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Pew study: The web is redefining our relationships, reputations

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:19:54 PST

Most people agree that the internet has and will continue to be positive for social relations. But according to a survey by the Pew Research Center, it's also presented many more challenges, and perhaps opportunities, for how reputations are made, tarnished, and remade, reports the Washington Post. In its annual future of social relations survey, the Pew Internet & American Life Project asked 895 experts how eMail, social networking sites, and video conferencing, among other ...

3D Content for Education on the Rise

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:37:59 PST

At last year's InfoComm, North America's largest conference dedicated to audio-visual (AV) technologies, the big story was the emergence of 3D projectors for education. But while several companies demonstrated projectors that could display three-dimensional images with the help of special glasses, at the time there was not a lot of educational content available to justify an investment in 3D projectors for the classroom. Fast forward to this year's conference, held ...

Train in Thai Market

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:07:49 PST

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SOLO Taxonomy

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:17:14 PST

SOLO stands for Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes. Like Bloom's taxonomy it looks and structures many of the key verbs used in assessment into different levels. Source: http://www.johnbiggs.com.au/solo_graph.html Prestructural – Lower Order Students acquires unconnected information. The information is not organised amd makes no sense. UniStructural Simple connections are created between ideas. Connections are ...

British School Launches Talking PCs for Students Who Can�t Speak English

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:20:58 PST

A primary school where more than half the students do not speak English recently became Britain's first to provide every child with a computerized translator, Asian News International reports. The scheme, dubbed "damaging and dangerous" by critics, will enable 60 per cent of the 384 pupils to communicate with teachers using the software. Children type questions into the computer in their native language, which are translated out loud into English for the ...

Computer-Savvy Students Cheating More, Getting Caught Less

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:53:49 PST

Those vintage forms of academic dishonesty – crib notes scribbled on a palm, or cheat sheets tucked into a sleeve– haven't gone away, but a generation of students more computer literate than their parents is forcing teachers to re-think the way they test students and blurring the definition of cheating. Students are more likely than ever to employ deceit to earn high grades, from text-messaging quiz answers to hacking into school networks and less likely than their ...

A Digital Diet Small Byte of Google Maps

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:59:15 PST

Here is another free Small Byte eBook for you, this time we'll take a look at Google Maps. Google Maps combines street maps and satellite imagery in an exciting and captivating way. This is a free tool available with no registration, though to get the best from it this is recommended. We offer these Digital Diet Small Bytes as a free resource to you with the hopes it will help you to find new ways to keep tying digital tools into your classrooms. They are produced ...

Study: E-books Take Longer To Read Than Print

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:15:10 PST

It takes longer to read books on a Kindle 2 or an iPad versus a printed book, Jakob Nielsen of product development consultancy Nielsen Norman Group discovered in a recent usability survey. The study found that reading speeds declined by 6.2 percent on the iPad and 10.7 percent on theKindle compared to print. However, Nielsen conceded that the differences in reading speed between the two devices were not "statistically significant because of the data's fairly high ...

Slum Dog Millionaire?

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:48:07 PST

Using computers to teach children with no teachers A 10-year experiment that started with Indian slum children being given access to computers has produced a new concept for education, a conference has heard. Professor Sugata Mitra first introduced children in a Delhi slum to computers in 1999. He has watched the children teach themselves - and others - how to use the machines and gather information. Follow up experiments suggest children around the world can learn ...

The Simple Truths of Service

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:00:46 PST

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Reputation Management and Social Media

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:35:35 PST

Download "Reputation Management and Social Media" Internet study Overview More than half (57%) of adult internet users say they have used a search engine to look up their name and see what information was available about them online, up from 47% who did so in 2006. Young adults, far from being indifferent about their digital footprints, are the most active online reputation managers in several dimensions. For example, more than two-thirds (71%) of social networking ...

