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A New Space Ship

mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:23:00 -0600

In the introduction to The Global Achievement Gap, Tony Wagner makes the case that, despite all the bad press, American schools aren't failing.

In today's highly competitive global "knowledge economy," all students need new skills for college, careers, and citizenship. The failure to give all students these new skills leaves today's youth--and our country--at an alarming competitive disadvantage. Schools haven't changed; the world has. And so our schools are not failing. Rather, they are obsolete--even the ones that score the best on standardized tests. This is a very different problem requiring an altogether different solution. (2008, p. xxi)

As the district I work for has been embarking on an initiative to redefine education for the 21st century, I've been reflecting on this passage quite a bit.

Understandably, teachers are nervous and feeling defensive. It is easy to take a need for change and perceive it as criticism of all the good, hard work being done right now.

I keep circling back to Kennedy's challenge of putting an American on the moon within ten years. The series of Apollo missions that eventually lead to Apollo 11's success were an amazing triumph. But should the current president challenge the nation to put an American on Mars within ten years, would that suddenly invalidate the Apollo missions, suddenly give us cause to see that hard work as a failure? Of course not.

The Apollo missions got us to where we needed to go; changing the destination doesn't make Apollo 11 a failure, but it does mean we need a new space ship.

The world has changed. Our students need a new space ship to get them there. The real challenge is that we are currently flying around in obsolete Apollo 11s hoping to turn them into something that can survive the rest of the journey before they fall apart around us.

The Element of Fear

mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:20:00 -0600

One of the unsurprising themes coming across in The Global Achievement Gap is the need to move beyond content and focus instruction on developing the learning skills necessary for success in life. Of course, the Ed Tech crowd, for one, has been saying this for some time now.

Seth Godin has an interesting post on fear and its impact on being able to sell a product.

Whatever you sell, there are two big reasons people aren't buying it:
1. They don't know about it.
2. They're afraid of it.

Overall, #1 seems to be improving nicely. The larger education community has heard about "the stuff." They're hearing more and more about how "the stuff" can support teaching and learning. However, it feels like we are still quite some distance from any kind of tipping point where true and meaningful tech integration is commonplace.

#2 is the stumbling block.

[People are] afraid of anything with too many choices, too many opportunities to look foolish or to waste time or money.

There are so many choices, so many tools; it's hard to know what to use when. So, how do we reduce this barrier of too many choices? What kinds of guidance will best support teachers by appropriately narrowing the choices to mitigate the chances of wasting time or money?

The Global Achievement Gap--Introduction

mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:12:00 -0600

As part of an effort to develop professional learning communities in the district, central administrators and principals are reading The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner. I haven't read any of Wagner's earlier writings, but looking at the titles of his earlier works, it's clear he has been discussing school change for some time. However, unlike some of the alarmist rhetoric we've seen in the past, in his introduction Wagner is adopting a measured tone that reflects a core reality of schools.

The failure to give all students these new skills leaves today's youth--and our country--at an alarming competitive disadvantage. Schools haven't changed; the world has. And so our schools are not failing. Rather, they are obsolete--even the ones that score the best on standardized tests. This is a very different problem requiring an altogether different solution (p. xxi).

What I am left wondering, naturally, is just what the solution(s) are according to Wagner? I'm at a loss to think of an obsolete industry that recovered, climbing out of obsolescence and back into some kind of meaningful relevance in the world. Is there "an altogether different solution" that doesn't mean bulldozing public education and starting over from scratch but that can still be implemented in an effective enough and timely enough manner to resurrect our schools? Wagner appears hopeful. He closes the introduction on this note.

In this book, we embark on a journey together, not only to understand this global achievement gap but also to discover new ways of thinking about education and best practices in schools that are preparing all students for learning, work, and citizenship in the twenty-first century (p. xxvii).

I've started in on the first chapter wherein Wagner explains his take on the skills students need to develop during their K-12 education in order to be successful in the world beyond the classroom. We shall see.

Redo, Redesign, Reset?

mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:43:00 -0600

I've been feeling the itch to get back to blogging, but I don't feel like this space is quite the right one for me now. I started the blog as a classroom teacher exploring how to use blogs, specifically, and web 2.0, in general, in the classroom.

