Mar 01 2009
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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A 21st Century Global Acceptable Use Policy for cellphone use in Schools
Very interesting look at how schools are restricting cellphone use in the classroom and The AU policies in place
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Math Activity Worksheets (Grade 1)
Dynamic Math Worksheets – Grade One
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An example of VoiceThread in a life sciences lesson (Thanx @Ariellah)
This demonstrates how 2 learners have recorded their seed sprouting experiment using voicethread+ photos + voice
- Description: VoiceThread is an online, interactive album that can hold various types of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways – voice (microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (webcam). A VoiceThread allows
group conversations, digital stories, oral histories, commentary, etc. to be collected and instantly shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. You can embed them into webpages - (http://voicethread. com/share/ 805/), moderate comments (http://voicethread. com/share/ 718/), and more. There is also a section called “Ed.VoiceThread” for educators (http://ed.voicethre ad.com/) which charges a nominal fee for additional content protection and control. All VoiceThread and many Ed.VoiceThread pages are completely accessible to anyone. See the About pages for a list of tools and links to tutorials. – post by bookminder
- Upload photos and then record audio explaining them. Check out the “What’s a VoiceThread anyway?” for an introduction. This could have some interesting applications working with primary sources; rather than writing text, you could record audio. Free for educators and students.
- Description: VoiceThread is an online, interactive album that can hold various types of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways – voice (microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (webcam). A VoiceThread allows
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RubiStar- free online rubric creator – Annotated
Want to make exemplary rubrics in a short amount of time? Try RubiStar out! Registered users can save and edit rubrics online. You can access them from home, school, or on the road. Registration and use of this tool is free
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Self-Education Resource List- very comprehensive
The internet is an invaluable resource to self-educated learners. Below is a list of some of the most helpful sites out there including opencourseware materials, free libraries, learning communities, educational tools, and more.
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Gallery | Alton Convent School
Example of a school website in using (free) drupal
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Critiquing Acceptable Use Policies by Dave Kinnaman, Revised
This technological shock to our moral codes means that in the future, we are going to have to teach our children well. — Howard Rheingold
This resource is dated but relevant!
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How to use digital games, SN and simulations in the classroom
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Very glad I found this resources: School AUP 2.0
This is a dynamic document designed to support teachers, school media specialists, and education leaders in developing, maintaining, and enforcing policies designed to:
1. Promote the most effective, productive, and instructionally sound uses of digital, networked, and abundant information environments.
2. Provide safe digital environments for learners and to instill safe practices and habits among the learning community. -
OCR Terminal: Free Online OCR – Convert pdf to word, jpeg to word, scanned images to editable text
OCR Terminal is an free online Optical Character Recognition service that allows you to convert scanned images and pdf’s into editable and text searchable documents. It accurately preserves formatting and layout of documents.
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Teaching English IATEFL 2009 (online) conference
Join us and fellow ELT professionals from around the world to discuss, reflect on and develop ideas. The 43rd IATEFL Conference will offer many opportunities for professional contact and development. The programme offers over 400 workshops, posters, talks, panel discussions and symposiums by international presenters from over 60 countries.
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Achieving successful learning in a web 2.0 world
Push and pull learning vas formal and informal leanring
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This page has great link summaries on web 2.0 in education
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Google Freak: Google Reader for Beginners
Video and good links to explain how to stay on top of the endless stream of information
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RT ARKive Education: A free multi-media resource for teachers and educators
ARKive Education is a free-to-use, multi-media resource bank for teachers and other educators. Making use of the stunning imagery available at the award-winning ARKive website www.arkive.org, ARKive Education provides downloadable, ready to use modules on a wide range of curriculum topics, suitable for geography, biology, environmental education and citizenship lessons.
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Another good guide to getting twittering!
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All In The Mind: Computers and your head
Are our ubiquitous interactions with computers radically changing our brains? The way we think? The way we see the world? Do digital natives think significantly differently to digital immigrants?
