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E-Learning: Three Habits That Digital Natives Need to Change | Ken Turner(LION) | LinkedIn
"An important area that digital natives have been unable to manage effectively is their own personal learning. There are 3 very specific habits that new learners bring with them into the E-Learning environment that need to be "un-learned" so effective "re-learning" can take place" (¶5, retrieved 2015.06.26).
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Diigo bookmarks (weekly)
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"This is the pre-publication version of the article which will be published in volume 8, no, 2 of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. / To reference this paper: Saunders MNK and Rojon C (2015) Dealing with reviewers’ comments in the publication process. Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. DOI: 10.1080/17521882.2015.104746" (deck, 2015.06.18).
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Deeper Learning | Hewlett Foundation
"using their knowledge and skills in a way that prepares them for real life" (What is deeper learning, ¶3, 2015.06.18)
Sunday, June 14, 2015
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1226 Optimizing Your Writing Process: Write Nonlinearly
"Besides seeing projects as complex in space, the prolific also see them as complex in time. While novice writers see writing as "just writing," the prolific see it as a process consisting of these or similar stages: 1. Conceptualization (a.k.a. note-taking or "noodling around") 2. Planning and outlining (a little more structured than above) 3. Research 4. First Draft 5. Revision(s) 6. Final Draft 7. Submission(s) 8. Cash the Check (for freelance and other writers who get paid)" (Tales of Space and Time, ¶1).
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PLOS ONE: Gender on the Brain: A Case Study of Science Communication in the New Media Environment
"The journey of information from scientific journal through the various layers of public reception was characterised by the evolution of increasingly diversified, personalised and politicised meaning" (Discussion: How do science, gender and media intersect in contemporary society, ¶1, 2015.06.09).
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Netiquette: Ground Rules for Online Discussions
"a dozen online discussion rules to include in your syllabus. Notice that most of them are just as applicable in face-to-face discussions."
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"Scrutiny of the evidence-base for many claims of sex difference produces plentiful examples of methodological weakness and interpretative bias. In particular, neuroscientific studies of sex difference routinely presume a simplistic gender binary in research design and interpretation; ignore large within-sex variation in favour of emphasising small differences between the sexes; and privilege determinist biogenetic explanations for brain differences over the equally plausible explanation that plastic brains are shaped by systematically different sociocultural experience" (¶2, 2015.06.09).
Sunday, June 07, 2015
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Hands-Off Teaching Cultivates Metacognition | Edutopia
"Metacognition (or thinking about thinking) is the secret to and driving force behind all effective learning. If you want your students to learn as much as possible, then you want to maximize the amount of metacognition they're doing. It's a pretty simple equation. The only problem is that most classrooms are set up to promote metacognition in the teachers, not the students."
Sunday, May 31, 2015
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Cambridge English Teacher Development Tracker | stopnthinkELT
This post introduces "a development framework which divides teaching competency into 5 categories, across 4 stages of development" (What is it? ¶1).
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A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS - R
Larson-Hall, J. (2010). A guide to doing statistics in second language research using R. - a companion to Larson-Hall's book on SPSS
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The Trouble with Standardized Testing | Creative by Nature
"Washback becomes negative when learners spend so much time preparing for exams that they do not develop the actual skills and abilities those tests are meant to measure, thereby calling into question the very validity (and wisdom) of the tests themselves."
Sunday, May 24, 2015
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What Is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
This straight-forward introduction to Maslow's theory of motivation explains both deficiency needs and being or growth needs (p. 1 of 6).
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Psychology Dictionary: Psychology Terms from A to Z
"The psychology dictionary contains an A to Z listing of psychological terms with definitions and examples. Terms included in the psychology dictionary cover every subject and sub-field of psychology, from research methods to child development. New terms are added regularly." (2015.05.19)
Sunday, May 17, 2015
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Social media: A guide for researchers | Research Information Network
This 2011 "guide discusses the use of social media for research and academic purposes...[,] not ...the many other uses that social media is put to across society" (¶2, 2015.05.11).
