More applications to use with flickr
College Basketball Tournament Pick'em - Yahoo! Sports - Error
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/30/2009
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/27/2009
3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction -- Campus Technology
Wake Forest is espousing using wikis with their students. The article does a good job of describing the issues involved in using a wiki for instruction. What I really like about the article is that it is almost all about rigor, high expectations, and relevance. Gosh such problems to have to think about when designing work for students. Maybe more of us need to consider what this article is describing.
Interactive White Board Resources | Talking SMARTBoards & Much More!
Just another smartboard resource to explore when I get the chance.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/23/2009
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning - Emerging Technologies for Learning
A must read for anyone interested in technologies in education. Working my way through it. Maybe a bookstudy? Anyone interested?
boyd: Taking the Pulse of Social Networks - Microsoft Research
- I’ve been enamored with all forms of social media since I was a teenager. The whole reason I got into computers and went on to study computer science was that I was fascinated by the ability that computers had to connect people.
- I started visualizing large data sets of networks, but I was really interested in the people in those networks.
A new cosmos on the Web - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com
WorldWide Telescope is Microsoft's answer to Google Earth and Google Sky. It's pretty cool and does a lot of stuff that I don't understand but am sure someone interested in astronomy would love. I look at it and think about using the zooms of planets to have student calculate the size of some features knowing the scale. It's not utilizing the total power of the software, but it gets me in the door, makes it a cool activity for the students, and creates a little love to science in a math class. i can live with that!
A member of the Content Literacy Ning Sean Nash started this group to connect biology teachers from all over together. I love one of the premises of the group:"Step one in participation within The Synapse: read & explore. Step two: share. Be a resource. Help to create a synapse that communicates in both directions!"
More Smartboard resources for those interested in learning how to use their Smartboard more effectively.
New Learners? New Educators? New Skills? - Emerging Technologies for Learning - Annotated
StoryTop Story Maker -- The Online tool for storytelling
Another digital storytelling site. I've not gone through the process with this site, but sharing it.
Have been looking for more cc (creative commons) or copyright free photos to use in the work I'm doing. Catherine Rubin and I have been discussing the issues involved in cc. Here's another site that might provide more options to teachers looking to include images in the work they are doing.
Once Upon a School - Story Detail
Using music to make connections in content learning, most specifically social studies. The non-profit organization works to design lessons that get permission from artists for students to use their lyrics as the basis of their writing. I like the idea and think it fits well with the type of thinking we use at CTL so I'm sharing it!
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/22/2009
OK, this is a pretty cool game site that is all about teaching and learning. I played the multiplication game longer than I should have and even played with the pet hamster for a while. He runs on that whell a long time. From the website, "All games here were made by Exuberant Games. Each game goes through important information for a certain subject matter for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. The math games are great if you need to review your math facts for addition, subtraction , or division. Be sure to check out our new games for other subjects.
TeacherLED Interactive Whiteboard Resource Venn Multiples
Looking for a great interactive venn diagram activity then look no further. Students can work on their multiples/multiplication/lcm skills in an interactive way. If you have a smartboard then just imagine the fun students can have.
Great site if you are looking for significant problems to let your students (higher level) ponder. Also, the organization of the site is impressive.
MathMovesU.com: Explore, have fun, and pick up cool math skills!
Nice site to let students work on some computation and practice skills in an interactive setting. Not
Smartboard templates and examples. Always looking to build expertise in this area.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/16/2009
Chance 2 - Images in blog posts | Miss W. and her Smartboard
Another description of the creative commons discussion and working with students to develop their understanding of what they can and 'should' do when creating classroom presentations.
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Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
"A story is told by one person or by a creative team to an audience that is usually quiet, even receptive. Or at least that’s what a story used to be, and that’s how a story used to be told. Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow." Storytelling is changing how are you going to let your students tell stories? Great article, especially if you've never thought about digital storytelling before. I like the idea that storytelling is no longer a passive reception, but an inclusive/participatory activity when expanded into remixing or open-ended. Presents lots of different possible modes, so you can pick one and go with it, open it up for students, and expand your horizons as students use tools differently than you to achieve their story.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/14/2009
Cordia, Kentucky KY Community Profile / Knott County, KY Data
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EduBlog Insights » Blog Archive » Can’t wait to get there kind of place
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/10/2009
Brain research is indicating that students need to be able to fluently/efficiently need to be able to compute basic skills while performing higher-level skills. No easy answer about how to develop these basic skills in older students who are still struggling, but does make a direct connection between basic skills and number sense. Important to continue to understand that these skills can and need to be developed in upper grades.
- “Cognitive psychologists have discovered that humans have fixed limits on the attention and memory that can be used to solve problems. One way around these limits is to have certain components of a task become so routine and over-learned that they become automatic.” Whitehurst, 2003
- The research cited above highlights the importance of math fact fluency; however, the computation capabilities of American students appear to be falling. Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institute has reviewed responses to select items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and concluded that performance on basic arithmetic facts declined in the 1990s (Loveless, 2003).
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com
Powerful topic, poverty and patterns in data relationships over time, WOW. Hans Rosling uses some incredible statistical software to present the data, but the idea can be mimicked using some PP type technologies and creating graphs. The topic of poverty is explored in a very easy understandable way; I think high school students would understand the topic and love the idea. Make sure you listen to his use of the databases, and remember he is one of the premier statisticians in the world. He is changing how he presents data, and I think we need to listen to his message on this topic.
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/09/2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/07/2009
Top News - Podcast trumps lecture in one college study
another example of looking at the transmission of data from teacher to student differently in the age of technology. Teachers must realize that it's not just saying the information, but allowing students opportunities to interact with the material, and in lecture situations, teachers must create opportunities for students to interact. In high school, especially, it is important that teachers understand the model that they are used to doesn't work and that they must prepare students to be able to take valuable notes that in which they make connections to.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/04/2009
Can I have your half-attention, please? : Macleans OnCampus
While some professors seek to exclude the devices from the classroom, others are creating multimedia-rich curricula in which students can draw on online resources and interact with each other. Banning laptops is just plain wrong, according to Don Krug, associate professor at UBC’s department of curriculum studies. He says students are adults, and the best a professor can hope for is a “respectful learning environment,” where students limit their own behaviour. “If they really want to learn the information, they will. They’re paying a lot of money,” he says. “We’re better off teaching them how to be responsible learners.” Shows two polar solutions to laptop problems: total ban & adapting curricula to include multi-media interaction. Also presents respectful learning environment as best course for students who are adults. - comment by Kent Gerber
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/02/2009
Let's hear it for the blog | OPEN Forum by American Express OPEN
Seth Godin speaking on blogging. It's not dead yet, and I think it's a great tool for educator's to develop their own skills as well as the writing skills of their students.
Education Week: Virtual Field Trips Open Doors for Multimedia Lessons
The potential power of IVC. Perhaps we can reference somewhere if needed.
Podcast directory for educators, schools and colleges
Anybody interested in podcasts needs to check this resource out. Topics about PD, content, classroom and even advanced content topics.
Tinkering as a mode of knowledge production in a Digital Age « Generation YES Blog
How about a quote from the blog post as a description, "These videos make connections between tinkering, innovative ideas, the idea of making work public as in a studio, creativity and collaboration, the ability to incorporate criticism, and more. Well worth watching!" I"m not sure it's that exciting, but I agree with well worth watching
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