Entries Tagged as 'tools'

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011

November 26, 2011 · No Comments · Cool Tools, digital writing, digital writing workshop, learning, literacy, Literacy in Social Studies, tools

I found this here and I want to share it. This was created by Jane Hart, a Social Learning Consultant at Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 View more presentations from Jane Hart

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Best Practices in Writing Instruction

October 8, 2011 · No Comments · Miscellaneous, writing

Teachers must be prepared to teach writing effectively. Teachers must value writing as process for learning. The teaching of writing is the responsibility of all teachers (including the PE, social studies, science teachers, etc.) Students must write frequently…….I get writers and talkers block too! Students must use writing as a tool to support learning across [...]

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Learning!

September 20, 2010 · No Comments · learning

Today I was visiting the Instructional Technology website of the St. Vrain Valley School District and the first four lines of grabbed my attention: “We know three things: Learning takes time. Learning is a social process. Learning about technology should be embedded within sound instructional practices.” Technology for the means of technology is so pointless [...]

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Learning

November 23, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I think learning cannot be seen as linear and the Internet is example of learning. It is far from being linear. Technology has the greatest potential to disrupt learning as we know it on a massive scale. It is already doing it. It is doing is such massive scales we fail to grasp the process [...]

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K12 Online Conference Impact: A Revolution in Education

October 24, 2008 · No Comments · Instructional Technology, learning, Planning, professional development, Teaching

The K12 Online Conference Experience has been awesome so far. I have learned so much from Bob Sprankle, Alice Barr, Cherly Oakes, Jennifer Kraft, Gardner Campbell, Chris Belcher and many others. I am a day or so behind in participation. All the ones are worth sharing here on my blog, but two have stood out [...]

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Discussion: technology as a tool for providing experiences and building knowledge

May 5, 2008 · No Comments · 21st Century, Instructional Technology, learning

Learning does become authentic when mixed together with your own experiences and own knowledge base.  What happens when a child’s experiences are limited and the knowledge base is limited? I teach in a high poverty rural schools with students have limited access to the Internet. It is funny they all have cell phones and MP3 [...]

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What is Google Documents— In Plain English

January 27, 2008 · No Comments · Google Tools, Web 2.0, Web Tools

Common Craft Productions created this video to explain Google Document in Plain English.

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