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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 06/12/2011
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Stanford Copyright & Fair Use – Welcome to the Public Domain
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How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 06/11/2011
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KinectShop: The Next Generation Of Shopping [Exclusive Video]
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New! Warehouse of Mobile Augmented Reality Resources for Education | K-12 Mobile Learning
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Augmented Reality for Smartphones: A Guide for developers and content publishers
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 06/10/2011
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 06/09/2011
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iCloud, cloud computing services promise to change the way we use computers – The Washington Post
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Zoom.it – a free service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery.
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 06/08/2011
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Webian – A full screen web browser for devices that don’t need a desktop.
“A full screen web browser for devices that don’t need a desktop.”
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Listenvoice – Create & launch mobile/web applications easily without knowing the programming
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 06/07/2011
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 06/05/2011
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 06/03/2011
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Pew study finds more people using Twitter
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In its Twitter Update 2011 report, Pew Internet found that 13 percent of online adults now use Twitter, compared with just 8 percent of those polled for a similar study last November.
Among those on Twitter, 95 percent own a cell phone, and half of them access the site via their mobile device, noted Pew.
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Pew study finds more people using Twitter | Digital Media – CNET News
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In its Twitter Update 2011 report, Pew Internet found that 13 percent of online adults now use Twitter, compared with just 8 percent of those polled for a similar study last November.
Among those on Twitter, 95 percent own a cell phone, and half of them access the site via their mobile device, noted Pew.
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Wuala – Secure Online Storage – Backup. Sync. Share. Access Everywhere.
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58 Interesting Ways* to use an iPad in the Classroom
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 06/01/2011
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iChromy: Bookmarking Service Diigo Releases A Chrome-like iPad Browser
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33 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials For Designing Posters – DesignModo
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/31/2011
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/30/2011
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8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education
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Qualcomm Bringing Augmented Reality Software Kit to the iPhone
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The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education | Center for Social Media
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Coming This Summer: Fully Offline Gmail, Google Calendar, And Google Docs
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/29/2011
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Using Groups Effectively: 10 Principles
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Flow matters
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Conversation is key.
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Set a clear but open-ended goal.
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Try not announcing time limits.
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Do not appoint a group “leader.”
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Keep it small.
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Consider weaving together individual and group work.
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“Divide and conquer” ? collaboration.
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Think threefold.
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Be complementary.
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/28/2011
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/27/2011
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/25/2011
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/21/2011
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Wolfram|Alpha Widgets – Create, Share, and Embed Widgets for Free
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FreeReading – Open source, free reading intervention program for grades PK-6.
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Social Networking as a Tool for Student and Teacher Learning
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A 2010 Pew Study illustrates that it has become an integral part of the world beyond k12 schools. In the two years prior to the study, use among Millennials (ages 18 to 33) rose from 67 percent to 83 percent, every generation 45 and older more than doubled its participation, and adults 74 and older quadrupled their participation (from 4 percent to 16 percent).
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Among students surveyed in a National School Boards Association study, 96 percent of those with online access reported using social networking, and half said they use it to discuss schoolwork. Despite this prevalence in everyday life, schools have been hesitant to adopt social networking as an education tool.
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s reported in School Principals and Social Networking in Education: Practices, Policies and Realities in 2010, a national survey of 1,200 principals, teachers and librarians found that most agreed that social networking sites can help educators share information and resources, create professional learning communities and improve schoolwide communications with students and staff. Those who had used social networks were more positive about potential benefits than those who had not. In an online discussion with 12 of the principals surveyed, most said, “social networking and online collaboration tools would make a substantive change in students’ educational experience.” They said these tools could improve student motivation and engagement, help students develop a more social/collaborative view of learning and create a connection to real-life learning.
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Social networking could become a vital part of the education environment if implemented effectively. In a 2008 study of high school students in the Midwest, researcher Christine Greenhow discovered that social networking expanded the students’ abilities to perform work by “actually practicing the kinds of 21st-century skills we want them to develop to be successful today.”
