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Comments by Miguel Guhlin: At $30, this is a straightforward "Moodle manual" you could give to new Moodlers to learn how to use it. Screenshots are illustrative without completely dominating the text. It's not school-centric, but rather, elearner-centric and provides an excellent how-to overview blended with eLearning principles from the get-go. I strongly recommend this book, not only for educators, but businesses interested in facilitating online learning using Moodle No comment yet.
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f you use an iOS device (iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch) you need the Puffin Web Browser. It’s 99¢ and supports Flash-format videos on many sites. Unlike SkyFire, which JUST supports Flash videos, Puffin also supports Flash on many other sites like Webkins. (Skyfire is more expensive too: $3 for the iPhone version and $5 for the iPad version.)
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The Palm Beach School System has an incredible wiki where members of the community share their favorite apps for specific disciplines. Below I’ve embedded their list for the top middle school apps but they also have a curated list of apps for middle school and high school.
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Learning and Technology Policy Director Jeff Mao discusses how the Maine Department of Education’s laptop program has transformed classroom instruction and the benefits of blending technology and learning.
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Do we ignore mistakes, brushing them aside for the sake of our self-confidence? Or do we investigate the errors, seeking to learn from the snafus? The latter approach, suggests a series of studies, could make you learn faster.
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Here are some resources for getting Challenge-Based Learning Started in your Classroom (RT @web20classroom: Getting Started With Challenge Based Learning: http://t.co/mOmuFlEz...)... Via João Greno Brogueira
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Professional website of one of the leading experts on creativity, collaboration, and learning. Check the video on "The anatomy of innovation" and his publications. Many have direct links to pdfs. A recent one, from 2011, is titled "A Call to Action: The Challenges of Creative Teaching and Learning".
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Improving school climate is the best avenue for school change and improvement. If you agree with this statement, the National School Climate Center has a host of outstanding resources that will be quite helpful. -JL
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Technology integration expert and high school teacher Jennifer Barnett offers tips on how to support learning and familiarize students with technology when classroom digital tools are limited.
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Doceri Remote gives you complete control of your presentation from your iPad, allowing you to engage with your audience from anywhere in the room.
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This slideshow provides the framework for a discussion about how educators can model 'creative integrity' and how they can assist students in leverage the Creat... Creative Commons: What every Educator needs to know View another webinar from Rodd Lucier Via Kathleen Cercone
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This "new magazine," published by Google, has produced 2 issues so far in 2011. The concept is certainly smart, the articles are interesting, and the graphics, IMO, are outstanding. Nice way to spend some thinking time. -JL |
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5 Search Challenge Games
Objectives -
ISTE NETS for Students #3: Research and Information Fluency
"locate information from a variety of sources and media"
apply knowing where to search, keyword selection, finding better keywords to locate relevant information online
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Dear Lifehacker, I just bought a new computer and, seeing as hardware failure rates are pretty high these days, I want to make sure it isn't going to suddenly die on me in the middle of an important project.
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The Palm Beach School System has an incredible wiki where members of the community share their favorite apps for specific disciplines. Below I’ve embedded their list for the top elementary school apps but they also have a curated list of apps for middle school and high school.
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Edraw Mind Map creates mind maps for brain-storming, problem solving, rational analysis, and decision making easily. Via Gust MEES
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Kids who are praised for their intelligence end up caring more about grades, trophies, and awards than those who are praised for their effort, according to the famous 1998 Stanford report “Effects of Intelligence and Effort Praise” by Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck. The study showed that “after failure, [kids] also displayed less task persistence, less task enjoyment, more low-ability attributions, and worse task performance than children praised for effort.”
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Instead of mass-produced textbooks, the more than 3,100 sophomores in Minnesota's largest district are learning from an online curriculum developed by their teachers over the summer with free software distributed over the web.
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Best selling author Seth Godin discusses the failure of our educational model that's built around producing factory workers. Godin explains that it wouldn't take very many passionate parents to start schools down the right path.
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To understand how social media, an almost integral part of our current culture, can benefit K-12 schools and districts, we asked eSchool News readers: “Name one way you use social networking in your school/district.
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Charter schools are one thing, but broad reform won’t happen without working with teachers’ unions.
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According to data recently released by the College Board, the wealthier a student's family, the higher the SAT score. Via Patrick Higgins
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Here you go, the best 107 websites for all your needs. We’ve taken the effort to categorize the websites and picked only those we believe to be the best ones and which will most likely be useful to you. Via Kathleen Cercone
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The new media are changing us. But the more things change, the more they stay the same. Remember, the old media were once new media, too. Via Michelle Luhtala |
