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Denise Oliveira

5 Social Network Students Can Use to Find a Job - 2 views

Yes, it seems that the newspaper search for jobs is fast disappearing from our times. While social network sites increase/enhance job hunting, publicizing about one's skills, and employer insights ...

careers social networking employment

started by Denise Oliveira on 15 Aug 13 no follow-up yet
Christine Kurucz

5 Social Networks Students Can Use To Find A Job - 1 views

www.edudemic.com/...students-can-use-to-find-a-job

communication social media

shared by Christine Kurucz on 31 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Christine Kurucz on 31 Jul 13
     
    The days of the traditional cover letters and resumes sent through the mail are over. Today, people/students find jobs through social media sites -- Linkedin, FB, even Twitter. As we talk about digital communication, this is a "real world" application in how students need to know these tools as well as how to present themselves in a digital forum. This is the type of situation where all the writing skills and presentation skills taught in high school count, and we need to be sure our students can do this in a virtual environment.
  • Patty Bettinger on 13 Aug 13
     
    This is a useful article! Gone are the hard copy resumes printed on nice, heavy weight paper with matching envelopes. Thanks, Christine.
Cheryl Zaino

5 Job Interview Questions that Are Illegal to Ask - 1 views

career-services.monster.com/...illegal-interview-questions

learning education interview job

shared by Cheryl Zaino on 23 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • questions that are illegal for employers to ask you
  • Protected classes typically include race, gender, nationality, religion, military status and age (40 and up).
  • Who will take care of your children while you’re at work?
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  • How did you get that scar/mark/other physical abnormality?
  • How often are you deployed for your Army Reserve training exercises?
  • When are you planning on having children?
  • Have you ever been arrested? 
  • Cheryl Zaino on 23 Jun 14
     
    This article explains which interview questions you should not be asked and why,
Kristin Steiner

Ten Steps for Better Media Literacy Skills - 7 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...r-better-media-literacy-skills

media literacy information literacy 21st century skills Web 2.0 teaching education Internet safety technology

shared by Kristin Steiner on 11 May 11 - No Cached
  • Kristin Steiner on 11 May 11
     
    This article discusses research that has been done regarding the needs of people to obtain media and information literacy skills in order to better many of their experiences in 21st century society. The article states that "knowing how to search for, analyze, and interpret information is a skill that will be used for more than just writing a good research paper: People use media literacy skills for applying for jobs online, getting relevant health information, and sifting through online educational opportunities, for example." Ten recommendations for developing stronger media and information literacy skills are given in the article. Legislative efforts from the federal government to provide funding in support of programs that help to develop these 21st century skills are also discussed.
Tara Dillon

Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen? | Faculty Focus - 3 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...-they-benefit-those-who-listen

collaboration How to Present web2.0 education communication evaluation peer

shared by Tara Dillon on 26 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Tara Dillon on 26 Feb 13
     
    February 21, 2013 By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning Almost everyone agrees that student presentations benefit the presenter in significant ways. By doing presentations, students learn how to speak in front a group, a broadly applicable professional skill. They learn how to prepare material for public presentation, and practice (especially with feedback) improves their speaking skills. (Much of what we want for our students is to work, respect, support, find the good in one another, have fun and use web tools together! Highlighting the peer evaluative piece was one I am doing my best to work on. Great resource!) ~Tara
  • Thomas Fischer on 28 Feb 13
     
    Tara, Good find. A nice way to get more students engaged. An interesting, approach to student presentations. The author does a nice job of describing advantages, as well as disadvantages, to requiring students to critique their classmate's presentations. The image of the "comatose" classmates in their seats as yet, another presenter tries to impress the teacher is comical, yet accurate. The students doing the critiques also had a vested interest as it represents a portion of their grade. A significant statistic was that," Seventy-three percent of the students agreed or strongly agreed that completing the evaluations made them pay more attention to the presentations. " A final point of interest is that students were clear in not wanting their classmates critiques to have an impact on their grade. Tom
Sister Jacqueline

Higher Order Thinking - 2 views

www.cdl.org/...Where%20we%20are%20going.html

education communication

shared by Sister Jacqueline on 16 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Sister Jacqueline on 16 Feb 13
     
