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The 12 Comics Learning Support program is an exciting and unique program that makes learning fun through the creation of a custom comic book, video game and short film. The primary focus of the program is designed to provide additional tools for organizations to empower, motivate and encourage students to enhance their knowledge and experience the incredible benefits of creative learning.
Scoop.it makes it straight forward to deliver links and content through bookmarking websites. It is an appealing way to provide topical material in the classroom. Unfortunately, there is no way of sharing the page other than through a URL or to a Facebook or Twitter account. Click on the image below to go to the actual site to view this week’s blog or use the links below the image. The link to the 350 best education resources may seem overwhelming, but certainly one of the best ways of extending your personal learning network (PLN). See Resources below the image.
Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, and iPad are the frontrunners for book readers at the moment. As much as we all love the “feel” of a book, we are heading in another direction – at least part of the time. We’re moving towards using a reader and scholastically this makes sense. This little video spells it out nicely.
We’re not quite there yet, but we will be very soon. . .
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Surfing the net often results in stumbling across an interesting graphic which on first appearance you think this is good to spark class discussion. The ’10 Levels of Intimacy in Today’s Communication’ is one such graphic.
On close examination, do you actually agree on the order? I do not. It also leads to consider, what would be the order if we ask different questions instead of intimacy? Questions such as what is the order for: better understanding? collaboration on a school project? developing a genuine friendship? Getting young adults need to realize the merits and impacts of the various modes of communication as they increasingly spend more hours online on social media sites is important. The question is what mode of communication is best for which purpose. It is not always the same order.
Here at Triple A Learning, we’ve always supported the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) cause. With a mission to “empower the world’s poorest children through education“, who could fail to be moved by its ideals.
Symbaloo allows your homepage to have visual “tabs” (visual links) to all of your most frequently access sites. Simply go to http://www.symbaloo.com to get started. The quick tour demonstrates how easy it is to make your personalized Symbaloo page your homepage in your browser.
Each page is called a ‘webmix’ and the icons with links on the webpage are called ‘tabs’.
By now you’ve most likely read (or at least heard of) the “2011 Horizon Report,” which predicts that games-based learning will be mainstream in schools as soon as 2013. If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t wait any longer. Get your free copy from the New Media Consortium website: http://www.nmc.org/publications/2011-horizon-report.
You probably already know WHY you want to get your school into 3D virtual worlds, but you just haven’t known HOW…but that’s all about to change. Courtesy of Changchun American International School, you can now have a free copy of “OpenSimulator: School Quick Start Guide.” Written specifically for teachers, this e-book includes introductory information, step-by-step setup directions and even lesson plans you can adapt. Second Life is covered too, since it’s now open to kids 16 years old and up! The e-book covers how to both choose an OpenSimulator host company and create a FREE OpenSimulator client/server installation, so your school can take the best path…the best path INWORLD, that is!
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