The transition out of the classroom was a hard one, and I lost my urge to blog as I worked out just what life as a Teacher on Special Assignment was supposed to look like. But now I've transitioned again--this time to Instructional Technology Coordinator--and while I'm busy working out just what this means, I've got that itch.

But, again, I don't feel like this space is quite right. So, what to do? Rename the blog? Change the URL? Start from scratch somewhere else? Blogger again? Edublogs? Some other platform? For now, I'll just try to get some momentum rolling here.

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 3 Oct 2009 18:30:00 -0600

BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF
from New York Zoos and Aquarium
tags: avatar, animals, kids, elementary
The Colossal Squid Exhibition - Build A Squid - Interactive
build a squid and track it
tags: science, curriculum, k-12, elementary
Books: Death to Cursive Writing | Newsweek Books | Newsweek.com
"Penmanship, like hieroglyphics and the IBM Selectric, has lost its purpose. Let's erase it for good."
tags: cursive, handwriting, keyboarding, curriculum
21st Century Schools | Clif's Notes
tags: 21stcenturylearning, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching
3 Great Social Media Policies to Steal From
tags: social media, online_safety, online_publishing, Policies
Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School | MIT OpenCourseWare
tags: mit, elearning, education, science, math, technology, learning, curriculum
Botanicalls » Kits
tags: twitter, plants
PBS Teachers | PBS Teachers . Resource Roundups
PBS resources for teaching and learning.
tags: social studies, science, health, math, communication arts, curriculum, AP
Call for Beta Testers of NETS Draft Rubric | ISTE Connects - Educational Technology
tags: iste, Standards-based, rubrics, nets, instructional-technology, technology-integration
IDLA Website - Blackboard
tags: idaho, virtual_school, online_learning
Idaho Digital Learning Academy
tags: virtual_school, online_learning, idaho
Montana Content Standards & Performance Descriptors
OPI Content Standards Page
tags: curriculum, Standards-based, education
As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com
tags: nytimes, textbooks, curriculum

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:30:00 -0600

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:30:00 -0600

Seth's Blog: Things to ask before you redo your website
tags: Websites, website, design
did you know #1 quick facts you might find interesting
tags: professional_development, statistics
Smokescreen § Homepage
online game designed to teach the pitfalls of sharing too much information online
tags: onlinesafety, online_safety, social networking, health, cybersafety
LeaderTalk: Why my IPhone is STILL Smarter Than Your Kid's Teacher
tags: iphone, 1:1, 1to1, instructional-technology
LeaderTalk: New Relationships with Content - Annotated
"In stark contrast, outside of the classroom, "content" is positioned in a drastically different way. We are simultaneously filters, producers, and co-creators of content. Successful producers of content must do more than simply churn out meaningless facts and ideas. "
tags: TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, curriculum, digital citizenship, digital literacy
Heresy, or 21st learning? No more pencils, lots more fun
No rows of desks in this classroom, and no teacher lecturing at the front.
tags: TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching
The Committed Sardine - blog
"In fact, recent studies have shown that using online technology and creating communities of learning through digital connections has proved to be more useful to learning than most face-to-face encounters. So making the assumption that face-to-face is more effective can become prohibitive for our students."
tags: online_learning, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, virtual_school
Keyboarding, word processing, writing process, research continuum
tags: keyboarding
Celebrity Punnett Squares at Bionic Teaching
what is the math of personality?
tags: math, social studies, biology, science, curriculum
Conan the Barbarian Has the Answer at Bionic Teaching
How would various historical figures answer the question, "What is best in life?"
tags: video in the classroom, history, social studies
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org
tags: moodle, education, onlinesafety, chat, digital citizenship
Kimberly Moritz BlogPosts
example of blog "newsletter" to the community
tags: admin, example
ThinkQuest : Library
Library of ThinkQuest projects
tags: research, curriculum, science, health, social studies
Globaloria: Social Networks for Global Learning
The Globaloria Program was established by the World Wide Workshop Foundation in the spring of 2006. A network of educational, programmable websites and related wikis and blogs, the Globaloria Program prepares young people (13 and older) to use technology, specifically to become makers of interactive games and simulations, for their own personal and professional development and for the social and economic benefit of their communities.
tags: socialnetworking, social networking, global, science, health, social studies, curriculum
Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation -- THE Journal
Value of social networking in schools; article highlights web resources with an educational focus.
tags: social networking, collaboration, curriculum
Culture Quest
CultureQuest involves students and teachers engaged in inquiry-based classroom projects that explore other peoples and cultures. Projects are based on students’ questions and interests and involve the focused, intensive study of one or more aspects of the art, music, literature, religion, values, daily life customs and traditions of other cultures. Students supplement traditional resources with extensive use of the Internet, both for information and for communication with knowledgeable adults and peers in the country they are studying. Their completed work becomes part of a class web site, which may be accessed at this site.
tags: Culture, social studies, collaboration, global, projects
UNICEF - Voices of Youth
tags: global, education, Culture, social studies
iEARN - International Education and Resource Network
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to collaborate on projects that enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
tags: global, collaboration, education, projects, curriculum, social studies
Global SchoolNet: Home
global connections through a number of projects on diplomacy, cultural studies, and hands-on learning.
tags: education, projects, elearning, Culture, social studies, health, science
Blue Zones
tags: health, science, education, fitness, curriculum
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 11 Essential tools for Global Collaboration
tags: web2.0, social media, transforming_teaching, collaboration
Seth's Blog: The problem with non
what should schools take away from these thoughts?
tags: marketing, non-profit, social media
Culture
fascinating slide deck of netflix's approach to corporate identity.
tags: Culture, netflix, management, leadership, professional_development

