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Dennis Swender
from Into the Driver's Seat
December 29, 2014 10:15 AM
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Video conferencing is a wonderful technology that has helped change the way both business and personal communication is conducted. It not only provides a more personal, intimate way to communicate compared to a phone call, but thanks to additional services like document sharing and multi-point capabilities, the technology is by far the most effective and productive way to conduct important meetings outside of actually being face-to-face. But its effectiveness is so close to what a face-to-face meeting can give that it completely negates the need to travel to any sort of in-person meeting. Video conferencing isn’t just a useful tool for businesses and personal use, it’s also a wonderful tool teachers can use to enhance a student’s learning experience in the classroom, whether that classroom is in an elementary school, middle school, high school, or university.
Via John Evans, Jim Lerman
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Dennis Swender
December 29, 2014 10:13 AM
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In this Infographic made by HotinSocialMedia.com you'll find the most important social media news from 2014 ordered by month and by the time of the launch.
In today's chart I am sharing with you three good web tools and iPad apps that you can use with your students to create visually appealing presentations. Again, I included only the tools I deemed to be the simplest to be handled by any student without the need for any advanced technology knowledge.
Via John Evans
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Dennis Swender
December 25, 2014 12:41 PM
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The Twitter bio is one of the most overlooked features on Twitter (with lists). Many people think that no one looks at it anymore. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Every time I check a Twitter profile, the first thing I focus on is the bio. If I find it relevant to me, I will have then read some tweets, and peruse lists. Making a Twitter bio shine is not difficult. Aaron Lee has some great tips for us. My favorite is #4: including the username of your employer. Read the article at http://www.postplanner.com/awesome-twitter-bio-ideas-to-entice-followers/ ---------------- Cendrine Marrouat
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Dennis Swender
December 25, 2014 10:38 AM
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International Society for Technology in Education 2015 Conference and Expo
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 10:02 AM
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As an undergraduate pursuing a bachelor's in nursing, Ronda Clark was accustomed to taking online classes with 30 or 40 other students. She checked in to discussion forums as required, but felt she didn't have meaningful interaction with her fellow classmates. "It was a free-for-all," says Clark, a military spouse who lives on the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. "There was little organization."
So Clark was pleasantly surprised by the family nurse practitioner online master's program at Massachusetts' Simmons College, which she started in 2013. There, her classes had 15 people maximum and all discussions took place in a live video environment.
"A big class could be managed – if you do it well – but any learning environment should be a more intimate environment if you want to learn," says Clark, who plans to graduate in 2015.
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 9:58 AM
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See and hear a 5-minute video of a real person using your site or app. It's super fast, and totally free.
Usability testing—the process of evaluating a site or product’s usability by letting real people try it—has been around for decades. Initially, it was so expensive and complex that only big companies could afford it. In fact, our cofounder Dave was first introduced to usability testing while working at Apple. When he saw how valuable testing was, he wanted to find a way to make it available to everyone.
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 9:56 AM
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We believe that one of the most important challenges educators face today is to prepare kids for the world that awaits them after they leave the classroom -- those "21st century skills" you keep hearing about. We've created the free resources below to support and inspire you and your students in facing that challenge.
Also, be sure to visit the Collaborize Classroom Topic Library, where you'll find thousands of topics that have been created and successfully used by educators in their own Collaborize Classroom® sites.
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 9:51 AM
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Editor's note: Today’s guest author is Eric Sheninger, senior fellow and thought leader on digital leadership with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) and Scholastic Achievement Partners (SAP). He also maintains a practitioner presence as K-12 director of technology and innovation in the Spotswood School District in New Jersey. He is also a Google Certified Teacher and the author of the best-selling book Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times. You can connect with Eric on Twitter or Google+.
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 9:47 AM
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Aurasma can encourage learners to go beyond the classroom to connect and enhance what they learn by pulling resources from the physical and the digital and then sharing those augmented reality scenes with others. Learning Objectives: Write a multi-part fictional narrative that logically ties in with actual locations on the school campus.Create an engaging narrative experience for the reader through expressive and provocative narration, animation, and/or images.Evaluate and deconstruct the narratives of others through class-wide discussion and reflection of own narrative.
