March 2013
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Announcing: Curated Newsletters and MailChimp...
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February 2013
4 posts
Quantifying Mood · tellio · Storify
See on Scoop.it - RandomFactoids Here is my gathering of information about how to quantify mood and whether or not that can lead to positive change. Terry Elliott’s insight: A truly staggering multi-post series on quantifying mood. Time to dive in the deep end. See on storify.com
OMG SCIENCE!
See on Scoop.it - RandomFactoids Henry Reich of Minute Physics shares his favorite science blogs, video channels, and other resources on the web. (Minute Physics previously) See on metafilter.com
Discoverables
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Discoverables Terry Elliott’s insight: Gaming personal presentation on the net. See on discoverabl.es
The Original Greenhouse Hoop Bender
See on Scoop.it - RandomFactoids Terry Elliott’s insight: Hoopbenders is an awesome company and I have bought a few items from them with no regret. I am going to get a couple of hoopbenders and a kit from them. Shipping seems a little high but the product is worth it. See on hoopbenders.net
January 2013
3 posts
Ebook Glue | Turn your blog into a downloadable...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Give your content a new reading experiece. Ebook Glue lets you quickly publish your writing as a downloadable ebook for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Android, iOS, Sony, and other readers. Terry Elliott’s insight: If you think of your blog as a portfolio, then Ebook Glue is your way of publishing your RSS feed as an ebook in various formats. Could this become a...
Dan Awesome's Rage Maker
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy For those times when the best way to say it is through a poorly drawn comic. No watermarks! Your comics are yours. Terry Elliott’s insight: Thanks to Kevin Hodgson for this great site. The liberating effect of comics and templates. See on ragemaker.net
How to make RSA Animate style videos with your...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy What an awesome instructional post! Terry Elliott’s insight: This is a very handy post that gives you instruction, warts and all, on how to create RSA Animate videos. See on blogush.edublogs.org
December 2012
11 posts
Intrusive Scaffolding, Obstructed Learning (and...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy My five-year-old son recently learned how to ride a bike. He mastered the essential components of cycling—balance, peddling, and steering—in roughly ten minutes. Without using training wheels, ever… Terry Elliott’s insight: Mark Sample writes in this post about what he calls ‘intrusive, obstructive scaffolding”. Training wheels are a...
Visible Thinking
See on Scoop.it - Augmented Reality in the Classroom Terry Elliott’s insight: As our students at all levels (and I teach higher ed comp) become more visually oriented we need to find ways to draw them from where they are toward the text, to get them to wrestle with that and to connect to the visual. This site is a quick orientation toward reconsidering the visual in one’s own...
Education: An Unstoppable Tide
See on Scoop.it - EdDev More happy stories. Gem: “Empowerment is a deceptive word. It is meant to capture a sense of an individual’s control over her own life, of her ability to make choices. But it also often contains a sense of passivity: a hint that power is being granted to individuals, handed over to them like a bag of grain. […] In fact, true power is not about handouts or...
The History 2.0 Classroom: Student Portfolios X...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Terry Elliott’s insight: Three different clouds for managing portfolio workflow—Google Drive, Evernote, and Book Creator. I might add one more to this—Wordpress + the Anthologize plug-in. See on kulowiectech.blogspot.fr
6 Useful Apps to Create Short Movie
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Terry Elliott’s insight: Here is what I call Christmas holiday fun. Learning. What a rush! And there are lots of applications for this for teaching, for students teaching peers, for students in general. So I will report back as I discover more about these apps. See on educatorstechnology.com
Dokeos MIND - free mindmapping software
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Want to explore this further especially as it relates to their larger suite of software. Any one out there used the DOKEOS suite of tools? See on dokeos.com
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Introducing The Curator’s Code: A Standard for...
See on Scoop.it - CurationEd I am struck by Steven Johnson remix quote, “Chance favors the connected mind.” And I admire Popova’s attempt to corral the idea of ‘curation’ into a manifesto. Again, the humble bookmarklet is proving to be the catalyst for bringing together the bone, muscle, and sinew of the Internet in ways that continually surprise me. I am not sure...
