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Miss Brownsword: Wallwisher Feedback from Children's Questionnaires and Interviews. MOre wallwisher feedback. I heard via Twitter that they used it for feedback at educon. tags : education , learning , tool Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : What Are You Learning This Summer Computer science teachers planning this summer should look at this overview from Microsoft uber-blogger Alfred Thompson. tags : education , learning , computerscience_teacher , computerscience , techintegrator 15 Interesting Ways to use Wallwisher in the Classroom Presentation covering 16 cool ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom. tags : education , tool , presentation , edu_newapp Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick Online noticeboard maker or just a way to wish someone well who may be feeling sick -- wallwisher. tags : education , learning , tool , edu_newapp , all_teachers TLC = Tech + Library + Classroom: Wallwisher Great overview from Tara about how she uses wallwi...

Interesting study that just came out proving basically that Botox blocks a person's ability to empathize and take in negative emotions .  Somehow the fact that they cannot frown blocks that emotion from getting in. PhysOrg.com says: "The Havas study broke new ground by linking the expression of emotion to the ability to understand language, says Havas' adviser, UW-Madison professor emeritus of psychology Arthur Glenberg. "Normally, the brain would be sending signals to the periphery to frown, and the extent of the frown would be sent back to the brain. But here, that loop is disrupted, and the intensity of the emotion and of our ability to understand it when embodied in language is disrupted."" This is interesting, but since the study only involved forty people, here are a couple of thoughts/ observations for you. Your expressions link to your interpretation of the world! We know that happy people tend to smile more. People who smile tend to be mo...

Israel’s Time To Know Aims To Revolutionize The Classroom I'm always hesitant to listen to research conducted by a company itself touting amazing results, but much of what this company is doing is what needs to happen with curriculum. Of course, any curriculum may be implemented well and often the best teachers are selected for pilots. ;-) tags : education , learning , curriculum , edu_news Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

I could care less about debating Kindle versus Apple iPad Tablet versus Nook .  I have a Kindle and I love it, and as far as I'm concerned, the competition between these platforms is good for us all.  I do hate that Amazon temporarily McMillan publishing titles from the store in a dispute over supposedly McMillan's desire to raise the $9.99 pricing with an undercurrent of rumor that Apple plans to offer books between 12.99 and 14.99 and let publishers have more control over the pricing.  Then, of course, Amazon capitulated to McMillan leaving cries of "Monopoly" from many. But for now, I love my Kindle. It has truly improved my reading experience if only because I have my books and reading materials with me 24/7 and find that I fit in an extra 45 minutes - 1 hour per day of reading during times that were normally wasted in waiting rooms, during the time outs of ballgames or between games, or just waiting in line.  In order to help you speed your set up proces...

Musings from Model Schools: Meeting the Cool Cat Teacher in Person - A Morning With Vicki Davis This summary of the workshop from New York said to me "YES" - the message got across. This is something everyone can do. NOw, that is worth redoing. Model Schools Blog says: Did you know that the FlatClassroom wiki mega-project was born out of one simple blog post and a response? It was not conceived of in a planning document or a committee meeting; it was not agonized over as part of a curriculum map or a rigorous lesson plan. It was not the outgrowth of a massive initiative or a professional development conference. It was simply one person reaching out to another with a simple and good idea to have classrooms collaborate using "The World is Flat" as a framework. It grew, because it could not help but to grow, not because it was mandated to grow. Here are a few other quick "aha" moments and learning nuggets that I had to write down this morning..." tags...

This week has been very busy wrapping up the final details for this year's massive collaboration between our students and Don Tapscott, award winning author of Wikinomics and Grown up Digital.  Below is the current call for classrooms also cross posted on our wiki. http://netgened2010.flatclassroomproject.org/ We will have a call in the next week for expert advisors (to advise students on wiki content) and judges (for reviewing and providing feedback on video submissions.) Net Generation Education Project: Call for Classrooms Written by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay http://netgened2010.flatclassroomproject.org/ Award winning author, Don Tapscott, and award winning global collaborators Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis (co founders of the Flat ClassroomTM Project ) are excited to announce the 2010 NetGenEd Project , another global collaboration to envision the future of education and social action by inspiring today's students to study leading technology trends and creat...

While exploring some recent 23things beginning bloggers, I came across Weezy's blog and was immediately engaged with her spiffy writing, anecdotes, and insights into technology and life. Weezy does several things very well that I'd like to point out: 1) Attention Getting Titles A good title MAKES you want to read.  She's written four posts, but the most recent two titles GOT ME. Thing Four: The Eeyore Syndrome Lesson III: I'm a Loser   2) Telling a Story As Weezy reflects on blogs and commenting in Thing Four: The Eeyore Syndrome   she begins by telling this story: I am often at the restaurant that my family has been running for 45 years. And if one thing is apparent, the social aspect of eating out is more important sometimes than the food aspect. Dan Pink in his book, A Whole New Mind , shares the importance of being able to tell a story.  Here Weezy is making this blog her own by telling her own story. She is being uniquely herself.  But t...