On the Wire � Art, Maps, Science, ITGS, Social Media and Advertising

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:45:52 PST

1. An essential guide to digital photography – http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/essential-guide-digital-photography-pdf/ - This is a useful resource from the Make use of team. Well worth investigating and using in you art/photography classes. This Scribd digital book is worth looking at too. Check out slideshow The Absolute Beginner's guide to Digital Photography 2. History maps for teachers & students – http://etc.usf.edu/maps/index.htm - This is a resource ...

10 Things the Internet has Ruined and Five Things it Hasn't

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:01:57 PST

For some people, the Internet is the killer app--literally. From newspapers and the yellow pages to personal privacy and personal contact, the Net has been accused of murdering, eviscerating, ruining, and obliterating more things than the Amazing Hulk. Some claims are more true than others, but the Net certainly has claimed its share of scalps. Here are ten things the Net is making virtually extinct, plus five that have flourished. 1. Trust in Encyclopedias When I was a kid, ...

Cell Phone Microscope Poised to Begin Trials in Africa

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:28:44 PST

Cell phones are accumulating a Swiss Army Knife-esqe assortment of capabilities; substituting as cameras, providing internet access, and soon operating as medical labs if Aydogan Ozcan's plans come to fruition. This month's cover article of the journal Lab on a Chip features the latest creation by the Ozcan group, a functioning prototype of a cell phone microscope. The lensless imaging platform behind the cell phone microscope is nearing readiness for real world trials, after ...

Research Dispels Common Ed-Tech Myths

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:05:03 PST

Contrary to popular opinion, newer teachers aren't any more likely to use technology in their lessons than veteran teachers, and a lack of access to technology does not appear to be the main reason why teachers do not use it: These are among the common perceptions about education technology that new research from Walden University's Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership appears to dispel. Prepared by Grunwald Associates based on a 2009 survey of more than ...

Later School Day Makes Teens More Alert: Study

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:22:33 PST

Giving teens 30 extra minutes to start their school day leads to more alertness in class, better moods, less tardiness, and even healthier breakfasts, a small study found. "The results were stunning. There's no other word to use," said Patricia Moss, academic dean at the Rhode Island boarding school where the study was done. "We didn't think we'd get that much bang for the buck." The research appears in July's Archives of Pediatrics & ...

Jeanne Mundango Manunga Jailed For Sending Text Threats -- To Herself

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:32:59 PST

An Orange County woman was sentenced to a year in jail for sending hundreds of threatening text messages – to herself. Prosecutors said Jeanne Mundango Manunga told police her former boyfriend and his sister-in-law were behind the threats. Manunga was sentenced Friday in Santa Ana Superior Court. She was convicted in May of three felony counts of false imprisonment by fraud or deceit and two misdemeanor counts of making a false police report. Prosecutors said Manunga started ...

Clueless Secretary Prompts Hilarious Office Email Thread

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:48:58 PST

No, seriously. Just read this in its entirety, from the top. Because if you haven't yet seen this brilliant exchange from David Thorne, you need to. Right now. Story goes : Shannon (the secretary) has lost her cat and has asked David (the graphic designer) to help with a lost poster. This is their email correspondence...Read from top to bottom.... From: Shannon Walkley Date: Monday 21 June 2010 9.15am To: David Thorne Subject: Poster Hi I ...

The Future of Social Relations

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:32:35 PST

The Future of Social Relations—Full Study Overview The social benefits of internet use will far outweigh the negatives over the next decade, according to experts who responded to a survey about the future of the internet. They say this is because email, social networks, and other online tools offer ‘low-friction' opportunities to create, enhance, and rediscover social ties that make a difference in people's lives. The internet lowers traditional ...

For Those Facebook Left Behind

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:13:57 PST

Last month, the standards editor at The New York Times wrote a memo that shocked — shocked! — bloggers everywhere. He asked Times writers to avoid using the word “tweet” (as in, “to say something on Twitter”). “We don't want to seem Paleolithic,” he wrote. “But we favor established usage and ordinary words over the latest jargon or buzzwords.” That the Internet's reaction was so swift and harsh only proves the ...