Ode to #Pencilchat by MiddleLevelEd

Ode to #Pencilchat: Technology Integration in the Classroom
by: MiddleLevelEd

In honor of Twitter's #pencilchat, I put together some of the more memorable tweets to create this video. I plan to use it for upcoming professional development workshops about technology integration in the classroom. It's a light-hearted look at the spectrum of where we sit regarding technology in the classroom and meeting our students' needs. Enjoy! (Xtranormal, MiddleLevelEd, 2011.12.07)

pabeaufait's favorites strike again

This is more like what I was hoping for:



The Global Player graphic that appears first is © alles-schlumpf (May 28, 2009).

pabeaufait's favorites

pabeaufait's favorites on Flickr.

I fav'ed a bunch of toolkits a while back. I want to see what they look like in a slideshow.

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• Sitemap - Richard Byrne

  Richard Byrne's Favorite Tech Resources for Teachers (Google Site, sitemap)

  tags: Byrne Richard education learning online resources teaching technology tools

• How Kiva works, the long version | Kiva

  Extended explanation of Kiva's micro-financing system

  tags: banking entrepreneurs Kiva lenders lending loans money micro-finance

• Carol Dweck's Attitude - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  "Carol Dweck says colleges could improve their students' learning if they relentlessly encouraged them to think about their mental skills as malleable, rather than as properties fixed at birth" (David Glenn, May 9, 2010).

  tags: attitude Dweck Carol education intelligence learning persistence psychology research Stanford teaching

• Embedding mind maps | MindMeister Blog

  "...[Y]ou can embed a fully interactive mind map into your blogging/publishing platform of choice" (Embed a map? ¶1, 2011.08.30).

  tags: Blogger blogging blogs embedding mindmaps Tumblr WordPress concept mapping and outlining

• The Moodle Reader Module

  "This site is for the support of the Moodle Reader Module, a module that provides quizzes on over 1600 graded readers and books for young readers, so that teachers can have a simple way to assess their students' work" (¶1, retrieved 2011.08.29).

  tags: extensive reading Moodle Moodle Reader Module quizzes reading

• eBooks About Google Apps - Richard Byrne

  Electronic publications and presentations for teachers about Google Apps and tools.

  tags: education Google Google Apps Google Docs Google Groups Google Maps Google Sites learning resources teaching technology tools

• Three generations of distance education pedagogy | Anderson | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

  Anderson, T., & Dron, J. (2010). Three generations of distance education pedagogy. The International Review Of Research In Open And Distance Learning, 12(3), 80-97. Retrieved from http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/890/1663

  tags: cognitive-behaviouris community of inquiry connectivism content context distance education education expectations learning learning design pedagogy social constructivist technology typologies

  • Some technologies may embody pedagogies, thereby hardening them, and it is at that point that they, of necessity, become far more influential in a learning design, the leaders of the dance rather than the partners. For example, a learning management system that sees the world in terms of courses and content will strongly encourage pedagogies that fit that model and constrain those that lack content and do not fit a content-driven course model. The availability of technologies to support different models of learning strongly influences what kinds of model can be developed
  • 30 years of research has yet to show differences in learning outcomes between learning designs with high or low levels of social presence, that is if one confines the definition of learning to the CB notions of acquisition of pre-specified facts and concepts.
  • Social-constructivist pedagogies, perhaps not coincidently, developed in conjunction with the development of two-way communication technologies. At this time, rather than transmitting information, technology became widely used to create opportunities for both synchronous and asynchronous interactions between and among students and teachers. Michael Moore’s famous theory of transactional distance (1989) noted the capacity for flexible interaction to substitute for structure in distance education development and delivery models.

  • It is notable that social-constructivist models only began to gain a foothold in distance education when the technologies of many-to-many communication became widely available, enabled first by email and bulletin boards, and later through the World Wide Web and mobile technologies. While such models had been waiting in the wings for distance education since Dewey or earlier, their widespread use and adoption was dependent on the widespread availability of workable supporting technologies.