The Creative and the Curious: When learners roam...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Keynote presentation from the EDEN Research Workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium, 22 October 2012… Wow! I don’t even know the context for this keynote, but I think it is rich ecosystem with lots of deep niches for exploring. Teachers need to read this for the sake of their learners. See on slideshare.net
November 2012
11 posts
Patience is a network effect
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy If you want to see how technology shapes the way we perceive the world, just look at the way our experience of time has changed as network speeds have increased. Back in 2006, a famous study of onl… This might as well be a whack upside the head for teachers. As our students become more connected (meaning fast connections) the less patient they become...
uClassify - free text classifier web service
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Experiment and improvise with this word cloud parser. Feed in the text, choose an analytical knife (gender, pos/neg, tonality) and you have a data analysis. It might be useless in actuality but the exploration and discovery of that might be a great learning tool. When I teach the analysis essay I find it is the hardest for my students to do. They have such a...
- 10 Sites to use with Mobile Phones in Education
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Mobile phones in the classroom—I am still struggling with getting my students to connect via twitter much less all these tools, but they stand as a challenge to me to keep them in mind as I re-think lessons, assignments, and other learning ‘stuff’ for the next semester. I think they might help you too. Learning first, tools to support, and no...
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See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy I haven’t vetted this properly yet but the video is very appealing and it looks like I might have a morning to play with it over Thanksgiving. Gotta love the anticipation. This looks like fun for all ages. Mayge I can get a nephew or niece to play along. See on inklestudios.com
ToolZeit - Google Research Tool - EdReach
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy “Google Research Tool is an easy way to add web information and images to your Docs and Slides.” Perhaps it was easy for some, but I found it a little hinky at first. In other words, I found the directions at EdReach and at Google a little sketchy. Plus, the settings for the tool is buried in the ‘research bar’. I realize that I am...
Moving Into a Learning Niche
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy “When you find something you want to view later, put it in Pocket.” That is the former ReadItLater’s new motto. More and more we are seeing these all-in-one systems that are hardware and software agnostic. Evernote and Dropbox spring to mind in my own personal use. Pocket is another. I have used this app before, but now I am ready to give it...
Millenoki Launches Mobile Data Compression App...
See on Scoop.it - RandomFactoids The irony of the UK rolling out its first “super fast” 4G network last week, courtesy of EE, won’t be lost on consumers for too long: we can now burn through our rationed mobile data plans even faster. See on techcrunch.com
Top 10 Ways to Use Google Apps in your Classroom
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Sometimes all it takes is a list to get you moving. In this case here is a list on how others have used Google Docs for his or her classroom. This is a k-12 centric, but as is often the case while your mileage may vary these are freely adaptable to formal and informal ed of all stripes. And a reminder—the question you should always ask first is this: what...
A Literacy of the Imagination: The Book - A...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy The imagination is our greatest technology. See on goonth.posterous.com
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Eerie stuff. Old yet new. A creative voice is...
October 2012
4 posts
How to Spot Truth in the Sea of Lies, Rumors, and...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy We need to show folks how to detect crap online. In this post the authors use ‘questioning’ as the prime tool for this. I love their first question: How do you know what you know? I also love how these questions cut both ways and allow us to be skeptical of others as well as our delusory selves. Handy! I think that I will have a whole lesson on...
Backup your Files to Amazon Glacier with the help...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Five Stars in my ‘handy-as-a-pocket-on-your-shirt’-o-meter. Amit Agarwal’s newsletter, Digital Inspiration, truly is true to its title. Go to his website and sign up now. “You can use Dropbox as a Glacier client and any files that you upload to Dropbox will get saved in your Amazon Glacier Vault.” See on labnol.org
8 Ideas, 10 Guides, And 17 Tools For A Better...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy I found this to be a mini-course on how to increase personal connection from without and within. I liked the idea of ‘growing’ a network. Seems natural to me. It also reminds me of the productivity concepts—hard and soft landscape. Hard landscape is the must-do parts of any day, our hard promises—calendar dates, meetings, classes. These...
How To Train Your Robot
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy I tend to think that pRogramming is one of the “R’s”. This is such a delicously analog way into programming. Fun, have awesome fun with it. Then figure out how to cross the analog/digital boundary with some other skill. For example, I have seen teachers use ‘paper blogs’ to get students prepared for digital ones. Twitter=student...
September 2012
1 post
What Is Content Curation: My Collection of the...
See on Scoop.it - CurationEd Robin Good tackles the thorny issue of definition. How do we define content curation and what are the implications behind those definitions. I would think that most definitions arise from a philosophical point of view that shapes what is defined. Anyone interested in addressing this issue further perhaps in Google + Hangout or an asynchronous document like a...
