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Katy Eyman

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - 0 views

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    Homepage for Wordle
Holly Johnson

Essential Questions - 0 views

  • Technology 1. How can the computer be used as a tool? 2. How would our culture be different without computers? 3. What process would you use to write a letter using Microsoft Word? 4. What are your top ten priorities when producing a news video?
  • The language of the questions should be in broad terms.
Christen Cowley

Featured UA Biotechnology & Biomimicry Technology - 0 views

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    Some pretty amazing research in the biomimicry area going on at Akron University.
Alexis Jackson

Why the Brain Prefers Paper : Article : Scientific American - 0 views

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      How does this change when we add technology such as diigo?
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    Paper books versus e-readers.
Alexis Jackson

Mind Games : Article : Scientific American - 0 views

  • New research shows that video games have great educational potential.
  • Ninety-seven percent of American teenagers regularly play video games.
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      Need to find this study from M.I.T. Education Arcade.
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  • They found that students who went straight to the lecture did not know what to listen for, whereas students who played the game first had better context and greater motivation.
  • M.I.T. Media Lab developed a programming language, Scratch, that enables kids as young as kindergartners to build games. Microsoft has developed a similar tool called Kodu.
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    Incorporating video games into education
Katy Eyman

WebQuests: Explanation - 0 views

  • online lessons created by teachers
  • inquiry-oriented online tool for learnin
  • involve group work
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  • specific roles or perspectives
  • built around resources that are preselected by the teacher
  • USING information, not LOOKING for it
Katy Eyman

WebQuests: Explanation - 0 views

  • six critical components
  • goal of the introduction
  • is to make the activity desirable and fun for students
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  • engage
  • excite students
  • Task:
  • teacher finds resources
  • teacher devises an activity
  • incorporates the information
  • publish their findings on a Web site
  • collaborate in an online research initiative with another site or institution
  • create a multimedia presentation on a particular aspect of their research
  • Process:
  • Introduction:
  • description of the steps learners should go through
  • with links embedded in each step.
  • Resources:
  • list of the resources
  • resources embedded within the Process section,
  • non-Web resources can also be used
  • Evaluation
  • rubric 1 for evaluating students' work
  • clear goals, matching assessments to specific tasks
  • During the introductory stage of the WebQuest, it can be very helpful to point out three types of student examples: exemplary, acceptable, and unacceptable.
  • Conclusion
Garth Holman

Dr. Alice Christie's Educational Technology Guide - 1 views

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    Huge list of tools broken down by Dr. Alice by topics. 
Garth Holman

Educational Technology Policy Research & Outreach - 1 views

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    A large resource of quizzes/test/games  and much more: productivity, organize, and generators.  
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