compfight + a flickr™ search tool

Creative Commons search tool for Flickr

tags: course, design, curriculum, cc, creative commons, flickr, search, photos, creativecommons, tools, photography, copyright

Free Technology for Teachers: Creative Commons Animal Photos

Animal Photos is a great source of Creative Commons licensed photos of animals. All of the photos are categorized by animal. Each image indicates the type of Creative Commons license associated with the picture. Animal Photos also offers advice on giving attribution for each photo.

tags: course, design, curriculum, lesson, creative commons, cc, photos, images

• Animal Photos is a great source of Creative Commons licensed photos of animals. All of the photos are categorized by animal. Each image indicates the type of Creative Commons license associated with the picture. Animal Photos also offers advice on giving attribution for each photo.

13 More Tips to Help You Record Narration Like the Pros – The Rapid eLearning Blog

tags: course, design, lesson, audio, podcasting, curriculum, recording, narration

CyberSmart Curriculum

21st Century skills for education

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Computer Science Teachers Association – ACM K-12 CS Model Curriculum

tags: course, design, curriculum, csta

• The second edition of the ACM Model Curriculum sets the context for computer science within K-12 education today and provides a framework for state departments of education and school districts to address the educational needs of young people and prepare them for personal and professional opportunities in the 21st century.

Intro to Web Design Using MS Expression Studio

Microsoft Faculty Resource Center – Content

tags: course, design, curriculum, web, microsoft

• This curriculum is a complete, standards-based, single semester course on Web Design. The curriculum provides an extensive collection of creative teaching and learning materials that thoroughly span Web Design knowledge and skills and promote meaningful, real-world learning experiences. The modular design makes is adaptable to a wide variety of teaching scenarios.

Digital Media Curriculum Materials – Listed by Modules and Chapters

tags: new media, course, design, curriculum, digital, media

A Curriculum for Digital Media Creation (pdf)

Marco Torres and Ross Kallen

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Welcome to the New Media Curriculum Web Page

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Curricular Change Website: Creating a New Program

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New Media on the Web: Course Syllabi

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Investigating Systems: Investigating Systems – A Course of Study

The program’s overarching aim is expanding learner ability to “make sense” of reality, an aim we consider essential to the achievement of all other legitimate aims of a general education.

tags: system, study, course, curriculum, investigation, learning, experience

PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB drives

tags: portable, software, usb, applications, opensource, tools, apps, wamp, lamp

xampp

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

tags: apache, php, mysql, xampp, server, software, web, wamp, lamp

WampServer

Install PHP 5 Apache MySQL on Windows :

tags: wamp, lamp, server, development, apache, php, mysql, windows, software, opensource

Building Digital Discourse: Telling Academic Stories | EDUCAUSE

An EDUCAUSE Live presentation on Digital Storytelling

tags: digital storytelling, storytelling, digital, academic, story, stories, discourse

A critical examination of Blackboard’s e-learning environment: Stephanie J. Coopman

Blackboard’s e–learning system dominates the online learning software market. In this essay I critically examine the structure of Blackboard’s two online learning delivery systems, Blackboard 8.0 and Blackboard CE6. I identify ways in which the platforms both constrain and facilitate instructor–student and student–student interaction. I addition, I delineate features that sustain and challenge traditional power relationships in the classroom. I conclude with implications for online pedagogy and practical applications for instructors and students.

tags: lms, vle, ple, learning, management, system, virtual, blackboard

Designing Learning Spaces for Instruction, not Control : June 2009 : THE Journal

For instruction to move front and center of the process, teachers should walk into (physically and virtually) any learning space as a collaborator in that environment, aware that learning must take place, and thinking about connection and networking rather than lecture and silence. Additionally, if instruction were really to become front and center of learning space design, students would be as responsible as the instructor or the school janitor for how the room is set up based on the work that is to take place

tags: learning, spaces, learning spaces, classrooms, instruction

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills – Framework for 21st Century Learning – Annotated

tags: 21stcenturyskills, technology, information_literacy, learning, framework, education, 21stcentury, curriculum, standards

• 21ST CENTURY STUDENT OUTCOMES:
  

  The elements described in this section as “21st century student outcomes” (represented by the rainbow) are the skills, knowledge and expertise students should master to succeed in work and life in the 21st century.

  1. Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
  

  2. Learning and Innovation Skills 

  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Communication and Collaboration

  3. Information, Media and Technology Skills

  • Information Literacy
  • Media Literacy
  • ICT Literacy

  4. Life and Career Skills 

Successful Teaching: The “Assembly Line” Classroom

A great post that ties in with the book I was reading for my EP7040: Planning in Education & Health Services class called Influencer. It had a number of parallels to chapter 9, Change the Environment.

tags: ep7040, leadership, management, change, environment

• I began to think of the assembly lines our students go through. In each grade, we put another little part on our students and move them on their way the next year. Each year we add more pieces until we think they are completely “built” at the end of 12th grade
• The education system expects that all students are made the same way and need the same parts, which are all added the same way. Then it hopes to get the same exact product at the end of 12 years. It doesn’t work that way! Our classrooms should not just be assembly lines. We should be looking at the whole student and not just the parts.
• I also saw that office work stations were right there next to the plane. The tour guide told me that all of the people involved with that project worked right there instead of going back to far away offices. Then if there was a concern, it was easy to go up to that person and say, “hey, I need for us to look at this” and they both could walk right up to the plane and check it out.

