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5 Ways To Make Students Better At Sharing Online. Sharing is something that all human beings need to effectively know how to do.

5 Ways To Make Students Better At Sharing Online

It begins with teaching toddlers to share their toys, and from there it never ends. As those toddlers turn in to teenagers who turn in to college students, they learn a new type of sharing that is important in the digital age: social sharing. #Online #Universities #elearning via @pgsimoes. How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn. Rules of Engagement; or, How to Build Better Online Discussion. Sharing What We Know about Online Communities of Practice.

The Connected Online Communities of Practice project is all about increasing the quality, accessibility, and connectedness of existing and emerging online communities of practice in education.

Sharing What We Know about Online Communities of Practice

Supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the work is being carried out by a project team drawn from a six-organization partnership that’s led by the American Institutes for Research. Can Online Education Be Both Successful and Good for Us? - Kanyi Maqubela - Technology. We're witnessing the beginning of a much-needed revolution in education. Skillshare's graphic pitch What would it take to create wildly profitable, culturally effective online education system? How could the system reflect the marketplace demands of an era of technology, and provide tangible resources for students to find and create opportunity?

What would that look like? Chances are it would not look quite like either the online education kingpin, University of Phoenix, or the many startups in the space. When the University of Phoenix offered its first online course in 1989, the internet was in its infancy, and for-profit online education was a revolutionary idea. This new online education represents a much-needed shift away from the existing popular paradigm. University professors have taken notice, and those in high demand have begun turning to entrepreneurship over their coursework. Top Ten Websites of 2011. Every week, I post a website that my classes found useful, instructive, helpful in integrating technology into classroom lesson plans.

Top Ten Websites of 2011

Some, you agreed with me about; others not so much. Here, I’ll share with you Top Ten Websites of 2011 which sites readers thought were the most helpful in their efforts to weave tech into the classroom experience. Between these ten, they had over 80,000 visitors during the year. Great Kids Websites–this is a list of hundreds, organized by grade and topic. On the list last year, but pushed off: Have a wonderful 2012! The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online. This “The Best…” list requires a bit of an explanation.

The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online

I’ve already posted The Best Websites For K-12 Writing Instruction/Reinforcement. That list primarily contains links to sites that provide direct writing instruction. And I’ve also posted several lists of Web 2.0 tools where writing is a key feature to using them, including The Best Ways To Create Online Slideshows, The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Animations, and The Best Ways To Make Comic Strips Online.

I thought, though, that it would be useful to create another list of the best places where the primary purpose is just to write, and which make it interesting and easy for English Language Learners and other students to do so. I don’t think that’s an artificial distinction and, if it is, so be it! SOME FINE COLLABORATIVE WRITING TOOLS. Jan January 4, 2012 | 5 Comments Nowadays I’m in need of a good collaborative writing tool and while searching I’ve come across with these goodies.

SOME FINE COLLABORATIVE WRITING TOOLS

Have a look, you will like some of them. StudentPublishing.com I liked the tool as it allows students to draw pictures, upload from desktop and create and publish their stories. You will also find lesson plans, useful links for teaching writing, worksheets and a good tutorial how to use the tool. Writeboard.com is an easy-to-use collaborative writing tool. TitanPad lets people work on one text at the same time. Sync.in is another web based real-time collaborative tool which will work well for class project, writing stories and online projects. If you have used another tool and think worked well with your classes, I’ll be glad to add them here. 10 Ways to Create Comics Online. Creating cartoons and comic strips can be a good way to get reluctant writers writing.

10 Ways to Create Comics Online

While creating comics you and your students can work through the elements of fiction in a context that is fun and familiar to them. Witty Comics provides a simple platform that students can use to create two character dialogues. To use Witty Comics students just need to select the pre-drawn background scenes and the pre-drawn characters they want to feature in their comics. Writing the dialogues is the creative element that is left to the students. Artisan Cam is more than just a comic creator, it is a comprehensive collection of online art activities. The Super Hero Squad invites kids to create their own super hero comic strips and comic books. Word Dynamo - Free Study Guides, Quizzes, Games and Flashcards. Clayton Christensen: Why online education is ready for disruption, now.

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