    Quick Facts About HOT No one thinks perfectly or poorly all the time. Memorizing something is not the same as thinking about it. You can memorize something without understanding it. Thinking is done in both words and pictures. These are just a few of the HOT qualities identified in this article
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  • Thomas Fischer on 17 Feb 13
     
    Sr. Jacqueline, The link in your post took me to this site. http://www.cdl.org/where-we-are-going/Where%20we%20are%20going.html It is an organization that is working with the children of New Orleans. I cannot seem to find the information on HOT. Thanks, Tom
  • Sister Jacqueline on 17 Feb 13
     
    Thanks, Tom. I went back to the article after reading your comment. The address is: http://www.cdl.org/resource-library/articles/highorderthinking.php As I was exploring the site I must have copied an incorrect address. Sister
  • Thomas Fischer on 18 Feb 13
     
    Sister Jacqueline, The article was well worth reading. It does a nice job of explaining the importance of higher order thinking and how it relates to problem solving and its importance in a school setting. Tom
Meaghan Roach

Secure Social Networking - 4 views

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/...ure_social_networking.html.csp

web2.0 Information Literacy social networking safety

shared by Meaghan Roach on 02 May 12 - No Cached
  • Holly Ruiz on 02 May 12
     
    The article uses a friendly approach to help teens stay safe and for parents (adults) to understand how to change privacy settings. There is a series of videos (11) to help learn more about social networking and how to check yourself it something doesn't seem right. The article also demonstrates the use of protection your personal property from hackers and spammers.  I personally think the article does a great job using the friendly approach with teens, and using videos, and teens will click on a video than read an entire article. Holly
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  • Mervin Eyler on 08 May 12
     
    This site offers a number of websites to help learn how to use and how to be safe while networking. Some of the sites are aimed at teens, others at adults (parents and/or teachers). Most sites include videos. I like the site as a first step to put one on the road to being saavy or literate on the web when using social networks.
  • Jeanne Lauer on 08 May 12
     
    This site has information that is valuable for parents and students alike, so all users of the Internet can protect themselves as securely as possible. It's important to know the limits of social networking and the videos present this information in a clear concise manner.
  • Florina Merturi on 15 May 12
     
    www.connectsafely.org This up-to-date site designed for adults offers an excellent online discussion forum on social networking sites. You'll also find the latest related news, with "commentaries" written by both staff and guest experts covering various legal, social, and safety issues. Of special interest: the commentaries on age verification and cyberbullying.
  • Griffin Loynes on 29 May 12
     
    In Web 2.0 classrooms, teachers encourage students to use social networking for collaborative work. This article delves into the issue of safety in regards to social networks. It provides five links to websites, which help students become aware of the possible dangers of social networking. The article summarizes the different links, discussing the particular purpose and audience of the linked site. Some the sites even provide resources for parents and teachers.
  • denise elya on 30 May 12
     
    These are great articles. I like the user friendly approach to all of these; In www.connectsafely.org there are great personal accounts of what can go wrong using social media. Those articles really resonate with my own fears. We must be wise when we use the web.
  • Meaghan Roach on 24 Jul 12
     
    This online discussion forum offers adults insight into the legal, social, and safety issues tied into specific social networking sites.
Holly Ruiz

Strong communication key to online learning | eSchool News - 0 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...ication-key-to-online-learning

communication online learning education

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  • Holly Ruiz on 22 May 12
     
    eSchool News presents the dilemma with the growing trends in online learning. Communication is key in the classroom and online/virtual teachers must possess the special skills necessary to enhance the learning process in the virtual environment.
  • S Worrell on 24 May 12
     
    Very interesting article. I think a lot of teachers diving into online teaching are not prepared for, or are surprised at, the intense level of communication required. Frequent concise feedback to students is the key. This article does a solid job at communicating this. Thanks for sharing it.
laurel Ridley

