July 2012
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Film as a Great Motivator | Edutopia →
The right film and the right moment can create mood and meaning. Today in the Olympics, the swim coach was talking about how he had shown a clip from Saving private Ryan and teammembers took on a different air of brotherhood and working together as a team. Film can be a great motivator and teacher in the classroom when well done. It can also be a boring “beuller” moment if not picked...
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Tumblr Teachers: What's the best #education post...
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Reblog/Reply with:
The title
The link
The name of the Tumblr user who posted it
Would love to see answers to this one! Please share by replying here.
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Will: "Amplifying" Education...Not →
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So here’s the latest salvo over the education bridge by people who have a vastly different ideas of how to improve “learning” than the progressive minority:
Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate that owns FOX News and the Wall Street Journal, among other properties—on July 23 unveiled its new…
Interesting development. What kind of tablet computers, I wonder. What...
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Who is Behind the Nonprofit Hulk Twitter Account?... →
HULK accounts are popping up in all fields on Twitter as they tweet in all caps about their area of interest. Here, Beth Kanter talks about her (failed) attempt to unmask the nonprofit Hulk. Yes,I’m laughing. I need to look and see if there is an education — someone with the dry wit of Jon Becker needs to take that one on. Now, I’m looking for hulk. ;-)
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6 Q's About the News | Sally Ride, Trailblazer Who... →
Take this lesson plan from the New York Times about astronaut Sally Ride and use it. She was such an inspiration to many women - teaching us to not limit our minds to earth but to go past what we think we can do. I hope that teachers will discuss this amazing person with students, particularly as we struggle to have enough people going into STEM fields to sustain the growth of information...
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Three Ring | An App for Teachers to Create...
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See on Scoop.it - iGeneration - 21st Century Education Quickly and easily digitize student work and build the resource for authentic assessment in your classroom. See on threering.com
Interesting efolio app
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“What we need to figure out - writ large - how to do is to build systems and...”
– Chris Lehmann nails it in his post Good People Doing Great Things Together - Practical Theory, it is worth reading the whole thing.
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Games in Learning MOOC | On an e-Journey with... →
Anne Mirtschin, Australian teacher of the year for 2012, rocks. She’s enrolled in the Games Based Learning Mooc and in this blog shares what she is learning. I’m inspired by this veritable well of knowledge, energy, and love for students. To know Ann is to love her.
“Having enlisted for the Games Based Learning MOOC, I am determined not to be a lurker, but a participator of...
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Center for American Progress Report: Students say... →
This PDF report from the Center for American Progress shows in a national survey that students feel they are not being challenged in school. This state by state break down is sparking controversy.
37% of 4th graders say math is too easy. 72% of eighth grade science students say they aren’t being taught any engineering or technology, 21% of twelfth graders say their math is too easy and...
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The SQ3R Method: Survey, Question, Read, Recall,... →
This method of reviewing a book will save you a lot of time.
1- Survey the book by reading the table of contents, the introductory chapter and the introduction and summary of each chapter. This determines whether you want to read the book at all and gives you an overview knowledge of the book.
2- Question. Write the questions you have about the book. These then become your study questions or...
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Top 10 Tools for Brainstorming and Collaboration... →
Top 10 tools for business brainstorming according to the nextweb include producteev, Google Docs, Skype, Basecamp, Facebook member pages, Teambox, Google Docs, Join.me, Zoho, Asana and Yammer. I think one of the most useful tools missing from this list is Trello. Trello is a fantastic tool that allows for collaboration between teams.
This is an example of why students need to learn to collaborate...
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Project Gutenberg - 40K free ebooks →
This massive collaborative project of people around the world resulted in more than 40,000 free ebooks available on their website. Thee are free in the US because their copyright has expired. If you’re using ebook platforms, you’ll want to see which of your titles is available on project gutenberg.
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Richmond VA > Mayors Participation Action and... →
In this example, the Mayor’s Participation, Action and Communication Team in Richmond Virginia won a 2011 award from the US government for a citizen to government relating website. Here, citizens can put pins on a map and note what issues need to be addressed in the local area. There is also a mobile app. What a great way to involve citizens in their local area.
