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Tips for a better you.

A friend of mine gave me this and I wanted to share with you. These are great tips and thoughts to ponder as you go about your busy day. I have this posted on the side of my desk and try to take time to at least do a few a day. I've perfected #9.

Tips for a better you.

1. Take… Continue

Added by John Costilla on December 9, 2008 at 7:54am — 2 Comments

Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX)

The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.

The key to MLX is it being a place for exchange of ideas. Anyone from anywhere can browse and search the warehouse. Each "package" is represented by a descriptive "packing slip" that… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on December 9, 2008 at 7:12am — No Comments

Time Waster

I just wasted several minutes with Bomomo http://bomomo.com/ (and I gotta tell ya, it was fun!). Please tell me if you've got a "more worthy" application for this "tool." Thanks!

While investigating a tad farther, I discovered Games for the Brain http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/. The good news here is that my enjoyment level seemed to directly correlate with my increased time involvement. AND, I can claim… Continue

Added by Ellen on December 8, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

My "Speedy" 2008

This weekend I spent some time gathering all the videos of events from this year. This is my family video yearbook in 60 seconds. Enjoy!

Merry… Continue

Added by John Costilla on December 8, 2008 at 12:08pm — No Comments

远程教育

Added by lisb on December 8, 2008 at 10:08am — 1 Comment

Connectivism & Networked Learning

[Cross posted on Education Musings]

I spend much of my time reading, writing, discussing, and blogging about ideas around the broad theme of 21st Century learning. More specifically,… Continue

Added by Shuchi Grover on December 8, 2008 at 5:36am — 1 Comment

How to Create Quizzes From Excel

Here is a step-by-step tutorial of create quizzes from excel:

Wondershare QuizCreator provides users with two options of adding different question types to a quiz.

1. Create questions one by one in QuizCreator.

2. Import questions from an external… Continue

Added by Sabrina Fu on December 8, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

Content Based Learning: Improve Reading Using Newspapers

Content Based Learning Extends the Student to his Own Level

Content Based Learning has as its focus, Content, and provides the student a rich base of content for learning.

A base content is provided by the teacher, with the option for the student to extend beyond what the teacher and lesson provides. This allows the student who is capable and motivated, to work at his own level, and extend his learning to the level of his own capability.

Using a… Continue

Added by Maggi Carstairs on December 7, 2008 at 6:49pm — No Comments

Dec 7 -- Digital Inequity

When I think about it, the "digital divide" is amazing. The second paper we read for today (eSchool News 7/7/08 Educators wrestle with digital-equity challenges) had some amazing stats: 1) 80% of websites are in English but only 10% of the world speaks it (how much is Spanish or Chinese?); 2) broadband costs only 2% of income for high-income opulations but 900% for poor; 3) 82% of Americans (I'm assuming that's USA North Americans) own cells phones (74% Anglo, 71% Af-Am, 84% Hispanic -- but… Continue

Added by Cathleen Randall on December 7, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Response to Intervention, High School, and Dropout Prevention

Most of the workshops I've attended about RTI have focused on resources and strategies designed for the elementary school level. More resources are now available that are appropriate for the high school level than before, and I thought I'd devote a few posts on this topic.

This is especially important when we consider that high school students who receive special education services, the most intensive level of support and intervention offered in our public schools, continue to have a… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on December 7, 2008 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Animoto, Tokbox, iSpeech: Good on-line resources for implementing Universal Design for Learning and supporting assistive technology

I just received an email from a colleague with the following cool links:

Animoto

http://www.animoto.com --creates cool slide shows... You will want to sign up for the Educator Pass, it takes a day or two to verify.

"Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on December 7, 2008 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Need data about teachers for new York Hall of Science programming via surveys

Hello Classroom 2.0 community,

My name is Chris Lawrence, the Senior Manager of Digital Learning at the New York Hall of Science. We are collecting front end data on two new projects that involve distance learning and educational software.

Here is one directed at middle and high school teachers:

Science Teacher Survey for online professional… Continue

Added by Chris Lawrence on December 6, 2008 at 11:46am — No Comments

Professional Development In Education: What's Your Ideal?

This post will be used in a graduate level class I am teaching focused on 21st century learning tools. If interested, please use the comment feature below this post to answer the following knowing that what you write may be used in this class. Thanks in advance to all contributors

* As a teacher, what is your actual experience in the area of Professional Development?

* What is your ideal? What do you seek from Professional Development?

* How can/might Web 2.0 tools assist…

Added by Andrew on December 6, 2008 at 6:05am — 4 Comments

Resource sharing between educators using Pedagogle.com

About a month and a half ago I did a presentation for my fellow teachers on "Application of the Open Source model to Education". The presentation itself was a bit long-winded and focused too much on the theory behind the application, rather than some practical examples. My presentation skills aside, the idea itself has merit.

We have a number of problems in education, not the least of which is the lack of an institutionalized memory that anyone can access. It would be nice if we had… Continue

Added by David Wees on December 5, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Aspi2.0 - Practical Intervention Project

Thanks for clicking in!

For a while now, I wondered what I could add to Classroom2.0's discussions. What could I do is such a powerful community? Until now, I've stuck to writing and engaging on my own blog.

I was replying to a post on Will Richardson's blog about 'The School of the Future', and for some reason, talked about the issues I face, as a father of a 7 year old with Aspergers Syndrome. I continually argue that he is… Continue

Added by Dean Groom on December 5, 2008 at 8:12pm — 5 Comments

I Get It

Photo Courtesy of Blue Moon in Her Eyes

Cross Posted from Constantly Changing

It finally happened. I hit a wall. In doing my International PLP I knew that one of the goals was to push the participants out of their comfort zone. And that has happened to me to a certain point, but I grasped onto the experience and figured that the only way to get the most out of the it… Continue

Added by Carey Pohanka on December 5, 2008 at 3:34pm — No Comments

Create a Student-Friendly Google Search Engine

By Alix E. Peshette

Cross-posted from The Impetuous Geek

The web is an expansive collection of the good, the bad and the ugly. Wouldn’t it be great if our students could search online in a safe environment? What if teachers could focus student searches towards specific resources? Sounds complicated and full of java scripts and html?

Welcome to the happy collision of…

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Added by Alix E. Peshette on December 5, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

You "gotta be HD kidding me" Tube

Unbelievable, beautiful, and amazing quality in HD.

This is the original YouTube video in "normal" quality.

This is the same video in HD quality.…

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Added by John Costilla on December 5, 2008 at 1:50pm — No Comments

Blended Learning and Web 2.0

This past week, I was able to participate in an ISTE webinar titled “Dr. Z’s Creative Cookbook for Collaborative Communication.”

The started out with a lot of promise by sharing a PollEverywhere quiz about who had a… Continue

Added by John Costilla on December 5, 2008 at 10:43am — No Comments

Blog Feed

I am interested in working with all teachers to support them in using 21st century teaching methods and ideas to educate the digital learners in classrooms today. My web site is http://educationrebel.com and my blog is below. Thanks, Jack

Added by J Harrington on December 5, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments