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Research & Library Lesson Plan Ideas or Cool ideas that could be amazing Ed Tech lessons
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Insights into how educators are using the powerful free app in the classroom. I recently got back from Google Summit California. Although a Lucidchart rep went
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Cool beans! 
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Great article! Even if it's a bit of Shameless self promotion ;-) Makerspaces don't have to be only 3D Printers & Green Screens!
What was left out of the interview was you can create a Makerspaces school! • Have kids create, film, & produce a Cooking Show in the FACS room! • Have kids design a personal LOGO then create cool pottery, fire it in the Art Room & paint it with their brand. • My kids have also designed & created pencil holders & bookends around their favourite Game APP in the TechEd room like Angry Birds! http://flic.kr/p/aDf9ue ; - then they can write a script and "sell" them on our TV show like an InfoMercial!
#EdChat #TLChat
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Looking to create a cool animation? Check out these five easy-to-use tools for making your own animated logos, title sequences and personalized cartoons.
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feat. @Xtranormal & my friends @GoAnimate!!
Maria Richards's curator insight,
May 24, 2013 7:17 PM
Ok teachers you can start here.... It's not too scary!
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alistairm 's curator insight,
July 24, 2013 6:23 AM
Useful summary of lots of different articles on Bring Your Own Device learning. Mainly US based examples. 
Angela C. Dowd's curator insight,
July 24, 2013 5:01 PM
Thanks for this scoop! The TeachThought site has helpful links related to students bringing their own devices (BYOD). I think it's important to find ways to resolve problems around BYOD because having a device you are comfortable using adds value.
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"Creating an eBook online is no rocket science and anyone with the rudimentary knowledge of how to use internet can get his/her eBook up and viral in a couple of minutes provided the content part of it is already written in a word document. I find the typing and editing part the most difficult stage in this process; however, if you just want to set up a short ebook for your students then that would not take you much time.
Via John Evans, Julie Lindsay
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I see the tell tale signs of my beloved Comic Life!
John Rudkin's curator insight,
March 30, 2013 4:09 AM
Great use of Comic Life (or similar) to add an informality to learning materials. 
Melissa Cooper's curator insight,
April 3, 2013 3:39 AM
A great way for young authors to share their work 
Stefanie Stewart Crosser's curator insight,
September 20, 2014 5:08 PM
There are various ways to use technology in the classroom, but how long does it take to prepare lessons through technology? They say "Don't take your work home" because it can seriously affect one's family and home-life, but is there enough time in the day to prepare effective lessons without taking your job home? Teachers are not paid enough to create their own lesson plans using technology - let along to teach, with all of the constant changing standards!
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One of the apps I have used with students in the past to create fake Facebook walls is My Fake Wall. Tonight, I went to the site to see how well it was working. The last time I tried it there were ...
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OMGosh! Thank goodness Sarah Bayliss, ace reporter, let me know that one of my fav sites for creating free & online fake FaceBooks sites NOW links to an escort site! DOH! FIX & Delete your links!
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This is the handout for the iPad sessions led by Mary Philips at MACUL 2013.
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iPad Primer -A Pretty Awesome COMIC tutorial by @bcteacher #MACUL2013 |
Megan Hall's curator insight,
June 9, 2013 4:54 PM
great resource for our teachers with the iPad rollout next year
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The simplest way to see exactly what's on your Apple device's screen is buy Apple's VGA ( Dock Connector or Lightning ) or HDMI ( Dock Connector or Lightning ) adapters.
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MIT Open Documentary Lab:: "In the second part in this series, Elaine McMillion talks about her work, mainly focusing on her interactive documentary Hollow, a “hybrid community participatory project and interactive documentary” that uses HTML5 to depict a West Virginia community via video, photography, soundscapes and interactive data."
Via The Digital Rocking Chair, Joyce Valenza
Debbie Elicksen 's curator insight,
March 18, 2013 1:32 PM
You need to have an understanding of user experience and narrative. 
Luca Brigada's curator insight,
March 18, 2013 6:18 PM
Mc Million about storytelling: "As an interactive storyteller, you need to have an understanding of user experience, design and coding, but most importantly you have to understand what makes a strong narrative. [...] So while it’s helpful to understand the technology, it’s essential to understand how stories are consumed, generated, shared, repurposed and controlled by online audiences. I think it’s important for an interactive storyteller to give up a level of control and work with your team to discuss the number of ways a story should and could be told. Some stories are best told through video, while others may be more powerful through audio and photos [...]"