Jan's blog - 1 views

alwaysjan.edublogs.org

blog web2.0tools education media literacy technology creativity

shared by laurel Ridley on 23 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Cools Tools for Schools Wikispace is Inspirational!
  • A colleague of mine found and bookmarked this wiki site and I have spent hours engaged in the multitude of avenues that learning can take place here.  The link is http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Home .  If you have a desire to learn a great deal about Web 2.0 learning tools, you will thoroughly enjoy this wiki.
  • The site is well organized with more than seventeen categories of “tools” ranging from Presentation Tools, Collaboration Tools, Audio Tools, Music Tools, Converting Tools, Image Tools, Research Tools, Mapping Tools, Quiz and Poll Tools, Graphing Tools, Creativity Tools, Video Tools, Slideshow Tools, Drawing Tools, Writing Tools, Widgets, etc.  I did not find one link that did not work and the pages were all very nicely linked for moving from page to page
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  • I was pleasantly surprised that there was a link to a site still under construction but already containing many marvelous finds entitled “Cool Apps for Schools” and the link is http://coolappsforschools.wikispaces.com/home .  I especially liked the list of essentials for ipads, ipods, and iphones and I would highly suggest that you check out this list if you are a mobile device user
  • Web 2.0 Tools support Community and Collaboration Posted on February 21, 2013 by alwaysjan This is a Mind42 Map about Web 2.0 Tools.  These tools are used for collaboration and support of community.
  • “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” (John Dewey)
  • laurel Ridley on 23 Jul 13
     
    There are some amazing tools listed on these sites, including a Mind42 map of Web 2.0 Tools. I can see that my map is quite lacking compared to these. But, now I have an idea as to what to aim for. It would be great to set my students loose of some of these tools. "If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow." (John Dewey). This has been one of my favourite quotes along with "We need to prepare our students/children for jobs that have not been created yet" (Unknown). For me, they sum up what we as teachers need to strive for and that we need to keep on trying to stretch ourselves and our students...after all, we are 13% of the way through the 21st Century. It's exciting.
Matthew Pincus

Innovation Excellence | 30 Ways To Promote Creativity in Your Classroom - 2 views

www.innovationexcellence.com/...e-creativity-in-your-classroom

technology communication collaboration media literacy web 2.0 21st century classroom field trip

shared by Matthew Pincus on 28 May 13 - No Cached
  • Matthew Pincus on 28 May 13
     
    Miriam Clifford does a wonderful job of summarizing the works of many of the cutting edge theorists and the last half century and compiling them into her article "30 Ways To Promote Creativity in Your Classroom."
Shelly Landry

Creativity on the Run: 18 Apps that Support the Creative Process | Edutopia - 3 views

www.edutopia.org/...ps-for-creativity-diane-darrow

creativity Apps teaching practice web2.0 collaboration technology

shared by Shelly Landry on 24 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Chris Chen on 24 Jul 13
     
    'We do not need to teach creativity, but rather inspire its daily practice.' This opening sentence is intriguing yet inspiring to me. As said in the title, this article introduces 18 apps to support students developing creativity at different thinking stages. The writer also suggests some practical strategies which could be incorporated in our daily teaching practice. Nevertheless, what strikes me more is the reminder that we, as a class, school, or community, need to build a culture of trust in the first place to cultivate culture of creativity and innovation.
  • Shelly Landry on 26 Jul 13
     
    What a great article about creativity.  What I loved is that the article states that schools do not need to teach creativity.  Schools need to foster it by providing students a safe place to take risks and providing them tools that make that risk taking possible.  Creativity is about finding solutions to problems using one's own ideas and thinking skills.  Students can do this when given the power and opportunities to do so.
  • Patty Bettinger on 27 Jul 13
     
    Like Chris, the opening to this post caught my eye. "We do not need to teach creativity, but rather inspire its daily practice." Ms. Darrow's article captures the importance of creating a school that values it's students, encourages them to take some risks, and lets them practice these skills with abandon. With support and coaching from teachers, students can work through the steps outlined in this article using technology to streamline the process, help them develop real life/career skills, and appeal to their interest in digital media. I like how Darrow labels this process; there are clear steps to increase understanding. Collaboration or group work can use this format as well, group members' jobs are easily created with the resulting structure. It also creates natural places to scaffold the process for individualizing learning in a classroom full of all kinds of learners. Each activity we do in a class may not need all these steps and some may need more, but I plan to keep this article in mind as I tweak my courses this summer.
Patty Bettinger

