Weboword - Vocabulary Visually!
vocabulary words using cartoon
All about sharks
One miniute videos on all sorts of stuff. General science 4-8
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/31/2009
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/30/2009
KnowledgeWorks - Map of Future Forces Affecting Education - Home
KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) are pleased to present the 2006-2016 Map of Future Forces Affecting Educatio"
Role Models in Educational Technology on Ada Lovelace Day | Janet Clarey
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/26/2009
Links, research and readings on constructivism
Really cool second life talk show from ISTE. It is a great blog and looking forward to being on the show on April
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/25/2009
Bringing Biology to life
online community for sharing instructional videos.
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com
A customizable engine that provides the suggestion services from all the major providers in one place. Soovle does not crawl the net - all services and their content are the property of the respective providers.
Horizon Report 2009 K12 Edition Released at CoSN Conference | nmc
From Alfred Thompson, my favorite Microsoft Computer Science blogger --
"I was asked to pass along the news that the submission deadline for the June 17th Alice Symposium call for papers has been extended to March 31st. You can of course go to that website to find out more about the symposium and register to attend.
There are also some other workshops going on at Duke in June. I understand that they are filling up quite quickly so if you’re interested you’ll want to sign up soon.
Duke in June 2009
* Two-day Alice 3.0 Workshop June 15-16, 2009
* Two-day CompMedia Workshop June 18-19, 2009
* One-week Alice Workshops
* June 22-26, 2009
* June 28-July 2, 2009"Angela Maiers Educational Services: Mini Lesson - Teaching the Habitude of Curiosity
Really enjoyed reading Angela's Classroom habitudes - enjoyed reading this mini lesson about teaching curiosity. Love this quote -- kids asking "teacher, do I have the right question?"
Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts » Blog Archive » If an assignment can be plagiarized…
Great post from Cathy Nelson that I agree with so very much!
"If an assignment can be plagiarized it isn't a very good assignment" theme that Doug Johnson and Will Richardson also echo.
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Blocking? Unblock the good stuff. Who says it is good stuff? We do.
I am confused.
Yes, I am getting old and get confused easily.
This is not due to that. Today I sent out some plurks bragging about some things my teachers are doing with technology. One of the teachers is using Skype to do collaborative work between groups in different schools. A second teacher is doing a math project with her 6th grade class using a wiki as one of the tools.
All of this is great, and I want to show it off to other schools, and maybe help others do similar projects in their schools. One teacher says that Plurk is blocked at her school; another says they cannot use Wikis in their district. Why? That is a good question, that and by whom?
What I hear from the teachers and from other tech directors who do the blocking tends to be either “bandwidth considerations” or “Security” or whatever. As many bloggers have noted in the past, my self included; why do we have computer networks and other technologies in our districts? The only answer that I can come up with is ‘to facilitate teaching and learning’. Why are these site blocking decisions being made by the technology people and not instructional people?
Who is in charge of a school network? Who is in charge of everything in the district? Generally it is the School Board and Superintendent. Technology people are hired to work with the network so it is useable and secure. But who decides what sites and tools are to be blocked in a district? I believe if the technology people have a robust network, and have their security in place, there are few sites that need to be blocked. If bandwidth is an issue, buy more or get a packet shaper. If security is an issue, then the security needs to be improved to a point where it is not an issue.
Wikis are wonderful education tools, it allows for student created content and collaboration. Skype is a good tool to connect with other people from around the world. Why would a district not want to use these? If any of you are having useful tools blocked, fight to get them unblocked. If your tech people start mumbling about bandwidth and security (yes we tend to mumble and use jargon to confuse the unwashed), have them contact me, I can straighten them out.
Remember we are here to educate, to open students minds, to help them gain knowledge of the world, learn modern learning and collaboration tools. Blocking is not a way to do this.
OK time to catch my breath.
Yes, I am getting old and get confused easily.
This is not due to that. Today I sent out some plurks bragging about some things my teachers are doing with technology. One of the teachers is using Skype to do collaborative work between groups in different schools. A second teacher is doing a math project with her 6th grade class using a wiki as one of the tools.
All of this is great, and I want to show it off to other schools, and maybe help others do similar projects in their schools. One teacher says that Plurk is blocked at her school; another says they cannot use Wikis in their district. Why? That is a good question, that and by whom?
What I hear from the teachers and from other tech directors who do the blocking tends to be either “bandwidth considerations” or “Security” or whatever. As many bloggers have noted in the past, my self included; why do we have computer networks and other technologies in our districts? The only answer that I can come up with is ‘to facilitate teaching and learning’. Why are these site blocking decisions being made by the technology people and not instructional people?
