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04 Dec 09

New Job Opportunities in the IT Sector

  • multilingual issues
  • incorporate the concept of a twenty four hour workday for businesses with offices on several continents.
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10 Nov 09

Education Week's Digital Directions: Tech Literacy Confusion

  • "What has struck me from the get-go, as a technology-literacy teacher, is it's so nebulous," says Carole L. Colburn, who teaches at Highlander Way Middle School in Howell, Mich. "There is no definition of what really makes a student technology-literate, or technologically literate."
01 Oct 09

Glogster™ EDU Launches EDU.Glogster.com to Take its Education Technology to the Next Level

  • Glogster is teaming with Voicethread in the coming months to allow that product to integrate seamlessly into an educational Glog.
27 Sep 09

Stilgherrian · Risk, Fear and Paranoia: Perspective, People!

  • three key pillars to mental health
  • One, you can’t control everything
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21 Sep 09

Top News - Schools get help in using Web 2.0 tools

  • He cautions administrators to remember that "just because you have a technology solution for blocking doesn't mean you need to use it. How many of you have driven backwards on the freeway? Society does not put up technical barriers to stop you from using the highway inappropriately; we have rules with appropriate enforcement to stop us--you don't need spikes to stop you from doing it!"
27 Aug 09

Math Activity | Perimeter | Fence it in

  • To begin, tell the students that
  • hey'll need to draw
15 Aug 09

WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL

    • Teaching to the test is NEVER a good thing! It implies that regurgitation of facts is enough to educate someone. - on 2009-08-15
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  • But if tests are well conceived to gauge student knowledge of important concepts in math, science and reading, then teaching to the test is a good thing.
14 Aug 09

Teaching as a Dynamic Activity: Concerning Online Education

  • conversations in these online classes were as deep as any seen in a f2f classroom. This was not only my take, but also the faculty's take after five years of teaching in this format.
  • If done well (and I tend to agree, this my example is far from typical), it can help bridge geographical gaps and at the same time maintain a high level of integrity.
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30 Jul 09

Good and Bad Procrastination

  • There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you
    do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing,
    (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That
    last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination.
20 Jul 09

Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal

  • maximized by the instructor
  • move students beyond social interaction to the kind of learning communities that are dynamic, rich, and very much reflective of the students who are participating.

Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal

  • while there were the usual challenges with new technology tools, such as orientation and lack of student confidence in their use, there was an increased challenge to actually "present" ideas publicly. While the technology proved incredibly useful in terms of hosting a variety of media resources and storing large amounts of information, the challenge was with the students becoming "learning community participants." That is, seeing their own ideas as valuable to the wider community and sharing those openly.

Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal

  • if educators only integrate the ability of students to connect and socialize, deeper points of learning will be missed. While good teaching and learning rests on effective relationships (Cummins, 2000), in an active learning community, those relationships should evolve into actual idea exchange and knowledge construction.
  • it does not necessarily lead to learning communities or the sharing of ideas. This must happen intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process.
17 Jul 09

Education will never be a trending topic - Teach42

  • As popular as Twitter is, as popular as Facebook is, they are both still used by only a fraction of educators, and within that fraction, they only reach the niche audience you have. I’m grateful to have a fairly large audience on Twitter, but even so that’s still less than 5,000 people, and of those I know a large number likely registered and never logged in again.

Webology: Editorial, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2008, Folksonomy- Folksonomies

  • Isabella Peters and Katrin Weller apply gardening as a metaphor to describe a method by which end users can manage folksonomies to assist them in improving the efficiency and relevance of their search efforts.
  • end users often have a collection of tagged items scattered across the different social applications to which they belong. Using the metaphor of a well-maintained garden that is cultivated, pruned, and weeded, Peters and Weller suggest that end users need a tool to help them collect and organize all these scattered tags in a centralized location.
16 Jul 09

Upgrading WordPress « WordPress Codex

  • Compare your existing file with the new installation file which is named wp-config-sample.php. Either transfer your settings to the sample-file and rename it to wp-config.php or copy the new statements from the sample file into your current file.
11 Jul 09

NZ Interface Magazine | Eight habits of highly effective 21st century teachers

  • must be able to adapt the curriculum and the requirements to teach to the curriculum in imaginative ways
  • When it all goes wrong in the middle of a class, when the technologies fail, the show must go on.
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08 Jul 09

On The Reason Why You May Only Get One Black Male Teacher Ever In Your Life (If At All)

  • view teaching as a second-class profession
    • The Black / Latino males respond more readily to me than they do to most of their other teachers.
    • The girls in my class are more willing to share their experiences with me and look to me to show them how a male should treat a woman
    • The people in my class may act like they hate me temporarily after I’ve scolded them about something, but they know I have their best interest at heart
    • They also ask me about what it was like when I was growing up, because they know my experiences mirror theirs.
    • Some of them have considered becoming teachers because of me.
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25 Jun 09

Seth's Blog: Learning from Singer

  • success today is no guarantee of success tomorrow.
  • The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.
20 Jun 09

Weblogg-ed » #IranElections: Why We All Need to be Editors Now

  • we can’t wait to begin to teach ourselves and our kids how to make sense of media that we ourselves have to edit. The complexities here are huge, in both an information and technological context. We’re reading and viewing content created by people whose identities and agendas are unkown to us.  While much of it is raw, we can’t know how much of it is made to look raw, how much of it has been edited, how much of it is true.
15 Jun 09

Debate confuses national curriculum with national standards - Eureka Street

  • What muddies the debate is that some of the commentators listed above use the word 'curriculum' and 'national curriculum' when in fact they mean standards of performance. Put simply, curriculum refers to content, and standards assessment refers to measurement.
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