9 Wrong And 8 Right Ways Students Should Use Technology - 7 views

Christine, This is the perfect reminder of what our job is when it comes to incorporating our tool chest into our courses. Like Denise, I will also be hanging this up by my desk. Each of us has t...

technology usage outcomes

started by Denise Oliveira on 15 Aug 13 1 follow-up, last by Patty Bettinger on 17 Aug 13
kara pfouts

For Kids' Sake, Let's Connect Parents and Schools - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/...e-to-school-parent-involvement

communication

shared by kara pfouts on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • kara pfouts on 27 Oct 10
     
    This article is looking at how schools can involve parents in schools better. It asks schools to think about how welcoming their school really is to parents.
  • Nicholas Cady on 04 Nov 10
     
    Parent participation is sooo important to student success. When the parents are involved, students tend to be motivated and engaged. It is our job as educators to keep the parents connected. They have to feel welcomed to participate.
Joseph Mullett

The Ratzel Room Daily: Encouraging kids daily to think about Science in the Real World - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/...-thinking-information-literacy

shared by Joseph Mullett on 21 May 11 - No Cached
  • Joseph Mullett on 21 May 11
     
    A great article about how it is actually quite easy to use many of the web 2.0 tools to collect and analyze quickly, the current media and create connections between it and your classroom, or at least ideas to which you teach. This teacher did a great job of doing what so many of us try to do everyday. Finding current events and relating it to our classroom. But by having more feeds connected to one site, she was able to quickly narrow her search to whatever it was that she was teaching at the time. She also made it a point to observe the news feeds with her students and ask them to try to make the connections. If there was a story that made sense or got them intrigued and interested, they researched and read it together. A great way to teach young students how to filter the information that they are being exposed to, and to seek out credible references to initial questions and information.
Libby Turpin

Making Online Discussion Boards Work for Skills-Based Courses - Faculty Focus | Faculty... - 10 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...-work-for-skills-based-courses

communication Web2.0 education technology

shared by Libby Turpin on 10 Apr 11 - No Cached
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  • Mary Keane on 10 Apr 11
     
    This article explores ways to enhance online communication between students.
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  • Megan Smith on 09 May 11
     
    How to make a disucussion board effective. Divide a large group into smaller study sections. Make certain to post application questions, not fact-based or calculation questions. Apply the questions to the students' life/future.
  • Jon Tyler on 09 May 11
     
    The author describes using discussion boards for his accounting course.
  • amy sunke on 16 May 11
     
    This article highlights some key points about how to successfully integrate online discussions into core subject content. He does this by pairing down the discussion groups much like we are doing in the Web 2.0 course right now ,"When I did discussions with the class as a whole, the students grumbled about having to read repetitive messages. They were much more willing to participate in the study group if there were relatively few messages". He is also looking for an inital post and a follow up post written with correct grammar and spelling.
  • Holly Fiechtner on 24 May 11
     
    In this article, Rob Kelly discusses how he uses online discussion boards to enhance the learning in his classroom. Students end up helping one another, and the conversations go beyond accounting so that students really see the applicability of the subject matter to their future lives. Students who really excel in accounting help students who struggle, and the split classroom discussion helps to make it manageable for all students.
  • Mary Leon-Sweeney on 25 May 11
     
    This article talks about how to make online discussions work for skills-based courses. Using Professor Roger Gee's practice and approach as an example, the author offers examples to guide students in expressing themselves creatively and persuasively, which engages and motivates them. The class is divided into study groups for the discussions. Each discussion begins with a posting by Professor Gee, the discussions are to begin after students have read the material, viewed the PowerPoint, and taken a quiz. Professor Gee encourages students to work within the study groups to help each other.
  • Caryn Elefante on 11 Aug 11
     
    This article shows how to let online discussions allow for higher order thinking skills to flourish in a skills-based classroom.
  • Kim Metz on 18 Feb 12
     
