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30 Nov 09
GPSBabel: convert, upload, download data from GPS and Map programs
GPSBabel is a software tool which converts waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular GPS receivers and mapping programs. It also has powerful manipulation tools for such data.
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GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular
GPS receivers and mapping programs. It also has powerful
manipulation tools for such data.
Juicy Geography
Noel Jenkins' personal collection of ideas, lessons and resources for school geography at KS3 and KS4. The emphasis is on creativity, ICT and original Google Earth lessons.
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Noel Jenkins' personal collection of ideas, lessons and resources for school geography at KS3 and KS4. The emphasis is on creativity, ICT and original Google Earth lessons.
Teaching with Google Earth
From Created by Glenn A. Richard, Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University, this resource is entitled "A Complete Guide to Using Google Earth in the Geoscience Classroom." It has links to complete classroom activities.
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A Complete Guide to Using Google Earth in the Geoscience Classroom
Google Earth Spreadsheets 2.0
This is an updated version of the old spreadsheet tool originally rolled out for Google Maps. This one is great in that it provides pre-fab templates. Now if I could just figure out how to create a form that would allow me to auto-populate the fields...
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- Six ready-made balloon designs to quickly create up to 400 attractive
placemarks
A simple HTML templating system to create
your own balloon designs.
- Works in Google Earth and Maps.
We've improved our Spreadsheet Mapper tool! Some of the new features include:
- Six ready-made balloon designs to quickly create up to 400 attractive
20 Jun 09
Free Technology for Teachers: Creative Commons Animal Photos
Animal Photos is a great source of Creative Commons licensed photos of animals. All of the photos are categorized by animal. Each image indicates the type of Creative Commons license associated with the picture. Animal Photos also offers advice on giving attribution for each photo.
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Animal Photos is a great source of Creative Commons licensed photos of animals. All of the photos are categorized by animal. Each image indicates the type of Creative Commons license associated with the picture. Animal Photos also offers advice on giving attribution for each photo.
Computer Science Teachers Association - ACM K-12 CS Model Curriculum
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The second edition of the ACM Model Curriculum sets the context for computer
science within K-12 education today and provides a framework for state
departments of education and school districts to address the educational needs
of young people and prepare them for personal and professional opportunities in
the 21st century.
Intro to Web Design Using MS Expression Studio
Microsoft Faculty Resource Center – Content
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This curriculum is a complete, standards-based, single semester course on Web
Design. The curriculum provides an extensive collection of creative teaching and
learning materials that thoroughly span Web Design knowledge and skills and
promote meaningful, real-world learning experiences. The modular design makes is
adaptable to a wide variety of teaching scenarios.
15 Apr 09
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning
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- Creativity
and Innovation - Critical
Thinking and Problem Solving - Communication
and Collaboration - Information
Literacy - Media
Literacy - ICT
Literacy
21ST CENTURY STUDENT OUTCOMES:
The elements described in this section as “21st century
student outcomes” (represented by the rainbow) are the skills, knowledge and
expertise students should master to succeed in work and life in the 21st
century.1. Core
Subjects and 21st Century Themes2. Learning
and Innovation Skills - Creativity
11 Apr 09
Successful Teaching: The “Assembly Line” Classroom
A great post that ties in with the book I was reading for my EP7040: Planning in Education & Health Services class called Influencer. It had a number of parallels to chapter 9, Change the Environment.
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I began to think of the assembly lines our students go through. In each grade, we put another little part on our students and move them on their way the next year. Each year we add more pieces until we think they are completely “built” at the end of 12th grade
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The education system expects that all students are made the same way and need the same parts, which are all added the same way. Then it hopes to get the same exact product at the end of 12 years. It doesn’t work that way! Our classrooms should not just be assembly lines. We should be looking at the whole student and not just the parts.
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09 Apr 09
Turn that org chart upside-down! | Information Wants To Be Free
In the post, Swartz also talks about learning about your employees (what motivates them, what their strengths/weaknesses are), delegating responsibilities, prioritizing, and offering feedback. There’s a lot of really great insight in this post (which is more like an instruction manual than a simple blog post), so if you’re a manager or an aspiring manager, it’s definitely worth reading.
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Instead of the standard “org chart” with a CEO at the top and employees growing down like roots, turn the whole thing upside down. Employees are at the top — they’re the ones who actually get stuff done — and managers are underneath them, helping them to be more effective.
