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Mathieu Plourde

Free college; Free Training for College Teachers - 0 views

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    "Graduate programs should incorporate more courses focused explicitly on pedagogy. If teaching is 40 - 90% of most full-time faculty jobs in higher ed., pedagogical study should constitute at least 40% of the work graduate students do toward a graduate degree. I was recently laughed at by someone in a traditional academic discipline when I offered this as a provocation, but it feels hardly provocative to me. For some programs, even requiring a single graduate course in pedagogy would be a step in the right direction, but 40% of coursework seems an incredibly reasonable bar (even if also well out of current reach for many programs)."
Mathieu Plourde

QRCode-Monkey-Generator - 0 views

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    "The free QR-Code-Generator to create QR Codes with Logo, Color and vector formats (SVG, PDF, EPS)."
Mathieu Plourde

Degree of Freedom - The One Year BA - 0 views

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    This Degree of Freedom web site will document my one-year experiment attempting to take all of the courses needed to learn the equivalent of what I'd get from a liberal arts Bachelors Degree entirely through free, online resources (with a focus on the Massive Open Online Classes, or MOOCs that have been in the news lately).
Mathieu Plourde

Can you MOOC your way through college in one year? - 1 views

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    "But how completely can online courses reproduce the college experience? Lexington writer and entrepreneur Jonathan Haber wanted to find out. This January, he set out to earn a "one-year MOOC BA." He is trying to cram about 32 courses, all free, into 2013-with enough breadth and depth to fulfill the distribution requirements for a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Already finished with his "freshman year," Haber has completed or is currently taking about a dozen classes."
Mathieu Plourde

LMS Disruption- Free Web 2.0 Tools Can Co-Exist with the Centralized LMS - 1 views

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    "My parents are stockbrokers, where the phrase "market correction" is used to describe what's happening to the LMS market right now. Schools are realizing that we have been paying too much for a big, integrated system with many features we don't use, and we're exploring smaller, cheaper systems. Canvas is attempting to offer all of the services that Blackboard does for less money by using free and open source components. "
Mathieu Plourde

Download Hundreds of Free Art Catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Open Culture - 0 views

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    "Earlier this year, the Guggenheim Museum put online 65 modern art books, giving you free access to books introducing the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, and Kandinsky. Now, just a few short months later, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched MetPublications, a portal that will "eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals" published by the Met since 1870."
Janice-Gamble Hill

Free Course Management Tools - 0 views

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    This site list over fifty Free Course Management Tools for e-Learning.
Mathieu Plourde

Teacher Challenges - Free Professional Development From Edublogs - 0 views

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    "The Teacher Challenge is made up of free professional learning challenges where educators are stepped through weekly tasks that increase their skills while being supported by mentors. The Challenge is open to any educator who wants to increase their skills."
Mathieu Plourde

Inkscape - 0 views

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    "Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source."
Mathieu Plourde

5 Reasons I Love Using Edmodo in the Classroom - 0 views

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    "I have long been a fan of Edmodo after it was introduced to me as tool in the Global Read Aloud.  This free social network specifically aimed at students and teachers is a fabulous way to integrate social media into your classroom, as well as setting up ways to collaborate with other classrooms."
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    So now that I am seeing this, I am torn between which one to try in my classroom. Between Edmodo and Collaborize Classroom, which one would you suggest? Has anyone tried both of these? Looking for suggestions before I finalize with my classroom.
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    Stacy: This would be a great tool exploration project. Compare and contrast both of them.
Mathieu Plourde

Haslam proposes free community college - 0 views

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    The Republican governor proposed setting aside $300 million from the Tennessee Education Lottery to fund an endowment that would cover all tuition and fees to two-year institutions for all graduating high school seniors. The plan also calls for reducing Hope scholarships for incoming students at four-year universities by $1,000 for the first two years.
Mathieu Plourde

GanttProject: free desktop project management tool - 1 views

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    "GanttProject is a cross-platform desktop tool for project scheduling and management. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX, it is free and its code is opensource. What can it do? Gantt chart. Create work breakdown structure, draw dependencies, define milestones."
Mathieu Plourde

Your Guide to the Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning - 0 views

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    "Get the free ebook The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Academic Professionals, brought to you by Routledge Education and featuring hand-picked content from some of our leading titles."
Mathieu Plourde

10 Gmail Plugins That Improve Email Productivity - 0 views

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    "Gmail is one of the most popular email services with more than 500 million users, so chances are pretty good that you're one of them. But are you making the most of your email account? Many of us complain that our inboxes are too full and that responding to email is too time-consuming, but several tools are available that will streamline your email experience. Take a look at these 10 plugins--most of which are free. They might just make your inbox a friendlier place to visit:"
Mathieu Plourde

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - 0 views

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    "The rise of "freeconomics" is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore's law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster. Which is to say, the trend lines that determine the cost of doing business online all point the same way: to zero."
Mathieu Plourde

30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use - 1 views

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    "Here's a look at over 30 content curation tools (mostly free, but some paid/professional tools as well) that will help you cut through the clutter of your information stream to find the gems.  Each tool mentioned below has unique strengths, and none are exactly like any other. "
Mathieu Plourde

Textbook Publisher Pearson Takes Down 1.5 Million Teacher And Student Blogs With A Sing... - 0 views

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    "Textbook publisher Pearson set off an unfortunate chain of events with a takedown notice issued aimed at a copy of Beck's Hoplessness Scale posted by a teacher on one of Edublogs' websites (You may recall Pearson from such other related copyright nonsense as The $180 Art Book With No Pictures and No Free Textbooks Ever!). The end result? Nearly 1.5 million teacher and student blogs taken offline by Edublogs' host, ServerBeach."
Mathieu Plourde

10 Reasons Why I Want My Students to Blog - 1 views

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    "First of all, blogging is writing, 21st-century style, plain and simple. Blogging constitutes a massive genre.  It comes in many forms, addresses myriad topics, and can certainly range in quality. For my money (which usually means free), blogging provides the best venue for teaching student writing. As bloggers, young people develop crucial skills with language, tone their critical thinking muscles, and come to understand their relationship to the world."
Mathieu Plourde

Coursera will profit from "Free" courses, competition heats up. - 0 views

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    "There are 8 possible monetization strategies that MOOC providers like Coursera, or Learning Management System providers could adopt:"
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