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In his book entitled, //A Whole New Mind//, Daniel Pink asserts that the information age, characterized predominantly by L-Directed or left brain thinking is being replaced by the new age of what he calls high concept and touch led by right brain thinking. Pink suggests that L-Directed reasoning can be complimented by mastering six basic R-Directed aptitudes (Six Senses). In summary those are: 

 v  **//Design //** - It’s no longer sufficient to create something for functional purpose but today it also has to be beautiful and emotionally engaging. v  **//Story //** - At the heart of any argument is the ability to also shape a compelling narrative that goes beyond a simple line of reasoning. v  **//Symphony //**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> - The greatest demand today, according to Pink, is not analysis but synthesis. It is about seeing the big picture and crossing boundaries. <span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">v **//<span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Empathy //**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> - It is the capacity to go beyond logic and understand others and forge relationships. <span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">v **//<span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Play //**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> - Seriousness has its place but everyone needs some lightheartedness and time to play. <span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">v **//<span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Meaning //**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> - In a world of abundance and disparities encourages the pursuit of transcendence and spiritual fulfillment.

<span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> **//<span style="font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Technologies that Follow the Six Senses //**<span style="font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; msospacerun: yes;">

<span style="color: #ff009d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 345%;"> //__DESIGN__//

<span style="font-family: 'Copperplate Gothic Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; msospacerun: yes;"> [|**//Onlinecharttool//**] <span style="color: #ea157a; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 40px; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; msothemecolor: accent2; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #007deb; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> <span style="color: #007deb; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own graphs online for free. They support a number of different chart types like: bar charts, pie charts, line charts, bubble charts, and radar plots.
 * //<span style="color: #ea157a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2;">What is Onlinecharttool ? //**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Charts and graphs are a great tool because they communicate information visually which promotes visual learning. <span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Visual thinking and learning utilize graphical ways of working with ideas and presenting information. Research in both educational theory and cognitive psychology tells us that visual learning is among the very best methods for teaching students of all ages how to think and how to learn. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #ea157a; font: 7pt Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent2; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent2;"> **<span style="color: #ea157a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Make abstract ideas visible and concrete ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">→ (Piaget)  ** <span style="color: #ea157a; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: accent2; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent2;"> **<span style="color: #ea157a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Provide structure for thinking, writing, discussing, ****<span style="color: #ea157a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: accent2;">analyzing, planning and reporting **
 * <span style="color: #007deb; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Implications for Educations: **
 * <span style="color: #ea157a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Visual learning helps students: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="color: #ea157a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Connect prior knowledge and new concepts **
 * <span style="color: #ea157a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Focus thoughts and ideas, leading to understanding ****<span style="color: #ea157a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: accent2;">and Interpretation **

<span style="color: #007deb; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: Webdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Webdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Webdings; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191; msobidifontfamily: Webdings; msofareastfontfamily: Webdings; msolist: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent5; msothemeshade: 191;"> **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Predict outcomes. **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: Webdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Webdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Webdings; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191; msobidifontfamily: Webdings; msofareastfontfamily: Webdings; msolist: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent5; msothemeshade: 191;"> **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Illustrate trends. **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: Webdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Webdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Webdings; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191; msobidifontfamily: Webdings; msofareastfontfamily: Webdings; msolist: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent5; msothemeshade: 191;"> **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Examine patterns. **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: Webdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Webdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Webdings; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191; msobidifontfamily: Webdings; msofareastfontfamily: Webdings; msolist: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent5; msothemeshade: 191;"> **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Compare and contrast data. **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: Webdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Webdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Webdings; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191; msobidifontfamily: Webdings; msofareastfontfamily: Webdings; msolist: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent5; msothemeshade: 191;"> **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Collection data. **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: Webdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Webdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Webdings; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191; msobidifontfamily: Webdings; msofareastfontfamily: Webdings; msolist: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent5; msothemeshade: 191;"> **<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Explain outcomes visually ****<span style="color: #425ea9; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191; msothemecolor: accent5; msothemeshade: 191;">. **
 * __<span style="color: #007deb; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;">How to use this Technology in the Classroom __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">There are numerous ways to incorporate OnlineCharttool into your everyday class routines. They can be used to organize classroom chores or show the rotation of jobs. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are some other ways: **

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Resources __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Image.(2009). Emotionally intelligent…invoices. Retrieved September 21, 2009 from [] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Pink, D. (2006). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Whole New Mind. // New York: Penguin Group <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Suite 101. (2009). Social Science Books. Retrieved September 21, 2009 [] Visual Teach. (2007). Visual Learning. Retrieved September 21, 2009 from [] <span style="color: #000033; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #130202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Woolfolk, A. (2010). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Educational Psychology (11th ed.). // New York: Pearson Education, Inc.

