Sharon's Staff Wiki & Blog
Integrating New Technology at Duneland
Flipping the Classroom
Watch this short video from CBS about how The Kahn Academy is flipping the classroom!
The Khan Academy - Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free. Thousands of videos to introduce a new topic or reinforce what you are teaching in the classroom. Explore the concept of flipping the classroom with the use of videos.
Using Videos to Share Ideas and Lessons
TED: Ideas worth spreading - Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. Thought provoking topics from TED Technology, Entertainment, Design.
Khan Academy - Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free. Thousands of videos to introduce a new topic or reinforce what you are teaching in the classroom. Explore the concept of flipping the classroom with the use of videos.
iTunesU - The all-new iTunesU. Everything you need to create and share complete courses - all in one place. Now featuring audio, video, books and other content. Learn with iTunesU.
Meet the iPad & Educational Apps
With
over 140,000 apps for the iPad are you wondering how to use the iPad in
your classroom? Please visit the Apple in Education Site to explore
thousands of apps designed for education and learning. Apple in Educatiton. Thousands of apps. Endless potential.
iPad App Ideas from DSC Staff
This Wiki & Blog was designed to take a look at our favorite apps organized by building, grade level and subject. If you have a favorite app you would like to share with others please add a comment at the bottom of the appropriate page. Enjoy!
CHS Favorite Apps for the iPad
LIS Favorite Apps for the iPad
Sharon's Favorite Apps for the iPad
Interested in the CMS Benefit?
Check out the CMS Benifit Wiki to learn more about the event, or read the Dune News Article CMS Annual Benefit
Exploring, Sharing and Creating Podcasts
Our First Podcast from Apple Learning Snapshots
Constructing Wikis for Collaborative Projects
A wiki is a web-based, collaborative editing environment for groups. Depending on how the wiki administrator sets permissions, anyone who can view wiki content can also add or edit content.
Wikis have several advantages over other tools:
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Fast and easy |
To edit wiki pages, click the Edit (pencil) button on a page you want to edit. Add content and use a simple toolbar to apply styles, add links to other sites, attach files, or insert media. You don't need to learn additional tools. |
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Streamlined |
If you see a page you'd like to correct or add content to, you can change it yourself. With other tools, you'd need to find the owner of the content and describe the issue to the owner, and then the owner would need to change the content. |
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Customizable |
It's easy to change how users navigate to information, through a broad or deep navigational hierarchy, or through tags. |
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Dynamic |
Because wiki content can be updated by a large group of people, it is much more dynamic than a static medium like PDF. |
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Parallel content creation |
Multiple people can edit wiki content on different pages simultaneously. |
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Cross-reference information |
It's easy to link together information within and outside of the wiki. |
Blogging with Staff and Students
A blog is like an online journal.
Entries are arranged chronologically with the newest entries listed first.
What is the Difference between a Wiki and Blog?
The blog and the wiki share the same simple editing toolbar and thus share a lot of the same advantages. The biggest difference between a blog and a wiki is that the blog has a sense of time, but the wiki doesn't. In a blog, new content is found more easily than older content. In a wiki, content is found by need or by navigation, rather than by time. Blogs are available for users and groups. Users can edit their own blog as well as group blogs they have access to.
Your wiki server can allow anyone who has an account on the wiki server to create a personal blog. It can also restrict who can create blogs to a specific group of people.
When you create a blog, you become the administrator for that blog and can then customize it to suit your needs
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