Group Link Post 10/31/2013

• DragonBox – The multi-platform Math Game

  Secretly teaches students Algebra. 85% of students in Washington state could do algebra after 90 minutes playing the game.

  Tags: algebra, game, teaching, gaming

• http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/occasional_papers/2006/RAND_OP170.pdf

  Tags: FSU, data, driven, decision

• 20 Evernote Search Features You Should Be Using

  “My goal in this article is to help you understand the available Evernote search tools, so that you will find it even easier and more enjoyable to use, than it already is. And if you’re not a current Evernote user, to encourage you to take a look (or another look) at it. Note that these methods can be used in both desktop and web versions.”

  Tags: no_tag

• Google tool

  Tags: Google, docs, sites, Tools

• http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/43023606.pdf

  Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments

  Tags: oecd, edu, school, learning, environment, effective, teaching

• An Immigration once again… | eLearning Island

  How many of us have that heart-sinking experience when a presenter talks at us older people as immigrants and the younger as natives, when in fact, we are all in this together.

  Tags: Prensky, Immigrant, Native, Creation, learning

• Next generation K-12 U.S. science standards and drive toward climate literacy generate synchronicity of ideas

  Tags: ngss

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Proj Based Learning Group 10/31/2013

• Microsoft Dynamics Online Training | KBS Training Institute

  Microsoft dynamics training has become an essential part to cope up with the present competitive trend of industrial sectors.

  Tags: microsoft, dynamics, online, training, institute

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Group Link Post 10/30/2013

• TEDxNYED – Dan Meyer – 03/06/10 – YouTube

  This guy is such a great teacher and I love his blog. So many ideas!

  Tags: math, TED, teaching, mathematics, Dan, Meyer, youtube

• http://carnegie.org/fileadmin/Media/Publications/WritingToRead_01.pdf

  Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading

  Tags: Writing, reading, Research, resources

• Twenty Tips for Managing Project-Based Learning | Edutopia

  In honor of Edutopia’s 20th anniversary, we’re producing a series of Top 20 lists, from the practical to the sublime.

  Tags: PBL, strategies, edutopia, blog, projects, project based learning

• Webbing for lesson plans in preschool | Teach Preschool

  Tags: lesson, plan, lesson plans, preschool, ece

• plotly

  “Plotly is a collaborative data analysis and graphing tool.”

  Tags: visualization, data, graph, plot, plotting, graphics

• https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent?id=uuid:2fbfd534-24f8-4ff0-afde-2646e9053fc3&ds=DATA_FILE

  THE READING-WRITING CONNECTION: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE
  RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READING ABILITY AND WRITING QUALITY ACROSS MULTIPLE GRADES AND THREE WRITING DISCOURSE MODES (dissertation)

  Tags: research

• Math and PBL resources

  Tags: Math, PBL, Project, Based, Learning

• Explee.Animate Your Ideas, create amazing explainer videos

  Tags: storytelling, flipped, classroom, explee, video, animate

• 9 Steps For Schools To Create Their Own BYOD Policy

  Tags: byod, policy

• One, two, buckle my shoe: Importance of language to learning math

  Tags: math, language

• Flipped Class Webinar with Crystal Kirch 10.23.13 Tutorial | Sophia Learning

  Tags: things, elephant, webinar, class, crystal, tutorial, learning, resources, tools

• INTEGRATING READING AND WRITING INSTRUCTION THROUGH CLOSE READING AND WRITING REVISION

  Tags: research

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Group links post 10/30/2013

• Cool Tools for Teaching Vocabulary

  Tags: cool, tools, teaching, vocabulary, ccss

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Group Link Post 10/29/2013

• The ReDistricting Game

  a game that shows the power of gerrymandering

  Tags: social, studies, civics, gerrymandering

• Foreign Language Teaching Methods

  A great resource for refreshing pedagogical skills. Choose which modules you find most useful and focus on those or do the whole course. Go at your own pace.

  Tags: teaching, methods, language, education

• Online Bomb Timer

  Tags: timer, bomb, tools, resources

• Five-Minute Film Festival: Flipped Classrooms | Edutopia

  Tags: Flippedclassroom, edtech, flipped_classroom, classroom

• Zombie-Based Learning

  Tags: geography, learning, zombie, gamification, based, zombies, tools, resources

• 10 reasons Ph.D. students fail

  “10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D.
  The attrition rate in Ph.D. school is high. Anywhere from a third to half will fail.

  In fact, there’s a disturbing consistency to grad school failure.

  I’m supervising a lot of new grad students this semester, so for their sake, I’m cataloging the common reasons for failure. Read on for the top ten reasons students fail out of Ph.D. school.”