Who is in charge of a school network? Who is in charge of everything in the district? Generally it is the School Board and Superintendent. Technology people are hired to work with the network so it is useable and secure. But who decides what sites and tools are to be blocked in a district? I believe if the technology people have a robust network, and have their security in place, there are few sites that need to be blocked. If bandwidth is an issue, buy more or get a packet shaper. If security is an issue, then the security needs to be improved to a point where it is not an issue.
Wikis are wonderful education tools, it allows for student created content and collaboration. Skype is a good tool to connect with other people from around the world. Why would a district not want to use these? If any of you are having useful tools blocked, fight to get them unblocked. If your tech people start mumbling about bandwidth and security (yes we tend to mumble and use jargon to confuse the unwashed), have them contact me, I can straighten them out.
Remember we are here to educate, to open students minds, to help them gain knowledge of the world, learn modern learning and collaboration tools. Blocking is not a way to do this.
OK time to catch my breath.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/21/2009
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.
Keep up with Classroom 2.0 LIve conversations. I actually have this as part of my Google Calendar so I can keep up with it.
This week:
"This Saturday, Mar. 21st, Peggy George, Kim Caise, and Lorna Costantini will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE web meeting. Classroom 2.0 "LIVE" meetings are an opportunity to gather with other members of the community in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and sometimes even video. (Special thanks to our sponsor, Elluminate, for providing the service that allows us to do this!) A Google Calendar of shows is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html.
The topic this Saturday is: "Podcasting". Our special guest will be Kevin Honeycutt, founder of the "Podstock" Ning. Our Newbie Question of the Week will be: "What is a podcast and how can I use it to support my teaching?" We hope you'll join us to share your ideas and questions. Links for more information can be found at http://live.classroom20.com. We strive to make our shows beginner-friendly and if you've never participated in a live web meeting don't be afraid to come and take a peek at the show's format. We love newbies to join us and 'dip their toes in’ the conversations until you feel comfortable enough to "jump in the conversations with both feet"! We want to encourage "experienced Web 2.0 users" to join us by contributing and extending the conversation by sharing real-life examples and tips/suggestions.
Date: Sat., Mar. 21, 2009
Time: 9:00am PST/10:00am MST/11:00am CST/12:00pm EST
Other time zones link and a link to the actual meeting room can be found at http://live.classroom20.com/.
Location: Elluminate https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.97A21EB084879D9442B4EDF2437E3D"'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of Google Docs presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas.The presentations are a collaboration between lots of fantastic teachers around the world.Choose a presentation to begin, or find out more here.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/20/2009
Guitar Tabs, Guitar Chords and Lyrics - Chordie
lyrics and chords. will also transpose songs and revise for various strings
Images of the Earth
The global film on the fly challenge. There was a challenge on March 14th - it is a mobile phone filmmaking contest.
KOCE's Film on the Fly! - Film on the Fly! is for people who love to make movies on mobile phones.
For people who love to make movies on their cell phones. A lot of educators are participating in this network created by Janet English. They send you a prompt and you upload a video from your cell phone.
Flight Across the Atlantic - RU27 - RU17
a small autonomous underwater vehicle to cross the atlantic from NJ to spain. Classes can follow along. Right now you can send a message to be carried by the robot
DocMazy - The Future of Document Search
DocMazy was created so users could search the internet for documentation files such as word files or powerpoint presentations. Many users will find this useful so that they can uncover more information on a subject, that might otherwise be hidden deep in search engines. DocMazy makes use of several public API's and usful tools to allow you to preview all documents within your browser.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/19/2009
GTDInbox - GTD, Task Management and a Better Inbox for Gmail
OK, This came from gregorielouie on Twitter -- and OH YEAH Gregory - YOU ROCK!
This helps your inbox become more powerful. Am testing now and if you follow getting things done, it is a great tool to try.Free Online Flashcards with Spaced Repetition: FlashcardDB
Free online flashcards. Make your own and share with others
surchur - the latest. the greatest.
Find out what is hot "right now" be well ahead of the curve
Harvest of History | The Farmers' Museum
Website to teach you about how the food got to you! This is a really neat website for elementary teachers who discuss food production. There is a resource for teachers as well. As a farm girl, it is great to see a site that discusses the importance of farming. This is so important for kids to understand.
We garden at our school and it is great!Guaranteach - A Better Way to Learn
Just received the press release on this new one. $4.95 a month and you have access to videos to help with homework. There is a growing business based upon videos for learning -- that is because kids clamor for them.
