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		<title>Software training online-tutorials for Adobe, Microsoft, Apple &amp; more</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a resource that I have been meaning to share with everyone.  It is an archive of tutorials for many of the popular software programs that you will be wanting to teach your students. I know that on our search engine page many teachers have requested lesson plans on software.  Some ask for themselves and some are asking for their students. But either way you can use this resource.  It will guide you or your kids through just about any piece of software they should know. So no more excuses!  Get your kids out to the computer lab and let them loose! Software training online-tutorials for Adobe, Microsoft, Apple &#38; more. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Draw and Fold Over: Dan Pink&#8217;s Play and Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This looked like fun so I thought I should share. You remember that old game where you draw something on one half of the paper and then fold it over so someone else can draw and not see it? Well here&#8217;s the digital version.  Just click on &#8220;Start a New One&#8221; and your kids are off. What would I use it for?  I always have kids who get done early in the computer lab.  Instead of fighting them to keep off of the game sites, I think I will have them develop their Design aptitude.  Plus when I did it, it seemed an awful lot like Play! Draw and Fold Over. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Activity Using Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy, Dan Pink, and a Photograph</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blooms Taxonomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you need a quick activity that lets you apply Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy?  How about a single activity that applies Bloom&#8217;s, and the Design aptitude from A Whole New Mind?  Even better, how about an activity that does all of this, yet is flexible enough to act as a &#8220;bell ringer&#8221; or a central component of an extended lesson plan. Analyzing a photograph.  This is nothing new, and we most likely do this quite often in an informal way with our students.  But the lesson plan outlined by the UNC School of Education really takes this concept to a new level. Using a photograph from the Library of Congress UNC applies Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy and gives you appropriate questions for each level.  You can click on  &#8220;knowledge&#8221; in Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy and get questions like &#8220;When was this photograph taken?&#8221;.  Or you can click on the Evaluation level of Bloom&#8217;s and see questions like &#8220;What is the significance of this photo for the time period depicted?&#8221; What a great way to develop the Design aptitude in your students and still be able to state a specific level of Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy.  You could use the photo as a warm-up activity and start your students&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Animations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share these resources with you from Mashable&#8217;s website. Animation is an excellent tool for nonlinguistic representations, a strategy endorsed by Dr. Marzano.  Animation also challenges students to reach the synthesis level of Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy.  All the student is required to do is to create a story that needs to be told.  This can happen in any subject at any age.  And these online sources are easily accessible by students and are totally free of charge.  So even in these difficult budgets, you can still apply 21st Century learning skills. For Dan Pink&#8217;s A Whole New Mind aptitudes, animation covers two distinct skills: Story and Design.  Students are required to develop some sort of back story to your lesson.  Maybe the story of cell division.  Then they need to use the skills of design in order to create pictures that efficiently relay the information. This is an easy upgrade that shouldn&#8217;t take much time.  And your students will love it! 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Animations. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Game Design: Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting perspective on Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy, teaching, and game design.  The author alludes to Dan Pink&#8217;s AWNM aptitudes of Play and Design, but he also discusses Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy and the use of Bloom&#8217;s Learning Levels in game design. Take a few minutes and see how a game designer applies Bloom&#8217;s higher level thinking skills.  It&#8217;s worth a read.  I know that I had never approached Bloom&#8217;s from this vantage point, and it made me think of new ways to apply Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy.  Check it out! Teaching Game Design: Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Chain of human pylons planned for Iceland &#8211; Telegraph</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting application of the Design aptitude from AWNM.  As Dan Pink states, in an age of abundance the ability to design appealing objects will become a valuable skill.  What a great way to take what could be an eye sore and turn it into something whimsical. Chain of human pylons planned for Iceland &#8211; Telegraph. