Tag: media
The 8 Real-World Tools Being Used By ESL Teachers
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From pop culture icons to your local newspaper, there are powerful learning tools right at your fingertips. These real-world tools are being used in ESL right now!
5 Facebook Tips For Education Professionals
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So you want to educate others. Use these Facebook tips for education professionals to help you clarify and extend your message as far as possible.
A Fun Way To Make Your Own Newspaper Clippings
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After stumbling across an animated GIF cat-maker, I came across something actually useful! Perfect for show-and-tell, it's an easy way to make your own newspaper clippings.
Blogging In The Classroom: A 4-Step Guide
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As this visualization from the always wonderful langwitches explains, 21st century skills are learned and enhanced by blogging in the classroom.
5 Alternatives To YouTube Worth Trying
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There's more to educational video than YouTube. It's a terrific resource but you should know about the best alternatives to youtube available now.
3 Reasons Many High Schools Don’t Have Online Learning Components
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Most high schools in the United States offer some sort of media opportunity, but only about a third have an online component, according to a study co-written by a University of Kansas researcher.
Media, Transmedia, and a Girl Named Alice
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Transmedia is a powerful new form of interactive storytelling, and Inanimate Alice is its darling.
How To YouTube Your Classroom
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Over 3 billion videos are viewed on YouTube each day. In a year? How about approaching a trillion? In lieu of its sometimes seedy reputation, there have to be lessons here for educators.
What Are The Most Important Features Of Online Education?
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A recently released U.S. Department of Education report contains enough statistics, p-values and information about "statistical significance" to entertain even the most extreme statistician. Fortunately, the art...
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Apple Shows Off Educational Use of iPad 2 [Video]
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It's back to school time and that means Apple is beginning a big push to showcase the iPad 2's abilities in the classroom. There are a ton of ways to use the iPad in the classroom, but that doesn't mean Apple won't try and remind teachers and students about that.
How To Properly Provide Credit For Images
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If you've ever written a paper, you know that citations are important. But for whatever reason, if you write that paper online (as a blog for example) then citations and image credits somehow become, well, less import...
Vampires Invade Colleges: Many Schools Now Offering Twilight-Based Courses
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As the next generation grows up and prepares to head off to college, it seems they bring the latest trends with them. For example, Twilight is gaining a scary amount of traction in course catalogs at colleges and univ...
Bob Saget Shooting TV Show at Cornell
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From the Cornell Daily Sun: Bob Saget descended on Ithaca yesterday for originally, inexplicable reasons. He had already been to the school once in my four years here — telling a slew of dirty jokes that Danny Tan...
Profile: Henry Jenkins, Media Spectator
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Gen Y’s seeming addiction to media gets a bad rap these days. We’re all text messages, Twitter and video games. Don’t think video games and movies can help kids learn? Henry Jenkins, Provost’s Professor of Communicati...
New Study: Students Totally Addicted To Social Media
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As we said before, students and Digital Natives were born with a smartphone in their hand. I don't think they'll ever put it down, either. According to a new study out today from the International Center for Media &...
What Is The Future Of The Internet?
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[UPDATED 4/5/10 @ 3:30pm - Reflects Google's asking of FCC to ensure universal access] This website launched, fittingly, the same day as the iPad. This "magical and revolutionary device" is supposedly heralding a new...