     

  • It remains challenging to apply learning where it can blossom into application and thus demonstrate true understanding.
  • Teaching presence extends beyond facilitation of learning to choosing and constructing educational interventions and to providing direct instruction when required.
  • teaching presence in constructivist pedagogical models focuses on guiding and evaluating authentic tasks performed in realistic contexts.
  • Ironically, constructivist models of distance education began to share many of the affordances and liabilities of campus-based education, with potential for teacher domination, passive lecture delivery, and restrictions on geographic and temporal access.
  • Connectivist learning focuses on building and maintaining networked connections that are current and flexible enough to be applied to existing and emergent problems. Connectivism also assumes that information is plentiful and that the learner’s role is not to memorize or even understand everything, but to have the capacity to find and apply knowledge when and where it is needed. Connectivism assumes that much mental processing and problem solving can and should be off-loaded to machines
  • Connectivist cognitive presence begins with the assumption that learners have access to powerful networks and, as importantly, are literate and confident enough to exploit these networks in completing learning tasks. Thus, the first task of connectivist education involves exposing students to networks and providing opportunities for them to gain a sense of self-efficacy in networked-based cognitive skills and the process of developing their own net presence.
  • The artifacts of connectivist learning are usually open, accessible, and persistent. Thus, distance education interaction moves beyond individual consultations with faculty (CB pedagogy) and beyond the group interactions and constraints of the learning management systems associated with constructivist distance-education pedagogy.  Cognitive presence is enriched by peripheral and emergent interactions on networks, in which alumni, practicing professionals, and other teachers are able to observe, comment upon, and contribute to connectivist learning.
  • Connectivist pedagogy stresses the development of social presence and social capital through the creation and sustenance of networks of current and past learners and of those with knowledge relevant to the learning goals. Unlike group learning, in which social presence is often created by expectation and marking for participation in activities confined to institutional time frames, social presence on networks tends to be busy as topics rise and fall in interest.
  • Connectivist learning is also enhanced by the stigmergic knowledge of others and the signs that they leave as they navigate through learning activities. The activities, choices, and artifacts left by previous users are mined through network analytics and presented as guideposts and paths to knowledge that new users can follow (Dron, 2006). In this way, the combination of traces of people’s actions and activities generate an emergent collective, which may be seen as a distinctive individual in itself, both greater and lesser than the sum of its parts: it is a socially constituted entity that is, despite this, soulless, a reflection of the group mind that influences but does not engage in dialogue (Dron & Anderson, 2009).
  • As in constructivist learning, teaching presence is created by the building of learning paths and by design and support of interactions, such that learners make connections with existing and new knowledge resources. Unlike earlier pedagogies, the teacher is not solely responsible for defining, generating, or assigning content. Rather, learners and teacher collaborate to create the content of study, and in the process re-create that content for future use by others. Assessment in connectivist pedagogy combines self-reflection with teacher assessment of the contributions to the current and future courses.
  • Teaching presence in connectivist learning environments also focuses on teaching by example.
  • A final stress to teaching presence is the challenge presented by rapidly changing technologies. No one is current on all learning and communications applications, but teachers are often less competent and have less self-efficacy; thus, connectivist learning includes learners teaching teachers and each other, in conjunction with teachers aiding the connectivist learning of all.
  • Learning in connectivist space is, paradoxically, plagued by a lack of connection.
  • In connectivist space, structure is unevenly distributed and often emergent, with that emergence seldom leading to structure that is optimally efficient for achieving learning goals.
  • Cognitive-behaviourist models are most notably theories of teaching and social–constructivist models are more notably theories of learning, but both still translate well into methods and processes for teaching. Connectivist models are more distinctly theories of knowledge, which makes them hard to translate into ways to learn and harder still to translate into ways to teach. Indeed, the notion of a teacher is almost foreign to the connectivist worldview, except perhaps as a role model and fellow node (perhaps one more heavily weighted or connected) in a network.
  • As concerns about privacy mount and we come to adopt a more nuanced approach to connections and trust, our networks are bound to become more variegated and specialized. It is already becoming clear that connectivist approaches must become more intelligent in enabling people to connect to and discover sources of knowledge.
  • Although the prime actors in all three generations remain the same—teacher, student, and content—the development of relationships among these three increases from the critical role of student–student interaction in constructivism to the student–content  interrelationship celebrated in connectivist pedagogies, with their focus on persistent networks and user-generated content. The popular community-of-inquiry model, with its focus on building and sustaining cognitive, social, and teaching presence, can be a useful heuristic in selecting appropriate pedagogies.

