It gives me great pleasure to publicly share what I’ve been working on since last years (really my whole life).
Next Era Ed is about Learning
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Piecing together Digital Learning
1. Smart Online Environment
- Get a WordPress Blog
- Change the theme
- Make a Post
- Embed YouTube (remember &rel=0)?
- Try TubeChop.com (see the Tubechop Update tutorial)
- Get Firefox for extensions like the video downloader?
- Embed all kinds of media in WordPress (maps, images, documents or polls?)
2. Rich Resources
- Diigo
- Tom’s Netvibes
- Tutorial: Add a Netvibes Feed
- iTunes – Embed a podcast with a player
- TED / YouTube Channels
- Add the Tools Panel for your site (and use these icons to edit it for yourself?)
3. Digital Learning Pedagogy
Look to Learn : : Learn to Look
- Look to Learn – overview
- Look to Learn Web site
- Look to Learn Sample Prompts
- Thinking Routines overview
- Thinking Routines from the Visible Thinking team at Harvard
- Article on Making Thinking Visible by David Perkins
Online Samples
- 1984
- Miniature Earth
- VisionShift: Whose Future?
- “I Can”
- Nuclear Giving
- There’s Data in them ther Kids (cartoon)
- The Global Rich List (interactive site)
Create a ClassPortal
- Child Slave Labor News Updates
- About ClassPortals
- ClassPortal Topics
- “Chapter 1″
- Contribute to Wikipedia? – Simple English Wikipedia on China vs. regular China page
WebQuests for Constructing Knowledge
WebQuests by Tom
- Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?
- Tuskegee Tragedy
- CroolZone – School Safety WebQuest
- Does the Tiger Eat her Cubs?
WebQuests by Others
- Globalisation
- The Nuclear Waste WebQuest
- Preparing for a Career
- Study in Hyperrealism
- Australian homes
Return to the “What are WebQuests?” Stixyboard to update your ideas
Resources
- Detailed Process for Drafting a WebQuest (doc)
- Tom’s Current WebQuest 2.0 Process (pdf)
- Use the article above and the Designing a WebQuest 2.0 (doc) and the links below as a guide.
- Freedom Fighter or Terrorist Group Scaffold Sheet (you can modify)
Articles
- Tom’s Educational Leadership article: The Learning Power of WebQuests
- Tom’s longer version: What WebQuests Are (Really).
- Bernie weighing in on “Real WebQuests”
Visible Thinking Tools
- Exploratree
- Twiddla
- Dabbleboard
- Typewith.me
- Stixy (try this)
- Voicethread
- Glogster (EDU registration)
- Thesis Builder – to generate thesis statements and essay outlines
Site to visit Regularly
- WorldMapper
- TagGalaxy
- iTunes Podcasts Web sampler
- Google Zeitgeist
- Google News Search feed (example: Natural Disaster)
- TED (themes and A to Z)
4. Self-managed Learning Framework for students
C E Q • A LL / Seek all!
- CEQ•ALL
- The Remembered 20%
- Map Skills to Hit 50
- The Students’ Half