Sunday, May 03, 2015
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State of the Commons - Creative Commons
"With this report, we’re taking a big step toward better measuring the size of the commons. We’re also sharing all of the data and methodologies that we used to find these numbers, and making a commitment to hone and update these findings in the months and years to come. We’re also telling the stories of events from 2014 that have impacted the size, usability, and relevance of the commons"
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Copyright Act: Ownership of Copyright (Canada)
Copyright Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42)
Sunday, April 26, 2015
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Learning English the STELLAR way - Channel NewsAsia
"Learning English the fun way while raising standards - a primary school programme called Strategies for English Language Learning and Reading (STELLAR) strives to do just that. " (deck, 2015.04.22)
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Wiley, D. (2015.03.24). The Remix Hypothesis [weblog post]. Retrieved from ...
- In it’s simplest form, The Remix Hypothesis states that changes in students outcomes occurring in conjunction with OER adoption correlate positively with faculty remixing activities. Specifically, I hypothesize relationships between (at least) three levels of remix activity by faculty who adopt OER and changes in student outcomes, based on what I’ve seen in the research to date.
- I don’t have empirical data from a specifically designed study to corroborate The Remix Hypothesis yet, but I hope to either validate or disprove it empirically in the next few years in collaboration with my awesome partners in the Open Education Group
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Wiley, D. (15 March 2014). Clarifying the 5th R [weblog post]. Retrieved from: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3251
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The Access Compromise and the 5th R
Wiley, D. (05 March 2014). The Access Compromise and the 5th R [weblog post]. Retrieved from: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221
- Over the last year my thinking about the attack on personal property has slowly expanded and generalized to include not just publishers, but our own campuses as well
- the time has come to add a 5th R to my framework – “retain.” Hopefully this 5th R will elevate the ownership conversation in the open education community, allowing us to talk about it explicitly and begin the work necessary to support and enable it directly.
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A Creative Commons wiki page showcasing open education resource projects.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
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Best practices for attribution - CC Wiki
"Here are some good (and not so good) examples of attribution" (2015.04 19).
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Queen's University Belfast | Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme
"The Programme offers students a comprehensive range of training courses, 1-2-1 support and skills development opportunities and is co-ordinated by the Postgraduate Training Team, based in the International and Postgraduate Student Centre. The Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme aims to support Postgraduate Research Students in developing a range of professional skills to successfully complete their research and increase their employability."
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Frazer, P. (n.d.). Writing a conference paper [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/PostgraduateCentre/PostgraduateResearcherDevelopmentProgramme/FileStore/Filetoupload,379614,en.pdfThis postgraduate student writer's guide provides strategic advice and practical exercises. It covers the process from conference proposals to write-ups, and includes suggestions for further reading.
- This short handbook is designed to help you identify some strategies for success. These strategies are focused around the communication of complex ideas in an accessible and professional manner
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Impact of Social Sciences – Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
In this LSE blog post, Andy Tattersall explained the practice and merits of creating lay summaries to expand audiences and increase impacts of research.
- A published paper has an abstract as a way for fellow researchers and students to quickly glance at whether the paper is useful for them. But an abstract is a very short, concise report of the research paper. A lay summary can expand on that and take the important information such as results and make them more prominent.
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Mendeley | What advanced search features are there ...
"Advanced Search Operators"
Sunday, April 12, 2015
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- This post provided reflections from multiple perspectives on prospects for streamlining submission and reviewing of scholarly articles. The blog on which it appeared seems to partially fulfil the mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (sidebar blurb).
- One challenge I’m considering is how we can better capture and surface information that is currently lost in the submission process. For example, many journals ask for highlights, key findings, implications, publicity/outreach summaries, statements of novelty and so on as part of the submission process, to assist editorial triage and review. Often, this information is never published alongside the article. Why not?
- When Charlie Rapple joined the crew in The Scholarly Kitchen in Feb. 2015, David Crotty wrote: "Charlie is a co-founder of Kudos, which helps researchers, institutions, funders and publishers maximize the visibility of research (covered in 2013 in this post). Charlie is also the Associate Director of strategic publishing consultancy TBI Communications, Treasurer of UKSG, and an Associate Editor of Learned Publishing" (Welcoming a New Chef into the Kitchen: Charlie Rapple, http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/02/23/welcoming-a-new-chef-into-the-kitchen-charlie-rapple/).
- Publishers have worked hard over the last decade to streamline the submission process and reduce the time from submission to publication, but this does not address the issue that causes the largest delay, which is having to reformat and resubmit papers to multiple journals.
