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11 Nov 09

melaniemcbride.net » About

Melanie McBride is a Canadian educator, consultant and speaker specialising in web2.0 social and participatory media strategy for education and publishing.

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Twitter Handbook for Teachers

"Don't even think about evaluating the worth of Twitter until you are "following" at least 40-50 people. Twitter works because it invites diversity and traffic"

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27 Oct 09

100+ Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks | Teaching Tips

What would your classroom be like without your students cracking open their oversized textbooks everyday? Probably a lot more interesting, especially for the kiddies. There are so many other resources out there for teachers to use, online and off, that teaching without textbooks is becoming more and more acceptable. If you don’t believe us, scroll down this list of over 100 different resources — including websites, iPod lectures and field trips — that will encourage you to toss out your textbooks.

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16 Sep 09

Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation -- THE Journal

an interesting result with implications for schools was that "almost 60 percent of students who use social networking talk about education topics online and, surprisingly, more than 50 percent talk specifically about schoolwork"

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05 Sep 09

College for $99 a Month by Kevin Carey | Washington Monthly

The next generation of online education could be great for students—and catastrophic for universities.

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23 Jun 09

Higher Education Is Stuck in the Middle Ages -- Will Universities Adapt or Die Off in Our Digital World? | | AlterNet

The definition of a lecture has become the process in which the notes of the teacher go to the notes of the student without going through the brains of either.

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14 Jun 09

Sustainability, Media and Urban Schools - Practical Theory

Two of my personal goals for my own life is this -- I want to be a great father and I want to be a great husband. I want to be powerfully involved in my childrens' lives. I want to be the husband my wife deserves. If the only way I can be a great principal is to sacrifice those goals, then it's not interesting to me.

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12 Jun 09

:EdTech:NYSED: Office of Educational Technology Policy and Programs

The Office of Educational Technology Policy and Programs (ETPP) is charged with the development, implementation, and ongoing evaluation of the USNY Statewide Educational Technology Plan. It also coordinates State Education Department programs and initiatives to foster and implement educational technologies across learning environments statewid

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09 Jun 09

How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom

Teachers are always trying to combat student apathy and University of Texas at Dallas History Professor, Monica Rankin, has found an interesting way to do it using Twitter in the classroom.

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29 Apr 09

Teaching as transparent learning « Connectivism

"I’ve gained much from being a transparent learner. Over the last nine years - on blogs, wikis, and recently Twitter - I’ve expressed half-formed ideas and received the benefit of constructive (and critical feedback). I generally focus on what I’ve gained, but I suspect readers of my sites and articles have gained something from the experience as well. Putting ideas out for discussion contrasts with formal “reach a conclusion and publish” model."

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  • Social technology - such as Twitter, blogs, Facebook - opens the door to sharing the process of learning, not only the final product
  • Experts utilize pattern recognition in comparing new situations to previous experiences.
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This Is CRAP!!! | Sue Waters Blog

As an educator we all have sessions that we spend hours preparing for only to have it all not quite go as planned, and students saying loudly THIS IS CRAP!! in simple terms all our hard work turns to SHIT. We grin, clean ourselves up, bathes our wounds and say thank goodness that is over next time I will do it differently! And when it is just one class we cope.

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Reasons Why IT May Be Crap! | Sue Waters Blog

Today I want to examine the reasons why the students saying THIS IS CRAP might be right! And for those waiting patiently for me to actually provide examples of how Web 2.0 is used with students I promise those posts start from tomorrow!

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Rogers Adoption Innovation Curve

Roger's categories are:

* Innovators (2.5 %)
* Early Adopters (13.5 %)
* Early Majority (34 %)
* Late Majority (34 %)
* Laggards (16 %)

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07 Apr 09

Dangerously Irrelevant: Academics on Twitter

Scott Mcleod was interviewed for The Chronicle of Higher Education’s article on academics who Twitter. Here is his portion of the story

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30 Mar 09

Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter | Laura Walker

What’s the point of Twitter? Why should educators get involved? What difference does using Twitter make?

Here are some answers that you might like to share

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17 Mar 09

Moving from Delicious to Diigo

Diigo is more versatile. Using the Diigo toolbar, I can annotate Web pages that I visit. Finally, users can mark up the Web like they mark up other reading they do. Annotation allows me to comment on what I see, interact with other commenters, or simpl

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