School 2.0 in SA

• SOUTH AFRICA: Shocking results from university tests

  South African vice-chancellors warned the government to expect more students to drop out, following the shocking results of pilot national benchmark tests.

  tags: highered, reports, school2.0, education

• Teacher Development Summit

  The overall aim of the Teacher Development Summit is to facilitate effective system-wide teacher development that will lead to sustainable improvement in the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms and schools. The outcome of the summit will be a declaration that contains a set of recommendations regarding and commitments to a national plan for teacher education and development.

  tags: teachers, pd, summit, school2.0, as11.1.1

• How Catch a Plagiarist Online

  Just as students can use technology to cheat educators have to know how to use technology to catch them

  tags: plagiarism, library2.0, school2.0, searching

• 10 free Educational Game sites

  “I searched out and visited a bunch of sites with free educational games and selected the ten I thought were most useful and appropriate to education. In addition to a brief overview of each site, I have also attempted to define the grade range that each site is applicable to. I made my own judgement for most sites since it often wasn’t indicated (feel free to weigh in if you think I’m off target on any of these). Most of these sites are geared towards K-12 (with many leaning towards K-6 or so), but some do have fun games that will challenge the Higher Ed student and adults as well. Take one for a spin today!”

  tags: games, k12, education, school2.0

• Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

  An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.

  tags: thesaurus, dictionaries, visualization, reference, language, writing, school2.0, library2.0

  • Virtual Thesaurus is a great tool that shows related words with that pull them together into a cluster. Type in a word and it pulls up a tree-like cluster of related words around the word in the center. – post by gadowa
  • The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus
    with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning.
    – post by ascordo
  • Un dictionnaire et thésaurus interactif à l’affichage innovant qui facilite l’exploration et l’apprentissage
    – post by sylvaincomte
  • Word webs. Cool. – post by aceblush
  • interactive dictionary and thesaurus… visual – post by transitmonger

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• A quick guide to RSS feeds (for educators) (PDF)

  It deals with:
  • Setting Up an RSS Feed Reader
  • Finding and Adding Feeds
  • Using RSS Feeds in the Classroom
  o RSS Feeds with Student Weblogs
  o RSS Feeds without Student Weblogs
  o RSS Search Feeds

  tags: education, rss, howto, tutorials, feeds, school2.0

  • This is a pdf document I kept finding cited on web pages discussing how RSS can be used specifically within a learning environment. It covers many of the basics that lots of web sites do, but also offers some ideas of how to use it in the classroom. – post by jolyon

• Fresh research showing the damage of filtering ‘real world’ technology – Annotated

  tags: filtering, firewalls, education, research, school2.0, AUP, policies

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    • Filtering is so restrictive. Yes, there are sites that need to be filtered, but too often, many worthwhile sites are blocked out of fear. – post by misterlamb
    • I have been advocating for our school technology admins to address firewalling and filtering…this is great! – post by maggiev

• Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe

  tags: geography, school2.0

• Goose Bumps! The Science of Fear

  Examine the physiological, neurobiological and sociological aspects of fear.

  tags: sciences, lifesciences, school2.0, fear

• Education Week: Filtering Fixes

  Finally – a common sense approach to learning in the 21st century- How to deal with firewalls ina school district. Please read!

  tags: filter, access, AUP, school2.0, firewalls

  • Hallelujah- at long last some common sense!!! – post by maggiev
  • We are known in our district for technology, so I don’t see how you can teach kids 21st-century values if you’re not teaching them digital citizenship and appropriate ways of sharing and using everything that’s available on the Web,

• Mathematics Links for interactive white boards

  tags: mathematics, iwb, school2.0

• Accessibility testing 14 PDF conversion tools

  There are many tools available for converting documents to PDF. We tested 14 of them for their ability to generate accessible output. The results were highly polarised. A few produced excellent results, but the rest performed poorly, if at all.

  tags: pdf, school2.0

• 50 IWB interactive lessons for the Improving learning in mathematics resource – Resources – TES Connect

  tags: iwb, mathematics, school2.0

• KartOO : The First Interface Mapping Metasearch Engine

  tags: searchengines, school2.0

  • Meta search engine that returns a visual picture of the search results. – post by krhughes
  • A useful, and different, search engine for the web. – post by litlfrog
  • KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorit – post by jdrsantos

• BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos

  tags: photos, collages, mosaics, posters, school2.0, puzzles

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• Story Creator – A cute cartoonish tool for creating stories with pictures

