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As folks who are presumably close to the education process, I'm curious as to your take on the future of books. In my recent dealings with a class of ~100 honors high school English students, all of whom read my novel as part of the curriculum, I was a bit shocked to hear that more than 95% of them preferred reading the genuine book to the electronic article. Guess there's hope for paper after all... I can perhaps understand how reading a novel from a printed book would be preferable to reading from an Ebook reader. I am a children's poet and teachers like to have my writing either in Ebooks or preferably from my internet website up on their visual display units so that every person in the classroom is reading from the same place at the same time. Reading from the website on a VDU is rather like having my poems displayed on a blackboard - in the "olden days".
Virtual Author Visits in Your Library or Classroom - Skype An Author ...
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Summer Program for PBA Arroachees with Technology
TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.
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Timelines.com: Discover, Record and Share History with Timelines
31 Mar 1889 The Eiffel Tower is an 1889 iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower, which is the tallest building in Paris, is the single most visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch for the 1889...
Wallwisher – 105 Classroom Ideas " Sean Banville's Blog
Students use the language in the black, green, purple and blue boxes on the Wallwisher home page to create a review or advertising spiel on the website. Students discuss the concepts in those boxes in relation to their own learning or digital life. Discussion over the pros and cons of online stickies versus real stickies (the ones you hold with your hands and stick to things). This could lead to a writing activity.
Skype in the Classroom
http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=432 (Learning is Messy blog post by Brian Crosby: Collaborative Writing via Google Docs and Skype-a project between his students and Lisa Parisi's 5th grade students) http://www.oprah.com/showinfo/Where-the-Skype-Are-You_1 (For some amazing, creative uses for Skype watch the segments on this Oprah show) http://khokanson.blogspot.com/2008/01/greatest-things-ive-ever-learned.html (Blog post by Kristin Hokanson about taking Skype one step further and streaming the Skype call on ustream.tv to document the experience with her students--a HS student taught her how to do it) http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=335 (Presentation for K12 Online Conference 2009 by Kim Cofino (Thailand) and Jen Wagner (CA) explaining how they use Skype for global classroom projects)Share your Top 10 Tools to help build the 2011 list Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 as at 15 November 2009 This list has been compiled from the contributions of 278 Learning Professionals worldwide, whose individual contributions you can read here Here is a presentation of the Top 100 Tools. Below you can see the full list with links to pages with more information about each of the tools. KEY F = Free, C= Commercial, W = Windows, M=Mac, S=Server, O = Online Cells shaded blue are new tools on the list this year Cells shaded green are tools returning to the list this year
