CoSketch.com - Online Whiteboard Collaboration Online Learning is so last year… By Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach As the CEO of a professional development company whose mantra is “Professional Development for the 21st Century Educator” I find myself continually cognitively juggling what’s best for my clients, what’s best for their students, and what’s best for our contractors and staff in an effort to find some way of making it all align with what needs to change in education. It’s evaluation time. We encourage our communities to be brutally honest when they evaluate us. Deep Reflection and Keeping the Focus on Learning Evaluation time means deep reflection time for me personally. But I have to tell you- I am frustrated. For example, here is a recent evaluation comment: I’m not sure that this is a very valuable experience, and I doubt I’d ever recommend it. Old Hat? Which begs to ask a different question– are people confusing talking to people online with deep, connected learning? Personal Learning Networks Old hat — I think not. Please Reply… Tell me if I am crazy.
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Stixy: For Flexible Online Creation Collaboration and Sharing Cooperative and Collaborative Learning: Explanation How can I use cooperative and collaborative learning in conjunction with other educational techniques? Since cooperative-learning techniques revolve around the use of a particular tool -- small groups -- they can be used with almost any other educational strategy. Many of the other teaching techniques detailed in previous workshops include small-group learning activities. The cooperative-learning techniques described here will help you and your students make the best use of these small-group activities. Some types of cooperative learning (like those demonstrated in this workshop) have been developed in concert with the theory of multiple intelligences, so they work very readily with this strategy. In small groups, students can share their strengths and weaknesses and use the group activities to develop a variety of their intelligences. They can also help students meet national, state, or local standards.
Write Comics Intro to Google Hangouts | Tim McDonald Online video conferencing is becoming more popular. Video is being used for more than conferencing too! One of the most well-known live streaming video platforms is on Google+, called Hangouts. Since this technology is so new, many people get frustrated by the fact they don't know how to use it. As someone who's been using Google Hangouts for over 18 months, I am often asked to help people understand Hangouts. Here's an intro to Google Hangouts. There are actually two different types of Hangouts: Hangouts and Hangouts On Air Hangouts are typically used for private video chats with another person or group of people. Hangouts On Air are publicly viewable and automatically recorded to you YouTube channel associated with your G+ account. In this video, we cover everything from starting a Hangout On Air to embedding it on your site. Some important take aways: Hangouts are the GREEN icon in the upper right of your G+ page. Close Click on the "Home" icon in upper left corner.
Comic Creator The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. Grades K – 3 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Word Study with Henry and Mudge Henry and Mudge is used in this lesson to build students' word recognition through rereading, high-frequency word banks, word studies, and writing.
How Teachers Collaborate Online and in School Woman 1: There's distribution and-- Woman 2: Do you wanna start on that one first? Woman 1: Yeah, we'll start on distribution. There's a water cycle website. Check out what the interactive water cycle is. Computer voice: Water on the earth is constantly on the move. Woman 1: This is good. Woman 3: That's nice. Katie Dabney: Teachers had created this wealth of resources, of lesson plans, of ideas, of different ways to teach different concepts. Everyone: -- is the most important thing-- Katie Dabney: So the first thing that we did is we calendared our objectives, our state standards. Kevin Carney: So we said, 'How can we take our process that's proven and make it kinda digitized to make it more efficient?' Katie Dabney: We created what we call Beyond Textbooks, and it's an internet application where teachers can take those wonderful ideas and they can post it on a Wiki page that is dedicated to that concept and that content area. Sarah Bates: Beyond Textbooks really helps for prep.
ToonDoo - World's fastest way to create cartoons! Creating Books on the iPad Book Creator for iPad: $7.49The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore. Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on. eBook Creator: $4.49 ‘eBook Creator’ is a simple and easy ebook creation application. Ebook Magic: $4.49 An easy way to make custom epub books. Demibooks: FREEDemibooks Composer is the first iPad-based authoring software for creating interactive books. StoryPatch: $2.99 Now you can help your child's creativity grow with Story Patch, a beautiful new application for the iPad that children can use to create their own picture books. And thanks to Scott Meech for letting me know of another great App to include - Creative Book Builder.
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