Posts Tagged ‘university’
Auburn University / Auburn City Schools Professional Development System Partnership
The Auburn City Schools/Auburn University professional development System is a collaborative partnership that encourages collaboration among educators, students, future classroom teachers, parents and other community stakeholders. The PDS collaboration now exists as a standard-bearer for partnerships between universities and local school systems. The Holmes Partnership, a consortium of more than 100 research universities, has honored Auburns PDS with its 2010 Nancy Zimpher Award for Best Partnership. The award is being presented at The 14th Annual Holmes Partnership Conference, Closing the Achievement Gap: Continuing the Work, Jan. 28-30, 2010, in Charleston, S.C. Details about the PDS is online at http://www.auburnschools.org/pds
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Augustana Information Literacy DVD trailer
This trailer was created to advertise the 30-minute DVD we made on Information literacy at the Augustana Faculty of the University of Alberta in Camrose, Alberta, Canada (more info on DVD at http://www.augustana.ca/library/infolit/video.html)
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Educational Technology: Not Just Computers
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com
We received a question from a listener about how American schools use educational technology. There is not a simple answer.
It depends on the subject and level of students, of course. But it also depends on the interest and training of the teachers, and the goals and budgets of the schools.
Schools are almost all connected to the Internet. But some have more technology, and use it more, than others. For example, some schools use computers for activities like video conferencing, to bring the world into the classroom.
And some classrooms are equipped with things like a Smart Board, a kind of interactive whiteboard. Interactive whiteboards are large displays for presentations.
They connect to a computer and can operate by touch. They can be used for documents or writing or to project video.
Some teachers are trying creative new ways to teach with devices like iPods and mobile phones.
But educators say the most important thing, as always, is the content.
Yet technology can have special importance in some cases.
Cosmobot is a therapy robot. It stands about half a meter tall and has a blue body and a friendly face with big eyes.
One child who works with it is six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald. Kevin has developmental dyspraxia; he has difficulty moving his mouth and tongue.
He works with Carole Semango-Sprouse as he uses a set of buttons attached to a computer. He can make the silent robot move forward, backward or around in circles.
Kevin’s mother thinks the robot has had a calming influence, helping her son get along better with his friends.
Cosmobot was developed by AnthroTronix. Corinna Lathan started the company ten years ago to work with children with cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities.
Children become friends with the robot, she says. That can have a big effect on their behavior, helping them work harder and longer in therapy sessions.
Corinna Lathan is currently working with a British company to develop other socially assistive robots.
She says they are still considered research tools in the United States. They are not used as much as in places like Britain and Japan. But she hopes to change that.
And that’s the VOA Special English Education Report. You can comment on our reports at our Web site, voaspecialenglish.com.
(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 17Dec2009)
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Why Google Apps for Education?
http://www.google.com/a/edu
Jeff and Sam from Google talk about Google Apps education Edition
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PIL InfoLit Dialog, No. 3: Frustrations
(June 2009). What do students say about frustrations in conducting research in the digital age? The video’s content is drawn from the PIL Discussion Groups, held on seven U.S. college campuses during fall 2008. The third public service short video in our series, produced for discussion, debate, training, and education by any and by all. (No permission is required for use of videos in educational activities.)
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Islamic University Madinah Classroom
Video taken during break time at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia. Location is the Faculty of Shariah, which has recently been relocated to a new premises.
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Integrating podcasting into your classroom
Learn the basics of podcasting from Colette Cassinelli, a technology evangelist, who will teach you everything you need to know about using podcasting in your classroom.
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Wikis in University Teaching and Learning – Richard Buckland FULT UNSW
53 Useful things you can do with wikis in large class teaching.
Richard Buckland has been using Wikis in his large class (100-500 students) teaching in Engineering and Computer Science since 2000. He has found some amazing things which can be done with Wikis, and made many many mistakes.
This video is a summary of 4 of those interesting things, each requiring an increasing amount of courage, which could easily be adopted by other teachers.
Depending on your courage and how much faith you are prepared to have in your students wonderful things can happen when you empower them.
This video was produced by filming a session Richard gave entitled “Wikis for Collaborative Learning and Teaching” as part of UNSW’s “Foundations of University Learning and Teaching” (FULT) programme.
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WCSD Music Department Professional Development Feb 09 Pt. 2
WEBSITE: http://www.teachertube.com WCSD earlyreleaseday professional development meeting discussed topics related to grading tools systems rubrics and technology.
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Classroom Of The Future HD: What’s New in Educational Tech
See the future of education technology in this vision of an advanced technology classroom of the future showing a smart classroom in a university or k-12 educational environment.
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