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Partners | The Museum of Online Museums | MoOM
Exceptional exhibits are highlighted each quarter. Selections from previous seasons are archived here . Please consider joining our MoOM Board of Directors won't you? You'll receive some nice swag and can lord it over your less civic-minded friends. Today it seems almost sacrilege to write a personal note in the front of a book.For the longest time, whenever I read the news, I’ve often felt the depressing sensation of lacking the background I need to understand the stories that seem truly important. Day after day would bring front pages with headlines trumpeting new developments out of city hall, and day after day I’d fruitlessly comb through the stories for an explanation of their relevance, history or import. Nut grafs seemed to provide only enough information for me to realize the story was out of my depth. I came to think of following the news as requiring a decoder ring, attainable only through years of reading news stories and looking for patterns, accumulating knowledge like so many cereal box tops I could someday cash in for the prize of basic understanding. Meanwhile, though, with the advancements of the Web and cable news, the pace of new headlines was accelerating—from daily to minute-by-minute—and I had no idea how I’d ever begin to catch up.
Nieman Reports | An Antidote for Web Overload
Research on Teaching and Learning | Designing Courses | Assessment | Teaching Large Classes | Quantitative Thinking | Teaching in the Field | Teaching with Current Research and Data GIS | Earth Systems Science | Oceanography | Plate Tectonics | Volcanoes | Earthquakes | Tsunamis | Hazards | Climate Change and Global Warming | Energy | Sustainability | Ozone | Evolution | Red Tide and Harmful Algal Blooms | Weathering and Rock Cycle Managing your geoscience career, from finding an academic position, to balancing teaching and research. Information to help geoscience departments adapt and prosper in a changing and challenging environment: curriculum, recruiting, program assessment and more. SERC is involved in running a number of workshops every year, either as part of a series or individually. Topics range from community visioning around a particular issue to faculty professional development. View past, present, upcoming workshops here.
Teach the Earth
Lesson Writer
Keep your students connected to our environment with our latest showcase lesson of the week . Both Intermediate (grades 4-8) and Secondary and Beyond (grades 9 and up) lessons are available. Each lesson features all the literacy support skills that students need to connect with the text, comprehension questions to engage higher-order thinking, and a short video extensions. All teachers can select the components that they want to include in the lesson, but registered LessonWriter users can adopt the lesson into their account and customize even further.
WiZiQ Free Online Teaching and E-Learning with Web Conferencing
The initiatives are an attempt towards bridging the distance between teachers and the taught. Student requires only a computer to participate in the virtual classroom.
Elle is referring to Livestream TV with Procast providing all the functionality of a television station using only a camera, mike, laptop and broadband connection. Now $350 / month for a Channel, it is still half the price of the video library we maintain at the college that has video on demand but no live coverage; no scheduled programmming; nor facilities for synchronous chat during live delivery. Go for it Elle! by May 1
Watching the opening talk on compassion (wonderful) the stream is working fine, the page looks very professional. I take it the lack of functionality has to do with the interactive features? At $200 a month, its something one would want paid subscribers for...a classroom fee. I'm getting a flip video camera and plan to produce some videos on herbal medicine, will let you know when I've got something up. Thanks again for this resource (wish it worked better for you though) by Apr 30
See what you think - http://www.livestream.com/polytechnictv by Apr 26
Hi Elle - I have a "college" TV station that I set up in Livestream (took 5 minutes and is free). It broadcasts TED talks automatically. I've been disappointed in the failure at our end to match the bandwidth required - so in it's present form, it is not useful. However, I think that the paying customers ($200 / month) get a fantastic service. by Apr 26
Just checked out LiveStream & Procast, LOVE IT!! by Apr 24
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Free Technology for Teachers: Google Tutorials
This page contains tutorials for using Google tools. The tutorials that I've created you are welcome to use in your own blog, website, or professional development session. Before using the tutorials created by others, please contact their creators. Below I've embedded a slideshow with directions for creating and embedding quizzes using Google Forms, but here are a few points that should be emphasized.We are the world's largest publisher of free and open college textbooks. With our ever-expanding catalog of top quality books by expert authors, now is your chance to be a hero and help your students save thousands of dollars. Get started today and join the textbook affordability movement.
Welcome | Flat World Knowledge
Metacognition is an important part of intentional learning , since it involves actively thinking about what you know, what you don’t know, and how you can get better at knowing and applying what you know. A mantra for metacognition By definition, metacognition involves individual commitment and reflection. However, research suggests that a learner’s ability to learn can be increased when an instructor spends some time discussing and helping students to use metacognitive strategies (Azevedo & Cromley, 2004; Scruggs, 1985). Think aloud to show your approach to solving problems.
Tools for metacognition | Instructional Design Fusions
Epistemic Games - building the future of education
Epistemic Games Group, located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus, is a fast paced, educational work environment where our passion for education and innovation are not only a top priority; they are evident in everything we do. Bagely, E & Shaffer, D.W (2010) Stop Talking and Type: Mentoring in a Virtual and Face-to-Face Environment . International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. David Williamson Shaffer always says that the biggest Star Trek travesty is not that you can’t download them for free, but that 300 years in the future we are still imagining school the way we looked at it hundreds of year ago. Fortunately for students of the future Epistemic Games and others are applying today’s technology to the future of learning. And techies everywhere are beginning to notice.
LOOPS | The Concord Consortium
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DRL-0733299. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Knowledge Management
For Teachers Help your students learn with hundreds of interactive, research-based resources covering a huge variety of science, engineering, and math topics.
The Concord Consortium | Realizing the Promise of Educational Technology
The Education Tech Series is supported by Dell The Power To Do More , where you’ll find perspectives, trends and stories that inspire Dell to create technology solutions that work harder for its customers so they can do and achieve more. Don Knezek, the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education, compares education without technology to the medical profession without technology. “If in 1970 you had knee surgery, you got a huge scar,” he says. “Now, if you have knee surgery you have two little dots.” Technology is helping teachers to expand beyond linear, text-based learning and to engage students who learn best in other ways.
8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education
We continue to be overwhelmed and grateful that so many of you, all over the world, have offered to help with interacting with children over the Internet! Many of you have also evinced a desire to know a little more about the project as a whole, apart from the story reading and interaction with children. So we put together a little note and look forward to collaborating with you on this project in many different ways.
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Center for History and New Media
March 27, 2012 The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce that it has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Public Programs over three years to create a mobile-optimized website that provides visitors to the National Mall with access to a rigorous interpretation of the history and culture [...]udutu | Create simulations online with ease.
Udutu™ offers easy to use online learning solutions designed to help small and large organizations build and distribute online training courses.Moodle
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