Category: education
For Teachers to Pay Attention To
I have two questions related to this video:
- What do you think of the message?
- What do you think of how it’s presented?
WebTools For Teachers 09/20/2008
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Pageflakes – Mark’s The Topoi Flakes
A collection of videos showing how the writing process works, Check out the Student Conference. via AcademHack
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Working On Community Storytelling Projects « (the new) bgblogging
Great resources for the art and craft of telling stories
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Boolify Project: An Educational Boolean Search Tool
A fabulous visual tool to help people learn how Boolean searchering works, or just to use for searching! via Work Literacy – http://www.workliteracy.com/
WebTools For Teachers 09/19/2008
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Created for classes – the fun of Twitter, with the safety needed for students. Students and teachers can friend and follow each other’s brief (140 characters) posts online. via Stephen Downes
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Sakai Project : Home : Sakai CLE
An interesting alternative to expensive commercial LMSs – via Stephen Downes
WebTools For Teachers 09/16/2008
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Warning sounded on web’s future
“Talking to BBC News Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried about the way the web has been used to spread disinformation.
Sir Tim spoke prior to the unveiling of a Foundation he has co-created that aims to make the web truly worldwide.
It will also look at ways to help people decide if sites are trustworthy and reliable sources of information.” via Stephen Downes
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The Ontario Action Researcher – Reports and Documents
A clear description of how to ‘do’ action research in a scholarly manner. via Stephen Downes
WebTools For Teachers 09/14/2008
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25 free web tools that are useful for teachers and learners, on SlideShare. via E. Talbert on Twitter
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Table of Contents, Dictionary and Thesaurus in Google Docs
Google Docs gets more usable, and is still free! “[A]dd a table of contents in Google Docs … this feature is now available in the interface: Insert > Table of contents. To add a table of contents, your document needs to include headings from the Format menu.” via Stephen Downes
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For thse interested in learning theories –
Siemens provides a chart distinguishing Connectivism from other theories. – “how prominent learning theories differ from connectivism” via Stephen Downes
WebTools For Teachers 09/12/2008
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globeandmail.com: Where the browsers are going
The Browser Wars and Trends
“By launching a browser whose main purpose is to run Javascript easily and quickly, Google is hinting that the future of the Internet lies in computing “in the cloud” — at least as Google sees it. Then again, it can be argued that Chrome is being offered as the self-serving browser of choice for Google’s own web applications, such as Google Docs, Gmail, Google Sites and so on.”
WebTools For Teachers 09/10/2008
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Another interesting place to host files. Via Jane Hart
WebTools For Teachers 09/09/2008
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FileFactory – free file hosting
Free file hosting – useful for student assignments. Link to large files, and don’t overload blog or wiki storage. This one claims embedding possibilities.
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File crunch :: Free File Host – Upload, download, share and comment!
Free file hosting – useful for student assignments. Link to large files, and don’t overload blog or wiki storage.
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Making the Election Video: Behind the Scenes | Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English
“Every video starts with a script. If there is “secret sauce” it happens in writing the script because the script drives the video. We use Google Docs to collaborate until we feel like the script is close to finished. Then, we start looking at a thumbnail storyboard. “
WebTools For Teachers 09/06/2008
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I use sxipper on my laptop; it’s great. The only problem is when I use someone else’s computer, I sometimes can’t remember my user name and password.
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