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Jeffrey Plaman

Infuselearning - 0 views

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    Similar to Socrative as a tool for student response collection, but allows you to use images and video in the questions and allows students to draw and annotate in their answers.
Keri-Lee Beasley

"Reel" Literacies: Student Selfie Videos as Literacy Engagement Tools - 1 views

  • As many of us know, “literacy” is more than just reading text on a page. Communicating in today’s world includes multisensory, multimodal, and interactive experiences to engage audiences. What does this mean for teachers and students? Together, we must learn to think critically about new media and how to use it effectively to share ideas globally. Liv is one example of a student connecting with wider audiences using digital platforms, which reflects the evolving nature of communication today. Mentor texts in literacy teaching are not new. We, as educators, often use them to teach craft or techniques in writing and hope our students will use these tools to enrich their own writing. Similarly, Liv’s videos act as “mentor tech” and provide models that Pana’s students use to create their own videos. Pana’s students begin drafting a script before filming their first video and then revising their work. Throughout this process, students watch several versions of Liv’s videos, noting craft techniques they might borrow—from what they might say to how ideas are presented on camera.
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    "..."Literacy" is more than just reading text on a page.Communicating in today's world includes multisensory, multimodal, and interactive experiences to engage audiences. What does this mean for teachers and students?"
Katie Day

Mocku.ps - Mock­up presentation and sharing made simple. - 0 views

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    Summary via The Scout Report (May 2012): "Mocku.ps is a tool created to help designers share their mockups quickly via the Internet. Visitors don't have to sign up to create an account, and they can get started by just uploading their images to the desktop. After this, they can annotate their mockup, and share the URL with other interested parties. First-time users can look at the example offered here and also look over the FAQ area. This version is compatible with all operating systems. [KMG]"
Keri-Lee Beasley

Re-envisioning Writing for a Networked Age: A Few Moments with Elyse Eidman-Aadahl | DM... - 1 views

  • To write still means to make something. Writers are makers.
  • much of the power of writing is that it takes thought and externalizes it
  • whether we are writing on a digital platform or in our spiral notebooks. There is a core to writing that is still about creating and sharing knowledge
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  • some components that have hugely changed, mainly the issues of what we can create and how it circulates.
  • teacher who acted as the sole reader of our material.
  • The internet and 21st century tools have opened up the possibility for one individual to not only produce the text but also to design it, circulate it, and manage publicity
  • very young or beginning writers can actually participate in all of those processes
  • we think of digital writing as writing that is not only created using digital tools, but is also typically created in or for a networked environment and meant to be interacted with on a screen.
  • We need to be able to make that part of our understanding of the new normal of writing -- not an additional piece -- but the new normal.
  • As computers become increasingly networked, teachers could see the potential for the read/write web, for writing as a way to participate in online communities, to hyperlink vast amounts of information connected to a text, and to interact and even collaborate directly with others to create something
  • being a writer yourself and participating in digital environments alongside the youth you work with, you are able to observe patterns and experience the new in such a way that you could be part of remaking knowledge in the field of composition. The writing revolution is not done and we can be right in the middle of it.
  • it's all about an inquiry stance and creating learning experiences where students can do the same because the "textbook" is all around us in the reading and writing going on in the world
  • participating as a digital writer and deeply reflecting upon your work by looking for patterns and understanding what shifts are being required of you
  • shift from being the person who hands out formulas for writing success to the person who stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the students to understand what happens when we write for real in world.
  • build the platforms for publishing and circulation of student work
  • It’s vital for teachers and curriculum developers to start with the assumption that every young person not only can become a participant in the public internet, but will become a participant and likely already is a participant.
  • youth are going to have to manage their online identity. How they present and represent their identities and manage the multiple footprints they leave on the web are going to be key things for students to understand.
  • develop a sense of responsibility around what they put out there
  • sense of power and authority
  • making, creating, and collaborating about real work that matters to them
  • tools are not the issue
  • They allow us to do new things and expand our capacity to make things, yet deep, consistent issues remain at the center: what am I saying? Is what I have to say warranted? Have I been accurate and credible? Have I crafted something that my reader and my audience can take in? Am I listening to response and looking at my drafts iteration by iteration?
  • it’s so important to slow oneself down and to take one’s text quite seriously.
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    "A learning environment expert and education advocate, Elyse is dedicated to improving the teaching of writing by helping educators understand the changing nature of the discipline in a digital age."
Mary van der Heijden

100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About | Education Technology, Apps, Product... - 3 views

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    Jane Hart of the United Kingdom's Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies has been assembling a list of the best resources for the past five years. But these resources aren't just randomly organized by popularity or something, the order is decided by a crowdsourced vote. What could be better than that?
Louise Phinney

Assessment tools for a flipped or blended class « Education, Technology & Bus... - 1 views

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    I am designing a class that I am going to teach next year. It is going to have elements of being flipped or simply blended. In any case, I am looking into different ways in which I can assess student learning that goes on during semester, whether in the classroom or out.
Jeffrey Plaman

Image Map Tool - On-line Image Map Creator - HTML & CSS - 1 views

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    Create your own imagemaps (images with clickable hotspots linked to other sites.
Jeffrey Plaman

Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need t... - 0 views

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    This is a really nice list of strategies for research.
Katie Day

Research Sidebar in Google Docs | ChromeBytes - 2 views

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    New "Tool" option when in a Google doc -- a sidebar for searching pops up (also can highlight a word/phrase and right-click to search).
Katie Day

OMG, kids these days: Digital tools don't make students better writers | Ars Technica - 1 views

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    New Pew study finds teachers believe students are now more prone to take shortcuts. "
Keri-Lee Beasley

Digital Literacy Is the Key to the Future, But We Still Don't Know What It Means | WIRED - 1 views

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    ""The amount of potential unlocked by the industrial revolution is dwarfed in information terms by what you can do with computers," said Ari Geshner, a senior software engineer at Palantir, a much-discussed data analysis startup whose customers include US intelligence and defense agencies. "Digital literacy is about learning to use the most powerful tools we've ever built." The tricky part comes in defining what exactly is meant by "use." Most people who use computers don't know how to build software. Does that mean they're digitally illiterate?"
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    "Digital literacy is about learning to use the most powerful tools we've ever built."
Katie Day

New Tools Workshop wiki - 0 views

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    Fabulous collection of online tools -- started by Joyce Valenza, teacher-librarian
Keri-Lee Beasley

Qwiki - 1 views

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    research tool
Keri-Lee Beasley

Wix.com advent created by ktenkely based on Kindergarten - 2 views

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    A neat advent calendar of Web2.0 tools - very cleverly done, and beautiful images. A super idea for a blog.
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