diigo bookmarks (weekly)

• Rives tells a story of mixed emoticons | Video on TED.com

  tags: emoticons, TED, ted.com, tedtalks, literacies, communication arts, communication

• ed4wb » Blog Archive » 30 Discussion Starter Videos

  I’ve bumped into many interesting videos while flowing through the intertubes and I’d like to share some of them here. I’d say they are appropriate for most middle school students, up to adult. You, of course, will know best.

  tags: youtube, education, professional_development, professionaldevelopment, video, video in the classroom, video_in_the_classroom

• Education Week: Breaking Away From Tradition

  tags: online_learning

• K–12 Online Learning: A 2008 FOLLOW-UP OF THE SURVEY OF U.S. SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS | The Sloan Consortium

  tags: online_learning

• VOISE Academy High School - Virtual Opportunities Inside a School Environment

  tags: online_learning

• ACCESS

  tags: online_learning

• Please Sir, how do you re-tweet? - Twitter to be taught in UK primary schools

  No, it is not April 1st yet. The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK’s education system. And that’s not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.

  tags: twitter, education, TransformingEducation

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Bypass Content Filtering with Toonel

  tags: filtering, censoring, censorship

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: So if Teachers Wont "Read It" What are We doing with Kids!

  tags: professional_development

• No Future Left Behind - grownupdigital

  tags: grownupdigital, professionaldevelopment, professional_development, video in the classroom, video_in_the_classroom, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, netgened

• homepage | Open Source Cinema - An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright

  tags: opensource, creativecommons, documentary, remix, cinema, copyright, collaboration, mashup, video, video in the classroom, video_in_the_classroom

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• Ideas to Inspire

  tags: education, teachers, lessons, lessonplans, curriculum, web2.0, integrating_technology

• Revolabs Wireless Audio Products

  tags: audio, microphone, podcasting, video, multimedia

• Comparisons of Inaugural Addresses

  In these visualizations, a given text—the “specimen”—is compared to some larger group of texts—the “normative” text—using the Dunning log likelihood statistical analysis, which gives weight to words in a text according to how their frequency of use in the specimen text differs from the norm.
  
  All visualizations feature a cloud that varies from gray to blue. In this cloud, the size of the word corresponds to the number of times the word was used in a given address. The word's color depends on how statistically unlikely the word is in the normative text; in other words, a blue word was used more in the given speech than in the others it is compared to.

  tags: inaugural, wordle, social studies, curriculum, history, literature, language

• Funds For Learning Assists E-rate Service Providers and Applicants with E-rate Compliance - E-rate Blog

  tags: erate

• Flickr: otisarchives1's Photostream

  Collection of photographs and illustrations from Walter Reed History Collection

  tags: otisarchives1, medicine, creative_commons, flickr, photography

• Mistrial by iPhone - Juries’ Web Research Upends Trials - NYTimes.com

  Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge’s instructions and centuries of legal rules. But when the judge questioned the rest of the jury, he got an even bigger shock.

  tags: mistrial, nytimes, TransformingEducation, social networking, integrating_technology

• http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com

  This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!
  

  tags: googleearth, geography, maps, google, english, literature, literacy, communication arts, curriculum, GoogleEarth

• Power Lines Upset Cows' Compass : NPR

  tags: google, GoogleEarth, science, research

• Remixing YouTube, One Video At A Time : NPR Music

  tags: remixing, npr, remix, copyright, Music

• Education Software for Schools: Free Software, Open Source | School Forge

  tags: opensource, FOSS, k12opensource

• Open Source Software Listings and Descriptions

  tags: k12opensource, FOSS, opensource

• THRU YOU | Kutiman mixes YouTube

  copyright? the old rules just don't apply...

  tags: youtube, remix, mashup, multimedia, Mashups, Music

• In Seattle, the World Still Turns, a Beacon in Memory of a Lost Newspaper - NYTimes.com

  tags: 21st-century, professional_development, TransformingEducation

• The Age of Composition « The Thinking Stick

  tags: composition, communication arts, literacy, curriculum, ncte

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• Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning - Emerging Technologies for Learning

  This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities

  tags: technology, professionaldevelopment, learning, web2.0, professional_development

• Dimdim: Web conferencing that just works. Dimdim provides easy, open, affordable collaboration. Use for online meetings, eLearning, desktop sharing, training, distance education, unified collaboration, webinar, free web meetings and more.

  tags: collaboration, webconferencing, web2.0, Videoconferencing, presentation, dimdim

• techchicktips / iApps

  tags: techchicktips, iphone, iapps, iPod

• edublogs: Fresh research showing the damage of filtering 'real world' technology

  Students in schools around the world find that their research, creativity and learning potential is seriously curbed by filtering and lack of use of their own mobile and gaming devices in schools. This comes from research spanning the Americas, brought to my attention by its author, Research Consultant Kim Farris-Berg.

