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A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network - Online Learning. By Derek Bruff Last fall, for my first-year writing seminar on the history and mathematics of cryptography, I posted my students' expository-writing essays on our course blog. The assignment had asked students to describe a particular code or cipher that we had not already discussed—how it came to be, how it works, how to crack it, who used it. They described more than a dozen codes and ciphers. It seemed a shame that I might be the only one to read such interesting content, so I asked the students to read and comment on two papers of their peers. About a week later, one of my students arrived at class excited. Online Learning: The Chronicle's 2011 Special Report BROWSE THE FULL ISSUE: News, Commentary, and Data BUY A COPY: Digital and Print Editions at the Chronicle Store Research by Richard Light, the author and Harvard University scholar, and others indicates that when students are asked to write for one another, they write more effectively.

Social bookmarking. Back channels. ToonDoo - World's fastest way to create cartoons! Flisti - Create free online polls without signing-up. Planbook Touch: iPad Lesson Plan Book App For Teachers. Planbook Touch has dozens of features to help you get more organized, save time, and share your lesson plans Choose Your Schedule Planbook can accommodate schedules where you teach the same thing each day, your classes change each day but repeat weekly and rotating schedules (up to a 14 day rotation).

Write your Lesson Plans Planbook gives you 6 customizable fields to hold your lesson plans. You change the default field names to reflect how you teach. Attach Files and Links to Your Plans Planbook Touch lets you attach any web link or file directly to your plans. Print/Email your Plans Planbook makes it easy to share your plans with your administrator, other teachers or students via print or email.

Adjust your Schedule When the weather gets rough (or any of the 100s of things happen that can affect your best laid plans), Planbook lets you quickly bump or pull back lessons to adjust your plans. Track Standards Dropbox Support Convert Days Companion Mac and Windows Apps Top-Notch Techical Support. Edistorm. Easily Publish Gorgeous Magazines. Springnote - your online notebook based on wiki.

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages. Postica . stick it! 1. Type note here. 2. Set as homepage. 3. Get to work! Stixy: For Flexible Online Creation Collaboration and Sharing.

Wiffiti. DisaPainted. Share and mark up documents online | crocodoc. Beautiful Word Clouds. Video Editing By Magisto | An Automatic Online Video Editor. Write Comics. Movie Maker. Guide to iMovie. <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there!

If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic. <div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> The following steps are included in the “Video” chapter of the forthcoming EPUB eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.” This is an example of “quick-edit” videography, which can compliment “no-edit” videography in support of the “ethic of minimal clicks.” This final video, “Learning About NASA Mission Control in Houston,” is available on YouTube. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. On this day.. Photo Effects and Photo Editing with One Click - BeFunky.com. Comic Creator. The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).

The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. The tool is easy to use, made even easier with the Comic Strip Planning Sheet, a printable PDF that comic creators can use to draft and revise their work before creating and printing their final comics. After completing their comic, students have the ability to print out and illustrate their final versions for feedback and assessment. Grades K – 3 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Word Study with Henry and Mudge.

Witty Comics - Make a Comic. DoppelMe - Free Dynamic Avatars. Creating Books on the iPad. Book Creator for iPad: $7.49The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore. Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on. eBook Creator: $4.49 ‘eBook Creator’ is a simple and easy ebook creation application. It's interface is designed for all ages and skill levels so that young kids are able to make ebooks using the app. Good quality ebooks using the image brightness/contrast adjustment, voice recording, background musics, etc.

Ebook Magic: $4.49 An easy way to make custom epub books. Demibooks: FREEDemibooks Composer is the first iPad-based authoring software for creating interactive books. StoryPatch: $2.99 And thanks to Scott Meech for letting me know of another great App to include - Creative Book Builder. Flipbook! - Maker. Stage'D! Video Slideshow Maker with Music. TitanPad. Why Kids Can't Search. Illustration: Tymn Armstrong We’re often told that young people tend to be the most tech-savvy among us. But just how savvy are they? A group of researchers led by College of Charleston business professor Bing Pan tried to find out. Specifically, Pan wanted to know how skillful young folks are at online search. His team gathered a group of college students and asked them to look up the answers to a handful of questions.

But Pan pulled a trick: He changed the order of the results for some students. Other studies have found the same thing: High school and college students may be “digital natives,” but they’re wretched at searching. Who’s to blame? Consider the efforts of Frances Harris, librarian at the magnet University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois.

But, crucially, she also trains students to assess the credibility of what they find online. “I see them start to get really paranoid,” Harris says. In other words, Google makes broad-based knowledge more important, not less. 5 Fantastic Ways to Use Wallwisher in the Classroom. WEB 2.0 FOR SECONDARY TEACHERS. Six Twitter Applications That Let You Tweet on Your Desktop. If you’re an avid Twitter user, chances are you’re using one of these Twitter Desktop Applications that basically allow you to receive and post Tweets from your desktop. Meaning, you don’t have to visit your Twitter.com page from time to time to find out what’s new about your Twitter friends. If you haven’t used a Twitter desktop application before, well this might be the right time to do so.

We’ve picked several of the Twitter Desktop Applications available for you to use. Adobe AIR Twitter Desktop Apps Twhirl – Runs on both Mac and Windows machines. TweetDeck – Allows you to split your Tweet main feeds into specific topics or groups in column formats. Seesmic – TweetDeck’s closest rival to date, Seesmic Desktop integrates all the functionalities of Twitter including auto-refresh, easily and quickly share links, pictures and video with your friends, and group your social contacts into lists like family, co-workers and best friends. Twitter Desktop App for Windows. Apps in Education.

Veengle. Technology. iAppsForTeachers | 44 Benefits of Collaborative Learning. 100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration (Part 1) by Ozge Karaoglu. 20 Interesting Ways* to use an iPad in the Classroom.

The 10 Best iPhone and iPad Apps for Art Teachers 2010. Since publishing our 30 Best iPhone Apps for Art Teachers last year (August 2009), we have discovered many new apps that are worthy of being added to our best list. Covering a wide range of interests and uses, below are the Teaching Palette’s 10 Best iPhone, iPad and iPod Apps for Art Teachers 2010 – the latest and greatest apps for art teachers and their students. Consider this an amendment to last year’s list. Apps for Student and Teacher Use Animalia Based on the beautiful illustrations from the classic book by the same name, this app brings “eye spy” to a whole new level.

Explore various artwork by hunting for hidden items. Accudraw Update your traditional grid drawing system with technology. Faces iMake Appropriate for younger students, this app uses a creative mix of collage materials inspired by author and artist Hanoch Pivin. KidsOrigami Beautiful images illustrate simple origami folding techniques for kids. Apps for Art History Honorable Mention. ShowMe - iPad Interactive whiteboard. iPad Apps. Teaching with an iPad. InClass for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store. iPad Curriculum. Preparing Your School for an iPad Implementation. ShowMe - The Online Learning Community. CoSketch.com - Online Whiteboard Collaboration. Curate.Us - Share Screen Clips Everywhere. Create timeline and share it on the web - whenintime.