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"PaperRater.com analyzes documents immediately, 24/7, in real-time. We provide in depth analysis to help the student improve grammar and writing. Some of our features include: Plagiarism Detection Auto Grader Spelling and Grammar Check Style and Word Choice Analysis Readability Statistics Title Validation Vocabulary Builder tool We may offer premium packages at some point in the future. If you have any features that you’d like to see please contact us."
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Anne Davies: Step One: Getting Ready for the School Year
Part 1 of 5
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iTunes - Books - Flipped by Wayne Feller
The Flipped Math Classroom pilot project in Stillwater, Minnesota, included six fifth grade math teachers from five different schools. During its first year, this pilot group expanded to 25 teachers from grades four, five, and six. This book describes the experience of the pilot teachers as well as the transitioning teachers. Chapters about Moodle, video creation, flipcharts, Parents, Students, Teachers, and Transitioning describe current practices. Chapters on Expanding the Human Network and a Future with Accelerating Productivity explore how the flipped classroom can grow in the future. Image galleries, movies, and interactive keynote presentations complement the text of this book.
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Chrome Web Store - Read&Write for Google Docs™
Use Google Docs with all of your students including those with dyslexia, learning disabilities, struggling readers, and English Language Learners. This Chrome Extension makes any Google document accessible. Read&Write for Google Docs adds many of the popular support features of Read&Write GOLD to Google Docs documents including: - Text To Speech with Dual Synchronized Highlighting. - Talking Dictionary - Picture Dictionary - Vocabulary Tool - Study Skills tools to capture Google highlights
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Maine Learning Technology Initiative » MLTI Summer Institute Day 1
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"This collaborative space was created to celebrate the many Apps and Extensions made by developers which serve the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities. Although Google already highlights accessibility features built into the Chrome browser or through add-ons, we have collected numerous other free tools that we feel further contribute to that mission."
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"The Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators contains the process and methods of design, adapted specifically for the context of education. Send comments, stories, movies or photos of your experiences designing new solutions to DT"
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http://www.calgaryscienceschool.com/publications/plans/2011%2003%2016%20Exemplary%20Teaching.pdf
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- World Yellow Pages for Higher studies.Find University, Institute, Colleges World wide & talk business.Free Listing www.kezkostudy.com - post by globodyne technology
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David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts » Transformative or just flashy educational tools?
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David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts » 7 Ways to Transform Your Classroom
"I’ll be talking about Inquiry Learning inspired by our new Inquiry Hub school, (more on the school here and here). However, the Inquiry Hub has deconstructed the school day, getting rid of class blocks and it also provides online blended learning opportunities that most schools simply could not duplicate. That said, much of what we are doing can be done in any classroom. So here are seven key aspects we are exploring at the Inquiry Hub that can help transform any classroom into a more engaging, and student-empowered learning space."
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http://www.inspiringeducation.alberta.ca/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=BjGiTVRiuD8%3D&tabid=37
Creating a New Vision for Education Inspiring Education presents a new vision for education which includes values, principles, and a framework for the development of policy and governance. Inspiring Education is informed by the four UNESCO pillars for learning—learning to be, learning to know, learning to do, and learning to live together. While it is aligned with the international perspective expressed by UNESCO, Inspiring Education goes beyond it to reflect distinctive Alberta values and aspirations, as well as our place in a changing global economy.
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MacOSaiX for Mac - CNET Download.com
"MacOSaiX lets you create a mosaic representation of an image from hundreds or thousands of individual images. The individual images can be found on local disks, created randomly from fonts, found by keyword through Google's or flickr's image database, pulled from iPhoto or pulled from QuickTime movies. You can also choose rectangles, hexagons or puzzle pieces as the shapes of the tiles in the mosaic. MacOSaiX will automatically determine the best location in the mosaic for each image. When you are done you can save the mosaic as a JPG, PNG or TIFF for printing or save it as an interactive web page."
