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7 Things You Should Know About Mobile Apps for Learning | EDUCAUSE. I just noticed that the most recent EDUCAUSE 7 things was very relevant to my interests. We’re looking at applications like Mobl21 to deliver IL instruction in the Mann Learning Technologies group right now.
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I was realizing it had been ages since I posted anything but I just read an article in the Atlantic on What Makes a Good Teacher? that I thought was interesting. The writer was reporting on research done by Teach for America which was published in February as Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher’s [...]
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Talking about homecoming for his house. T-shirts as sign of passion, embodied history. Hunter S. Johnson Sports Death (like “carpe diem” w/skull (Thompson T-shirt that’s famous). Remixed it to celebrate Henry’s last year-14 years. Sign can be scary w/o knowledge but if you engage with them about it you can find out a lot underneath [...]
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Michele Honeyford from UIndiana working w/Becky Rupert from Aurora Alerntative HS and Rafi from Global Kds working w/ guy form SOmerville Why Wikipedia: embodies participatory culture (all must believe htey are Rheingold: “Wikis allow for collaboartive comms that can share knowledge nad ideas w” low tech. barrier Contested in classroom spaces so brings otgther ?s [...]
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Worked w/Dianne ? to integrate Zooey’s Room (http://www.zoeysroom.com/) into classroom (particularly Fail & Fail Often module from Learning Library) at Esperanza Academy-all girls middle school in Lawrence MA. Zooey’s Room is STEM & media class in school ZR is online comm and offline after school program; girls learned better in group collab environment so ed [...]
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Overview: Assessment & testing as participation (treat as discourses) Multiple levels of assessment & feedback (align through immediate, close & proximal activity) Standards & skills as formalisms (must enlist b4 enlisting appropriately or correctly) Close-level reflection guidelines Rationale: Participatory assessment Teaching to the test is as useful as the tests are meaningful (NCLB showed external [...]
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First session (hashtag #nml09) Participatory culture Low barriers for engagement Strong support for sharing creations w/others Members believe contributions matter (Classroom 2.0) Care about others’ opinions of self and work Project NML Learning Library (launch today) TSG Reading (strategy guides) TSG Mapping (strategy guides) Project Good Play Share and engage with above (prof dev, case [...]
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I’m trying to live blog Connect@NMC: Michael Wesch and Digital Ethnography. I’m coming in late but ETA: here’s the discussion template (http://ksudigg.wetpaint.com/page/NMC+Discussion). He’s talking about the exploration phase of the course and the infrastructure on NetVibes (http://www.netvibes.com/wesch#Digital_Ethnography) using Diigo, ZohoCreator and other tools. They did initial exploration on topic (anonymity), had to find 5 articles [...]
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Amazon Rank amazon rank Function: verb Inflected Form(s): amazon ranked 1. To censor and exclude on the basis of adult content in literature (except for Playboy, Penthouse, dogfighting and graphic novels depicting incest orgies). 2. To make changes based on inconsistent applications of standards, logic and common sense. Etymology: from 12 April 2009 removal of [...]
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Multimedia Use in Academy panel with Jeff Ubois from intelligent TV, Dru Zuretti from CCC, Gary Handman from UC-Berkeley media center and Judith Thomas from UVA media center (missed this last presenter because I had an appointment) Context: changing landscape (13 hrs of video uploaded to YouTube daily?). They did Intelligent TV/CCC 2008 survey and [...]
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