  • It is clear that whether the learner is at the centre or part of a learning community or learning network, learning effectiveness can be greatly enhanced by applying, at a detailed level, an understanding of how people can learn more effectively: Cognitivist, behaviourist, constructivist, and connectivist theories each play an important role.

     

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• A Holistic Approach for Establishing Social Presence in Online Courses & Programs | Higher Education Teaching and Learning Portal

  "The purpose of the two case studies presented here is to describe specific social presence related instructional and support strategies used to foster an atmosphere of support and success for students enrolled in online courses and programs in a large rural university" (Introduction and Background, ¶4).

  tags: approaches education faculty support feedback Google Docs higher education holistic involvement learners learning LMSs online practices rubrics social media social presence student support support teaching training

• Critical Metalearning: eFacilitator Job Description

  "The purpose of this position is to facilitate high quality interaction in the e-learning environment which will enable students to apply their knowledge and to succeed in their chosen subjects through excellence in open and flexible learning delivery" (Purpose of the role, ¶1).

  tags: education experience facilitation facilitators learning interaction jobs online responsibilities roles skills teaching

• A WebQuest Resource Page

  "...[A]n informative resource page for preservice and inservice teachers who are interested in finding good WebQuests for early childhood, elementary & secondary students" (Home, ¶1, 2011.08.23).

  tags: early childhood education elementary learning learning activities resources secondary teaching teacher development teacher education technology Webquests

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• Successful Strategies for English Language Learners

  Angela Pascopella reported on U.S. school district and national measures "to address surging ELL enrollment—and dropout rate[s]" (deck).

  tags: Boston civil rights education EEO ELL English English language learners English speaking populations HIspanics justice learners NCES NYC Obama schools school districts settlements Title VI U.S. U.S. Department of Education U.S. Department of Justice White

  • Between 1979 and 2008, the number of school-age children (ages 5-17) in the United States who spoke a language other than English at home increased from 3.8 to 10.9 million, or from 9 to 21 percent of the population in this age range, according to the latest figures from the National Center on Education Statistics (NCES).
  • Perhaps one of the greatest examples of inequity lies in a joint investigation of the Department of Justice and the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights that revealed last October that Boston Public Schools had failed to properly identify and adequately serve thousands of ELLs since 2003 as required by the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• Guardian Weekly Global English debate | Guardian Weekly | guardian.co.uk

  Cover piece with links to "audio highlights from the speaker's [sic] presentations and ... specially written articles that explore the themes and issues" (¶3):
  
  + Robert Phillipson: Principles and policies for a multilingual Europe;
  + Juliane House: English as a lingua franca for Europe
  + John Walsh: Can minority languages survive?
  + Barbara Seidlhofer: Teaching English as a lingua franca for Europe
  + Jennifer Jenkins: Accents of English in Europe
  
  

  tags: English English speaking populations Europe language policies Guardian languages lingua franca teaching varieties

• Being Bilingual: Beneficial Workout for the Brain - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  Wheeler reports on findings that "Speaking two languages confers lifelong cognitive rewards that spread far beyond the improved ability to communicate" (¶1), and "The chief benefit of being bilingual is stronger 'executive control,' ... the chief building block of higher thought" (¶5).
  
