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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>
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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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		<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>
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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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		<title>January 7 Webinar: Questions, questions&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An essential question is the touchstone of any research project, the jumping off point for the research process and an overarching theme for the venture. This webinar will look at the whys and wherefores of the essential question, the importance of the foundational questions and getting students started on research projects. The webinar will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=502&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 5th Webinar Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for everyone participating in the webinars on Thursday, it was great to see so many people sharing info and getting involved in looking at using search tools more effectively. Helping our students by developing the skills of the initial search for information can give them back some time that can be devoted to deepening [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maine121.org&amp;blog=9015003&amp;post=316&amp;subd=maine121&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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