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Google Voice on My Syllabus - Texting Encouraged →
Tomorrow, after two days of canceled classes, I am finally going to meet my new students. The first day always has me handing out my syllabus in each class. This year I have put my Google Voice number at the top of my syllabus with a note for students and parents to “please text me if you have a quick question.” From my Google Voice inbox I can reply to text messages and the...
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96 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed →
…sweet mother of pearl…
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New Site Offers Online Resources for Parents,... →
A newly launched site, designed to serve as an interactive educational tool with a science focus, will feature free lesson plans, videos, and activities aligned to national education standards.
Designed for students in grades 6-12, “Curiosity in the Classroom” expands on the Discovery series “Curiosity.” The site, from Discovery Education and Intel, uses features including career videos,...
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::ahem::
To the tune of “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music
♪ ♫Di-ning Ser-vi-ces and their lack of spices Student loan payments and rising gas prices Just ate my lunch now I’m covered in crumbs These are a few of my first world problems ♪
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Dear College Freshmen:
On a scale of one to Lord of the Rings, how much did you walk this week?
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Adobe Launches PDF Creation Tool for iPad and... →
futurejournalismproject:
Adobe has launched an application for iOS that lets you create PDF files from an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. CreatePDF is not the first app to offer this functionality, but it is Adobe’s first official crack at enabling PDF creation on iOS devices.
Downloading now.
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The World’s 7 Billionth Person About to be Born →
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“Flipped Classroom isn’t the first time that technology has been held up as a...”
– If you ever wanted an introduction to a flipped classroom, this is it.
Time-shifting instruction: flipped teaching and classrooms | Technology with Intention
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“Jon Finkel, I don’t really know anything about you, except that you’re single...”
– Probably the sweetest line from an interesting take on the whole “Gizmodo editor who accidentally went on an OK Cupid date with a Magic the Gathering world champion” situation.
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Date Alyssa Bereznak
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Our kids' glorious new age of distraction →
Children are not what they used to be. They tweet and blog and text without batting an eyelash. Whenever they need the answer to a question, they simply log onto their phone and look it up on Google. They live in a state of perpetual, endless distraction, and, for many parents and educators, it’s a source of real concern. Will future generations be able to finish a whole book? Will...
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Benefits to Project Based Learning and Technology... →
The first is a bit obvious, but the rest are pretty good too.
Benefit 1: Technology Projects are Interdisciplinary
An interdisciplinary approach connects learning objectives from two or more academic fields of study. Technology projects combine knowledge and skills from multiple subject areas such as language arts, mathematics, geography, history, science, and social studies. This approach...
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Talking to a colleague about how the freshmen...
Her: It's just so crazy to see these girls walking around in heels for class.
Me: I know, it's like "You're going to US History - Formative, not the club."
Her: Yeah, but US History - Formative has a damn good beat.
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Think You're An Auditory Or Visual Learner?... →
I’d say this is a pretty significant development:
An entire industry has sprouted based on learning styles. There are workshops for teachers, products targeted at different learning styles and some schools that even evaluate students based on this theory.
This prompted Doug Rohrer, a psychologist at the University of South Florida, to look more closely at the learning style...
world-shaker just become friends with 34 people on...
girlwithalessonplan:
That dude is way more popular than I am.
The freshmen collect me. It’s a gift and a curse.
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Glad to see the students driving around campus...
I was wondering what crappy music I’d missed out on over the summer.
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“Talking to my respondents, one of the things that struck me was how many...”
– Why do college students love getting wasted? - Education - Salon.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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Google Gravity →
Say goodbye to the next five minutes of your life.
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Where Does Disruption Begin? With Teachers Who... →
Over the course of three days, the 39 attendees — mostly faculty who teach at the CSU schools of education — were tasked with coming up with proposals that would demonstrate the use of technology in new and inventive ways. They had to show how the proposal could be scaled and how it could go viral. For its part, in addition to hosting the event and providing experts and resources at the...
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To those of you starting college today:
Happy Syllabus Day!
Protip: Turns out Syllabus Day is a two day event, which lasts through tomorrow.
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“The U.S. Copyright Group has sued more than 100,000 alleged BitTorrent users...”
– A very interesting read over here about a case that could have huge repercussions on the recording industry lawsuits.
Evidence Against BitTorrent Users Slammed In Court
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“Training children to use Microsoft Office is the contemporary equivalent of the...”
– Kids today need a licence to tinker | Technology | The Observer (via interestingsnippets)
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Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper... →
Have you ever stopped to wonder where the image was taken, or who took it? In fact, the image is so crisp you might have assumed it wasn’t real at all.
The man behind the camera is American photographer Charles O’Rear. Don’t let his name fool you into thinking that the photo was in fact taken in Ireland. Bliss, as it turns out, is in California. In Sonoma County to be exact.
Click...
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WatchRegional Dialect Meme for an outstanding Tumblr Teacher :o)
Oh, and with apparently two shout-outs to ohmuffins cause I’m cool like that.
Also, it’s a henley sort of day. Don’t judge me.
As many of you know, the basis of the meme is to say/answer these words and questions:
Say these words: Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data,...
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Dropbox as a Hand-in Folder →
A great, simple application of a free tool. Click through for the tutorial:
If you’re moving to a more open approach to assignments, this sort of logic is old school. Consider the following scenarios that just spring to mind.
1) A student is using her own personal device and is attached to a guest network at school; 2) A student is using her own personal device and is attached to...
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Becoming a Teacher →
Click through for the whole thing. It’s quite good :o)
When you graduate from university, you always think you will change the world.
You think you will be fair and be able to teach every single student in the class.
You think you won’t be like the others and you will be sure not to leave anybody behind.
You think you will have a team of teachers to support you when you need.
You think...
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18 Low Tech Ways to Help Kids & Educators Get... →
I think the headline was a bit misleading for what I was expecting. Some of these are very pie-in-the-sky type of thoughts, but I’m still sharing because I think it’s worth at least considering how things would be different if we did some of these things. Here are three:
8. Give every student access to advanced courses. Every US high school student should have access to every...
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I’ve decided that people who submit secrets to PostSecret don’t know what secrets actually are. There are other things out there called “Idiosyncratic Tendencies,” and “Things You Should Tell That Person Instead of Making a Stupid Postcard for Strangers.”
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Missouri judge blocks Facebook limits for teachers →
A new Missouri law prohibiting teachers from having private online conversations with students suffered a double setback Aug. 26. First, a judge blocked it from taking effect because of free speech concerns. Then, the governor called for its repeal.
The law limiting teacher-student conversations through social networking sites such as Facebook had been scheduled to take effect Aug. 28. But...
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