    "Making Online Discussion Boards Work for Skills-Based Courses" is an article written by Rob Kelly and posted in a higher education newsletter. The author describes ways on how online discussions can enhance learning in skills-based online courses. He suggests rather than having students resolve math problems for example, steer students to coming up with an opinion supported by facts they have learned. Students should have the opportunity to have read the lesson, PowerPoints and other related resources before a discussion takes place. The discussions should also give students the opportunity to share opinions and how the material may affect their personal life. Like our class, the author suggest each student to post a reply to the instructor's question and reply to at least one other student's reply. The posting should have good spelling and grammar as if they were in the business world. Another way to enhance learning is to have students work collaboratively and help each other out. The suggestions offered by the author are similar to what we have received in this course. Although the article is written for higher education, I would assume, but I have to also wonder if this is valuable information at the secondary level too?
  • Steven Young on 13 May 12
     
    This is a first-rate article on how to run an online discussion for a class on a technical subject. The article elucidates the techniques used by an accounting professor at San Diego Messa College. Issues addressed include whether to focus on calculations or opinions, the size of discussion groups, at what point in the lesson plan students should post, and what role the teacher should play in introducing a topic. Professor Gee advocates that posts focus on opinions rather than facts or calculations, since the latter provides an opportunity to spread error. He also discusses dividing a class of 35 into two groups, having students post after they have reviewed a substantial part of the lesson, and the teacher introducing discussion topics and modeling the first comment.
  • Jeanne Lauer on 14 May 12
     
    As a teacher of a 2 year high school accounting program, I enjoyed reading this article about Professor Roger Gee's use of online discussion boards. I introduce my students to several elements of personal finance as it relates to a service business owner's personal finances and wondered how I could engage my students to delve a bit deeper into their own thoughts on their personal finances now and in the future. I will be using Gee's suggestion as it helps students use some critical thinking to plan for their future. Some of the items mentioned actually are part of the "flipped classroom" concept; students already having read the lesson, watched the PowerPoints, and taken the test. Then comes the discussion using the learned skills. I appreciate this information for a skill-based course be it high school or community college. As we articulate with our neighboring community college, and attempt to make our students college-ready, this concept fits the bill.
  • Libby Turpin on 16 May 12
     
    Rob Kelly discusses how to he used online discussion boards in a skills based course. This concept could be followed for any type of study group. Given students learn best when they not only teach the information but share and collaborate with others, this idea enhances the learning process.
  • Holly Ruiz on 22 May 12
     
    I'm the only Accounting teacher and have been teaching for 2 years at the high school level. I feel this article does a great job not just on how discussion boards can help and guide deeper levels of thinking among Accounting students, but provides the opportunity to take baby steps including technology in the classroom and push critical thinking. I can appreciate this article greatly because I believe we all learn through experience and as Gee mentions, some of the students have worked in the field and may be able to offer their peers another insight.
Linda Stanley

4 Free Web Tools for Student Portfolios - 3 views

www.edutopia.org/...student-portfolios-dave-guymon

information literacy media literacy technology Communication collaboration

shared by Linda Stanley on 09 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Linda Stanley on 09 Jun 14
     
    This article attracted my attention due to my affiliation with Graduation Portfolios for our district. I loved the idea of students taking ownership of their Portfolio in terms of linking it to an electronic format they could *present* at the end of the school year. One of the apps listed ("Three Ring") sounded really interesting, and I hope to model it with next year's Seniors.
  • Cheryl Zaino on 13 Jun 14
     
    This article was great. Our high school students should be creating career portfolios and some of the programs like Evernote and Three Ring seem to be great ways of collecting and organizing career information. Employers are now looking at what students have accomplished over a paper resume. Some employers want to see you digital resume' with examples of a student's work. These two programs seem to be a great way to help students be prepared for the new way employers might require for job interviews. One other website is a great resource for Student Portfolios and that is MassCis. Not only does it have the ability to upload exemplars, but it has lessons teachers can use that are aligned with the standards to help students explore their career interests. Imagine, career information, career inventories, goal setting activities, resume writing, college and financial information, teachers' lesson plans and student portfolios all on the same website. Each student can create a portfolio and have it from the middle school through high school. Check it out: www.masscis.intocareers.com
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