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Innovative Learning - Free Newsletter Fall 2009
This phenomenal special interest group of ISTE has a great quarterly newsletter which is really the best of innovative learning in all of education. On pages 15-17 there are three pages of an article from two of my students and I about teaching in a virtual world including my "quick tricks for teaching in a virtual world." Print this, share it, and learn - so many great things in this newsletter!
Crowdsourcing or Loudsourcing? | ISTE Connects - Educational Technology
Blogged my thoughts on crowdsourcing the ISTE keynote this year.
Findings - Ethnographic Study Looks at Gossip in the Workplace - NYTimes.com
Office gossip (this study on an elementary school and their gossip against a principal) hurts EVERYONE including your school and in this case, test scores declined. Remember that when you gossip, you also hurt yourself and if you didn't already know this, take a read here about office gossip and how to intervene and stop it.
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once someone made a negative comment about a person who wasn’t there, the conversation would get meaner unless someone immediately defended the target.
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gossip in the workplace also tended to be overwhelmingly negative, but the insults were more subtle and the conversations less predictable, says Tim Hallett, a sociologist at Indiana University.
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How I create and publish podcasts » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
If you want to know how one of the pro's makes and publishes podcasts, here is Wesley Fryer's how to - a must read for anyone working in this area of technology.
Myebook - Movie Making for Kids
This ebook has over 10,000 views and it is about movie making for kids with just simple pictures.
E-Learning Journeys: Across My Desk (weekly)
My friend Julie Lindsay (now in China) is such a great friend and inspiration to me. I haven't said in some time how much I appreciate what she is doing and how much she shares. She writes a great blog that I wish more people would read.
IdeaPaint - Let Your Students Make Their Mark
This from Angela Maiers - two videos that share the concept of Ideapaint.
This video shows you how to do it. I need to show you pictures of my wall - I wanted to "wiki" the walls of my room and used brightly colored duct tape to designate areas where the students could share information. Perhaps with ideapaint I could do something similar. I love this idea. I think that perhaps next year (or maybe even over Break) I'll use ideapaint to make my whole room writeable - oh so cool!)
White House opens website programming to public
The whitehouse.gov will look the same to most people except that what is behind it is part of the open source movement with the whitehouse code - now powered by Drupal -- is open source.
For educators, if you've found administrators objecting to the open source movement, maybe you should consider using the white house as an example.
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The online-savvy administration on Saturday switched to open-source code for http://www.whitehouse.gov - meaning the programming language is written in public view, available for public use and able for people to edit.
Net Neutrality FAQ: What's in it for You - PC World
Net neutrality is an important issue being addressed by the US government right now to prevent companies from sort of creating their own version of the Internet. These rules are supposed to keep things "open." I'm also sending these to my digiteen students (you can follow digiteen at http://www.twitter.com/digiteen) and Flat Classroom students (http://www.twitter.com/flatclassroom) for work on their project.
Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: Will the Nook Eat the Kindle's Lunch?
Barnes and Noble's response to the Kindle: The Nook.
It uses the Android operating system (Google's mobile OS) and can install 3rd party Android Apps. It also has an MP3 player but does not have built in text to speech (so no UDL here) -
If you use the free wifi at Barnes and Noble you can read any ebook for free - otherwise it is something that you need to buy.
Things That Keep Us Up at Night - 10/1/2009 - School Library Journal
Must read article that is tearing through the blogs of librarians and media specialists like wildfire this October. If you work with libaries and media centers this is a must read and must pass along if only to spark conversation (and oh, it has.)
A Week For Computer Science Education | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
Conversations about Computer Science education week are beginning to float around. I think we can do many easy things including webinars and sessions with leaders that students can interact with live and even just a hashtag for people to follow on twitter who care about the topic would be useful.
The Tiny Differences in the Littlest Brains ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
New book reviewed by Stephen Downes about gender differences in brains.
ISTE | ISTE 2010 Keynote Project
International Society of Technology Educators is asking for your thoughts on their keynote for ISTE 2010. Go there and share!
The Battle of the Brain
Video we watched on Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Excellent video on the flaws of IQ.
YouTube - Curt Bonk's Flat Classrooms Keynote: The World is Open
Flat Classroom Project keynote for this quarter from Dr. Curtis Bonk where he discusses the trends that are opening up education. It is interesting to watch to see if you know what he is talking about (and who) and some people you know will be in these videos.
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Curt Bonk's Flat Classrooms Keynote: The World is Open: Introducing the Heroes, Gurus, and Revolutionaries of the Shared Internet
Jennifer Maddrell's research on Backchannels
Research shared by Dr. Leigh Zeitz on backchannel research.
11 Essential tools for Global Collaboration
This has been bookmarked quite a bit from my own blog and I shared this so that you can take a look at these tools.
Quick Screencasting Using Quicktime X in Mac Snow Leopard
Tutorial of how to screencast with Quicktime X. Been hearing a lot of people on twitter going crazy over Quicktime X.
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