  Wheeler, David L. (2011). Being bilingual: beneficial workout for the brain. Chronicle of Higher Education, Research: February 20, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011. from http://chronicle.com/article/Being-Bilingual-Beneficial/126462/

  tags: bilingual bilingualism brains cognition education languages research

• Video Introduction to SpiderScribe.net

  Two-minute intro. to SpiderScribe brainstorming and mind-mapping tools

  tags: brainstorming free mind mapping online SpiderScribe tools concept mapping and outlining

• Global Survey Shows Distrust in Democracy, Media : NPR

  "An international public opinion poll shows a dramatic lack in trust of democratic institutions and international companies" (November 8, 2002).

  tags: democracy media NPR opinions organizations polls surveys trade unions Voice of the People

• 100 Key Words : NPR

  "... Jacki Lyden talks to the senior editor of the American Heritage College Dictionary, now in its fourth edition, about the list of 100 words their editors think all college students (and their parents) should know" (September 17, 2002).

  tags: dictionaries NPR SAT standardized tests tests verbal scores vocabulary wink_students word lists words

• GREs : NPR

  "The Educational Testing Service, which administers the GRE and other standardized tests, found Web sites that prospective test takers were using to cheat. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports that some critics of institutional testing weren't surprised by the findings" (August 8, 2002)

  tags: Asia cheating examinations exams GRE NPR standardized tests tests testing

• "Narrate, Curate, Share:" How Blogging Can Catalyze Learning -- Campus Technology

  "... [T]hree imperatives underlie some of the most important aspects of an educated citizen's contributions to the human record. And in my experience, blogging offers a uniquely powerful way of becoming a self-aware learner in the process of making those contributions" (Campbell, 2011, para. 2).

  tags: blogging citizenship curation Campus Technology framework learning self-awareness sharing wink_students

• "Narrate, Curate, Share:" How Blogging Can Catalyze Learning -- Campus Technology

  • three imperatives underlie some of the most important aspects of an educated citizen's contributions to the human record. And in my experience, blogging offers a uniquely powerful way of becoming a self-aware learner in the process of making those contributions.

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• The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual | SpyreStudios

  Sneh talks a "walk through the anatomy of an infographic, its different levels and sub-levels[,] and a 5-step process to ensure that your infographic is not only conceptually sound, but accurate and easily understood" (¶ 5, retrieved 2011.08.09).

  tags: data design education graphics infographics visualization

• Looking Through the Lens (Northern Voice 2011)

  Introductin, presentation, audio recording, graphic recording, links mentioned, and more resources from Alan Levine's Northern Voice gig, May 14, 2011.

  tags: cogdog cogdogblog education Flickr graphics images inspiration learning Northern Voice NV11 photography photos resources

• Good PowerPoint Design - for business presenters

  "Modeling design principles for business presenters, Ostewalder showed and told it all in 135 slides, including step-by-step builds and appendices..." (pab, The Writing Studio Blog, 2011.08.09).

  tags: creativity design inspiration Keynote Osterwalder PowerPoint presentations Slideshare wink_students

• 28 Creative PowerPoint and Keynote Presentation Designs

  Screenshots of a slide or two from each example, followed by a list of other presentation resources.

  tags: creativity design designs inspiration Keynote PowerPoint presentations wink_students

• Humanising Language Teaching Magazine for teachers and teacher trainers

  This article entitled Multiple Intelligence Theory Revisited suggests an alternative and readily applicable "model derived from ritual theory which has the advantage of being suitable for use on initial teacher training courses."

  tags: education intelligences languages learning learning theory teachers teaching training

• 10 Commandments for Motivating Language Learners « Oxford University Press – English Language Teaching Global Blog @OUPELTGlobal

  Represents "a list of 10 ‘motivational macrostrategies’, which ... [Zoltan Dornyei & Kata Czizer] called the ‘Ten commandments for motivating language learners’" (¶9, retreived 2011.08.08).

