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Internet4Classrooms - Helping Students, Teachers and Parents Use the Internet Effectively

Internet4Classrooms - Helping Students, Teachers and Parents Use the Internet Effectively

Nokia N8 To Get Early UK Release On 23rd September 2 September '10, 12:01pm Follow It looks like an eager Nokia employee has jumped the gun and given an early release date for the Nokia N8, citing September 23rd as the date Nokia customers can head over to Nokia Online and grab their new smartphone a week before general release. NokNok.tv got the scoop, one of its readers spotting a Google Adword associated to a specific Nokia N8 search, saying the N8 would be “In-Stock, Ready For Dispatch 23rd Sept – 1 Week Before Anyone Else”. The N8 is equipped with an impressive 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon Flash, featuring a larger sensor to capture clearer and more detailed photos. The N8 has a 3.5 inch HD touchscreen and will allow handset owners to record HD videos and edit them using an inbuilt editing suite on the device. The N8 has 16GB onboard storage with the ability to expand up to 48GB with a micro SD card so users will be able to carry their videos and photos with them wherever they go.

E-Safety from a Self-Management Perspective Last year I was invited to talk to a group of school students aged 16-18 years on the subject of keeping yourself safe in online social networks. An easy task, you might imagine, except that it has two main difficulties. If you look at it from the teens’ point of view, they’re probably thinking that here comes yet another old fuddy-duddy telling us not to post photos of ourselves online. What's YOUR digital identity? It seems to me that what is required is, first, to acknowledge that we all have a digital identity, unless one takes extraordinary steps to avoid having one. Some years ago, the e-learning working party of the British Computer Society’s Education and Training Group, of which I was a member, compiled a digital journey that an average person will go through from the moment they are conceived. If you cannot avoid having a digital identity, it stands to reason that the next best thing is to manage it as best you can. The photograph is (c) vivekchugh.

The Making of a 21st-Century Teacher CLASSROOM 21 | by Greg Limperis Click here for PDF version A modern-day declaration of where things stand for educators in a social-media saturated world yet to fully hit our schools. Today’s teacher has to possess many more skills than a teacher of our previous century. The teachers of today have to be highly-qualified educators, parental figures, master communicators, engaging presenters, expert trainers, sages, technophiles, data analysts, sales people and much more. As an educator, I have had to be not only the teacher at the front of the classroom, but the guide on the side as well. Interestingly, much of this has been done without the use of any 21st century equipment. All that said, educators today have yet an additional duty: that of sales people. Thus, one of the most important skills we can possess as educators today is the ability to spread the word—to be advocates of change. Our collaboration in professional learning networks is essential; we need to get everyone talking.

Social Media School Group News Sal Khan: Bill Gates' favorite teacher - Aug. 24, 2010 Khan turns out thousands of videos from a converted walk-in closet in his Silicon Valley home.By David A. Kaplan, contributorAugust 24, 2010: 5:53 AM ET FORTUNE -- Sal Khan, you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan. Gates is a voracious consumer of online education. This past spring a colleague at his small think tank, bgC3, e-mailed him about the nonprofit khanacademy.org, a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan, an ebullient, articulate Harvard MBA and former hedge fund manager. In an undistinguished ranch house off the main freeway of Silicon Valley, in a converted walk-in closet filled with a few hundred dollars' worth of video equipment and bookshelves and his toddler's red Elmo underfoot, is the epicenter of the educational earthquake that has captivated Gates and others. Khan Academy, with Khan as the only teacher, appears on YouTube and elsewhere and is by any measure the most popular educational site on the web. Quick, free, and easy to understand

Full Sail University Master's Degree- Online For most educators, it's all about the students, but who's looking out for our teachers? Full Sail's Education Media Design & Technology Master's Degree Program was created to help teachers keep up with the changing needs of the 21st century student. In the program, you'll learn to motivate students while utilizing new-media creation tools and technology to create an inspirational and innovative learning environment. Specialized Areas of Study: Educational Design Motivational Development Multiple Learning Theories & Applications Online Course Development Learn to IncorporateMedia into Education: Film & Video Music Games Podcasts Digital Arts Internet Full Sail's online curriculum is the result of 30 years of innovation in delivering immersive, accelerated curriculum. Use custom-built learning tools that promote interaction and collaboration with instructors and fellow students. Earn your Education Media Design& Technology Master's Degreein 12 months!

In the Belly of the Whale: How to get your Twitter problem fixed Update: If you follow @Support, you can DM them (even though they don’t follow you) and ask your question that way. Though it doesn’t always work. For what is often a better but sometimes slower way to contact Twitter support, read on: Top Issues Account hacked? If you’ve been suspended, read this first.Change your password. Account suspended? First, check your email inbox for any notification from Twitter.You many also want to read the Official Twitter Rules to see why you might have been suspended. If you didn’t get any email notification, you’ve filed a ticket regarding suspension and it’s been awhile and you haven’t heard anything back yet, send a tweet something this: @Delbius my ticket number is #12345 want to know if/why my account was suspended & what I can do Suspension is not always a death knell! Accounts can be permanently suspended. Twitter has a number of “tests” for an account before it comes under review or suspension. Be sure to read Automation Rules and Best Practices

Google for teaching adults how to describe statistics | Kalinago English Google is just so useful, isn't it? But did you know that you can get your adult Business English students looking for their own data, specifically relevant to their own interests, projects and responsibilities? For fun, drag the yearly scroll bar! This incredible site, Google Public Data Explorer, offers statistics from the World Bank, Eurostat, OECD and also includes several more country-specific-options as well (Australian Bureau of Statistics, US Bureau of Labour Statistics and much, much more). Most of the charts are completely customizable and although the fun factor, when messing about on the site trying to decide just how to present the data, is high (you can change years, colours, countries and layouts), the very real potential for pedagogical application is even higher! For fun, hover over the country names! What can you encourage your students to do? What language could you use this website to practice? Best, Karenne education

Information retention from PowerPoint and traditional lectures The benefit of PowerPoint^(TM) is continuously debated, but both supporters and detractors have insufficient empirical evidence. Its use in university lectures has influenced investigations of PowerPoint's effects on student performance (e.g., overall quiz/exam scores) in comparison to lectures based on overhead projectors, traditional lectures (e.g., ''chalk-and-talk''), and online lectures. Thus far, comparisons of overall exam scores have yielded mixed results. The present study decomposes overall quiz scores into auditory, graphic, and alphanumeric scores to reveal new insights into effects of PowerPoint presentations on student performance.

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