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Very interesting idea for having students/teachers create a story using search queries. Doesn't work all of the time for all search topics, but has some very interesting applications.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 02/06/2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 02/02/2012
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The "Google in Education: A New & Open World for Learning" booklet provides more information on how Google and its users are impacting education.
Read and print the pages most relevant to you:
Full booklet
Pages about primary and secondary education only
Pages about higher education only
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 02/01/2012
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Great resource from Derrick McNeil for helping physics students learn Physics, not independently, but at an independent pace to supplement and differentiate content for his students (and ours).
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Wolfram Education Portal: Free Resources and Materials for Teachers
In the portal you'll find a dynamic textbook, lesson plans, widgets, interactive Demonstrations, and more built by Wolfram education experts. Absolutely a great resource. Builds in representations, applets, explanations of variable use etc. Great tool.
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Interesting classroom management software that is using the social networking model to make classroom commnications stronger. It is in Beta, so I encourage teachers to check it out to see if it adds anything to your classroom environment.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Google labs - public data
Google labs - public data
Google is doing it again, bringing data visualization to a new level. I'm interested in seeing how students could use this tool to see relationships between different pieces of data, using the time lapse tool.
In several of the representations the movement of the data indicates some kind of rate of change that I would like to have students focus in on and explain in more depth. I think it's a very interesting tool to use with students.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 10/01/2010
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Free Technology for Teachers: 10 US History Google Earth Tours
Great set of virtual history tours through Google Earth.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 09/25/2010
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Magnoto is a little like glogster. It's a nice little project tool. It is in beta and may not be stable enough for mass use, but it is pretty user friendly and can allow 5 people to work together on the same project. Each person can have their own page or can work together to create one page.
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Connecting Students through Video Project « Engnology
Connecting Students through Video
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Welcome to the iPod & iPad User Group Wiki
We welcome you to our wiki and blog for supporting iPod & iPad devices in education. Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level and with any number of devices. On the wiki side of this site are the deployment and management articles, and on the blog side, you will find the classroom activities (written primarily by teachers) where iPods are supporting achievement improvement for our students. We are posting as many help and how-to articles here as we can and as quickly as we can so you can continue to be successful using iPod devices in your classroom. Please let us know if there are more or different things that you would like to have included here.
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Great app for having students create an educational product. I know Apple says it's a business app, but it has the kinds of multi-media tool compilation that makes for great education tool.
Students can easily capture/create an image on the iPod, annotate or draw on it while they narrate, and most importantly of all students can then email it to the teacher.
Not only can they create, they can share!
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TEACHING|chemistry» Blog Archive » A great way to start the year - Annotated
What started as a desire to know what technology access my students had turned into a great opportunity to get to know them, and what they thought about grades, learning, and their interests. Here’s a copy of the survey that I gave my students this year on the first day.
Some of the responses to the questions were interesting enough to put in wordle form- What started as a desire to know what technology access my students had turned into a great opportunity to get to know them, and what they thought about grades, learning, and their interests. Here’s a copy of the survey that I gave my s
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 09/18/2010
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wchsread [licensed for non-commercial use only] / WCHS READS
Washington County Library/reading wiki. Lisa Burkhead has done a fantastic job of integrating the wiki into her literature course and her library work. There is lots of student voice and apparently a lot of reading going on at Washington County High School!
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Blog about Chris Geeen's iPod touch project at his school. Has some very interesting ideas about how students can create quick products from research on the iPod touch. Worth looking at if you have access to mobile learning tools not just iPod, although some of the apps are specific to the iPod.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 09/16/2010
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My StoryMaker : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Annotated
y StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. You cannot go back and edit a story once you have ended it but, if you click "yes" when asked to share it with others, you can print it out again by entering the magic number it gives you in the box on the right. Since lack of space forces us to delete story files older than 1 month, please save the .pdf file that prints to your own computer.
- My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, you can print it out.
