Category Archives: Pedagogy
Holiest Sites In The World – Holiest Sites in the World of the World
Sacred Destinations is an educational and travel resource founded in April 2005. An ongoing project, it currently profiles more than 1,600sacred sites and religious places in 61 countries around the world, illustrated by over 25,000 photos.
Sacred Destinations is an ecumenical guide, encompassing the sacred places of all faiths. It is generally encyclopedic in tone, with special emphasis on the history, art and architecture of sacred sites. To assist with travel planning, our guides also include resources such asmaps, books, links to travel bookings, and basic information on major cities.
Sacred Destinations is not sponsored by any organization or travel agency, but is owned and operated by an interested individual and a few helpers. The author has not personally visited all the sites profiled here (and probably never will, given the global scope) but for those that have been personally visited, personal impressions and travel tips are included where applicable.
The intended audience of Sacred Destinations is simply anyone who’s interested or might find the information useful. This might include:
- religious pilgrims and spiritual travelers
- the ordinary traveler who wants to see interesting, historical or beautiful sights
- students and teachers of religion, art or history
- anyone interested in the religious heritage of the world
- anyone interested in history, geography, art or architecture
Holiest Sites In The World – Holiest Sites in the World of the World.
On Snow Days, Some Ohio Students Will Telecommute To Class ‹ Edudemic
About 700 students in a rural school district in western Ohio will be guinea pigs for the rest of the state this winter when they use the Internet to connect to their classes during inclement weather.
The program, a test that will be used to gauge the effectiveness of on-demand online education, could be an answer to the question of how the state will address calamity days in the future. Officials with the Ohio Department of Education want to see how the program at Mississinawa Valley Schools in Darke County works before other districts get a chance to try something similar.
via On Snow Days, Some Ohio Students Will Telecommute To Class ‹ Edudemic.
Free Technology for Teachers: Khan Instant – Instant Search for Khan Academy
Khan Academy is famous for the fantastic educational videos produced by Salman Khan. Khans mathematics and science videos are available on YouTube, on iTunes, and on Khan Academy.org. This morning I discovered Khan Instant. Khan Instant is an instant search engine like Google or YouTube instant for Khan Academy videos. Just to clarify, Khan Instant was developed by Ben Jacobson not by Khan Academy.Applications for EducationKhan Instant could be a good tool for quickly locating outstanding mathematics and science videos to supplement your classroom instructions. Searching with Khan Instant is much faster than trying to browse through the YouTube channel for the video that meets your needs.
via Free Technology for Teachers: Khan Instant – Instant Search for Khan Academy.
Web 2.0 Smackdown at TechForum « Thumann Resources
I was fortunate to present with Adam Below, Howie DiBlasi and David Andrade today at Tech Forum NY. We shared a Google Doc at the morning session of the Web 2.0 Smackdown.
After the lunch break, Adam and I facilitated a session giving the participants time to show what tools they feel are useful in the classroom. The ideas started flooding in before we even met. They were coming in via Twitter, suggestions from the the morning group and folks that came to say hi after we were finished.
Wikis: Pulling It All Together Online — THE Journal
David Lindsay discovered wikis in 2005, several years before collaborative Web 2.0 innovations would officially infiltrate the educational space. Armed with Web site design experience, this elementary school teacher started tooling around with the idea of wikis after seeking out a better way to manage an annual competition that paired students with a local business alliance.”I was looking for an easier, free way to manage the competition,” said Lindsay, a fourth grade teacher and technology coordinator at Rosedell Elementary in Saugus, CA. Through the event, students work closely with the business alliance to develop their own online businesses. Lindsay coaches students through the process, which finds children using the Web to experience hands-on entrepreneurship at a young age.”At the time, there was software available for what I wanted to do, but it was cost-prohibitive,” said Lindsay, who was also challenged by the fact that Web site design five years ago still required the developers in this case, the students themselves to write code. “Programming and HTML were still pretty complicated for a fourth grader to learn and use,” said Lindsay. “While I was looking around for better options, I stumbled upon wikis.”
Education Week’s Digital Directions: Web 2.0 Fuels Content Filtering Debate
In one corner are the Web 2.0 tools—the relatively new blogs, wikis, discussion forums, and social-networking sites that are gaining popularity among teachers looking to connect with their students and one another. By their very nature, such tools can be edited by a wide range of contributors, and they can host a wide range of content—some of it educational, and some not so much.
In the opposite corner are the Web filters—software designed to block students from distracting or potentially harmful material, with roots in the more static online environment of the 1990s. In most cases, filters block whole websites rather than individual pages, based on a filtering company’s database of sites that contain questionable material.
via Education Week’s Digital Directions: Web 2.0 Fuels Content Filtering Debate.
College profs ban laptops, UM faculty has mixed views | The Daily Mississippian
Laptop computers have revolutionized the way students take notes in the classroom within recent years.However, some say that with new technology comes a new set of problems.Since the introduction of wireless internet, some professors consider laptops a class distraction and a vehicle for ignoring lectures.Universities including George Washington University, American University, the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia are taking steps to ban laptops from the classroom and force students to take notes the old-fashioned way, with pencil and paper.“I want the students to pay attention to what I’m teaching, and I’m aware that while they’re on their laptops they can easily be looking at their Facebook page or e-mailing friends,” Kathleen Wickham, journalism associate professor and graduate studies director, said.
via College profs ban laptops, UM faculty has mixed views | The Daily Mississippian.