<span style="color: #35ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> __// Story //__ [|**//MakeBeliefsComix//**]



<span style="color: #7fd13b; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">
 * //What is MakeBeliefsComix?//**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is an online tool used to make comic strips. It gives users a choice of characters with different moods and the chance to write words and thoughts for them, in hopes that they will tap into their creativity and explore new possibilities. Users can select from 15 fun characters with different moods and write words for blank talk and thought balloons to make their characters talk and think. Users can also find story ideas and prompts to help them craft their graphic stories. Once they’ve created their comics, they can print them to create comic books or email them to friends and family. There are also story ideas and prompts to help users create graphic stories. **



<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> **Howard Gardener’s Multiple Intelligences**
 * <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Implications for Education: **
 * **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Appeals ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> to the ****<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">kinesthetic learner ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> who learns by doing/being physically active **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Allows students to easily and quickly demonstrate what they know **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Provides more time for reflective learners because students can work from school or home **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Allows the teacher to gain background knowledge on what information students have learned in previous classes **
 * **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Appeals ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> to ****<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">visual ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> and ****<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">tactile learners **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">**“In Gardener’s theory of intelligence, a person’s eight separate abilities: logical-mathematical, linguistic, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist.” (Woolfolk, p. 117) Although Gardener did not “believe that people actually have consistent learning styles,” (Woolfolk, p. 117), it is believed that it is necessary to consider these intelligences when teaching.** //__<span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">**How can this Technology be used in the Classroom?** __// <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">**This technology can be used by educators and parents to teach language, reading and writing skills, and by students to facilitate self-expression and storytelling as well as computer literacy.

** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Resources __ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Images. (2009). Story Icon. Retrieved September 21, 2009 from <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">MakesBeliefsComix. (2006). Screen Shot. Retrieved September 21, 2009 from [] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Woolfolk, A. (2010). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Educational Psychology (11th ed.). // New York: Pearson Education, Inc.

__// Symphony //__ [|**//Dabbleboard//**] <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="color: #af0f5a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Pink suggests that “one of the best ways to understand and develop the aptitude of Symphony is to learn how to draw.” <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> (Pink, p. 131) **




 * //<span style="color: #af0f5a; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">What is Dabbleboard? //**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dabbleboard is ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">an online whiteboard tools that turns your random mouse scribbles into perfect shapes. For instance, if you like to add a rectangle or oval on to the dashboard, just draw an approximate sketch with the mouse and Dabbleboard is smart enough to recognize that shape. **




 * //<span style="color: #c48b01; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">Implications for Educations: //**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[ Symphony ] is the capacity to synthesize rather than to analyze; to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields; to detect broad patterns rather than to deliver specific answers; and to invent something new by combining elements that nobody else thought to pair. (Pink, p. 130) **


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">According to Bloom’s Taxonomy //‘Synthesis/Create’// is the highest level of cognitive processing. He refers to it as being a higher-order thinking skill.

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 * //__<span style="color: #003e75; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;">How to Incorporate this Technology into the Classroom __//**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">It can be used instead of flipcharts and is also able to save the results. It can be used in the computer lab for collaboration purposes. It can also be used for art and math lessons in geometry. Students can use Dabbleboard to create mind maps like this one **



__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Resources __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dabbleboard. (2009). Screen Shot. Retrieved September 21, 2009 from [] EDTEC. Technologies for Teaching: Meaningful Learning with Technology- Bloom. Retrieved September 21, 2009 from [] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Pink, D. (2006). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Whole New Mind. // New York: Penguin Group Woolfolk, A. (2010). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Educational Psychology (11th ed.). // New York: Pearson Education, Inc.

<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 230%;">__//EMPATHY//__ <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Since Empathy depends on emotion and since emotion is conveyed nonverbally, to enter another’s heart, you must begin the journey by looking into his face.” <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(Pink, p. 162)

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> [|**Skype**] <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">



<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Skype is a software application that can be used for calling other people on their computers or phones. It has all the features of an ordinary phone. It also enables video calling so that you can see the person that you are talking to. It also allows the user to be able to: add contacts, group chat, and make conference calls.
 * //<span style="color: #003e75; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;">What is Skype? //**


 * // Implications for Education: //**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Vygosky’s Social Cultural Theory… **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Emphasizes role in development of cooperative dialogues between children and more knowledgeable members of society. Children learn the culture of their community (ways of thinking and behaving) through these interactions. ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(Woolfolk, p. 42) **

<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;"> With educational funds as tight as they are these days, this could be an inexpensive way to take students on virtual field trips. You could also access guest speakers who are experts in areas that you may be covering in class. You could also use this technology as a way to involve parents in their child's school day. You could do this by setting up appointments with parents to interact with the class through Skype. Even if parents are working, they could take a few minutes out of their lunch breaks and interact with the class.
 * //__ How to Incorporate this Technology into the Classroom __//**