Textbooks, and teachers need to see the value in things like Eric Marco's Mathtrain.tv and other screencasting for teaching. Have the kids make their own tutorials for one another -- or you can just subscribe, I guess.NetGenEd Sounding Boards Needed! | always learning
NetGenEd Sounding boards. Kim Cofino is an expert at this model and is running this:
"The Sounding Board process is a very easy, fun and eye-opening way for younger students (upper elementary, middle, and lower high school) to participate in one of these amazing, global projects. Basically Sounding Boards act as peer reviewers for the students participating in the project. Small groups of students in the Sounding Board classrooms will review one NetGenEd student group’s work and offer very simple peer feedback.
This time around, I have to admit, the project is even more exciting because it’s part of a larger project organized by Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World. Here’s his intro to the wider project:"
Please put a call out and join in! Thanks!Grow Your Own Personal Learning Network
Article by David Warlick in L&L of ISTE, free until end April 2009
Well worth the read!!7 Things You Should Know About... | EDUCAUSE
a series of information about emerging technologis
Remember The Milk - Help / FAQ / Remember The Milk for Gmail / How do I create tasks by starring?
Oh my goodness! Now, I can make a task in remember the milk when I star something in Gmail!!! Oh my goodness, what a help!!
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/18/2009
math activities k-8
A People's History of the United States
on line history textbook by Howard Zinn
Practical Money Skills for Life - At School - Curriculum
Basic life money skills
Project Draw 0.7.9 release (with API, Supporting IE 6+,Firefox 1.5+)
online auto cad software. Good for geometry and other projects
Top 100 Edu Tweeters | Online Degree World
Lists do always get a lot of people riled up, but I did find some interesting tweeters on this list to follow. Some of them I wouldn't add, but some are cool.
If you want to see some great twitterers -- my follow list is around 1600 and there are some amazing people that I'm following who just totally blow me away. (Add more daily.) Just go to http://www.twitter.com/coolcatteacher and click following to see them.
Twitter is really a great tool for learning.PBS & CR 2.0: Remixing Shakespeare for 21st Century Students - Classroom 2.0
Cool Webinar tomorrow - Live Webinar with the Folger Shakespeare Library on Wednesday, March 18 from 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time (5:00pm start Pacific Time, 12 midnight GMT).
Our speakers will present and demonstrate methods for teaching Shakespeare using digital media. The educational activities to be presented were developed by trained workshop leaders and teachers during the Folger's Teaching Shakespeare Institutes and sessions. Participants will learn practical and exciting ways they can incorporate Shakespeare's King Lear and other literary works into history, social studies, English, and language arts instruction.
I try to understand why we cannot use these as credits - they are free and they are announced a few days a head of time -- but still, they are valuable learning experiences.useful google docs presentations
Live from Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 preview event
Live from Apple Iphone OS 3.0 preview event. Really cool.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/17/2009
activities for k-6
Many people have not read the Youtube Community Guidelines. You should report any videos that break these rules to youtube - everyone should have a youtube account and be able to do this. Today, a student had a bad video linked to hers -- I had to go to another place to report the other video but you can do this!
Guidelines:
"Don't Cross the Line
Here are some common-sense rules that will help you steer clear of trouble:
* YouTube is not for pornography or sexually explicit content. If this describes your video, even if it's a video of yourself, don't post it on YouTube. Also, be advised that we work closely with law enforcement and we report child exploitation. Please read our Safety Tips and stay safe on YouTube.
* Don't post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making.
* Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don't post it.
* YouTube is not a shock site. Don't post gross-out videos of accidents, dead bodies or similar things intended to shock or disgust.
* Respect copyright. Only upload videos that you made or that you are authorized to use. This means don't upload videos you didn't make, or use content in your videos that someone else owns the copyright to, such as music tracks, snippets of copyrighted programs, or videos made by other users, without necessary authorizations. Read our Copyright Tips for more information.
* We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).
* Things like predatory behavior, stalking, threats, harassment, intimidation, invading privacy, revealing other people’s personal information, and inciting others to commit violent acts or to violate the Terms of Use are taken very seriously. Anyone caught doing these things may be permanently banned from YouTube.
* Everyone hates spam. Don’t create misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails in order to increase views. It's not okay to post large amounts of untargeted, unwanted or repetitive content, including comments and private messages.
Please take these rules seriously and take them to heart. Don't try to look for loopholes or try to lawyer your way around the guidelines—just understand them and try to respect the spirit in which they were created. If you'd like more details, check out our Community Guideline Tips."Copyright Laws for Teachers: Educational CyberPlayGround™
Copyright laws for teachers. Answers to common questions about copyright laws in the classroom from Educational CyberPlayGround™.