- When Michael Clarke started blogging for The Scholarly Kitchen in 2009, he was "currently principal for Clarke Publishing Group." He also had "worked at the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the University of Chicago Press" (Welcome Michael Clarke to the Kitchen, http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/06/15/welcome-michael-clarke-to-the-kitchen/).
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In this book review, Ingfei Chen surmised, "Combing through decades of cognitive science investigations of memory and learning, he [the book's author, Benedict Cary] has pulled together its best lessons into a practical and engaging guide" (¶4), and paraphrased advice to the effect that, "Students need to understand that learning happens not only during reading and studying, but in all sorts of ways, so that they can examine their own habits to know which ones may be helping or not, and make adjustments" (Experimenting with learning tactics, ¶4).
- Combing through decades of cognitive science investigations of memory and learning, he has pulled together its best lessons into a practical and engaging guide
- Students need to understand that learning happens not only during reading and studying, but in all sorts of ways, so that they can examine their own habits to know which ones may be helping or not, and make adjustments
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A wake up call to use available know-how to save millions of human lives and trillions of dollars that future outbreaks could take.
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This site claimed to be "the leading international education and experiential travel resource" (2015.04.06). Major site divisions apparent in tabs near the top of the home page seemed to cover interning, studying, volunteering, and teaching abroad.
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The original piece is here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2014/08/navigating_the_two_kinds_of_online_discussion_forums.html
- It's hard to have a functional conversation online with hundreds or thousands of people, and it's hard to find what you are looking for in sprawling threads
- Duh! (¶2, 2015.04.060
- Questions can have right answers; discussions can't
- Really?!? Since when?
- all kinds of ideas, pedagogies, assumptions, and beliefs are baked into technical design decisions
- Including the hard and fast, yet perhaps philosophically and pedagogically untenable distinctions between questions and (other) discussion prompts on edX.
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"HarvardWrites is a joint venture of the Harvard College Writing Program, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the departments and schools represented on our site. The project was made possible through a generous grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching" (Digital Initiative, ¶1, 2015.04.06). The homepage had distracting (read annoying), endlessly animated in both first and second screenfuls.
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"A capitonym is a word whose meaning changes based on whether or not it is capitalized" (n.d.). Thanks to Sandra Nelson for pointing this out to the LearningwithComputers group way back when!
Sunday, April 05, 2015
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Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change | Talk Video | TED.com
- burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars
- We cannot reduce animal numbers to rest it more without causing desertification and climate change. We cannot burn it without causing desertification and climate change. What are we going to do? There is only one option, I'll repeat to you, only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable, and to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and mimic nature. There is no other alternative left to mankind.
- What we are doing globally is causing climate change as much as, I believe, fossil fuels, and maybe more than fossil fuels. But worse than that, it is causing hunger, poverty, violence, social breakdown and war, and as I am talking to you, millions of men, women and children are suffering and dying. And if this continues, we are unlikely to be able to stop the climate changing, even after we have eliminated the use of fossil fuels.
- if we do what I am showing you here, we can take enough carbon out of the atmosphere and safely store it in the grassland soils for thousands of years, and if we just do that on about half the world's grasslands that I've shown you, we can take us back to pre-industrial levels, while feeding people. I can think of almost nothing that offers more hope for our planet, for your children, and their children, and all of humanity.
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Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change | Talk Video | TED.com
- burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars
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Suffix Prefix Dictionary - A dictionary of suffix and prefix meanings
This site boasted it was "the most comprehensive online dictionary of biological and medical prefixes and suffixes" (2015.04.03).
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Why Use Active Learning? | ablconnect
This page highlighted menus for: Research on Learning Goals, Research on Activity Types, and More Research. It also posited a group (and partnership) "goal to collect, categorize, and curate specific instances of active [and activity-based] learning across multiple institutions."
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How to Make a Presentation Stick
Kruse summarized six principles for making memorable presentations with a mnemonic, SUCCESS: Simplicity Unexpectedness Credentials Concreteness Emotions Stories
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Rubrics - Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation - Carnegie Mellon University
The Eberly Center [for] TEEL: Design & Teach a Course > Teach Your Course > Rubrics page defined rubric, cited advantages, and gave examples of rubrics for assessing class participation, presentations, project work, and writing assignments.