You cannot go back and edit a story once you have ended it but, if you click "yes" when asked to share it with others, you can print it out again by entering the magic number it gives you in the box on the right. Since lack of space forces us to delete story files older than 1 month, please save the .pdf file that prints to your own computer.
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How the arts deepen students thinking | The Compass Point
Interesting blog post based on an article in the Boston Globe.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 09/15/2010
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REDU stands for rethinking, reforming and rebuilding US education. Powered by people and technology, REDU is a movement designed to expand and encourage the national conversation around education reform by providing information and resources to learn, a community platform to connect, and tools and initiatives to act.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 09/10/2010
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expertsinliteracy [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage
Jill's Eminence Middle and High School wiki about her coaching and instruction in content literacy
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Google taking advantage of its own video network to share ways of using its own products.
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Photovisi - Collage photo effects
Great Simple Online Collage Maker
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MSP:MiddleSchoolPortal/Teaching With Trade Books - NSDLWiki - Annotated
...benefits of using trade books is increasing student engagement. High quality trade books are written as to spark interest and create a desire to read. Many contain colorful, interesting illustrations, photographs, and diagrams, all of which draw students into the text and improve comprehension.
- As a middle school science or mathematics teacher, you probably feel like you don’t have enough time to teach all of your content wi
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Thousands of Free Lesson Plans and Educational Resources for Teachers | Verizon Thinkfinity.org
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 09/09/2010
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iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Um-bloom-ra Bloom’s Taxonomy
ast week I blogged about my Bloomin’ Peacock, a new Bloom’s Taxonomy visual I made to share with teachers in a training. Over the years, I have created a number of Bloom’s Taxonomy pictures to hang in my classroom for students to refer to. My Bloomin’ Peacock was such a hit with you all, I thought I would start sharing the others I’ve made. Today I revived one that I created for my classroom and added the digital version (again the digital tools displayed relate directly to the Treasures reading curriculum). This is my Um-bloom-ra Bloom’s Taxonomy:
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Educators - Population Reference Bureau - Annotated
Distilled Demographics Video Series
Distilled Demographics, PRB's new video series, highlights key demographic concepts such as fertility, mortality, and migration. Through these videos, each under 10 minutes, you can learn demography's real-world application and impact.
In these videos, Carl Haub, PRB's senior demographer, talks about:
Deciphering Population Pyramids
Addressing Population Myths
The Birth Rate: What It Is and Why It Matters-
Educators
Distilled Demographics Video Series
Distilled Demographics, PRB's new video series, highlights key demographic c
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 09/08/2010
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Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - Annotated
- “When students see a list of problems, all of the same kind, they know the strategy to use before they even read the problem,” said Dr. Rohrer. “That’s like riding a bike with training wheels.” With mixed practice, he added, “each problem is different from the last one, which means kids must learn how to choose the appropriate procedure — just like they had to do on the test.”
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In one of his own experiments, Dr. Roediger and Jeffrey Karpicke, also of Washington University, had college students study science passages from a reading comprehension test, in short study periods. When students studied the same material twice, in back-to-back sessions, they did very well on a test given immediately afterward, then began to forget the material.
But if they studied the passage just once and did a practice test in the second session, they did very well on one test two days later, and another given a week later.- Break up study sessions and include practice tests with the study sessions to improve longevity of retention.
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Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - Annotated
- We have known these principles for some time, and it’s intriguing that schools don’t pick them up, or that people don’t learn them by trial and error,” said Robert A. Bjork, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Instead, we walk around with all sorts of unexamined beliefs about what works that are mistaken.”
- Take the notion that children have specific learning styles, that some are “visual learners” and others are auditory; some are “left-brain” students, others “right-brain.” In a recent review of the relevant research, published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a team of psychologists found almost zero support for such ideas. “The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing,” the researchers concluded.
- I find it intriguing that teachers latch on to certain ideas and ignore research that contradicts their ideas. I thought learning styles was a more proven entity but there may be an issue with this.
