers very little of the work of JI Rodale, his son and family; Others consider this article biased because of its assumption that organic farming is superior to conventional farming (whatever conventional means)
Dean Mantz

A List of the Top 200 Education Blogs - 0 views

  • if there's a good education blog out there, you can bet it made our list. We've also mixed in a handful of exceptional web tools and sites that we thought deserved a spot in the top 200
Dean Mantz

How to Create a Rockin' Profile - The Educator's PLN - 1 views

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    Guidelines for creating a good online/socialnetworking profile
Dean Mantz

Educational Insanity » Blog Archive » Peer-review of Marzano's IWB Study, Part V - 0 views

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    Jon Becker raises some good points about Marzanno's research on IWB enhancing learning.
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
Erik Dobbins

PE Central: The Web Site for Health and Physical Education Teachers - 1 views

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    A key website for all Physical Education
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    A good core place for P.E. ideas
Dean Mantz

Welcome to the Frontpage - 0 views

  • If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology.
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