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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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Pew Internet: Future of the Internet
A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » New Media Literacies: Nice Short Video
Success in life and as a citizen increasingly depends not so much on access to devices as access to knowledge — knowledge of the skills necessary to use widely available technology to achieve one’s ends as an individual and a citizen. In other words: literacy. This video is only three minutes long, but it gets the point across nicely:
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
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Resources for Educational Achievement and Leadership (REAL) - Oregon Department of Education
Top News - Panel: Technology alone can't protect kids online
A task force charged with assessing technologies for protecting children from unwanted contact online has concluded that no single approach is foolproof and that parent and teacher oversight is vital.
Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown - NYTimes.com
A task force created by 49 state attorneys general to look into the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded that there really is not a significant problem.
Top News - Phony Facebook pages teach students a lesson
After a college resource company created a legion of phony Class of 2013 Facebook groups--a scheme that could have harvested personal information from thousands of students--some higher-education officials say it might be time for colleges to step in and manage online social-networking sites for their campuses themselves.
At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard - NYTimes.com
The physics department has replaced the traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning.
The MySpace scourge? Pasco schools turn it around - St. Petersburg Times
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
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Slashdot | Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies
High school students in Maryland are using speed cameras to get back at their perceived enemies, and even teachers. The students duplicate the victim's license plate on glossy paper using a laser printer, tape it over their own plate, then speed past a newly installed speed camera.
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
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LeaderTalk: Tech Specialists: Their challenges and their job-- Listening in the Backseat
Online Web 2.0 - Professional Staff Development: 101 Web 2.0Round Rock Independent School District - Instructional Technology
Top News - Tech trends every school leader should know
A new generation of students with vastly different learning needs is redefining expectations for classroom instruction, and a growing emphasis on school accountability is changing the role of the school district IT leader: These were two of the main ideas outlined in a Dec. 10 webcast from the Consortium of School Networking titled "Major Technology Trends that School District CTOs Must Know."
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
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Microsoft Partners in Learning Home
Partners in Learning is a global initiative designed to actively increase access to technology and improve its use in learning. Our goal is to help schools gain better access to technology, foster innovative approaches to pedagogy and teacher professional development and provide education leaders with the tools to envision, implement and manage change.
2008 School of the Future World Summit
For the past three years, education leaders from around the world have gathered to debate and discuss issues and challenges facing our education systems. Last year over 350 leaders traveled to Helsinki, Finland and together, gained a better understanding of the issues facing innovation in the age of accountability. More than 90% of attendees felt the event met or exceeded their expectations!
This year, we will be exploring the theme: What's possible. We will bring together dynamic and thoughtful speakers who will provide others with insight into possibilities in the areas of instructional and organizational design as well as technology integration. We will also provide an environment where practical strategies will be discussed and demonstrated so that attendees can leave this gathering with real world solutions to real world challenges.John Kuglin: 21st Century Learning and the 'Youth Media Culture' : December 2008 : THE Journal
TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills
TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students.
Generation YES » Youth & Educators Succeeding
GenYES is an innovative program that creates 21st century leaders and learners. GenYES students help teachers use technology in classrooms, supporting effective technology integration school-wide. Eleven years of research proves GenYES empowers students and changes the way teachers integrate technology in their lessons.
Math games, instructional modules, and quizzes using an Interactive Whiteboard
Maximize your investment in interactive whiteboards and help your teachers improve students’ math scores with Aha!Math Whiteboard Edition. Get the elements of Aha!Math designed for use with the whole class, with lively instruction and games that free teachers to focus on how well students are grasping critical math skills.
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Saturday, December 06, 2008
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W Virginia Dept of Ed
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Join the Youtube Symphony Orchestra
variety of ways to analyze text and data
This I Believe in the Classroom
Hundreds of teachers around the country—in almost every state—have embraced This I Believe as a powerful educational tool. Many have told us that our project was the most enriching writing assignment they have given in many years of teaching. To help teachers guide students through exploring their beliefs and then composing personal essays about them, we offer the following tools:Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com
Everywhere we look, we see screens. The other day I watched clips from a movie as I pumped gas into my car. The other night I saw a movie on the backseat of a plane. We will watch anywhere. Screens playing video pop up in the most unexpected places — like A.T.M. machines and supermarket checkout lines and tiny phones; some movie fans watch entire films in between calls. These ever-present screens have created an audience for very short moving pictures, as brief as three minutes, while cheap digital creation tools have empowered a new generation of filmmakers, who are rapidly filling up those screens. We are headed toward screen ubiquity.
