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. Videos. Citing Wikimedia Commons. 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. 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.”
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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. 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. 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) 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. 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? 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? 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.
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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... 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.
" 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. 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.
I have been an elementary-school teacher for more than 25 years and I am always on the lookout for meaningful ways to engage and motivate my young students. I started Mrs. 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. CEM Tweeters provide some of ed-tech’s best resource lists on getting connected and digital literacies. Hands on: Setting up Mac OS X Open Directory.
Computerworld - Open Directory, Mac OS X's native directory service, allows users to both manage local accounts and to create shared directory domains hosted by Mac OS X Server. How-to: Understanding Mac OS X Open Directory. April 16, 2007 12:00 PM ET.
National School Reform Faculty<sup>®</sup> Docs - Google Apps for the iPad. While Google does not provide an app specific to Google Docs (although many third-party apps exist), Google Docs can be accessed from the Safari browser. To make access simple, it is recommended that a shortcut to Google Docs be saved onto the home screen. Google Docs can also be accessed from the Google Search app, although it is merely a shortcut to Safari-based Google Docs. Google Docs on an iPad provides two viewing options. The default view is the Mobile view that offers a slimmed-down version of Google Docs, with limited functionality.
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