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Mr. Khan is not the only one asking that question these days. Clay Shirky, an associate teacher at New York University and a popular Internet guru, recently challenged his more than 50,000 Twitter followers with a similar thought exercise: "If you were going to create a college from scratch, what would you do?" Bursts of creativity quickly Twittered in, and Mr. Shirky collected and organized the responses on a Web site. The resulting visions are either dreams of an education future or nightmares, depending on your viewpoint: All students should be required to teach as well, said @djstrouse. Limit tenure to eight years, argued @jakewk. Have every high-school senior take a year before college to work in some kind of service project away from his or her hometown, said @alicebarr.
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Free Technology for Teachers: My Link Cloud - A Beautiful iGoogle Alternative
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5 Gmail Tips for Teachers | The Thinking Stick
"5 GMAIL TIPS FOR TEACHERS"
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YouTube brings interactive quizzes to videos with Questions Editor beta -- Engadget
"YouTube brings interactive quizzes to videos with Questions Editor beta" A new page on the YouTube site describes a "Video Questions Editor Beta," which lets channel owners display multiple-choice questions on top of their videos as they play. The page is pretty blank at the moment, but the beta is up and running for those who opt in. Don't get too excited, though: YouTube's disclaimer states the feature "represents work in progress," and "there is no plan for long-term support of the feature."
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2 Chrome Plug-ins for Math | Burlington High School Help Desk
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50 Useful Apps For Students With Reading Disabilities
"Whether you’re the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you’re undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle."
- Dr. Horrocks build a list for iPads and list on website - post by Anesta Hicks
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Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Good Sources of Creative Writing Prompts
Here are seven good sources of writing prompts that you can share with your students.
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"The best way to get into writing is simply to write . . . and write . . . and write . . . freely. This practice helps you develop a feel for writing. To get started, you’ll need a topic to write about. Below, you will find lists of ideas to serve as starting points for personal or journal writing"
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- 10 Sites for Teaching or Learning a Foreign Language
"10 Sites for Teaching or Learning a Foreign Language This blog gets readers from around the the world. A lot of them are teachers of ESL/EFL/ELL and teach or know foreign languages. This posted is dedicated to those teachers of foreign languages, as I hope these sites will be of some benefit to them."
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resources - Google Apps for Education Southern Summit
Southern Summit
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Weekly Links (weekly)
A blast from the past
I listened to Davis Truss' session today on Inquiry Learning at Classroom 2.0. He was using some graphics called Digital Footprints in his presentation. It reminded me of his K-12 presentation from last year. If you haven't checked out K-12 Online Conference, this years pre conference keynote starts on October 15th.
2012-9-27 SEEDlings Season 5
Geek of the Week links
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Weekly Links (weekly)
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"A White Paper on the Common Core Standards" From Common Core Standards to Curriculum: Five Big Ideas. In it we propose a strategy for ensuring that the Common Core Standards are appropriately addressed in curriculum and assessment design locally. We also highlight common misconceptions about what the Standards do and do not demand of educators locally.
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- something to check into - post by lori boldt
- What is this site all about? I better check it out! Thanks Nancy from Savon noir liquide - post by luanmmxii luanmmxii
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Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic.
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Goals and Outcomes Overview of blended learning and its models Ways that these tools allow for high impact instructional moves (guiding axioms) How to put them all together to build the framework of a blended environment
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"Take a candid look into the day-to-day life of pioneers who play a vital role in outfitting students with 21st century skills by integrating new technologies in the nation’s schools. Blogs provide a platform for these trailblazing educators to share ideas and serve as a window into a profession that is truly transformative."
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Whether you’re the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you’re undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle.
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- This is called excellent posting. I like it. Thanks for nice posting. If possible then see my url which is open for all of you. http://www.news24ca.com - post by bikash roy
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4 sites for creating/facilitating social networks in an educational environment
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Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends.
Friday, September 21, 2012
You Just Never Know!
