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Jen's Gems Primary Apps A long list of primary education iPad apps from Jen, an educator from Australia. tags: Education iPad Learning with 'e's: Tools of the trade From Steve Wheeler's blog -"I was quite impressed by Joyce Seitzinger's Professional Learning Environment (PLN) model that she presented at Deakin University in Melbourne this week. " some great thoughts to ponder here although I agree with Steve that this model looks like a first draft to me. tags: Education pln CHARTS: It's Nearly Impossible To Make A Livable Wage Without A College Education The charts cited in this article point out that college is more important than ever, especially for women- who need a college degree to make as much as a man with just a high school diploma. For everyone, college is essential just to make "a liveable wage." read and share. ...

We are nearing the end of the Flat Classroom Project 2011-3 and students are finishing their multimedia artifacts over the next several weeks.  Now is the time to sign up to be a judge! We invite all interested educators and observers to come and learn more about the project by volunteering to be a judge. How do I sign up to judge? Complete the  Online Sign Up Form .  Also at  http://tinyurl.com/ flatclassju dges . If you are not a member of this wiki already: Join  www.flatclassroomproject.org After approval, then click "Join this Space" in the top left corner of this wiki Wait for approval - you will receive an e-mail noting your approval. If you are already a member of this wiki, continue with the following points. Join the  2011 Judges Ning Group  to get announcements and updates. Add your information to the topic of your choice below (first to wiki it gets it! include a hyperlink to your bio and/or  Flat Classroo...

All About SOPA, the Bill That Wants to Cripple Your Internet This is an issue we should be studying, talking about, and weighing in on. With the blocking that this proposes, say that you claim fair use, that may not matter - you may be blocked for using copyrighted material, period... no matter whether you have fair use claims or not., the way I understand it. Looking for some more good information on SOPA. Please share. "SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is another one of those bills that sounds like it's going to do something mildly positive but, in reality, has serious potential to negatively change the internet as we know it. It puts power in the hands of the entertainment industry to censor sites that allegedly "engage in, enable or facilitate" copyright infringement. This language vague enough to encompass sites you use every day, like Twitter and Facebook, making SOPA a serious problem" ta...

Nominations Open – The 2011 Edublog Awards are on! | The Edublog Awards 2011 Edublog awards are open. Yes, I think these are important. It helped me a lot in knowing that what I said mattered when I've been nominated, been a finalist, and won as well. Join in the nominations. tags: education blogging edublog edu_trends edu_newapp Online Stickies - lino A sticky note account. I may use this for my pkflow method that uses stickys. This website lets you have a page with online stickys and notes. Cool tool that reminds me of corkulous on the ipad. tags: education app webapp productivity technology edu_newapp ...

Online presentations are a totally different genre than face to face. When I go in a room to hear a presentation and the first 20 minutes is muffed up with scuffles, guffaws, and wrestling with the online room it makes me angry.  With Flat Classroom and NetGen we take students in online classrooms all the time and it can be done. Sure, students "misbehave" and there are things you have to do to teach them to be successful online. This presentation is the result of the last 5 years of online presenting. I'm certainly not perfect and am still learning but here is what I have to share. I shared this at #globaled11 going on this week! Great conference. See the other presentations happening this week . (Julie and I are presenting about Flat Classroom Friday morning at 6 am Eastern - I shared the calendars with links in an earlier post .) Simple Online Presenting View more presentations from Vicki Davis . Recording Link: To be added as soon as available. Discussi...

Image via Wikipedia True organizational greatness is about turning Me into We. It is sad when you see a team take their eye of their goal and turn upon each other. When you're busy fighting each other, you lose sight of the main mission and cannot achieve it. We human beings can only handle so much. We are finite in our ability to process and finite in our ability to mete out self control. When we are under attack, we use all of our resources to fight or flight even if that attack is from those who are supposed to be on our own team. Friendly Fire Kills Cooperation This "friendly fire" comes from out of the blue often from those who are supposed to be our rear guard. From those who are supposed to be watching out for us. We think we have the same mission and goal but then somehow we've become so factioned that our goal is no longer the "we" of working together towards a common mission but the "me" of self preservation. This is a sad state to b...

Mii Avatar Maker - Resources - TES Cool Avatar maker that is like the Mii avatars on Wii. tags: education avatar 2011 Sessions and Schedule - The Global Education Collaborative Global Education Conference Schedule. It starts in just a few hours. If you are doing work in global education, this is your week! tags: education learning globaled edu_news Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here .