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Syba Signs is Australia's and New Zealand's leading supplier of library signage to schools. Find us online.
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Managing your digital footprint Great links ;-) + Fantastic Posters for kids for this topic!
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Kiki is a magazine for girls who love life, appreciate creativity, and recognize good ideas. A Kiki reader thinks for herself, has her own look, and is on her way to being a confident, strong, and smart young woman.
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Kiki Magazine - Any Middle School peeps subscribe to this? Any good? Will it beat TWIST mag?
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The Connected Concierge in Your School Join @librarian_tiff & @TheNerdyTeacher 4/8 #TLChat --- this is going to be a powerhouse FREE TL Virtual Cafe webinar!
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Buy your domain for $10 a yr from Google for your Blog & re-direct it- TRIXY but worth it!
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->Embarrassing EARLY Webpage frm 2000 -Still hosted on Angelfire! LOL
Computers PowerMac 5200's -- early GOOGLE & no Firefox Remember AltaVista? Bernie Dodge features prominently! Kathy Schrock gets a metion! Hanspring Visor & PDA's!
SO much has changed! What has not?
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From
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Makerspaces, sometimes also referred to as hackerspaces, hackspaces, and fablabs are creative, DIY spaces where people can gather to create, invent, and learn.
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Keep an eye out for this topic, more later! I'm really impressed also with the Makerspace that the Nashville Public Limitless Library was crowdsourcing and building back in Feb! I saw them on an ISTE Board of Directors trip and was blown away!!!!!
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We somehow have come to believe that information is free, but people with Internet access pay substantial sums to get it -- sums many can't afford.
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The #1 place for free Microsoft Word newspaper templates for students that are printable and blank. Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, Jamie Forshey
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And don't forget @Wikispaces now has built in Templates!
Saray Galindo Glez's curator insight,
April 6, 2013 9:53 AM
Interesante para trabajar prensa con los alumn@s. 
Tracee Orman's curator insight,
April 6, 2013 10:18 AM
Microsoft Word newspaper templates you can share with your students. Great for a 1:1/paperless school. I can see lots of creative potential using these. :)
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When going into any job interview, you are sure to be asked by the interviewer for your resume. Imagine giving him/her your iPad. Why? Your future employers have attention spans like you do so why ...
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"With the Mac app, iBooks Author (and now Adobe InDesign CS5), one can create interactive textbooks from existing templates. What if you used that idea of interaction with media in a textbook to create an interactive resume!"
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Art cannot be created or destroyed -- only remixed. In a convincing talk from TEDGlobal 2012, director Kirby Ferguson explores the challenges of originality and freshness in a world where creativity takes root in what has come before.
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Google just revealed plans to shut down eight of its services as part of what it’s calling an ongoing spring cleaning effort. Some of them are pretty arcane, but among TechCrunch writers, anyway, we’re pretty bummed to see that Google Reader will be shut down on July 1. Via Guillaume Decugis
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight,
March 16, 2013 4:29 AM
I've started to pay more attention to Zite and ScoopIt just for this reason. Google reader was expansive. The downside, social media and apps can easily create filter bubbles instead of the mosaic scan that Reader could facilitate.
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Beth Kanter's comment,
March 18, 2013 11:56 PM
I weaned myself off Google Reader when I started going deeper into content curation and using scoop.it - now I'm glad I did http://www.bethkanter.org/rip-google-reader/
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The importance of tablets to ecommerce is well-documented, with research consistently showing that the devices convert at a much higher rate than smartphones. Via Guillaume Decugis
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The Smartphone once was getting smaller, then bigger, will the Tablet TAKE OVER!?
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March 10, 2013 10:22 PM
This is something that was from from being a sure win when tablets were launched. But as some web sites have observed - including us here at Scoop.it (stay tuned for details) - tablets are not just canibalizing laptops but also developing new usage and consumption patternMisread details in this article on this must-read Adobe study. |
Super cool idea for a Library orientation lesson! Adapting an idea I got at the #AASL07 Conference in Reno & totally updated! It Rocks!