Diigo bookmarks for today 02/06/2010

• learningscience.org

  a free and open leaning community for sharing newer and emerging tools to teach science

  Tags: learningscience, resources, tools, education, interactive, middleschool, elementary, technology

• 15 Interesting Ways to use Wallwisher in the Classroom

  Presentation covering 16 cool ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom.

  Tags: education, tool, presentation, edu_newapp

• Homepage - TimeToKnow

  Tags: Education, teaching, learning, timetoknow, pedagogy, 1:1

• 50 Brain Facts Every Educator Should Know | Associate Degree - Facts and Information

  Tags: Brain, educator, Memory, facts, Education, research, Should Know, learning, thinking, understanding

• Education Week's Digital Directions: Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning

  Tags: education, personalized, technology, tools, personalized learning, learning, teaching, directions, differentiatedinstruction

• Western States Black Research and Educational Center

  The Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum (MCLM) maintains the largest and most academically substantial, independently held collection of rare and out-of-print books, documents, films, music, photographs and memorabilia on African American history and culture in the United States.   MCLM's primary goal is to make the collection available to the public as a cultural compass to a more complete view of American history. 

  Tags: educational, western, history, african-american

• Star Readers- Story Time

  Tags: reading, classroom, story time, books, elementary students, education, readers

• Where are the savings in using GoogleApps? - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

  Doug Johnson estimates the savings moving to Google apps, Great post for those considering this.
  
  Doug says:
  
  "These are rough and admittedly optimistic estimates, but I think you can see the general trend. Even if only 50% of my estimated nearly $2M in savings is realized, that averages out to close to $200,000 per year. (Out of a $1.2M budget.) I am not suggesting reducing tech budgets by this amount, but I can sure think of a lot more interesting things (like kids' computers, a more robust wireless network, and more bandwidth) to spend tech dollars on.
  
  Yes, I need to pay $7 a year per administrative, possibily teacher, e-mail account for archiving and retrieval. Not bad, though, considering."

  Tags: google, cloudcomputing, education, costsavings, bestpractices, edu_trends

• TLC = Tech + Library + Classroom: Wallwisher

  Great overview from Tara about how she uses wallwisher. I haven't played with this new, cool tool but will. She says:
  
  "One of my favorite new tools that I shared with the group was Wallwisher. It's the whole 'get a sticky note, write your thoughts and stick it to the chart paper' activity but online. Brilliant! It's free, and I can keep the information archived each time I build a new wall. "

  Tags: education, learning, edu_newapp

• Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : What Are You Learning This Summer

  Computer science teachers planning this summer should look at this overview from Microsoft uber-blogger Alfred Thompson.

  Tags: education, learning, computerscience_teacher, computerscience, techintegrator

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Dashboard zoo

Dashboard zoo
Originally uploaded by tsakshaug

The mom-mobile has had stuffed animals for longer than I have been around. There are two more than this shows.
The other day, the HS guidance counsouler gave me the Jay Ward stuffed animals. Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle J. Moose and Horse (Horse is the name of Dudly Do-Right's horse).
The cats are of course Jiff and Squeak, named after Jiff and Squeak. The other moose is just a moose. My bifocal safety glasses are in there too. Above all of this are a Tigger and a bear.
By the way, Horse is sitting inside of my Obama hat

Diigo bookmarks for today 02/05/2010

• Women's Adventures in Science

  Tags: science, education, women, space, K-12

• Free music, free books, free games, free poems and free puzzles that help teach children how to read and improve reading comprehension

  Tags: education, comprehension, Reading, books, poems, teaching, learning, literature, literacy, songs, resources, tools, technology

• Israel’s Time To Know Aims To Revolutionize The Classroom

  I'm always hesitant to listen to research conducted by a company itself touting amazing results, but much of what this company is doing is what needs to happen with curriculum. Of course, any curriculum may be implemented well and often the best teachers are selected for pilots. ;-)

  Tags: education, learning, curriculum, edu_news

• Eight Interactive Whiteboard Tips

  Tags: Interactive Whiteboards, learning, students, children, interactive, whiteboard, lessons, education

• School On The Brain 2010

  Tags: brain, education

• eCampusNewsJan201011.pdf (application/pdf Object)

  Tags: ecampusnewsjan201011.pdf, pdf, R2D2, instruction, teaching, methods, pedagogy, learning, education

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Diigo bookmarks for today 02/04/2010

• Learning style inventory functions for teachers, instructors and other group managers

  Tags: learning_styles, education, online, assessment, free, resources

• SloodleAdminDocs - SLIS Second Life Wiki

  Information for installing sloodle - this is what you'll use if you're running opensim on a server at your school - helps make the teaching with virtual worlds so much easier.

  Tags: education, learning, moodle, sloodle, edu_trends

• Online Learning | 2010 Annual Letter | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  Tags: Learning2.0, gates, melinda, teaching, learning, education, curriculum, online learning

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Diigo bookmarks for today 02/03/2010

• NCLB "in need of improvement"

  Tags: education, educators, success, change, classroom, Obama, policy, Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, nclb

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Diigo bookmarks for today 02/02/2010

• AJET 19(1) Boyle (2003) - design principles for authoring dynamic, reusable learning objects

  painful reading with the example of Java - but the point remains that all learning objects should be managed and designed with the purpose of being able to use them in the future in ways that are dynamic and reusable. This means de-coupling them and ensuring they are made of distinct pedagogical units.

  Tags: education, programming, elearning, pedagogy, design, learning

• Mozilla Service Week

  This is a service project by Mozilla empowering people to help others with technology needs in an international wave of volunteerism. Expect more from this great activity.

  Tags: education, netgened, volunteer

• Take Action - The Extraordinaries (gogrid)

  Using GPS and technologically empowered volunteerism to locate and participate in activities, needs, and volunteerism in your area.

  Tags: netgened, education, learning, volunteer

• CrisisCommons Wiki

  Fascinating method for helping the crisis around the world including coordinating for Haiti recovery.

  Tags: education, learning, netgened

• iPad. In the Home. At Work. In School?

  Tags: edtech, education, 21st century skills, classroom, interactive, iPad, Apple, technology, computer

• World Maths Day 2010

  Registration for World Math Day (March 3, 2010) opened today for students ages 5-18 at www.worldmathday.com. The competition is a free, online math competition where students compete against one another in a quest to answer the most math questions in 24 hours.
  
  Last year, a new world record was set after a staggering 1,952,879 million students from 38,058 schools in 204 countries answered 452,681,681 math questions correctly during the World Math Day competition. Students are looking to break the record again this year.
  
  This is a REALLY cool event.

  Tags: education, learning, math, edu_news, curriculum

• Story Time Made Simple

  Tags: reading activity, vocabulary activities, Interactive Whiteboards, 21st century skills, educational technology, story time, sharing

• 20 New Resources « Seomra Ranga

  Lots of great primary school resources from the Seomra Ranga blog. Thank you!

  Tags: education, learning, kindergarten, edu_news

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sun spike Day 32

sun spike
Originally uploaded by tsakshaug

First day of February, I don't think I have missed many days of photos. So let's just call this day 32. Leaving one of the buildings at work this morning, I saw this, knew it would only be there a few moments, by the time I got back in the car, the sun was poking above the clouds.