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Geo Tracking See and find whre your visitors come from
Geo-localization is a tracking and mapping procedure which allows an internet users’ geographic location to be identified when he accesses your blog , forum or internet site. This is achieved using his IP address (an address which is allocated daily by the internet access provider) An internet users’ geographic location can be established using this process and is 97% reliable for tracing his country, 75% reliable for tracing his town or region. GEOVISITE offers dynamic and efficient tools !
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Using Drop.io to Share Files with Your Students
Very handy little tool very nicely descibed herer
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ISW Network: PD Learning Object Repositories
The Websites listed here contain annotated links to resources that may be of interest to PD Professionals.
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Social websites harm children’s brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist | Mail Online – Annotated
Alarmist article? Research evidence?
- This is from the Daily Mail which is not known for high quality journalism. – post by msbehaviour
- And some schools are advocating using “Brain Training” on the Ninetendo DS in primary schools – http://snipr.com/ckt2m – can both be right (can both be wrong?) – post by nogbad
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‘My fear is
- Fears – but proof? – post by sharonbetts
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could leave a
- Yet again – “could”. I would like to read more research based facts. – post by sharonbetts
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‘I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues
- The issues are that screen conversations lack body language and they tend to be anonymous. Now, those who are shy can benefit from an anonymous presence, but the irresponsible can too. – post by jaronflick
- I don’t think screen conversations are sanitised or easier. – post by lblanken
- Imagining babies using Twitter, Facebook and playing computer games! – post by sueblimely
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‘It is hard to see how living this way on a daily basis will not result in brains, or rather minds, different from those of previous generations,’ she said.
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She pointed out that autistic people, who usually find it hard to communicate, were particularly comfortable using computers.
‘Of course, we do not know whether the current increase in autism is due more to increased awareness and diagnosis of autism, or whether it can – if there is a true increase – be in any way linked to an increased prevalence among people of spending time in screen relationships. Surely it is a point worth considering,’ she added.
- Ever heard of a baby who has developed autism after spending too much time socializing online!! – post by sueblimely
- Having a little trouble with the cause/effect here. – post by budtheteacher
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Psychologists have also argued that digital technology is changing the way we think. They point out that students no longer need to plan essays before starting to write – thanks to word processors they can edit as they go along.
- What a stupid thing to say. Because we *can* write without planning, doesn’t mean that we always *should*. – post by budtheteacher
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A study by the Broadcaster Audience Research Board found teenagers now spend seven-and-a-half hours a day in front of a screen.
- It adds up so quickly. An hour each way on the bus playing a handheld device. Two hours at school (at least) in labs or on laptops. Two hours of research and homework. An hour of television. (Actually, my son gave up the TV to chat online for that last hour.) That adds up to about 7 hours depending on the bus ride. – post by jaronflick
- This may be what drives me nuts about these blanket statements. What on earth are any parents/teachers thinking when they allow kids to stay still in front of a screen for this long??Moderation in all things! – post by vanmetea
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‘I’m not against technology and computers. But before they start social networking, they need to learn to make real relationships with people.’
- Considering that you have to be 13 to participate in most social networking sites, it should be hoped indeed that children do have a chance to engage in real life socializing before that – post by calmansi
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How to Retweet: A Simple Guide
The art of “retweeting” is best described as taking a twitter message someone else has posted, and rebroadcasting that same message to your followers. When broadcasting this message, you should give credit to the original poster. While retweeting sounds great for the original tweeter (since there is usually a link involved), retweeting can actually benefit you just as much if not more.
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Using twitter as part of Courseware
A great explantion of how a lecturer use Twitter as part of his course. It also gives us an overview of uses for twitter. Adding it to my Twitter motivation!
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Exploring Ways to Embed Tables & Spreadsheets in Web Pages
While online spreadsheets like Google Docs make it very easy for anyone to embed tabular data in websites, there are some other alternatives that might suit your requitmeents better
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
