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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Carol Furchner

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

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

How to build a Personal Learning Network - Classroom2.0 - 0 views

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    Video about building a personal learning network - simple steps
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

'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

Doodle: easy scheduling, quick polling - 0 views

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    Free tool that allows you to schedule an event by creating a set of possible times and then asking recipients to click on the ones when they are available. ("Schedule an Event") Also allows creation of a one-question poll ("Make a Choice"). See "Help" for instructions. Extremely easy to use. You need to create a free account.
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

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

A Vision of 21st Century Teachers - 0 views

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    Video about uses of technology in teaching - motivational
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

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

CutePDF - Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Edit PDF easily;. - 0 views

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    Free tool for creating PDF files from documents. Very easy to use, creates very small .pdf files. Not strictly web2.0, but allows creation of files to share online
Carol Furchner

IT: How To #616 - Use Secure File Transfer - 0 views

shared by Carol Furchner on 04 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Use Secure File Transfer
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      The command to change permissions to the public directory is "webupdate." Use the telnet window to issue this command after you've uploaded or created a new directory.
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

Google Search Options - 0 views

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    GREAT collection of tools supplied by Google to enhance search strategies. Move cursor around image to select each one. Also see "other search tools" for a link to a wiki with information about more search tools.
Carol Furchner

Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers @ SmashingApps - 0 views

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    List of 69 FREE Web Apps - some real gems here.
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