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11 Dec 09

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10 Dec 09

The Extraordinaries

  • Christel House builds and operates learning centers for children in extreme poverty. Our holistic approach to poverty includes quality education, nutritious meals, regular healthcare, life skills training, character development, work
08 Dec 09

NECTFL: Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

  • Develop and sustain the
    �Urban� Initiative, providing professional development outreach to under-resourced
    and underserved urban schools.
  • Partner with local and state
    associations to design and implement NECTFL workshops in their areas
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NECTFL: Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

    • anticipate, explore, respond to, and advocate for constituent needs,
    • offer both established and innovative professional development in support of language teachers and learners, and
    • provide opportunities for collegial interchange on issues critical to the profession.
03 Dec 09

Diigo Blog » New! Highlighter Pen function

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      Along with the new V4 version release,  Diigo annotation features went through another round of new enhancements.  Here is another cool new feature called “Highlighter Pen”


      If you like to highlight several paragraphs on a page quickly, besides the usual highlight feature, another way to highlight with Diigo is to turn your mouse into a highlighter pen (very cool when you demo this):

      1. You will visually see your mouse becoming a “highlighter pen”.  Use the pen to mark up area(s) that you’d like to highlight on a webpage.
      2. When you are all done with highlighting on a page, make sure to click Highlight button again to disable the highlighter pen action


30 Oct 09

My Languages: Skype Interview : Social Bookmarking

  • Does socialbookmarking help you in your daily practice ?
  • What is a digital resource for you ? What is a good resource?
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20 Oct 09

Famous Quotes: Educational Quotes for the 21st Century

  • 'Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each others errors….Only a sailor can set them straight'. John Ralston Saul, 'Voltaire's Bastards'.
  • ' The biggest thing about being someone is imajunation. Before you can be something, you must imajun it.' Fifth Grader quoted by S Papert
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09 Oct 09

2¢ Worth » Search Results » Google pocket

  • what’s wrong with “Building data systems that measure student success and inform teachers and principals..” and wrong with so much of the prevailing conversations about education reform, is that it’s about empowering teaching and schooling.  It’s designed to help us do our jobs better as educators — when we need to be figuring out how to empower our students to do their jobs better as learners.
03 Oct 09

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

  • The most profound impact of the Internet, an impact that has yet to be fully realized, is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning. What do we mean by “social learning”? Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept is to note that social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning.5
  • The openness of Wikipedia is instructive in another way: by clicking on tabs that appear on every page, a user can easily review the history of any article as well as contributors’ ongoing discussion of and sometimes fierce debates around its content, which offer useful insights into the practices and standards of the community that is responsible for creating that entry in Wikipedia. (In some cases, Wikipedia articles start with initial contributions by passionate amateurs, followed by contributions from professional scholars/researchers who weigh in on the “final” versions. Here is where the contested part of the material becomes most usefully evident.) In this open environment, both the content and the process by which it is created are equally visible, thereby enabling a new kind of critical reading—almost a new form of literacy—that invites the reader to join in the consideration of what information is reliable and/or important.
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30 Sep 09

UN announces launch of world’s first tuition-free, online university

  • materials, e-learning methods and peer-to-peer teaching.



    Admission opened just over two weeks ago and without any promotion some 200 students from 52 countries ha

23 Sep 09

Individualized Assessment on an iPod Touch Using Google Docs – via gWhiz MLA » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  • As I mentioned previously, I think one of the best ways to use mobile assessment options like this is for STUDENTS to create and share assessments which are tied to curriculum and standards.
14 Sep 09

Lecture Capture: No Longer Optional? -- Campus Technology

  • More than 50 percent of the students surveyed said they want course material to be avaalble to them even after the complete a course. According to the report, "They expressed interest in accessing online material in their professional lives, after their coursework is complete."
13 Sep 09

Top News - Cell-phone college classes face hurdles

  • n what is becoming a growing trend, campus technology officials expect most college course material soon will be accessible on mobile devices
  • Larry Johnson, CEO of the nonprofit New Media Consortium, an organization that tracks the use and development of education technology, said higher-education officials shouldn't focus on making classes accessible on every kind of smart phone, but instead use internet-enabled phones to enrich the lecture hall experience.
29 Aug 09

Author's Note - John Taylor Gatto

The Rockefeller Foundation has been instrumental through the century just passed (along with a few others) in giving us the schools we have. It imported the German research model into college life, elevated service to business and government as the goal of higher education, not teaching.

