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EdTechTeacher blog 11/07/2009

• Millennials May Be More Private Than You Think « The Perennial Millennial

  "I hear from people all the time that Millennials are soooo open about their lives. After all, we blog, we tweet and we update our Facebook statuses allowing all of our friends to read all sorts of things about our personal lives. So I was a little surprised when I saw this article by Heather West in Wireds Geek Dad Blog about online privacy being a generational issue. The study she highlighted, performed by the Pew Internet and American Life project, said that 60 percent of adults and 66 percent of teens restrict access to their social network profile information. That means that the majority of people on social networks are in some way or another protecting what everyone can see."

  tags: millennials, pew, socialnetwork, report

• edSocialMedia: The Internet Does Not Cause Isolation | Facebook

  According to the Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey social media activities are associated with several beneficial social activities, including having discussion networks that are more likely to contain people from different backgrounds.

  As well the survey found that Internet access has become a common component of people’s experiences within many public spaces. For instance, of those Americans who have been in a library within the past month, 38% logged on to the Internet while they were there, 18% have done so in a café or coffee shop.

  tags: internet, edsocialmedia, socialnetwork, social media, pew

• 90 percent of parents choose their kids' colleges on the web

  Nearly all parents (90 percent) researching colleges and universities for their kids are turning to the web for information, according to a recent survey from a number of market research groups.

  tags: research, college, admissions, report

• edSocialMedia | Facebook

  edSocialMedia.com is an online magazine/blog that explores the role of social media in education. edSocialMedia.com focuses in particular on the use of social media in academics, marketing and outreach in independent schools and colleges.

  tags: facebook, edsocialmedia, social media, socialnetwork

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EdTechTeacher blog 11/05/2009

• Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech -- Campus Technology

  No big surprise here: "While students and faculty seem to agree on the importance of technology in education, the two groups do not agree on how well it's being implemented. According to new research released Monday, only 38 percent of students indicated that their instructors "understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes." Students also rated that lack of understanding as "the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration."

  tags: technology, edtech, study, report, unimpressed

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EdTechTeacher blog 11/04/2009

• How to Choose Effective Website Photos and Images. Part 1

  How to Choose Effective Website Photos and Images. Part 1

  tags: webdesign, Images, photos, howto

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EdTechTeacher blog 11/03/2009

• Ewan McIntosh blog

  Ewan McIntosh is Digital Commissioner for Channel 4 Television's Innovation for the Public Fund (4iP).

  tags: blog, edublogs, mcintosh

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EdTechTeacher blog 11/02/2009

• 15 Free Guides That Really Teach You USEFUL Stuff

  15 Free Guides That Really Teach You USEFUL Stuff - free, downloadable guides to Mac, Twitter, internet Audio, Linux, Photoshop, iTunes, Laptops, and more

  tags: tutorials, guides, mac, audio, itunes, photoshop, manuals

• studygrounds / Student Showcase

  Student Showcase - student video from HS language arts project

  tags: studygrounds, video, english, language arts

• Shakespeare's Words

  The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

  tags: shakespeare, literature, english, language arts, ncsshistory, resources

• Maths Maps – A New Collaborative Project | edte.ch

  Maths Maps – A New Collaborative Project using Google Maps

  tags: math, google maps

• 100 Featured Learning Professionals Online

  In September 2008 Jane Hart created a list of 100+ learning professionals to follow on Twitter. This grew into the Twitter Directory (now renamed Connexions: Directory of Learning Professionals Online). This selection of 100 learning professionals will provide you with information on a range of educational and workplace learning topics from around the world - via their blog, on Twitter or on other social networks. Listed in alphabetical order by surname together with their Top 10 Tools for Learning (where contributed).

  tags: twitter, professionals, elearning, education

• 10 Tips for Capturing e-Learning Audio | The Little Rock 10

  The goal of this article is to provide you information on how to get the audio in a format suitable for an e-learning course-authoring tool. The article will focus on capturing and editing audio at the basic level.

  tags: elearning, capturing, audio, recording, podcasting

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

  The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.

  tags: google, wave, googlewave, howto, collaboration

• Google Social Search Goes Live

  Social search, demoed at the Web 2.0 Summit by Google’s VP of Search Marissa Mayer, combines results from your friend’s blogs, FlickrFlickrFlickr, TwitterTwitterTwitter, FriendFeedFriendFeedFriendFeed, and a wide variety of other social media sites (so long as your friends have connected their social accounts to their GoogleGoogleGoogle profiles) with Google’s regular search results.

  tags: google, social, search, search engine, mashable

• Web Strategy: Getting Google Scholar Alerts

  It appears that Google Scholar is not yet part of the Google Alerts application. However, you can create your own alert using two free, simple to use online tools.

  tags: google scholar, alerts, ncsshistory, web2.0

• eLearning Art - royalty free stock photos, images, templates, character packs, and lessons

