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Beverley Humphrey

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus - 1 views

www.visuwords.com

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shared by Beverley Humphrey on 18 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Beverley Humphrey on 18 Apr 09
     
    Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Heather Hersey

Knowledge Graph: Easy Fact Finding Allows for Deeper Search | MindShift - 0 views

blogs.kqed.org/...nding-allows-for-deeper-search

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shared by Heather Hersey on 14 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Heather Hersey on 14 Jun 12
     
    "Wondering how to use Google's new Knowledge Graph? The resulting panels to the right of the main results are meant to move research beyond simple data retrieval into deeper topics. At the same time, the new tool could serve as a better way to use key words."
jenibo

BeaFriendLendaHand Survey - 8 views

www.surveymonkey.com/...beafriendlendahand

digital citizenship

shared by jenibo on 15 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • jenibo on 15 Sep 13
     
    "The purpose of this survey is to find out about how students can help if someone is being hurtful to a student either at school or online. It is your choice whether you want to do this survey. No one will be able tell which responses are yours. Try to answer all of the questions. But you can skip any that you do not understand, feel like answering, or are told to skip. This survey should take about 20 to 30 minutes. In all of the following questions the words "be hurtful" or "being hurtful" include when someone: - Says hurtful things or sends hurtful messages to another person. - Says hurtful things about a person to others or posts hurtful things about someone online. - Hurtfully excludes someone from participating in school activities. - Physically hurts someone or their property, or threatens to do so. Sometimes this is referred to as bullying or cyberbullying."
Lissa Davies

Wright'sRoom - 0 views

shelleywright.wordpress.com/...the-vessay

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shared by Lissa Davies on 21 May 11 - No Cached
    • Lissa Davies
      Lissa Davies on 21 May 11
       
      Why can't younger students do this as well?
  • Lissa Davies on 21 May 11
     
    "So what is the vessay?  It's a voicethread essay.  My students are required to write their persuasive essay.  It will require a thesis that can be argued, transition words to make their writing fluid, and evidence from the text to support their point.  Then they will need to find pictures to represent their argument and, finally, record it as a voice thread."
Carla Shinn

"Tsundoko," the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves - 15 views

www.openculture.com/...nter-the-english-language.html

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shared by Carla Shinn on 30 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 30 Jul 14
     
    "Tsundoku" From Open Culture, the best free cultural and educational media on the web. It's a great place to find free ebooks, videos, online learning resources.
  • Debra Gottsleben on 31 Jul 14
     
    Love this word! Had never heard it before.
Cara Whitehead

WordFind - 21 views

www.spellingcity.com/wordfind.html

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shared by Cara Whitehead on 28 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Cara Whitehead on 28 Apr 13
     
    This online game is a favorite! It works great on your interactive whiteboard, too!
Dennis OConnor

The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative | Spotlight on Digital Media and Lea... - 19 views

spotlight.macfound.org/...g-and-writing-is-collaborative

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 10 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • “I think the definition of writing is shifting,” Boardman said. “I don’t think writing happens with just words anymore.”
  • In his classes, Boardman teaches students how to express their ideas and how to tell stories —and he encourages them to use video, music, recorded voices and whatever other media will best allow them to communicate effectively. He is part of a vanguard of educators, technologists, intellectuals and writers who are reimagining the very meaning of writing and reading.
  • The keys to understanding this new perspective on writing and reading lie in notions of collaboration and being social. More specifically, it’s believing that collaboration and increased socialization around activities like reading and writing is a good idea.
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  • “We find when writing moves online, the connections between ideas and people are much more apparent than they are in the context of a printed book,”
  • transmedia work
  • The MIT Media Lab tagged collaboration as one of the key literacies of the 21st century, and it’s now so much a part of the digital learning conversation as to be nearly rote. In his new book, “Where Good Ideas Come From,” Stephen Johnson argues that ideas get better the more they’re exposed to outside influences.
  • Laura Flemming is an elementary school library media specialist in River Edge, N.J. About three years ago, she came across a hybrid book—half digital, half traditional—called “Skeleton Creek” by Patrick Carmen. “The 6th graders were running down to library class, banging down the door to get in, which you don’t often see,” Flemming said.
  • It is not only the act of writing that is changing. It’s reading, too. Stein points to a 10-year-old he met in London recently. The boy reads for a bit, goes to Google when he wants to learn more about a particular topic, chats online with his friend who are reading the same book, and then goes back to reading.
  • “We tell our kids we want them to know what it’s like to walk in the shoes of the main character,” Flemming said. “I’ve had more than one child tell me that before they read ‘Inanimate Alice,’ they didn’t know what that felt like.”
  • Stein says it’s better to take advantage of new technologies to push the culture in the direction you want it to go. Stein is fully aware of the political and cultural implications of his vision of the future of reading and writing, which shifts the emphasis away from the individual and onto the community. It’s asking people to understand that authored works are part of a larger flow of ideas and information.
Carla Shinn

Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover: Tech-Savvy Teens Remain Fans of Print Books - 12 views

www.nielsen.com/...emain-fans-of-print-books.html

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shared by Carla Shinn on 21 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 21 Dec 14
     
    With today's rapidly evolving technology and ever-present social media changing the way consumers are connecting with the written word, it should come as no surprise that today's teens are finding and consuming content differently from previous generations. But while we typically associate these youthful consumers with being early adopters of new technology and digital content platforms, the reading habits of those aged 13-17 are a mix of old and new.
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