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Voicethread
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- A picture is worth more than a thousands words when you combine words and sound. Photos are a wonderful way for people to connect. Adding voice, sound (music), and text to photos and images may be an even greater way to enhance the conne...
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Talking Photos
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- Listen to the Photo Talk Make online learning and instruction exciting by adding voice to your photos in a very simple way. Just upload the photos and record through Talking Photos. What a great way to communicate with others...
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- Over the past several weeks, I’ve been participating in a fascinating conversation about which works better for supporting cooperative learning, Wikis or NINGs?I checked with my colleagues in the Ning and they’re happy for me...
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- PLE (Personal Learning Environment) is a concept that has caught a lot of attention lately. Essentially a PLE is a collection of dynamically growing resources that are personal or relevant to an individual learner. Given the exponential...
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iPods
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- iPods in Education iPods may be an effective way to learn 24/7. The only requirement is the purchase of an iPod and podcasts to download from the Internet. &n...
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- Monday to Friday, from 7:30am to 3:30pm, Mark Cruthers teaches traditional high school students face-to-face in Pinion Hills, California. Then, after 4pm, Mark teaches homeschool students – online. Last year, he and his wife, Debor...
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Interesting Lessons
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- Why not spend less time learning in class and more online?
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- I’m having a provocative dialogue with a LearnHub colleague about what constitutes an online “lesson,” what constitutes a “discussion” or a “debate,” and how the three are different. Certainly th...
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- Listening to Mark Cruthers’ talk about his experience teaching AP History online to a group of homeschoolers, what comes up for you?(If you haven’t yet heard this interview, go HERE to listen.)The WizIQ free virtual classroom...
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Teaching Music Online
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- Can you teach music over the Internet? How? Can you teach with Youtube? Nirvana? Piczo? Audacity? Billboard? Newsfeeds? Can you teach in a way that is engaging for the learner? Find out how Learning music in an online environment What do...
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- “Virtually all learning difficulties that children face are caused by adults’ inability to set up reasonable environments for them. The biggest barrier to improving education for children, with or without computers, is the completely imp...
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- To be an active Voicethreader, start by carefully working your way through a presentation. While viewing pictures and listening to the comments that have been added by other users, you can: Gather Facts: Jot down thin...
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The Great Forgetting
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- READ THIS!The dawning of the Bad Memory Century will have vast consequences for the social fabric and the international balance of power.David Brooks often irritates me, but this piece in the NY Times today absolutely hits the nail on th...
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- I came across Dapper. This is a fantastic tool that allows you to take structured data on the web and aggregate and present it in the format that you want. So let us take this from the beginning. We have static ad-hoc web pages that have...
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- How Do We Promote Higher Level Thinking Today?It’s one thing for educators to teach to tests that offer learners certification that proves they’ve mastered key facts and concepts that panels of experts deem necessary for an &...
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Social Media: Yackpack
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- YackPack ( http://yackpack.com/ ) is helping educators realize the potential of Web 2.0 tools. The boundaries of the classroom are suddenly much wider when everyone can login wherever they have internet access. And with access 24/7 to th...
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- Over the last couple weeks Twitter, the popular micro-blogging application, has been popping up all over the web. In addition to a slew of news coverage, there has also been an explosion of new Twitter apps created by the developer commu...
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- The ManyVoices project, started by Washington D.C. Middle School teacher Mr. Mayo (http://mrmayo.org), is a collaborative story being written by 140 different middle school students across the globe using Twitter. This...
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Flickr in the K-12 Classroom
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- In the past, students would cut pictures out of National Geographic, Life and other magazines to illustrate reports. Now thanks to Flickr, students and teachers have the ability to search a vast and growing photo archive, using tags, or ...
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- Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) Open educational resources (OER) have received attention for their ability to serve as an equitable and accessible alternative to the rising costs and increased commercializ...
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- The OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement has helped some of the world’s best universities offer teaching, learning and research resources by publishing their faculty’s course materials online and making them available free of charge. Despit...
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- Here are some of the latest and greatest Flickr hacks created by members of the Flickr community for you to try in your classroom Delivr: “Digital postcards for the people by the people…just select an image from the mos...
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FlickrEDU: Flat Bobby
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- via Amber: “These are the adventures of Flat Bobby. Flat Bobby is a close cousin of Flat Stanley. Flat Bobby has been sent out to several people all around the world.If you would like to invite Flat Bobby into your home, please rea...
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OER Resource: LibriVox
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- The objective of the LibriVox project is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. LibriVox is a totally open source, free content, public domain project. Volunteers record chapters o...
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OER Resource: Storynory
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- Storynory is an innovative podcast site that features free children’s stories for your iPod. You can choose from a wide variety of stories including: Charles Dickens, Christmas stories, and even some modern stories! But whatR...
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- Michael Hodosh, aka Dr. Michael, is a 49-year-old clinical psychologist who is shifting his focus from face-to-face counseling to counseling online. He’s making a lot more money online in a lot less time. And he feels he is able to help ...
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- Spring, 2008: A recession looms large, credit continues to tighten, sales are dwindling, and energy costs are rising. If you’re not directly affected yet by these trends in the US economy, you are most certainly indirectly affected an...
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- If the whole idea of intellectual property and fair use makes your head hurt, join the club.It makes my head hurt, too. I want to get credit for the ideas I contribute to the global conversation and I know my friends want the same. I als...
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- What’s the difference between “regular” learning and “jumpstart” learning?For me, regular learning is starting at a chosen beginning and proceeding to an expected end while “jumpstarting” is star...
