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Katie Day

1-to-1 Laptop Program Success Stories - 1 to 1 Schools - 0 views

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1:to:1 teaching education

shared by Katie Day on 22 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The three short videos below were recorded in Denver at an ISTE session entitled "1-to-1 Laptop Program Success Stories: Common Themes from Diverse Implementations."  It was a panel discussion with three presenters with extensive 1:1 experience. Mike Muir, Cyndi Danner-Kuhn, and Sam Farsaii. 
Keri-Lee Beasley

Click the black background and switch on their reality - politiken.dk - 0 views

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refugee migration images visual_literacy

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 07 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 07 Mar 17
     
    Images of Refugees with backgrounds removed.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Colored Vintage Paper: Texture Pack - StumbleUpon - 3 views

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design keynote paper ibooks ibooksauthor cc creative_commons images backgrounds

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 18 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 18 Mar 13
     
    Great creative commons backgrounds for design/keynote/ibooks etc etc
Mary van der Heijden

Andrew Manches - DML Summer Institute 2011 - YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Mary van der Heijden on 29 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Mary van der Heijden on 29 Dec 12
     
    Good background info on Andrew Manches
Katie Day

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl: the digital edition - video | Books | guardian.... - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...anne-frank-diary-digital-video

ipads apps anne_frank diaries history teaching

shared by Katie Day on 27 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 27 Jan 13
     
    A introductory film for the new digital edition of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, a classic book that has played a key role in the world's understanding of the Holocaust. The app takes the original text, published 65 years ago, and adds video interviews and other background material. The Diary of a Young Girl app, made by Beyond the Story, is available on iPad via Apple's AppStore
Katie Day

Battle For Singapore for iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G ... - 0 views

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singapore history wwii apps gps

shared by Katie Day on 19 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 19 Apr 12
     
    "The National Heritage Board of Singapore is proud to present the "Battle for Singapore" application for self-guided trails. Embark on a journey to experience the Battle for Singapore during World War II, learn more about our local war heroes and relive the painful experience of the Prisoners of War (PoWs) and civilians alike during the Japanese Occupation. Through the incorporation of GPS tracking technology, the "Battle for Singapore" application will offer four different trails and provide a companion guide to 32 different historical World War II sites in Singapore. As you progress through each hotspot, you will discover weapons used by the resistance fighters of Force 136 and get promoted in rank at the completion of each trail. Kindly note that this application will require GPS tracking and internet connection for the downloading of content and the transmission of pictures. Please also note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life so remember to turn-off the Location Services function when you have completed each trail."
Louise Phinney

Reflections on a 1:1 iPad: It is a Tool, NOT a Toy! « techchef4u - 2 views

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reflections ipad tool technology

shared by Louise Phinney on 15 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 15 Feb 12
     
    I had the wonderful app-ortunity to make a site visit to Westlake H.S. in Eanes ISD on Wednesday February 1st. When we arrived, various campus and district officials shared some background on the student-centered learning initiative. They focused on multiple benefits of the 1:1 iPad initiative where high school seniors were issued iPads like textbooks at the beginning of the year. In a time where global communication, inquiry-based opportunities, and self-directed learning is how students manage the information revolution, it was refreshing to get to observe an iLearning Utopia.
Louise Phinney

Create your own Myths or Legends - 0 views

myths.e2bn.org/create

digitalstorytelling myths legends literacy

shared by Louise Phinney on 17 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 17 Mar 11
     
    program to create myths and legends, has background and characters but you can also upload your own.
David Caleb

Reading photographs - 1 views

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photographs visual literacy literacy photography

