How To YouTube Your Classroom YouTube is popular. Over 3 billion videos are viewed each day. Each month, YouTube will see approaching a billion unique visitors. And projected estimates for 2011 includes over a trillion video playbacks. A trillion. Whatever mechanisms YouTube uses to deploy content works. So what might those lessons be? 10 Characteristics of a “YouTube’d” Classroom 1. This is among the most important to YouTube’s success. Possibility for Teachers: Make processes and procedure as simple and transparent as possible. 2. While largely passive, there is opportunity on YouTube for active participation, including forming video responses or video annotation . Possibility for Teachers : Model decision-making with learners. 3. “ Suggested Videos ” change everything. Possibility for Teachers: consider thematic instruction, where learning is anchored by a theme (“What is Design?”) 4. Google-owned YouTube is friendly with twitter, Facebook, Google+, blogging, and all forms of electronic media. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Build Your Own Digital Textbooks When the governors of the nation's two most populous states bang the drum for schools to switch to electronic textbooks, you gotta think that the transition away from paper and toward digital devices would be rapidly under way. Indeed, the big three textbook publishers do offer nearly all of their products in a digital form, just as they're scrambling to keep up with demand for supplemental, game-like resources. But while the rallying cry for open-source digital textbooks is coming from California and Texas, the real revolution is happening elsewhere. Create Your OwnIn districts from Arizona to Indiana, educators are opting out of textbooks altogether, culling from vetted electronic resources and courseware to essentially create their own texts. Online articles, simulations, and audiovisual files, along with lesson plans shared through wikis, can be found on the syllabi for a growing number of secondary classes. What to Do Now? "We basically said, ‘Ew.
OER Handbook for Educators 1.0 In this handbook Welcome to the world of Open Educational Resources (OER). This handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom. Although no prior knowledge of OER[1] is required, some experience using a computer and browsing the Internet will be helpful. For example, it is preferable that you have experience using a word processor (e.g. Open Office[2] or Microsoft Word) and basic media production software, such as an image editor (e.g. The handbook works best when there is some sort of OER you would like to create or make available to others, but it is also useful for the curious reader. There are several ways to use this handbook, including: You are not expected to be an instructional designer or media production expert to use this book. What this handbook does not cover OER is a broad topic and it would be difficult, if not impossible, to cover it comprehensively. Notes Introduction Find OER Compose OER
Justice Matters - Home Creative Chalk | Online lesson planner - Six Ways to Turn Your One-Computer Classroom Into a Global Communication Center 0 Comments December 9, 2011 By: Lisa Nielsen Dec 9 Written by: 12/9/2011 4:09 AM ShareThis In the 21st century, the connected classroom is no longer a privilege. Eight building blocks for successful technology integrationTo follow are the building blocks that school leaders and teachers must work together to provide for successful integration of technology into the classroom. Support teachers in using technology for professional purposes. As schools put these building blocks in place, they will be able to work to support real transformation. Facebook Students update status and parents can respond Notes for class updates Photos to capture student work Videos to capture lessons and student presentations Events to share upcoming activities Twitter Embed live current event feed into class or school site Blogs / Websites Share lessons and student work 2. Blogs / Websites Comments for kids QuadBlogs Flat Classroom Project Global Classroom Project 3. 4. 5. 6.
446 Places for Free Books Online Introduction This is the launch page for the pages here at Gizmo's Tech Support Alert that list sites with free ebooks and audiobooks. There are well over a million free ebooks and audiobooks at the sites listed within these pages. There are 3 pages that separate sites on the format of the ebooks, Kindle, ePub and Online Reading. There is a main page for both ebooks and audiobooks that lists all the sites carrying each. There are also 21 genre listings. The sites within the free comic books and free motion comics pages are not included in the main ebook and audiobook pages. To the best of my knowledge all of the websites listed here offer only content that they are legally entitled to transfer to you. To the best of my knowledge every website listed here, and its downloads, are safe. I hope you enjoy the content. Free eBooks & Audiobooks Complete Listings Best Free eBooks Online (913 sites) Best Free AudioBooks Online (224 sites) Free eBooks By Format Free Kindle eBooks Online Related Links
Wikiversity Venezuela – El Sistema USA El Sistema is a tested model of how a music program can both create great musicians and dramatically change the life trajectory of hundreds of thousands of a nation’s neediest kids. Among its graduates, El Sistema Venezuela has nurtured international musicians such as Edicson Ruiz and Gustavo Dudamel and the world-renowned Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra. Many begin attending their local El Sistema center, called a “nucleo,” as early as age 2 or 3, with the vast majority continuing well into their teens; attending up to six days a week, three to four hours a day, plus retreats and intensive workshops. Participation is free for all students. The country now has over 500,000 students with plans to expand it to serve 1,000,000 annually. El Sistema’s approach to music education emphasizes intensive ensemble participation from the earliest stages, group learning, peer teaching and a commitment to keeping the joy and fun of musical learning and music making ever-present. Learning Sequence Music
Google+, plataforma de comunicación para nuestros sistemas de información Posted on | domingo, 18 de diciembre de 2011 | Cuán lejos quedó ya el inicio de Google, en aquel lejano 1998, cuando Larry Page y Sergey Brin —dos estudiantes de doctorado en Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Stanford— dieron a conocer un buscador de información en Internet que superaba en mucho a la ya para entonces vieja herramienta Altavista, publicada apenas tres años antes. El motor de búsquedas era el resultado de la tesis doctoral de ambos para mejorar las búsquedas en Internet, y había sido coordinada por el mexicano Héctor García Molina, director por entonces del Laboratorio de Sistemas Computacionales de la universidad. Sorpresivamente, apenas dos años antes del arranque del nuevo milenio, Google se posicionó como la primera empresa global proveedora de información a través de la Red de Redes. Sin embargo, sí se prefigura como deseable el abordaje de Google+ como un importante complemento para esa clase de redes. Tan sólo por poner un ejemplo de lo dicho: Comments
Mexico's Largest University to Post Online Nearly All Publications and Course Materials - Global By Steven Ambrus Mexico City The National Autonomous University of Mexico, better known as UNAM, has said it will make virtually all of its publications, databases, and course materials freely available on the Internet over the next few years—a move that some academics speculated could push other universities in the region to follow suit. Campus officials at UNAM, Mexico's largest university, said the program, known as All of UNAM Online, could double or triple the institution's 3.5 million publicly available Web pages, as the largest collection of its kind in Latin America. They also said it was key to UNAM's social mission as a public institution: providing educational resources to populations usually underrepresented in the university system—really, to anyone who desires access to them. Mr. But he said it would include all magazines and periodicals published by UNAM, and, if negotiations with outside publishers went well, all research published by UNAM employees.