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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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- Social Network Presence Services &...
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Who is Teddy?
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- Who is Teddy?I dedicate this lesson to teachers worldwide who are making ...
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Google for Educators
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- Google for EducatorsGoogle has come up with a way to help educators engage learners of all ages. Google has invested interest in helping learners and in teachers. Learn more abo...
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Infinite Thinking Machine
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- The Infinite Thinking Machine The Infinite Thinking Machine helps teachers and their students turn the infinite universe of information into knowledge. Listen to Bernie Dod...
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- “With all the intensity and brilliance he is known for, Alan Kay gives a lesson in lessons. Kay has spent years envisioning better techniques for teaching kids. In this ta...
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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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- 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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Wearable e-Learning System
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- Mobile Augmented Reality Systems (MARS) have the potential to provide continuous and autonomous instruction to human learners anytime, anyplace, and at any pace. MARS-based lear...
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Where are you from?
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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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- 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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- Every year the University of North Carolina puts on a 3-day conference on teaching and learning. I am lucky enough to go to the conference every year. Below you’ll find in...
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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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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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Learning Process
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- What makes learning effective? According to Garrison and Vaughn (2008), online and face-to-face learning must be “purposeful and reflective” ( p. 31). For learning t...
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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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- The WebQuest: The Joy of LearningA PowerPoint Presentation Professor Bernie Dodge, the father of Webquests, defines WebQuests as “inquiry-oriented activities ...
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- Intended Audience This lesson is specifically intended for Nellie Deutsch. A markup language describes hows something is structured. HTML describes how a web-site ...
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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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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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- 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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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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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...