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:30:00 -0600

Algebra I Blog
tags: BlogsinSchools, examples_of_student_work
AP Calculus AB / FrontPage
tags: wikis, examples_of_student_work
2¢ Worth » The Evolution of Evolution
tags: science, biology, evolution, curriculum, data, visualization
Last Exit to Nowhere
movie themed t-shirts
tags: t-shirts, clothes, design, tshirts
13 Fantastic and Fun Image Generators
tags: image, graphics, photos, tools, professional_development
How to use Video to Improve your Fencing
tags: fencing, video_training, sports psychology
A blog post, a tweet, a connection | The Thinking Stick
example of power of the network to extend students' learning
tags: blogging, BlogsinSchools, social networking

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 5 Sep 2009 18:30:00 -0600

Education Week: Filtering Fixes
tags: filtering, censoring, online_safety
Justin Reich - Better Strategies Needed for School Internet Access
tags: filtering, censoring, online_safety
Use Online Video in Your Classroom | Edutopia
tags: education, youtube, video in the classroom
Education Week: Filtering Fixes
tags: filtering, censoring, online_safety
Digital Education: With Internet Filtering, Less Is More?
tags: filtering, censoring, online_safety
Stephen's Lighthouse: The State of News
Newsosaur is reporting this:

Newspaper ads tracking to $10B sales drop

"In round numbers, total newspaper advertising sales are likely to drop by $10 billion in 2009, which would put them roughly one-third lower than they were in the prior disastrous year.
tags: professional_development, media
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: 6 Actions to Virtual Schools in Texas
tags: virtual_school, online_learning
I declare September, Avatar Month (or who are you?) - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on School Library Journal
tags: avatar, online_safety, student_safety
Philly Teacher: Free Kid-Friendly Avatar Creators - Annotated
tags: avatar, online_safety, student_safety
copyrightfriendly - Avatar Makers
tags: avatar, online_safety, web2.0, student_safety, online_learning
Project RED - Revolutionizing Education
tags: 1:1, 1to1
The New Liteeacy: Technology Reviviving Not Killing Writing While Pushing Literacy in Bold New Directions
tags: literacy, writing, curriculum
YouTube - cleveland bear sighting
fake bear in real news story
From the comments on YouTube:
It's like, the Daily Show has made fun of mainstream media for so long, the MSM are now recreating the DS spoofs. Which came first? Lol....
tags: professional_development, video editing, video_in_the_classroom, video, medialiteracy
Keyboarding, or the lack thereof. | A Piece of My Mind
tags: keyboarding, CTE, Business, curriculum
Ancient History - Keyboarding
tags: keyboarding, CTE, Business, curriculum
Oregon Business News » 45% Employers use Facebook-Twitter to screen job candidates
Forty-five Percent of Employers Use Social Networking Sites to Research Job Candidates, CareerBuilder Survey Finds
Career Expert Provides DOs and DON’Ts for Job Seekers on Social Networking
tags: social networking, safety, onlinesafety, online_safety, employment
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Cool Science: Home
tags: science, biology, curriculum, health
Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Biomedical Research & Science Education (HHMI)
tags: science, biology, medicine, Health, curriculum
Equal Exchange - Fair Trade Fundraiser Program: Educational Tools
tags: social studies, economics, curriculum
Earth Science Week
tags: science, geology, earth science, curriculum
Scitable | Learn Science at Nature
A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.
Scitable currently concentrates ongenetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge.
tags: genetics, science, curriculum, biology
Henry Hudson 400 | Amsterdam - New York | April - September 2009
tags: history, geography, maps, socialstudies, curriculum

