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Cloud Computing in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation
Good simple explanation of web-based services
BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams
"Students are no longer required to regurgitate facts and figures. Instead the emphasis is on their ability to sift through and analyse information."
Doesn't sound too bad to me.
Gideon Shalwick — The Meta Workings Of An Online Entrepreneur
Blog site with a short how-to explanation of using a free web service called UStreamtv to embed streaming video in a blog.
Guidelines for Developing Mobile Web Content
Making web pages easily readable on a keitai is a significant issue when working with university students in Japan, who tend to access the Web more through their phones than through computers. This document is not intended for education per se, but has some useful guidelines as we try to sell our "product" to our students.
Chrome Portable 3.0 Lets You Take Google's Browser Anywhere - Chrome - Lifehacker
Possible nice addition to FF portable for times when you need to have two Google accounts running simultaneously.
International Higher Education Consulting Blog™: Social Learning Sites and Online Communities for Language Learners
Good list of online language learning sites.
JISC RSC Scotland N&E: EduApps
Educational support site in Scotland that offers customized application packages for downloading to a USB stick drive. There are different packages for teachers and learners. You can also create your own package.
Colleges Consider Using Blogs Instead of Blackboard - Chronicle.com
but then we knew this already.....
50 Google Charts Tricks for Your Next Classroom Presentation | College@Home
some interesting ways to create charts for presentations.
Teacher Training Videos for using technologies
Good source of how to videos to encourage teachers to use technologies more effectively in their teaching. Includes a section on English language teaching.
Education - Change.org: Blog
Good example of teacher modeling the writing process. "...students get inside this writer's head as he talks through and composes his essay. They hear the thoughts, they see the sentences form, all in real time." Interesting to watch.
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students get inside this writer's head as he talks through and composes his essay. They hear the thoughts, they see the sentences form, all in real time
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Asking students to sit quietly at home, listening to the teacher talking through his ideas as he reads the prompt and writes the essay for 40 minutes is asking a lot. But making them do it at least once, and reflect on what they learned about real, organic writing - and more importantly, about spending a full ten minutes or more thinking and annotating before beginning the essay at all - that's an investment most of my students said they thought paid off.
ScreenCastle | One Click Screencasting
Looks like a fairly simple way to make screen casts for training purposes.
Anecdote - Whitepapers - Building a collaborative workplace
A good article on collaboration. It is written for business world types, but the applications to organizations like the ELP are pretty easy to infer.
Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Collage
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The demands of digital literacy make clear that both research reports and stories represent important approaches to thinking and communicating; students need to be able to understand and use both forms. One of the more exciting pedagogical frontiers that awaits us is learning how to combine the two, blending the critical thinking of the former with the engagement of the latter.
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