  Tags: students, phd, dissertation, fail, dropout, blog

• blubbr

  Create video based quizzes with this useful site and share them online with your class. Search for YouTube videos within the site and crop the section you what to use. Then enter your questions and multiple correct & wrong choices to build the quiz.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

  Tags: video, quiz, YouTube

• Interactive Ear

  Use this interactive online ear diagram to examine the workings of how we hear sound. You can embed the ear on to your website (much better that embedding a website in to your ear!) Found via @WengersToyBus
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

  Tags: ear, science, human body

• More professors using social media as teaching tools | Inside Higher Ed

  Tags: social media, social_media, faculty

• Web Literacy Standard – Mozilla Webmaker

  A map of competencies and skills that a group of Mozilla stakeholders (including Doug Belshaw) thought was important for getting better at reading, writing and participating on the web. Organised under three headings: exploring, building, connecting

  Tags: literacy, digital literacy, mozilla

• A Peek Into the Future: What College Will Be Like in 10 Years – WSJ.com

  Tags: no_tag

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Group links post 10/29/2013

• ForAllRubrics – Super Powered Rubrics

  a 21st century assessing system. create rubric (can choose CCCR standards), import student roster. click on rubric to record grade of individual student (works on an ipad, too). get class diagnostics. can share with parents. farewell, rubistar!

  Tags: rubric, rubrimaker, standardsbased, cc, formativeassessment, assessment, classroom2.0

• Writing with Technology – Tackk

  great, short list of, mostly, web-based tools for writing/storytelling from a masscue2013 workshop.

  “For grades K-6, the Common Core requires that students use technology to produce and publish writing, while interacting and collaborating. As the students age, their level of independence increases. Each of the tools that I present to you today, allows for these 4 key actions.”

  Tags: masscue, cc, ela, writing, digitalstorytelling, video, collaboration, classroom2.0

• EDpuzzle

  Very Cool! Crop YouTube, Kahn Academy, Learn Zillion videos. Remove the sound. Add your own narration. INSERT QUESTIONS wherever you want. questions automatically graded!
  Very simple interface!

  Tags: video, youtube, blendedlearning, flippedclassroom, classroom2.0

• E-Commerce Website Designing & Development in Pakistan | Web Designing – Web Development – SE Software Technologies

  Tags: education, collaboration, Web, web2.0, Tools, technology, resources, learning, teaching, 2.0

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Proj Based Learning Group 10/29/2013

• http://webs.uvigo.es/webvicfie/ciclo_video/Alfredo%20Prieto%20e%20David%20D%C3%ADaz.PDF

  Tags: ABP, PBL, universidad

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Group Link Post 10/28/2013

• Transfer as the point of education

  Tags: transfer, knowledge

• Web tools to support inquiry based learning | Eduwebinar

  Tags: web2.0, inquiry, Information_Literacy, Research, Inquiry_Based_Learning, webtools, tools, informationliteracy

• Rethinking Whole Class Discussion | Edutopia

  Tags: discussion, questioning, class, edutopia

• Canva – Amazingly simple graphic design

  Tags: Canva, graphic_design

• pickaface.net

  Design an avatar to use in creative writing or class name cards for students with this avatar creator.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

  Tags: avatar

• OpenEd

  Tags: resources, web2.0, common_core, education, opened

• 7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills | Edutopia

  Tags: coding, programming, teaching, children, skills

• Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Online Tools That Help You Align Lessons to Common Core Standards

  Tags: online tools, CommonCore, standards, lessons

• Common Core in Action: How Two Science Teachers are Implementing Common Core | Edutopia

  Tags: CommonCore, science, edutopia

• EDpuzzle

  A superb site where you can crop YouTube & other online videos, add audio messages and quiz questions which provide individual assessment feedback to check understanding of your students.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

  Tags: video, quiz, assessment

• 11 Virtual Tools for the Math Classroom | Edutopia

  Tags: math, tools, apps

• Handy Chrome Extensions and Apps for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Link to Google Doc that will help to provide useful Chrome Apps and Extensions

  Tags: resources, educational technology, Google, teacher tools

• Reach Out and Teach

  Blog post about how more educators can share ideas and resources online and the tools with which to do it.

  Tags: education, teachers, teaching, teaching resources, sharing, file sharing

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Group Link Post 10/27/2013

• grmr.me

  Tags: grammar, writing, youtube, interactive, english

• The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational

  Tags: reflection

• mistercorippo

  Tags: apple, resources

• Infographic: 7 Myths and Facts About Online Learning

  Helpful look at some of the reasons we need to help students learn how to engage in online content through blended and asynchronous learning environments.

  Tags: online learning, blended learning

• Click on Me! Create Interactive YouTube Videos.

  Interactive Youtube presenation

  Tags: youtube, interactive

• Fall Cue 2013 – Google Scripts – Google Drive

  Tags: google, scripts, resources

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Group links post 10/27/2013

• My Languages: Speaking Activities & Using Technology to Develop Oracy in the MFL Classroom, MMU, 25th October 2013

  Tags: languages, speaking, ICT, CDP

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