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Beyond PowerPoint Videos
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- A number of “Beyond PowerPoint” videos are hosted in the Shambles Forest of Theme Blogs athttp://presentationskillsvideos.blogspot.com -
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- What is Pixton?Simply stated, Pixton is a social community where anyone can easily create, share, remix and publish their comic strip stories with people around the globe. If yo...
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Animoto: Learning Made Fun
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- Animoto is a slick new web app that takes your pictures, mashes it with audio, and creates a music video that can be exported to YouTube or embedded in a variety of...
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- MAW’S TOOLBOX. ) I’m working on another report that covers seven more places. You have to do a little more than push one or two buttons to use these sites, but it&...
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- (cc) Roger Jones For too long learners have been let down by the way they’ve been taught math. In fact, a lack of math proficiency remains one of the biggest single pr...
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"Jumpstart" LIVE Session 2 - Including Assignments
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- Slides – including assignments- for the second LIVE session of “Jumpstart Your Online Teaching Career,” held at 1pm PDT, July 9, on WiZiQ. The LAST 3 slides co...
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- Like it or not, certain ways of giving learners feedback HELP them learn.Certain other ways HINDER their learning.Will Thalheimer has just made available for free two reports on...
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"Jumpstart" LIVE Session 1 - Including Assignments
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- Slides – including assignments- for the first LIVE session of “Jumpstart Your Online Teaching Career,” held at 1pm PST, May 30, on WiZiQ. The LAST 2 slides ...
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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 gl...
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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, Chri...
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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 con...
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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 yo...
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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!Enjoy! * Delivr: “Digital postcards fo...
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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 ...
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Yahoo! Tools for Teachers
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- Yahoo! has a suite of services educators can use to support teaching and learning in the 21st century classroom.
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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 facult...
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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 access...
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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 ...
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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 middl...
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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 abilit...
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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...
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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 f...
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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 thi...
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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 oth...
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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 fo...
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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? ...
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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 “...
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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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- 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 homeschoo...
