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Voicethread
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- A picture is worth more than a thousands words when you combine words and sound. Photos are a wonderful way for people to connect. Adding voice, sound (music), and text to ph...
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Where are you from?
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- How Do We Promote Higher Level Thinking Today?It’s one thing for educators to teach to tests that offer learners certification that proves they’ve mastered key facts...
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- I’m having a provocative dialogue with a LearnHub colleague about what constitutes an online “lesson,” what constitutes a “discussion” or a “...
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- To be an active Voicethreader, start by carefully working your way through a presentation. While viewing pictures and listening to the comments that have been added by oth...
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Practicing Mindfulness
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- Practice mindfulness with Jon Kabbat-Zinn Mindfulness is falling awake. It may take practice but mindfulness is an awareness that can bring us to our senses. Jon Kabbat-Zinn h...
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- <!—[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <—[if gte mso 9]> <—...
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"Jumpstart" LIVE Session 2 - Including Assignments
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- Slides – including assignments- for the second LIVE session of “Jumpstart Your Online Teaching Career,” held at 1pm PDT, July 9, on WiZiQ. The LAST 3 slides co...
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- If the whole idea of intellectual property and fair use makes your head hurt, join the club.It makes my head hurt, too. I want to get credit for the ideas I contribute to the gl...
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- Like it or not, certain ways of giving learners feedback HELP them learn.Certain other ways HINDER their learning.Will Thalheimer has just made available for free two reports on...
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Talking Photos
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- Listen to the Photo Talk Make online learning and instruction exciting by adding voice to your photos in a very simple way. Just upload the photos and record through...
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- The Perfect Society: A WebQuest Literature Lesson by Nellie Deutsch Materials Required: Internet access Activity Time: 4-5 hours Concepts Taught: Utopia, WebQuest,The G...
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- As the US economy gets tighter and tighter, everywhere I turn, another friend is telling me they want to see some REAL CHANGE – meaning they want their life t...
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Interesting Lessons
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- Why not spend less time learning in class and more online?
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The Great Forgetting
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- READ THIS!The dawning of the Bad Memory Century will have vast consequences for the social fabric and the international balance of power.David Brooks often irritates me, but thi...
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- “Virtually all learning difficulties that children face are caused by adults’ inability to set up reasonable environments for them. The biggest barrier to improving education fo...
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- (cc) Roger Jones For too long learners have been let down by the way they’ve been taught math. In fact, a lack of math proficiency remains one of the biggest single pr...
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iPods
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- iPods in Education iPods may be an effective way to learn 24/7. The only requirement is the purchase of an iPod and ...
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- Monday to Friday, from 7:30am to 3:30pm, Mark Cruthers teaches traditional high school students face-to-face in Pinion Hills, California. Then, after 4pm, Mark teaches homeschoo...
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Web 2.0 Tools
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- Layout of the course: The course on web 2.0 tools for instruction and learning will begin on April 2nd. Participants will engage in asy...
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- Listening to Mark Cruthers’ talk about his experience teaching AP History online to a group of homeschoolers, what comes up for you?(If you haven’t yet heard this in...
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3rd: Open Access Textbooks
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- Textbooks are dinosaurs of a past age. They are out of date when they are printed. Instructors usually don’t assign the whole book because there are only a few chapters th...
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What is a WebQuest?
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- A WebQuest is an inquiry-based activity in which the information comes from resources on the Internet (Dodge, 1995). The WebQuest consists of at least 6 major parts; introductio...
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Flickr in the K-12 Classroom
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- In the past, students would cut pictures out of National Geographic, Life and other magazines to illustrate reports. Now thanks to Flickr, students and teachers have the abilit...
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"Jumpstart" LIVE Session 1 - Including Assignments
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- Slides – including assignments- for the first LIVE session of “Jumpstart Your Online Teaching Career,” held at 1pm PST, May 30, on WiZiQ. The LAST 2 slides ...
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Yahoo! Tools for Teachers
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- Yahoo! has a suite of services educators can use to support teaching and learning in the 21st century classroom.
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Teaching Music Online
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- Can you teach music over the Internet? How? Can you teach with Youtube? Nirvana? Piczo? Audacity? Billboard? Newsfeeds? Can you teach in a way that is engaging for the learner? ...
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- MAW’S TOOLBOX. ) I’m working on another report that covers seven more places. You have to do a little more than push one or two buttons to use these sites, but it&...
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What is Social Networking?
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