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Resources __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Images. (2009). Skype. Retrieved September 25, 2009 from [] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Pink, D. (2006). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Whole New Mind. // New York: Penguin Group <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Skype. (2009). Screen Shot. Retrieved September 25, 2009 from <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Woolfolk, A. (2010). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Educational Psychology (11th ed.). // New York: Pearson Education, Inc.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 230%;">__//PLAY//__ <span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Play is becoming an important part of work, business, and personal well-being, its importance manifesting itself in three ways: games, humor, and joyfulness.” <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(Pink, p. 188)

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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Game Classroom is a one-stop web destination for accessing high-quality educational games, and homework help for K-6 students. The games are sorted according to skill, topic and grade level. It offers a comprehensive, free homework help section for parents/teachers to provide to children including learning tips, online resources and sample problems. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #7aac81; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">v **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Social. **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Games are often social environments, sometimes involving large distributed communities. “It is not the game play per se but the social life around the edge of the game that carries much of the richness in terms of the game’s meaning, its value, and its social and cultural impact.”14 <span style="color: #7aac81; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">v **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Research. **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">When a new player enters a game, he or she must immediately recall prior learning, decide what new information is needed, and apply it to the new situation. Those who play digital games are often required to read and seek out new information to master the game. <span style="color: #7aac81; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">v **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Problem solving. **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Knowing what information or techniques to apply in which situations enables greater success, specifically, problem solving. This often involves collective action through communities of practice. <span style="color: #7aac81; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">v **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Transfer. **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Games require transfer of learning from other venues―life, school, and other games. Being able to see the connection and transfer existing learning to a unique situation is part of <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">game play. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(Retrieved September 25, 2009 from [])
 * <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">What is GameClassroom? **
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Implications for Educations: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Games have attributes that are associated with the way people learn: **


 * Transfer **


 * Children use both Low- road Transfer and High-road Transfer while playing games. **
 * **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Low-road Transfer= “Spontaneous and automatic transfer of highly practiced skills.” ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">(Woolfolk, p. 295) ** || **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">High-road Transfer= “Applications of abstract knowledge learned in one situation to a different situation.” ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">(Woolfolk, p. 295) ** ||


 * //__ How to Incorporate this Technology into the Classroom __//**
 * This technology can be used in the classroom as a fun way to introduce a new lesson or concept. It can be used as a remediation tool to help learners who are struggling. It can be used as a formative exercise to test students’ knowledge and understanding. **

__ Resouces __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> GameClassroom. (2009). Screen Shot. Retrieved September 25, 2009 from [] Images. (2009). GameClassroom. Retrieved September 25, 2009 from [] Oblinger, D.(May 2006). Simulations, Games, and Learning. Retrieved September 25, 2009 from <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Pink, D. (2006). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Whole New Mind. // New York: Penguin Group Woolfolk, A. (2010). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Educational Psychology (11th ed.). // New York: Pearson Education, Inc.

__//<span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 240%;">MEANING //__ <span style="color: lime; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“The search for meaning is a drive that exists in all of us—and a combination of external circumstances and internal will can bring to the surface.” <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(Pink, p.217)

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;">[|N] <span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;">[|o] <span style="color: #51d9ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">[|v] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;">[|l] <span style="color: #f272ae; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themetint: 153;">[|e] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;">[|t]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Novlet is a web application designed to support collaborative writing of non-linear stories in any language. With Novlet you will be able to read stories written by other users, create your own ones, and choose the plot you like most from several alternatives. Novlet stories are divided in **//passages//**, text sections usually made of a few paragraphs: users can continue stories or add alternative storylines by creating their passages after existing ones. <span style="color: #003e75; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;">This technology promotes self-efficacy. One source of self-efficacy is <span style="color: lime; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">vicarious experience <span style="color: #003e75; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;">. <span style="color: lime; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Vicarious experience – seeing other people like you succeed on a task or reach a goal that is similar to the one you face.” <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(Woolfolk, p. 351) <span style="color: #003e75; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; msothemecolor: background2; msothemeshade: 64;">Novlet has thousands of stories written by other students. These stories can be reviewed and can provide motivation among peers.
 * //<span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">What is Novlet? //**
 * // Implications for Educations: //**

<span style="color: #af0f5a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191; msothemecolor: accent2; msothemeshade: 191;">Novlet could be used in a Language Arts class. Teachers could use this site as a writing portfolio for students. It can be used to make whole class novels. Teachers could have students post daily instead of writing in a journal. __ Resources __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Novlet. (2007). Screen Shot. Retrieved September 25, 2009 from [] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Pink, D. (2006). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Whole New Mind. // New York: Penguin Group Woolfolk, A. (2010). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Educational Psychology (11th ed.). // New York: Pearson Education, Inc.
 * //__<span style="color: #003e75; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64; msothemecolor: background2; msothemeshade: 64;">How to Incorporate this Technology into the Classroom __//**