Interestingly enough, schools often seem to discourage activities with these distributed forms of knowledge and resources, instead focusing on testing for what students have "inside their heads". However, I think it's just as important to recognize, evaluate, and help develop students' strategies for learning, collaborating, and accessing knowledge that they don't already possess, as this seems to be much more aligned with what we do as adults. I mean, I don't know all sorts of things, but I have pretty good strategies in place for finding them out.
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Create a virtual world of educational ideas using Edistorm's Sticky Notes - 9 views
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Edistorm is an excellent site for creating and using educational virtual sticky notes. Students can collaborate with the teacher on project ideas. They can vote on those ideas and make comments to eacher other. Use Edistorm as a means of brainstorming ideas.
Tapiohka a learning social networking site with facilities for class mangement and reso... - 0 views
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"Today's tech-savvy students spend hours upon hours sharing information with friends through social networks like Facebook. We wanted to bring this form of interaction to education. Tapiohka is a free, hosted solution that provides easy access to class information with tools that facilitate sharing and collaboration. We look to differentiate ourselves by bringing the focus on students learning from each other and not just from their teachers and textbooks. We completed our first phase of development last month and Tapiohka is now available and completely free to users. Currently, a teacher can create a class and provide their students with secure access to class information, schedule and resources. Students can collaborate with their fellow classmates within a platform that enables the easy sharing of resources and the ability to create discussions and form study groups."
50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom (RT @russeltarr) - 18 views
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Using wikis in education
BigMarker | Meet, Learn, Present with Free, Easy, Unlimited Web Conferencing, Online Me... - 8 views
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Big Marker is a new free service for conducting online conferences. I actually learned about Big Marker last weekend from a post by Larry Ferlazzo, but didn't get a chance to try it until this evening. What I discovered is that Big Marker looks like a great option for conducting online tutoring sessions, brainstorming sessions, and other online presentations. Big Marker allows you to create your choice of a private or a public online meeting room. If you make your room public anyone can join. If you make your room private you have to give participants a password to enter the room. Once in your Big Marker conference room you can share screens, chat via text, chat via audio, or turn on your webcam so that people can see and hear you. Your Big Marker conference room comes with a white board that you and your participants can write and draw on. As the creator of a Big Marker conference you can control who can and cannot be heard or seen in the live audio and video chats. Applications for Education Big Marker could be a great tool for conducting online tutoring sessions and lessons. Students working on collaborative projects could use Big Marker to brainstorm and plan for completion of their projects. As a professional development resource Big Marker could be useful for facilitating workshops online.
Cacoo - Create diagrams online Real time collaboration - 14 views
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handy collaborative tool for creating diagrams etc.
How to Use Twitter to Stay Informed in Science and Math - 3 views
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The value of Twitter for helping you and your colleagues stay informed of the latest trends, ideas, resources, and Web 2.0 integration tools has increased tremendously in the past year. A Web 2.0 tool is available for exploiting the every growing information on Twitter to remove barriers and allow you to collaborate with other science and math teachers. This new online tool is paper.li - a source of daily Twitter newsletters in education.
IDroo Whiteboard for Skype - 4 views
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"IDroo - Online educational multiuser whiteboard. FREE for non-commercial use. Collaborative meetings with many participants (10 or even more). Insert simple and complex mathematical equations. Draw and write your ideas. Express your mind through images. Take advantage of high quality calls over Skype. All drawings are easily editable vector graphics. Works with Wacom Bamboo, Wacom Intuos and other digital tablets"
12 x 3D Tools for Education, Training & Collaboration - 10 views
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These tools are suitable for those who want to start simply and have fun, as well as those interested in creating high-end simulated learning environments. A mix of free, open source and commercial tools.
15 tools for education | Collaboration Ideas - 12 views
100 Excellent Lectures to Improve Your New Media Literacy | Clear View Education Blog - 0 views
#diaspora #opensouce social network alternative for #googleplus and #facebook to malke ... - 2 views
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What are the best social networks to build a pln in education 2.0 ? http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-social-networks-to-build-a-pln-in-education-2-0
20 Google Doc Templates for use in Science and Math Classrooms - 17 views
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Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor that enables you to create, store, share, and collaborate on documents with your science and math students. You can even import any existing document from Word and Simple Text. You can work from anywhere and with any computer platform to access your documents.
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Informal Pedagogy of Anime Fandom: An Interview with Reb... - 0 views
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the importance of informal learning
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experts and novices participate in the same areas and activities in affinity spaces. So, as I mentioned previously, novices aren't prevented from engaging in creative activities that they find interesting, even if these activities are challenging for them. And, through working in the same space as experts, novices are able to benefit from this exposure, by asking questions, collaborating, and by observing how experts go about certain tasks.
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Profiting from our educators' affinity spaces here.
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Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 3 Tools for Exploiting the Wifi During Presentations - 12 views
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There are of course a few gifted speakers who can hold the audience's attention for a full hour and keep most of them listening and awake. If like me you're not one of those, then here are a few tools that, thanks to the increasing availability of wireless connectivity at conference centres these days, might help to turn your passive listeners into a bunch of multitasking audience collaborators.
The list of wikis below is just a smattering of some of the best open wikis available today. They were all nominated by teachers and administrators from around the world during this year's Edublogs awards. If you're not familiar with wikis, they're quite simply a website developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content. That's the official Wikipedia definition. What better place to get a proper definition, right? Anyway, check out each one of these terrific wikis today and do your best to join or at least monitor what's happening on them. Enjoy!
http://wiki.scotedublogs.org.uk/
ScotEduBlogs
http://ukedchat.wikispaces.com/
#ukedchat Information Wiki Site
http://21stcenturyskillsnmteachercourse.wikispaces.com/home
21st Century Skills for Teachers
http://ibart.wetpaint.com/
Art Online Studio
http://asantangelo82.wikispaces.com/
asantangelo82
http://thedaringlibrarian.wikispaces.com/
Daring Tech Wiki
http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/w/page/17791568/FrontPage
Digitally Speaking.
http://edcamp.wikispaces.com/
Ed Camp
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/
Educational Origami
http://flatclassroomproject.org/
Flat Classroom Project
http://fugleflicks.wikispaces.com/
Flugleflicks
http://greetingsfromtheworld.wikispaces.com/
Greetings From The World
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/
ICT Magic Show
http://palmbeachschooltalk.com/groups/ipadpilot/
iPad in Education
http://metasaga.wikispaces.com/
METASAGA
http://mrhanson.pbworks.com/
Mr Hanson's Online Class