  Provide the tools you need to rapidly develop engaging e-learning courses. Providing e-Learning assets, lessons, and access to services.

  tags: elearning, Images

• Web 2.0 in the Classroom Prezi

  Prezi presentation on Web 2.0 possibilities

  tags: prezi, presentation, web 2.0, classroom

• The Young and The Digital

  A number of organizations have made studying and understanding young people’s engagement with digital media a full time endeavor. One outfit studying young people’s use of digital media is Ypulse, a youth insights group operating in San Francisco and New York. In this interview Ypulse discusses, among other things, how youth culture and lifestyles have changed; the evolving role of games in our lives; a wired classroom for third graders; and kids, social media, and privacy.

  tags: youth, digital natives, digital, media, studies, ncsshistory, web2.0

• Chirbit | Share audio easily | micro podcast | audio nuggets

  Chirbit is a free online tool for audio sharing. Chirbit enables users to record, upload, listen to and share sound bites easily.

  tags: chirbit, audio, recording, podcasting, voip

• The Human Connection | parentella

  Dave Sherman is principal at South Park Elementary School, in Deerfield, IL, which is a suburb north of Chicago. This is his 5th year at South Park and his 14th year as a principal. Mr. Sherman has a blog called "The Principal and Interest" that shares some of his opinions on being a good educator. In this interview, we are discussing and elaborating on several of the pieces he posted on his site.

  tags: parentella, school, principal, administration

• Unique Notions: The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your cla

  Multiple Intelligence Inventory Test -- It will help you know which technological tools each of them can benefit from the most, as well as give you ideas about different activities you should incorporate into your curriculum to reach ALL of your students. Below are a few tools that may help you to deliver content to each of these types of learners.

  tags: multiple intelligences, differentiated instruction, ncsshistory

• A Conversation on Teaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom - NurtureShock Blog - Newsweek.com

  Debate with Po Bonson and Ashley Merryman

  tags: nurtureshock, emotional Inteligence, EQ

• 2 brothers, 15 days: Can they change their lives? | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star

  2 brothers, 15 days: Can they change their lives? Challenge of keeping two brothers from dropping out of of high school.

  tags: indystar, high school, dropouts

• Google For Educators - Web Search

  The Google Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.

  tags: google, search, lessons

• eLearn: Best Practices - 10 Things I've Learned About Teaching Online

  10 Things I've Learned About Teaching Online By Michelle Everson, University of Minnesota

  1. Teaching online is a lot of work...

  tags: elearning, virtualclassroom, virtual learning, tips

• Features : Google Fast Flip - Google News Help

  Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.

  tags: Google, flip

• USC - Center for Cognitive Technology

  Publications and manuscripts

  tags: cognitive, brain research, usc

• CIPD - E-learning: progress and prospects

  E-learning: progress and prospects from cipd

  tags: cipd, e-learning

• Whole Brain Teaching

  Whole Brain Teaching: basics, videos, resources, etc.

  tags: wholebrainteaching, brain, education

• Web 2.0 Tools & Resources

  tags: web 2.0, tools

• Online Textbooks Increasingly Popular Among Students and Teachers - ABC News

  Digital Textbooks, Online Learning Increasingly Popular
  Lugging Around a Backpack Full of Books May Soon Become a Thing of the Past

  tags: digital, textbooks

• iPods, Laptops Replacing School Textbooks - ABC News

  Schools Dump Textbooks for iPods, Laptops
  Teachers Say Students Learn Better From the Devices, Even Eultitasking

  tags: textbooks, ipods, laptops, ncsshistory

• 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom | Online College Tips - Online Colleges

  100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom

  tags: facebook, Web2.0, teaching, online social networks

• Review backs later formal lessons -- BBC

  Children should not start formal learning until they are six, a review of primary education in England says.

  tags: bbc, education, research

• Recommended Link from Russel Tarr at www.activehistory.co.uk

  So you want to study history?! OK, here's how! Writing, Research, Resources, Links, etc.

  tags: activehistory, History, howto, resources

• 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines | Smashing Magazine

  Many studies have been done over the years on various aspects of Web and interface design, and the findings are valuable in helping us improve our work. Here are 10 useful usability findings and guidelines that may help you improve the user experience on your websites.
  

  tags: webdesign, usability

• 4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web

  4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web

  tags: emerging, trends, web, mashable

• » Search – The Essential 21st Century Skill TYS Tech Sessions

  Search – The Essential 21st Century Skill

  tags: tys, digital literacy, searching

• The math education revolution - SmartPlanet

  The math education revolution

  tags: smartplanet, math

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EdTechTeacher blog 11/01/2009

• ICTlogy » Towards a comprehensive definition of digital skills

  Towards a comprehensive definition of digital skills By Ismael Peña-López

  tags: digital literacy, skills, literacy

• 7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave | EDUCAUSE

  7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave -- PDF

  Google Wave is a web-based application that represents a rethinking of electronic communication. Users create online spaces called “waves,” which include multiple discrete messages and components that constitute a running, conversational document. Users access waves through the web, resulting in a model of communication in which rather than sending separate copies of multiple messages to different people, the content resides in a single space.

