Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world.
About Richard Baraniuk
Richard Baraniuk is founder of Connexions, a free, open-source, global clearinghouse of course materials. People in some 200 countries tap into its vast store of texts on everything from… Full bio and more links
SileneChristen’s Blog - Second Life Tutorials
SileneChristen’s Blog:
"Sometimes we want a detail in one area, or paint an object esculpted … with details. How do I know where everything will be the object? Textures are numbered for this. The place or object in the face we want to know where to paint. Guided by the grid of numbers and letters and we can find guidance in our canvas photoshop where to draw / paint. As in the SL templates, they must have in SL as in RL."
Homework Timers
Homework Timers:
"Homework timers can be the perfect time management tool for students who tend to get distracted from their studies. And there's a timer design for just about everyone! You'll find timers in crazy shapes and designs and others that shake, vibrate, beep, flash, and ring. There are selections for the hearing impaired and a few for those who like loud noises!
Why do timers work? Timers tend to improve a student's ability to stay on track. Students gain a better concept of time passage as they see or hear the clock ticking away. Which timer fits your personality?"
A Colorado school district does away with grade levels | csmonitor.com
A Colorado school district does away with grade levels | csmonitor.com:
"Westminster, Colo. - School districts across the US are trying to improve student performance and low test scores. But few have taken as radical an approach as Adams 50.
For starters, when the elementary and middle-school students come back next fall, there won't be any grade levels – or traditional grades, for that matter. And those are only the most visible changes in a district that, striving to reverse dismal test scores and a soaring dropout rate, is opting for a wholesale reinvention of itself, rather than the incremental reforms usually favored by administrators."
Tips in Motivating Students
Tips in Motivating Students:
"Maintaining student motivation during classroom discussion is the most difficult steps in delivering educational subject matter. Here are some tips to maintain student's interest. Most of the time, intelligent student stay with you during lesson proper while the average student can lost their attention due to their classmate or friends noisiness.
Classroom management is an skills that teacher learn gradually. Normally, teacher will acquire this after one full year of experience. Knowing this technique will helps teacher easily adjust to the teaching and learning situation."
40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation - Dumb Little Man
40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation - Dumb Little Man:
"After all these years you finally have the courage and opportunity to write the email announcing that you and you alone have single handedly saved the company from utter disaster. You're excited, you type it, you spell check it, and you hit send.
Everything is great except that your gold star memo has dangling modifiers, double negatives and run-on sentences colliding with each other.
Now I am no grammar whiz but I know a good resource when I see it. Purdue University maintains an online writing lab and I spent some time digging through it. Originally the goal was to grab some good tips that would help me out at work and on this site, but there is simply too much not to share.
Learn and enjoy!"
Five New Teacher Tips For De-Stressing Before and After the Holiday Vacation
Five New Teacher Tips For De-Stressing Before and After the Holiday Vacation:
"Embracing a more simplistic lifestyle for new teachers means balancing the time between work and more quiet domains of life. Bringing back simplicity means reconnecting with extended family and friends and rediscovering the pleasure in the small things you used to do for yourself. Teachers are constantly wound up by so many little yet important areas of planning, teaching and assessing that by the time they reach home, they are still thinking about school and find it difficult to disengage from school mentally because planning takes so much time and effort."
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