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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

A Vision of 21st Century Teachers - 0 views

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    Video about uses of technology in teaching - motivational
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

Top 50 Education Technology Blogs - 0 views

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    List of blogs with thumbnail descriptions
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

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

Using New Technologies To Enhance Learning Experiences - 0 views

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    Edmodo (like Twitter), Animoto, Audacity, VoiceThread
Carol Furchner

How to Publish a Quiz Using Google Docs - 0 views

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    Free Technology for Teachers: Gives step-by-step instructions for using Google Docs' forms and spreadsheet capability for creating an online quiz that can be easily graded inside a spreadsheet.
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
Lynne Williams

Cell phones becoming teaching tool | ASSOCIATED PRESS - 0 views

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    This is a fascinating concept with some interesting possibilities- Most students have a cell phone, it's affordable technology- Being able to leverage that ubiquitous technology to teach is a clever idea; however, the teacher using it should be savvy to the various ways that a cell phone can be misused in a classroom before they try it-
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

'iGeneration' requires a different approach to instruction - 0 views

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    The author mantains that students born after1990 need a different approach to teaching, in order to keep them engaged.
Carol Furchner

Teens, Cell Phones and Texting - Pew Research Center - 0 views

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    Some insights on teen behavior using cell phones, from a 2010 study. A third of teens who text send 3000 or more text messaged per month!
Carol Furchner

YouTube Now Auto Captions Videos (Kind Of) - 1 views

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    Automatic captioning for videos on some sites Auto-timing for videos uploaded with transcript, using speech recognition. Should help with producing videos accessible to hearing-impaired students
Carol Furchner

Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List - 1 views

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    Also contains links to tools by category and tools that have increased and decreased in popularity
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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