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Ninite – Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once
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WatchKnow – Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students
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Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming app – SpiderScribe
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quietube | Video without the distractions | Youtube, iPlayer, Viddler, Vimeo and more
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/19/2011
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Plex – A Complete Media Solution for your local and online media
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The Poor Quality of an Undergraduate Education – NYTimes.com
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In a typical semester, for instance, 32 percent of the students did not take a single course with more than 40 pages of reading per week, and 50 percent did not take any course requiring more than 20 pages of writing over the semester. The average student spent only about 12 to 13 hours per week studying — about half the time a full-time college student in 1960 spent studying, according to the labor economists Philip S. Babcock and Mindy S. Marks.
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a large number of the students showed no significant progress on tests of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing that were administered when they began college and then again at the ends of their sophomore and senior years. If the test that we used, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, were scaled on a traditional 0-to-100 point range, 45 percent of the students would not have demonstrated gains of even one point over the first two years of college, and 36 percent would not have shown such gains over four years of college.
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academic investments are a lower priority.
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The authority of educators has diminished, and students are increasingly thought of, by themselves and their colleges, as “clients” or “consumers.”
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Distributing resources and rewards based on student learning instead of student satisfaction would help stop this race to the bottom.
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Too many institutions, for instance, rely primarily on student course evaluations to assess teaching. This creates perverse incentives for professors to demand little and give out good grades. (Indeed, the 36 percent of students in our study who reported spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone still had an average G.P.A. of 3.16.)
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College trustees, instead of worrying primarily about institutional rankings and fiscal concerns, could hold administrators accountable for assessing and improving learning. Alumni as well as parents and students on college tours could ignore institutional facades and focus on educational substance. And the Department of Education could make available nationally representative longitudinal data on undergraduate learning outcomes for research purposes, as it has been doing for decades for primary and secondary education.
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The Poor Quality of an Undergraduate Education – NYTimes.com
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We found that large numbers of the students were making their way through college with minimal exposure to rigorous coursework, only a modest investment of effort and little or no meaningful improvement in skills like writing and reasoning.
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In a typical semester, for instance, 32 percent of the students did not take a single course with more than 40 pages of reading per week, and 50 percent did not take any course requiring more than 20 pages of writing over the semester. The average student spent only about 12 to 13 hours per week studying — about half the time a full-time college student in 1960 spent studying, according to the labor economists Philip S. Babcock and Mindy S. Marks.
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a large number of the students showed no significant progress on tests of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing that were administered when they began college and then again at the ends of their sophomore and senior years. If the test that we used, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, were scaled on a traditional 0-to-100 point range, 45 percent of the students would not have demonstrated gains of even one point over the first two years of college, and 36 percent would not have shown such gains over four years of college.
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academic investments are a lower priority.
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Wylio.com – offers free pictures for bloggers.
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digitalliteracy.gov – offers digital literacy resources and collaboration.
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Free Documentary TV – Free Documentaries, Watch Documentaries Online
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/18/2011
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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/16/2011
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QR Code Generator – QR Code Tracking System – QR Code Android – QR Code iPhone
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32 Ways to Use Google Apps in the Classroom
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12 Puzzle and Quiz Creation tools for teachers | The Whiteboard Blog
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6 Companies Aiming to Digitize the Textbook Industry
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Wiffiti – pulishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations
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7 YouTube Alternatives & Why They Make Sense
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Spread.ly – share your content on all important social networks.
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“SeventhGate enables Windows 7 and Server 2008R2 computers with wireless network card to turn into simple wireless routers.”
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Google Think Insights – research and insights to help marketers make smarter decisions
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Top 10 Awesome Android Features that the iPhone Doesn’t Have – Lifehacker
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Stixy: For Flexible Online Creation Collaboration and Sharing
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Search Yale Digital Commons – Search digital assets from across Yale’s collections.
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