  tags: Czizer_Kata Dornyei_Zoltan education goal orientation languages learners links motivation self-confidence strategies teachers teaching

• iTunes & iPad Help, Guides & Manuals, Educational App Collections | iPad Academy

  Links to everything the title suggests.

  tags: apple apps ipad itunes emerging products: applications

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• Blog U.: Search: How Libraries Do it Wrong - Library Babel Fish - Inside Higher Ed

  Highlights weaknesses in collections and uses of library resources

  tags: databases frustration libraries journals reasoning research students

  • The ultimate purpose is to prepare students to develop a habit of finding evidence and reasoning from it, which involves being thoughtful about both the search process and sources encountered as our graduates go forth to think for themselves.
  • It turns out the databases we use are more likely to include content from mega-corporations that from societies or universities, and the content of over 40% of the new journals was available in only a very few libraries, so even if a database identified a citation, it wouldn’t be accessible to most library users. Many open access journals would be available – just not discoverable through library tools.
  • we need to make sure that we aren’t turning libraries into walled gardens of overpriced material only available to the few, that when we introduce undergraduates to search, we recognize that searching is not a matter of tool use but is a creative and critical part of the research process and so teach it in the context of learning language, finding connections, and looking for patterns

• Trust in Virtual Teams – The RI Case Study (1) | Radical Inclusion

  Holger mentioned three kinds of trust:
  
  1) affect-based – "influenced by the first visual expression we have, plus the additional information we get from our other senses" (¶2);
  2) cognition-based – derived from analysis of personal info. and behavior (¶3); and
  3) swift – derived from observation of "team members’ behavior while working on joint projects" (¶4).

  tags: affect behavior cognition collaboration observation online teams teamwork trust virtual

• Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  NYU Prof Vows Never to Probe Cheating Again—and Faces a Backlash; July 21, 2011, 6:13 pm [no overt time zone]; by Marc Parry

  tags: assessment cheating education evaluations faculty higher education plagiarism Turnitin

• Principle 3 Home - Plan the Assessment

  This page covers overview, exploration, practice, and self-assessment resources that focus on assessment in project-based learning.

  tags: assessment collaboration communication content education feedback PBL problem solving project-based learning skills strategies students resources rubrics teacher training teachers teaching tutorials

• Teacher Training Videos created by Russell Stannard

  Site comprises:
  
  Videos for teaching  ELT/ESL
  Videos for using Web 2.0 tools
  Videos for teaching MFL
  About Russell Stannard  
  Where is Russell Speaking Next?
  Russell's Research Into Feedback
  On-line Talks [&] Conferences
  How to Make Your Own Videos
  Russell's Podcasts On Teaching

  tags: education howto screencasts teacher training teachers teaching tutorials

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• Engrish.com

  tags: English Engrish errors humor humour Japan language

• In Digital Age, Schools That Succeed are Schools That Connect | MindShift

  "The trickiest of the cracks to get our heads around is the “connected divide,” separating those who are proficient in collaborative, creative and connected social networks and those who are not. It is growing exponentially wider on a daily basis. ... [C]onnectedness will define the value of education over the next generation" (¶7, 2011.07.27).

  tags: elementary middle school high school connectedness skills technology critical thinking communication schools education collaboration

• Writing Prompts that Motivate

  One of many spelling, vocabulary, and writing resources on the Vocabulary and Spelling City site, this page explains, "Asking a child to write about something that matters to him [sic] right now is a powerful motivator. This is where writing prompts come in. Writing prompts are simply ideas or subjects offered as a foundation for students to build a writing assignment on" (¶3, 2011.07.25). It includes tips for preparing writing prompts as well as examples for elementary, middle school, and high school students. Thanks to Cara Whitehead (Learning with Computers) for pointing out this site.

  tags: elementary high school learningwithcomputers middle school prompts stimuli writing

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• Online Stopwatch

  Full-screen stopwatch and count-down timer

  tags: clock countdown stopwatch timer tools

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• http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Euromonitor%20Report%20A4.pdf

