Where to Download Free Stock Photos and Public Domain Images. It’s tough to escape copyright infringement in a digital age. As enticing as it might seem, you can’t legally use any image you’ve found online and throw it in your blog or use it for commercial purposes. The bulk of the images on the Web are subject to copyright – meaning the photographer or creator of a particular image retains exclusive rights to that image – and are therefore protected under federal law. Luckily, there is an entire realm of free-for-all images that fall under something called “public domain.” Public domain images are available to anyone and can be used for whatever purpose you like, even commercial use, for a variety of reasons: the copyright may have expired, the images could have been taken by a government branch, or the owner may have just forfeited his/her rights for whatever reason. And, although there is a ton of places to find public domain images online, many of the sites offer limited and lackluster results that are more of an eyesore than eye candy.
Flickr. Videos. Citing Wikimedia Commons | Humber Libraries. Technology Tools for Reflection - Reflection for Learning. Here are a series of tools that can be used to support reflection, with a brief discussion of the process, the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. The following technologies can support reflection: web logs (‘blogs’) as reflective journals, wikis as collaborative websites, digital storytelling/podcasting, Twitter and social networks. Blogs (Reflective Journal) The most obvious technology for reflection is the web log or "blog" as known by those who read and write them. As the Stanford Learning Technologies group has evolved the technology to support its research project on "folio thinking," researcher Helen Chen reports that they are beginning to use blog or "wiki" software to support students' reflections.
A weblog is defined as any web page with content organized according to date. In the context of an ePortfolio, course tutors, lecturers, clubs and societies could all have their own weblogs which users could view on their “friends” page. . - Seventh Grade Blogging Rules. Primary Education.
What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions. By Maria Popova “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” “We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology,” Carl Sagan famously quipped in 1994, “and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That’s a clear prescription for disaster.” Little seems to have changed in the nearly two decades since, and although the government is now actively encouraging “citizen science,” for many “citizens” the understanding of — let alone any agreement about — what science is and does remains meager. So, what exactly is science, what does it aspire to do, and why should we the people care? It seems like a simple question, but it’s an infinitely complex one, the answer to which is ever elusive and contentious.
Stuart Firestein writes in the excellent Ignorance: How It Drives Science: Real science is a revision in progress, always. Later: Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Advancing Children's Learning in a Digital Age. On the apparent horrors of requiring high school students to take chemistry. | Doing Good Science. There’s a guest post on the Washington Post “Answer Sheet” blog by David Bernstein entitled “Why are you forcing my son to take chemistry?” In which the author argues against his 15-year-old son’s school’s requirement that all its students take a year of chemistry. Derek Lowe provides a concise summary of the gist: My son will not be a chemist.
He will not be a scientist. A year of chemistry class will do nothing for him but make him miserable. He could be taking something else that would be doing him more good. Bernstein’s post is a slurry of claims about chemistry, secondary education, and the goals of education more generally with respect to human flourishing — in other words, the kind of thing I need to take apart for close examination before responding.
So, that’s what I’m going to do here. Let’s start with Bernstein’s account of the dawning of the horror: I have some thoughts here, as someone who has been both a chemistry major and a philosophy major. Mr. I have written before: 2012 Resources - Midwest Google Summit. Personal and Professional vs. Public and Private. Cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by AlphaTangoBravo / Adam Baker During my time over in Australia, there was a lot of talk about the notion of having both a “personal” and “professional” identity on social media. The “personal” account would be one that is used with friends and family, where as the “professional” account would be one that is used with the work that you do in school.
Although I understand the notion behind what is being said here, I don’t know if this is what I would really be focusing on when working with students or educators. We should really be focusing on the notion of “public and private” and how that works in our world. This is not to say that you can’t have separate accounts. I, for one, choose not to and blur the lines between personal and professional all the time. For example. let’s say a student wrote about how much they hated another student and started bullying them online. “Congrats Obama. What about the Natalie Munroe situation last year? Rise of Social Gaming And Zynga. Infogr.am.