Today's front page from major newspapers
Eagle Nest live cam
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/16/2009
The New Book Banning by Walter Olson, City Journal 12 February 2009
Children’s books burn, courtesy of the federal government. 12 February 2009
Teaching Deeply: Making Learning Stick | Educational Paradigms
We've all been in the place of covering material to survive yet another day. But when we understand that we're actually setting our students up for failure by doing so, profound things happen..we care enough to fix the problem by becoming Deep Teachers (us) or, hopefully, leave the profession.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/15/2009
Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher
Great Web 2.0 resource wiki for teachers.
Flashcards, vocabulary memorization, and studying games | Quizlet
Really cool -- "Quizlet: the end of flashcards as we know it. These are cool and they connect with facebook!!
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/13/2009
Free programs to open any file extension!
Open with, gives detailed info about most file extensions and links to free programs that can open these files
More Spanish: Collaborations & connections
Sometimes teachers reach out and find others are not there. This is what it takes to set up collaboration. I've found that it takes a teacher totally committed to eventually find a person to connect with -- it takes two determined teachers to make it happen -- her experiences are similar.
So, if you have students who speak mostly spanish and would like to collaborate -- please please connect and leave a comment on this post. Share resources and places that you're connecting. Sometimes, twitter, as she says, does end up being the best way to connect.Interview: Cultivating Engineers in K-12 : March 2009 : THE Journal
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The Joys of Some Installs
Generally installing software is a simple thing, click install, put in a password or two, and it works. Then there are other installs. I have been working with putting freeradius onto a server with a tech today. Working on a Mac server, we need to use Unix commands. That is all well and good, and it generally works, but the instructions for this, as with many other command line installs are great until one point. That point makes you think you are missing a page of instructions. Things work great, then the next line makes no sense, it refers to a folder that is not there, or a command that gives back a no-such file or no such command or error or whatever. Gosh darn it. Gee Wizzzzzz.
Give it a break for a day. And because it is a server I am working on, I cannot really re-start at anytime, as many people are on the server and it is our authentcation server. SO bright and early tomorrow, I will re-boot and try to back up in the install to see what happened.
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Give it a break for a day. And because it is a server I am working on, I cannot really re-start at anytime, as many people are on the server and it is our authentcation server. SO bright and early tomorrow, I will re-boot and try to back up in the install to see what happened.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/12/2009
The Future of Education (Thomas Frey - The DaVinci Institute)
The pace of change is mandating that we produce a faster, smarter,
better grade of human being. Current systems are preventing that
from happening. Future education system will be unleashed with
the advent of a standardized rapid courseware-builder and a single
point global distribution system.
This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling.
history and literature explained in an interesting way
Atomic Learning's eBook on How to Flatten Your Classroom - Movies
Did a workshop for Atomic Learning about the 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom and they've created an ebook based upon the content in the online workshop. This ebook is free in PDF form and available for download and is based upon the principles to help you get to a Flat Classroom.
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/09/2009
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/intro.html
A paper on 'deschooling' society.
Web Browser for Kids - KidRocket™ - PC Desktop Protection
# New Email for Kids with Art/eCard attachments
# New Time Lock for limiting a childs time on the computer.
# New updated browser navigation (thumbnail GUI) and graphics.
# New Kidrocket.org websites. (Public & KidSafe)
# New online games and puzzles.
# Now Vista compatible. (Windows 98, 2000, XP, MCE, Vista)
# Updated kidsafe website list. view approved websites
# Now provides vocal prompts and confirmations, for alerts and various security related operations. - It Talks!How to use TED (Teaching, Entertainment, Design) to help teachers. This title always distracts me, I see the word TED and think someone is yelling at me
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Final FIRST (for this season)
The FIRST robotics season for 2009 has finished for team 424. The team did great in the Finger Lakes Regional, earning the 6th seed in the finals. Not bad for what is essentially a JV team. Team 340, the Varsity team, squeaked into the finals and ended up in 2nd place. Not bad, two teams from the same school making it to the finals, out of 50 teams.
Last year I brought both Eric and Rudy to the regional competition, not knowing much about the program. It was at this point that Eric became interested in joining, and being unable to get his school to start a team, joined up with Churchville-Chili HS, a school to the south of his district.
Watching teams from around the state and Canada yesterday, something dawned on me. Many of the schools have large teams, somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 members. Each of these teams only build one robot. Churchville, with fewer members build two robots. There are other jobs on the teams other than building the robots, publicity, bookkeeping, fund raising, community outreach to name a few. So there are jobs for these students. But the real reason many join is to get experience in the engineering end. How much hands on experience can you have with a large team and only one robot? When you get down to it, really there about 10 members of each team that understand and really work on these machines. What having two teams allow is more students to work on a robot, and members to help each team build and problem solve.
