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		<title>June 29, 2010: Leading Teachers from Substitution to Redefinition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Curry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are links to tools and materials for the MLTI Team&#8217;s hands-on BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) at ISTE 2010. Session Description Session Slides For the Substitution and Augmentation exercises: Click2Map MapLib TitanPad For the Mofication and Redefinition exercises: LimeSurvey KwikSurveys Supporting Research for the session Puentedura, Ruben R. As We May Teach: Educational Technology, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=1109&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Spatially about Learning: ISTE 2010 Conference, Denver, June 29.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post contains links and information relating to my session at the ISTE 2010 Conference in Denver, looking in to the idea of spatial learning and how students can use digital tools to apply spatial learning in their studies. Session Description Tools used in the session: Google Earth ArcExplorer Online Useful links, interesting spatial resources: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=1102&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Webinar Recap: Evaluating Resources and Publishing Student Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students are often cast on to a desert island of research and asked to find the resources they need to help them find their way back to civilization. They may have received little or no instruction in how to tell if a resource is reliable, which can often make the process of research a bewildering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=1091&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>June 17th Webinar: Evaluating Resources and Publishing Student Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wide angle view or strong focus? Current or timeless? Authoritative or opinionated? Both? Neither? Students have it hard these days, navigating web resources to find the information that will attend to their questions. In this webinar, we’ll attempt to help our students out with a few pointers, rules of thumb and a dose of sound [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=1069&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Research Process &#8211; Copyright and Fair Use: Notes from the May 6 Webinar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright, or to be more specific, the use  and misuse of copyrighted materials, is a subject that is surrounded by much confusion and therefore fear for many educators. Students who have known nothing but the internet in schools need direct instruction and guidance on what they can be using from online sources, and also how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=973&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May 6 Webinar: The Research Process &#8211; Copyright and Fair Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 19:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As new media forms test the boundaries of existing copyright laws, educators can be left feeling uncertain as to how they can be using media in education, what they shouldn’t be copying, and how students use media as part of their school work. File sharing, sampling and remixing, downloading and podcasting all present new methods [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=960&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Original Research: Notes from March 25 Webinars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original research can be defined as the collection of information and data from observations and measurements conducted as part of an investigation. Original research generates new knowledge around a subject, and is undertaken in order to produce new understanding. It’s important that we have our students conduct an original research project, and have students construct [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=833&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>March 25 Webinar: Original Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our students are in an unprecedented position of being able to gather, sort and reflect upon information and data with ease and precision. Digital tools available on the MLTI devices and online give students the ability to record observations, conduct interviews, collect data and then use this information to produce meaningful results. By conducting original [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=822&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>February 11 Webinar &#8211; Structuring a Research Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guest this month will be Richard Byrne, award winning writer of the blog ‘Free Tech 4 Teachers’. He’ll be joining me to talk about how students can utilize tools both on the MLTI image and online to structure and carry out a research project. Richard is adept at finding creative and powerful educational uses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=675&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questions, Questions: Notes from the January 7th Webinar</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all who joined myself and Sylvia Norton for the webinar last Thursday, and especially for the responses and questions that really helped to frame and guide the discussion. The webinar was a two parter, the first part looking at getting the research process underway by looking at essential questions, the building blocks of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=517&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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