I'm getting a bit nervous for a text-based chat for EdWeek! This event starts in a half hour and everyone is encouraged to jump into the conversation. Here's an embedded version of the chat in CoveritLive:
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I'm getting a bit nervous for a text-based chat for EdWeek! This event starts in a half hour and everyone is encouraged to jump into the conversation. Here's an embedded version of the chat in CoveritLive:
Posted by Lucy Gray on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 12:33 PM | Permalink
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Podcast Library | Open Culture
This is one part of a really fabulous blog. Tons of resources here.
While You Were Out - Apple’s Years With and Without Steve Jobs - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Twitter Search in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation
PDK International | Advocacy for Education
tags: globalawareness, globaled, globaleducation, global_education
Using iPods to Turn Students On To Reading (Part 1 of 2) « TICALevision
tags: podcasts, ipodined, ipodsandpodcasting, ipodsined, ipod, reading
tags: globaleducation, global_education, stateof, statistics
Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age
Mitch Resnick, MIT
tags: MIT, research, digital, learning, education, new, media, literacy, literacies, fluency
John Seely Brown
tags: web2.0, learning, education, technology, social, software, media
Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity | Video on TED.com
Educational Leadership and Social Capital
found a reference to this in a Futurelab report George Otero and John West-Burnham
Like this quote:
"If academic standards are to be raised in a sustainable way, and broader educational aspirations achieved, then educationists will have to see their role in creating social capital rather than just improving classroom practice."
tags: technology, social, media, software, education, change
Adults and Social Network Websites | Pew Internet & American Life Project
The nine tribes of the internet | Pew Internet & American Life Project
The Web 2.0 Way of Learning with Technologies
International Journal of Learning Technology
Vol. 3 No 1 2007
Rollet, Lux, Strohmaier, Dosinger, Tochtermann
What is Web 2.0? Ideas, Technologies, and Implications for Education
Paul Anderson
JISC
tags: web2.0, education, technology, research, social, software
National e-books project brings free learning to further education : JISC
Tweeting Your Way to Better Grades - US News and World Report - Annotated
Learning to Be Part of the Knowledge Economy: Digital Divides and Media Literacy
tags: digitaldivide, digital, divide, globaled, globaleducation, global_education, technology
International Higher Education Consulting Blog™
tags: globaled, globalawareness, globaleducation, global_education
Interactive Mathematics Program® (IMP™): - Key Curriculum Press
Check out the plethora of global ed resources at the University of North Carolina site.
Infinite Thinking Machine - Expanding your NECC 2009 Experience
PLoS ONE : accelerating the publication of peer-reviewed science
tags: globalawareness, globaled, globaleducation, global_education, human, rights
Posted by Lucy Gray on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 07:48 PM | Permalink
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Education Week: Cutting-Edge Classroom Technology.
On June 23rd, I'll be a guest on Education Week's live chat on cutting-edge classroom technology along with Eric Klopfer of MIT. EdWeek's Katie Ash will be moderating. Come join this CoverItLive session and add your two cents! Make sure you check out EdWeek's tech publication, Digital Directions, too.
Posted by Lucy Gray on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 05:39 AM | Permalink
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Google has launched a new section on their web site focused on Search features. Brief videos explain several of Search's features, including how to efficiently find public data, sport scores, weather reports and stock quotes. Did you know that the Search box also can serve as a calculator, dictionary, unit converter and flight tracker, too? There's more on this web site including interviews with Google Search engineers and user search stories.
Whenever I do workshops, it always surprises me how many people don't know about Search features! This should help, so spread the word!
Posted by Lucy Gray on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 05:27 AM in Google | Permalink
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"If academic standards are to be raised in a sustainable way, and broader educational aspirations achieved, then educationists will have to see their role in creating social capital rather than just improving classroom practice."
George Otero and John West-Burnham
Educational Leadership and Social Capital
Posted by Lucy Gray on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 10:36 PM in Innovation | Permalink
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Why, then, should educators consider some of the current predictions of developments in digital technologies?
