Thursday, October 29, 2009

Diigo bookmarks for today 10/30/2009

  • The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise. What you read and see here is a beginning -- we will continue to add and update information as it becomes available. We solicit contributions from our colleagues in the history of science and comments on how we can improve the project from everyone, particularly suggestions on how to make this tool more useful in primary and secondary education.

    Tags: learning, education, tutorials, teaching, resources, history, physics, galileo


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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Monday, October 26, 2009

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Pumpkin Chunkin

I have been spending the past month getting ready for our first Pumpkin Chunkin contest. Lots of details to deal with. Last few nights have been tough falling to sleep. Hard to think of what I am missing or forgetting, but am sure there are plenty of things. Hoping for a good turnout, but hard to say. Hope for good weather too.
We are holding it at a pumpkin farm near here. It should be lots of fun. If we have enough teams

Electrical is an issue, might have to use a car as a generator to run the PA system. I have a generator, but the amount of noise it makes, makes it useless for the PA.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Diigo bookmarks for today 10/20/2009

  • Tags: vocabulary, wordahead.com, languagearts, education, technologyintegration

  • Looks like the problems many of us have been having in Firefox (last week in particular) may actually be from Microsoft? Come on !! I love firefox and don't have my students use IE for this reason (slowness, lack of ad ons, viruses, malware.) The only time I'm using Chrome now is for special webapps (Toodledo) and also Google Wave (it seems to consume any other web browser.) This ZDNET article is a follow through from Stephen Downes' amazing resource sharing blog - if you haven't subscribed, you should.

    Tags: education, learning, edu_newapp, techintegrator

  • I love these views from my student and her use of the term "horizontal" teaching - I think she has inadevertently hit on a very important concept for us teachers to understand.

    "Everyone has different views, different things they are good at, and different things they know. In a classroom, the teacher used to stand in front of the students, and lecture all day long. Now many of those teachers have started to teach "horizontally". This means that the teacher doesn't necessarily stand in front of her class and lecture, but works with the class, not only teaching them, but allowing them to teach her new things as well.

    This video gave me different opinions and opened my mind to a flattened world. I agree in many ways with Mr Friedman, because I personally do not learn well by having someone lecture me, it is very easy to get distracted, and by learning horizontally, I can interact with my teacher and classmates, and I feel like I learn so much more, because not only do I pay attention, but the fact that I am interacting, and experiencing what she is teaching helps out a lot."

    Tags: education, learning, fcp, flatclassroomproject, edu_trends

  • The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. We will bring together people who look at different aspects of learning and knowledge work to understand better what's going on in those areas and how we should be thinking about this holistically.

    As always, this conference is about getting together interesting people who bring a slightly different perspective and have meaningful conversation around innovation in workplace learning. We typically get more than a thousand people signed up and at least a hundred in each session.

    Tags: conference, wshops, school2.0, learning, education, pd

  • New book reviewed by Stephen Downes about gender differences in brains.

    Tags: education, reading, research, edu_news


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Friday, October 16, 2009

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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Monday, October 12, 2009

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Sunday, October 4, 2009

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Friday, October 2, 2009

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