Rhondda
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Half an Hour: Standards for Pedagogically Relevant Learning Environments – Where Are we? Stephen Downes: standards for pedagogically relevant learning environments.Where are we?
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Google For Educators – Web Search These Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.
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Wanna Work Together? – Creative Commons Good video overview of Creative Commons and how it can apply to the classroom. Pays tribute to the people around the world using CC licenses to build a better, more vibrant creative culture.
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Keeping Kids First A teaching blog with the underlying belief that the aim of education should be teaching us how to think, rather than what to think.
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onlinefacilitation – Twitter Collaboration Stories Still to be convinced by Twitter in education? Take a look at the Twitter collaboration stories wiki for some ideas and good examples of how it can be used.
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Education – Change.org: Technology: The Wrong Questions and the Right Questions Ira Socol’s thoughtful post on an historical view of technology, information and education
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When is Good A way to oganise when you all can get together
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Screen Australia – DIY Doco A teaching resource for analysing and creating the documentary genre. Examines documentary styles and genres, elements of documentary storytelling and the process from story to screen
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Visual Literacy and 21st Century Skills / FrontPage David S. Jakes – Visual Literacy and 21st Century Skills
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Social Networking in Plain English – Common Craft – Our Product is Explanation Simple video on what it is and its use.
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10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports – TheApple.com 10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports
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High-quality photo sharing High-quality photo sharing with PhotoSnack. It’s easy to upload photos, create great photo slideshows, and share them and it’s free! It is easy is to manage your photos online and share your photo albums on MySpace etc, or create professional photo portfolios online. All starting from lots of stylish templates and themes.
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Slatebox :: Visualize Everything – Welcome! A visualization platform that makes it easy to markup ideas on embeddable “slates” and convey the information visually. Anyone can create an account for free and use SlateBox to build a diagram, flowchart, or more. If you own a blog or website, you can also embed these slates directly on your site.
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cyber[smart] – Libraries A digital citizenship development website that’s been developed by the Australian Media and Communications Authority with the assistance of Education.au. It’s well categorised and accessible, providing ‘activities, resources and practical advice to help young kids, kids, teens and parents safely enjoy the online world’. There are specific resources are also available for libraries and schools as well as materials that parents can discuss with their children.
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StarChild: The Solar System An informative site about the solar system. It is a starting point for students and is supported by NASA . A multimedia, non-linear reading site, it has a reading feature on the level 1; and interactive games to quiz your knowledge about the solar system.
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We Choose the Moon: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Relive the Apollo 11 mission in real time interactivity. Fantastic web media storytelling
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Welcome – CHILDREN’S EBOOKS ”Children’s eBooks are not just for Primary schools. They can be used for students with reading difficulties, especially students who are Special Needs and ESL students. In 2010 Children’s eBooks will also be launching a competition to write and illustrate an eBook.”
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Task Force Recommendations for Best Practices for Child Online Safety Ι Point Smart. Click Safe. ”The most important and timely recommendation from the report (which previous online safety task forces all agree upon) is the need for digital media literacy and safety education that empowers kids, parents, and educators. It’s important that kids of all ages learn what it mean to be a digital citizen and how to navigate the online world safely, and it’s equally important that parents and educators have the resources and online tools to help kids make the right choices online.” [quote from: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/07/best-practices-for-online-child-safety.html%5D
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Global Education Teacher resources supporting the integration of a global perspective across the curriculum: Country profiles, international issues, development and poverty. Initiated and funded by AusAID (Australian Agency for International Development) which manages the Australian Government’s official overseas aid program
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Ideas to Inspire ’Ideas to Inspire’ is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.
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Facebook’s Own Estimates Show Declining Student Numbers; Now More Grandparents Than High School Users Facebook users aged 55 and over have skyrocketed from under 1 million to nearly six million in the same time period. College and high school users have declined in absolute number by 20% and 15% respectively in a mere six months, according to estimates Facebook provides to advertisers that were archived for tracking by an outside firm.
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100 Best Blogs for School Librarians | Online College Tips – Online Colleges With a US bias these 100 bloggers serve as good reference resource for learning about everything from library technology to young adult fiction
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Top News – Six technologies soon to affect education From E-School News. Collaborative environments, cloud computing, and “smart” objects are among the technologies that a group of experts believes will have a profound impact on K-12 education within the next five years or sooner.
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Hi Rhondda. While I am new to blogging, I am an experienced educator and your blog appears very interesting. I facilitate courses online such as critical thinking and Skills for the Information Age so I plan to return to your blog over the next few days to see if I can discover useful information for my courses. Keep up the good work and have yourself a great Monday.
Thanks so much for the link to Keeping Kids First! I am honored to have a spot on your list
Have a great week.
- Kelly Hines
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