Christyinsdesign's Favorite Links on k-12 from Diigo

Voicethread 4 Education » home

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:04:21 -0000

Wiki collection of resources and examples for using Voicethread for education purposes. Also includes some best practices and professional development examples.

Tags: wiki education tools voicethread audio

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FERPAPoint2005.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:34:15 -0000

FERPA guidelines for online education, include what laws apply and what don't

Tags: ferpa privacy e-learning education highered

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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:23:03 -0000

Official summary of FERPA

Tags: ferpa education privacy k-12 highered

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Kapp Notes: More Educational Games

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:36:39 -0000

Collection of educational games. Learn about the Darfur crisis, wolf ecology, or brain structures, or practice vocab.

Tags: games education k-12 science

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Kapp Notes: It is All Fun and Games...And Then Students Learn

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:34:10 -0000

Annotated list of educational games, all related to science and math.

Tags: games learning education k-12 science

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Evaluating Online Learning

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:00:11 -0000

80-page PDF from the US Department of Education on evaluating K-12 online learning. I haven't read it all yet, but some of this would probably apply to higher ed settings, and maybe corporate settings. Includes examples & case studies of successful online K-12 programs.

Tags: e-learning education k-12 assessment

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Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:40:29 -0000

Directory for the educational uses of digital storytelling website. Resources include getting started with digital storytelling, examples, tools, and evaluation. The Evaluation section includes information on some of the research being done in this area.

Tags: digitalstorytelling education k-12 highered digitalliteracy

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TeacherTube - KCofino Virtual Preso NECC 2008

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:44:21 -0000

7-minute video by Kim Cofino introducing their 21st century literacy program at the International School Bangkok. Shows the library/learning hub setup and technology available, as well as explaining the literacy model they uese.

Tags: 21stcenturyskills education k-12 technology digitalliteracy

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ISB 21st Century Literacy wiki

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:39:56 -0000

Wiki for the 21st century literacy efforts at the International School Bangkok, where Kim Cofino works. Their 21st century literacy framework focuses around three major areas: learning, communication & creation, and global collaboration.

Tags: 21stcenturyskills k-12 education learning communication

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Social networks 'teaching tech skills' - vnunet.com

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:25:01 -0000

Brief summary of research on the educational benefits of sites like MySpace and Facebook for high schoolers. Students self-report learning 21st century skills, although the study doesn't attempt to actually measure any of that learning.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

When asked what they learn by using social networking sites, the students listed 'technology skills', followed by 'creativity', being 'open to new or diverse views' and 'communication skills'.

Tags: socialnetworking education 21stcenturyskills research k-12

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Donald Clark Plan B: Immersive games beats classroom in maths

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:51:44 -0000

18-week study comparing performance of high school students who learned math in a traditional classroom or with a game. Both classroom and game learning resulted in improvement in skills, but students who played the game scored significantly higher.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

According to the teachers, the games were effective teaching and learning tools because they (a) were experiential in nature, (b) offered an alternative way of teaching and learning, (c) gave the students reasons to learn mathematics to solve the game problems and progress in the games, (d) addressed students' mathematics phobias and (e) increased time on task.

Tags: games education math research k-12

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High Tech in Hawaii: The Real-World Relevance of Technology | Edutopia

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:09:16 -0000

Profile of a Hawaiian school using technology and project-based learning to engage students and give them 21st century skills.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

"What the animation does is it assists the children in visualizing the action," explains Mitchell, who teaches language arts enrichment classes. "The animation is a way of them developing the picture so they relate that to the writing, to what they hear, what they see, what they feel." Technology, she adds, "gives you one more way of teaching something."

"Looking for real-world relevance has to do with students being interested in what they do, knowing that it's useful outside of school," says Kaninau. "The experiences are not contrived or in isolation, but they're a part of a larger learning activity. Without those connections, it won't be meaningful, and it'll be forgotten tomorrow."

"They love it," says sixth-grade teacher Geraldine Kajitani. "If you start with ... hands-on activities and things that are fun, their attention is focused." And once that happens, she says, it's a snap to get them to study some of the drier material because they'll relate to it and remember it.

Tags: education pbl k-12 technology multimedia

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Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroom | Edutopia

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:43:31 -0000

Marc Prensky on uses of technology in the classroom, moving from simply dabbling to doing "new things in new ways."

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

First, it helps to look at the typical process of technology adoption (keeping in mind, of course, that schools are not typical of anything.) It's typically a four-step process:

Dabbling.
Doing old things in old ways.
Doing old things in new ways.
Doing new things in new ways.

Tags: education technology teaching k-12 changemanagement

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Global Education On a Dime: A Low-Cost Way to Connect | Edutopia

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:24:06 -0000

Edutopia summary of the Flat Classroom project, emphasizing the possibilities for global collaboration even without a big budget. Nice introduction to these ideas for those who aren't familiar with the project.

Tags: education e-learning collaboration global k-12

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From Degrading to De-Grading

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:45:56 -0000

Alfie Kohn on reasons to abolish the current grading system in favor of authentic assessment to focus on learning, rather than grading. Includes a number of citations that would be worth exploring.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

Researchers have found three consistent effects of using – and especially, emphasizing the importance of – letter or number grades:

1. Grades tend to reduce students’ interest in the learning itself.

2. Grades tend to reduce students’ preference for challenging tasks.

3. Grades tend to reduce the quality of students’ thinking.

Tags: education k-12 motivation assessment

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Blogging and Reading Comprehension Strategies « Classroom Tech Tips

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:27:51 -0000

Applying reading comprehension strategies (questioning, making connections, inferring, etc.) and tips for students to improve blog conversations. One of the suggestions is to have a class focus together on one strategy in their comments to each other. I can see how the sentence frames would be very helpful, especially for younger writers.

Tags: blog education k-12 writing

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In the Wild « Web2.0 in High School

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:12:02 -0000

Observations from the beginning of a high school project with Ning, Animoto, and Flickr. Most of the insight is around how Ning facilitates conversations between students and lets the teacher join the discussion. Students are engaged with Ning; they are personalizing their spaces and giving each other constructive feedback.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

The ability for teachers to understand and add value to the comment ‘back channel’ is a key skill for the ‘connected teacher’. Anyone can swap an writing pad for a blog, there is no value in that. The back channel is the conversation, and is the heartbeat of thought.

I can’t think of another way in which teachers can get such immediate access to the ‘thinking’ process that is playing out in front of them.

Tags: web2.0 k-12 education learningcommunity connection

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FactCheckED: Monty Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy

Sat, 10 May 2008 21:23:43 -0000

Lesson plan for teaching logical fallacies using political and commercial advertising, plus Monty Python. Aligned to National Social Studies standards and NETS info literacy.

Tags: logic lessonplans politics k-12 informationliteracy

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The Connected Classroom: A Lesson on Reflection: MORE Copyright Confusion...

Sat, 10 May 2008 03:08:25 -0000

A teacher's reflections on using images from Flickr. Although she encouraged the use of Creative Commons images, the nature of the student work clearly fell under fair use. Even so, she got complaints from photographers about the fair use of their work. She wrote a really thoughtful response to the Flickr users and had a great discussion with her students about copyright.

Tags: copyright flickr education k-12 creativecommons

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Flickr: "pc40sf06"

Sat, 10 May 2008 02:49:05 -0000

Student projects showing trigonometry concepts through annotated Flickr images. The pink sweater is my favorite.

Tags: flickr math k-12 education visualization

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