FIRST has been a great thing for Eric to be involved with. I have not seen him so excited about anything except when he was little and played with Thomas the Tank Engine trains. Other than these two, he has sort of been doing stuff, but not whole heartedly. I have seen his personal growth in the last few months, he has gained confidence, learned to work with others and became a leader. I have never seen this part of his personality before, and perhaps he shows it in other places, but for me to witness him in action made me proud to be his father.
I am looking forward to next season, if Eric stays on the same team, he has several other sophomores who work well together moving on with him. We all are looking forward to how this will all turn out.
My other FIRST Posts
First FIRST
Second FIRST
Third FIRST
Fourth First
Last year I brought both Eric and Rudy to the regional competition, not knowing much about the program. It was at this point that Eric became interested in joining, and being unable to get his school to start a team, joined up with Churchville-Chili HS, a school to the south of his district.
Watching teams from around the state and Canada yesterday, something dawned on me. Many of the schools have large teams, somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 members. Each of these teams only build one robot. Churchville, with fewer members build two robots. There are other jobs on the teams other than building the robots, publicity, bookkeeping, fund raising, community outreach to name a few. So there are jobs for these students. But the real reason many join is to get experience in the engineering end. How much hands on experience can you have with a large team and only one robot? When you get down to it, really there about 10 members of each team that understand and really work on these machines. What having two teams allow is more students to work on a robot, and members to help each team build and problem solve.
FIRST has been a great thing for Eric to be involved with. I have not seen him so excited about anything except when he was little and played with Thomas the Tank Engine trains. Other than these two, he has sort of been doing stuff, but not whole heartedly. I have seen his personal growth in the last few months, he has gained confidence, learned to work with others and became a leader. I have never seen this part of his personality before, and perhaps he shows it in other places, but for me to witness him in action made me proud to be his father.
I am looking forward to next season, if Eric stays on the same team, he has several other sophomores who work well together moving on with him. We all are looking forward to how this will all turn out.
My other FIRST Posts
First FIRST
Second FIRST
Third FIRST
Fourth First
Friday, March 6, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/07/2009
Blog of the "Unquiet Librarian"
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/06/2009
Twitter for Teachers: Home - Twitter for Teachers
Work on a collaborative eBook on how to use twitter in the classroom
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/05/2009
The Innovative Educator: Ten Ideas for Getting Started with 21st Century Teaching and Learning
Steps to becoming and innovative educator
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/04/2009
Website recommended by Bob Sprankle for keeping up with the 5 things you accomplished today - see his blog post (also linked here) for how he uses it.
Doris - Simplify your life and get things done with Doris!
Free productivity tool - looks a lot like Remember the Milk to me. Not sure if I'm going to swap but would love to hear from people who like it
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/03/2009
Finally, any theoretical benefit of practice homework must be weighed against the effect it has on students’ interest in learning. If slogging through worksheets dampens one’s desire to read or think, surely that wouldn’t be worth an incremental improvement in skills. And when an activity feels like drudgery, the quality of learning tends to suffer, too. That so many children regard homework as something to finish as quickly as possible – or even as a significant source of stress -- helps to explain why it appears not to offer any academic advantage even for those who obediently sit down and complete the tasks they’ve been assigned. All that research showing little value to homework may not be so surprising after all.
Plagiarism Stoppers : A Teachers Guide
Links to information on plagiarism, how to detect it, how to stop it, how to educate about it.
Hulu - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
This is a very viral video that a lot of the kids are talking about. (It came out LAST June but now is a hot seller on Amazon.) Neil Patrick Harris wants to join the Evil League of Evil. It is 42 minutes long. It is ironic how much of entertainment is becoming viral -- television can no longer control what gets watched - it gets "put out there" and then they see what is watched. In many ways, this viral way of video viewing is very interesting.
Not saying this should be watched -- it is quite hot with many college students. I could see how much that is said would resonate with college kids.
Listen to the vernacular - even though some of you may find this very napolean dynamite-ish.
"I'm just trying to change the world. I don't have time for a grudge match for every poser in a parka."
It grows on you -- stick with it.
Oh and be warned there are few words in here. But, no rating to catch it! (not sure why not rating movies just released online.) This is sponsored by XO laptop.Reading Living and Learning with New Media (report) Via @heyjudeonline
Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
A new post about Google's LIFE photo archive. Count the ways to use these in your classroom!
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 03/02/2009
New way to publish to create interactive publications. Anyone used this?
Google Apps for Education Coming to Moodle : February 2009 : THE Journal
Pilot project taking place on integrating Google Apps for Education into Moodlerooms.
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