Maggie Tsai's List: Elearning

• The C·R·E·A·T·E for Mississippi Web site has established a virtual community that provides participants with the opportunity to share ideas, resources, and best practices in technology, and to offer support to others as they embark on their technology journey.

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     Here, you’ll find a teacher’s guide to Google Tools for Your Classroom, as well as a number of additional tools. And to spark your imagination, you'll find examples of innovative ways that other educators are using these tools in the classroom.
  

• We've covered this topic extensively on Read/WriteWeb - and so we're pleased to bring you this overview of e-learning 2.0, including the leading web apps and sites in this niche, and predictions for its future.
• In August Steve O'Hear (now last100 editor) wrote an introduction to e-learning 2.0. He noted that teachers and students are embracing web technologies such as blogging and podcasting. Although not designed specifically for use in education, these tools are helping to make e-learning far more personal, social, and flexible.

• Being productive and getting things done both rely on planning and being organized. But with the hustle and bustle of courses, it's sometimes easy to forget what you have to do and when. So here are 25 Web 2.0 applications (mostly free) that should help you on your quest as a student or professor in being productive.

    

  The idea is that these applications will in some way increase productivity and/or reduce time taken for specific tasks. Thus, some companies are more heavily represented because their products are designed for productivity.
• Engrade is a suite of tools that acts as a gradebook for courses, as well as a communication vehic

• For the teachers throughout the Eden Prairie School district, a new year doesn’t just bring the same sets of books and worksheets. With the second year of the district’s Classrooms of the Future initiative, teachers will be seeing even more tools to help them in their lessons. Folks like Johnson work with the teachers to incorporate the new technology into their teaching.

• The chalkboard is dead: reseachers

   

  Professors say that anti-technology teachers are bad for tech-savvy students
• "It's not about using technology for technology's sake. It's allowing students to access the right information because of the information explosion,"

• Online Tool 'PrimaryAccess' Lets Youth Make Documentaries; Research Will Examine How Much New Technology Enhances Student Learning in Social Studies
• Middle and high school students are making their own short documentaries, thanks to the University of Virginia’s Curry Center for Technology and Teacher Education. Center co-director Glen Bull, professor of instructional technology, and research scientist Bill Ferster of the Curry School of Education have developed a Web-based application, PrimaryAccess, which allows teachers and students to tap into original materials archived on the Internet through institutions, such as the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
• PrimaryAccess offers teachers another tool to bring history alive
• PrimaryAccess, supported by a $154,000 grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. At least 20 teachers and up to 600 middle school students will take part in the study.
• We want to assess the affect of using multimedia to incorporate primary source documents into social studies teaching to see if it influences learning outcomes,” Bull said. The study will look at experimental and control groups in middle and secondary social studies classes
• Tools that allow students to learn visually as well as verbally can significantly enhance learning when coupled with appropriate pedagogy
• U.Va. center is working on to explore innovative digital technologies for K-12 education. Other projects target math, science and language arts. See the center’s Web site at http://www.teacherlink.org, or go to http://www.primaryaccess.org. At the PrimaryAccess Web site, click on “Make Movie”
   and log in as “Guest.” Follow the three steps from there.

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• Diigo: I LOVE Diigo. It's a browser add-on (Firefox and IE) that allows users to highlight text directly on a website, then add a sticky-note for comments, which can be published to a group. This would be an excellent way for students to share/discuss websites as they research. Highlighting text creates an archive on the Diigo site, essentially saving all the information (including a shot of the page) and comments in one place. From there students can add additional comments on all the pages, avoiding doing a WWW treasure hunt.

• CAST's Mission

  To expand learning opportunities for  all individuals, especially those with disabilities, through the research and development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies.

• Universal Design for Learning calls for ...

     
  •  Multiple means of representation, to give learners various ways of acquiring information   and knowledge,    
  • Multiple means of expression, to provide learners alternatives for demonstrating what they   know,    
  • Multiple means of engagement, to tap into learners' interests,   offer appropriate challenges, and increase motivation.

• Welcome to the Classroom 2.0 wiki! This site is devoted to building resources for the classroom use of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies. Hopefully, it provides you with a good overview of the technologies, some ideas for lesson plans, and then points you in the direction of more detailed resources.

• Web 2.0 for content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
• Web 2.0 will have profound implications for learners and teachers in  formal, informal, work-based and lifelong education. Web 2.0 will affect  how universities go about the business of education, from learning,  teaching and assessment, through contact with school communities, widening  participation, interfacing with industry, and maintaining contact with  alumni.

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