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GSA’s Digital Services Innovation Center Launches →
“GSA has now launched the Digital Services Innovation Center, a key piece of the White House’s new digital government strategy released in late May. The strategy was designed to ensure federal agencies use emerging technologies to serve the American people as effectively as possible through improved web services and mobile applications.
Over the next 10 months, the Center is charged with...
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CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government →
This initiative called “CGI” for collaborative government initiative, also proves that collaboration is in the future of everyone: public, private, education, business sectors are all part of this change. Students must learn how to collaborate. The voices of those who can will be heard and those who can’t will not. This is a very scary thing for those who understand where things...
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monsterproject - Welcome →
The monster project develops reading and writing skills for students and they are learning about “outsourcing” by describing monsters and drawing each other’s monsters without ever looking at the real monster. This is a fascinating project and I think is a great example of how children even at the youngest level can collaborate and connect as they flatten their classroom. We...
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IdeaConnection: Open Innovation success story:... →
“The Goldcorp Challenge was launched in March 2000 and 400 megabytes worth of data about the 55,000 acre site was placed on the company’s website. Everything that the company new about the Red Lake mine was a mouse click away. Word spread fast around the Internet and within a few weeks submissions came in from all over the world as more than 1,000 virtual prospectors chewed over the...
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Horizon Report Wiki →
The 2012 Horizon report is an important read for anyone in higher education. Written collaboratively, the intent is to explain and share the technology trends that will impact higher education in the next 1-5 years with specific examples. We study these trends in the NetGen project with our high school students. The process they use to write collaboratively is as powerful as the final report...
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The Top 100 Cloud Computing Vendors Of 2011 →
The top cloud vendors of 2011. This article divides the services up between software and apps, storage vendors, security vendors, etc. A nice list for those of you working to bring yourself up to speed on what is happening in the cloud.
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Microsoft shifts main Office product to the cloud... →
“Microsoft will market a new version called Office 2013 that will be installed locally on devices, but the future of the suit lies online with the cloud-based version released on preview mode Monday.”
Microsoft claims this is the most ambitious release to Microsoft Office and will ship bundled with devices running Windows RT including their tablets — with Word, Excel,...
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Anybody ever have a student trash you on online...
revolutionizeed:
Someone just pointed out a nice Twitter post about me! When I didn’t like teachers in high school, I just whispered in the hallways about it!
Edit: I agree with summerinphilly, it does tell me a lot about the student as opposed to anything about my own teaching!
People who don’t have the savvy to know nothing is private online will suffer in real life. I always mention...
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“Professional development is the essential vitamin for boosting learning with...”
– via Edutopia “Professional Development Adds up for Maine teachers”
Everyday Ramny: You know what's awesome? →
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Meeting an #education tumblr in real life and realizing they’re actually even more friendly and awesome in person.
Had a lovely dinner with our very own incognerdo this evening. Looks like there are lots of IRL tumblr meetups going on.
Seriously considering taking you up on this, in the last week of September.
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“You often hear people talk about how technology is so “engaging” for kids. But...”
– Sylvia Martinez,
Engagement Responsibility and Trust - Generation Yes Blog
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“Some men never seem to grow old.
Always active in thought, always ready to...”
– William Shakespeare
(I looked up fogyism and it comes from being a “fogey” which is “A person of stodgy or old-fashioned habits and attitudes.”
We quote Shakespeare and admire his prolific works but how often do we look at the man or woman behind the person. I love this...
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“Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to...”
– Seneca
Legacy is something we should all consider. What are the things that we’ve done that have truly made a difference? I would count any child that I have helped to find their own ability and talent as permanent marks upon my own hitchpost of time.
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Check to see if your email password was leaked:... →
This website has a record of the emails leaked in today’s security breach at Yahoo voices. You can type in your email and if it was breached, it will tell you. Then, CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD. Do it now.
This is getting quite annoying.
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Lesson Plans on Persistence via @sharemylesson →
As you talk about the Olympics beware of putting too much emphasis on gifts. Many people are gifted but few are willing to pay the price of persistence and seeking of wise counsel to get where they are. It is a great time to look at habits and examine our own. Are we Olympic in our pursuits of our own dreams or are we happy to sit in our chair eating popcorn complaining about how we never get a...