  tags: Wave, Google, googlewave, educause, ncsshistory

• Hoagies' Kids & Teens: Young Kids

  Links for Young Gifted Kids from Hoagie's Gifted Children website

  tags: hoagies, giftedchildren, resources

• Digitally Speaking / Wikis

  Wikis in the Classroom - overview, examples, how-to

  tags: wikis, tutorial, classroom

• speech accent archive

  Each individual sample page contains a sound control bar, a set of the answers to 7 demographic questions, a phonetic transcription of the sample,1 a set of the speaker's phonological generalizations, a link to a map showing the speaker's place of birth, and a link to the Ethnologue language database.

  The archive also contains a set of native language phonetic inventories so that you can perform some contrastive analyses.

  tags: accent, speech, foreign, language

• Elluminate

  Elluminate first time users video tutorial

  tags: elluminate, videotutorial

• 7 Essential multimedia tools and their free alternatives :: 10,000 Words

  Why spend money on expensive multimedia tools when you can use comparable alternatives for free? They may not be an exact replacement, but how can you argue with the price?

  tags: freeware, web2.0, tools

• Facebook privacy: a guide - Ars Technica

  Ars guides you through Facebook's privacy settings "so that you can be both social and respectable at the same time."

  tags: facebook, privacy, ars, howto, web2.0

• 10 Tips for Being a Great Guest on Radio or Podcasts

  10 Tips for Being a Great Guest on Radio or Podcasts from host of Internet radio show.

  tags: podcasting, innovation, tips

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Why Web 2.0 Teaching is Hard

  Why Web 2.0 Teaching is Hard by Vicki Davis. "You have to put people in the best place that suits the team and not necessarily the person. It is a much more complex task than just managing yourself."
  

  tags: web2.0, teaching, davis, coolcatteacher

• ABC Fast Phonics with cartoons and sound

  These lessons can be heard by clicking on the speakers and highlighted words. Included are the names of alphabet letters, consonants, vowels and vowel rules, letter blends and common words, along with many pictures

  tags: phonics, language

• 8 Innovative Schools Provide Ideas and Inspiration for 21st Century Education

  Under the leadership of Bruce Lai, Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief Information Officer at New York City Department of Education eight NYC DOE schools have been identified as those providing students with an education that looks different from that of their parents and grandparents. These are schools that are making progress along the continuum of 21st century success. . . by Lisa Nielsen

  tags: schools, reform, 21stcenturyschools, 21stcenturylearning

• How schools get it wrong - thestar.com

  How schools get it wrong: We've made quantum leaps in understanding children's developing brains. So why are classrooms still organized like last century's assembly lines?

  tags: schools, reform, thestar

• SOB A-Z Directory | Liz Strauss at Successful Blog

  Liz Strauss's list of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers (SOB)

  tags: blogs, blogosphere, strauss

• Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices

  Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 is a video library illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies for teaching foreign languages. The language classrooms shown in this library include Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Chinese. All classroom videos are subtitled in English and are appropriate for K–12 teachers of any foreign language.

  tags: foreign, languages, k-12

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EdTechTeacher blog 10/08/2009

• British Academy | PORTAL - Classical Antiquity

  Classical Antiquity - extended list of links to Classical online resources.

  tags: antiquity, greco-roman, greek, roman, classical, links, ncsshistory

• Recommendation 6 | The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy

  Recommendation: Integrate digital and media literacy as critical elements of education at all levels through collaboration among federal, state, and local education officials.

  tags: knight, digital literacy, medialiteracy, ncsshistory

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EdTechTeacher blog 10/07/2009

• FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools | SAP Web 2.0

  "A beta version of PowerPoint Twitter Tools is now available for testing. Based on SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius technology, the twitter tools allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page. There are currently three tools:

  * PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar
  * PowerPoint Twitter feedback slide
  * PowerPoint Twitter voting

  You can download a PowerPoint presentation containing the tools and instructions at the bottom of this page. Please note that these are prototypes that you use at your own risk."

  tags: twitter, powerpoint, tools

• copyrightfriendly - home

  Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!)
  for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.

  tags: copyright, photos, clipart, publicdomain

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EdTechTeacher blog 10/04/2009

• Early Humans Social Studies

  Extensive list of link to websites on Archaeology and the Study of Early Humans from a school library in British Columbia.

  tags: prehistory, stoneage, iceage, humanorigins

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EdTechTeacher blog 10/03/2009

• EDSITEment - Lesson Plan

  Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures

  Lesson plan based on cave art at Lascaux, Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, and Cosquer caves.

  tags: edsitement, prehistory, art, cave art, early man

• Before Lucy came Ardi, new earliest hominid found - Yahoo! News

  "The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor."

  tags: evolution, lucy, ardi, prehistory

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