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Learn like a kindergartner: High Tech, Dan Pink, and A Love of Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember &#8220;Everything I Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten&#8221;? Well imagine that concept with the technology of today. That is what Professor Mitch Resnick discusses in this hour-long video about technology and learning.  Learn like a kindergartner. Don&#8217;t you remember those times?  When you wanted to go to school?  Things were new and fun.  We were motivated to learn.  We were excited about new experiences. As the &#8220;new&#8221; of the school year begins to wear off for some of us, this video reminds us of what education can be. Technology adds an element of play to learning.  And AWNM reflects the importance of this aptitude in the modern economy.  So why not infuse a little &#8220;playful&#8221; element to your classroom? Technology can also enhance our mastery and result in added autonomy, which are two of the key factors in motivation as stated by Dan Pink in Drive.  What about incorporating that old favorite of kindergarten, the &#8220;sensory station&#8221;? This week I&#8217;m going to take a bit of time and try to think like a kindergartner.  I&#8217;m going to reflect back on those simpler, innocent times and see what I can share with my students.  Maybe they can re-experience some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designing For A Hierarchy Of Needs &#8211; Smashing Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 10:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Pink outlines multiple ways to enhance the aptitude of design in A Whole New Mind.  Pink suggests that everyone just needs to learn how to observe, understand, and appreciate the elements of good design and then they will naturally develop their own sense of design. And if you are a fan of Marzano Strategies, good design fundamentals will help your students create &#8220;nonlinguistic representations&#8221; and better graphic organizers of information, both successful teaching strategies. I ran across this article by Steven Bradley from Smashing Magazine and thought it would be a useful tool for teachers as they try to incorporate the basic elements of design into their classroom.  After all, most teachers are familiar with Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy.  So this hierarchy concept is a perfect match for teachers. I think that many of us consider ourselves not to be designers.  But as teachers we implement at least four, if not all five, of these design elements into our daily lesson plans. Think of a typical activity involving a graphic organizer that we might adapt for our classroom at the &#8220;understanding&#8221; level of Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy.  We always look at its basic function.  Will this work for a roomful of 30 kids?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Design in Note Taking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share a template with you that I use when giving notes. The idea came from a conversation with a colleague who had attended an in-service on Marzano&#8216;s strategies.  (To see more on Marzano and Dan Pink&#8217;s right-brain aptitudes see this post) When asking students to take notes, the obvious weakness in strategy is assessing their understanding and maintaining their interest.  To address both of these issues, I gave students this template.  Basically I give a short lecture where students take notes, about 10-15 minutes.  (I use fill-in-the-blank notes in my classes.) I then pause and ask students to take out their template and to &#8220;draw out&#8221; what I had just covered.  What are the basic ideas?  Can you recreate them in a picture?  I give them about five minutes to do this.  While students are drawing, I circulate around the room and check on their work. The result has been incredible.  For an example from this week, I lectured students on the division of Germany after World War II.  I then asked students to draw it out.  Questions began to arise like &#8220;Where is Berlin in Germany?&#8221; or &#8220;Which side is East?&#8221; With just a five-minute upgrade, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marzano&#8217;s Instructional Strategies and Dan Pink</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great site for resources on Robert Marzano&#8217;s instructional strategies. If you are familiar with Marzano, then you will find this site particularly interesting as it connects instructional technology resources with each of his strategies.  If you are not familiar with Marzano, each strategy is briefly defined so that you can implement the technology while knowing which instructional strategy you are using. I also sorted out a few of Marzano&#8217;s strategies and applied them to Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitudes from A Whole New Mind.  Here are a few of the obvious connections that I made after reviewing the strategies on the Marzano website: #3 Complex Cognitive Tasks (Symphony) #4 Cooperative Learning (Empathy) #8 Graphic Organizers, #12 Non-linguistic Representations (Design) #11 Interactive Games, #12 Kinesthetic Activities (Play) #19 Summarizing (Story/Design) I&#8217;m sure there are any number of parallels that can be drawn between Marzano and Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitudes, but I thought these were the easiest to implement. So if your district is asking you to utilize the Marzano startegies, don&#8217;t worry.  You can still develop your students&#8217; right-brain aptitudes at the same time! Marzano&#8217;s Instructional Strategies. Share]]></description>
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