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Barbara Lindsey

TeachersFirst: Wiki Walk-Through - 0 views

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 22 Feb 09
     
    Great overview, explanation and examples of wikis for educational purposes
Darcy Goshorn

Experience with facilitating professional development and TurnItIn - 0 views

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  • Darcy Goshorn on 09 Jan 13
     
    In an environment where global economy, global collaboration, and global 'knowledge' are  the aspiration of many countries, the understanding of the complexities of plagiarism becomes  a global requirement that needs to be addressed by all educators and learners. This paper  considers a simple definition of plagiarism, and then briefly considers reasons why students  plagiarise. At Unitec NZ, Te Puna Ako: The Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation  (TPA:CTLI) is working closely with faculty, managers, student support services and library  personnel to introduce strategies and tools that can be integrated into programmes and  curricula whilst remaining flexible enough to be tailored for specific learners. The authors  therefore provide an overview of one of the tools available to check student work for  plagiarism - Turnitin - and describe the academic Professional Development (PD)  approaches that have been put in place to share existing expertise, as well as help staff at  Unitec NZ to use the tool in pedagogically informed ways, which also assist students in its  use. Evaluation and results are considered, before concluding with some recommendations. It  goes on to theorise how blended programmes that fully integrate academic literacy skills and  conventions might be used to positively scaffold students in the avoidance of plagiarism.  Conference participants will be asked to comment on and discuss their institutions' approach  to supporting the avoidance of plagiarism (including the utilisation of PDS and other  deterrents), describe their own personal experiences, and relate the strategies they employ in  their teaching practice and assessment design to help their learners avoid plagiarism. It is  planned to record the session so that the audience's narratives can be shared with other  practitioners.
Barbara Lindsey

Turning links into a library with Diigo - 0 views

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 05 Jan 10
     
    Great overview of the many benefits to using Diigo to collect, organize and share your bookmarks.
Barbara Lindsey

Explore the world with Google Earth - butterscotch - 0 views

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googleearth tutorial videos

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 08 Jan 10
     
    Multi-part series that gives a basic overview of Google Earth
Barbara Lindsey

academhack » Blog Archive » Seriously Can We End This Debate Already - 0 views

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  • What you want from a secondary source is a good introduction to a concept, that is mostly reliable, up-to-date, entries for as many topics as possible, connections to where to go to learn more, and easy and ubiquitous (as possible) access. A secondary source is not an in depth analysis which upon reading one is suddenly an expert on said entry or topic, it’s not designed to be. It is just a good overview. No secondary source is going to be completely accurate, or engage in the level of detail and nuance which we want from students, or that is required to fully “know” about a subject.
  • The issue is not that Wikipedia is or is not reliable and thus should be banned in academic environments, rather the issue is that Wikipedia is a secondary source and thus should not be treated as a primary one.
  • Wikipedia has substantial advantages over any prior encyclopedia model.
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  • The breadth of knowledge, its ability to be linked to other knowledge, its cost (free), its up-to-dateness, and its preservation of editorial discussions (it records not only the article but the discussion which produced said article) makes it far more useful. And that doesn’t even begin to address things like how much easier Wikipedia is to use for mash-ups and data extraction, repurposing the information for other reference works.
  • Instead lets talk to students about how appropriately to use secondary sources, how to understand how encyclopedias function, how all encyclopedias are biased, all knowledge is discursive, and focus on teaching students how to judge credibility and accuracy instead of outsourcing it to people at Britannica.
Barbara Lindsey

A physicist on the "Lessig style" (Lessig Blog) - 0 views

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  • Watch TED Talks clips. :) More suggestions: Presentation Zen Deliver a Presentation Like Steve Jobs The Art of the Pitch (mp3)
  • http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00001B&topic_id=1
  • More recently, I've started watching and deconstructing Lessig's TED talk with my Art & Media Ed students (most of whom are becoming teachers) in order to better understand the power of Lessig's approach. We also review the critiques of PowerPoint put forth by Edward Tufte, Sherry Turkle, and David Byrne. As a point of reference, we view Peter Norvig's PowerPoint reworking of the Gettysburg Address. If you haven't seen it, Norvig's presentation translates Abe Lincoln’s moving 1863 cemetery speech into a series of six generic slides featuring bullet points, bland colors and a nearly incomprehensible ‘Organizational Overview’ graph. It clearly illustrates some of the profound limitations of PowerPoint as a communications tool. In contrast, Lessig uses visuals (and selected text) in a way that truly compliments and extends the conceptual/pedagogical aspects of his presentations. As Chris Tunnell has pointed out, the multiple slides, repeating images, and minimal text allows the audience to focus on, enjoy (and presumably remember) the material being presented. This is further enhanced by the logical (e.g. 3 stories and an argument) and sometimes poetic (e.g. "the refrain") structures that Lessig uses to organize his talks.
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  • http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html
  • Reusing text
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Barbara Lindsey

Google Earth for the Elementary Teacher: TCEA 2008 - Susan F. Reeves - 0 views

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googleearth education k-12

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  • Google Earth Overview Packet (doc file - 1,162kb) Packet with instructional information for K-5 Teachers
  • Landform FlipBook PowerPoint Template (ppt file - 727kb) Students use this template to locate, take screen shots and find examples of major landforms. (Grades 2 - 4)
  • Barbara Lindsey on 24 Oct 09
     
    Wonderful set of resources that are clear, focused and supportive of teachers interested in using google earth to enhance their curriculum. While geared towards K-5, I think these resources can be useful for any level of instruction.
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