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:30:00 -0600

Study finds that 10- and 11-year-olds already have notions about ideal body composition - Wellness - TIME.com
tags: health, curriculum
YouTube - Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial
tags: professional_development, failure, learning
YouTube - Famous Failures
tags: professional_development, failure, learning
YouTube - Seth Godin & Tom Peters on blogging.
tags: blog, blogging
More ‘Evidence’ of Intelligent Design Shot Down by Science | Wired Science | Wired.com
tags: evolution, science, biology, curriculum
Great Book Stories / FrontPage
tags: library, library2.0
K12 Online Conference 2009 | Leading the ChangeBeyond the Stacks: Using Emerging Technologies to Strengthen Teacher-librarian Leadership
tags: library, library2.0, k12_online_2009
Little evidence laptops helped students' reading, math
tags: 1:1, 1to1, laptops
Bernard
tags: 1:1
Biology on the iPhone and iPod Touch | Biology in Action
apps for iphone/itouch that provide some interactive science
tags: science, curriculum, iphone, iPod, interactive
E.gg Timer - simple online countdown timer
a simple egg timer
tags: timer
Freshman Transition Initiative
tags: CTE, Career_Pathways, freshman_transition
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com
tags: motivation, psychology, ted.com, danielpink, incentives, learning, professional_development
LearnCentral
tags: socialnetworking, professional development, collaboration, education, technology
2¢ Worth » This is Not about YouTube - Annotated
tags: youtube, web2.0, video_in_the_classroom
ALA | Interpretations
Although the Articles of the Library Bill of Rights are unambiguous statements of basic principles that should govern the service of all libraries, questions do arise concerning application of these principles to specific library practices.

Following are those documents designated by the Intellectual Freedom Committee as Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights and background statements detailing the philosophy and history of each. For convenience and easy reference, the documents are presented in alphabetical order. These documents are policies of the American Library Association, having been adopted by the ALA Council.
tags: ALA, censorship, intellectual_freedom, Information fluency, digital citizenship, all_teachers, digitalcitizenship, bestpractices
Wordle Blog: How to make Wordle safe for classroom use.
tags: wordle, filter

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:30:00 -0600

elete Code Makes Money for Rights-Holders | Epicenter | Wired.com
Every minute, the world uploads roughly 20 hours of video to Google’s YouTube site, according to Zamost. Here’s what happens when it encounters YouTube’s ContentID system.
tags: copyright, professional_development, youtube, video_in_the_classroom
- Every minute, the world uploads roughly 20 hours of video to Google’s YouTube site, according to Zamost. Here’s what happens when it encounters YouTube’s ContentID system
12 best places to get free images for your site | News | TechRadar UK
tags: photos, freeimages, graphics, professional_development, powerpoint
Pirate Tech: A day done right - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog
tags: technology-integration, professional_development
Mobile Learning Institute
The Mobile Learning Institute’s film series “A 21st Century Education” profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. “A 21st Century Education” compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.
tags: 21stcenturyskills, 21stcenturylearning, video, professional_development, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, administrator, all_teachers, technology, digitalcitizenship, professionaldevelopment
The Fischbowl: More Than a Passing Trend
tags: twitter
Weblogg-ed » “Willing to be Disturbed”
tags: 1:1, 1to1, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching
Schoolkid Laptops: How Portugal's Doing It Right
tags: 1:1, 1to1, laptops

