The Foggy Morning Desktop [Featured Desktop]
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[image: Click here to read The Foggy Morning Desktop]
Minimal desktops can be just as productive as the ones filled with widgets
and tools, and this subm...
100+ Registration Free Tools for Students
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One of the common obstacles to using many Web 2.0 tools in elementary
school and middle school classrooms is the registration requirement that
those tool...
Why the New Chromebook Still Doesn't Cut It
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Can a computer that is slightly more expensive than others with the same
components, doesn't run the software people are accustomed to, relies on
users ...
Things I’ve Accomplished This Year
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[image: success]In Make a List of Good Things You Did This Year Before You
Forget Them from I Want to Teach Forever, Mr. D states, **
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*“I suggest tha...
Elegant Themes Giveaway – Winners Announced
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Last weeks Elegant Themes Membership giveaway has just ended and it is now
time to announce our randomnly chosen winners. Here they are: The Winners
Con...
web20classroom via Twitter
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web20classroom via Twitter
RT @kylepace: Take an online course this summer with me or anyone of these
other fantastic people! http://t.co/uwfm93IG #PDxPLN #...
Cartoon: Assad Paints Himself Into A Corner
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This cartoon by Dave Brown from The Independent uses the idiom 'to paint oneself into a corner' to comment on the bloody repression of civilians by Bashar al...
The new push in Congress to increase STEM visas
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By Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld There is a bipartisan push for
legislation to automatically give green cards to foreign students who earn
a master’s de...
Journal of Service Science and Management
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You are cordially invited to submit a manuscript to the* Journal of Service
Science and Management* (JSSM, ISSN: 1940-9907), an international,
specialized...
Two Romney Reactions
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Jim Ryan is bullish on the choice components of Romney’s ed plan. I think
there is a lot less there than he hopes. Doesn’t this line from the Romney
paper ...
Top 10 Cable TV Engagement, Week of May 14-20, 2012
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Source: Rentrak. Content in Rentrak updates is produced and/or compiled by
Rentrak Corporation and its TV Essentials data collection and analytical
service...
The US public school system is under attack
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Liza Featherstone , Al Jazeera, May 30, 2012.
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Three Facebook Tips For College Graduates
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It’s that time of year again, when college graduates accept their diplomas
and join the real world, which, for most, entails searching for a job. Dan
Fin...
It’s time to focus on your LQ
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Learning is everywhere in the connected workplace. Networked professionals
need more than advice (training); they need ongoing, real-time,
constantly-chang...
A Few Good Pinterest Tools, Tips, and Resources
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Pinning Our Lives: Pinterest and Beyond View more presentations from Aliza
Sherman Back in January, I wrote a post about Pinterest as a curation tool
to o...
Work Your Way Around the World
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It's many a graduate's dream -- pay your way as you travel around the
world. I lived the dream myself when I was younger, so I know it is
possible. Sinc...
What's the point in competency frameworks?
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One of my clients asked me recently, what is the point in competency
frameworks? As far as he was concerned they just seemed to be getting in
the way of h...
Social media [at your library] starts with you
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Thank you to Karen Bonanno for the opportunity to speak with teacher
librarians about social media, social networking and school libraries, as
part of the...
5 Things Connected Campuses Do Well
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Learn how the most connected colleges and universities are using social
media to connect with alumni, students, prospective students, and their
communities.
Flipping assessment
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Inspired by Dave Cormier’s learning contract, and previous work at
learner-defined syllabi and assessment, I had a thought about
learner-created project ev...
Design Process In The Responsive Age
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You cannot plan for and design a *responsive*, *content-focused*, *
mobile-first* website the same way you’ve been creating websites for
years—you just ca...
12.158 Molecular Biogeochemistry (MIT)
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This course covers all aspects of molecular biosignatures, such as their
pathways of lipid biosynthesis, the distribution patterns of lipid
biosynthetic pa...
