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Twitter as a professional development tool. Love it or hate it? This week I attended a conference about professional development in Scotland. The participants were Community Learning and Development workers (CLD). I was there to show how the various ways in which a SMARTboard could be used for teaching, training and groupwork. There was also a focus on the use of ‘social media’ as a professional development tool and a way of engaging with individuals. What struck me most forcefully is the way in which ‘social media’ (mostly defined as Facebook and Twitter), polarised the audience, with strong emotions on both sides. Many were strongly in favour of these engagements, but others felt ‘social media’ is more of a force for harm than good. During the debate, I chatted to a participant who said: ‘you don’t do that twitter, do you?’ Twitter is opaque in the extreme to the outsider; a welter of unfathomable terms and a clique of weird rituals. Twitter can be a fantastic professional development tool though. In other words, not the done thing. Like this:
Educator Resources – Google in Education Tablets with Google Play for Education With tablets and Google Play for Education, teachers can now discover, purchase, and share educational apps, videos, and a selection of top classic books. Accéder au site Chromebooks for Education Les Chromebooks sont des ordinateurs portables rapides permettant aux étudiants d'accéder aux outils et aux ressources pédagogiques du Web. Ils sont faciles à gérer et abordables, à partir de 229 $ USD, Google Apps for Education inclus. Accéder au site Google Apps for Education Google Apps comprend tous les outils dont un établissement a besoin pour être efficace, notamment une messagerie électronique, un agenda, des éditeurs de documents, et plus encore. Accéder au site Chrome for Education Déployez Chrome et contrôlez plus de 100 règles d'administration pour votre établissement d'enseignement. Accéder au site Chrome Web Store Le Chrome Web Store est un marché ouvert proposant des applications Web, des thèmes et des extensions Chrome. Accéder au site Drive Documents
New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education | Faculty of Education | University of Wollongong Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (editors), New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, 2009, 138p. ISBN: 978-1-74128-169-9 (online). Complete book available here - individual chapters below: Table of Contents Preface: While mobile technologies such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and digital music players (mp3 players) have permeated popular culture, they have not found widespread acceptance as pedagogical tools in higher education. The purpose of this e-book is to explore the use of mobile devices in learning in higher education, and to provide examples of good pedagogy. The book begins with an introductory chapter that describes the overall project, its aims and methods. The chapters and full text are arranged alphabetically by author below: Follow index Papers from 2009 2009 Art on the move: Mobility – a way of life, I.
Schools find active kids make smarter students When students at Meadowview Elementary in Farmington needed to improve their reading scores last fall, they were turned over to physical education teacher Joe McCarthy. Each morning for months, McCarthy had the students spend 15 minutes running or shuttling from side to side in the gym. It wasn't any type of punishment, but part of a growing trend in education that focuses on increased physical activity to improve learning. The students were selected based on their scores on fall state assessments. When the kids took the tests again earlier this year, after McCarthy's exercise regimen, they showed the greatest improvement of any students at Meadowview, double the school average, McCarthy said. "And all we did was move more," McCarthy said. "It's more than a theory. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a paper in 2010 urging more physical activity for students because of the health and academic benefits. Pitching P.E. Role models Ulla Tervo-Desnick, a St.
Lesson Plan Database (AASL)*** 10 Reasons for Education Professionals to Use Twitter Can a message of only 140 characters really affect change in the world? Twitter is doing just that one message at a time. Last week I met with a small group of teachers and administrators to show them some of the merits of using Twitter as an education professional. I have already read many blogs about the virtue of educators using Twitter, so my message is nothing new. Here’s what I told the group: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. My final advice is to take it slowly but be persistent. 10. Here’s to meeting you online! Web in Learning Welcome to My Resource Cloud BetterLesson*** QR Codes and TinyURL in Education We started using QR Codes in our classrooms in the summer of 2011. We began investigating how we could make use of them and found a large amount of information online about the potential for QR Codes being used in the education environment. Some of these can be found here: In addition to these websites there is also much more that can be found on YouTube, in blogs and by searching for 'QR Codes Classroom'. Initially, we only made use of QR Codes and made them using Kaywa. We then, after seeing them used on Twitter, started to look at the use of URL shortening services. As a result of using TinyURL we also discovered that if the TinyURL is used to create the QR Code rather than the original URL it makes the QR Code much simpler and therefore easier to read. So, when creating your QR Codes to link to a URL pop the URL into a shortening service and use that URL to create your QR Code. We hope that adds a little more to the QR Code discussion and is of use to you.
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