Presentation Materials - Leading Change in Changing Times: EdTechTeacher iPad Summit USA. Here you can find almost all of the presentation materials from the Keynotes, Featured Presenters, and Concurrent Sessions from the November 7-8. 2012 Summit at Harvard University. They are listed alphabetically by schedule. Wednesday, November 7th – 9:45am Session iLessons (on the iPad) for Higher Order Thinking Skills – Sue GormanPDF File (10 MB) Flipped iPad ClassroomGoogle Presentation Evidence Works on iPad – Thomas HermansonGoogle Presentation Logistics – A TEAM Approach to setting up, launching, and maintaining a 1:1 iPad School – Mitch LawsonGoogle Site Who Learned More? Wednesday, NOVEMBER 7TH – 11:00AM SESSION Curating 24/7 Learning Networks – Lainie RowellGoogle Site iAssessment – Jo Bouldin & Chris LindsayGoogle Presentation From Possibilities to Practices: How the iPad is Changing Science Instruction – Derrick WillardGoogle Doc How is Standing in One Place Interactive? iPad Tablet Technology: Examples of Student Centered Projects – Vince DelisiGoogle Presentation Google Presentation.
Teachers find new ways to engage students with games, tech. PARKERSBURG - Area educators are using electronic games both as a teaching tool and as a source of motivation for students. Judy Johnson, director of curriculum and instruction for Wood County Schools, said educators are using more and more technology in classrooms, including video games, to better engage students academically. "One of our focus points in raising student engagement," she said.
"Children today are used to technology at home. That is what draws them in. We need to be on the cutting edge in making sure our children have those experiences. " Article Photos Emerson Elementary School third-graders, from left, Devin Lusk, Ryan Atkison, Alexis Balestire and Alivia Gray use iPads during a collaborative lesson Thursday at the school. Emerson Elementary School fifth-graders Haleigh Knox, left, and Alexis Schreckengost play educational games on school computers Thursday. "Children enjoy playing games, and when they learn as they play, they have that incentive to continue," she said. To Make Blended Learning Work, Teachers Try Different Tactics. By now, most would agree that technology has the potential to be a useful tool for learning. Many schools have invested in some form of technology, whether it’s in computer labs, tablets, or a laptop for every student, depending on their budget.
But for many schools, finding a way to integrate the use of tech in a traditional setting — teacher-centered classrooms — is proving to be a challenge. What educational software should be used? What criteria should the software be judged against? And what happens to the role of the teacher and classroom activities when students are using software for practice exercises? At this point, just a couple of years into the movement, there are no definitive answers yet. “It’s going to be more about teachers having nimble classrooms.” But for any of those tactics to work, educators agree that the key is to have a clear vision of what the technology is being used for, and how that will affect the teacher’s role.
That might be easier said than done. Related. Appealing Apps for Educators: Workflow Apps to Manage Student Work - iPhone app article - Jennie Magiera. Many educators are realizing that the most powerful apps are those that allow for student creation. Some apps, for example Pages, Explain Everything and Popplet, push students to demonstrate, apply and synthesize their learning. However, the question quickly becomes: How do the students turn in these digital work products? And... How do teachers then give feedback and grade them? The following apps offer promising solutions to this workflow issue. Google Drive and Chrome (Free) Many schools and districts have embraced Google Apps for Education, or GAFE.
Compatible creation apps: Google Chrome (documents and spreadsheets) or Google Drive (documents) Dropbox (Free) Dropbox is a mainstay for many individuals who use cloud storage. Compatible creation apps: Any that allow for “share via Dropbox” or “share via email” (for example: PaperPort Notes, Popplet, Comic Life, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, etc.) Showbie (Free) This little app can be viewed as Dropbox, education style. eBackpack ($99/teacher) Researchers create video game that monitors heart rate to keep children's anger in check. The Body and the Classroom: Phenomenology and Online Learning. The Magazine - The Siege of Academe. September/October 2012The Siege of Academe For years, Silicon Valley has failed to breach the walls of higher education with disruptive technology. But the tide of battle is changing. A report from the front lines. By Kevin Carey It’s three o’clock in the afternoon on Easter, and I’m standing on a wooden deck in the Corona Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, looking out toward Nob Hill.
