Financial Literacy 101: Useful Tools for Recent College Grads | Clear View Education Blog
Learning to effectively manage finances can be a process of trial and error but grads can stack the deck in their favor by taking advantage of great online resources that can help them learn and keep track of where every penny of their paychecks is going.
Nikon | Feel Nikon | Universcale
From the nanoworld to the universe -- The worlds we measure using our infinite yardstick.
Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
NEA - Can Tweeting Help Your Teaching?
Before you write off Twitter as just the latest social media "fad," take a look at how some clever educators are using it to enrich their classrooms and even forge informal professional networks.
10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris
Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.
10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris
Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.
WebSlides - Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows…
I am using this feature at NECC quite a bit - you can turn bookmarks into webslides. It is very useful and helpful!
This is the student blog where they share how to use various tools. We love reactiongrid and used it quite a bit this year as a great alternative to Second Life.
Innovate: Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum
The pace of technological change has challenged historical notions of what counts as knowledge. Dave Cormier describes an alternative to the traditional notion of knowledge. In place of the expert-centered pedagogical planning and publishing cycle, Cormier suggests a rhizomatic model of learning. In the rhizomatic model, knowledge is negotiated, and the learning experience is a social as well as a personal knowledge creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises. The rhizome metaphor, which represents a critical leap in coping with the loss of a canon against which to compare, judge, and value knowledge, may be particularly apt as a model for disciplines on the bleeding edge where the canon is fluid and knowledge is a moving target.
Basic Backchannel chat room netiquette. I use this generic slideshow to share and teach about backchannel.
WebSlides - Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows…
I am using this feature at NECC quite a bit - you can turn bookmarks into webslides. It is very useful and helpful!
edubloggercon - EduBloggerCon 2009
Edublogger con details for Saturday - this fun free unconference is one of my favorite personal PD experiences of the year. I'll only get to be there in the morning but need volunteers for the web 2.0 smackdown we're planning.
edubloggercon - EduBloggerCon 2009 Party
Post edubloggercon party - another fun (and free) event - this one hosted by Wikispaces -- Oh so much fun!
Photo 113 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
One of my favorite web 2.0 tools shown last year at necc wasn't on a computer, it was a keychain used by Kevin Honeycutt. These are amazing and this is a photograph of that. These were given to the teacher at his school in sort of a swap meet - people wrote about what it was and links on one side and the name on the other side along with the name of a person who could be contacted to help with that. Each teacher had to bring two to share with the others.
Artsonia Teachers - a K-12 student art museum displaying school gallery artwork for free
Through July 6th you can get free Artsonia software. Good luck art teachers.
Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick
make a simple wall where participants can post "post it notes"
Good for collaboration and discussion.
Simple to use
Artsonia Teachers :: ArtRage Promotion
Download Artrage through July 7th if you join artsonia.
YouTube - Twitter HashTags Explained
So, you want to understand twitter hashtags (when people use the # in front of letters) - this video from Mike Wesley might help.
XP Math - Math Games, Math Careers, Math Forums, Math eBooks
math games based on NCTM standards
Data visualizer
Exhibits Collection -- Amusement Park Physics
How do physics laws affect amusement park ride design? In this exhibit, you'll have a chance to find out by designing your own roller coaster. Plan it carefully--it has to pass a safety inspection.You can also experiment with bumper car collisions.
Forces of Nature -- National Geographic
forces of nature, video and information from National Geographic
Fuze Meeting: Free Web Conferencing & Online Meeting Software
online meeting software, screen sharing
Psykopaint Beta 1 - Online photo painting tool
manupulate images sample using paints
help build a collaborative photo encycleopedia
Take part in this exciting research project to discover how our everyday soundscapes make us feel
Find Your Spot in Education - K12JobSpot.com
teaching jobs
TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve.
Identify flags of the world and learn about global issuse
10 Big Differences Between MBAs and Entrepreneurs | Select Courses
While many entrepreneurs have MBAs and have worked hard to achieve success in both education and business, there are people who believe in basic differences between the two sets. Here are ten big differences seen by many to distinguish between entrepreneurs and MBAs.
Florida Virtual School - Course Overview
Learning and game-play collide in Conspiracy Code, the first in a revolutionary new series of courses. An innovative, complete online class, Conspiracy Code engages students in interactive learning while maintaining all the engagement of a high-quality entertainment product. All Conspiracy Code courses are teacher-supervised, academically-viable, complete classes that fuse the best of online gaming with proven pedagogical techniques and standards to produce a truly unique learning environment for high school students.
Committee on Education and Labor
From the Committee on Education and Labor here in the US. Mark your calendars! This is June 16 at 10 am EDT.
"WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Education and Labor Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 16 to examine how technology and innovative education tools are transforming and improving education in America.
Immediately following the hearing, members of the media are invited to attend an education technology demonstration where they can have hands-on experience using cutting-edge education technology products.
WHAT: Hearing on “The Future of Learning: How Technology is Transforming Public Schools”
WHO: Jennifer Bergland, chief technology officer, Bryan Independent School District, Bryan, TX
Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer, White House Office for Science and Technology
Dr. Wayne Hartschuh, executive director, Delaware Center for Educational Technology, Dover, DE
Scott Kinney, vice president, Discovery Education, Silver Spring, MD
John McAuliffe, general manager, Educate Online Learning, LLC, Baltimore, MD
Lisa Short, science teacher, Gaithersburg Middle School, Montgomery County Public Schools, Gaithersburg, MD
Abel Real, student, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
WHEN: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
10:00 a.m., EDT
WHERE: House Education and Labor Committee Hearing Room
2175 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C.
**Note: This hearing will be webcast live from the Education and Labor Committee website. You can access the webcast when the hearing begins at 10:00 am EDT from http://edlabor.house.gov**"
Murales de aula - Classroom displays - murales de aula,classroom displays,
Engineering is Elementary | EiE Unit Overviews
The Engineering is Elementary project will produce 20 curricular units. The table below describes the units' focal science and engineering fields, the storybook title, and the country in which the unit is set.
State: Students not responsible for cheating - State news - Macon
High stakes testing could have pushed some schools in Georgia to high stakes cheating. There are more than these 4 that many are calling suspicious with meteoric rises in scores from some schools that I and others personally know are not getting the job done with the content they are teaching for students.
Warning to parents: Beware of test scores - they can be manipulated. Look at your child and use your common sense as to whether they are receiving a good education.