The 10 most useful Linux commands | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
10 mistakes new Linux administrators make | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
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LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Blog Archive » Networked Student - The Video
state department briefing through the internet and You Tube.
This is the wiki for Rip Mix LearnERs to create courses and collect educational materials e.g. lecture note, lecture recordings, as well as Previous years Examination and test papers. These types of content are constantly being updated on the Rip Mix wiki for courses in BSc Natural Medicine, Computer Science and BComm (Accounts) to name a few.
FINAL REPORT | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH
We include here the findings of three years of research on kids' informal learning with digital media. The two page summary incorporates a short, accessible version of our findings. The White Paper is a 30-page document prepared for the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Series. The book is an online version of our forthcoming book with MIT Press and incorporates the insights from 800 youth and young adults and over 5000 hours of online observations.
NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment
Today, the NCTE definition of 21st century literacies makes it clear that further evolution of curriculum, assessment, and teaching practice itself is necessary.
Fed Blotter: Murder-For-Hire Plot Unfolds In Text Messages | Threat Level from Wired.com
Technology Funding: A How-To Guide | 21st Century Connections
appears similar to ustream
Facebook | Videos Posted by Facebook: Sharing Around the World
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Friday, November 28, 2008
The Eyes Have It
A little over a week ago, I was in a two day workshop on Instructional Coaching. One of the conversations drifted to video recording the coach and/or the partner teacher to deconstruct lessons. The facilitator raised questions about how comfortable people would be with being recorded and there were many nodding heads. But just that morning, I had seen the Playskool dance cam advertised on TV.
Trend Watch and the Mutation of Preference
Google.org has announced Flu Trend. This highly altruistic example of the power of mass aggregation of data must have all sorts of people salivating. Imagine being able to sort through all the signal noise and accurately predict an emerging trend. High tech cool hunting.Researchers in Sweden have been working with little robots that emit patterns of light. When the person interacting with the robots sees a pleasing pattern, she gives the robot a shake. Robot A then goes out into the crowd of robots; when Robot A makes contact with Robot B, the pattern is passed on. Only the pattern is not static. Robot B had its own pattern, so when Robot A’s pattern is acquired it doesn’t so much replace Robot B’s pattern as alter it. Call it recombinant, or even mutated.
Assembly Required
So, cameras are everywhere; robots recognize the patterns we prefer and communicate those patterns to other robots; like a game of genetically-enhanced telephone, the patterns mutate; before anyone is even fully aware of what is happening, Google assembles the larger patterns that emerge from our expression of preferences and predicts any number of behavioral trends--traffic patterns, fashion trends, criminal activity.
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Playskool Dance Cam
Flu Trends graph
Woman holding eyeball
Saturday, November 22, 2008
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Linda's Blog : Protecting Children From Online Sexual Predators
To decrease a child's risk of sexual exploitation in every environment, there are several steps parents and caregivers should take:
Jay Mathews - A Surprisingly Sensible 21st-Century Report - washingtonpost.com
Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students : October 2008 : THE Journal
The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster
Journal of Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith and Servant to His Supreme Excellency the Emperor Palpatine
Welcome to South Brunswick Public Schools - Board of Education - School Information
The South Brunswick School District believes that all students should have access to technology when they act in a responsible, efficient, courteous and legal manner. Internet access and other online services, available to students and teachers, offer a multitude of global resources. Our goal in providing these services is to enhance the educational development of our students. Acceptable uses of technology are devoted to activities that support teaching and learning.
when web2.0 disappears
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
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Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows
Copyright & Fair Use in Teaching Resources -- Center for Social Media at American University
Small Pieces Loosely Joined for Kids
What the Web is For
First blush is "wow". Left wondering what this means long range in terms of disease prevention, date mining, data ownership, and privacy.
Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread - NYTimes.com
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Saturday, November 08, 2008
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iTunes Installation Guide and Implications of the 4th Screen » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Research-based suggestions for the digital storytelling process » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
The Snorkel: A Resource for Educational Technology Coordinators
A support forum for K-12 Technology Leaders
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Saturday, November 01, 2008
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Dangerously Irrelevant: 2008 Education Blogosphere Survey results
I’m both pleased and embarrassed to announce that the results from my second annual Education Blogosphere Survey are now available. Pleased to finally be done and that there were 419 participants. Embarrassed that the gestation almost exceeded that of a human newborn. Thank you, Dan Meyer, for politely staying on my case about this. I hope the results are worth the wait.
has a number of recall-level activities in a variety of subjects
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
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LeaderTalk: Moving From Ubiquitous Textbooks to Ubiquitous Connectivity
In preparation for this post I did a little research on going textbook free and I also talked with the Junior High Social Studies teacher at our school who has moved to a textbook free classroom. What I want to offer here are some observations about why we are moving in this direction.