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:30:00 -0600

Education Week: Teachers Pick Up Tips on Evolution Instruction
tags: science, curriculum, evolution
Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie
"If you can type, you can make movies."
tags: animation, web2.0, moviemaking, text to speech
1GB 1980 v 2009 (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels)
tags: presentations, computers
100 Best Blogs for Teachers of the Future | Clear View Education Blog
tags: teachers, blog, edtech, teaching, resources
Student Bloggers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Bloggers' FAQ on Student Blogging addresses legal issues arising from student blogging. It focuses on blogging by high school (and middle school) students, but also contains information for college students.
tags: EFF, electronic frontier foundation, student_blog
Thinking Machine / Think Social Media Guidelines
tags: socialnetworking, socialmedia, aup, guidelines, social networking
Acceptable Internet Use Policies - A Handbook, Virginia Department of Education
Virginia K-12 educators and students use instructional resources via LAN, WAN, the Internet, and other electronic devices. Administrators, teachers, library media specialists, and students must monitor the use of technologies for grade-level and content appropriateness, ethics, and safety.
tags: aup, online_safety, online_publishing, student_safety
Blogging letter - Bud the Teacher's Wiki
tags: blogging, students, AUP, student_blog, online_publishing
School AUP 2.0 | Main / HomePage browse
This is a dynamic document designed to support teachers, school media specialists, and education leaders in developing, maintaining, and enforcing policies
tags: aup, policy
TeachersFirst: Wiki Walk-Through
tags: wiki, aup, wikis
TeachersFirst: Wiki Walk-Through
tags: wiki, web2.0
Keeping Paper Safe for Students – An Imaginary AUP | Milobo's Musings
This week, I spent some time exploring Acceptable Use Policies from schools around the country and found that an alarming number of them were somewhere between excessively prohibitive and just plain silly. In a world where technology has become a part of virtually every thing we do, it seems almost absurd to still think of technology use policies as separate from the everyday policies that govern behavior and learning activities. If something is wrong; it’s wrong regardless of the tool we use to carry out the act.

So, it got me to thinking…what if we carried the theme of creating a separate set of rules for other essential learning tools…
tags: AUP, student_safety, online_publishing
TrueNorth: Permission to Publish
Students need to have this form turned in before they are allowed to publish their work∞ on the web.
tags: student_safety, online_publishing, policy, aup
Podcast323: R U In My Space? Y Have A Social Media Policy Guideline? (NECC09 Preso by Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer) » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
tags: necc09, social media, social networking, policy

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:30:00 -0600

The Principalship: Manager to Leader
tags: principalship, systems_change, leadership
The Edurati Review: 10 Principles for the Future of Learning
tags: macarthur, education, learning, edtech, transforming_teaching, TransformingEducation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning - Series - The MIT Press
tags: macarthur, media, learning, education, digitalmedia, TransformingEducation, transforming_society
Education - Change.org: Teach Citizens' Journalism with YouTube Reporters' Center
Older teachers often feel up against a wall when told to teach 21st century skills, and it's hard not to sympathize. When they were students, the classroom was a book, paper and pencil world, so it's no surprise that they resist the new media. They have little to no experience with it, academically.

YouTube is here to help, with the new YouTube Reporters' Center channel.
tags: journalism, interview, integrating_technology, project_based_learning

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 18:30:00 -0600

Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote : Stager-to-Go - Annotated
tags: NECC09, 1:1, 1to1, TransformingEducation

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:27:00 -0600

Corrupted files for sale to students to buy extra time - Boing Boing
tags: cheating

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:28:00 -0600

MSU Billings Library - Home
tags: msu, library, video_in_the_classroom, integrating_technology
Screencast: Adding Visuals to Audacity's Audio - Arizona K-12 Center Blog
tags: screencast, audacity, audio, video, video in the classroom
Enhancing Education: Teacher Development Video Production
Here are some general steps for producing and distributing teacher professional development videos as part of your educational outreach plan:
tags: professional_development, video, professionaldevelopment, curriculum

