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Want to show that must-see video to your friends, but don't want to crowd around a tiny screen? Or perhaps you have an important document on your handset to share during a large meeting. You could try a phone with a built-in projector, but wouldn't it be easier to use your regular device? Now you can, thanks to "virtual projection", a system for sharing your screen on to any nearby display.
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Students in Mrs. Murawski’s kindergarten class at Magruder Elementary School knew that their work mattered. One reason they fully committed themselves to carefully designing and constructing the gingerbread house was because they are donating the house to a local senior citizen’s home to bring joy during this holiday season.
At the start of the construction project, Mrs. Murawski convened her students for a design team meeting. Each student chose to serve on a committee which planned one aspect of the job. For example, the landscaping committee planned the layout and creation of the yard while the roof committee developed ideas for the top of the house.
These five year old children learned a lot about team work. Mrs. Murawski commented that one of the biggest challenge for students was "working with a committee of students, making decisions together and realizing that you have to compromise. As they came together with their research information and began to share the ideas with each other they realized that they may indeed like what they saw in their classmate's research booklet." Delete the scoop?
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Over the years, I have read hundreds of license agreements, looking for little gotchas and clear descriptions of rights. I have never seen a EULA as mind-bogglingly greedy and evil as Apple’s EULA for its new ebook authoring program.
The nightmare scenario under this agreement? You create a great work of staggering literary genius that you think you can sell for 5 or 10 bucks per copy. You craft it carefully in iBooks Author. You submit it to Apple. They reject it. Under this license agreement, you are out of luck. They won’t sell it, and you can’t legally sell it elsewhere. You can give it away, but you can’t sell it. Updated to add: By “it,” I am referring to the book, not the content. The program allows you to export your work as plain text, with all formatting stripped. So you do have the option to take the formatting work you did in iBooks Author, throw it away, and start over. That is a devastating potential limitation for an author/publisher. Outputting as PDF would preserve the formatting, but again the license would appear to prohibit you from selling that work, because it was generated by iBooks Author. - Ed Bott Delete the scoop?
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A project tracked the academic performance of more than 21,000 New York City students who applied for ninth grade admission at 105 small high schools, mainly in Brooklyn and in the Bronx, from 2005 to 2008. Delete the scoop?
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At a time when awareness of technology and its potential uses in school is growing nationally, this public high school of 550 often feels like a poster child for the so-called digital divide. Delete the scoop?
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The question arose in the fall, when a handful of professors at Stanford University decided to teach free courses online to tens of thousands of students who were not enrolled at the elite California university. The students would receive no Stanford credit; only a signed letter by the instructor, acting apart from the university. The pair of part-time Stanford instructors who co-taught the most successful of the open courses, on artificial intelligence, now intend to put the importance of the institutional brand to the test. They are co-founders of a company that will offer two similarly “open” courses beginning in February, this time independently of the Stanford name.
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Every Australian student in Years 9-12 will have access to a computer when they return to their school desks on the first day of term next year thanks to the Gillard Government’s $2.4 billion Digital Education Revolution. Via Jeremy Angoff Delete the scoop?
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By Steven Sands
TUAW's Erica Sadun and I are ebook publishers. Late last year, we started up an ebook publishing company -- Sand Dune Books -- and were fortunate to hit a publishing home run right off the bat with our book "Talking to Siri." Since we're familiar with the tools used to create documents for publishing on both the Amazon Kindle bookstore and iBookstore, we were both curious to see what Apple was going to announce on Thursday. The free creation tool, iBooks Author, wasn't a surprise to us, and now that I've had an opportunity to work with the app I thought I'd pass along my thoughts on how it works and why it may not be the publishing tool for everyone. Delete the scoop?
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“The written word is coming to life by being a key part of multimedia,” Boardman said. “When people can not only pick up something by the written word, but also listen to it, see it move across the screen or see someone’s interpretation of that word through moving images, then I think it becomes much more alive.” One of the Institute’s projects is CommentPress, an open-source plug-in for WordPress that aims to turn a document into a conversation (view examples here). Readers can comment on, say, an academic paper before it has gone to press and add insights and questions in the margins of the text. Via Heiko Idensen Delete the scoop?
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"Innovative teaching happens more in environments where teachers collaborate. In schools where teachers report more frequent collaboration with one another on teaching practices, innovative teaching scores tend to be higher... Teachers told us that collaboration can be an important mechanism for sharing teaching practices and for mutual support toward improving them." Via Nik Peachey, Jim Lerman, Konrad Glogowski, Barbara Bray, michel verstrepen Delete the scoop?
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The "Assessing Online Facilitation" instrument (AOF) is for online course facilitators to objectively evaluate their facilitation for strengths and areas for improvement. Facilitators may choose to offer the AOF to others to guide a peer evaluation of their performance in the online classroom.
