Monitoring Teachers' ICT Skills

Extract from the very interesting "Key Data on Learning and Innovation through ICT at School in Europe  2011" report (pdf).

NO evaluation in Ireland. NO requirement to have any level of ICT skills!!!!!!!!!!!!

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World Wonders Project

From the archaeological areas of Pompeii to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Google’s World Wonders Project aims to bring to life the wonders of the modern and ancient world.

Using using Street View technology to travel around the world without any of the hastle.

Although, nothing beats the real thing, the World Wonders Project comes pretty close!

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The Age of the MOOC

More and more MOOCs of varing formats are appearing all the time and if you haven't come across one yet then it is time to check it out!!

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a course where the participants are distributed and course materials also are dispersed across the web. This is possible only if the course is open, and works significantly better if the course is large.

Wikipedia




Presented By: Online Colleges

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Google Code University

Google Code University is a very useful resource providing

sample course content and tutorials for Computer Science (CS) students and educators on current computing technologies and paradigms.

Study introductory courses or more advanced specialized topics.

Adding it to my list of other current online offerings, which include codecademy and udacity

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Learning Statistics with Udacity

An appeal from Udacity tutor Professor Thrun

I am writing you to ask a personal favor. I am trying to break the student record for the largest online class ever taught with my new class "Intro to Statistics", which will begin June 25th. Sign up, forward this e-mail to your friends and family and let's set a new record!

We've also launched a challenge for high school students. Winners will get a trip to Stanford University and I will be delighted to give a tour of my lab!

Thanks,
Sebastian Thrun, Professor

Sounds goood - learn something about statistics and be part of a record breaking adventure!!! Why not sign up now! I have :) Previous Udacity record comes in at 160,000 learners.

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Research Project Request

Malinka Ivanova (@malinkaiva) from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria is conducting a survey about social networks usage in teacher’s practice and personal learning network building. The research will explore the static and dynamic views of personal network organization in order to create a model for PLN optimization.

The survey focuses mainly on the use of Twitter and Facebook. If you are interestested in this area, please could you take the time to fill in this short survey and spread the word.

All responses to be in by 20th May at the latest!

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Create Quizzes with Scoilnet

Scoilnet, the Department of Education and Skills official portal for Irish education, provide a quiz portal where you can create and share multiple choice quizzes relevant to content for both the Primary and PostPrimary sectors.

Feedback is given either as you go through the quiz or in one go at the end.

You can search for quizzes via subject name or tag. I suppose post leaving cert content could be included in the post primary section though it may be better placed in a section on its own!

Here's a little Database quiz for you to try!

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