David McGavock's List: teacher tools

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"About CK-12 Foundation\n\nTraditional textbooks are both expensive and rigid. FlexBooks conform to national and state textbook standards. They are free, easy to update and easy to customize. With FlexBooks, you can customize your textbooks to support your innovative work in the classroom. The CK-12 Foundation provides FlexBooks free to anyone who wants to use them."

"The Center for Next Generation of Teaching and Learning

is an initiative of UC Berkeley's School of Information. The Center's mission is to promote the development of emerging tools and methods that drive the next generation of teachers and learners toward student-centered education.

The Center serves as a focus point for research, development, and educational activities that span the academic and industry sides of education technology. We collaborate with institutions and campuses both public and private to bring together leaders to discuss issues, insights and expertise.

The work at the Center is divided primarily into three areas: learner engagement, online learning, and developing an information science approach to education."

"The Google Apps Marketplace offers products and services designed for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with Google Apps. Installable apps are easy to use because they include single sign-on, Google's universal navigation, and some even include features that integrate with your domain's data. "

"Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help."

"This wiki is intended to be a clearinghouse of applications, lessons and experiences using the iPad in the classroom. The intention is that all apps listed have been tested and recommended by teachers using them.
The Apps pages are generally created using google docs spreadsheets, feel free to update the wiki or the spreadsheets. (A link is provided on each page for the spreadsheets... at least the ones I've started working on...)
At this point, as a high school science teacher, most of the apps I've recommended and investigated are geared to this level. Some can be used at any level. I invite you to add pages dedicated to your areas of interest and expertise if they are not already listed here. I would love to see a section on Literature and Language and Elementary Skills added to the wiki along with additions to any of the currently developed spreadsheets. It would also be sweet to share specific lessons or ideas for applications and activities.
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Theories of Learning in Educational Psychology
John Seely Brown: Cognitive Apprenticeship

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Readeez are a new concept in educational video. They combine the written word with the spoken word in an original way called SyllableSync™ that gives kids the unique experience of being read to while reading for themselves.

Much more than cartoons, Readeez are health food for growing minds. Watch a few, then visit our Store, where instant downloads are available.

Helpful to provide an overview of some of Diigo's features.

Another good overview. Very long but covers Groups and group tagging.

Philosophy
To successfully function in school and beyond, children need to learn more than a set of facts and skills. They need to master a set of mental tools—tools of the mind.

The concept of "Tools of the Mind" comes from the work of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, He believed that just as physical tools extend our physical abilities, mental tools extend our mental abilities to enable us to solve problems and create solutions in the modern world"

Join me Wednesday, May 11th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Hugh McGuire, the founder of LibriVox.org, the terrific crowd-sourced audiobooks service. We'll talk Web 2.0, books, learning, and more in the context of thinking about education.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can:

Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,
Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer,
View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen,
Print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

"Keynote, etc. and various accessories) to improve reading
processes. Teachers meet on a monthly basis to exchange ideas and strategies. We started in 2006-07 by collecting data
about fluency rates - this has been very promising.
Click on Visitors to get an overview of the iRead program.

iRead is a group of teachers in Escondido Union School District dedicated to the idea that digital audio can be a powerful learning tool for all students. iRead will give you a chance to create meaningful,
curriculum-centered audio projects with your students. Teachers are using digital audio tools (iPods, mics, Garageband, iTunes, "

The Bretford PowerSync Case for iPod gives educational institutions, museums, and other organizations an ideal mechanism for distributing and updating information using the iPod touch, iPod nano and iPod classic. This innovative solution organizes, charges, and transports up to 20 iPod devices and keeps them all secure inside a portable hardshell case.

Secure, carry, charge, and sync up to 20 iPod devices at a time.
Each iPod is secured and protected in high-density padding.
LED indicators show the charging status of each iPod.
High-impact airport-ready protection
Works with Mac OS X and iTunes
Supports iPod touch, iPod nano, and iPod classic
Syncing is only supported using a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4.10 or higher.

ipod projects

In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file).

"Social Bookmarking in Plain English" - illustrated using Delicious but the examples apply to Diigo and Delicious.

"diigo help"

Welcome to the 21st Century! Can You Digg It?
While the goals have more or less stayed the same, the methods and technologies used for the Three R's, Reading, Writing & Research, have started to shift. The workshop/s associated with this website continue to give the website developers, the workshop facilitators, and the workshop participants the opportunities to explore how to best facilitate teaching research and writing in the 21st century.

Assumptions and Philosophies
Rhetorically Situated Research Projects
Scaffolded Research Projects
Creative Research Presentations
Technologies