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Press release about Skype in the classroom
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Skype in the classroom strives to enrich students' learning experiences to discover new cultures, languages and ideas without leaving the classroom.
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Skype in the classroom strives to enrich students' learning experiences to discover new cultures, languages and ideas without leaving the classroom. Skype in the classroom now features each individual organization's dynamic content, projects and available guest speakers
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"Introduction to and directions for using Google Drive and Google Documents" (deck, 2012.05.08)
in list: Educational Technology
Yesterday I sat down and built a new guide, Google Documents for "Teachers. The 40 page guide (embedded below) is designed to help teachers who have never used Google Documents" (Richard Byrne, 2012.04.09, ¶1).
in list: Teacher Education
"MoodleReader allows students to prove that they have done their reading via a short quiz of 10 randomized questions. If they pass the quiz, they are rewarded with the book cover added to their stamp collection on their MoodleReader page" (¶4, 2012.03.30).
in list: Educational Technology
"a summary of the new features, followed by instructions on how to upgrade" if you've already installed a Google script in your spreadsheet
in list: Educational Technology
"The F-Layout relies upon various eyetracking studies for it’s foundational concept. These scientific studies show that web surfers read the screen in an 'F' pattern" (Introducing the F-Layout, ¶1).
in list: Digital Storytelling
“'The latest trends and ideas for the classroom' curated by Carla Arena" (Scoop.it! deck, 2012.03.07)
in list: Educational Technology
On this site, the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub (University of California Humanities Research Institute) "aggregate[s] news, research, opinion and info for those working at the intersection of learning, technology, and youth" (2012.03.07).
in list: Educational Technology
Dr. Marina Kostina suggested, "Digital worlds offer great opportunities for development of more sophisticated measures of assessment of learner’s knowledge and skills," and pointed out a suite of assessment rubrics that she'd found on "a professional development page of the website of the University of Wisconsin-Stout" (2012.01.25).
in list: Educational Measurement
"What you do before you start blogging is arguably the most important time of all" (¶3)..
in list: Educational Technology
BestBloggingTips shows and tells how to start screen-sharing in a Google+ Hangout. She warns that everyone present can see your Gmail address, if you share Google stuff directly, and notes that sharing screens in Hangouts are small.
in list: Tech. Tools
"Here are Kemple's tips-including how to stabilize your shooting, optimizing for iOS5 features, apps for extreme environments, tethering to send dispatches, and dealing with low light-so we all can shoot more like the pros. Just don't forget to put your iPhone in airplane mode. -Mary Anne Potts" (¶ 4, retrieved 2012.01.19)
in list: Photography, Digital Storytelling
Lists links to, and capsule summaries of, articles about features and ideas for educational uses of Google+
in list: Educational Technology
Background and rationales for page design optimization based on usage data
in list: Tech. Tools
In this post, PikiFriends suggest: "Schools have always had the responsibility of keeping learners safe. While the current surge of interest in elearning has presented new challenges to these responsibilities, being vigilant and following these safety guidelines can help ensure that all participants are safer and more aware of the various risks" (Conclusion, ¶1, 2011.12.12).
This post provides Website Safety Guidelines, and lists:
+ important questions for teachers and learners to ask,
+ anti-surveillance plugins for Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers; &
+ news articles about Internet surveillance "in no particular order" (Press articles on internet surveillance issues, ¶1, 2011.12.12).
in list: Educational Technology
"Lindsey Wright is a keen linguist and she is fascinated with the potential of emerging educational technologies.... In this guest blog post, she considers the advantages and possible barriers to studying languages online.
in list: Educational Technology
Tutors' handbook pointed out by Nellie in a Moodle for Teachers Orientation course (M4T-O, September 2011)
in list: Educational Technology
"Usability.gov is a one-stop source for government web designers to learn how to make websites more usable, useful, and accessible. The site addresses a broad range of factors that go into web design and development" (Enhancing the User Experience, ¶1, retrieved 2011.09.09
in list: Design Principles
This tutorial by Zachary Zawarski explains "how to create a map with custom locations that you can publish on your website" (¶1). "The greatest benefit of this tool is that current entries can be edited and new entries can be added to the map through the Google spreadsheet without having to update the map's code..." (¶2, retrieved 2011.09.07).
Thanks to Denise Krebs for pointing it out, and demonstrating how to do it in a recorded RSCON3 session (<a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2011-07-30.0552.M.C09DE08BD86ECD199BF5498E577694.vcr&sid=2008350">Elluminate recording</a> entitled: Where in the world? Or, adding a directory map using a spreadsheet to your wiki.
For more info., please see her blog posts:
http://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/2011/07/28/posting-a-directory-map-at-rscon3/
http://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/2011/08/06/mapping-our-connections-my-rscon3-session/
in list: Educational Technology, Tech. Tools
Richard Byrne's Favorite Tech Resources for Teachers (Google Site, sitemap)
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