Aug 23 2009
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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Educator Templates: Your FREE education template directory
Don’t re-invent the wheel. Download ready made templates and then change them for your purposes
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The Strengths and Challenges of Mobile Learning: A Live Discussion
In this discussion, we will be looking at how teachers can leverage the use of mobile devices to help students learn and the challenges they and their students face in making this happen.
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This site is busy building resources and tests that learners can access using their cellphones. What do you think???
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The Mission of the ADL is to provide digitised full text resources to learners in Africa via the Internet, thereby contributing to the revitalization of education and life long learning on the continent and alleviation of the digital divide between First and Third world countries.
The ADL was created in the spirit of the African Renaissance.
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10 Ideas for Engaging Learners with Cell Phones Even in Districts that Ban Them by Lisa Nielsen
10 Ideas for Engaging Learners with Cell Phones Even in Districts that Ban Them by Lisa Nielsen
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Research – Students say using tech to cheat isn’t cheating (should we ban cellphones?)
I really have to smile at this article. I have been begging teachers to take note and “get with the programme”, but instead they responded with a call to ban cellphones. Hallooo! It is not going to stop the cheating and as the report state it does not just include cellphones, it includes the internet as well. Shall we also just ban the internet too?
I can understand that the students do not view it as cheating, they feel that they are actually being innovative (if not creative) and it is their teachers problem if they are not bringing technology into the equation.
I think we should think about the way we assess….
I need to go blog about this…..or maybe I should just go and plagarise someones post- which will be more fun….?????
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Ten Easy Interactive Whiteboard Ideas
Here are ten “easy” ideas to incorporate the interactive whiteboard and improve your teaching with it:
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Digital Tools 4 Enquiring Minds
Digital tools are an integral part of the Enquiring Minds approach. Here we provide some examples of the kinds of new technologies that we think may benefit learners and teachers
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Mobile Devices within Instruction
Discover ideas for instruction that innovative districts have developed to better leverage the increasing number of laptops, cell phones, MP3 players and smart phones that students carry. This webinar explores the latest findings from Speak Up surveys given to K-12 students, teachers and administrators regarding their views on mobile devices within instruction.
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A filtered collection of resources for subjects
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The Open University has published a research report
The Open University has published a research report which is now available online The report evaluates the impact OpenLearn has had internally and externally and the challenges that lie ahead in open content and establishing open learning networks.
“OpenLearn has been a really fascinating research opportunity. We wanted to find out what the impact was on us as an organisation; how we could help other people who wanted to provide their material available for free; and perhaps most importantly, what learners got out of having access to all this open material”
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The company that operates cellphone chat service MXit has lashed out at journalists for what it calls a “dangerous trend to sensationalise headlines”. This follows reports about the disappearance of schoolgirl Nabeela Omar. Does the company have a point?
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The company that operates cellphone chat service MXit has lashed out at journalists for what it calls a “dangerous trend to sensationalise headlines”. This follows reports about the disappearance of schoolgirl Nabeela Omar. Does the company have a point?
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Learn Science at Nature – a new science library
A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world’s leading publisher of science.
Scitable currently concentrates ongenetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge. -
One teachers Edmodo experience with a student
This is an example of how social media can change children’s participation in class. A very well written teacher’s reflection of a difficult student’s engagement in her class as a result of using social media
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Great Critical Thinking lesson
OBJECTIVES
1. Recognize reasons and conclusions
2. Recognize unstated assumptions
3. Draw conclusions
4. Appraise evidence
5. Evaluate statements
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Our activities during Mathematics Week focus attention on Mathematics and Mathematics Education with the aim of making Mathematics more interesting, attractive, relevant, challenging, rewarding and engaging to learners and the community at large, e.g. by highlighting the impact of Mathematics on our daily lives and stressing the importance of Mathematics as a foundation for careers in science, technology and managerial jobs. Mathematics Week is a vehicle to popularise Mathematics and to increase public awareness, understanding and appreciation of Mathematics.
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Social Media Guidelines for Schools
This is a collaborative project to generate Social Media Guidelines for school districts. The goal of this guideline is to provide instructional employees, staff, students, administrators, parents and the school district community direction when using social media applications both inside and outside the classroom.
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Global classroom south african wiki
So glad to discover a local classroom wiki. Will be following it withy interest!
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This wiki was created to support a 20 minute CUE Tips session at the 2008 CUE conference and was updated for CUE 2009. Blogs, Wikis, and Google Docs can be powerful and easy to use tools for educators, but their features are overlapping and it can sometimes be difficult to know which one is right to meet a given need.
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- Interesting site. This might make an interesting exercise for students–to have them explain why photo is/is not a good visual for the word. – post by lisahuff_teacher
- Fantastic tool. Images are great but they don’t match perfectly well with definitions.
As an example: HOUSE has a lot of definitions but images not even show a traditional house in different countries. – post by susanacanelo
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Technology Integration for Teachers
The purpose of this site is to take an extensive list of websites that are considered high quality, reliable, and valuable and organize them in a way that even “non-techy” teachers can utilize them. It took around 10 years to collect these resources, but new ones are found every day. All of these websites have been recommended by other teachers and educational organizations and qualify as “the best”. You’ll find support for all core curriculum areas. In addition, you will find lesson plans, multimedia, and primary sources to enhance your students’ learning environment.
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Use BUBL to find websites catalogued by the Dewey Decimal System.
Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas according to the DEWEY system.
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Great Mathematics Educational Resources from the NSD Library
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So what do students think about their school? (pdf)
A research report: the Speak Up National Research Project has collected and shared the ideas and views of more than 1.5 million K–12 students, teachers, parents and administrators on education and technology
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A free Webinar: Using Mobile Devices for instruction
Are you interested in how innovative districts are leveraging the increasing number of laptops, cell phones, MP3 players and smart phones their students carry? This webinar explores the views of of K-12 students, teachers and administrators regarding the use of mobile devices within instruction from Speak Up 2008. The webinar is scheduled for August 18th from 12:00pm -1:00pm PST.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