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Derek Bruff reflected on a conference presentation by Linda Nilson, and provided links to both a background article and slides from the presentation.
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TED Talk Takeaways: 8 Ways to Hook Your Audience
SlideShare Blog post by Gavin McMahon (2014.07.30)
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On-Screen Proofreading: A Handbook for Editors of Academic and Scientific Articles
Olson, Linda. (2014). On-screen proof-reading: A handbook for editors of academic and scientific articles. [n.p.]: eAcademia.
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The Top 42 Widgets To Add To Your Blog’s Sidebar - The Edublogger
In this April 1st post, Waters lists useful widgets and points out a demo blog where most are in use. Then she provides instructions for adding them to a WordPress blog.
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Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1396. Creativity Theories Relevant to Innovation
"This chapter summarizes the contributions of bedrock creativity theorists and the relevance of their main ideas to innovation. The chapter deals with two questions: 1. What are the creative processes used by creative people, and 2. What does a creative person look like." (Tom's Prof. extract, ¶3)
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APA Style Blog: When and How to Include Page Numbers in APA Style Citations
Explanations and examples of in-text citations
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Can we develop e-learning that respects adult learning principles? - DynaMind eLearning
"Most e-learning doesn’t adhere to Knowles’ adult learning principles. Collaborative and problem-based online workshops (or eWorkshops) provide us with ample more opportunities to abide by the principles than self-paced e-learning modules. It’s much harder to design eWorkshops well, but the depth achieved is much more satisfying. Respect for adult learning principles goes both ways"
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How languages evolve - Alex Gendler | TED-Ed
In the animated stimulus video for this TED-Ed lesson, "Alex Gendler explains how linguists group languages into language families, demonstrating how these linguistic trees give us crucial insights into the past" (Let's Begin, ¶1, 2015.03.31).
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In this Research Methods Knowledge Base article, William M.K. Trochime outlines "the basic steps in developing a Likert or 'Summative' scale" (¶1). He also provides an example of a 10-item, forced-choice instrument for measuring employees' self-esteem.
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This page provides brief explanations and an impressive menu of links to resources and tools for assessing and providing feedback to learners on technology-supported activities and projects. Categories include: Rubrics for Assessment - General Rubric Generators Assessing … Blogging Assessing Coding & Gaming Assessing Graphic Organizers Assessing Podcasts Assessing Technology & Social Media Assessing Video, Screencasting, and Digital Storytelling Projects Assessing Websites/Digital Portfolios Assessing Wikis
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Educational Malpractice – The Child Manufacturing Process | Creative by Nature
"[I]f the learner-centered model has proven itself to be so effective, and the high-stakes testing approach of the factory model has not, why is this model still dominant in many “leading” nations around the world? Why are so many business and government leaders in nations like the United States, Japan, Britain and Korea obsessed with test scores and international rankings? Are they not aware of the social consequences of this approach?" (¶10, 2015.03.30)
Monday, March 30, 2015
Speed tests for Internet connections
Hmm, not so fast today (2015.03.30) compared to last week (2015.03.24-26).
Sunday, March 29, 2015
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King's College London - International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
"The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) is the first global centre for knowledge and leadership addressing the issues of radicalisation and political violence. It will produce world-class research and organise regular high-level meetings and outcome-driven dialogues on security issues" (¶1, 2015.03.28).
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What Sec. Duncan said about cross-cultural and language education in the U.S. may apply to other countries around the world as well.
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The United States is a country made up of many cultures—and we often celebrate that diversity. But just as often, we rely on the predominance of English as the language of global business and higher education when looking toward the world.
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We must improve language learning and international education at all levels if our nation is to continue to lead in the global economy; to help bring security and stability to the world; and to build stronger and more productive ties with our neighbors.
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6 Websites for Learning English Idioms | TESOL Blog
Shvidko, Elena. (2015, March 20). Six websites for learning English idioms [weblog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.tesol.org/6-websites-for-learning-english-idioms/
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English as lingua franca gives Singapore a fighting chance | Features | Malay Mail Online
This article recap's policies that made English a national language of education and made other official languages required second languages.
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Adopting the international language of business, diplomacy, and science and technology was about the only way this resource-less tiny island could guarantee its survival after losing its economic hinterland in Malaysia. Unemployment was at 14 per cent and rising.
