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Dean Mantz

QuizEgg - Online Quiz Maker for Educators - 0 views

  • Build automatically graded quizzes that can be published online, then view the results in easy-to-read reports.
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    Build automatically graded quizzes that can be published online, then view the results in easy-to-read reports.
Dean Mantz

Top News - How tech drives success in Title I schools - 0 views

  • The report, "Leveraging Title I and Title IID: Maximizing the Impact of Technology in Education," and the guide, "A Resource Guide Identifying Technology Tools for Schools," were released Sept. 24 by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the National Association for State Title I Directors (NASTID)
  • For instance, acccording to the report, Kansas's Technology Rich Classrooms program saw a 10.4 percent increase in third grade state reading scores. In Arkansas, the Technology Integration in the Elementary Classroom project saw third graders' literacy proficiency increase from 67 percent to 84 percent, and among fourth graders from 47 percent to 69 percent.
  • Sixty-seven percent of Title I students have access to a cell phone outside of the classroom, 79 percent have a music or video device, and 46 percent have access to a computer, according to Project Tomorrow's 2008 Speak Up survey data.
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    Title I improvements with technology integration.
Clif Mims

Bitstrips - 0 views

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    Create comic strips, funny pages, cartoons. Educational Uses -Reports -Foreign language -ESL and ELL -Reviews -Writing and peer-editing
Dean Mantz

Screenjelly - Home - 0 views

  • Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email. Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like. To start recording, click on the red button. No need to install or download anything!Note: You need to login with your Twitter account to share your recording. Create one for free on twitter.com.
Dean Mantz

Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies - 0 views

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    This is the final report from a task force looking into Internet safety for a group of State Attorneys.
Dean Mantz

Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    After further research this group is stating that online social networks and collaboration are safer than originally stated.
Dean Mantz

Interactive Whiteboard Technology Research Projects - 0 views

  • Interactive Whiteboard Technologies Reports on research projects which aimed to capture, analyze and communicate the complex interactions between students, teachers and technology that occur in the class room using interactive whiteboard technology.
Dean Mantz

Discover Life - 0 views

  • free on-line tools to identify species, share ways to teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from a growing, interactive encyclopedia of life that now has 1,355,554 species pages.
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    Website resource provided by folks at Turning Point Learning Center in Emporia, KS.
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

Meta-Analysis: Is Blended Learning Most Effective? -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • The United States Department of Education reported recently that it's found some evidence to support the notion that blended learning is more effective than either face to face or online learning by themselves. Further, between online and face to face instruction, online is at least as good and may even have the advantage in terms of improving student achievement and potentially expanding the amount of time (and quality time) students spend learning.
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