Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 06/19/2009

• The nine tribes of the internet | Pew Internet & American Life Project

  This talk explores the latest findings of the Pew Internet & American Life Project about broadband adoption and wireless connectivity and looks at why government agencies, associations, activists, and businesses should use varied digital strategies to serve the needs of different tribes of technology users.

  tags: education, technology, web_2.0, learning, social_networking, digital_native, learners, learn, Internet, PEW, study, research

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Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 06/18/2009

• Google Books 2.0: Smarter Search and Easy Embeds

  tags: books, google, technology, education, web_2.0, learning, classroom, mashups, embed, widget

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Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 06/17/2009

• Twitter Search in Plain English - Common Craft

  tags: twitter, education, technology, web_2.0, learning, PLN, PLC, social_networking, microblog

• Educational Leadership:Revisiting Teacher Learning:A Framework for Learning to Teach

  tags: education, technology, learning, PLN, PLC, teaching, best_practices, mentoring, mentor, teacher

• Educational Leadership:Revisiting Teacher Learning:Brain-Friendly Learning for Teachers

  tags: education, technology, learning, PLN, PLC, teachers, professional, brain

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Twitter Explained

Image via CrunchBase

It seems like EVERYONE (and their dogs, goldfish, etc.) are Tweeting these days. If you aren't on Twitter, yet, and are wondering what the buzz (or, rather, tweeting) is all about, check out these two videos from the Common Craft Show.

Twitter in Plain English



Twitter Search in Plain English



Twitter
Professional Learning Network
PLN
Community
Social Networking
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The Future of Learning: How Technology Is Transforming Public Schools

[Text below from a Discovery Education Press Release]

The House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing to examine how technology, innovative education tools, and digital content are transforming and improving education in America. Scott Kinney, Vice President of Outreach and Professional Development for Discovery Education, served as one of seven panelists who testified as to how technology and digital content can improve American education in the future.

Moderated by Chairman George Miller of California, the panel included administrators and educators from various public school districts, the Chief Technology Officer for the White House Office for Science and Technology, and a student from North Carolina.

Citing recent research, Kinney illustrated that students use technology profusely at home, while most are unable to use that same technology in the classroom. Today’s tech-savvy students function by consuming, processing, and learning from media, in many forms simultaneously. Kinney asked the committee to envision an educational system that supported the use of technology in the classroom, therefore, supporting how students learn naturally.

Kinney also highlighted forward-thinking communities and states for their efforts to transform education using technology, including Indianapolis Public Schools for their efforts to integrate digital content into their curriculum, California for its recent initiative to replace textbooks with digital resources, and Texas for similar pending legislation.

In addition, Kinney discussed how professional development is critical to supporting future programs utilizing technology. He explained that district leaders, facilitators and teachers must receive continuous support through subsequent professional development that includes lesson and unit development, modeling, and non-punitive coaching.

With data supporting the benefits of integrating digital media into classroom instruction, Kinney argued the time is now for every level of government and school districts nationwide to accelerate their support for the use of effective digital content in schools. It is only with this continued support that today’s students will reach their full academic potential.

Following the hearing, Discovery Education participated in a special forum in the Capitol’s Rayburn Building, sponsored by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), during which the educational industry showcased the latest products and services.

To view the archived Web cast of Kinney’s testimony, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzw9vykNydE&feature=channel_page

Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 06/15/2009

• Presentation Zen: Learning from the art of comics

  Applying the amplification-through-simplification concept from Scott McCloud's book, Understanding Comics: The invisible Art

  tags: presentation, zen, education, technology, web_2.0, learning, classroom, digital_storytelling, images, comics, comic, comic_strip, comic_strips, Daniel_Pink, DanielPink

• Comic Tools for Schools

  tags: Comics, comic_strips, comic, comix, education, learning, creativity

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Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 06/09/2009

• Zefty - Online Allowance and Money Management for Kids & Parents

  Online application that helps parents teach money-management to children and also track their allowance. Using Zetfy, parents can set up virtual accounts for their kids and then specify how much allowance they get. The kids can then log in into their accounts and see how much money they have. The application works just like an actual bank account but everything is based on virtual money.

  tags: kids, allowance, finance, education, learning, financial, parenting, zefty, technology, web_2.0

• Wikipedia.org - 10 Essential Sites - TIME

  tags: web2.0, WEBSITES, wikipedia.org, education, technology, web_2.0, social_networking, PLN, PLC

• How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME

  "Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles."

  tags: twitter, microblogging, time, socialnetworking, web2.0, socialmedia, trends, education

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Teach Your Children About Money Management With Zefty

• Zefty - Online Allowance and Money Management for Kids & Parents

  Online application that helps parents teach money-management to children and also track their allowance. Using Zetfy, parents can set up virtual accounts for their kids and then specify how much allowance they get. The kids can then log in into their accounts and see how much money they have. The application works just like an actual bank account but everything is based on virtual money.

  tags: kids, allowance, finance, education, learning, financial, parenting, zefty, technology, web_2.0

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"My name is Jen and I'm a Twitter addict"

I just love this Twitter cartoon!

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Changing the Rules of Engagement - The Impact of Twitter

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME:

"Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles."

Websites I Found Interesting - Diigo 06/06/2009

• 10 Must-Haves for Your Social Media Policy

  tags: policy, socialmedia, socialnetworking, twitter, Social, musthaves, social_media, education, technology, learning, PLN, PLC

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The Geography of Jobs - Visualization

The Geography of Jobs - TIP Strategies

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This animated map provides a striking visual of employment trends over the last business cycle using net change in jobs from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on a rolling 12-month basis. We used this approach to provide the smoothest possible visual depiction of ongoing employment dynamics at the MSA level. By animating the data, the map highlights a number of concurrent trends leading up to the nation’s present economic crisis. The graphic highlights the 100 largest metropolitan areas so that regional trends can be more easily identified.

Click here to play the data visualization.

Here are a few screen shots.

January 2004 - Recovering from the 2001 recession and burst of the dot-com bubble.



October 2005 - Post Hurricane Katrina



March 2009 - Need I say more?





TIPS
The Geography of Jobs
USA
Geography
visualization
employment
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