  Euromonitor International. (2010). The Benefits of the English Language for Individuals and Societies: Quantitative Indicators from Cameroon, Nigeria, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Retrieved July 7, 2011, from http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Euromonitor%20Report%20A4.pdf

  tags: development education English language education research

• Research backs English as key to development | Education | Guardian Weekly

  Lotbinière highlights a Euromonitor report for the British Councl representing "data from five target countries: three with linguistic links to Britain through colonialism, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan, and two with a stronger French-language colonial legacy, Cameroon and Rwanda" (¶3, retrieved 2011.07.07).
  
  Lotbinière, Max de. (2011). Research backs English as key to development. Guardian Weekly, July 5, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2011, from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jul/05/research-backs-english-language-delotbiniere

  tags: development education English Guardian Weekly language education research

• Created by Russell Stannard for Teacher Training videos.com

  Eyercise on-line training videos.

  tags: free interactive learning online reading reading speed tools videos wink_students

• An Open Letter to Rupert Murdoch « Education On The Plate

  tags: BoEs contracts education funding government libraries letters Murdoch

• Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Crowdsourcing Knowledge with Students

  Peachey recommends "a very simple brainstorming and voting website called tricider ... that it is incredibly quick and simple to use" (¶1, retrieved 2011.07.05).

  tags: crowdsourcing education learning online teaching technology tools

• ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education

  Searchable by subject or template, this site facilitates creation of "free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds!" (2011.07.04).
  
  Templates [include:]
  
  Fakebook [new]
  Arcade Game Generator
  Random Name Picker
  Countdown Timer
  Twister
  Keyword Checker
  Plagiarizr
  Dustbin Game
  Telescopic Topic
  Post It
  Diamond 9
  Fishbone (Ishikawa)
  Venn Diagram
  Animated Book
  Timeline
  Lights Out
  Target
  Hamburger
  Living Graph
  Learning Cycle
  Jigsaw Diagram
  Priority Chart
  Source Analyser

  tags: activities education diagrams games interactive resources teaching tools blog gadgets and widgets

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• ARTICLE CHECKER: Free, Online Plagiarism Detection Tool « DE Tools of the Trade

  Does the tool Goldsmith reviewed (June 23rd, 2011) work as intended, i.e., not to detect plagiarism, or what? Goldsmith speculated about the "Bottom line?"

  tags: detection free online plagiarism tools writing

• ALIS Newsletter - June 2011

  Abeywickrama, Priyanvada. (2011). The validity of nonnative speaker input in listening comprehension tests. [TESOL] Applied Linguistics Interest Section Newsletter (June 2011).

  tags: ALIS applied linguistics attitudes IELTS languages linguistics listening native varieties nonnative varieties performance skills testing tests TESOL TOEFL

  • Test performance data in this study suggest that nonnative varieties of English can be used as listening test input while attitude questionnaire results go counter.
  • These findings support most of the previous research in  this area.
  • Until research shows that the use of nonnative English as input  is irrelevant to the construct of listening, we may be unable to use such input in testing, especially in high-stakes tests such as TOEFL and  IELTS.
  • As nonnative speech gains recognition among language users and test takers, we hope the attitudes and perceptions toward the use of  these varieties of English will change.

• Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - 10 Rules for Clear, Direct Wording

  "10 rules for clear, direct wording" of "business e-mail" messages
  
  Here is "a link to the page where anyone interested ... can sign up" for direct mail notification of weekly tips from Always Learning (pab, 2011.06.17)

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• How To « WordPress.tv

  "Help and tutorials for beginner and expert alike" (tagline, 2022.06.28).

  tags: wordpress howto tutorials blogs wordpress.tv blogging

• Traditional approaches to English education should be changed: minister - The China Post

  Highlights "MOE's white paper on international education at local junior high and elementary schools", and outlines challenges for English education at high school and college levels

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• 68 Interesting Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom

