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Keri-Lee Beasley

Google Zeitgeist 2010 - 1 views

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    " Based on the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed into Google this year, Zeitgeist captures the spirit of 2010. "
Keri-Lee Beasley

TechXplorer - TechXplorer - 2 views

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    Why not subscribe to our very own TechXplorer, Louise Phinney! She is blogging about what she does with tech at Tampines & AMK.
Keri-Lee Beasley

film music | mobygratis.com - 1 views

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    Moby offers his music for student filmmakers for free :-)
Keri-Lee Beasley

Apple Distinguished Educators Program - 0 views

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    Apply to be an ADE via this site.
Keri-Lee Beasley

YouTube - A Creative Commons Christmas Carol - 0 views

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    Not suitable for kids (small bit of dodgy language), but good to see what is possible with CC.
Keri-Lee Beasley

YouCanBook.Me - 1 views

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    Let people reserve fixed length slots of time in your Google Calendar.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Drape's Takes: The Educator's Guide to the Creative Commons - 0 views

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    An excellent overview of why/how educators should begin using CC material.  You should definitely check out this site!
Keri-Lee Beasley

YouTube - Inside Active Learning Classrooms - 0 views

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    A University of Minnesota active learning classroom - showing possibilities for learning in higher ed.
Katie Day

YTTM.tv - Pick a year, click refresh, and TRAVEL THROUGH TIME. - 0 views

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    Watch videos from different years -- on YouTube -- Current Events, Sports, Movies, Music, Television.... goes all the way back to 1860
Katie Day

BBC - A History of the World - Explorer - 0 views

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    "At the heart of the project is the BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 objects. 100 programmes, written and narrated by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, and focusing on 100 objects from the British Museum's collection. The programmes will travel through two million years from the earliest object in the collection to retell the history of humanity through the objects we have made. Each week will be tied to a particular theme, such as 'after the ice age' or 'the beginning of science and literature', and the programmes will broadcast in three blocks, in January, May and September. Deep zoom imagery of the British Museum objects on the site lets you see the detail up close while listening to the programme. You can also watch short videos of many of the objects and download podcasts of each programme as it is broadcast."
Katie Day

Standards and Curriculum - Library Services - New York City Department of Education - 1 views

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    "The Information Fluency Continuum provides a framework for the instructional aspects of a library program. The framework is based on three standards that form the basis for the skills and strategies that are essential for students to become independent readers and learners."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Portable North Pole - PNP Communication Console - 0 views

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    Best video thing for little guys - you upload a photo of your child and it has Santa talking about being a good girl/boy etc etc
Katie Day

Teaching Document Design, Not Formatting Requirements - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

  • I teach document design. When I teach composition, I spend a significant amount of the semester on visual design. I’m also a scholar of visual design. Obviously, then, I care about design, perhaps unhealthily so. And I want everyone else to care, too. But, even if you can’t bring yourself to care about visual design, then you should still care about formatting requirements on assignment prompts and/or syllabi. Everything we put on these documents tells our students something about us, about what we value, and about what they should value
  • while the ability to follow conventions of all stripes is certainly important, the ability to understand, historicize, negotiate, and even resist those conventions is far more important. Formatting conventions do not exist in a vacuum, and while they are solidified in style guides and other texts, they are often fluid and change depending on technologies and rhetorical situations. For instance, the gold standard of student paper formatting exists for several reasons, not the least of which involves Microsoft’s push to use Times as the default font in word processors and web browsers. A knowledge of why those conventions exist, how to negotiate them, and the consequences for following and/or breaking them is far more useful for students than simply being forced to follow them blindly.
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    An argument for encouraging the positive criteria/skill of designing a document rather than prescriptive formatting requirements
Katie Day

When The Water Ends: Africa's Climate Conflicts by : Yale Environment 360 - 0 views

  • “When the Water Ends,” a 16-minute video produced by Yale Environment 360 in collaboration with MediaStorm, tells the story of this conflict and of the increasingly dire drought conditions facing parts of East Africa. To report this video, Evan Abramson, a 32-year-old photographer and videographer, spent two months in the region early this year, living among the herding communities. He returned with a tale that many climate scientists say will be increasingly common in the 21st century and beyond — how worsening drought in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere will pit group against group, nation against nation. As one UN official told Abramson, the clashes between Kenyan and Ethiopian pastoralists represent “some of the world’s first climate-change conflicts.”
  • But the story recounted in “When the Water Ends” is not only about climate change. It’s also about how deforestation and land degradation — due in large part to population pressures — are exacting a toll on impoverished farmers and nomads as the earth grows ever more barren.
  • The video focuses on four groups of pastoralists — the Turkana of Kenya and the Dassanech, Nyangatom, and Mursi of Ethiopia — who are among the more than two dozen tribes whose lives and culture depend on the waters of the Omo River and the body of water into which it flows, Lake Turkana.
Katie Day

» 1:1 Tuition Writing Project Heathfield's Year 6 Blog - 0 views

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    student writing prompted by the free iPad app "Epic Citadel"
Katie Day

My vision for history in schools | Simon Schama | Education | The Guardian - 0 views

  • once he realised – or was made to realise – how much more work it would take both for his pupils and himself to satisfy the time-lords of assessment, "I collapsed back on Hitler and the Henries."
  • My own anecdotal evidence suggests that right across the secondary school system our children are being short-changed of the patrimony of their story, which is to say the lineaments of the whole story, for there can be no true history that refuses to span the arc, no coherence without chronology.
  • A pedagogy that denies that completeness to children fatally misunderstands the psychology of their receptiveness, patronises their capacity for wanting the epic of long time; the hunger for plenitude. Everything we know about their reading habits – from Harry Potter to The Amber Spyglass and Lord of the Rings suggests exactly the opposite. But they are fiction, you howl? Well, make history – so often more astounding than fiction – just as gripping; reinvent the art and science of storytelling in the classroom and you will hook your students just as tightly. It is, after all, the glory of our historical tradition – again, a legacy from antiquity – that storytelling is not the alternative to debate but its necessary condition.
Keri-Lee Beasley

The Big Picture - Boston.com - 0 views

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    Site which has amazing pictures every day. Would be great inspiration for using with IWBs for a range of topics & discussions
Katie Day

Googlios - 1 views

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    "Welcome to "Googlios" where free Google tools meet ePortfolios.   This site is intended to be a collection of resources for those interested in using ePortfolios in Education. "
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