A Dynamic Celebration of Learning | A Piece of My Mind
With our district’s website overhaul out of the way, our sights are now set on ePortfolios. Our goals:
* 100% coverage of certified staff by the end of the 09-10 school year
* 100% of our students at the middle school maintaining them with the transfer to high school as 8th graders promote each year
* Utilization of ePortfolios as evidence of staff mastery of state and federal technology application standards; future reporting to SBEC
* Utilization of ePortfolios as evidence of student mastery of state anDangerously Irrelevant: Help wanted: Podcasting superintendents?
Does anyone know of some superintendents who are podcasting? If so, would you drop a URL and/or some contact info in the comments area for this post? Doug Johnson and I are looking for some examples that we can show other superintendents…
Warlick's Open Letter to the Next President
David Warlick has four things the POTUS ought to know about making U.S. schools better.
Last month I posted a manifesto of sorts to my Web site. I was following a meme started by a group of other edubloggers called "Five things policymakers ought to know!" T&L editors asked me to tweak it a bit to give our next President some big-picture twenty-first-century education advice. Here's my take.- The greatest gain will come from the collective
knowledge and experience of the
education community. Infrastructure
must be invented and implemented that
cultivates an ongoing professional conversation
across the entire education
landscape.- I like this quote; how do we do this well within even just within a building or district? - post by mjclausen
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Well, that was disappointing
I'm bummed. No one showed up for my first session at MEA--Creating a Personal Learning Network. Fortunately, I only live 10 blocks or so away, so it was easy to run home for lunch.
Some of the factors that may have contributed were out of my control. The time slot was 10 am to 1 pm; crossing over the lunch hour may have killed some interest outright. The location was a bit out of the way. Most of the sessions are being held in the high school, but a few sessions are in the College of Technology, which is across the parking lot. It isn't all that far away, but on a gray day in October, it may be just far enough.
However, I wonder if my title and blurb weren't catchy enough for the general education crowd. When I offered this session at an ed-tech conference, I had a packed house. But I'm wondering if the title isn't clear enough for the non-tech types, which is who I wanted to attract (of course, it probably didn't help that the title in the quick list of sessions was "Creating a Personal Learning N...").
So, the next time I present a session like this during a general education conference, I need to put more thought into my audience. As much as I am tired of the terms, perhaps "web 2.0", or even just internet, still needs to be in the title.
Part 2 of the workshop is from 2-5 (and wasn't even listed in the quick list); I'm curious to see if anyone shows up.
Some of the factors that may have contributed were out of my control. The time slot was 10 am to 1 pm; crossing over the lunch hour may have killed some interest outright. The location was a bit out of the way. Most of the sessions are being held in the high school, but a few sessions are in the College of Technology, which is across the parking lot. It isn't all that far away, but on a gray day in October, it may be just far enough.
However, I wonder if my title and blurb weren't catchy enough for the general education crowd. When I offered this session at an ed-tech conference, I had a packed house. But I'm wondering if the title isn't clear enough for the non-tech types, which is who I wanted to attract (of course, it probably didn't help that the title in the quick list of sessions was "Creating a Personal Learning N...").
So, the next time I present a session like this during a general education conference, I need to put more thought into my audience. As much as I am tired of the terms, perhaps "web 2.0", or even just internet, still needs to be in the title.
Part 2 of the workshop is from 2-5 (and wasn't even listed in the quick list); I'm curious to see if anyone shows up.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
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Linda's Blog : LOOKBOTHWAYS and CyberPatrol Launch Internet Safety Video Series
In recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, LOOKBOTHWAYS and CyberPatrol have created four family-oriented Internet safety videos that give parents, educators and others, quick and accessible advice on how to protect children online.
Telescopic Text © Joe Davis 2008
Click on the grey word/phrase to "explode" the sentence. Great way to work with students on developing their writings.
The Yale Law Journal - An Overview of the E-Discovery Rules Amendments
The electronic discovery amendments are an interrelated package. The amendments address five broad areas
This is the second installment in a series of posts examining the effects of the amendments made to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (the "FRCP") in 2006 on technology use in schools. In the initial post, I provided a broad overview of the discovery process and the role of electronically stored information within it. This post concerns the role of the IT staff of the school district or school site in e-document management. Based on the results of additional research, this post also attempts to further explain a misconception identified in the initial post in this series.
The discussion at Wes Fryer's blog in part concerned the implications that the December 2006 e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) have upon technology use in the schools, particularly Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, Wimba, social networking sites, and microblogs.
