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• Geography lessons no one can resist

  Published: July 20, 2007, 9:10 am

  Tags: 05 12yrs Kid, 13 18yrs Teen, 18yrs Grownup, Learning

  Michelle (author of the wonderful blog Scribbit) came up with a brilliant way to teach her kids about geography. This would be a wonderful way to build excitement for summer travel. To help teach my kids about the world around them I implemented a trick for teaching basic geography. I scrounged around for the maps occasionally included as

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• Sex and Language?

  Published: July 17, 2007, 6:52 pm

  Tags: Teaching Amp 038 Learning, Hebrew, Greek

  say my experiences learning biblical languages were anywhere near as bad (I do recall being very intimidated when I sat down the first day of Ugaritic class and the professor handed me a text and said “read”!) While the rant post is quite funny, it does raise the question of how to teach biblical languages in such a way that

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• Raising the Language Bar for Seminary Studies

  Published: July 16, 2007, 12:29 pm

  Tags: Teaching Amp 038 Learning

  is also a fear of language learning among seminarians. I don’t know how many times I have heard students worrying about taking Greek or Hebrew. Perhaps the biggest problem is that many consider it irrelevant — and if you look at what is considered acceptable preaching in many churches today then a psychology degree is probably more

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• Technology redefines talents

  Published: July 20, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Blc07, Collaborative Learning, Communication Tools, Socialisation, Blc07

  curricula, teaching and learning. And it is in some respects, but Dr Yong Zhao believes educators may only be a very little way along the change curve. We now see countries fighting new cold wars, not industrial ones with bomb threats and infamous red buttons, but cyber attacks where Russia tries to shut down Estonia, China tries to attack

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• Easy cooking project: Homemade tortillas

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:58 am

  Tags: 01 03yrs Toddler, 03 05yrs Preschooler, 05 12yrs Kid, Feeding Nursing, Fun Toys, Habitat, Learning

  My kids both have an attraction to anything squishy. They love all of those stretchy, gel-like trinkets flooding the market, and all manner of playdough. When I can muster the patience, I pull out the flour, water, salt, baking soda, vinegar, and food coloring -- my son's favorite ingredients for "experiments," and let the kids have at it. They

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• Ciao Time

  Published: July 23, 2007, 12:16 pm

  Tags: Huh, Products, Learning

  Okay, we are on the Pottery Barn Kids mailing list. Okay, I peruse the catalog now and then because, well, I think some of their stuff is nice looking. I also like to check out what the “hot” kids names are these days. As defined by PBK, at least. I just want to know what names to avoid. I also like to find interesting details in the

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• Birthday Buzz

  Published: July 18, 2007, 6:40 am

  Tags: Being A Dad, Play, Learning

  At her birthday party, my daughter got many toys. Most of them, while nice, are unremarkable. Or at least, unblogable, because I have nothing really to say about them other than they were nice and she likes playing with them. Unfortunately, the one she likes playing with the most, or, I should say, she likes making me play with the most if this

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• Practicing What They Preach

  Published: July 17, 2007, 8:59 am

  Tags: Technology, Informal Learning, Mlearning, Elearning

  in Open and Distance Learning is devoted solely to mlearning possibilities of mlearning.What I found particularly interesting was the fact that each article can be accessed as an HTML document, a PDF document, or an mp3 audio file.Of course, the audio file is of course lacking any tables, figures, images, footnotes or bibliography, but it

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• Future of ISD

  Published: July 15, 2007, 6:25 am

  Tags: Isd, Informal Learning, Instructional Design

  into a world where informal learning seems to be the future.Then it came to me. Maybe it was a result of watching the latest episode of Dr. Who the night before, an episode called The Shakespeare Codes, that instructional designers need to learn to be Bards, to tell concrete stories that convey the Subject Matter Experts' abstractions. Some

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• Web 2.0: Bi app on campus

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:44 pm

  Tags: E Learning Sun

  An interesting article from CNET on social networking tools and impact on today's college campus.

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• SOA This, SOA That

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:21 pm

  Tags: E Learning Sun

  Like too many meetings these days. You just gotta love YouTube.

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• How to keep kids in bed till wakeup time

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: 01 03yrs Toddler, 03 05yrs Preschooler, Behavior, Habitat, Learning, Sleep Yours Theirs

  Father-to-be Keith has already started filing away parent hacks for future use! This one is sure to come in handy for these crazily early summer sunrises: To keep their little ones in bed until an appropriate time, some friends of ours have taped a cutout of the number "6" next to the hour-digit(s) of the clock on the night

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• IMS mtg summary

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:53 am

  Tags: E Learning Sun

  metrics to gauge learning outcomes associated with flexible learning: Integration and analysis of information from various  systems, including SIS, ePortfolio, LMS, CMS, and other, to  gauge learning outcomes associated with flexible learning?        How to spot students

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• Meet the New Captains of Innovation in the Heart of Silicon Valley

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:42 pm

  Tags: Learning 2 0

  Thought you might want to listen/watch this cutting edge stuff....very cool... You'll will want to catch all the high-powered debates with the top folks from Linden Labs, Apple, Google, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Citrix, Amazon, Cisco, Nokia, and more.... Tune in Here..Its Free! Technorati Tags: Learning2.0, Web2.0

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• Develop a Shutterbug: Time with Kids with Cameras

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:08 pm

  Tags: 01 03yrs Toddler, 03 05yrs Preschooler, 05 12yrs Kid, Fun Toys, Learning, Travel Going Out

  When I heard about the "A Little Perspective" kids' photo contest, it struck me as golden Parent Hacker opportunity for some late summer family fun. Get out the camera, but this time you may get to be the subject or just an on-looker. Take your kids and a durable camera out for a photo safari of somewhere exotic like the backyard, downtown, or a

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