Utecht’s Daily Links 05/07/2008

May 7, 2008
By Jeff Utecht

  • Make big promises; overdeliver.

    If you can define great marketing in fewer words than that, you win.

    tags: marketing, seth

  • Great video and slideshare of Daniel Pink’s latest book.

    tags: manga, danielpink

  • Over the weekend I wrote up a mini-thesis on my assessment methods, which, though standard operating procedure at my last school, are pretty foreign here. I gave it a deliberately confrontational title, “How Math Must Assess.” SOP here is to use whatever tests the manufacturer supplies and give them whenever the manufacturer arbitrarily decided to divide the textbook.

    tags: dy_dan, math, assessment

  • So, I take ‘Rote Learning’ and multiply that by ‘Teaching to the Test’ and that equals ‘Better Standardized Test Results’? Well, that’s not exactly what this post is about… but this is a good lead in. And for those of you that don’t know why -3 x -4 = +12, I do provide a link that might help.

    tags: pairadimes, math

  • Turns out, even the privacy-conscious Sarah Browns of the world freely hand over personal information to perfect strangers. They do so every time they download and install what’s known as an “application,” one of thousands of mini-programs on a growing number of social networking sites that are designed by third-party developers for anything from games and sports teams to trivia quizzes and virtual gifts.

    tags: usatoday, digitalprofile

  • A wiki on using document cameras in education. A great place to start for any educator using any document camera.

    tags: documentcamera, wiki

  • A cool tool to look at who is connected to whom on twitter. A look at connections.

    tags: twitter

  • An RSS feed is like a window on the world, a lens through which we view a place, a person, or a situation. For these reasons it is very important when we are assigning feeds to students as required reading to closely consider why we are doing so. A major goal I have for students in my classroom is that they become more informed of different nations, cultures, and ways of living around the globe. Teaching young teenagers in a small community, my classroom is for some of them their first real contact with people from around the world so I need to be very careful about the impressions they for

    tags: classroom, RSS

  • An RSS feed is like a window on the world, a lens through which we view a place, a person, or a situation. For these reasons it is very important when we are assigning feeds to students as required reading to closely consider why we are doing so. A major goal I have for students in my classroom is that they become more informed of different nations, cultures, and ways of living around the globe. Teaching young teenagers in a small community, my classroom is for some of them their first real contact with people from around the world so I need to be very careful about the impressions they form.

    tags: learning, RSS

  • A building principal at a small public school in upstate New York told us at Seton Hall that just this year, when she wanted to begin using a flash drive on the computer at her school, she was told she couldn’t by the IT person in the district who was afraid that doing so would cause all sorts of havoc on the network. Finally, after some begging, the IT person agreed to open up one computer in the library for all flash drive use in the school. And not for kids.

    tags: change

  • An online survey site that is getting great reviews. One teacher even used it to create a test….love the inovation!

    tags: surveys, surveygizmo

  • Watch all the videos from the Shanghai Film Fest. A great place for students to learn about video editing and technique.

    tags: film, youtube, shanghaifilmfest

One Response to “ Utecht’s Daily Links 05/07/2008 ”

  1. Ruth Fleet on May 7, 2008 at 4:08 am

    Utecht’s Daily Links 05/07/2008 /U Tech Tips/ – - Seth’s Blog: Four words Make big promises; … http://tinyurl.com/5964uq

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