Steve’s Blog K12 Learning2.0

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The Mediocre Multi-Tasker
“Last week, researchers at Stanford University published a study showing that the most persistent multitaskers perform badly in a variety of tasks. They don’t focus as well as non-multitaskers. They’re more distractible. They’re weaker at shifting from one task to another and at organizing information. They are, as a matter of fact, [...]

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Learned about the use of Pageflakes which are ways of aggregating, organizing & sharing large amounts of information, files, articles, blogs, videos, podcasts, RSS feeds, almost anything.  Very similar to one of the tools I learned about earlier in the course called SimpleBox.  I have been using this to assemble links, feeds & other useful [...]

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Google Docs is a great way for creating, sharing, & collaborating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, & forms for free on the internet.  Some class-room applications could be:

Students working on group papers and/or presentations
Collecting, managing, & monitoring student progress via update spreadsheets (a la 23 things doc)
Submitting rough drafts and subsequent edits via shared docs instead of [...]

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I’ve always had an interest to learn how to play the piano.  Little did I know that even this could be initiated on youtube!
Learn How To Play the Piano – The Basics (lesson 1)
There ar many great educational video postings that can be easily searched and utilized for anything from solving differential equations to ancient [...]

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Recorded a brief anecdote and distributed on GCAST.  Can be utilized for publishing lecture recordings so students can concnetrate on listening, analysis, & contributing through discusstion rather than racing through note-taking to capture lecture specifics.
Click here for GCAST podcast

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I have been using Itunes & podcasts for sometime now.  Great for downloading to your mp3 player for listening to during long runs!

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This thing introduced a tool used for cataloging & sharing thoughts & informational posts about books and book collections.  The user group & zeitgeist areas were most thought provoking in terms of classroom application & general discussion.

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This exercise practiced using Delicious a social bookmarking tool.
First bookmarks
Great for creating materials & gathering info for group projects…

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I found this very interesting article on Google Reader RSS feed of Larry Ferlazzo’s edublog.  He has a created a list of most useful sites (check it out):
The Best Collections Of Web 2.0 Tools For Education

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I chose to explore the following AMAZING sites (so glad I did…)
BeFunky -
“Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click.”
SimplyBox -
Clip and share portions of web pages in an easy-to-use visual format. Great for collecting, organizing and sharing resources on specific topics.
I could spend hours exploring these tools (ooops, I already did with just [...]

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