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Research. Mobile Research: 20+ Mobile Apps. Mobile Research: Notetaking and Bookmarking. Mobile Research: Bookmark, Curate, Aggregate, and Annotate. Digital Research for Today's Learners. Digital Notetaking to Ignite Their Minds. Newsworthy! Learning as a Digital Reporter for a Class News Site. Eportfolios for Meaningful Student Learning. Research in the Digital Age: Social Bookmarking by Shelly Terrell on Prezi. Digital Journals: Getting Students to Blog, Research, and Curate.

Teach Writing with Digital Tools. Help Them Brainstorm! 50+ Tips & Resources. Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, December 20th 2013 Included in the Digital Tips Advent Calendar and part of the Effective Technology Integration category.

Help Them Brainstorm! 50+ Tips & Resources

Social Bookmarking in Plain English, for the rest of us. What is aggregate. Digital curation. The term curation in the past commonly referred to museum and library professionals.

Digital curation

It has since been applied to interaction with social media including compiling digital images, web links and movie files. Approaches to digital curation[edit] The Digital Curation Centre is a "world leading centre of expertise in digital information curation"[5] that assists higher education research institutions. Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change. Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change Every time I read a story about why newspapers are failing that doesn’t mention the role of aggregation and curation in their troubles, it reminds me that something very fundamental is being missed, even by very sophisticated observers.

Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change

Aggregation is one of the core concepts of content presentation and commercialization. A Comprehensive Guide to Content Curation. Depending on your point of view, content on the internet can be a vast collection of treasures, a cesspool swimming in filth, or a big pile of gold specks mixed in with an even bigger pile of dirt.

A Comprehensive Guide to Content Curation

My guess is that most people lean towards the last one, giving rise to content curation, the process of finding the gold among the dirt, as a very popular online activity. At its most basic, content curation is the process of finding, organizing, and presenting content from the flood of information and media that inundate the web by the second. Similar to museum curators, content curators sift through a seemingly never-ending amount of digital objects to unearth individual items worthy of being showcased for a specific audience. Once the selection is finished, the curator presents those assembled elements under a cohesive theme, just like museum curators do for specific exhibitions. Educate Your Students on How to Cite Online Content. APA Formatting and Style Guide.

Summary: APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences.

APA Formatting and Style Guide

This resource, revised according to the 6th edition, second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (6th ed., 2nd printing). 50 Chrome Extensions for Educators. EasyBib. EasyBib: Free Bibliography Generator - MLA, APA, Chicago citation styles. Researching Effectively with Language Learners. The 5 Cs in Education: What If… Sketchnoting in the Process. After my sketchnoting workshop at Miami Device, I was asked to record my process of CREATING the sketchnotes.

The 5 Cs in Education: What If… Sketchnoting in the Process

I used Airserver to mirror my iPad display to my laptopUsed Screenflow to record myself sketching the main points of the presentationUsed Screenflow to speed up the recorded footage from 30+ minutes to 2.5 minutesExported, then imported into iMovie to add credtits and music This was the first time doing a screencast this way for me…there are a few kinks that I still need to work out (how to NOT record the screenflow toolbar). [The sketchnotes created in the video below were NOT created live, but AFTER, I had created the slide deck already} Here is the slide deck for the presentation Related Sketchnoting and Yet Another Dimension Experimenting with sketchnoting as note taking and as visual summaries and slide design has been an area of intense interest for me over the past six months. 24.

In "Collaboration" Evolution of Note Taking: New Forms Note taking is a big topic among educators. Teaching Research, Notetaking Tools and Tips. Teaching Research: Note-taking Apps & Tools. Research on the Go! Effective Research with Mobile Devices GAETC. Research on the Go with Mobile Devices. Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, November 8th 2013 From the Cool Sites Series and Mobile Learning Series.

Research on the Go with Mobile Devices

Let’s Brainstorm with Mobile Devices! 15+ Free Apps for IOS/Android. Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, March 29th 2013 Part of the Mobile Learning Series!

Let’s Brainstorm with Mobile Devices! 15+ Free Apps for IOS/Android

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” – Lee Iacocca quotes Brainstorming is an important process that helps improve writing, organizes group ideas, inspires discussion, and provides a roadmap for projects. iPad Research in Schools. Last updated on 2/5/2014 Print this page1 The Technology Enhanced Learning Research group, led by Kevin Burden (Principal Investigator) based in the Faculty of Education, has completed the first national evaluation to investigate the use and impact of tablet technologies (in this case the iPad), across schools and homes in Scotland.

iPad Research in Schools

The study was based in eight schools and six local authorities across Scotland where iPad devices were being piloted to investigate a range of issues associated with the deployment of personal mobile devices as tools for teaching and learning. Learning about Visual Notetaking from Giulia Forsythe. <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there!

Learning about Visual Notetaking from Giulia Forsythe

If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic. <div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> Goal 10: Spread Your Knowledge (15+ Tools to Bookmark, Aggregate, Curate) Goal 10 of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year’s 30 Goals Challenge for Educators!

““If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. ” ~ Margaret Fuller. Www.creativebloq.com/design-tools/data-visualization-712402. It's often said that data is the new world currency, and the web is the exchange bureau through which it's traded. As consumers, we're positively swimming in data; it's everywhere from labels on food packaging design to World Health Organisation reports.

As a result, for the designer it's becoming increasingly difficult to present data in a way that stands out from the mass of competing data streams. Get Adobe Creative Cloud One of the best ways to get your message across is to use a visualization to quickly draw attention to the key messages, and by presenting data visually it's also possible to uncover surprising patterns and observations that wouldn't be apparent from looking at stats alone. And nowadays, there's plenty of free graphic design software to help you do just that. Hypothes.is.

Research Apps

Bookmarking & Curation Tools. Research Libraries & Sites. Brainstorming. Notetaking. Mindmapping. Infographics. Research ICTs. Sticky Notes & Boards.