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The Educator's PLN - The personal learning network for educators taitcoles Writing Objectives Using Bloom's Taxonomy | Center for Teaching & Learning | UNC Charlotte Various researchers have summarized how to use Bloom’s Taxonomy. Following are four interpretations that you can use as guides in helping to write objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy. From: KC Metro [old link, no longer functioning?] Bloom’s Taxonomy divides the way people learn into three domains. One of these is the cognitive domain, which emphasizes intellectual outcomes. This domain is further divided into categories or levels. From: UMUC From: Stewards Task Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy Task Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. ©2001 St. From: GA Tech According to Benjamin Bloom, and his colleagues, there are six levels of cognition: Ideally, each of these levels should be covered in each course and, thus, at least one objective should be written for each level. Below are examples of objectives written for each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy and activities and assessment tools based on those objectives.

Home | iPadNewsDaily.com Serendipity New Tool Makes PD Planning Simple Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) December 19, 2011 PD developer School Improvement Network has added yet another tool to its premiere professional development platform, PD 360. The new addition, called My Portfolio, is a groundbreaking function within the PD 360 platform that gives educators the opportunity to create, share, and implement personalized professional learning plans. With My Portfolio, teachers and administrators alike have the ability to create professional learning plans and share them with anyone in their network across departments, schools, and the entire district. My Portfolio’s reporting function makes follow-up and accountability simple and easy, giving educators the power to turn goals into accomplishments. With My Portfolio, teachers and instructional leaders can: Create their own professional learning plans Showcase the professional learning elements that have been completed Easily generate reports of plans and what has been completed

High Dive Teaching | Hypocrite, n. – a teacher who thinks there is nothing left to learn Lettrs Encourages Thoughtful Digital Writing And A Slower Communications Movement Not everything in the life of a student should be done faster, especially when taking the time to write a meaningful or thoughtful letter . But technology has let students down here. The communication of many kids has become wildy fragmented, thoughtlessly fast, with social communication and mobile platforms seeking quantity instead of quality. Students are being encouraged – conditioned in fact – by many social platforms to like, comment, tweet, text, or send at communication speeds that are more akin to a reflex rather than a well-composed expression of thought and ideas. A new platform for “slower communications” hopes to change that trend. lettrs (all lower-case) was launched as a beta platform last Spring to bring old letters back from the past as important social and learning objects, and inspire new student letters to be written in the process. During a “letters jam” in one of the CT classrooms, observers quickly saw an unusual reaction among students in a pilot session.

I Education Apps Review - I Education Apps Review Engaging Thinking | Mind Mapping with Mindomo Mind Mapping is a fantastic tool that helps students (and teachers) to visualise thinking in an organised way. Personally, mind maps have helped me to learn a vast amount amount of information without needing to read through pages of endless notes. Tony Buzan’s Mind Map strategy has helped educators around the world to break down the concept into simple rules to help students understand how they can organise their ideas in an effective way. Mindomo is an online application where users can create, view and share mind maps in their browser. What I really like about Mindomo is that it creates mind maps according to the Buzan structure: A central image with branches and sub branchesAll writing presented on horizontal branchesEach branch and corresponding writing are colour codedImages linked to keywords The program gives you the flexibility to change the visual features, layout, font, colour and theme of the map. ‘New Horizons’ in engaging technologies Key Trends 1.

Wanted Posters using Aurasma « keldarichards Whilst teaching Descriptions to year 7 last week I hit upon the idea of using Aurasma to jazz up the inevitable Wanted posters they were going to make. I have used Aurasma before to create a talking display at the back of my classroom (see post on Le Mur Parlant) and this seemed like a logical step. It rang of Harry Potter (I am an avid fan) and I could not wait to try it in class. The difference this time was that now I have a class set of iPads the pupils would be able to complete the whole task themselves – from filming to creating QR codes. Below is a step to step guide to the process, and I have attached a powerpoint that I used in class. At this point I will add that I actually used a Keynote but can appreciate not all people do. It is worth checking that the QR codes and aura images open properly before you print the work as we did have a few technical issues. To be able to share your auras you need to create an account (but you do not even need an email for this). 1. 2. 3. 4.

Notable Sentences...for Imitation and Creation Converting YouTube to iPad Video If you need to convert a YouTube file to an iPad Video you can embed in Keynote, one of the best options is the app iCab Mobile, which is an alternative browser to Safari. By pressing and holding while a YouTube video is playing, you can download it, and the you can later save it to your photo roll. Remember that videos for Keynote for the iPad have to come out of your Photo Roll. Yes, this makes no sense (shouldn't movies come from Movies?), and I've shared this with the head of iOS app development at Apple directly. Strictly speaking, taking video off of YouTube is illegal, but if you want to have a file for times when you do not have the Internet present (many schools), it is a logical solution (It also works well if a TV series is on YouTube and you want that series on your son's iPod Touch for a long car ride–just saying). As a side note, I've been shocked to see how many full length movies appear on YouTube (in differing quality).

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