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  • The Rockefeller Foundation has been instrumental through the century just passed (along with a few others) in giving us the schools we have. It imported the German research model into college life, elevated service to business and government as the goal of higher education, not teaching.
  • Despite its title, Underground History isn’t a history proper, but a collection of materials toward a history, embedded in a personal essay analyzing why mass compulsion schooling is unreformable.

Putting Pedagogy To The Question - John Taylor Gatto

What I’m most determined to do is start a conversation among those who’ve been silent up until now, and that includes schoolteachers. We need to put sterile discussions of grading and testing, discipline, curriculum, multiculturalism and tracking aside as distractions, as mere symptoms of something larger, darker, and more intransigent than any problem a problem-solver could tackle next week. Talking endlessly about such things encourages the bureaucratic tactic of talking around the vital, messy stuff. In partial compensation for your effort, I promise you’ll discover what’s in the mind of a man who spent his life in a room with children.

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  • What I’m most determined to do is start a conversation among those who’ve been silent up until now, and that includes schoolteachers. We need to put sterile discussions of grading and testing, discipline, curriculum, multiculturalism and tracking aside as distractions, as mere symptoms of something larger, darker, and more intransigent than any problem a problem-solver could tackle next week. Talking endlessly about such things encourages the bureaucratic tactic of talking around the vital, messy stuff. In partial compensation for your effort, I promise you’ll discover what’s in the mind of a man who spent his life in a room with children.
11 Aug 09

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Page 4 | Fast Company

  • For every 80 students, a PhD faculty member, certified in the discipline, serves as a full-time mentor. "Our faculty are there to guide, direct, counsel, coach, encourage, motivate, keep on track, and that's their whole job," Mendenhall says. Multiple-choice tests are scored by computer, while essays and in-person evaluations are judged by a separate cadre of graders. What WGU is doing is using the Internet to disaggregate the various functions of teaching: the "sage on the stage" conveyor of information, the cheerleader and helpmate, and the evaluator. WGU constantly surveys both graduates and their employers to find out if they are lacking in any competencies so they can continue to fine-tune their programs.
  • "Technology has changed the productivity equation of every industry except education," he says. "We're simply trying to demonstrate that it can do it in education -- if you change the way you do education as opposed to just adding technology on top."
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How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Page 2 | Fast Company

  • Today, "open content" is the biggest front of innovation in higher education. The movement that started at MIT has spread to more than 200 institutions in 32 countries that have posted courses online at the OpenCourseWare Consortium. But, as Wiley points out, there's still a big gap between viewing such resources as a homework aid and building a recognized, accredited degree out of a bunch of podcasts and YouTube videos. "Why is it that my kid can't take robotics at Carnegie Mellon, linear algebra at MIT, law at Stanford? And why can't we put 130 of those together and make it a degree?" Wiley asks. "There are all these kinds of innovations waiting to happen. A sufficient infrastructure of freely available content is step one in a much longer endgame that transforms everything we know about higher education."
  • free, not-for-profit, online public charter high school that draws on open courseware, letting Utah students complete their degree from home. He is "chief openness officer" at a for-profit startup, Flat World Knowledge, that commissions professors to write open-source textbooks that are free online, $19.95 for a download, or $29.95 for a print-on-demand copy. (Flat World closed $8 million in VC funding earlier this spring.) He has also offered five of his courses to anyone on the Web for free; he donates his own time to review nonenrolled students' work, awarding a signed certificate in lieu of course credit. Wiley's most recent open course was formatted as an online role-playing game, with students divided into "guilds" completing "quests" -- a learning community inspired by the world of online gamers. "If you didn't need human interaction and someone to answer your questions, then the library would never have evolved into the university," Wiley says. "We all realize that content is just the first step."
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03 Aug 09

Conversación: Discusión del Video con Natalia de Argentina « Spanish Connects Us

  • This was a very interesting conversation because this was a topic that is something every real to me.  This is a topic I talk about often because I have taken part in pageants since I was ten years old. 
  • Something that I learned from this discussion was that it is a lot harder to discuss something when you do not know all of the vocabulary that I should have known.  I was able to get my point across even though it took me a little while. 
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Mi conversación con Eduardo de Andalucia, España. « Spanish Connects Us

  • He asked me if I like McDonalds, which was a little surprising because I didn’t know that was popular in Spain as well.
  • I sort of already knew that computer science can be used anywhere in the world, but to hear it coming from an actual spanish-speaking native was a great experience.
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