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Oolone – a better search engine?

Posted on January 31, 2012 by edfivecs90

Have you ever wished there was an easier way for your students to “see” the pages called up in a search?  Here’s one answer provided by Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers (an excellent resource in it’s own right…

Earlier this week a few ed tech bloggers reported on a new visual search engine called Oolone. I, of course, had to check it out for myself. I liked what I saw on Oolone except there was one thing that kept me from writing about it. That one thing was…

LINK: Oolone – A Visual Search Engine That I Can Now Recommend

Post Source: Free Technology for Teachers

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Apple Unveils E-Textbook Strategy for K-12

Posted on January 23, 2012 by edfivecs90

THE story of the week…this by Jason Tomassini.

Apple Inc. announced aggressive new efforts yesterday to move into the K-12 electronic-textbook market, though educational publishers said the biggest news from the move is how the normally disruptive company is likely to help the publishing industry rather than challenge it.

Through a partnership with three major K-12 textbook publishers—McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—Apple is offering interactive textbooks through its iBooks store at $14.99 or less. The textbooks feature multimedia elements, including video, three-dimensional graphics, and photo galleries. They also allow students to highlight text to create flashcards and search within a glossary.

via Apple Unveils E-Textbook Strategy for K-12.

Post Source: EdWeek

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Supreme Court on Internet Speech: Students Protected, Principals…well, NOT

Posted on January 23, 2012 by edfivecs90

The good news is that the lower court decision limiting student-to-student speech was upheld.  Is it good or bad that student speech targeted at principals was not limited?

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up major appeals involving student free speech rights on the Internet.  One appeal encompassed two cases decided in June 2011 by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, in Philadelphia.

The 3rd Circuit held in the Blue Mountain case that a Pennsylvania middle school student’s 2007 MySpace parody depicting her principal as a sex addict and a pedophile was so outrageous that no one could have taken it seriously.

In a companion case, Layshock v. Hermitage School District, the 3rd Circuit court overturned the discipline of a Pennsylvania high school student who in 2005 had created a fake MySpace profile of his principal on a computer at his grandmother’s house.

Meanwhile, an appeal in Kowalski v. Berkeley County Schools (No. 11-461) involved a West Virginia student who was disciplined for creating a MySpace page targeting not an administrator but another student at her high school.

LINK: Supreme Court Declines Cases on Student Internet Speech

Post Source: EdWeek

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Top 25 Free Math Resources

Posted on January 23, 2012 by edfivecs90

Free.  25 links.  Divided into categories such as: inquiry and application, online tools and apps, interactives, math support, resources, practices, Math in the Media.  If you’re not a math teacher, forward this link on immediately to all of your math colleagues. List provided by Bradley Lands.

…Students should be engaged in creative, critical thinking when they are solving problems. Teachers should articulate that there are multiple ways to arrive at the same solution to any given problem and allow students to struggle in order to make discoveries on their own with guided facilitation and appropriate scaffolding.

To help with this problem, I am sharing my Top 25 Free Math Resources For Education that allow for student inquiry, exploration, and application. I hope you find useful ways to integrate these online resources into your instruction!

LINK: The Landscape: My Top 25 Free Math Resources for Education.

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John Green’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars’

Posted on January 23, 2012 by edfivecs90

Here’s a quick look at a book that many of our students are reading…

John Green is one of my favorite young-adult fiction writers. I think I’ve mentioned my fondness for his 2009 novel Paper Towns, which follows a boy’s road trip in search of his childhood best friend.

This month Green’s latest effort, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton Juvenile), arrived in stores. The premise involves a teen with cancer who falls for an attractive, funny and one-legged dude named Augustus.

LINK: John Green’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars’

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