Resources

Global Knox Building Learning Communities Resources:

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Documents:
Observable Shifts...

Google Advanced Search Commands & Operators (a "cheat sheet")

Articles:

 * Carl Wieman, [|A Better Way to Teach?]

Books:

 * Drive, Dan Pink - learning designed with purpose, autonomy and mastery in mind
 * [|Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience]- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

**Examples of Global Projects & Collaborative Work:**

 * [|Student News Action] run by students in Washington, DC for students around the world
 * [|Kiva] a global brokerage of where money meets borrowing need (a microfinance site)
 * Values Exchange
 * The Lunchbox Project
 * What could it mean//?// //"Let's create a story about traditions, customs and practices around the world for and with our students. We need to sharpen our kids' skills to foresee and sense cultural misunderstandings, instead of letting them grow up to be insensitive an believing everyone will have the same cultural background knowledge."//
 * Learning with Turkey //"A couple of years ago I set up skype call between my Year 9 History class and a school in Turkey to discuss the Gallipoli campaign in World War One..."//
 * We are open. We reach out. We trust.

**Getting Your Classroom Connected:**

 * Global School Partnerships
 * Teachers Connecting
 * EPals
 * Skype in the Classroom
 * Skype in Schools Wiki

iPad Resources:
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 * Blooms Taxonomy and iPads: []
 * Apps Taskonomy: a protocol for considering the application of apps http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/Apps+Taskonomy
 * Student Roles: []
 * Integration Resources: []

**Tools to Collaborate with Other Classrooms:**

 * Edmodo
 * Wikispaces
 * Voicethread - collaboration with Voice
 * [|Skype]
 * [|Cisco Show & Share]

**Realtime Collaboration:**

 * Google Docs
 * TitanPad
 * Skype


 * Social Bookmarking:**


 * Diigo
 * Diigo Tutorials


 * Twitter**


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 * [|Educational Hashtags on Twitter]
 * Twitter for Education wiki
 * [|100 Ways to Use Twitter in Education]


 * PollEverywhere**


 * http://www.polleverywhere.com/
 * [|Poll Everywhere tutorial]
 * [|Real Time Assessment with Poll Everywhere] (article)

Videos:

 * Wieman, Carl
 * [|Transforming Education: A Scientific Approach to Teaching & Learning]
 * Mazur, Eric
 * [|From Questions to Concepts] How can you engage your students and be sure they are learning the conceptual foundations of a lecture course? In this clip, Harvard University Professor Eric Mazur introduces Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time teaching -- two innovative techniques for lectures that use in-class discussion and immediate feedback to improve student learning. Using these techniques in his innovative undergraduate physics course, Mazur demonstrates how lectures and active learning can be successfully combined. This video is also available as part of another DVD, Interactive Teaching, which contains advice on using peer instruction and just-in-time teaching to promote better learning.