  A collective (social) and currently growing compilation explaining and illustrating how educators can use online data-collection forms both in and outside the classroom

  tags: Barrett Tom edtech education learners parents resources technology tools

• Tools for Learners | Scoop.it

  “A collection of web based tools to help learners exploit the web” (tagline, 2011.06.23)

  tags: edtech learners resources tools Peachey Nik

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• Free online services. Photo editing and fun. Photo sharing

  Pho.to site offers a number of online services for photo editing, photo fun and sharing. All of them use our best digital imaging technologies and are designed to make your digital photography experience even more convenient and fun.

  tags: avatars free image editors images online Pho.to photos tools visual effects wink_students

• ImageOid - Add effects to image

  Online image editor, beta version, takes gif, jpg, and png files up to 800 Kb. In May 2011, Rhondda Powling said it "offers twenty-two effects" and combinations"  (Diigo, Images4Education, 04 May 11).

  tags: free image editors images Imageoid online photos tools visual effects wink_students

• JSpell Spell Checker

  Single line of code to add to HTML blog gadgets:
  
  

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• Wenger_Trayner_DeLaat_Value_creation.pdf - Powered by Google Docs

  Wenger, Etienne; Trayner, Beverly; & de Laat, Maarten. (2011). Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: a conceptual framework [PDF]. Retrieved June 18, 2011, from www.social-learning-strategies.com/documents/Wenger_Trayner_DeLaat_Value_creation.pdf

  tags: communities conceptual frameworks networks value creation

• When Images “Lie”: Critical Visual Literacy | Digital Is ...

  A National Writing Project Collection headed with the following tags:
  
  critical visual literacy, image manipulation, images, media, photos, [and] provocations

  tags: critical digital literacy images information literacy intellectual property literacy media media literacy National Writing Project photos provocations visual resources writing

• The Problem of "Pedagogy" in a Web 2.0 Era -- Campus Technology

  "This is the final issue of the Web 2.0 newsletter" (Editor's note, ¶1).

  tags: Campus Technology faculty development learning theory pedagogy situated cognition technology

  • To make the turn from teaching to learning become a reality and not just a phrase, the first step should be toward a faculty development effort across the board to dramatically increase awareness of the basic research in learning theory of the past 30 years.
  • Situated cognition, and related research threads, seems to me a useful concept for beginning to understand the tendencies of information technology for teaching and learning.
  • There is movement underfoot. This is not about technology, despite the crucial need to deploy and use technology in the best ways, but about how humans use our new technology.

• The Problem of "Pedagogy" in a Web 2.0 Era -- Campus Technology

  • Situated cognition, and related research threads, seems to me a useful concept for beginning to understand the tendencies of information technology for teaching and learning.
  • This is not about technology, despite the crucial need to deploy and use technology in the best ways, but about how humans use our new technology.

• The Problem of "Pedagogy" in a Web 2.0 Era -- Campus Technology

  • To make the turn from teaching to learning become a reality and not just a phrase, the first step should be toward a faculty development effort across the board to dramatically increase awareness of the basic research in learning theory of the past 30 years.

• A Logo Is Not a Brand - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review

  Dan Palotta's June 15, 2011, post defining brands and dispelling misconceptions of what constitutes them.

  tags: branding brands logos marketing Harvard Business Review

• Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities » Action Notebook

  This page provides access to "a practitioner-oriented summary of the book [Digital Habitats] that you can download for free. It is couched as an “action notebook” in the sense that it summarizes dozens of practical steps you can take to support your community" (Action Notebook, ¶1, 2011.06.16).

  tags: communities communities of practice digital guidelines practice stewarding technology

• ScreenSteps.me - Signing up for a Wordpress.com blog

  by rickdude

  tags: blogs ScreenSteps tutorials Wordpress wink_students blogging basics and security

• Front-Map1

  Flowchart for "Developing Research Questions and Proposal Preparation" (top level entry)

  tags: proposals research research & writing research methods writing concept mapping and outlining

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