May 17 2009
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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Get e-mail (Gmail) My tutorial for novice teachers
My tutorial on why and how to set up and use Gmail. Download the powerpoint presentation from
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How to integrate social media tools into your teaching workday seamlessly | School 2.0 in SA
My post on making things a bit more easy for yourself using social media in your workday to share and store resources
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A list of library and technology resources
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LearningZen a free Course builder for teachers
LearningZen.com is a revolutionary online free service that can have you publishing courses to the web in just a few hours. Students can be taking courses in a matter of minutes. The system guides you through course creation with an innovative course builder and provides student management tools, course exams, and certificates of completion.
Build an education community, credibility, and a following by contributing what you know to LearningZen.com. -
MXit: How to Encourage and Facilitate Communication Among Students
How can distance learning become more student-centred? Dr Mpine Elizabeth Makoe, University of South Africa (UNISA), has been preoccupied with this question for several years. In a long-term study she conducted, she found that isolated students have a need for informal support that is often neglected in distance education. This has led her to investigate on how MXit, a popular South African instant messaging system, can help to fill the gap and drive collaborative eLearning in an attractive, age-appropriate manner.
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Next Generation User Skills Working, Learning & Living Online in 2013
In order to ensure the relevance and influence the ongoing enhancement of user ICT provision and the associated awards, Digital 2010 (the regional digital skills partnership for Yorkshire & Humber) and the Scottish Qualifications Authority jointly commissioned Sero Consulting Ltd in spring 2008 to undertake research in ICT User
skills.
The focus was exclusively on the vision for ICT user skills in 2013 – referenced as ‘Next Generation User Skills’ – taking account of:
• Skills that all employers will need, which they may not currently recognise – including web presence, information productivity, market research, infrastructure management
• Skills that people (especially young people) will already have, but which may not be recognised or accredited
• Generic occupational skills that people will need – such as remote working, online communication, information research, lifelong learning and, not least, management of their digital environment
• Essential skills for living and learning in a digital age – including
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South African department of education shuts out FOSS
Any comment from the DoE?
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LibraryThing – Catalog your books online
Enter what you’re reading or your whole library. It’s an easy, library-quality catalog.
- This seems to be an ideal book lover’s social network. – post by leftablaze
- For the researcher, this site gives you a way of entering books you own and seeing who else might own those same books. It then gives you a way to contact those people to see if they share your research interests.- post by educazione
- LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. – post by alanpoon
- This site allows the cataloging of one’s personal library. This concept can of course be extended to include with appropriate tags, the inclusion of books formerly owned as well as wish lists. As indicated it uses tagging to categorise a library. The site searches many other sites. Book covers can be selected. Groups can be formed. A very addictive site. Free membership allows the addition of 200 books, other membership allowing an unlimited number of books is $10 a year or $25 for a lifetime membership. – post by loyola
- “Enter what you’re reading or your whole library–it’s an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.” – post by jbergerot
- What’s good? Searches Amazon, the Library of Congress and 45 other world libraries.Show it or keep it private. Put your books on your blog too.Get recommendations. Connect to people with all your obscure stuff.Tag your books as on Del.icio.us and – post by helaine
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FileSocial allows you to share any file through your Twitter account.
FileSocial allows you to share any file through your Twitter account.
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Web Resources for Communication Skills
Fantastic list of great resoruces, not only for communication tools, but language resources as well
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Looking at 9thPeriod a social networking service for education
9thPeriod.com is a new and exciting academic based social educational network and academic platform. 9thPeriod.com uses Web 2.0 tools and offers parents, students, teachers, academic experts, as well as institutions our services for the purposes of academic advancement.
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Instant Messaging and Disruption in the Workplace
Some scholars worry that Instant Messaging (IM), by virtue of the ease with which users can initiate and participate in online conversations, contributes to an increase in task interruption. Others argue that workers use IM strategically, employing it in ways that reduce interruption. This article examines the relationship between IM and interruption, using data collected via a (U.S.) national telephone survey of full-time workers who regularly use computers (N=912). Analysis of these data indicates that IM use has no influence on overall levels of work communication. However, people who utilize IM at work report being interrupted less frequently than non-users, and they engage in more frequent computer-mediated communication than non-users, including both work-related and personal communication. These results are consistent with claims that employees use IM in ways that help them to manage interruption, such as quickly obtaining task-relevant information and negotiating conversational availability.
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Global Education Guidelines: A Handbook for educators to understand and implement global education
This handbook is a pedagogical tool to support educators in formal and non-formal systems to understand and put into practice global education activities. Global education is understood by the authors to encompass development education, human rights education, education for sustainability, education for peace and conflict prevention and intercultural education. By presenting global education philosophy and content, related methodology and evaluation issues, as well as by sharing existing practices, tools, resources and bibliography, the Guidelines aim to strengthen global education fundamentals and practices.
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The OpenScience project is dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software. We are a group of scientists, mathematicians and engineers who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world.
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What Works? Research Into Practice
The research summaries in this collection highlight promising teaching practice at the classroom level. Produced by a partnership between the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat and the Ontario Association of Deans of Education, the articles are written by scholars at Ontario universities who are experts in the field of education.
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