30 Mar 09
Education, Leading and Learning
A forum to share ideas that will help transform the organizations we work in into constantly evolving communities capable of continually learning from the exciting challenges that lie ahead.
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If we are to realize the creativity and talents of all who work with us we
will need inspired leadership at all levels. Leaders who can align the energy of
all behind sense of direction provided by the creation of a shared vision,
unifying values and common beliefs about how people learn.
09 Mar 09
7 Things You Should Know About... EDUCAUSE Learning Series
Great resources in a Cliff Notes format. A new topic every month!
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- What it is
- How it works
- Where it is going
- Why it matters to teaching and learning
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know
About... series provides concise information on emerging learning
technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or
practice and describes: - What it is
15 Jul 08
Gain an edge by taking online classes :: Neighbors :: Post-Tribune
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Several outstanding colleges offer classes online to high school students. Even middle-schoolers can take advantage of them. According to the Wall Street Journal, the pre-college student category has become one of the fastest growing segments of the distance-learning market.
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Students taking classes at Purdue North Central in psychology, for instance, may receive dual credit; one credit for high school and three credits from Purdue.
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Top News - Gas prices fuel rise in virtual field trips
As schools grapple with budget cuts and rising fuel costs, many districts are finding it necessary to reduce or eliminate field trips, leaving students and teachers with a surprisingly attractive option--virtual field trips.
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As schools grapple with budget cuts and rising fuel costs, many districts are finding it necessary to reduce or eliminate field trips, leaving students and teachers with a surprisingly attractive option--virtual field trips.
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Some virtual field trips are conducted through video or web conferencing, while others are available on individual computers by clicking a link on an organization's web site
High Cost of Driving Ignites Online Classes Boom (pg 1) - NYTimes.com
Page 1 of NYT article
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This is what we need to change. Quality comes first and should be the driving factor for creating online courses, not just revenue. As competition in this area increases, quality will be the thing that sets one institution apart from another.
Step 2, find dynamic and savvy (or at least very willing to learn) faculty to facilitate. Online teaching is not the same as F2F and facilitating the online experience IS an art form. - edventures on 2008-07-15
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Colleges from Massachusetts and Florida to Texas to Oregon have reported significant online enrollment increases for summer sessions, with student numbers in some cases 50 percent or 100 percent higher than last year.
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the greatest surges have been registered at two-year community colleges,
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High Cost of Driving Ignites Online Classes Boom (pg 2) - NYTimes.com
Page 2 of NYT article
- Critical for our higher ed admin to KNOW and UNDERSTAND. Quality of program and faculty are critical to setting an institution apart. - edventures on 2008-07-15
- Must remember this - particularly here in NH, connections stlil run the full spectrum with a large number still on dial-up. This puts a serious crimp in courses requiring active, synchronous and virtual learning environments. - edventures on 2008-07-15
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Distance education is no silver bullet that can alone solve the challenges posed for higher education by rising gasoline prices, officials warned.
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many students, especially in rural areas, lack the high-speed Internet connections on which online courses depend.
High gas prices fuel boom in online classes - Boston.com
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John Bourne, director of the Sloan Consortium, an organization in Wellesley that studies online education, said he expects gas prices to bring about "a blended classroom -- half online, half in class."
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"Retention in online classes is lower," school spokeswoman Kimberly Haschke said, pointing out that students who do not make the drive to campus may abandon their studies before the class term is over. "I kind of worry about that."
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02 Jul 08
How To: Build Instruction Around Your Region's History | Edutopia
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All teachers can create local, hands-on learning experiences for students, even in underresourced or rural areas.
04 Jun 08
on eduglu - part 1: background - D'Arcy Norman dot net
From D'Arcy Norman, something that fits in well with my LMS revisioning schema. Wonder how it relates to something like Profilactic?
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EduGlu is a concept that came out of some discussions at Northern Voice 2006 - almost exactly 2 years ago - as a way to make sense of an individual’s distributed content in the context of a course. The problem is on one hand very simple - a person publishes a bunch of stuff, and all they need to do is pull it into a course-based resource. On the other hand, it’s really quite hard - how can software provide what appears to be a centralized service, based on the decentralized and distributed publishings of the members of a group or community, and honour the flexible and dynamic nature of the various groups and communities to which a person belongs?
31 May 08
East Coast - Attractions & Landmarks
One of my Flickr pictures being used on the Schmap site.
- Might have to click the right arrow at the picture to find it. The URL doesn't go directly to the image. - edventures on 2008-05-31
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