70 Teachers Dismissed for Fake Documents
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News Display: About seventy teachers have been dismissed from public
schools in Greenville Sinoe County. In a communication to the county
Educational Offic...
Lovely Japanese Vintage Ads
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"QUANTUM SHOT" #775
Link - article by Avi Abrams
*Industrial Design with a Deliciously Cute Factor*
Some of you might remember these gems of industri...
Enter the Market – Course Data
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I’m not at Dev8Ed this week, though I probably should be, but here’s what
I’d have probably tinkered with had I gone – a recipe for creating a class
of XCR...
Why Facebook IPO debacle may be good news
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The Facebook IPO was very interesting for a number of reasons. Facebook has
managed to screw everybody. Firstly they persuaded us to sign over our data
to ...
How to Find Free PowerPoint E-Learning Templates
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I have mixed feelings about templates. On one hand templates are great
because they help guide the production process and maintain consistency.
This is goo...
Letter Home from Camp Magic Macguffin (week 1)
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Part of the weekly recaps of ds06 we are asking our participants to do is a
letter home from camp… Dear Mom and Dad, Wow, what a first week from Camp
Magic...
Professional Development Meme 2012 #pdmeme2012
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I’m a big fan of goal setting. It can provide a road map for the short or
long-term and can be an effective motivational strategy. I have set a few
profess...
Making the move to Speakerdeck
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For the past few years when I have needed to share my presentations online
I have been using Slideshare. There were two key reasons for this; firstly
it al...
Memorial Day (and technology integration) tokenism
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I was raised to honor our military. One of my grandfathers was a Marine
sergeant during World War II. The other was an Army lifer who served in
three wars ...
Serials in Koha 3.2
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Managing serials can be a daunting task in any ILS. This tutorial will give
you an overview of adding a simple subscription in Koha 3.2. If you have an
ide...
on reclaiming dropbox with owncloud
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In the Reclaim project, I’ve been struggling to find a way to properly
access my files from anywhere – Dropbox has that problem solved handily.
I’ve been w...
Want to predict the future?
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cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by a_whisper_of_unremitting_demand I
grew up in Huntsville, AL. So my dad still sends me news from the area. It
turn...
Eine Kleine Rap Music
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Confession: I’m no fan of student rap projects. So how nice to be compelled
to send this email “grading” Ashley’s and Rachel’s Russian Revolution rap:
He...
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning
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In 2009 Peter Tittenberger and I wrote a handbook of emerging technologies
for learning. We created a supporting website (wiki) for the book. Those
fine fo...
Updated Table of Five Design Models
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[image: A collection of design models]
I recently added a new row to the table of design methodologies that shows
some examples after a request from a...
Overcoming the Course and Control mindset hurdles
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My two recent Learning in the Workplace surveys showed that (a) people consider that informal learning is much more important, if not essential, to them than...
A Fundamental Flaw
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From the May 21st issue of Fortune Magazine (article not online yet), comes
this quote from Fred Smith, founder and CEO of FedEx:
We put so much emphasis o...
Googlepedia
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As previously anticipated, Google introduced Knowledge Graph, a new way to
handle queries that replaces keywords with objects. It's like replacing a
dictio...
Education Recovery Plan (draft) for CHCH
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The Ministry of Education released their draft Renewal Plan for
Christchurch last week, outlining the strategy for what will happen for
education in CHCH o...
Minor blog downtime
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The blog’s hosting server is getting an upgrade sometime in the next 48
hours… there will likely be some downtime in the early morning hours. They
tell me...
94.01
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Unleashing the Creative Reservoir: The Rise of the Creative Class,
Revisited by Richard Florida “A new social compact—a Creative Compact—can
turn our Creat...
Experts and Empowerment
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We all, as David Wiley writes, want to empower learners. While we read a
great deal these days about education as job training and workforce
readiness, wha...
1676 Stone
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[image: 1676 Stone by midgefrazel]
1676 Stone, a photo by midgefrazel on Flickr.
Tombstone Tuesday
Probably the oldest stone in this cemetery. Very clear a...
