Jul 19 2009
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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Give me a reason to go to the library (great read)
A teenagers view of what the library mean to her….a must read
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Great report: Personalising Education: from research to policy and practice
Personalisation in education has been discussed in research and policy papers for approximately ten years. Personalised learning, as a concept, first appeared in the United States and was subsequently expanded and deepened through work in the United Kingdom as it became embedded in a wider argument for the reform of all public services. This reform aimed to create services that responded more directly to the diverse needs of individuals rather than imposing uniform solutions on all people.
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What makes a good teacher as far as technology is concerned?
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Libraries for a Postliterate Society
Any number of recent studies are concluding that reading is declining, primarily the reading of novels and longer works of nonfiction. Pundits are remarking that online reading is changing their personal reading behaviors. Doug Johnson infers from this and other observations that we are rapidly becoming a “postliterate society.” In Doug’s feature, you can find out just what he means by that, and learn how libraries can serve this postliterate society.
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FREE Online Math Calculator, Converter. Mathematics Calculater Web Site
Your Math (mathematics) is made easy here. Calculate things online with just mouse moves. This free online math web site will help you learn mathematics in a easier way. EasyCalculation will also help you to solve difficult problems too.
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Information Literacy: Building Blocks of Research: Overview
Information Literacy is a transformational process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create for personal, social or global purposes.
Information Literacy shares a fundamental set of core thinking- and problem-solving meta-skills with other disciplines. Authentic cross-disciplinary problems which include observation and inference, analysis of symbols and models, comparison of perspectives, and assessment of the rhetorical context, engage students in developing mastery information literacy over time.
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Educational technology Standards for teachers – Annotated
- Nice rubric potential – post by misteanjava
- Integration awareness scale:
From NECC:
Unaware
Beginning Awareness = beginning
Aware = Developing
Active Awareness = Proficient
Flexible Aareness = Transformative – post by diannekrause
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Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
- Use Blabberize or Voki for beginning teachers – post by diannekrause
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Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
- Can embed into edublogs, wikispaces, etc – post by diannekrause
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Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
- Make wikis more than just static text and images – embed web 2.0 tools and create a collaborative environment – post by diannekrause
- Can use wikis for this – collaborative, searchable – post by diannekrause
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collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation.
- Moving up to more proficiency – use voki instead of blabberize – can pick backgrounds, etc… allows students to take the perspective during a debate
Can comment on Vokis right on them
Transform the blog/project into things that can be accessed by a multitude of kids
Transformative – edublogs + blabberize + voki + elluminate
Use elluminate to connect kids for collaboration
Use elluminate to share work with other classrooms locally and globally – post by diannekrause
- Moving up to more proficiency – use voki instead of blabberize – can pick backgrounds, etc… allows students to take the perspective during a debate
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Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
- Kids can demonstrate what they know in an easy and fun way – post by diannekrause
- Use Voki to do this – post by diannekrause
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You can download 2 million free PDF ebooks from July 4th to August 4th, 2009.
- just what it says; its lists and tip sheets are regularly updated – post by jlesage
- Technology news, blogging tips, best computer software and web services – post by alanbibb
- Quick Online Tips has grown to be a popular blog over the past years and is regularly posting “Technology News, Smart Blogging Tips, Essential Computer Software and Web Services”. – post by rogerkondrat
- good stuff – post by jakeycentral
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Class Collection of Book Reviews using collaborative google spreadsheets
As part of a language arts or reading program, students read novels throughout the school year. Some of the novels are assigned, read, and discussed “all class.” Others are chosen by the students individually, and they keep individual reading lists. Students may be required to read a certain number per marking period, per school year, and over the summer. Some may be classics; other trade novels, but all contribute to the overall reading and comprehension abilities of the students.
This unit can be done as a culminating activity for the school year. Students are asked to choose their two favorite novels from the ones they have read. They write reviews and post them online for students in their own school, in other schools, across the United States, and in other countries to read. The student reviews not only help student readers clarify their own understanding of literature, they also provide a “student-to-student” resource. Other students can choose novels based on opinions of their peers. The students review the novels, write descriptions that will appeal to other readers, and indicate the level of reading difficulty. They do this to help others choose novels suitable for their reading levels.
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Today’s the day: signups open for free Google Message Security for K-12 schools
Google Message Security – powered by Postini – provides the capability for administrators to limit messages based on who they are from, where they are going, or the content they contain. Message rules can be applied to groups of users, allowing customization for different user sets (like younger students, older students, and teachers).
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Senior learning leaders live a precarious life these days. As a result of our tumultuous global economy, we’re witnessing massive change in the world of business and within learning organizations. The role that learning plays within the larger context of business is evolving too.
We hope you enjoy the opportunity to get into the minds of these learning leaders and look forward to your feedback on The Learning Leader Fieldbook. I believe you’ll find that learning from these leaders’ successes and mistakes will prove invaluable as you continue your own learning career.
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Great overview site for web 2.0
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Cellphones as Instructional Tools (free webinar)
This free event is scheduled for Thursday, July 23, at 4 p.m. Eastern time. Cellphones have been called “the new paper and pencil” or “the new laptop,” and they could be in the hands of as many as 10 million to 15 million schoolchildren in the next few years. For their instructional potential and ability to connect students to the Internet, mobile devices are quietly making their way into schools in the United States and abroad. What does your district, school, or classroom need to make this technology leap? Guests will discuss policy and implementation issues and offer practical curriculum ideas for every subject.
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Technology trends in Higher Education: Web 2.0 and Social Learning
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An intro course module to web 2.0 technologies
Internet-based technologies abundantly exist for personal, business, and educational use; Curriki or del.icio.us are good examples. In this module you will learn the background of Web 2.0 technologies and become familiar with some of those technologies.
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10 ways to stay out of trouble when you post to social networking sites
The new head of British foreign intelligence recently demonstrated that anyone can suffer potentially embarrassing or damaging revelations through social networking activity – and even the most mundane and seemingly benign tweets and status updates can have far-reaching consequences.
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50 Useful Blogging Tools for Teachers
Blogging is becoming more and more popular in the classroom. Teachers can blog to stay in touch with parents and students or they can incorporate blogs from all of the students as a learning tool. The beauty of the student blog is that children from Kindergarten to high school can blog. No matter how you use blogs in your classroom, these tools will help you get started, enhance your experience, or bring the students into the fun.
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