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Just as importantly, picking this race-neutral language demonstrated his government’s anti-communalistic stance, helping to keep the peace in a newborn nation made up of a polyglot-settler populace who had struggled for years with racial and religious strife.
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For the sake of building “a community that feels together”, Lee pushed through the bilingualism policy in 1966. All students had to learn their “mother tongue”, Mandarin, Malay or Tamil, depending on their race, as a second language, and this became a compulsory and critical examination subject in 1969.
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But the various initiatives Lee rolled out in subsequent years to put proficiency in mother tongue on par with that in English were to divide opinions, especially among the Chinese, even up to the present. Indeed, he described bilingualism in 2004 as the “most difficult” policy he had had to implement.
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University teachers in Japan work under the shadow of a falling ax | The Japan Times
"Double the trouble: Universities last year won a special exemption from a law ostensibly aimed at boosting the ranks of the permanently employed. The law means companies are obliged to employ temporary workers as permanent employees after five years of continuous work on fixed-term contracts, if those workers request it. However, under the exemption, university teachers and researchers will have to toil an extra five years as temps before they can benefit from the law, starting from 2024. | ISTOCK "
Sunday, March 22, 2015
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About the Project | Global Freedom of Expression & Information @Columbia
"The purpose of Global Freedom of Expression & Information @Columbia (Global FoE&I @Columbia) is to advance understanding of, and promote, international norms and institutions that protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-connected global community with major common challenges to face and address" (Objectives, ¶1, 2015.03.17).
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"The 'Climate Action Tracker' is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries. The website provides an up-to-date assessment of individual national pledges and currently implemented policy to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions" (deck, 2015.03.16).
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MultiBrief: The 4 C’s of 21st century learning for ELLs: Critical thinking
"This is the first article of a four-part series on teaching the four C's effectively to English learners: Critical thinking | Communication | Collaboration | Creativity" (deck, 2015.03.16).
Sunday, March 15, 2015
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Essential Conditions (ISTE, 2015)
"The ISTE Essential Conditions are the 14 critical elements necessary to effectively leverage technology for learning" (Essential conditions, ¶1, 2015.03.12).
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"After extracting field of study vocabulary and scoring your text against a range of possible fields of study, the [Field Related? text analysis] system will provide links to glossaries and vocabulary learning activities to help you further your English Second Language learning."
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Books for children available online with narration in various languages
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What students think of their blended learning teachers | eSchool News | eSchool News
"A recent survey [in Australia] reveals that teacher training may impact student opinion in blended courses" (deck, 2015.03.11).
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How Do I Correctly Format a Copyright? | LegalZoom: Legal Info
Step by step instructions for notices on published and unpublished work.
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http://www.apa.org/pubs/authors/new-author-guide.pdf
"This guide provides an overview of the process of preparing and submitting a scholarly manuscript for publication in a psychology journal. Drawing on the experiences of authors of scholarly writings, peer reviewers, and journal editors, we seek to demystify the publication process and to offer advice designed to improve a manuscript’s prospects of publication. To exemplify the process, we describe specific publication procedures for journals of the American Psychological Association." (APA, 2010, p. 1)
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SAGE - the natural home for authors, editors and societies - Journal Gateway
This academic publisher's webpage covers "a number of resources available to support you through the writing and submission process" (How to get published: Writing your article for publication, ¶1, 2015.03.10). Resources include a brochure, a presentation, a two-part video, and a link to the publisher's entire catalog of journals for previews of submission guidelines.
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Elsevier for authors | Elsevier
"Publish in an Elsevier journal. The process step by step." Though this guide is publisher specific, the process reflects general practices in academic publishing.
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Presenting Without a Net - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"If you want to get published, you have to write in a way that makes people want to read. And if you want anyone—students, peers, legislators, donors—to listen to you, you have to speak to them, not read to them." (Toor, 02 March 2015, ¶23)
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Directory of Open Access Journals
"DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals" (deck, ¶1, 2015.03.09).
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Worst practice in ICT use in education | Edutech
"If adopting 'best practice' is fraught with difficulties, and 'good practice' often noted but ignored, perhaps it is useful instead to look at 'worst practice'. The good news is that, in the area of ICT use in education, there appears to be a good deal of agreement about what this is!" (Trucano, 2010, ¶2, retrieved 2015.03.09)
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