Amazon.com: Influencer: The Power to Change Anything: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler: Books

Text for EP7040 – Planning in Education & Health Services

tags: ep7040, influencer, influence, leadership, change, power

Amazon.com: Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, Revised Edition: James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner: Books

Text for EP7040 – Planning in Education & Health Services

tags: ep7040, credibility, leadership

Amazon.com: The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management: Stephen Haines: Books

Text for EP7040 – Planning in Education & Health Services

tags: ep7040, haines, systems, thinking, strategic, planning, management, strategy, approach

Amazon.com: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness: Stephen R. Covey: Books

Text for EP7040 – Planning in Education & Health Services

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Amazon.com: Hot, Flat, and Crowded (Why We Need A Green Revolution – And How It Can Renew America): Thomas L. Friedman: Books

Text for EP7040 – Planning in Education & Health Services

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Turn that org chart upside-down! | Information Wants To Be Free

In the post, Swartz also talks about learning about your employees (what motivates them, what their strengths/weaknesses are), delegating responsibilities, prioritizing, and offering feedback. There’s a lot of really great insight in this post (which is more like an instruction manual than a simple blog post), so if you’re a manager or an aspiring manager, it’s definitely worth reading.

tags: ep7040, leadership, management, organization, hierarchy, hierarchical, org-chart

• Instead of the standard “org chart” with a CEO at the top and employees growing down like roots, turn the whole thing upside down. Employees are at the top — they’re the ones who actually get stuff done — and managers are underneath them, helping them to be more effective.

Paradox of success: the Stockdale Paradox — Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

“This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

tags: ep7040, leadership, stockdale, paradox

Amazon.com: The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield: John McPhee: Books

Recommended by my professor, he wanted us to focus on where Frank Boyden placed his desk. Think accessibility, communication and removing barriers.

tags: ep7040, leadership, proximity, environment, The Influencer

Education, Leading and Learning

A forum to share ideas that will help transform the organizations we work in into constantly evolving communities capable of continually learning from the exciting challenges that lie ahead.

tags: ep7040, nz, education, leading, learning, change, leadership, inspiration

• If we are to realize the creativity and talents of all who work with us we will need inspired leadership at all levels. Leaders who can align the energy of all behind sense of direction provided by the creation of a shared vision, unifying values and common beliefs about how people learn.

Baldrige National Quality Program

To enhance the competitiveness, quality, and productivity of U.S. organizations for the benefit of all residents.

tags: ep7040, baldridge, NIST, quality

VitalSmarts – Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

David Maxfield’s web accompaniment to his book Influencer.

tags: change management, ep7040, david-maxfield, maxfield, vitalsmarts, influencer, change

New Hampshire High School Redesign

Re-envisioning education at the high school level by supporting student ownership of their academic careers, goals and aspirations

tags: ep7040, nh, nhdoe, high-school, school, education, reform, redesign

Baldrige Press Release- Chugach School District – Voyage to Excellence

Chugach School District is committed to developing and supporting a partnership with parents, community and business which equally shares the responsibility of preparing students to meet the challenges of the ever changing world in which they live.”

Find their planning timeline (hint: click the image/icon to download)

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Jenks Public Schools

Find their planning timeline

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Pearl River Schools – Quality in Education

Find their planning timeline

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Arthur M. Young: The Theory of Process

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The Grove – Change Consultants

The Grove designs visually based tools and services that enable organizations, teams and individuals to successfully visualize and implement innovation and change.

Watch video and investigate how they relate to theory of process (law of 7) and the creation of their planning model based on The Reflexive Universe (Arthur M. Young)

tags: ep7040, planning, strategic, strategic plan, strategic planning, consultant

Myrna Associates, Inc. – Leading facilitator of strategic planning in the US

Identifies 10 secrets to successful planning – find out a secret, email to instructor\n\nExplore white papers

tags: ep7040, strategic, planning, strategic plan, strategic planning, consultant

The World is Flat | MIT World

Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, “Grandma Betty in her bathrobe” will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt Lake City home. In “Globalization 3.0,” Friedman contends, people from far-flung places will become principal players in the marketplace. In his latest book, The World is Flat, Friedman describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively leveled the economic world, and “accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore and Bethesda next-door neighbors.” Today, “individuals and small groups of every color of the rainbow will be able to plug and play.” Friedman’s list of “flatteners” includes the fall of the Berlin Wall; the rise of Netscape and the …

tags: ep7040, friedman, hot, flat and crowded, world is flat, mit, globalization, technology, books, globalisation, world, flat

Halladay Education Group: Expert Consultants

Start a school or improve your existing Private School with experienced consulting firm. Download our free eBook series on starting + improving your school.

tags: ep7040, strategic, plan, strategic plan, planning, strategic planning, consultant

Plymouth State University Strategic Plan: Plan2012 (pdf)

tags: ep7040, plan2012, plymouth state university, plymouth, plymouth-state, psu, strategic, plan, strageic plan

Vermont Department of Education

For class, we need to compare the NH to VT site for creating strategic plans.

tags: ep7040, VT, education, VTDOE, planning, strategic, plannning, vt, Education

NH Department of Education

For class, we need to compare the NH to VT site for creating strategic plans.

tags: ep7040, NH, education, NHDOE, planning, strategic plannning, nh, Education

Psycho-Geometrics Personality Test by Susan Dellinger

Every shape tells a story about who we are

tags: ep7040, psychogeometrics, leadership, personality, personality styles

Simpler Work: Bill Jensen Speaks! The Jensen Group

Changing how we work in the information age. Simplicity, complexity in work design are driven by knowledge management, knowledge work, communication, learning, organizational change and transformation

tags: ep7040, jensen, km, knowledge, management, communication, learning, transformation

New Media Technologies: Course Syllabus (pdf)

tags: new-media, technology, edtech, multimedia, rich media, digital storytelling