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Carol Furchner

The Educator's PLN - The personal learning network for educators - 0 views

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    A large PLN with lots of members, links, discussions about education, especially education and technology
Carol Furchner

Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech -- Campus Technology - 0 views

  • According to new research released Monday, only 38 percent of students indicated that their instructors "understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes." Students also rated that lack of understanding as "the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration."
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    Students and educators are in agreement that technology is an important adjunct to education - but students are not impressed with how well instructors understand and integrate technology into their classes.
Carol Furchner

R2D2: A model for using technology in education - 0 views

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    Read, Reflect, Display, Do - a model for using technology in education. Good for online and f2f classes. Helps organize tasks for presentation to students - useful framework.
Carol Furchner

Empowering_Students_withGoogle_Apps_Education_ - 0 views

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    Slideshow showing use of Google Apps for Education and how to set up, administer and use an educational Google Apps account. Apps include word processor, spreadsheet, forms, web site creation, calendar, gmail, chat, contacts list, private video, and groups.
Carol Furchner

Classroom 2.0 LIVE! - Educational Webcasts and webinars - 0 views

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    Classroom2.0 offers frequent (just look!) online webinars about a large variety of educational topics, mostly those involved with using technology. This calendar lists them. Click on the Agenda tab to see full listings of titles. Go to this website for more information about participation: http://live.classroom20.com/
Carol Furchner

Diigo uses in education - survey results - 0 views

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    How some educators are using Diigo
Carol Furchner

National Education Technology Plan 2010 | U.S. Department of Education - 0 views

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    Draft for comment issued March 5, 2010.
Carol Furchner

How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • In 2008, a pair of researchers at the University of Texas showed that the customer data released for that first contest, despite being stripped of names and other direct identifying information, could often be “de-anonymized” by statistically analyzing an individual’s distinctive pattern of movie ratings and recommendations.
  • By examining correlations between various online accounts, the scientists showed that they could identify more than 30 percent of the users of both Twitter, the microblogging service, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing service, even though the accounts had been stripped of identifying information like account names and e-mail addresses.
  • Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross reported that they could accurately predict the full, nine-digit Social Security numbers for 8.5 percent of the people born in the United States between 1989 and 2003 — nearly five million individuals.
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    Scary how much information can be gleaned about you by mining the data in your profiles and what your "friends" and "networks" say about you. This is a real consideration for using social networking tools in education.
Carol Furchner

Top 50 Education Technology Blogs - 0 views

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    List of blogs with thumbnail descriptions
Carol Furchner

Changing Education with Web 2.0 Tools - 0 views

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    Good overview of motivation for using web2.0 tools, building a personal learning network, examples of using tools in the classroom
Carol Furchner

A Collection of "Free Online Education - College Level" | Diigo - 0 views

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    Collection of places where you can get anything from a college course to a short how-to video.
Carol Furchner

Using Social Media in Schools - watch video clip - 0 views

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    This video clip is a panel discussion by three educators about how they use social media to form personal learning networks and to excite students in their schools. These guys are passionate about it!
Carol Furchner

Google Docs (Google Workshops For Educators) - 1 views

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    Several suggested activities and how-to's for Google Docs
Carol Furchner

10 Power Tools for Lifelong Learners | Open Culture - 0 views

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    Good sources for materials for classes, both online and face-to-face
Carol Furchner

Free Live Web Events! | The Edublogger - 0 views

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    Edublogger - tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web2.0 technologies and edublogs
Carol Furchner

The New Student Excuse? Corrupted files! - Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

  • encourages them to do their own work and not to procrastinate
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      Encourages them not to procrastinate? I think not! It rewards procrastination!
Carol Furchner

New Features in Diigo 4 - Classroom 2.0 LIVE! - 0 views

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    Overview and demo (skip about 1st 10 minutes - it's setup for the webconference session that was recorded; just drag the slider at the bottom of the video). Ends after an hour, but then questions follow. Also a lot of links related to diigo underneath the video on the page.
Carol Furchner

Teachers begin using cell phones for class lessons by AP: Yahoo! Tech - 0 views

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    Incorporation of cell phones into class rather than banning their use - ideas
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