  tags: filtering, research, policy

• Recording Audio with Your Computer While You Walk Around: Wireless Mics (Practical Practice)

  tags: mics, audio, podcasting, microphone

• Best Practices for Meeting CIPA Requirements

  tags: CIPA, filtering, censorship

• PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations

  tags: science, physics, simulations, interactive, chemistry, math, biology, education, curriculum

• Maine's Gorham School District Goes Wireless with High-Performance 802.11n Network from Meru

  tags: 11n, wireless, laptops, 1:1, 1to1, onetoone

• University of Southern Maine ~ Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation

  tags: 1:1, 1to1, onetoone, laptops, techintegration, technology-integration

• A Review of One-to-One Laptop Programs in America - One Laptop Per Child News

  tags: onetoone, 1:1, 1to1, OLPC, laptops

• FREEDOM TO LEARN REPORT: One-to-one teaching program increases student technology skills and motivation to learn

  tags: onetoone, 1:1, laptops, freedom to learn

• Freedom to Learn: Michigan Students Unplugged - State of South Dakota K-12 Data Center

  tags: 1:1, laptops, freedom to learn

• Computrace Asset Tracking Software - Computer Theft Recovery Solution

  tags: 1:1, security, laptop security, laptops

• What is fencing? « Olympian’s Life

  Great video posted on fencing.net about the sport.

  tags: fencing, video

• New Technology Foundation

  tags: pbl, Technology, 21stcenturyskills, education, projectbasedlearning, new tech foundation, grants

• WTHR | Indianapolis -Daniels, Ohio group boost high-tech schools

  tags: TransformingEducation, new tech foundation

• Daily charts, maps, graphs and tables | The Economist

  tags: economist, charts, graphs, data, social studies, curriculum

• Political cartoons by Kevin Kallaugher | The Economist

  tags: economist, kallaugher, political cartoons, visual, social studies, curriculum

• Special reports: analysis in depth | The Economist

  tags: economist, social studies, curriculum, visual

• Instant Rimshot

  tags: rimshot, humor, audio, sound effects, professional_development

• Sad Trombone

  tags: trombone, audio, sound effects, professional_development

• Instant Crickets

  tags: crickets, sound effects, audio, professional_development

• Emergency Yodel Button

  tags: yodel, sound effects, audio, professional_development

• Just Another Nonsense Blog Post | Taylor the Teacher

  tags: BlogsinSchools, Blogging, writing, communication arts

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• Continuums of library use - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

  tags: library, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, school2.0

• What do you get when you take free will and solitude out of education? - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

  tags: video, transforming_teaching, TransformingEducation, school2.0, library

• inspiredclassrooms » home

  If you want the whole story on Inspired Classrooms but are short on time, this is for you. I have condensed the major ”selling points” of Inspired Classrooms into these five videos. OK, its a little more than 20 minutes, but its really good stuff. Just grab a coke and popcorn and enjoy.

  tags: technology, classroom, design, InspiredClassrooms, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Moodle Tip - 3 RSS Feed Tips

  tags: moodle, RSS

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Doing the Moodle Mambo: Facilitating New Literacies

  tags: moodle, literacies, literacy

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Moodle Video Tutorials Online

  tags: moodle, video, tutorial, professional_development

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Moodle - K-12 Schools' Trojan Horse

  tags: moodle

• Moodle as glue | Learning is Change.

  tags: moodle

• The Innovative Educator: Ten Ideas for Getting Started with 21st Century Teaching and Learning - Annotated

  tags: 21stcenturylearning, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, classroom2.0, integrating_technology

• A Post on Remixing that bears repeating. | Learning is Change.

  I am sitting in a session at Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation on Remixing in the classroom and I was drawn back to an activity that I did with my kids to teach them about remixing. I think that it allowed them to own the topic in a way that telling them the rules does not. Does this activity still work?

  tags: remixing, copyright, fair_use, fairuse, mashup, web2.0

• The Killer App: Google Apps and Moodle Integration? | Learning is Change.

  tags: google_apps, moodle

• The Missing Community for Google Apps? | Learning is Change.

  tags: google_apps, student_email

• Best Senior Project, Ever. | Learning is Change.

  tags: google_apps, TransformingEducation, student_email, student_blog

• DigiGogy: Digital Bloom's Visual

  tags: blooms_taxonomy, web2.0, constructivism, classroom2.0, bloom

• Digital+Blooms.JPG (image)

  Great visualization of Bloom's and which web2.0 tools align with the various levels.

  tags: bloom, constructivism, web2.0, integrating_technology, classroom2.0

• Microeconomic life lessons: Is handraising a race to the bottom? « An (aspiring) Educator’s Blog

  Imagine a race where everyone is trying to lose.

  tags: engagement, constructivism, professional_development, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching

• Seth's Blog: Personal branding in the age of Google

  A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper.
  
  Three interesting resumes came to the top. She googled each person's name.

  tags: privacy, personal_branding, internet_safety, clickable

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