Group Link Post 08/31/2014

• Why I’m Asking You Not to Use Laptops – Lingua Franca – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  Tags: education, teaching, technology, laptop, socy201, article

• Create a More Connected Classroom | Reading By Example

  Tags: connected, classroom

• Why Investing In Girls Is The Smartest Move We Can Make

  “Lack of access to education and health care for girls around the world doesn’t just hurt girls — it hurts their families, communities and economies. Last month, UN Women released an infographic illustrating in numbers just how beneficial supporting young girls can be for a country’s economy.

  “

  Tags: gender, education, girls, UnitedNations, HuffingtonPost

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Group Link Post 08/30/2014

• Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review | Tablets Reviews | TechRadar

  Not too bad at 4 1/2 stars.

  Tags: microsoft, surface, pro, review, tablets

• Struggling With Student Loan Debt Over Age 50

  Tags: student, loan, debt, resources

• LMS 365 – The Office 365® LMS – LMS 365

  Tags: lms, office, Microsoft

• Werkcollege 1: onderwijskunde 4 by Peter Borgman on Prezi

  Tags: owk4, prezi, blended learning

• 24 Top Tools for Online Teaching

  Tags: online, teaching, tools

• Does Spelling Count? | Edutopia

  Tags: no_tag

• Prompting Mechanisms for Online Educational Environments | Brett Bixler’s e-Portfolio

  Tags: prompting

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Group links post 08/30/2014

• Select your best Ecommerce shopping cart solutions

  Ecommerce website owners are in the search of shopping cart solutions. There are innumerable choices in ecommerce shopping carts as they have huge availability of many packages by different companies. Each company claims their solutions are very cost effective and cheaper. But one has to analyze it properly and then provide their personal details on it.

  Tags: ecommerceshoppingcartandsolutions

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Group Link Post 08/29/2014

• http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/guides/edutopia-parents-guide-21st-century-learning.pdf

  This is a parent’s guide on 21st Century Learning

  Tags: 21st Century Skills, parents, learning

• The 31 Educational Web Tools Every Teacher Should Know about ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Tags: edtech, web tools, technology, education, webtools

• Clyp – Record and share audio, simply.

  Tags: audio, recorder, web_app, app, android, iOS

• Big Data 101: Colleges are hoping predictive analytics can fix their dismal graduation rates – Vox

  by Libby Nelson on July 14, 2014

  Tags: STEM, gender, graduation, analytics, data

• Financial Aid Not Enough? Ideas on How to Fill the Gap | ED.gov Blog

  Tags: aid, enough, ideas, how to, gap, gov, blog

• Enhance Students Productivity with These Web Tools ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Tags: students, productivity, web, web tools, tools, educational technology, technology, mobile, mobile learning, learning

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Group Link Post 08/28/2014

• Hyperlapse, Instagram’s New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand | Design | WIRED

  Tags: app, video, setup, hand, design, wired

• Pasi Sahlberg – Five U.S. innovations that helped Finland’s schools improve but that American reformers now ignore

  Tags: innovations, schools, practices

• Complete Guide to Open Educational Resources — Campus Technology

  “Complete Guide to Open Educational Resources”

  Tags: guide, resources, campus, technology

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Group Link Post 08/27/2014

• MOOCs: Top 10 Sites for Free Education With Elite Universities

  Tags: MOOCS, Massive open online courses, Online, mooc, education, OER, elearning

• Staying Organized using Google Apps for Ed. in the classroom | Tales of an 8th grade nothing

  Tags: google apps, google, organization, google forms

• Four Skills to Teach Students In the First Five Days of School | MindShift

  Tags: no_tag

• 21 GIFs That Explain Mathematical Concepts | IFLScience

  gifs para visualizar Pitágoras, el triángulo de Pascal, radianes, senos, …

  Tags: matemáticas, matemáticas_divertidas, maths

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Group links post 08/27/2014

• 25 Most Useful Websites And Apps For Students That Will Make You Smarter

  Many people say that today’s college students have it easy. All information they need is at their fingertips, so they can easily complete all academic projects after browsing the Internet for a few hours.

  Tags: websites, apps, students, writing, online, smarter, education, tools, technology, collaboration, resources, learning

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Group Link Post 08/26/2014

• Timeline: A Brief History of Distance Education – Valerie Feagin Reed

  An excellent, interactive timeline by Valerie Feagin Reed on the historical development of distance education.

  Tags: timeline, brief, history, distance, education, distance education

• What does John Hattie think about education? | David Didau: The Learning Spy

  “Hattie is very clear that the biggest difference made in education is teacher quality and expertise:“It really comes down to expertise, teacher expertise… How teachers think; how they make daily decisions and judgements. It’s not necessarily what they do, it’s not necessarily who they are; it’s how they think.””

  Tags: education, JohnHattie, TeachingStandards, LearingSpy

• History of Distance Education by Jamie McCartney

  History of distance learning as described by Jamie McCartney – excellent presentation.

  Tags: history, distance, distance learning, elearning

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Group Link Post 08/25/2014

• Envision Schools Project Exchange

  “A place for teachers to share project-based high school curriculum”

  Tags: pbl, ProjectBasedLearning, projects, curriculum, collaboration, education, resources, learning

• CIESE – Curriculum: K-12 CIESE Online Classroom Projects

  ” The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education”

  Tags: collaboration, science, math, engineering, project, global, pbl, STEM

• Home | Students at the Center

  Tags: learning, student-centered, teaching, student, students, personalized, centered, personalized learning, news, resources, review, tools

• 25 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom, By Degree Of Difficulty – Edudemic

  Tags: technology, twitter

• Designing for Emergence: The Role of the Instructor in Student-Centered Learning – Hybrid Pedagogy

  Tags: designing, emergence, instructor, learning, hybrid, pedagogy

• Try the New ViewPure for Distraction-free Viewing of YouTube Videos

  ViewPure is a service that allows you to watch and project YouTube videos without seeing the related sidebar content typically seen on YouTube.com. ViewPure offers a free browser bookmarklet that you can use to clear the sidebar content while viewing a video on YouTube. 

  Tags: youtube

• A Python Visualizer | doug — off the record

  Tags: python, programming

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Group Link Post 08/23/2014

• Home – Big6

  Tags: Research, big6, information_literacy, education, resource, technology, Library, Learning

• Medium

  A great site where anyone can tell their story or express their ideas.

  Tags: publishing, social, tools, Writing, publish, students

• 9 Ideas to Help Explain Common Core to Parents — THE Journal

  Resource for #BTS #BacktoSchool night for #Parents in #LMTSD to explain #CCSS #CommonCore State #Standards…

  Tags: CCSS, CommonCore, common core, state, standards, fordummies, dummies, guide, core

• 4 Ways to Enhance Your Class with Google Hangouts – Edudemic

  Tags: google, hangouts

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