OTR Backup 03/17/2012

• Social Studies - Transforming Units with Electronic Resources

  AS learning occurs when students reflect on and monitor their progress to inform their future learning goals.
  
  OF learning occurs when teachers use evidence of student learning to make judgements on student achievement against goals and standards.
  
  FOR learning occurs when teachers use inferences about student progress to inform their teaching.

  tags: social studies resources emints assessment HOTS

• How to Choose the Right Words for Best Search Results | MindShift

  I had a particular conversation with a student a while back. It might sound familiar:
  
  “But how do I know what the important words are?” The student looked up at me, perplexed. She stared back at her paper, where she had written Did George Washington ever write a diary? “Every word is important, or my question wouldn’t make sense!”

  tags: search research search_terms google searching informationliteracy search terms technology

• edulicious - edulicious - A Skill set That Never Expires

  A SKILL SET THAT NEVER EXPIRES

  tags: education skill teaching skills Curriculum Century 21st technology

• Learn About Ed Technology and How to Implement In the Classroom

  Edtechvoice.com is a website designed for educators who want to learn how to integrate 21st century tools into their practice.

  tags: technology classroom tools web 2.0 ict edtech

• Grab 50GB of Free Storage for Life on Box by Using the Android App

  Online storage and sharing service Box is serving up 50GB of free space to all Android users. All you have to do it log in from the Android app, which has been updated with some new features, by midnight March 23rd.

  tags: android storage box

• Pex4fun, an online lab for APCS - Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

  Are you teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science? Are you looking for supplemental exercises that may help you students with the concepts? If so this announcement may be of interest to you. Pex for Fun has been around for a while offering coding duels in C#, F# and Visual Basic. Recently though it was decided to invest some time, money and effort to adapt some exercises specifically to help learn APCS concepts. Most students find the differences between Java and C# pretty minor at this level so most APCS students will find this doable even if they have only been taught Java previously.

  tags: fun online lab computer computer science science teacher thoughts information thompson site msdn blogs

• Linking theory to practice in learning technology research | Gunn | Research in Learning Technology

  Linking theory to practice in learning technology research

  tags: linking theory practice learning technology research

• A comparison of 2 technology integration frameworks | COETAIL Bangkok

  A comparison of 2 technology integration frameworks

  tags: comparison technology technology integration integration frameworks bangkok

• B.C. teachers prepared to wage war against Bill 22

  B.C. teachers prepared to wage war against Bill 22
   
  The bill to cool BCTF job action will become law on Saturday

  tags: teachers prepared wage war bill

• Pinterest Scams on the Rise: Protect Yourself [PICS]

  Pinterest Scams on the Rise: Protect Yourself [PICS]

  tags: scams rise pics

• Copyright Math: the best TED Talk you'll watch all year - Boing Boing

  This may just be the best TED Talk video I've seen: listen.com/Rhapsody founder and extremely funny person (and soon-to-be debut science fiction author) Rob Reid examines the math behind the claims made by the copyright lobby and explains the mindbending awesomeness of the sums used to justify SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and the like. Here's Ars Technica's Ken Fisher discussing Reid's philosophy:

  tags: copyright math ted watch

• Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the iPad in 1968 | Brain Pickings

  In 1964, legendary science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist Arthur C. Clarke predicted the future with astounding accuracy, presaging everything from telecommuting to the digital convergence.

  tags: arthur ipad brain

• MinecraftEDU: Minecraft for the Classroom

  With or without special mods, there are a lot of reasons why Minecraft is a wonderful game for the classroom:

  tags: minecraft classroom

• Learn Code for Journalism with Me //learnCodeForJournalismWithMe

  This experimental project merges two incredible platforms (Code Academy's Code Year and Google+ Hangouts) and taps in the community aspect of Social Media and co-learning (#wjchat) all in the name of sharing knowledge and advancing journalism.

  tags: code journalism

• You Just Attended an Awesome Conference. Now What? | Edutopia

  'Tis the season for state technology conferences. I recently went to my state conference, MACUL, and was excited to see some great presentations. There is nothing like being in the audience when passionate educators talk about the awesome things they are doing in the classroom.

  tags: conference edutopia

• Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past - Technology Review

  Mining personal data to discover what people care about has become big business for companies such as Facebook and Google. Now a project from Microsoft Research is trying to bring that kind of data mining back home to help people explore their own piles of personal digital data.

  tags: microsoft builds browser technology review

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