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Wiki Walkthrough: Wikis FAQs answered by TeachersFirst (with examples)

Jorge Goncalves — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:49:33 +0000

TeachersFirst Wiki Walkthrough: The path starts with the basic What in the world is a wiki? and continues with Who uses wikis? and What is the difference between a wiki and a blog? For teachers is important to know So how do I use wikis with my class(es)? or What benefits are there from student wiki participation? Some examples can be seen on the wiki walk through some sample wikis. We can even play with some wiki tools on the Which wiki tool will you use? section. A visit to the TeachersFirst wiki is also recommended. Here we can find more ideas on how to use a wiki as a learning tool.

TeachersFirst is offering two free meetings at OK2Ask Guided Wiki Walk, today and July 29 at either 3 pm or 6 pm Eastern time both days (with a little homework in between).

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Wiki Walkthrough: Wikis FAQs answered by TeachersFirst (with examples)

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Microsoft Teacher Guides: Developing Critical Thinking Through Web Research Skills

Jorge Goncalves — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:56:36 +0000

From Search to Research: Developing Critical Thinking Through Web Research Skills (PDF). A very useful e-book, understandably a little biased into Microsoft’s tools, particularly Bing, full of good references to critical thinking resources, accompanied with a vast selection of links to related sites.

From Conclusion: ‘The Internet is a river of information that seems to grow wider and flow faster every day. Web content, including this e-book, reflects this ongoing process of expansion and change. To stay current, you have to intentionally keep moving along with it. Online web literacy discussions are great places to find the latest tips, techniques, examples, and strategies for teaching students essential web literacy skills that help them develop as critical thinkers capable of engaging the world intelligently and creatively.’

Microsoft Teacher Guides: Critical Thinking in the Classroom. Applying critical thinking skills through web research can help students improve search skills, evaluate the information they find and incorporate them in their work. It contains a critical thinking and web research curriculum developed in cooperation with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

The Critical Thinking Community: The Role of Socratic Questioning in Thinking, Teaching, & Learning

Critical Thinking Toolkit: a list of nine strategies for students to help them developing a practice of critical thinking. (Other study toolkits from this University of British Columbia site are also recommended)

Critical Thinking Compendium: a wiki about teaching critical thinking and Internet literacies maintained by Howard Rheingold and other educators.

Critical Thinking on the Web: a huge list of quality links to a wide variety of topics on this subject.

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Microsoft Teacher Guides: Developing Critical Thinking Through Web Research Skills

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2010 Horizon Report Highlights Mobile Computing and Open Content

Jorge Goncalves — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:01:54 +0000

2010 Horizon Report. From the Executive Summary: In each edition of the Horizon Report, six emerging technologies or practices are described that are likely to enter mainstream use on campuses within three adoption horizons spread over the next one to five years. Each report also presents critical trends and challenges that will affect teaching and learning over the same time frame. In the seven years that the Horizon Project has been underway, more than 400 leaders in the fields of business, industry, technology, and education have contributed to this long-running primary research effort.

The report’s format is consistent from year to year, opening with a discussion of the trends and challenges identified by the Advisory Board as most critical for the next five years. The format of the main section closely reflects the focus of the Horizon Project itself, centering on the applications of emerging technologies to teaching, learning, and creative inquiry.

Technologies to Watch: On the near-term horizon — that is, within the next 12 months — are mobile computing and open content.

You may also want to browse the Horizon Report Wiki, the workplace for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the topics for the 2010 Horizon Report or download the PDF version of the report (available in four languages).

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2010 Horizon Report Highlights Mobile Computing and Open Content

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Free: Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning

Jorge Goncalves — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:57:11 +0000

Recently, I’ve discovered the excellent Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning from George Siemens and Peter Tittenberger, Learning Technologies Centre (LTC), University of Manitoba. This handbook is freely available in two formats: wiki and PDF. The number, diversity and quality of the bibliographic references are worth mentioning. A must read!

Conclusion excerpt: The use of technology for learning is influenced by developments in numerous fields: technology itself, global trends (market economy growth, changing immigration patterns, intellectual shifts to emerging economies), societal trends and trends within educational research.

Much of the change in education over the last several decades has been defined by discussion of content. Should we teach more math? Science? What about ethics? How should we teach? Lecture? Problem-based learning? It seems that much of educational reform has been concerned with determining the content of education, rather than the model and process of learning design and delivery in a technology infused world.

