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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, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal directed (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. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells. Product - Crash Course in Storytelling - Kendall Haven, MaryGay Ducey. Improv Workshop for Kids. Thank you to our sponsors for keeping freedrama FREE!
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Here are some I remember and you can take a look. 4- Select four people from the group. Have them all facing with their backs to the other kids. When you say begin, one person turns around (without planning an order) and begins talking as some sort of character created on the spot. They continue talking until another person turns around and begins to talk. Home Room. Log In My Account My Lists Select Language.
Zotero. Learning 2.0 » Home. Online Education Fundamentals. The Signature Is Dead: How Technology Ruined Signing Our Names. H andwritten signatures are toast. Kaput. The number of times most of us sign our names on a weekly basis now versus, say, twenty years ago has significantly decreased, and that trend is not going to reverse itself anytime soon. In another twenty years, maybe sooner, you won't be signing anything by hand, ever.
And that’s not a bad thing, because the act of name signing has, in many ways, veered into the realm of absurdity and farce. At the moment, nearly everything about the process of signing one's name appears to be in place to dissuade the signer from giving it an honest go: Signature pads at stores are terribly awkward, credit card receipt signature lines are often far too tiny, and the people accepting our signatures tend not to care about the appearance of what we scribble.
And we'll all be doing that soon enough, as more and more uses for handwritten signatures fade away due to modern replacements. The arrival of large-scale literacy in the 19th century revolutionized things. Englishisms in France: Readers' franglais favourites. A row over plans to teach some courses at French universities in English has outraged some defenders of the language of Moliere - but plenty of French people habitually sprinkle their speech with franglais.
Here, readers share their favourite anglicisms. 1. On a recent visit to an aerospace company near Paris, I was surprised to hear French engineers use "no-'ow" [know-how] instead of "savoir faire". Roy Woodcock, Olympia, WA, USA 2. Tweets of the Week. As usual, Twitter has been busy this week with YA related news, events, giveaways and more.
Here are some of the highlights, in case you missed them. Contests and Giveaways Free ROT & RUIN bonus content: … - @JonathanMaberry Have you submitted to #BeTheElite ? You could win fun things like a Swarovski jewelry set! @KieraCass - @harperteen P.S. Alerts - Monitor the Web for interesting new content. Kindle’s most-highlighted passages and the soul of the American reader.
O ne of the great small pleasures of used books is the occasional marginalia of a previous owner. You learn a tiny bit about that anonymous soul by seeing the passages she underlined, or tidily double-underlined, or exclamation-pointed, or starred madly and messily. You begin to worry about the girl who found so much to mark in To The Lighthouse , or fall in love, a little bit, with the person who found all the funniest parts of Catch 22 . (It is another type of intimacy entirely to borrow a book from someone you know, and to discover what he found worth picking up a pen for.) This experience would seem to be lost as reading becomes ever more digital— ebook sales rose more than 44 percent last year —but that’s not entirely the case. Amazon keeps track of which passages Kindle readers highlight most, which means the company can offer a new version of the old serendipitous experience.
Kindle. 11 Weird Books That Really Exist. With more than 300,000 books published yearly in the United States alone, editors and publishing companies have to be discerning about what titles they choose to release. Although not every author’s masterwork is cut out for The New York Times Best Seller list, there are some books that are just so downright bizarre that it’s hard to imagine anyone reading them at all. Online bookseller AbeBooks collects the best and strangest in its Weird Book Room , which is full of gems like these. 1. Can YA be happy and gay? Look at this humor! Photo by Flickr user EEPaul The LGBT community is a vibrant one: full of quirks, humor, the best parades around, and a passionate fight for civil rights. But YA literature published today doesn’t always represent the full spectrum of that community or the full amount.
Urbana library 'misstep' upsets patrons. URBANA — In front of city council members on Monday night, residents called for more oversight at the Urbana Free Library after a "weeding" controversy drew the ire of patrons in what the library director has called a "misstep.
" And the Next YA Craze Is… Click for larger version At a recent holiday dinner, my aunt, a freelance writer, shared an interesting tidbit she had picked up following industry news: apparently, publishers are now shying away from teen dystopian novels. I wasn’t at all shaken by this; after all, I always did like older dystopias better, as there’s nothing like the wildly turbulent 20th century to galvanize some first-rate pessimism.
(I’m not saying I didn’t like any of those books my tween sister made me read; I’m just saying that maybe if George Orwell hadn’t lived through two world wars, Winston Smith would have been in a love triangle. Although he did sort of leave Julia for Big Brother in the end, I guess. Dang.) YA Sniglets. Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass In the 1980s HBO tried out a sketch comedy show based on a British news parody show.
The show, Not Necessarily the News , featured a regular segment from a comedian named Rich Hall. Hall dealt satirically with a number of topics by creating new words to describe our modern lives. Rise of 'Altmetrics' Revives Questions About How to Measure Impact of Research - Technology. Steven B.
Roberts's 103-page tenure package features the usual long-as-your-arm list of peer-reviewed publications. But Mr. Roberts, an assistant professor at the University of Washington who studies the effects of environmental change on shellfish, chose to add something less typical to his dossier: evidence of his research's impact online. India to end state-run telegram service. Stop. T160K: Manuscripts in Exile. Teen Booktalk Buzzwords. Classes. 15 Classic Children’s Books That Have Been Banned In America. Library Vs Cricket Sketch - A Bit Of Fry And Laurie. Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy. Topics that spark Wikipedia 'edit wars' revealed. 18 July 2013Last updated at 11:35 GMT The Wikipedia page of George W Bush saw the most savage edit war Articles about ex-US President George W Bush and anarchism are the most hotly contested on Wikipedia's English-language edition, research suggests.
Scientists analysed page edits in 10 editions to find topics fought over by contributors to the open encyclopaedia. While some topics were locally controversial, many religious subjects, such as Jesus and God, were universally debated, they found. Further research is planned to log how controversial topics change over time. Researchers from the University of Oxford and three other institutions analysed logs of the changes made to Wikipedia pages to identify those in the throes of an "edit war". Continue reading the main story Top 10 touchy topics George W Bush Anarchism The Prophet Muhammad World Wrestling Entertainment employees Global warming Circumcision The United States Jesus Race and intelligence Christianity. Why the internet needs a more selective memory.
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