If educators are to shape the future of education) and not have it shaped for them by external technical developments) it is crucial that we engaged with developments in digital technologies at the earliest stages. We need to understand how best we might harness these changes. Without this early engagement we risk, as always being the Cinderella sector of the technology world - constantly receiving the hand-me-downs from the business, defence and leisure industries and then trying to repurpose them for educational goals. Withouth this early engagement, we also risk designing educational practies and approaches that will be rendered obsolte and anachronistic in the context of new human-technology capabilities."
Posted by Lucy Gray on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 02:38 PM in Innovation | Permalink
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I've been enjoying a few entries from Seth Godin's blog including this post which reminds me of many of my Apple Distinguished Educators friends. It describes many of their attributes and I hope I evolve in this direction.
For the past few years, I've really wrestled with whether or not my work or ideas matter; it's not particularly good for one's morale to think that you don't matter. I think the bottom line is to not expect validation from one's peers or colleagues and be happy if that does happen. However, I do think supervisors should always be mindful of this when looking at the big picture within in an organization. On a personal level, think about the last time you let someone know that their work, ideas, contributions etc. matter. Pay it foward!
For more worthwhile posts by Seth Godin, check out these other two that I appreciated recently:
Posted by Lucy Gray on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM in ADE | Permalink
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Cross Posted at the Infinite Thinking Machine
View and edit NECC 2009 Washington, DC in a larger map. Please add your recommendations!
It's that time of year again... The International Society for Technology in Education will celebrate its 30th birthday in a few weeks by hosting the National Educational Computing Conference in Washington, D.C. For me, it's a particularly exciting time to be visiting our nation's capital in light of our new president and a renewed focus on improving education.
NECC 2009 promises to be professionally rejuvenating event for anyone interested in educational technology. It is a potentially overwhelming conference with nearly 13,000 attendees and approximately 500 vendors presenting their wares. For the record, educational technology has never been about the tools for me (although I do revel in the cool factor of many technologies), but about leveraging learning for kids. That said, I hope that educators from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests will attend for similar reasons. I would actually like to see the excitement about educational technology filter down more to those who aren't necessarily techie geeks like myself.
For the past few years, I've posted a blog entry highlighting a few tips and tricks for making the most of your NECC experience. Review my ideas for 2007 and for 2008; I still stand by that general advice. Pick an area of focus, spend time planning before you get to Washington with that theme in mind, and give yourself plenty of time to digest everything. Bring your laptop for taking notes and accessing additional content; I suspect more people will be using iPhones for this purpose, however. Finally, get connected with other educators through the plethora of events that are scheduled. For the second year, ISTE has an online community for conference conversation. Networking isn't just for job seekers or administrators anymore!
If you are not able to attend in person, you should be able to participate virtually as well. Some presenters may elect to post their materials online and to stream video feeds of their presentations. At Edubloggercon, an informal "unconference" to be held Saturday, June 27 as a precursor to NECC, many sessions will also be broadcast via tools such as Ustream. Finally, similar sessions called NECC Unplugged will be taking place in the Blogger's Café during the actual conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
In addition to all this, people will be blogging, posting pictures, and twittering away about conference happenings. You can find this stuff by searching various sources using tags (keyword labels) such as NECC, NECC2009, and NECC09. For instance, search Twitter using #NECC and you'll find a steady microblogging stream. I recommend searching Technorati for blog posts and Flickr for photos in a similar manner.
Finally, I like to make the most of any travel experience by doing a little research ahead of time. I usually do a cursory search in iTunes for content related to my destination that I can put on my iPod or iPhone. For instance, I purchased the audiobook of A Cricket in Times Square for my daughter when we traveled to New York City prior to NECC 2005. In 2006, I traveled to Europe with other Apple Distinguished Educators on a project and I brought along a Passport to Europe episode on Berlin and a No Reservations episode on Paris (this show isn't necessarily for kids, by the way). In addition to these items, there are tons of free podcasts available in iTunes if you do a search for your particular destination.
