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LEARNING ADVENTURE!WOW! I have to admit, my Saudi Arabia adventure from 31 January - 17 February (2013) was without doubt my most exciting LEARNING ADVENTURE in my life (up until now). It was action packed from day one (my luggage got lost and came nearly 2 days after me). During this adventure I facilitated 10 workshops and 3 lectures, participated in 1 panel discussion, attended 3 days of conference...

Link to article (260 KB PDF. By Colleen Carmeen and Jeremy Haefner)"Effective use of CMS (Course Management System) bundled technologies should enable students to experience "Deeper Learning" or the learning environment which students can "learn much more, learn it earlier and more easily, and fundamentally, learn it with a pleasure and commitment that only a privileged few now feel toward school learning (Andrea DiSessa)"According to the authors there are five (5) core deeper learning...

Below, are all the resources for the talks and workshops facilitated over a 5-day period (9 - 13 Feb) at Jazan University in Saudi Arabia.*Click on the Links to access all the resources shared for the respective workshops highlighted below.DAY 1 DNA of a 21st Century Educator Simplified! from Zaid Alsagoff DNA of a 21st Century Educator This talk explores some of the ingredients top educators...

 A TRUE STORY... A few weeks back the inspiring Prof. Zoraini Wati Abas shared the following Dr. Curt Bonk (Professor at Indiana University) video in the electrifying Learning Innovation Circle (Simply LIC! Please join us, too!):WOW! I have to invite him to give an online talk (webinar) for IMU Learning Webinar Series ... His energy and stories could spark new ideas into the minds of IMU faculty...

This is a super fun tip... I could have used it back when I did my student teaching in 2nd grade!  It would have been perfect to go along with my lesson plans for the students animal research projects!  Anyhow... this week Ill be writing about how to make google search only specific websites! If you want to know how to add that code to your blog, you can check out my previous tutorial...

I love double spacing text when I give my kids short stories to read towards the end of the year!  The extra space in between the lines makes it a lot easier for them to track the text from left to right!This nifty keyboard shortcut will help make the task of double spacing your text in Microsoft Word a lot easi...

DE Tools Of The TradeWHAT?DE Tools of the Trade is a web site by and for K-12 educators who teach partly or completely online. This simple but useful site contains a compilation of links and resources that may be useful to any online educator. Although, its target audience is K-12 educators, its collection of online links, resources and tools can also be useful to any educator, whether he or she is...

This weeks technology tutorial is one that is surprisingly very easy... how to add another websites photo to your blog (without HTML!).  I love using this trick when I do linky parties or when I link to someone elses blog (if they dont have the HTML code poster for a blogger button, that is!)This won the poll, but only by a little bit!Check out the finished product here:Be sure to check out Danas...

Link to articleAdaptive Paths Lane Becker argues that it is important to have the right usability testing mindset. According to him, "Ninety percent of all usability testing performed on Web sites is useless."Here are some points that he makes: Usability testing should focus more on the context and not on the metrics. Usability testing is design, not QA. Usability testing should be a core competence owned by the design team. A short, but useful article worth reading. It might save you...

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."- Albert Einstein"See, heres the thing, though. I dont want 99 mind mapping resources, tools, and tips. I want one. That works. Really well. "- Stephen DownesCLUELESS?To cut the crap short, and get to the point... It is amazing how many educators (that I have crossed path with) until today (Yes, already 2010!), who...

Link to the new EDUCAUSE ebook"The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they were raised?one that is decidedly different from that which existed when faculty and administrators were growing up.This collection explores the Net Gen and the implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum....

"Students who ask better questions, are independent learners, deep thinkers and ethical leaders of the future" - NTUs Greatest AchievementWHY GO?Alright, the actual title for the 2-day workshop was:E-Learning Implementation and Web 2.0 Technologiesin the Higher Education SectorThe main objective of this hands-on practical workshop was to develop an understanding of the implementation and application...

Link to Game-based Learning paper (620 KB PDF file. By Kurt Squire, University of Wisconsin-Madison)Funded by the e-Learning Consortium"(Executive Summary) Interactive digital media, or video games, have emerged as a powerful new economic, cultural, and now educational force. Games are now a multi-billion dollar industry, and new conferences, journals, and research initiatives are all competing to become the home of serious gaming. But when most people think of educational games, they...

Its Tuesday again, so obviously its time for another technology tutorial!  This one is definitely one of my favorite... how to make a collage of pictures in any shape you want!This poll won by a pretty large margin, but there were definitely some other contenders... itll be interesting to see what wins next week!Now, onto the tutorial!  This tutorial uses the program Shape Collage, which...

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101 Free EduGames - Part I101 Free EduGames - Part II101 Free EduGames (SlideBoom version)101 Free Learning Tools75 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course!SLIDESHARE GLORY!Wow! After discovering that my visualization of the No. 1 Musketeer has become a big hit on SlideShare, I simply had to take a break from my non-blogging vacation to blog about it and share some more learning juice. Since the 14th...

Link to The Straight DopeWikipedia - The Straight Dope & Cecil AdamsCECIL ADAMS? "Cecil Adams is the worlds most intelligent human being. We know this because: (1) he knows everything, and (2) he is never wrong. How do we know that Cecil knows everything and is never wrong? Because he said so, and he would never lie to us ... more"It sounds as convincing as Stone Colds famous bark (And thats the...

I have been hard at work on this Magic Y video for what seems like forever.  I kept changing and updating it but I love the final result (as do my kids!)  Just look at how cute it looks!Head over to TPT to check it out... for 20% off tonight only!  Or be the first person to leave me a comment and Ill send it to you for free!Be sure to check out the preview and let me know what you ...

Watching or playing with anything in Flash Format on an iPad (iPhone or iPod) was impossible (as far as I know) in the past. Well, now you can at least view Flash stuff on an iPad using the app called iSWIFTER (Source).HOW?Here we go:Click here to keep yourself updated with latest discussions about Articulate on iPads.STILL TROUBLESOME!Alright, it is still troublesome, but I suppose within the next...

Join the #itunesuwish twitter stream for change!WHAT?"...iTunes U is a free service available to qualifying two- and four-year accredited, degree-granting, public or private colleges and universities in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,...