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Bloggers on Project Based Learning
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Top Ten Tips for Assessing Project-Based Learning | Edutopia
“This classroom guide is intended to inspire and expand your thinking about effective assessment for project-based learning. The tips are organized to follow the arc of a project. First comes planning, then the launch into active learning, and then a culminating presentation. Reflection is the final stage.”
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How to Get Projects Off to a Good Start
“In project-based learning, project kickoff is an exciting day — and for good reason. This is when PBL shifts from planning to active learning — the moment when students enter the picture. By planning entry events that fire up their curiosity, you’ll engage students’ sense of inquiry right from the start.”
Category: 2.0
Bookmarks for 05/04/2011
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Create, edit, and share digital stories. Works with most digital devices.
Interactive Panorama of FedEx Forum via Photosynth
I used the new Photosynth app to create my first panoramic. It is a view of the FedEx Forum about an hour before tip-off at last night’s game. It was Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference Playoffs between the Memphis Grizzlies and the San Antonio Spurs.
The Grizz won and lead the series 3-1!
Believe Memphis.
Educational Connections
The app is free, works easily, and the educational implications are exciting and interesting.
- Create virtual field trips
- Students can collaborate and develop virtual tours of a series of related landmarks, cities, etc. (Sites of the American Revolution, artworks from the Renaissance, and more).
- Bring new creativity to book reports, presentations, research, and much more.
Related Articles
- Microsoft’s Immersive Photosynth Camera App Lands – on iOS (nytimes.com)
- Microsoft Releases ‘Photosynth’ – Great New Panorama App for iOS (cultofmac.com)
- Microsoft’s Immersive Photosynth Camera App Lands – On iOS (gigaom.com)
- One Win Away: Grizzlies 104, Spurs 86
- Grizzlies’ grit comes to surface in Game 4
ShowMe iPad App: Easily Create Online Video Tutorials
ShowMe makes it possible to easily record interactive lessons on your iPad and share them online. It’s simple and intuitive and is the type of technology that can revolutionize the way we teach, provide support, and individualize instruction. Here is a quick video demonstration.
Examples
The following video tutorials are examples of how ShowMe might be used in and out of the classroom. (Note to ShowMe’s staff: It would be helpful to teachers if the tutorials were embeddable.)
- Pool Basics: Tangent Line and Trajectory
- Architecture: Maximizing Outdoor Space
- Language Arts: Agreement
Potential Impact
I agree with TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld that was is especially exciting about Show Me is that we are getting a “glimpse of how the iPad can completely change the way people learn. Any teacher can simply record their lessons and their students would need nothing more than an iPad to learn. Add some real-time chat and maybe some video, and it is not too difficult to see how this kind of technology can turn the iPad into a classroom.” (Source)
Related Articles
- Can An iPad Replace a Whiteboard? (gdstechtips.wordpress.com)
- The ShowMe Teaching Technology Behind The New Princeton Review SAT iPad App (TCTV) (techcrunch.com)
Bookmarks for 04/18/2011
Bookmarks for 04/14/2011
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“AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you great alternatives, based on user recommendations.”
Software And Apps for Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone, Android, Web Apps/Online And Other Platforms
Audio and Video Tutorials Made Simple #aaim2011
I’ve been developing this professional development workshop for the past few months and I am excited about presenting it for the first time today at the AAIM Conference.
Workshop Description
Equip parents to help with homework and enable students to engage with course content inside and outside the classroom with online tutorials. Learn how to easily create audio and video tutorials using free web-based resources.
Workshop Resources
Wiki Page with workshop lesson plan, tutorials, notes, and materials
Audio and Video Tutorials Made Simple
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Bookmarks for 03/29/2011
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“Free Online Plagiarism Checker and Duplicate Content Finder”
Educational Technology: Current Trends and Future Directions
This is my slide deck for my keynote presentation at today’s Tennessee Administrator’s Technology Academy. The following serves as an outline of some of the topics that will be highlighted and demonstrated.
- Standards, 21st Century Learning, and Higher-Order Thinking Skills
- Classroom Examples
- Web 2.0 Tools and Services
- Benefits and Barriers
- “Telecollaboration”
- Audio and Video
- Mash-Ups
- Mobile Learning
- Interactivity
- State of Innovation
- A Personal Experience
- Conclusions and Discussion
Educational Technology: Current Trends and Future Directions
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Image Source: http://www.hackstacks.com
Related Articles
- The Rise of the Teacherpreneur (growvc.com)
- current conditions and future trends of educational technology for 2012 (compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com)
Digital Tools for Teachers’ Toolboxes (Version 2.1) at #msmeca11
More than 3,000 teachers were informally surveyed about the Web 2.0 tools that they and their students most commonly used. This presentation will provide a hands-on introduction to these tools along with teacher-created and student-created examples. Strategies for implementation will be shared.
Workshop materials available on the resource wiki, Learning Collaboratively.
Digital Tools for Teachers' Toolboxes, Version 2.1
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