Classroom 2.02024-03-28T14:50:32ZKevinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Kevinhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1949944572?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.classroom20.com/group/creativevendorcollaborationclearinghouse/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=op7kehb8ozhs&feed=yes&xn_auth=no2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition is now open!tag:www.classroom20.com,2008-08-26:649749:Topic:1821122008-08-26T21:12:12.472ZKevinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Kevin
Apologies for cross posting.<br />
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We would love to have more teachers know about and apply to the 2008 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition, which just opened last week.<br />
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Digital Media and Learning Competition 2008<br />
$2 Million Competition<br />
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Focus: Participatory Learning<br />
Application Deadline: October 15, 2008<br />
Full information at: <a href="http://www.dmlcompetition.net">www.dmlcompetition.net</a><br />
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The second HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media…
Apologies for cross posting.<br />
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We would love to have more teachers know about and apply to the 2008 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition, which just opened last week.<br />
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---PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY---<br />
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Digital Media and Learning Competition 2008<br />
$2 Million Competition<br />
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Focus: Participatory Learning<br />
Application Deadline: October 15, 2008<br />
Full information at: <a href="http://www.dmlcompetition.net">www.dmlcompetition.net</a><br />
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The second HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition is now open! The focus is participatory learning.<br />
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Awards will be made in two categories:<br />
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Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards support large-scale digital learning projects<br />
$30,000-$250,000<br />
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Young Innovator Awards are targeted at 18-25 year olds<br />
$5,000-$30,000<br />
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Full information at: <a href="http://www.dmlcompetition.net">www.dmlcompetition.net</a> Teacher-Created Materialstag:www.classroom20.com,2008-03-06:649749:Topic:1162482008-03-06T18:52:10.125ZKevinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Kevin
Our application is a little different than a typical web 2.0 tool, but is very much informed by the 2.0 movement. It's a website that allows to teachers to buy and sell original teaching materials, content and curricula such as lesson plans, unit plans, projects, PopwerPoint presentations and exams. It's like an eBay for teachers and teacher-created materials.<br />
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It's called <a href="http://www.TeachersPayTeachers.com">http://www.TeachersPayTeachers.com</a><br />
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Yes, the spirit of 2.0 is about open…
Our application is a little different than a typical web 2.0 tool, but is very much informed by the 2.0 movement. It's a website that allows to teachers to buy and sell original teaching materials, content and curricula such as lesson plans, unit plans, projects, PopwerPoint presentations and exams. It's like an eBay for teachers and teacher-created materials.<br />
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It's called <a href="http://www.TeachersPayTeachers.com">http://www.TeachersPayTeachers.com</a><br />
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Yes, the spirit of 2.0 is about open source and free sharing but it's also about grassroots empowerment. Bloggers now compete with news organizations. Digital cameras make moviemakers out of anybody. Likewise with TpT, teachers can now compete with the big educational publishers. This phenomenon is part of the essence of what we mean when we say Web 2.0.<br />
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Teachers work hard and deserve better compensation. We say, share freely with your local colleagues but bundle some of your stuff and post it on TpT for sale to the rest of the country for reasonable prices. It's working for many on our site who have sold thousands in 'teaching products'. That means there are many teachers out there who are happy to trade a buck or two for great materials they can't find otherwise and don't have time to create. Lots of free downloads are made available, too, and the community manages quality, not us, through a ratings and comments system.<br />
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TpT simply provides that extra incentive to make your materials even better AND available to the world.<br />
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If anyone has any questions about the service, send me a message through Classroom 2.0 or email me at info@teacherspayteachers.com.<br />
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Best,<br />
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Paul Edelman<br />
Former 7th Grade Literacy Teacher, NYC Public Schools<br />
Founder, <a href="http://www.TeachersPayTeachers.com">http://www.TeachersPayTeachers.com</a> I'll bite: introduction to ChitChattag:www.classroom20.com,2008-01-23:649749:Topic:1006442008-01-23T05:44:23.479ZKevinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Kevin
Hi CR2.0 folks~ I run <a href="http://ChitCh.at">ChitChat</a>, a (small and very young) "educational network" designed to help educators make better use of the net in their classes. I occasionally troll around CR2.0 to see whose forum questions our stuff can answer, but kudos to Skip for providing a place where we can engage in a more direct discussion about what we're trying to do with our service.<br />
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ChitChat is a few things... the overlong first sentence of the company's official executive…
Hi CR2.0 folks~ I run <a href="http://ChitCh.at">ChitChat</a>, a (small and very young) "educational network" designed to help educators make better use of the net in their classes. I occasionally troll around CR2.0 to see whose forum questions our stuff can answer, but kudos to Skip for providing a place where we can engage in a more direct discussion about what we're trying to do with our service.<br />
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ChitChat is a few things... the overlong first sentence of the company's official executive summary says we provide a network of high-quality academic content and unique classroom tools that improve learning results by allowing educators to easily build rich, interactive course content; share that content around a global network of academic users; successfully integrate that content into the classroom with interactive websites that allow students to actually do work on the web; and extract unprecedented value from student data with simple-yet-powerful analytic tools. Accurate, if complicated.<br />