Although we interview many people on the SEEDLings shows, we have a special place in our hearts for teachers who are trying new and exciting things with technology. A few years ago, we met Cherrie McInnes through Vicki Davis, Vicki lives in Georgia and Cherrie lives in our own backyard, right here in Maine. Vicki had learned about Cherrie's Grade 3 project Skyping Across the USA and suggested we interview her. Cherrie's third graders were talking to classrooms all over the United States. She researched and found other teachers willing to try using Skype in their classrooms, many of them for the first time. CHerrie's enthusiasm and passion for her work came shining through!
Fast forward to today. Cherrie has visited some of the classrooms she Skyped with, been the finalist for the ACTEM teacher of the year, and Skyped with Michelle Obama. Last week she invited the first lady form Maine, Anne LePage and Barbara Bush, a Maine summer resident, to join her 3rd grades via Skype to kick off the opening of school and their project. There was a big surprise for both Cherrie and the students....
This was first broadcast on local TV, but was picked up by CNN. It is such fun to see Cherrie's continued energy and growth with this project! Way to go Cherrie! Your students are so lucky!
More links:
Bangor Daily News
Fox News
WABI
Bangor Daily News
Fast forward to today. Cherrie has visited some of the classrooms she Skyped with, been the finalist for the ACTEM teacher of the year, and Skyped with Michelle Obama. Last week she invited the first lady form Maine, Anne LePage and Barbara Bush, a Maine summer resident, to join her 3rd grades via Skype to kick off the opening of school and their project. There was a big surprise for both Cherrie and the students....
This was first broadcast on local TV, but was picked up by CNN. It is such fun to see Cherrie's continued energy and growth with this project! Way to go Cherrie! Your students are so lucky!
More links:
Bangor Daily News
Fox News
WABI
Bangor Daily News
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Weekly Links (weekly)
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Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators | IDEO
This toolkit contains the process and methods of design, adapted specifically for the context of K-12 education. It offers new ways to be intentional and collaborative when designing, and empowers educators to create impactful solutions.
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Google Apps update alerts: Admins can now transfer Google Documents from one user to another
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The 60-Second Guide To Understanding Typefaces | Edudemic
"We’ve been discussing the importance of design in education lately. As the edtech world continues to heat up, you’ll see a lot more new sites, tools, and trends. One common thread they’ll all have is that they rely on interesting and visually engaging fonts and typefaces. Since you likely spend all your time worrying about education, helping others, and basically being awesome … you probably don’t spend your day figuring out the best serif font to use on a particular presentation. So we bring you this helpful guide to fonts, typefaces, and all that comes with it. It’s a quick look at the anatomy of type, the differences and similarities, and how each one works. Enjoy!"
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"This collaborative space was created to celebrate the many Apps and Extensions made by developers which serve the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities. Although Google already highlights accessibility features built into the Chrome browser or through add-ons, we have collected numerous other free tools that we feel further contribute to that mission. "
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Free Technology for Teachers: Gmail for Beginners - A Video Tutorial
Tutorial
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The Innovative Educator: Cell phone etiquette poster for your school or classroom
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Weekly Links (weekly)
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GAFE Maine Summit Photos by Kern and his students
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Maine GAFE Summit Photos by Sarah Sutter
- DOWNLOAD How To Use Evernote: The Missing Manual
Sunday, September 02, 2012
Saturday, September 01, 2012
GAFE Maine Summit
Yarmouth High School hosted the Google Apps for Education Maine Summit. Kicked off by Governor Angus King and Senior Education Evangelist +Jamie Casap, the uber learning experience began!
For two days, 250 learners from Maine as well as all over the United States joined us for amazing professional development. There were four sessions the first day followed by a demo slam. The second day featured another four sessions. There was a wide range of levels and experiences for attendees. All of the session links are posted. Thanks to all of the presenters both local and from other places. Thanks to the students who helped. Thanks to the Googlers who joined us - Tia, Tina, and Kelly. Thanks to Sarah Sutter and Kern Kelley and his students for taking pictures. Thanks to Kern Kelley, Richard Byrne, Mark Wagner and Michael Wacker for helping with the organization. I hope we can do it again next year!
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