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See also: -[I/S: Information Systems]- *pizoig/techie pages* See also: -[The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :) See also: -[The Borges Library]- (Lessons and tea.) The following are TALKING PAPERS on education issues (controvesy ahoy!) -[The EDU Game]- -[Music/Art Therapy]- -[Teacher Development]- -[Teaching: Jobs]- -[Lesson(s) - Lesson Plans]- -[Subjects - specific areas; eg, Calculus, Organic Chemistry, etc]- -[Schools]- -[THE Program] (what's needed, how, etc) -[Lesson(s) - Lesson Plans]- -[Skills]- -[Teaching Skills]- [Teaching Systems/Platforms/Env's/etc>] [Teaching Certification] -[Alterative Teaching Jobs]- See also: http://surfaquarium.com/newsletter/tech_tutorials.htm -[www.TechAppsNetwork.org]- -[The Connected Teaching concept]- (and developing the "Riskable Classroom")... On this page: {Intro} {The ClassRoom Stuff} {The Tools List} {Basic Computer Systems} {} {On Line Tools & Systems} {Content} {} {} {} {Links} (helper web sites mostly!) Academic Commons, Teacher sites, etc {DownLoad.com} Free & other s/w downloads

Intro

The ClassRoom Stuff

See also: -[
The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :)

Marshalling the Pods

The pods are set in motion from the very beginning and are essential to the group work to be accomplished. A set of cards (preferably 2x2 or 4x4 squares) one with each name of the students are shuffled and dealt into piles (face down) so that there will be between 4 and 6 people in each pod. This is done in front of the entire class so that there is no objection (other than complaining) that can be made. The FIRST card (when they the stack is turned rightside up) of each pod deck is the MODERATOR. There is no way out of this. Just as when it turns out that Ulyses S. Grant turned out to be such a great geneal and ??name?? turned out to be such a loser - the fortunes of war; and life in genral. The pod moderator is handed the deck with their pod-mates on it and a copy of the pod marshalling document. -[The Pods Marshalling Document]- And they are directed to gather their pod together - the pods should be as far as possible from each other in the room so as to lesson noise from one group to the next.

Tools List

See also: -[
The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :) -[]- (study guide LINKS, resources!) email additions/suggestions to: fleeding@hotmail.com -- share and enjoy! --42-- {On Line Tools & Systems} {Computer Programming/Scripting} (& Languages;eg, francaise vie!) {Teaching} {Virtual Class Rooms}

On Line Tools & Systems

See also: -[
The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :) -[]- (study guide LINKS, resources!)

Developing Content

See also: -[
The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :) -[]- (study guide LINKS, resources!) Note: This section originally was several different files, etc. Specifically on-line and traditional stuff. These are now gathered here. -[DayPo OnLine Tests]- (free download)

Virtual Class Rooms

See also: -[
The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :) -[]- (study guide LINKS, resources!) -[Virtual Training Studio]- Fairly decent WYSIWYG slide prep program. Free, and part of the on-going dev at: Only thing is that you have to be logged on as ADMIN and have some decent techie skills. But, does have some v. nice fonts and such! -[On-line TV]- -[Learn to read music]- -[]- -[]- -[]-

Computer Programming/Scripting

See also: -[
The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :) -[]- (study guide LINKS, resources!) -[Just basic (GUI)]- -[Chuala: Spoken Languages]- -[French Before you know it]- -[Arabic before you know it]- -[]- -[]- -[]- -[]-

Teaching

See also: -[
The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :) -[]- (study guide LINKS, resources!) -[East/West Management e-book]- +++! -[Admin'g online stuff]- -[Web Course Development]- (high ratings by DL.com ed's - free to try $1000 to buy) -[On Line Communitry - SEE REVIEW, just below.]- FAO: www.DownLoad.Com - really this needs to be re-classifed and with warnings. Pretty nasty stuff and the user just splashes out onto it. Technically excellent stuff, but "wowie zowie" (as we Zappa-heds sey). -- Frank Leeding. More of the same, nice tech feel, but what am i getting into here? Or in the words of the late, great James Nesmeth "Hate crimes have no place in the land of the free". -[Fen Shui Calculator]- -[]-

Basic Computer Systems

CSYS: Computer Systems

See also: -[
The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :) -[]- (study guide LINKS, resources!) This section will prob be rather retro for most; regardless: Share and Enjoy! email additions/suggestions to: fleeding@hotmail.com Being mostly pc-based.

CSYS: PC, MAC, Unix, etc

XP is sort of the system of choice these days - of course (vista i think?) M/S will continually be up-grading stuff. Eventually MAC and PC will *almost* be as good as Unix/Linux and other open systems - oh, well.

CSYS: CD-Rom / Flash/Jump Drives

CD Roms are *still* prevalent, and i can see the day when a flat-pack memory chip (eg, a smart business card) will have like 1 Gig or more on it, and we'll trade/give them out as casually as we do biz cards now. Already jump-drives (the lower capacity; eg, 128-Meg) are being used as give-aways with corporate demos, etc - much the same way that CD Roms, Coffee Mugs, Key Chains are now at conventions.

Links

(helper web sites mostly!) See also: -[
The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :) -[]- (study guide LINKS, resources!) -[www.TeacherSupportNetwork]- -[Hub's fab EDU stuff!]- Good corporate systems (from Free for 1 month trials to $10/month/person, etc - to $$$++) -[www.OnLineLearning.net]- -[TESOL]- (ESOL - English as a Second Language) -- superb site!! -[www.TeacherSites.com]- -[www: TeachersFirst.com]- -[]- -[]- -[Academic Commons.org]- (on-line academia community) -[ACC.org: Adding]- -[]- -[]-

DownLoad.com

Free & other s/w downloads See also: -[
The TAN document/jump-page]- (my humble contribution :) -[]- (study guide LINKS, resources!) The best source is the c|net download.com site: -[www.DownLoad.com]- How to get the stuff you want for free. Much of the world is (believe it or not) filled with geeks/nerds like me (and of course you ;) So, we love nothing better than to show off our tremendously large (ahem) talents. As, such we always give back a little; usually refered to as "open source", "public domain", etc. *** NOte to self: need to clean up and release internet flashcards pgm 1. Bring up a browser (i hear and obey, oh dark lord Gatez!) so, pc examples. Eg, explorer (or netscape if you are *like* that). 2. -[www.download.com]- 3. In the search window, enter the phrase sound editing 4. Click SEARCH 5. When the screen comes up, scroll down past the ads (or not - depends on things, i s'pose?). 6. In the line that shows the following, click and pull down to match: Filter by ALL OSs All Licenses All File Sizes All Categories CHANGE: Free Windows (or as your needs are of). 7. Click on FILTER (button to the far right). You get a page or not, find, look, etc. btw: it's *always* a good idea to register (just use your email addr) and to *review* what you like. In MANY cases, you see comments (like on the SUPERB kangas sound editor) "waste of time" - obviously someone was looking for something *other* than a physics lab quality techie tool! Share and enjoy!