I've taken the liberty of putting together a few Washington DC related resources. I have not reviewed all of these; I just explored and plucked ones that look potentially interesting. If you have any additional recommendations, please add them to the comments. Enjoy and see you in DC. I'll be in the Google booth from time to time and presenting as part of Larry Anderson's Podcasting and Podcatching for the Absolute Beginner panel. Stop by and say hello!
Washington DC and NECC Resources
Lucy's NECC Calendar - Each year, I use the NECC conference planner to plot any sessions interesting to me. I'm focusing on math, science and interactive whiteboards this year.
Lucy's NECC '09 Map - Join this Google Map and add your info and recommendations.
NECC Ning - NECC's online community; attendees and virtual attendees are welcome to join.
GovFresh - one stop shopping for multimedia produced by the U.S. governent. Everything is aggregated in one place; web 2.0 at its finest!
Apps for your iPhone:
Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 01:02 PM in Conferences, Google, Google Certified Teachers, Infinite Thinking Machine, NECC, NECC2009 | Permalink
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Reminds me a bit of Summerhill
World Savvy: Think Beyond Your Borders
tags: globalawareness, globaleducation, global_education, globaled
Twitter Trends: Why Do Men Follow Men? - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
VideoSurf Video Search Engine | Watch Free Videos Online, Funny Videos, TV Episodes, Movies and more
SpeEdChange: Great Schools: 1. Changing Everything
Interesting blog post on New Rochelle schools
Grassroots Science: An Article Wishlist For The Journal of Scientific Communication
Scratchpads | biodiversity online
tags: CEMSE, science, education, biodiversity, socialnetworking, web2.0
An Innovative Use of Twitter: monitoring fish catch! : A Blog Around The Clock
Seth's Blog: Learning from the MBA program
tags: innovation, MBA, learning, cool, tocheckout, toblogabout
STEM education for girls
EduHound's Classroom Tools & Tips :: EduHound's Ed Tech Resource Newsletter -June 4, 2009
STEM Equity links
Engineering Interact - Interactive science & engineering for 9-11 year olds
The Angel Rock Project :: Journey for Change: Empowering Youth Through Global Service
Chris Rock's wife's foundation Took kids to South Africa
tags: servicelearning, globalawareness, globaleducation, global_education, foundations
Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction - TheApple.com
tags: differentiated-instruction, differentiatedinstruction, learningdifferences
Are you Twinfluential? The confusing world of Twitter rankings | Chris Spagnuolo's EdgeHopper
Edusim - 3D virtual worlds for the classrom interactive whiteboard
tags: virtual, world, interactive, whiteboard, smartboard, smartboards
Stephen Dinan: The Shift List: Evolutionary Leaders on Twitter
tags: philanthropy, globaleducation, global_education, globalawareness, camp
U.S. Fund for UNICEF - UNICEF USA - TeachUNICEF: Providing tools for success (Fieldnotes)
NYC.gov - Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Production News
Coalition for Science After School (CSAS)
tags: CEMSE, afterschool, science, education, informal, learning
Education Week: Informal Experiences Can Go a Long Way in Teaching Science
DukeEngage | International Programs
Duke has a community service program that has an international component. This might be a good example of how higher education institutions are incorporating global initiatives.
tags: globaleducation, globalawareness, global_education, servicelearning, service, learning
peer review of program at U of Michigan
MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Globaloria: Social Networks for Global Learning
tags: globalawareness, globaleducation, global_education, games, youth
Bookmark
Great example of teacher web site; think it was done in iWeb
Global Education Safaris - Welcome
tags: globaleducation, global_education, globalawareness, travel
tags: globaled, globaleducation, global_education, globalawareness, twitter, ning
UNICEF - Voices of Youth: Take action
UNICEF Voices of Youth video contest
tags: globaleducation, global_education, globalawareness, childrens, rights
Might be used nicely with interactive whiteboards
Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace | Edutopia
AEI - Educational Innovation and Philadelphia's School of the Future
Sunset: Get sunset and sunrise times for any location on Earth
Big Huge Blog » Blog Archive » Make a Twitter background with BigHugeLabs
Great web 2.0 resource
tags: web2.0, teachers, teacher, education, wiki, wikispaces, excellent
fun mugs for teachers etc
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