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17 Signs Your Classroom is Behind the Times – SimpleK12
50 Reasons to Invite Facebook Into Your Classroom | MindShift
Lenny Gonzalez Editor’s Note: It’s not an easy decision to bring Facebook into the classroom. Teachers must contend with all kinds of issues — including breaking the law.Technology Integration Matrix
The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments.Audioboo
100 Incredible & Educational Virtual Tours You Don’t Want to Miss | Online Universities
By Katheryn Rivas One of the wonders of the Internet is that it can bring the world to you instead of your needing to find the time and money to explore the traditional way. The following virtual tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space. You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized whale, and visit ball parks and theme parks.Media Conversion
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My top priority in a new library would be an inter-disciplinary staff common room configured with technology to support collaborative workspaces for individual and small groups to exploit information sharing for teaching and research with librarians ever present. Returning from battling the wind and the rain walking round Dove Lake in the Cradle Mountain National Park I did my usual Foursquare checkin that also finds its way to my Twitter stream. The unexpected tweeted reply from colleague Carolyn, @camcd , turned my thoughts to answering the question ‘If you were to open a new library, what would be your top priority?’. I assume a university library is intended. As it happened just recently following my retirement I had been thinking of this very problem.Podcast.ucsd.edu
This lesson is used for discussion of a novel read by the whole class.