The AOF recognizes the different roles of an online facilitator, as outlined by Berge (1995), Hootstein (2002), and others.
Pedagogical: Guiding student learning with a focus on concepts, principles, and skills. Social: Creating a welcoming online community in which learning is promoted. Managerial: Handling organizational, procedural, and administrative tasks. Technical: Assisting participants to become comfortable with the technologies used to deliver the course. Delete the scoop?
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15 different ways to measure your impact through social media. Delete the scoop?
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Just a few weeks ago, the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) were on the fast track to approval. The bills had powerful interest groups fighting for them and rare bipartisan support in Congress. But an unprecedented protest Wednesday involving thousands of websites sparked an explosion of opposition, and lawmakers quickly retreated.The debate over online piracy isn’t over, but some clear winners and losers emerged from this week's dramatic showdown. Delete the scoop?
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FlipLab is about using technology to make the classroom more interactive and relevant. Khan Academy has sparked interest in “flipping” classrooms, but much of this work has focused on the lower rungs of Bloom's Taxonomy: memorization, understanding and application. As “flipped classroom” interest increases, there is growing recognition that critical thinking skills, collaboration, and project-based learning are more important than ever. The problem: we're still waiting for a comprehensive model of teaching that blends these two opportunities. That's why there is FlipLab - an opportunity for educators to actualize the best of these parallel teaching trends. FlipLab gathers educators to explore and share best teaching practice while leveraging recorded content. Innovative teachers serve as mentors through the process of discovery.
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Academics have a chance to make a ‘social impact investment’, by introducing the greater public to our work and bypassing the bottleneck of commercial publishers but only if we scrap our social media-shy ways, writes Antonio Casilli. Via Batier Christophe Delete the scoop?
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The second part of the book takes us from theory into practice where he offers his recommendations for the Information Diet. Rather than take the philosophy of information overload community and productivity books that are aimed at helping you get “everything done” and in the process help you continue to consume too much information, he provides some principles for taming our information gluttony.
If you’ve been through weight watchers, you’ll immediately make a connection to some of the techniques he suggests. For example, keeping a journal of what you consume and taking incremental steps towards reducing it so it becomes a lifestyle change. Here, he draws from the work of Howard Rheingold when talking about data literacy and attention fitness as well as others and lays out an information diet that is intended to help us change in our daily habits. He doesn’t recommend quick fixes like “unplugging” which is the metaphorical equivalent to a crash diet because it doesn’t work. Delete the scoop?
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The number of homeless students in Maryland has more than doubled in the past five years, rising from 6,721 to 14,117 last school year, according to the Maryland State Department of Education.
The largest increases in homeless populations are notable for where they are occurring: in the suburban rings around cities. Anne Arundel County has seen a 231 percent increase in homeless students since 2005, Baltimore County a 140 percent increase and Howard County a 150 percent increase. The increase in Baltimore City, which still has the largest number of homeless students, was 75 percent. Delete the scoop?
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The concept of emphasizing proficiency over seat time by offering college scholarships and other incentives to students who graduate early from high school is gaining momentum, with new programs being created in several states. Supporters say the programs help students avoid the senior slump and cut costs for families and school districts. Critics, however, question whether the programs are fiscally-driven and whether schools are doing enough to prepare students to enter college early. Delete the scoop?
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New hi-tech 3D printers will give consumers the chance to create things like their own toy castle - or a real moon base. Delete the scoop?
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"The Palm Beach School District in Florida finished their Pilot Program for iPad http://palmbeachschooltalk.com/groups/ipadpilot/ integration last year. Now, their exhaustive Wiki on that trial is garnering awards http://edublogawards.com/ , gaining media attention, and possibly pointing the way towards successfully transforming the modern classroom." Via John Evans, Jeremy Angoff Delete the scoop?
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A very thorough explanation and exploration of the flipped classroom, complete with numerous links and references. Author Jackie Gerstein accurately points out that teachers need to have a very clear idea about what they will be doing with classroom time when lectures/content are shifted outside of traditional classroom time. She proposes a "cycle of learning" model patterned after Experiential Learning Cycles and Bernice McCarthy's 4MAT. -JL Delete the scoop?
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This guide from the British Council for School Environments and the Centre for School Design is about the new freedoms available for schools and the potential for rethinking the places, spaces, times and people involved. ... Via Judy O'Connell, michel verstrepen Delete the scoop?
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Raised by independent-thinking bohemian parents, Taylor was unschooled until age 13. Join the filmmaker as she shares her personal experiences of growing up home-schooled without a curriculum or schedule, and how it has shaped her educational philosophy and development as an artist. Delete the scoop?
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Members of the research team at Project New Media Literacies discuss the social skills and cultural competencies needed to fully engage with today's participatory culture. Featuring Henry Jenkins, and produced by Anna Van Someren at Project New Media Literacies. Delete the scoop?
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