  I can imagine that little-lies and older little-lies (like me) could really have fun with this tool for creating stories

  tags: storytelling, school2.0

• Smartboard ICT classroom resources

  tags: Smartboard, iwb, elementary, school2.0

• KidRex – Kid Safe Search

  tags: kids, searchengines, searching, education, elementary, primaryschool, school2.0

• iLibrarian: White Paper: Engaging the New Influencers

  Edelman convened more than 100 professors of communications, journalism, business and public relations from across North America and Europe to discuss how companies, organizations and media effectively engage their stakeholders through social media. The sessions were led by more than 50 practitioners who guide digital communications strategies within leading organizations

  tags: library2.0, librarianblogs, school2.0, reports

• 101 Google tips, tricks and hacks

  Looking for the ultimate tips for Google searching? You’ve just found the only guide to Google you need

  tags: google, tips, searching, school2.0

• How To Kick Start A Community –an Ongoing List

  One of the top 10 questions in social media marketing asked is “How do we kick start our community?” This post aims at providing some resources for brands that are preparing their community strategy.

  tags: community, communitybuilding, school2.0

• A Vision for Classroom Blogging (pdf)

  Students working together as a learning community to create a new culture of learning and teaching through blogging positively affects learning in many ways. I’ve found the following process effective in accomplishing this goal.

  tags: blogging, classroom, school2.0

• Education Conversations in south africa

  tags: education, conversations, school2.0

• Yebol search engine

  This search engine gives you top sites for your search word, video, images and related topics

  tags: searchengines, school2.0, library2.0

• ESL Tools for Better Writing in English as a Second Language

  Lots of great tools and installations to help you to spellcheck etc….

  tags: ESL, english, school2.0, writing

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• The English Language Teacher’s Guide To Twitter

  tags: twitter4ed, twitter, education, school2.0

• Twitter in Higher Education: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College Faculty

  Free report from the Faculty Focus July 2009 Twitter survey.

  tags: twitter, education, school2.0, hed

• Commonwealth of Learning ebook- Introducing Copyright

  This book was written for those who want to learn about copyright in the 21st century. It explains copyright protection and what it means for copyright holders and copyright users. It also introduces readers to contemporary topics: digital rights management, open licences, software patents and copyright protection for works of traditional knowledge. A final chapter tries to predict how technology will change the publishing and entertainment industries that depend on copyright.

  The book assumes no special knowledge and avoids technical language as much as possible.

  tags: copyright, col, ebooks, school2.0

• Free ebook: Introducing Copyright

  The Commonwealth of Learning has made the book Introducing Copyright available through download from its website. The book assumes no special knowledge and avoids technical language as much as possible. Introducing Copyright explains copyright protection and what it means for copyright holders and users. It introduces digital rights management, open licenses, software patents and copyright protection for works of traditional knowledge.

  tags: copyright, school2.0

• Student blogging challenge: Why not enter your class??? I will help set you up!!!

  Why not enter your class??? I will help set you up!!!

  tags: blogging, classroom, challenge, school2.0

• ScreenSnapr: An Instant Screen Shot Application (for Windows)

  “Simply press the ScreenSnapr Hotkey (Ctrl + 1), and almost instantly have access to a URL to share on IM, Twitter, Email, or any other virtual medium. So go ahead, take a Screenshot. It’s a Snap!” (thanx @c4lpt)

  tags: screencapture, screencasting, school2.0, web2tools, screenshot

• AUP for schools

  tags: aup, policies, school2.0, saschools

• Critical thinking web

  This educational web site provides over 100 free online tutorials on critical thinking, logic, scientific reasoning, creativity, and other aspects of thinking skills. Our online tutorials have been used by universities, community colleges, and high schools across the world.

  tags: criticalthinking, thinking, school2.0

• ACE Maths Project (OER Africa)

  The aim of SAIDE ACEMaths project was to pilot a collaborative process for the selection, adaptation and use of OER materials for teacher education programmes in South Africa.

  Over a period of two years we adapted, piloted and revised a set of materials on the teaching and learning of maths for teacher education. These are now available for downloading FOR FREE in two formats – for printing (PDF), and for adaptation (Word). See the ACEMaths Module to have a look.

  tags: mathematics, ACE, school2.0

• Digital Citizenship: How to use tehcnology appropiately

  Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.

  tags: citizenship, school2.0, education

• Social Media’s Effect on Learning

  Social media may seem, at times, to be a flurry of meaningless updates and marketing schemes, but researchers are figuring out how the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity.

  tags: socialmedia, learning, school2.0

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