A man is cooking large slabs of meat on a gas grill as two dozen people mingle with glasses of bourbon and bottles of beer in the cool, damp breeze blowing in off the ocean. All of these people are would-be movers and shakers in American higher education—the historic, world-leading system that constitutes one of this country’s greatest economic assets—but not one of them is an academic. Some of them are the kinds of hackers a college dean could love: folks who have come up with ingenious but polite ways to make campus life work better.
This hype has happened before, of course. The Xerox effect: Why replication in education falls short. Perhaps the most seductive trap in all of education reform is the idea of replication. A charter school is high achieving? Turn it into a CMO! A curriculum is achieving big results? Bring it to every classroom in its district! An instructional strategy is clicking with teachers? Take it nationwide! Too often, though, replication falls short of these high expectations. In education, the Xerox effect often stems from a shift in focus. What’s more, feedback in replication schools too often becomes unidirectional and is aimed at how well the program is being implemented, rather than on whether—faithful to the program or not—teachers are driving outstanding achievement. Understanding the limitations of simple replication is one of the many things that sets Doug Lemov’s book, Teach Like a Champion, apart from so many others.
…starts with and is justified by the results it helps teachers achieve, not by its fealty to some ideological principle. The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You. 100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About 44.24K Views 0 Likes We're always trying to figure out the best tools for teachers, trends in the education technology industry, and generally doing our darnedest to bring you new and exciting ways to enhance the classroom.
But I wanted t... 20 Free and Fun Ways To Curate Web Content 23.98K Views 0 Likes What's the best way to organize it all into at least some reasonable manner? Teachers, students, and admins alike don't have the time to properly visit every site (except Edudemic of course :) so they turn to curation tools. It’s Time To Crowdsource Your School’s Social Media Policy 12.53K Views 0 Likes Every school has a different policy when it comes to social media. Mr. Druskin's Class Page by 19Pencils. The Role of Video Games in the English Classroom.
Little Big Planet 2 Action Trailer Perhaps more than anything else, the English Language Arts classroom is a place of diversity. There is diversity of academic expectations for teachers. The ELA Common Core assigns literature and informational reading, writing, speaking/listening and language to what is usually a single "class. " This is a total of five extremely broad topics, each of which could more than stand on its own as a content area. There is diversity of content, where media from two thousand years ago to yesterday, from Gilgamesh to Tupac Shakur, can find a place. There is also diversity of assessment, where projects, exams, open-response questions, essays, digital products and community projects all vie for a chance to demonstrate what a student understands. It makes sense, then, that in such a busy atmosphere full of often-conflicting literacies and constant rigor, video games might find an authentic and compelling role. How can they function? 1) Entry Points 2) Student Voice.
Grit, character and academic success: thoughtlessness, part 3. As readers may know, a new book is getting a lot of national press these days: , by Paul Tough. I well recall the NY Times article that led to the book because it featured my friend Dominic Randolph, Head of Riverdale.) And the other day , Ira Glass devoted his wonderful show “This American Life” to the book, and interviewed the key people in it. I have started reading the book; I am about 1/4 way through.
I find it interesting and a good read – but slightly problematic. Tough’s premise is worth considering and discussing in a world in danger of fixating on academic standards. Perhaps the key to making it through school and into life is not intellect but character; perhaps what we have learned about psychological strength and weakness (in the face of stress) can be used to improve the chances of learners living in poverty and abuse who tend to not make it.
Such character-based programs as Outward Bound and Project Adventure have certainly influenced educators, me included. Rate this: i. Online vs In-Person Learning: Which Is Actually Better? An Inner-City Music Program Worth Singing About 609 Views 0 Likes Making Music Matters, an inner-city music program founded two years ago by 20-year-old college student Ken Zheng, offers a classical violin, piano and Rock 'n' Roll program to inner city students who have no music programs at their schools. Rewards of teaching young children to blog SmartBlogs. Appealing Apps for Educators: Celebrating Connected Educator Month - iPhone app article - Lucy Gray. Great News For Cost-Effective EdTech: GIMP Now A Native Mac App. Nine useful lists for educators. Hands on: Setting up Mac OS X Open Directory.
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