CASTLE is the nation's only center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators. In addition to our highly-acclaimed School Technology Leadership graduate program, we also help other university educational leadership programs prepare technology-savvy school leaders and provide numerous resources for K-12 administrators and the faculty that prepare them.
CASTLE - Principal Blogging Project
Blogging can have numerous advantages for busy school principals. Blog content is typically more timely, easier to create, more interesting to parents, and better available to prospective families than traditional communication mechanisms. Unlike unidirectional newsletters or web pages, blogs also are automatically archived, are searchable, and facilitate conversations through their ability to handle comments. Principals are finding blogs to be fabulous vehicles for school publicity, public relations, and community building.
Schools and Libraries Program - USAC
The Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund makes discounts available to eligible schools and libraries for telecommunication services, Internet access, and internal connections. The program is intended to ensure that schools and libraries have access to affordable telecommunications and information services.
Top News - How to survive another e-Rate season
If you're applying for the 2009 e-Rate, the $2.25 billion-a-year federal program that provides discounts on telecommunications services to eligible schools and libraries, you won't find many new additions to this year's program, e-Rate officials say. Instead, you'll find live training sessions, online videos, and other web-based resources designed to help you become more comfortable with the e-Rate application process.
The e-Rate audit: What it takes to be prepared
e-Rate audits are increasingly becoming a fact of life for e-Rate applicants. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been allowed to spend more and more money to examine applicants to ensure they are compliant with e-Rate rules and regulations. The key to surviving an e-Rate audit is to always be prepared for one by maintaining proper documentation about your e-Rate activities.
Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students
A worthless worksheet and a voluntary VoiceThread » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Facebook - an educational resource? - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog
Courage of our convictions - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog
The Thinking Stick | Dear Administrators
If you don’t understand what Chris is talking about, you’re out of touch.
If you think you know what Chris is talking about you need to surround yourself with people who understand this type of transformation.
If you sill think schools don’t need to change, can’t change or that your school is a “good school”. Your school will be left behind.
If you want to hire passionate educators, you yourself have to be passionate!About Becta - Becta report shows benefits of Web 2.0 in the classroom - Becta
Becta has published major new research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking, by children between the ages of 11-16, both in and out of the school environment.
A Difference: How Flickr Threw a Switch In My Head
Last year, one of the people in my aggregator, D'Arcy Norman, published a video to share the results of his year long experiment: he took a picture every day for a year and published it to his flickr account. He called the experiment 365 Photos. Actually, an entire community has grown up around this idea on flickr; it wasn't D'Arcy's idea originally, there are over 1200 "365 Days" groups. I don't know who started this originally but it seems like a natural extension of publicly sharing your photos.
Create text-to-speech podcast from RSS feed with Odiogo for iPod, MP3 player and mobile phone
MEA days presentation
This coming week includes our two days of Montana Education Association professional development, and on Thursday, I will be presenting two sessions on using web 2.0.
The first is focusing on RSS, social bookmarking, and RSS aggregators. I've got three hours, and I'm hoping that is enough time to introduce these concepts, get teachers set up with a tool or two, and provide time for guided practice using the tools.
The second session is largely about blogging, but I am hoping to work in some Twitter and an intro to Classroom 2.0. Again, I'm hoping to have time during the three hours to provide plenty of opportunities to use the tools while we are there as a group to work through any issues that pop up. We'll see how far we get.
My big goal for Thursday is to keep the focus on the personal use of these tools. It will be interesting to see what the participants find useful and how they choose to use the tools.
The first is focusing on RSS, social bookmarking, and RSS aggregators. I've got three hours, and I'm hoping that is enough time to introduce these concepts, get teachers set up with a tool or two, and provide time for guided practice using the tools.
The second session is largely about blogging, but I am hoping to work in some Twitter and an intro to Classroom 2.0. Again, I'm hoping to have time during the three hours to provide plenty of opportunities to use the tools while we are there as a group to work through any issues that pop up. We'll see how far we get.
My big goal for Thursday is to keep the focus on the personal use of these tools. It will be interesting to see what the participants find useful and how they choose to use the tools.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
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Literacy Superhero…Away!!!!! | A Piece of My Mind
Dean Shareski provides a wealth of links and ideas related to integrating technology into writing.
Flashcards, vocabulary memorization, and studying games | Quizlet
Quizlet helps you and your friends learn vocabulary. You make a list of words, and we teach them to you. Feeling lazy? Your friends can share their lists with you. You'll never use flashcards again. Plus, it's free.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
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DoodleBuzz:Typographic News Explorer
DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories.
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