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The story I always tell people to get the point across is this: I was chatting with an 8th grade math teacher in Maine (where, as you may know, the state provides laptops to all 7th & 8th graders), and asked her how she and her students use the laptops, given the criticism in the state of these "expensive typewriters." She said they sometimes go online and play educational math games--a great way to get students drilling on things they'd be bored to tears by on paper! "Awesome," I said, "so how do you take the results of the games, write them in a gradebook, provide feedback, etc.?" And without hesitation, she said "We can't, that's why we don't do it very often."<br />
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That's the problem I'm going after, because I think it's a problem that most solutions offer either content without process--such as those educational games--or process without content, like your average LMS. To clarify the latter, I used Blackboard in college, and it was a slightly more prolific way for a professor to hand out a syllabus, and nothing more. Educators should be free to have their students blog, engage in online discussions, go fix articles on wikipedia, play educational games, and more, but the problem is that it's hard to collect, assess, and provide feedback on these things. That's what ChitChat does: it lets you create interactive content that automatically collects students' work and presents it to you logically. We've got flashcards not unlike Quizlet or something, except that we show you averages, performance graphs, incorrect guesses, and more from each of your students so you can diagnose problem areas and offer support where it's necessary, giving the autonomy I think everyone on CR2.0 values everywhere else. Beyond just the flashcards, we've got superior ways for you to collect actual assignments without documents or e-mails, great rich-text authoring tools, and a small-but-growing network of content developed by adventurous educators who've tried ChitChat in the 50 or so days since we officially launched.<br />
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I could go on, but I'd love it if you just <a href="http://ChitCh.at">checked it out</a>. But since this is a discussion, let's have more than just me talking at you. Anyone have anything to say? Questions for me? Stories to tell? Feature requests? Other tools that address similar needs? Perking up the interest of both developers and educatorstag:www.classroom20.com,2007-07-04:649749:Topic:315322007-07-04T02:28:02.257ZKevinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Kevin
If the idea of tool developer / educator interaction is a good one, should we directly invite developers of software used (or of potential use) by members to join CR2.0 who might not know about the community? My role has not been to reach out to developers to join CR2.0 and this group? Should it be?<br />
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Were there a number of developers represented here and CR2.0 members were actively informed about them, do you believe members would be more interested in keeping up with news and activities made…
If the idea of tool developer / educator interaction is a good one, should we directly invite developers of software used (or of potential use) by members to join CR2.0 who might not know about the community? My role has not been to reach out to developers to join CR2.0 and this group? Should it be?<br />
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Were there a number of developers represented here and CR2.0 members were actively informed about them, do you believe members would be more interested in keeping up with news and activities made available to them? Given the non-commercial restrictions that Steve Hargadon has laid out for vendors use of the site, how best can vendors be asked to participate? Create a Great Website and Win!tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-05-30:649749:Topic:233592007-05-30T15:43:58.961ZKevinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Kevin
Please invite your Ning friends to participate in this "contest."<br />
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First things first... "What do I win?" That is what most people think when they hear about a contest, right? I want to encourage Classroom 2.0 members to share their experiences with <a href="http://www.haikuls.com">haiku LMS</a>. In return, I'm giving away ten (10) free "Educator" subscriptions for one year.<br />
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That's $180 each in free subscriptions.<br />
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The contest is simple and the deadline for entry is <b>July 20,…</b>
Please invite your Ning friends to participate in this "contest."<br />
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First things first... "What do I win?" That is what most people think when they hear about a contest, right? I want to encourage Classroom 2.0 members to share their experiences with <a href="http://www.haikuls.com">haiku LMS</a>. In return, I'm giving away ten (10) free "Educator" subscriptions for one year.<br />
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That's $180 each in free subscriptions.<br />
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The contest is simple and the deadline for entry is <b>July 20, 2007</b>:<br />
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Visit my <a href="http://www.haikuls.com/blog/?p=13"><b>Blog</b></a> for the details. Please start a discussion here -- tell us about yourself and the application you've developed.tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-05-25:649749:Topic:224102007-05-25T14:15:47.717ZKevinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Kevin
The Classroom 2.0 community is eager to know about new Web2.0 and other computing tools as they are developed and improved. Please tell us about yourself, your company, and the tool(s) you've developed that we can make good use of in helping our students learn.
The Classroom 2.0 community is eager to know about new Web2.0 and other computing tools as they are developed and improved. Please tell us about yourself, your company, and the tool(s) you've developed that we can make good use of in helping our students learn. Help--provide images to vote on as this group's identifying onetag:www.classroom20.com,2007-05-18:649749:Topic:186832007-05-18T02:36:49.097ZKevinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Kevin
CR2.0ers, here's your chance for fame! Please supply candidate images so that a great one can be selected by your vote and attached to this group's profile. Once I receive five images in addition to a candidate of my own, I'll hold a community vote to pick the winner! Just attach your candidate image to a comment to this discussion.
CR2.0ers, here's your chance for fame! Please supply candidate images so that a great one can be selected by your vote and attached to this group's profile. Once I receive five images in addition to a candidate of my own, I'll hold a community vote to pick the winner! Just attach your candidate image to a comment to this discussion.