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 9:45 AM
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Are you looking for a safe and easy way to find images for school reports? Just search and download properly attributed, copyright free images.
G Rated Images - Photos for Class uses Flickr safe search, and we do a little filtering of our own to help it out - Read More
Easy Attribution - When you click download, Photos For Class automatically cites the author and the image license terms - Read More
Creative Common Images - All images shown are to the best of our (and Flickr's) knowledge Creative Commons licensed for school use
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Dennis Swender
from Into the Driver's Seat
December 19, 2014 10:50 AM
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Dennis Swender
December 19, 2014 10:28 AM
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How to collect user feedback in an LMS, what does it mean and what to do with it? Read our article and find out!
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Dennis Swender
December 29, 2014 10:14 AM
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There is a lot of misunderstanding about content curation. Many see it as a pale copy of aggregation, others as an unethical practice. Here is a very interesting article by Julia McCoy that will, hopefully, put an end to all the myths out there, including: - content curation as a fully automated process. - content curation as a copy-and-paste process. - content curation as a random process As a big proponent of content curation, I see this post as another brick to add to the positive conversational wall! Read it at http://www.business2community.com/content-marketing/12-biggest-content-curation-myths-busted-01089590 ------------------- Cendrine Marrouat
Swivl is talked about this week on ETYSK. Jeff talks with the CEO of Swivl about how this great EdTech tool is being used in the classroom.
Via Baiba Svenca
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Dennis Swender
from Technology and Gadgets
December 26, 2014 1:19 AM
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Got yourself a super-cheap streaming dongle from Google? Or thinking about picking one up? Here are 10 lesser-known tricks and tips that you can use to get more from your Chromecast and unlock some of its hidden potential.
Via Tiaan Jonker
With 2015 fast approaching, I’m going to use my futuristic lens on once again, and offer my 5 presentation predictions for this upcoming year.
Via Baiba Svenca
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 10:02 AM
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Expertly facilitated online discussion is the driving force for community in e-learning classes. Creating norms for discussion quality and timing improve the dialog. This also helps the facilitator step back as students learn to deepen their online dialog.
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Dennis Swender
from New Web 2.0 tools for education
December 24, 2014 10:01 AM
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 9:57 AM
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Presentation by Tom Tobin of Northeastern Illinois University at the D2L Ignite forum at NEIU - Oct. 4, 2013
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 9:51 AM
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Facilitating discussions between students is one of those things that is infinitely easier when you’re teaching in a physical classroom rather than online. When the students are all in one room, discussions happen more naturally. Facilitating the same type of productive, useful discussion when teaching online is more of a challenge.
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 9:48 AM
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A promo piece (2:26) for my ISTE11 Presentation "A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Infographics as a Creative Assessment". Royalty free music from Soundzabound.com…
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 9:46 AM
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An orientation to open, flexible and distance learning
A new self-paced, online and free introduction to the basic ideas, concepts and theories related to
open, flexible and distance learning (OFDL).
This orientation course is for anyone working in tertiary education
with an interest in open, flexible and distance learning (OFDL), who
wants to engage with the topic as a professional. It is ideal for those
who are familiar with online courses.
This simple technique is an easy way to turn those PowerPoint Slides into flipped course content. The presentation tool in Microsoft Office is one of the
Via Baiba Svenca
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Dennis Swender
from Educational Technology News
December 19, 2014 10:29 AM
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"At a time when emerging technologies are expected to have widespread impact on education, it is significant to remember the fields closely associated with educational technology (e.g., instructional design, cognitive psychology, the learning sciences, etc.) are neither new, nor without a research base. These fields evidence-based insights into how and under what conditions people learn. When I read educational technology pioneers claim "the education system has not changed in hundreds of years," pioneers who otherwise have insightful ideas to improve education, I am convinced that what we need-what higher education leaders, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and grant-making agencies need, are reminders—tattoos of sorts—that the use of technology in education has a long and rich history."
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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