shared by David Caleb on 03 Nov 16 - Cached
  • Photographs have tremendous power to communicate information. But they also have tremendous power to communicate misinformation, especially if we’re not careful how we read them. Reading photographs presents a unique set of challenges. Students can learn to use questions to decode, evaluate, and respond to photographic images.
  • What happened just before this moment, or just after it?
  • The photograph of a crowd of jubilant Iraqis toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on April 9, 2003, is one of the most common images of the recent war in Iraq. A closeup shot shows a crowd of primarily Iraqis toppling the statue. A wide shot of the same scene would have revealed that the crowd in the square was made up of primarily US forces and journalists.
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  • One type of photography in which setting is very important is travel photography.
  • Using landmarks, monuments, or famous natural elements in a photograph is a core technique for evoking a sense of place.
  • The photographer selects the focal point not only by focusing the camera but also through other techniques.
  • shutter speed to bring only one element into focus immediately elevates that to the most important part of the image.
  • one element in the photograph is strongly backlit, it may seem to glow and thus draw the viewer’s attention.
  • What is the photographer’s thought process as she composes, frames, shoots and selects an image? Listen as photographer Lisa Maizlish narrates the decisions she made in photographing the students featured on the PBS reality show American High.
  • viewers have to decide how to interpret a photograph’s context
  • information about the people, events, setting, and so on are made explicit by the photographer — there are distinct visual clues that tell us who the people are, what they are doing, and where and when the photograph was taken.
  • implicit — implied but not clearly communicated by the photographer, or left to be inferred by the viewer.
  • identities of the people
  • unclear
  • their purpose may be unknown
  • time and place may be difficult or impossible to discern.
  • simple "W" questions can be open to debate.
  • Viewers may not even realize that they are making those assumptions
  • Just as successful written communication requires that the writer and reader speak the same language, successful visual communication requires that the photographer and viewer share a common "visual language" of signs, clues, and assumptions.
  • Were your assumptions correct? Can you always trust your first instinct? (And even having read the caption, how much do we really know about these girls and their lives?)
  • a different culture might ask why this round brown object is
  • we have to be careful that we have enough cultural background in common with the photographer to correctly interpret what we see.
  • The photograph by itself tells us very little about what’s going on; we probably could have invented any number of captions, and you’d have believed us!
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 03 Nov 16
     
    Reading images - lots of good strategies here
  • David Caleb on 07 Nov 16
     
    Reading photos
Keri-Lee Beasley

Free Samples - Amazing Textures - 2 views

www.amazingtextures.com/...free-samples.html

images free presentations backgrounds textures

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 14 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 14 Jan 12
     
    Some free textures that could be used in presentations.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Being a Better Online Reader - The New Yorker - 2 views

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digital_reading online digital literacy reading technology professional_development

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Aug 15 - No Cached
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  • Maybe the decline of deep reading isn’t due to reading skill atrophy but to the need to develop a very different sort of skill, that of teaching yourself to focus your attention. (Interestingly, Coiro found that gamers were often better online readers: they were more comfortable in the medium and better able to stay on task.)
  • no difference in accuracy between students who edited a six-hundred-word paper on the screen and those who worked on paper. Those who edited on-screen did so faster, but their performance didn’t suffer.
  • It wasn’t the screen that disrupted the fuller synthesis of deep reading; it was the allure of multitasking on the Internet and a failure to properly mitigate its impact.
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  • students performed equally well on a twenty-question multiple-choice comprehension test whether they had read a chapter on-screen or on paper. Given a second test one week later, the two groups’ performances were still indistinguishable.
  • “We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.”
  • Maybe her letter writers’ students weren’t victims of digitization so much as victims of insufficient training—and insufficient care—in the tools of managing a shifting landscape of reading and thinking.
  • In a new study, the introduction of an interactive annotation component helped improve comprehension and reading strategy use in a group of fifth graders. It turns out that they could read deeply. They just had to be taught how.
  • multitasking while reading on a computer or a tablet slowed readers down, but their comprehension remained unaffected.
  • Maybe the decline of deep reading isn’t due to reading skill atrophy but to the need to develop a very different sort of skill, that of teaching yourself to focus your attention.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Aug 15
     
    Really interesting information on being a better online reader. The author suggests the following: "Maybe the decline of deep reading isn't due to reading skill atrophy but to the need to develop a very different sort of skill, that of teaching yourself to focus your attention. (Interestingly, Coiro found that gamers were often better online readers: they were more comfortable in the medium and better able to stay on task.)"
Katie Day

YouTube - United Nations for kids - Episode 1 - 0 views

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un_day united_nations videos children

shared by Katie Day on 30 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Created and directed by Andreas Sandre von Warburg, "United Nations for kids" is a short cartoon documentary about the UN and its mission. The first episode is a general introduction and includes a little historical background and details on the principal bodies of the UN.
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