Useful links

  by  gcouros 

• Kids Who Read Beat Summer Slide – First Book BlogFirst Book Blog Graph supporting argument is useful for reading promotion. “Studies show that kids from low-income families who have access to books over the summer not only beat the summer slide, but make even greater gains than kids from wealthy and middle-class families.”

• Mobile Devices for Learning: What You Need to Know | Edutopia Learn how cellphones, e-book readers, and tablets are getting kids engaged with learning, focused on working smarter, and ready for the future. Download PDF

• Listly List – Surprisingly Educational Apps The free apps listed can be used for educational purposes in the classroom – across content areas and year levels. Each app is featured in a “Surprisingly Educational” episode with integration ideas.

• Kim Garst: 4 Reasons Why Social Media Should be Taught in Our School Systems Succinct arguments. Teaching social media is preparing our children for the future. Employers today have been surveyed and the result is that most planned on using social media to recruit and hire new employees. Schools are supposed to be places where we teach our children the knowledge and the skills they will need to compete and succeed in their adult lives. The good use of social media IS one of those skills.

• “Teens and the Future of Libraries: Sharing Best Practices” Webinar Archives and My Questions for Thinking | The Unquiet Librarian “The roles of librarians are being remixed and re-interpreted by these challenges, issues, and lines of questions; in addition, the work we do will be more organic and strategic if we have the humility to truly listen to those we serve and engage in conversations.”

• Network Learning: Working Smarter | Harold Jarche Harold Jarche highlights the potential acceleration of learning with emerging social media tools. Informal learning is nothing new but in the digitally-connected workplace it is becoming more important. Social network learning provides an unprecedented platform for personal knowledge management through a continuous process of seeking, sensing and sharing. Making sense of information in a timely manner is becoming a key part of work. Harold discusses the workplace evolution and reflects that more attention needs to be paid to how we can support and encourage informal learning in the workplace. Good use of some graphics also help explain his arguments. It dovetails quite well into curation discussions.

• Is Content Curation in Your Skill Set? It Should Be. by David Kelly : Learning Solutions Magazine A good piece by the curation guru, David Kelly. The term curation has become a hot topic in many online discussions but this does not mean that it is clearly understood. David Kelly tries to explain in simple terms what “curation” is, how it can be useful in the workplace and what can be done to improve competency. There are many aspects very valid to the educational world.

• Content Curation for Social Media | Social Media Today Written from a business point of view but interesting take on content curation with  a few curation tools discussed that are different from the ones discussed in my education learning networks.

• Curation: Beyond the Buzzword – Resources Shared at #ASTD2013 | David Kelly A good piece from someone who is considered an expert in the field. Curation is a becoming a keyword and more common in the education field. It is also not clearly understood  by many: what it is nor how to best leverage it. It is however becoming more critical for digital competency.

• Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education | Mihailidis | Journal of Interactive Media in Education Looks at curation as a pedagogical tool, teaching about critical thinking, analysis and expression. “A theoretical justification for curation and present six key ways that curation can be used to teach about critical thinking, analysis and expression online. We utilize a case study of the digital curation platform Storify to explore how curation works in the classroom, and present a framework that integrates curation pedagogy into core media literacy education learning outcomes.”

• Students are Speed Geeking | edJEWcon From edJEWcon5773.1. (20130 A post that shared a student activity that was self-directed and offered students an authentic learning experience. Videos by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano accompany the post.

• Educators’ Guide to RSS and Google Reader Replacements | The Edublogger Post that looks at Google Reader replacements that are suitable for educators and their studentsr

• The Teacher’s Guide To Flipped Classrooms | Edudemic

• 10 Creative Ways To Use Google Tools To Maximize Learning | Edudemic There are literally hundreds of tools and devices available to us today. This offers those involved in education 10 creative ways to use Google tools and services to help improve learning.

• 10 rules on How to create great presentations Advice about 10 easy to understand rules you can use for your presentations that will help to capture an audience’s attention.

• Tools and Methods to Enhance Information Seeking, Sensemaking and L…

• Social Media: Are you maximising its potential? #AHEIA Curation is a term that has become very common in the education field. Many do not clearly understand what it is let alone how to best use it in there schools. It will be a critical skill in the future. This blog post was set up as a resource for those who attended a PD session. It also serves as a resource for anyone that wants to learn more about curation and learning.

• Content Curation Primer | Beth’s Blog This post explains about the potential of content curation especially for education.This is also offers great direction on the best ways of going about it.

• curator’s code Nice overview

• TagCrowd: make your own tag cloud from any text The service offers three ways to create word clouds: copying and pasting text into TagCrowd, upload a plain text file or you can copy and paste a web address into TagCrowd. Simple and effective visuals.

• http://www.research.swinburne.edu.au/research-students/documents/plagiarism_guide.pdf

• Backup Box | Automate backup transfers for Dropbox, FTP, SFTP, Amazon, MySQL, and lots more This tool will make the process of moving from Dropbox to Box or from Google Drive to SkyDrive easy.

• DROPitTOme – Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox This a web tool that allows users to securely upload files to Dropbox. Once you are registered with DropitTome, you ‘ll be given a password protected link you (or shared with others) can use to upload files to your Dropbox account. This service is free.

• Text Layout | Festisite A website where you can type in some text and it will turn it into a shape of choice.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.