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• About US - NACOL

  tags: edtech

  • About
    NACOL

    Mission

    The mission of the North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL)
    is to increase educational opportunities and enhance learning by providing
    collegial expertise and leadership in K-12 online teaching and learning.

  • Vision
    Online teaching and learning has the potential to transform education. The North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) is dedicated to fostering a learning landscape that promotes student success and lifelong learning.

• IAR: Assess students > Bloom’s Taxonomy

  tags: edtech

• 20 Google Tips and Tricks - Expert Help by PC Magazine

  tags: edtech

  • 11. Weather
  • 12. Movies
  • 13. Area codes
  • 14. Package tracking
  • 15. Flight status
  • 16. Measurement conversions
  • 17. Currency conversions
  • 18. Calculator
  • 19. Definitions
  • 20. Q&A

• Too young to drive, she wins a car — chicagotribune.com

  tags: edtech

  • Perfect-attendance incentives questioned
  • For her strong school attendance record, Ashley Martinez won a sparkling new Dodge Caliber—a sporty hatchback that starts at about $15,000.

    Unfortunately, she needs to wait four years to drive her prize. She’s only 12.

  • The school system has offered several rewards for attendance in recent years, including vacations to Wisconsin resorts, laptops, iPods and even paying a family’s rent or mortgage for a month.
  • But some experts do not approve of programs that reward children for doing the minimum, like showing up.
  • “My first reaction is what? A car?” said Nancy Samalin, a nationally recognized parenting expert and author of “Loving Without Spoiling.” “The main reason we send kids to school is to love learning.”

• Share More! Wiki » Anthology/Slide Thinkfinity into the Curriculum with Diigo Slides?

  tags: edtech

  • How can you track all Thinkfinity resources?
  • Using Diigo.com—read a description of this here—you are able to easily create lists of bookmarked resources and activities you want your students to use, or that you want to share with other educators.
  • Bookmark, highlight key portions of the Thinkfinity resource pages, add comments to them sites and then share them via the Web. Instead of having to click your way—or having your students click—through multiple web pages, you can save instructional time by going directly using the Slides feature of Diigo.
  • How can you use the List and Slide features of Diigo to present Thinkfinity resources to others?
  • “List” is a great way to organize, share and display specific collections of bookmarks. Once you add bookmarks to your list, you can easily drag and drop items to arrange the order in any sequence that you’d like to present.

This past week Discovery Education has made some changes to DE streaming and they want to make sure the DEN knows about them.  Jannita posted on the national blog and the DEN leaders will being hosting 3 webinars today for anyone interested in attending.

Discovery Education is excited to announce many new GREAT additions coming your way to streaming! This includes the long awaited and asked for Student Center where your students will have ability to log on and download media, better correlation with your state standards, more refined search, an update builders and my content, not to mention that the base package has increased to 5,000 titles!

To learn more about the these updates, please join us for a STAR Streaming Update overview by logging on to one of the webinars on Thursday, June 26th listed below.

For additional questions please contact Jannita at Jannita_Demian@discovery.com

Hope to see you there!

STAR Streaming Update
11:30 am, PDT or 2:30 EDT
Click here to join. No registration or password required: https://discoveryed.webex.com/discoveryed/onstage/g.php?d=556861250&t=a

STAR Streaming Update
12:30 pm, PDT or 3:30 EDT
Click here to join. No registration or password required: https://discoveryed.webex.com/discoveryed/onstage/g.php?d=556636663&t=a

STAR Streaming Update
3:30 pm, PDT or 6:30 EDT
Click here to join. No registration or password required: https://discoveryed.webex.com/discoveryed/onstage/g.php?d=556875536

• Mathtrain.TV

  tags: edtech, math

  • Mathtrain.TV is a free educational “kids teaching kids” project from Mr. Marcos & his students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.

• 280 Slides - Create & Share Presentations Online

  tags: edtech, web2.0, presentations

  • With a single click you can download a copy of your presentation in the Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 format.
  • Put your presentation on SlideShare, e-mail it to a friend, or embed it directly on your own website, all with just a few clicks.
  • Add photos and movies to your presentation directly from popular web services like Flickr and YouTube.

• About Coverville

  tags: edtech

  • Coverville
    is a podcast, produced three times a week, that focuses on cover
    songs
  • The show features a combination of music and information
    about the music, delivered in a very relaxed, informal style. On average,
    each show runs about 35 minutes and features six selections. Information
    about the performing artist, and source album is provided, along with
    information about the artist being covered.

• Foxmarks

  tags: edtech

  • Foxmarks is a free add-on for your Firefox browser that syncs your bookmarks across multiple computers and more.

• Learning to Teach with Technology Studio

  tags: edtech

• CRLT - LTTS

  tags: edtech

  • Students
    begin with a curriculum problem and end with a lesson plan they can apply in their classroom
    and a conceptually linked rationale for that lesson.
  • Learning is centered around the design of inquiry
    lessons, integration of technology as a tool for inquiry, and meeting curriculum standards.
  • While learners can start at any time and are self-paced, they receive one-on-one mentoring.
    We have had over 600 learners from 8 countries in the last three years, approximately 70% of
    whom are in the schools and 23% in pre-service.

• NECC 2008 Podcasters beware! New ISTE policy on new media conference coverage » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  tags: edtech

  • According to the current (19 June 2008) NECC 2008 Attendees Registration Overview and Confirmation page, NO ONE is permitted to make a full-length audio recording for an online podcast of any NECC 2008 conference session without the explicit, written permission of BOTH the presenter and ISTE:

• The Happiness Project: Keeping a different kind of “limited” journal – a “while-people-are-boarding-the-plane” journal.

  tags: edtech

• OrbLive — the Best Media App for your iPhone | Orb Networks

  tags: edtech

  • With OrbLive on your iPhone and iPod touch, you can enjoy ALL your media — live TV, webcams, and internet TV, videos in all formats, music and photos — not just what’s available from iTunes. For ALL your media, don’t sync, stream.

• BMW Makes Car out of Cloth! - Annotated

  tags: edtech

• MyCast your digital media with Orb 2.0 remote pc access software

  tags: EDTECH, software, media, freeware

  • Orb Networks. Get More. Digital. Content. Stream
    - post by roedward
  • Access your media from any PC - post by stumax

• Commenting, Learning Together & The Comment Challenge! | The Edublogger

  tags: edtech, education, technology, comment08

• ‘Two Million Minutes’ suggests it’s time to improve U.S. education - Los Angeles Times

  tags: edtech

  • Two Million Minutes,” a one-hour documentary comparing the educational experiences of six students: two Americans, two Indians and two Chinese.
  • The movie, in (very) limited release, begins with the premise that the high school years span roughly 2 million minutes.
  • one faculty member, Compton recalled, told him that “we have nothing to learn from Third World education.”
  • Another, renowned education theorist Howard Gardner, took him to task for comparing the U.S. with China.

• The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Home

  The leading advocacy organization infusing 21st century skills into education.

  tags: edtech

  • The leading advocacy organization infusing 21st century skills into education. - post by dajbelshaw