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What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? – WSJ.com
How the Finnish schools teach
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ToonDoo – The Cartoon Strip Creator – Create, Publish, Share, Discuss!
Author: joanvinallcox
Joan Vinall-Cox, Ph.D. is a lifelong learner, retired communications professor, rabid reader and poet who has taught in both the college and university systems.
Her Ph.D., in 2004 was an Autoethnographic Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry focused on moving from technophobia to technophilia.
She is a widow from a happy marriage and a mother to a strong and kind daughter.
Her interests include Centering Prayer, Multiple Intelligences, Attention Deficit Disorder and its connection to creativity, Jung, Campbell’s Monomyth, and Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry
WebTools For Teachers 04/22/2008
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Learning what makes Facebook tick – Annotated
“What we learn here isn’t just relevant to Facebook. The psychology that drives Facebook relates to other online success stories, including those blockbusters yet to be invented.”
“There is something enduring about what we are studying,” he declares, “whereas if you are learning how to programme a Facebook application, that then could change in 30 days from now. In fact it probably will; so that knowledge breaks.”
WebTools For Teachers 04/20/2008
WebTools For Teachers 04/19/2008
WebTools For Teachers 04/18/2008
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ACM Ubiquity – Knowledge Mechanics and its Temporal Nature
the differences between explicit knowledge, which has been or can be articulated, codified and stored in certain media, and tacit knowledge (i.e. personal knowledge that is difficult to express and communicate).
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Keeping your Mac locked down: a Mac OS X security primer: Page 1
WebTools For Teachers 04/17/2008
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Using Twitter with classes
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Innovate: Game-Based Learning: A Different Perspective
Gamers will know they are learning, but the main purpose will be game completion. Such games cannot be shortened or sanitized for educational purposes; they must be challenging, fully engaging, commercial games with real entertainment value. Users, immersed in the process of learning and creating within a believable experience supported by real and user-generated content, will develop skills and knowledge for use in other arenas. The outcomes of playing the game will be achievement and peer kudos, but the process of playing will have done much more.
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Useful for Twitter, too
Web Use Research
If you have 2 or 3 minutes available, help out a researcher, Dan Zarrella, by answering his survey – http://www.polldaddy.com/survey.aspx?id=edd7004ad2c1de47 When he reports the results, I’ll link to them from this blog.
A small additional suggestion, the image above was created using Skitch – http://skitch.com/ . I really recommend it for ease of grabbing and sharing images.
WebTools For Teachers 04/16/2008
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YouTube – The Elements of Style by Maira Kalman
Gently beautiful & quirky
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21Classes – Free Classroom and Education Blogs – Home
“Customizable visibility and comment settings” Good feature for students, or anyone
WebTools For Teachers 04/15/2008
We Think – In the 21st Century
This is a great little video talking about our new communication tool, the web, and how it changing us. The video also demonstrates how using simplicity can really add to communication.
With thanks to Julie Lindsay who shared it on Twitter, and Charles Leadbeater who created it
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