Elyse Eidman-Aadahl's Blog posts
After a Department of Education kick-off at the Reimagining Education Conference and initial practitioner learning opportunities by partners Scratch, the Afterschool Alliance, and Mozilla Webmakers, the Summer of Making and Connecting kicks into even higher gear with the launch...
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In this post Doug Belshaw, who leads Mozilla Foundation's web literacies initiative, explains why Mozilla Foundation is working to develop web literacy standards and how everyone—that's YOU Digital Is folks—can participate in their development. First posted at DML Central, Doug lists a series of...
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I know that lots of you in the Digital Is community use comics and graphic novels in your teaching, so HT to Nick Carbone for circulating this time-sensitive offer from Marvel...
Marvel Comics is offering free downloads of more than 700 first issues of many of the company's favorite superhero...
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This Weds, March 6, from 9-10am PT, ConnectedLearning.tv will be hosting a Google+ Hangout with DML2013 Conference Chair Craig Watkins. You're invited to join as he chats about the upcoming conference, specifically the main Theme, Democratic Futures, and the five conference tracks....
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Check out this video previewing some of what Mozilla is working on to improve their webmaker tools — tools we and our students can use to make creative projects on the web using the browser. You can help this development by using these tools and sharing your feedback. As always, Mozilla is...
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Hi Digital Is friends -- I'm sharing this note from Rafi Santo just to remind you all of this great youth opportunity. Read Rafi's note below:
I wanted to share a great opportunity for your youth. Make-to-Learn, a new thematic initiative of the DML Research Hub being led by Indiana University's...
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Join Mitch Resnick of the MIT Media Lab, Philip Schmidt of P2PU, and Natalie Rusk of the LIfelong Kindgergarten group for a look at Learning Creative Learning. Designed as an open-course from MIT, but without the heavy LMS, Learning Creative Learning will operate openly on the web using a variety...
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Perhaps you saw the previous blogs and tweets by members of the DI community about this thing called MozFest and wondered what it was. Now, thanks to a most wonderfully thorough post-event report by Michelle Thorne (@thornet), you can learn all about it.
But if you missed the posts and are...
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NWP is proud to be a supporter of Global Conversations in Literacy Research, a free and open-access series of webinars with literacy researchers world-wide. The Digital Is community might be particularly interested in the next webinar, January 20 at 3:00 p.m. ET, with Julia Davies from the...
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Given their short length, journalistic style and concrete references to K-12 settings and initiatives, many educators use EdWeek Spotlight articles in professional development settings. So you might want to take a look at their collection on Digital Literacy, currently available as a free download...
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Like many others, I was entranced by the New York Times publication of Snow Fall, the multimedia longform story of the avalanche at Tunnel Creek. Snow Fall demonstrated that online, interactive—digital!— writing could find a place in journalism outlets. I could imagine wonderful...
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Looking across the wealth of Digital Is resources, I can't help but notice the importance of video sharing as a central tool in digital writing and the sharing of practice. And so, I tip my hat to those services, Vimeo and YouTube in particular, that have supported a user-driven video revolution on...
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BackgroundCheck.org has provided this shareable infographic on Internet and mobile trends world-wide; proof that the world is connected, not just the United States. There's a lot of folks out there online. Happy connecting in the New Year!
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In addition to K-12 Onine, the DI community has been enjoying the Connected Learning webinars in general, but I particularly wanted to note the next one coming up because of its focus on the work that the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab is doing with schools and teacher development. DI folks were...
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Since so many members of the Digital Is community are also avid followers of Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning, we are cross-posting a message the editors have posted there about changes in Spotlight. We encourage you to visit and post your thoughts and appreciations at the Spotlight...
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Sarah Wenger at Open Site shares this infographic aimed at preserving the open web.
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On August 12, 2012, Hybrid Pedagogy, a digital journal of teaching and technology, will host a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) designed to look carefully at this new pedagogical approach. The course is made possible by partnerships with the Writing and Communication Program at...
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The National Research Council (NRC) has released a new report on 21st century skills in the classroom and work environments. From the NRC:
Business, political, and educational leaders are increasingly asking schools to integrate development of skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and...
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Scholars interested in the affordances, uses and risks of social media for youth might be interested in YOUTH 2.0: CONNECTING, SHARING AND EMPOWERING?, a conference planned for March 20th – 22nd 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium
UCSIA & MIOS, University of Antwerp, have announced the organisation...
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Traci Gardner, who has blogged her and blogs at Bedford Bits, has been working through ways to explore connected learning within the confines of an academic writing course. She's working out an idea over there; here's a taste:
Connecting with Personal ArtifactsBedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching...
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