Social business takes social learning
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Join Jane Hart and me for an online conversation on Wednesday 23
May 18.30-19.30 pm GMT, 13.30-14.30 pm ET, 10.30-11.30 am PT. We will talk
about whatever ...
Rhonda Farkota's 2005 Opinion piece
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Below is a summary of a 2005 article by Rhonda Farkota about what needs to
be done to fix maths education in Australia. Rhonda Farkota has done the
researc...
K12 just got (re)Imagined. Or, notes from Demo Day.
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I just had the privilege of going to the Imagine K12 demo day. At the
beginning, the founder of InstaGrock said something along the lines of
“welcome to th...
Facebook for Business Workshop - April 23rd
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Any and all are invited to my next Brick and Click workshop, focused on Facebook (event on Facebook )... with so many changes having taken place over the pas...
Not the Drop-Off!
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Bob: Hey, you’re doing pretty well for a first-timer. Marlin: Well, you
can’t hold on to them forever, can you? Bill: You know I had a tough time
when my o...
One Week Away…
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Our season begins next Tuesday, 4/17! Players, make sure you have turned in
all your paperwork and you have your pink card (or give it to Mr. Orm). See
you...
Off The Grid
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We’re off once again. Trying to contact me, or one of my little band of
students, in the coming week will be next to impossible. We’ll be
completely off th...
EnemyGraph. Education. Done. Right.
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“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” -Paulo
Freire “This is ...
Organizing digital information for others
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My new book on Organizing Digital Information for Others is out.
When we interact with web and intranet teams, we find many struggling to
move beyond con...
Current Events Come to Life on the SMARTBoard
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Finding interactive sites for the Social Studies classroom can be a
challenge, so I popped over to Free Technology for Teachers to see if I
could find some...
Seeing Data
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Part of what makes what I do so interesting is the interconnectedness of
the moving parts of the organization. My group, Teaching and Learning with
Technol...
Sasktel’s Great Bait & Switch
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Last year, I terminated my mobile phone contract with Rogers, and signed a
three-year contract with Sasktel Mobility. I chose Sasktel at the time for
two r...
Big data .. big trend
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[I spoke at the Lita Top Technology Trends at Dallas. I had a trend in reserve - big data - but did not use it. Here is something along the lines of what I m...
A Very “Animated” Friday
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Yesterday we only had 7 students in our class! Several of our classmates
got to go to a special First Nations performance in Fort Rupert and so we
decided ...
Learning2gether Visit with MachineEVO 2012
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Learning2gether Visit with MachineEVO
An update on Week#1 of the EVO2012's MachineEVO Session
Hosted Inworld by Heike Philp
January 15, 2012
Download Au...
eLearning Learning Adds Personalized Subscriptions
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Aggregage, the platform that powers eLearning Learning has added a powerful
personalization engine. That means that eLearning Learning now allows
users ...
QR Codes, Part Two
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so, the kids were pretty rapt with the qr code; even my juniors, when they saw it, wanted to scan it and see what it did as well. i was thrilled to have them...
From self-belief to self-direction
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In a sense, leaders are in the empowerment business. If you lead a team,
you should spend a great deal of your time doing things that empower them.
Why? B...
Google’s Buzz Kill
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I’ve only just run across this news, but in reading several different tech
publications today, most notably the Official Google Blog, I see that
Google has...
Nature Scitable Bloggers Update
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We’re busy working on our presentation for the Science Online conference in
January! We had a wonderful meeting on Columbus Day to talk about how we
can i...
More than a tip o’ the hat
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Steve Jobs saw ways to connect people and realized that that was the best
thing he could do with his time and his intellect . . . find ways to
connect us t...
Thanks Steve
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Not that I will have anything to add to the news that Steve Jobs has passed
away, but I will say that I certainly admired his passion from afar. Many
tim...
Feeling Chatty?
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Live Chat is now…, well live in the Discovery Education Science Techbook.
Look for more details to come soon, but for now check out the video below
to see...
