What Caught my Eye this Week 0 Comments November 10, 2009 By: Cheryl Oakes Nov 9 Written by: 11/9/2009 9:30 PM ShareThis John Sowash had quite a discussion happening at his website, The Electric Educator, on how and why to Google-Proof a Question, using Bloom's Taxonomy. What does that title suggest to you? When I read the title and the post I immediately thought about our digital learners. Our digital learners learn and participate differently. However, fast forward to a book talk by blogging. The Google it! Can you Google-proof your question? Resources: What do we know about great instruction ? Alert to All Users of the Disqus commenting system: Because of a recent global security issue, the Disqus website recommends that all users change their Disqus passwords.
LoudLit.org Screen Capture Tools: 40+ Free Tools and Techniques | Tools Screen capture, or print screen is perhaps the most efficient way to share whatever appears on your desktop. They help tech users like us to share and communicate better with friends and peers. Major operating systems today comes with basic screen capture and print screen function, but if these can’t fulfill what you need from a screen capture then you are probably looking for a screen capturing tool. Screen capturing tools do what the basic tool don’t. What these tools could do varies, including the ability to include sketches and text, instantly upload image online, audio capturing, dimension-specific capturing and more. Make your screen capture and sharing experience more interesting, here’s a showcase of 40+ Free Screen Capturing Tools and Related Techniques. Cross Platform We love cross platform tools. Jing ProjectA project of Techsmith, Jing has the ability to do instance image and video capturing. Windows Only Mac Only Linux Screen capturing tools for Linux users. Web Tools Screengrab!
Welcome to the University of iTunesdelicious LONDON, England (CNN) -- The wisdom of business professors, once only available to MBAs and business students, can now be accessed by anybody with an Internet connection. At HEC Paris, MBA students are given an iPod Touch so they can download podcasts of lectures. Hundreds of universities, and a growing number of business schools, are making recordings of lectures, seminars and conferences available to the general public via Web sites such as iTunes and YouTube. Leading business schools including University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Fuqua School of Business, and Yale School of Management make course content available for download through iTunes University (iTunes U), part of the of the iTunes online store. That means those whose budget won't stretch to a two-year MBA can simulate the experience at home -- or at work, in the gym or anywhere else they choose. Begun as an experiment in partnership with Apple, all new MBAs at HEC are provided with an iPod Touch.
Creating a Culture of Collaboration Through Technology Integration by Kim Cofino, Earl Grier 3/23/2010 By: Earl Grier Cross-posted on always learning Last week, Chrissy and I were invited to give our presentation from ASB Unplugged, Hardware is Not Enough: The Teacher-Facilitator Partnership, to our Headmaster, Dr. Here's what I have so far for the article, I would love to get your feedback before I send a finished draft off to Bill: Creating a Culture of Collaboration Through Technology Integration For many years technology was treated as a discrete subject to be taught by a technology teacher. Now the expectation is that classroom teachers will authentically and appropriately embed technology into the learning experience. Why Collaborate? The most important (and most obvious) reason for the facilitator and teacher to collaborate is to improve student learning. Full Collaboration: During this stage of the cycle it's hard to say where the teacher's responsibilities end and the facilitator's begin. Who Does What?
Welcome to C3 Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com 0 Comments November 30, 2010 By: Tech Learning Blog Staff Nov 30 Written by: 11/30/2010 1:04 AM ShareThis Animations have already been so popular even before internet; and with the developing Web 2.0 applications, it has become an effective and an engaging tool in the classrooms. ZimmerTwins is a simple site to make great and fun animated stories. You can create a mini animation with DVolver by pointing and clicking. Xtranormal is a site where you can create animations using text-to-speech application. Fuzzwich is a site that lets you create 20 second animated movies. With GoAnimate , you choose your theme and characters or you can even create your own animated characters by changing the size and colour of their body parts and clothes. Domo is another site that GoAnimate features. Doink is site that lets you create flash-style animations. Animasher is another site to make animations by using pictures from the gallery or you can use your pictures too.
Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com 0 Comments January 22, 2011 By: Lisa Thumann Jan 22 Written by: 1/22/2011 5:43 AM ShareThis Cross posted at ThumannResources.com I've been working with a group of NJ high school teachers that work in a one-computer classroom environment. We met again on January 13th and I was so pleased to hear how things have been going. Both teachers mentioned the benefits of using Edmodo: It's user friendly InstantaneousThere's a polling option Students can submit assignmentsIt allows for a paperless environment It seems like it accepts most file types The teachers can edit student comments and posts Students have their own accounts Teachers can send alerts to their classes You can connect with other teachers At this point in time, the history teacher uses Edmodo mostly for course management. The language arts teacher said that students communicate with him more through Edmodo (virtually) than in class (face-to-face). So, how is Edmodo benefiting the students? The two teachers felt that:
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Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles Carbonmade This is one fabulous way for art or photography students to create a FREE online portfolio to share work in your class, share with each other, or submit as an online collection for competitions or college admissions. The users agreement specifies no "group" accounts or users under 13 years old. The free version is limited to 5 projects and 35 images (no videos in the free version), but this is enough to show your "best of the best." tag(s): images (202), photography (129), portfolios (20) In the Classroom Browse for files and upload to site, label with captions, project information, other information, and decide about viewing options. Share portfolios among neighboring schools or through art teacher associations to inspire your students and help them develop the critical skills to choose their best work and articulate their reasons (Use the "notes" space on each image to tell about it). Be sure that you adhere to school policies regarding posting of student work.
Google Books 2.0: Smarter Search and Easy Embeds Google Books has quietly been one of Google's most interesting project to date. It has involved the scanning of millions of books (which has been a point of contention with book publishers) and allows users to not only read books but to search them, embed printed words, and even access them on mobile phones. Today, Google launched a ton additional improvements. 1. Overall, it's a large collection of small feature upgrades that enhance the user experience.