SMART. Moodle. Create Web 2.0 Flashcards in a Flash! 3/28/2009 By: By Jenn Farr I must admit I have a bit of an aversion to drill-type activities, but I realize there are times that students need to practice and memorize certain concepts in order to succeed.
Certainly we all know that studying makes for more successful learners. Abraham Lincoln clearly knew the value of studying when he said, “I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.” I doubt that Abraham could have imagined the neat Web 2.0 flashcard-type applications that our students can now use to help them with their studies. I wish my daughter had access to StudyStack when she was studying for her Physician Assistant certification. A different repository of electronic flashcards can be found online at Flashcard DB. Another very large database of flashcards can be found at the Flashcard Exchange. Quizlet is another excellent little application that will help students study vocabulary words. Jen Farr, Cc:Betty. WebNotes allows users to annotate and share web pages. Fotopedia: An Online Encyclopedia for Photos.
When we think of online photo sharing, we typically think of sites like Flickr and Picasa where photos are hosted and organized by users.
Though these sites definitely serve a purpose in helping us host and share our photos, they don't do a great job at collectively organizing and displaying photos by content type or subject matter. Fotopedia, a photo encyclopedia site that launches to the public today, hopes to become the Wikipedia for photos by centralizing the photo experience around user-created topics and subject matters. The sleek web interface is coupled with a desktop application for a community experience on site or off.With Fotopedia, users can create or edit pages, which are photo-driven articles, and can use the desktop application to add photos from their desktop library, or online libraries like Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook. Fotopedia articles can also include a Google Map and Wikipedia info, but the experience centers around the top photos that make the page slideshow.
WebNotes allows users to annotate web pages. Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally. 4/1/2008 By: Andrew Churches from Educators' eZine Introduction and Background: Bloom's Taxonomy In the 1950's Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy of cognitive objectives, Bloom's Taxonomy.
This categorized and ordered thinking skills and objectives. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy In the 1990's, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published this- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in 2001.Key to this is the use of verbs rather than nouns for each of the categories and a rearrangement of the sequence within the taxonomy. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub Categories Each of the categories or taxonomic elements has a number of key verbs associated with it Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) The elements cover many of the activities and objectives but they do not address the new objectives presented by the emergence and integration of Information and Communication Technologies into the classroom and the lives of our students.
Remembering Applying. Ten Ways To Get Beyond Powerpoint With Classroom Projectors. 4/12/2009 By: True tech integrators know the digital projector can be used for much more than projecting.
Here is a sampling of some creative ways to use your projector in any curriculum. • Reading/Writing. Five Reasons to Use Wordle in the Classroom by Terry Freedman. Nine Reasons to Twitter in Schools. Web2.0 Flashcard Sites. Social Bookmarking Discussion on Tech & Learning. Welcome. Welcome to The Digital Open! E-Books Directory - Categorized Books, Short Reviews, Free Downloads. 10 Great Apps for a Teacher’s New iPad. Did you receive a gift of a new iPad this year?
If so, you’re probably spending this holiday vacation week trying out all kinds of new apps. Here are ten that I recommend getting started with. Evernote is the Swiss Army knife of iPad apps. I use Evernote for a little bit of everything from bookmarking websites to dictating notes to myself. The app automatically syncs with my online Evernote account so that I can access my notes, bookmarks, and saved files from any computer or device that is connected to the web. I subscribe to the RSS feeds of a few hundred blogs and websites. If you want to make your own short instructional videos for students, Knowmia Teach is an app you have to try. Box is another service that I use for file storage and sharing. It took me a while to come around to Pinterest, but now that I have I really like it. Haiku Deck is an iPad app that all students and teachers should have installed on their iPads. Tags: free app, free apps, productivity, skitch, TED.
Learn about free eBooks that can supplement or replace classroom texts. Full Tour of Firefox Add-On on Delicious. Schools explore campus tours 2.0. Mr. Coker and Mrs. Hire's American Literature Site - Home. Remember The Milk: Online to do list and task management. Microsoft offers free tools for high schoolers. Weboword - Vocabulary Visually! IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection. Cinema : Watch "The Scarlet Letter" Online! The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.