The Emperor's Garden
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The Emperor instructed the gardener to set up the new court's garden. "I
want you to plant five trees growing the Crataan fruit," the Emperor said,
"Becaus...
Partner for More
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I was cleaning my office to head off on vacation and ran across the article
I wrote last year for the Continuing Higher Education Review about the work
UC ...
Wikipedia losing contributors, to streamline editing
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the user-generated encyclopedia is
losing volunteer contributors, and must simplify its editing procedures.
Originally ...
10 Years of Blogging: Time for a Change and a Book
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So last week it marked 10 years since my first blog post, a full decade of
writing and sharing online. As I’ve said many times before, it’s been an
amazing...
Habits
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The groups in the virtual campus I’m using at school are environments to
interact with students. For every update, you can get an email notification
provid...
Transition
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You’ve likely noticed that Open Education News has been on a brief hiatus.
We’re currently working on a new model and structure for how we bring you
Open E...
Visiting Melbourne…Want to catch up?
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I’m going to be in Melbourne from May 11 to May 18. My mum’s attending a
conference from May12-13 and asked me to join her as she doesn’t get much
opportun...
Big Changes at eLearn Magazine
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What's new and different at eLearn Magazine? I am very excited to announce that we have a new site. Not only is it more modern and attractive, we believe, bu...
The Knowledge Tree has turned 21!
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Since 2002, The Knowledge Tree has been sharing the latest research and
innovation in global e-learning practice with Australian vocational
education and t...
strength is its own kind of power
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For a variety of reasons, some closer to home than others, I’ve been trying
to pay attention to the dynamics and politics of power, especially in the
arena...
MOVING to a NEW LOCATION
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I've been blogging at Blogger since 2006, it is hard to believe that I have
been blogging for so long. I've met great people through blogging,
increased m...
Fall harvest and potluck
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The summer vegetable season is (very nearly) at an end. All members of the
winter vegetable co-op will be meeting on Sept. 26 for our yearly fall
harvest a...
Hate Trial Software? Try The Dell Vostro Line
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One of the most annoying things about buying a new computer is all of the
trial software you will have to deal with. You know all of those, “Try our
securi...
InfoGrab } January 21, 2010
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40 Percentage of video gamers that are female 18 Average number of hours
spent per week by gamers playing video games 23.7 Percentage of console
failure wi...
We’ve moved to www.chrisbetcher.com
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OK, I actually did it. If you read the previous post, you’ll know that I
was thinking of moving this blog to a self-hosted server and doing a bit of
a blog...
DiscoverEd
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This Creative Commons site provides a starting point to search for open
educational resources. Search results are given a brief description and
identified ...
Life is complicated
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To make things even more complicated, this week I announced the OFFICIAL
launch of Collin Kromke Photography, serving Sun Prairie and Madison, WI.
http://c...
Moving to new website..
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I’ve been playing with a new website design and have been intending to move
everything over to the http://fleeptuque.com domain for some time, but I
was wo...
Charges Against Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Be Dropped
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Authorities in Cambridge, Mass., agreed not to prosecute the Harvard
scholar for disorderly conduct for alleged statements to the police
investigating a ...
home
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The aim of this site is to help you gain the skills to build your own
personal learning network (PLN)!
This is a demonstration of how to write on a wiki!
{...
Super EPhone M8
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I am a enthusiastic e-electronics fan just like many young people nowadays.
I like to share ideas and opinions with my friends on e-items. Days before,
one...
Milestones or millstones?
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... the 'how' of eLearning development is being stymied by a corporate
addiction to project management methodology. You know the deal - "start
here, hit th...
Connectivism course starts Monday...
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As mentioned in June, we are offering an open online course on Connectivism. The course begins on Monday and is freely available to anyone with an interest i...
Eclipse JSF Tools Turns 1.0
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I would like to congratulate Raghu Srinivasan from Oracle (Eclipse JSF
Tools Project Lead) and his team for helping the community produce its
first officia...