For individual faculty members and departments, greater use of emerging technology can serve as an important bridging process between the traditional role of education and the not yet clearly defined future. Active participation in the ecology of perpetual change provides organizations with the capacity to sense, recognize, and respond to emerging patterns.

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Free: Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning

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Sclipo: Social Learning Revolution

Jorge Goncalves — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:38:40 +0000

Sclipo is a social learning network. Sclipo offers a revolutionary way to learn online by integrating rich educational applications – such as video and webcam – into a true social network platform. Sclipo helps you to teach and learn just about everything, from technology to languages or cooking, and connects you with people of common interests.

Sclipo Document Library and Video Library contain educational materials, such as lectures or tutorials added by Sclipo Academies.

Sclipo Blog.

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World Digital Library (WDL)

Jorge Goncalves — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:28:15 +0000

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The principal objectives of the WDL are to promote international and intercultural understanding; expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet; provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences and build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

Navigation tools and content descriptions are provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Many more languages are represented in the actual books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and other primary materials, which are provided in their original languages.

The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the financial support of a number of companies and private foundations.

World Digital Library: Frequently Asked Questions.

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World Digital Library (WDL)

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2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning

Jorge Goncalves — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:32:34 +0000

KnowledgeWorks and IFTF Present 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning. ‘Over the next decade, the most vibrant innovations in education will take place outside traditional institutions. This 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning presents a critical dilemma facing these institutions: how to reconcile bottom-up developments in education with the traditional top-down hierarchy that is currently in place. Such peripheral innovation will redefine how learning is organized, who comprises the broad “school community,” and what the actual experiences of learners will be like in the future. The validity and role of formal institutions of education will be challenged by key forces of change and will be reconsidered by an expanding group of stakeholders. Together, the pressures of change and new stakeholder demands will create a new future for learning.

The 2020 Forecast is a tool for thinking about, preparing for, and shaping the future. It outlines key forces of change that will shape the landscape of learning over the next decade. The forecast does not predict what will happen, but rather serves as a guide to the as-yet-unwritten future. It is designed to help you see connections among things that once seemed unrelated and to help you consider the changes and challenges that you are facing today within the context of wider patterns of change.’

The Forecast: From Participation to Creation.

KnowledgeWorks Foundation Blog: The Future of Education is Here.

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Collaborative e-Book: Twitter for Teachers

Jorge Goncalves — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:09:50 +0000

Twitter for Teachers: A Collaborate Effort to Teach Teachers about Twitter. ‘How would you like to co-author an e-book to teach educators about Twitter? This e-book is intended for use by teachers from primary, elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools. The contents of the book are made available under an attribution, non-commercial, share-alike Creative Commons license. Any and all contributions to this resource are deemed to be done on a voluntary basis. Edits to this resource may be edited, deleted or otherwise modified by the moderators of the site.’

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WP-Edu Mailing List

Jorge Goncalves — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:18:53 +0000

Just saw this on Matt Mullenweg’s blog: There’s a new mailing list for discussion WordPress and Education.

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Online Colleges Degrees Review

Jorge Goncalves — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:54:54 +0000

Online Colleges, part of the huge College Scholarships, Colleges, and Online Degrees portal, main goal is helping students to choose suitable online colleges, degrees and courses.

The all site is designed like a notebook page making use of a user-friendly right navigational toolbar where we can find several links to other site’s pages.

My main purpose visiting this site was to check the Undergraduate and Graduate Online Degrees section. Here we can find a very detailed directory of institutions offering accredited online degrees and courses complemented by a Quick Degree Finder search engine. We can search choosing several options: degree level, category and subject. The results link to pages located on external sites. The same happens when you try to obtain more information using the directory links. For each institution a brief description is presented but when we click the links we go to external pages, most of them located at elearners.com, where we have to submit a form to obtain more information about the online course we have chosen. I didn’t like this. I would prefer a direct link to the institution instead of going to another site to fill a form.

Nevertheless, I recommend this site for those who are starting to look for an online degree. The many choices presented in almost every field of knowledge are a strong point in favor of Online Colleges. For beginners, I also recommend the reading of the Ten Rules for Choosing Online Colleges and Universities and the 10 Tips for College-Bound Students.

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Online Colleges Degrees Review