Aug
13
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Aug
12
The Ultimate list of for eLearning / Instructional Design
Christopher Pappas lists websites that offer photos and pictures for instructional design and eLearning.
Aug
12
One Month From Today:
Mobile devices can transform education–if you can manage them effectively. Join Darryl LaGace of San Diego Unified, home of a large-scale iPad 1:1 deployment, for tips, tricks and best practices integral to making a mobile learning program safe and manageable. You’ll also hear about why mobile learning is an important consideration for schools; the challenges that make MDM different for schools than businesses; and solutions designed just for K12. Learn from a real-world story, see exciting new solutions, ask your questions, and join a discussion that everyone in education is asking: How can we make mobile learning really work in our district?
Mobile Device Management: Sanity and Success with an iPad 1:1
Presenter: Darryl LaGace, Chief Information and Technology Officer, San Diego Unified School District, San Diego, California
Aug
11
A recently released study has found that children who were rated high on attention span and persistence at age 4 were more likely to graduate from college than their less attentive peers. Researchers at Oregon State University, who assessed 430 students at ages 4, 7 and 21, determined that the most accurate predictor of a future college career wasn’t a student’s math or reading skills but the ability to pay attention and complete tasks as a preschooler, says Megan McClelland, lead author of the study that was published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Education Week/Early Years blog (August 7)
Click here to read more.
Aug
11
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Aug
11
BFF is an acronym for “Best Friend Forever.” These websites and tips are so good that they will become your technology BFFs!
One of “Big 4 Tenets of the 4OOPS” landscape is “Resist Recreating the Wheel”
Take a look at the searchable space called Glogopedia-the best of Glogs
Glogster EDU is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. We empower educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS – online multimedia posters – with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more.
Source: Glogster EDU website
Why not spend a little bit of Saturday clicking, learning, saving, and creating?
Aug
10
And now for something truly out of Sci-Fi archives: Check out some of the work that the Digital Lab at Warwick have done on virtual surgery https://digital.warwick.ac.uk/Informatics-and-Virtual-Reality/computer-assisted-virtual-surgery-simulation.html
Aug
10
What are the “complex texts” mentioned in the Common Core?
In the School Library Journal/The Digital Shift blog Library Counselor Christopher Harris shares three tips for finding those texts quickly, including starting with known sources, rather than with a general search, and exploring online course materials to see what resources experts are using.
Especially important is Harris’ suggestion to begin with known sources. Too many times, students (and educators) begin with a Google search and are immediately overwhelmed by the vast number of items returned from their search. They often are also sent in red herring type directions that distill emphasis away from the topic. Targetted searching, beginning with trusted sources and academic content is the most scholarly approach. This approach also meets the Common Core emphasis on close reading of texts. In my work with teachers, close reading of texts has created the most confusion and questions of how to implement.
Equally important for students is a research process I encourage called 4-to-1. Breaking this down, for every four digital sources a student cites, a corresponding one hardcopy book, magazine, newspaper source needs to be researched and included. Of course, the numbers themselves are arbitrary; it is the process of including multiple sources in research that is necessary.
Harris encourages other librarians to enrich others by sharing their tips. What would you include>
Please visit the School Library Journal/The Digital Shift blog
Aug
9
I wrote an earlier post on my daughter’s first poetry unit featuring the Josie’s Poems.
As a mom/internet concierge, I also found a great poetry idea on the Scholastic blog called spine poetry.
Simply scan your entire book collection and choose and lay books on their sides and stack them so the titles can become words or lines in a collective poem.
I love this idea because:
1.) it requires very little advanced planning time for a busy teacher
2.) utilizes library resources (Go Libraries! Go Libraries!)
3.) transfers well with online resources
There are wonderful examples by Megan on the Scholastic website.
Here is one I “composed”
Happiness Is
Eternal Echoes
Forward From Here
On the blue shore of silence
The band that played onEmily and Einstein
Look Homeward, Angel
Ways to differentiate the Spine Poetry assignment can include:
1. changing the number of books in the spine poetry, either decreasing or increasing depending on ability.
2. let students use connecting words {on, in, the, and, etc…} in {brackets}
3. take digital pictures of the final spine poetry sculptures using digital cameras or iPhones
4. researching a “sound-bite biography” of the authors.
5. confining the spine poem to works of poetry only
6. include books with titles in different languages
7. accompany the poem with illustrations
Students can also go to online book collections or online libraries, snip the photos of book spines and stack using a photo image program or website such as Pic Monkey.
Aug
9
Take a listen at this week’s latest releases in books and DVD releases coming out today that you can look for at your local public libraries. Tremain Jackson tells you what titles to be on the lookout for so you can see about checking them out for yourselves as they’re sure to be popular with patrons.
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