August 2012
24 posts
The RSS NewsMaster
See on Scoop.it - CurationEd The NewsMaster: A New Emergent Socio-Professional Role In the beginning was Yahoo and AltaVista. Then Google came… Those are the words that mark the post that anyone who is interested in curation needs to read and build upon. I return to Robin Good’s words as a compass to my curatorial life. I hope he continues to revise them as he progresses down his...
The RSS NewsMaster
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow The NewsMaster: A New Emergent Socio-Professional Role In the beginning was Yahoo and AltaVista. Then Google came… Those are the words that mark the post that anyone who is interested in curation needs to read and build upon. I return to it as a compass to my curatorial life. I hope he continues to revise it as he goes forward. See on masternewmedia.org
Tent - the decentralized social web
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow Need to watch this very closely if you are a teacher who wants to know where social networking is headed. In this case it is destined for a far, far better place than it is now—decentralized, opensource, and can be accessed ‘over a wireless mesh network and run as a Tor hidden service, unlike centralized social networks.” I am dimly aware of...
Soylent: A Word Processor Made of People - Daily...
See on Scoop.it - RandomFactoids Soylent workers are people. I am astonished and appalled simultaneously. Not an easy match. This add-on for Word mashes up with Amazon Turk to get real folk to edit your work. Any English major want to work for Amazon Turk? See on dailycrowdsource.com
The Innovative Educator: 14 Ideas to Help...
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow I have gotten a little weary of list posts of late, but this one reminds me how good they can be. This one pulls together many different ways to ‘run a meeting’. Of course the tools the author cites are helpful but some of them are delightfully subversive of the concept of the meeting. The meeting as a standalone administrative object could stand...
Five Reasons to Think About How You Work -...
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow Shaz sez: Love this website. Perhaps not about tools, but the thought process in this article is in line with your teacherworkflow curation and I find it valuable. They say: 1.Thinking about your system can help you make decisions about work based on your values. 2.Focusing your productivity system on next actions can help you fight through...
How I make my video podcasts | E-Learning Academy
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow A step-by-step guide on how I produce and publish the Connect Thinking E-Learning Academy video podcasts onto YouTube and iTunes. There is no excuse for not doing vodcasts if you follow this clearly explained workflow. Unless your excuse is that you have nothing to say. See on elearningacademy.com.au
Which Crowdfunding Platform Should You Choose For...
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy “Kirsten Winkler compares the top three crowdfunding platforms Kickstarter, Indiegogo and gofundme and explains which one to use for your fundraiser.” Yes, let us use technology to fund pedagogy. NGO’s are always looking for operating money for projects. Perhaps teachers are beginning to take a page for their book and beginning to crowdfund. ...
booksorber.com - Convert your books to...
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow Well…alright. I wait with bated breath their first version of this. I wonder how universities will handle this in their courses as students begin to share texts back and forth. Not well, I predict. Hurry. School starts in a week. Welcome to booksorber.com - Convert your books to high-quality E-Books. See on booksorber.com
Curators Create The Metadata Needed To Enable Our...
See on Scoop.it - CurationEd I am more and more of the opinion that curators are the heart of the Web’s immune system. Curators are the phages who couple and de-couple the great trains of information in the endless railyards of the Internet. Like teachers, these folk have a thankless job that never ends. Consider the lowly Wikipedia gnome as one example of these curating phages selecting...
Harvard Researchers Find A Creative Way To Make...
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow They say, “Incentives are all the rage: employee bonus pay, app badges, student grades, and even lunch with President Obama.” You might say, “What is this doing here in TechPedagogy? I say, “Leveraging the brain’s biases might be one the finest pedagogical hacks you can execute. Wetware is technology, too.” See on...
BalancEdTech - iPad Exploration
See on Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy A highly useful wiki outline for anyone to learn how to use an iPad in the classroom. This makes me realize how many learning doors the iPad opens for learners of all stripes. If you follow their outine then at the end and probably working with a partner you will know navigate as well as download apps. You will explore ebooks and their creation. And as the...
BalancEdTech - iPad Exploration
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow A highly useful wiki outline for anyone to learn how to use an iPad in the classroom. This makes me realize how many learning doors the iPad opens for learners of all stripes. If you follow their outine then at the end and probably working with a partner you will know navigate as well as download apps. You will explore ebooks and their creation. And as the...
How to Solve Your Problems Visually Using a...
See on Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow Have any of you ever tried this idea—the solution map. For some folks an approach like this acts as a knife to life’s Gordian tangles. Hard to say whether the game is worth the candle, but the approach might get you going forward and through a difficult project or at least part of it. I am going to try to work my way through at least one problem: ...