- The brain makes subtle associations between what it is studying and the background sensations it has at the time, the authors say, regardless of whether those perceptions are conscious. It colors the terms of the Versailles Treaty with the wasted fluorescent glow of the dorm study room, say; or the elements of the Marshall Plan with the jade-curtain shade of the willow tree in the backyard. Forcing the brain to make multiple associations with the same material may, in effect, give that information more neural scaffolding.
- Varying the environment around the student may then provide more stimulation and a greater opportunity for the student to learn/associate the information being provided/developed.
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Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 09/04/2010
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Free Technology for Teachers: 47 Alternatives to Using YouTube in the Classroom
Free Technology for Teachers is an award winning blog. Here is his post on alternatives to youtube. I like most in fact bookmarked almost all of them. Great resrouce and if you don't subscribe to this blog you should
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Hulu - Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free.
There are extensive libraries of some great shows on Hulu, including NOVA, and several news shows.
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From Free Technology for Teachers, "Big Think is a video website containing expert commentary on a wide range of issues and ideas. The experts featured on Big Think really are experts in their fields. Harvard Professors, editors of major news publications, politicians, and other recognized authorities offer their commentary on various issues and ideas. Registered users of Big Think can comment on and discuss the videos or post an idea to have others discuss."
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Absolutely love this site. All the video from C-Span, ever! Great source of primary source documentation for lots of different government studies.
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It's from CNN a respected news source and it is geared toward students. A quick look around found topics ranging from politics to sports to hurricanes.
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I love Blip.fm and I like the idea of sharing favorite videos from TV as well. I think it's a stretch for extensive use in the classroom, but it is an option in some cases.
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Viddler.com - Grow your brand with online video
What you can do with us
Upload as many videos as you want—you get nearly unlimited space with ViddlerRecord videos directly to the site using your webcam!Post comments and tags at specific points in the videoShare your videos with RSS and iTunesKeep your money! We are 100% free! -
Educational Videos | Teacher Videos for Students | SnagLearning
Videos from Snag Video that have been identified as educational in nature.
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Documentary Films | Watch Free Documentaries Online | SnagFilms
Site for sharing video covering many topics, not just for educational purposes.
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Video sharing for students and teachers.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 09/03/2010
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Lesson Study Toolkit Samples
You will need Adobe Reader to view and print many of these documents.
NOTE: The password for the video clips and any protected article is lessonstudy. -
Lesson Study Group at Mills College
n Lesson Study teachers:
Think about the long-term goals of education - such as love of learning and respect for others;
Carefully consider the goals of a particular subject area, unit or lesson (for example, why science is taught, what is important about levers, how to introduce levers);
Plan classroom "research lessons" that bring to life both specific subject matter goals and long term goals for students; and
Carefully study how students respond to these lessons - including their learning, engagement, and treatment of each other.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/25/2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/24/2010
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Scientific American: 60-Second Science
Great weekly 60 second podcast that can be used as an incredible starter. I just listened to three podcasts that involved solar power, Mars, laughter and morality, and regressions to liars. If you can't start a conversation or class with those topics you aren't very imaginative!
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Another site to access already made charts/graphs or to have students create and share their own visual displays of information.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/17/2010
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Problem Based Learning Academy is a well designed wiki with lots of interesting links/resources if you are interested in learning more about problem based learning.
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Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year
11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year
The new school year is here for many teachers. For those who haven't started school yet, the new school year will be here soon. If you've set the goal of trying something new in your classroom this year (shouldn't that always be one of our goals), here are eleven techy things teachers should try this year.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/11/2010
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Common Core State Standards Initiative | The Standards
The Common Core State Standards focus on core conceptual understandings and procedures starting in the early grades, thus enabling teachers to take the time needed to teach core concepts and procedures well—and to give students the opportunity to master them.
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Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! on Vimeo
Uses for Diigo as a classroom research tool.
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/10/2010
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10 Things You Didn't Know About the Brain | LiveScience
Interesting article on the brain. Worth reading, it is insightful that many decisions we make are influenced by what we think is brain research. Always interesting to get more information.
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