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:28:00 -0600

Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Academic is a new scholarly imprint with a new business model. We publish research-led books across the humanities and social sciences and seek to develop innovative lists on a thematic basis, in fields of current global interest. We are the first major publishing company to provide online access to our research-based books free of charge.
tags: creativecommons, creative_commons, opencourseware, opensource
Fence Like A Train: Write the Score, that He May Not Embarrass Himself
tags: fencing, training, sports psychology
Kerpoof Scholastics™
tags: kerpoof, lessonplans, web2.0, writing, education, communication arts, english
Project Based Learning
tags: pbl, projects, resources, education, project_based_learning
You've done the work . . . . Now Get Credit! | ESSDACK Self Directed Staff Development
tags: self-directed, professionaldevelopment, professional_development
Blogging in the Classroom | A Piece of My Mind
tags: Blogging, BlogsinSchools, writing
Create and Collaborate on Online Diagrams - Try it Free | Creately
tags: mindmapping, collaboration, web2.0, diagrams
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
tags: collaboration, writing, web2.0, etherpad

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 2 May 2009 18:29:00 -0600

Microphones: Make Your Podcasts Sound Great
tags: podcasting, microphone, audio
Penmachine.com: Our quality basement podcast studio setup | Derek K. Miller, Writer & Editor, Vancouver, Canada
tags: podcasting, microphone, audio
Free Acid Loops Beats & Audio Samples Acapellas Vocals Music Sounds FX Tutorials Vsti Plugins
Looperman is a Free pro audio community for musicians, film and video producers, djs and multi media designers.
tags: audio, mp3, loops, music, podcasting
Thoughtcrime Experiments
Thoughtcrime Experiments is a free 2009 anthology of fantasy and science fiction stories and art, published under a Creative Commons license. It’s available online as HTML, as a downloadable PDF, or as a print-on-demand physical book (coming soon).
tags: creativecommons, science_fiction
Communication Arts Collaborative Resource
Resource for Montana teachers--teaching strategies, assessment ideas, and resources & links.
tags: opi, communication arts, curriculum

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:29:00 -0600

A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education | Edutopia
tags: textbooks, textbook, education
Report recommends state science, technology, engineering and math education strategy (WTN News)
tags: STEM, science, curriculum, TransformingEducation
Mind-Reading Device Sends Twitter Messages | LiveScience
tags: Brain research, computer interface, futurism
Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos
tags: physics, astronomy, science, curriculum, math
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham
tags: science, chemistry, education, periodictable, curriculum
Viewzi — What are you looking for?
tags: search, searchengine, visualization, Viewzi
ICT in Education: --> A teen's view of social networking and digital citizenship
tags: technology-integration, web2.0, social networking, digital citizenship
Technology Integration Matrix
The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.
tags: Technology, technologyintegration, tech_integration, pedagogy, edtech

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:29:00 -0600

Top News - Survey shows barriers to Web 2.0 in schools
tags: web2.0, education, research, filtering, censoring, techintegration
Seattle Public Schools | MS Cyberbullying Curriculum
tags: cyberbullying, internetsafety, cybersafety, curriculum
Learning is…
tags: learning, professional_development, professionaldevelopment
Sharing Podcasts across your Network « The Thinking Stick
tags: podcasting, podcasts, audio, multimedia
Micro Learning Spaces
Creating Micro Learning Spaces means replacing 50-75% of student desks and chairs with comfortable and movable age-size furniture and equipment (built to last) for a great majority of K-12 classrooms.
tags: classroom, school design, classroom design, design

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mjclausen@gmail.com (Matt Clausen) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:29:00 -0600

Take My Teacher Home
tags: literacy, kindergarten, iPod, technology-integration
Study Ties Student Achievement to Technology Integration : April 2009 : THE Journal
tags: technology, achievement, professional_development, technology-integration
YouTube - LibraryOfCongress's Channel
tags: youtube, library of congress, video, social studies, curriculum
DesignShare Home
Frank Locker - speaking to MCPS at end of month
tags: education, design, future, architecture
Free Teleprompter application
tags: teleprompter
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky - Annotated
collapse of traditional information economies
tags: journalism, media, future, publishing, transforming_society, TransformingEducation, presentations
Nine Inch Nails iPhone App Extends Reznor's Innovative Run | The Underwire from Wired.com
tags: NIN, mediaproduction, media, socialnetworking, social networking, transforming_society
10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine
tags: WebDesign, design, techniques, presentation
Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop | How-To | Smashing Magazine
tags: GIMP, Photoshop, design, tutorial, howto
8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs | CSS | Smashing Magazine
tags: typography, presentation, webdesign

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