Tom Daccord's Public Library

"Google Street View, a collection of 360° panoramic maps that cover hundreds of cities around the world, have transformed online maps from flat graphics to interactive experiences. Like other web technologies, web developers have taken advantage of the open platform to add and shape the maps into new and clever uses, some of which are featured below."

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"JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites.

Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique."

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"Technological advances have enabled instructional designers to move toward a more constructivist approach to designing materials. One of the basic tenets of constructivism is that learning results in participation in authentic activities, in other words, learning should be based on activities and problems that learners might encounter in the real world. Twomey Fosnot (1989) recommends a constructivist approach be used to create learners who are autonomous, inquisitive thinkers who question, investigate, and reason. Constructivist classrooms allow teachers to make decisions that will enhance and enrich learners' development in these areas.

A growing body of research in constructivist learning supports the use of project-based and/or problem-based learning (Buck Institute, 2003). Project-based learning projects engage and challenge learners in interdisciplinary activities that enrich and extend the curriculum."

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A Ning community to support the TESOL EVO 2010 session

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"And I just replied to Monika with this — which I hope some of you, again, will chime in on to show me the error of my ways:

I’ll start with saying I’m still uncomfortable with the opportunity cost notion. As a history teacher — which to me means “preparation for informed citizenship” teacher — I’m not sure I want to sacrifice time that could be used learning and drawing conclusions from human history on the altar of failed web 2.0 experimentation.

I see the value of both, though. I’m thinking a separate course — a sort of “Intro to Web 2.0″ — might be more useful than teachers across the curriculum failing and flailing about with the tools when their primary job is teaching content.

And I’m still traditional in thinking content is more important. Without it, we risk churning out what I’ve recently been calling, in my internal monologues, “barbarians with laptops.”

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ncsshistory burell Social Studies web 2.0 contentvsskills

"FindingEducation met up with Elizabeth Devine at the annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference in Atlanta, Ga. in November. At the conference, Devine was named as one of the NCSS Outstanding Secondary Social Studies Teachers of the Year for 2009-2010. She also hosted a panel focused on helping teachers integrate the study of human rights into their curriculum."

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"How Technology Helps Social Studies"

-slideshow presentation on Slideshare.net

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"Career experts say the key to securing jobs in growing fields will be coupling an in-demand degree with expertise in emerging trends. For example, communications pros will have to master social media and the analytics that come with it; nursing students will have to learn about risk management and electronic records; and techies will need to keep up with the latest in Web marketing, user-experience design and other Web-related skills."

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"The winners of the Best Educational Use of a Social Networking Service 2009…."

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Timeline period: 1000-1500 CE
-Conquests
-in China
-Key Figures
-Nomadic Life

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"The Parade of Games web site was created to provide educators and trainers with easy-to- assemble educational games in a technology- enhanced environment to support key learning points. The site demonstrates the creative use of popular game shows and other familiar games to reinforce learning.

Educators and trainers can select and download those PowerPoint games that support your learning objectives and are compatible with the technology capabilities of your learning environment. "

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"Telstra in Australia is makes social media training mandatory for its 40,000 odd employees.

It has formalized a policy of “3Rs” – responsibility, respect and representation, see the video"
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Came across this "Fair Use Evaluator" tool today and am trying it out. From the home page:

"What this tool can do for you:
* Help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code.
* Collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation.
* Provide you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records [example], which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it. [why is this important?]
* Provide access to educational materials, external copyright resources, and contact information for copyright help at local & national levels."

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"Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate.

Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, vindicating the close relationship between writer and paper."

Note: OMMwriter is Mac only at this point

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"A.nnotate lets you share and store notes on documents. When you upload a document A.nnotate displays it in the browser and lets you add notes and tags to specific words, phrases and regions of the page.
You can share documents so that other people can add notes and replies. All notes are added to your personal document index. "

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"Amazon has begun ringing the post-Christmans bell to showcase the formidable selling power of its iconic Kindle electronic book reader – despite the strength of rival platforms such as the Barnes & Noble Nook.

Moreover, Seattle-based Amazon has revealed 2009’s festive buying spree has seen the Kindle become the most gifted item in the company’s history. And, supporting the eBook reader with regard to digital content, Christmas Day saw Amazon users buying more downloadable Kindle books than traditional print publications for the very first time."

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"Before 2009, e-books were novelties known to most readers only because of the amount of ink spilled in condemning them. By year's end, the $260 Kindle e-reader had become the single most-requested and bestselling item in Amazon.com's massive online catalogue. Competitor Barnes & Noble had sold out of its new Nook reader, and dozens of other companies, including Canada's Indigo, were rushing to market with new devices to tap vast new libraries of digital content.

“At first, we thought the whole e-book revolution was for kids, and people over 40 were never going to use those devices,” says Sara Nelson, books director of O, The Oprah Magazine and former editor of Publishers Weekly. “But anecdotal studies suggest it is in fact people 40 and up who are buying Kindles.”

The big sell: “On all of these devices, you can adjust the font,” Nelson says. “That makes reading easier for a lot of people.”

As e-books explode in popularity, garden-variety Internet browsers are discovering even larger repositories of material produced by such efforts as Google Books, an electronic library of 10 million scanned titles, many available for download free of charge. In November, the company reached a settlement with authors and publishers that will permit it to make millions more copyrighted but out-of-print volumes available."

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"David Brancaccio gives an impassioned plea for teachers to go beyond the text book approach to teaching economics in an effort to meet real world challenges and build a economic foundation for the next generation." [Video 2 mins. 49 secs.]

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"I am Jane Hart, a Social Learning Consultant, and founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies.

Every day I feature an item of (e-)learning interest. All tools featured are listed in our Directory of Learning Tools. If you have a new tool or resource to share, let me know"

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"These aren’t in order of greatness – they all have their own specific applications for education."

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