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Summarizing v. Reflection

Heres a Tweet that came @learnteachtech this afternoon from @PaulV8: @learnteachtech might you have anything to stress the difference between summary and reflection?my #avid students don't get it. In the AVID classroom, where I'm lucky enough to guide middle school students, we talk a ton about reflection. We also do a fair amount of summarizing. One summarizing activity that we do is GIST (its in the Tutorial Strategies book). Basically, we take a topic and sum it up in 20 words after the activity or discussion. It can also be a good discussion starter to do the GIST first. The 20 words can be Wordle like (just words) or a couple of sentences. I also have them write Tweets (w/o computers) on notecards. They get 140 characters. I like GIST and Tweets because it's short but complex to get a main idea into a few words. Summarizing is main ideas. What is the point? What was it about? Reflection is thinking about what happened. What did you do well? What specifically

Apple Netbook in 2009 for $599???

Apple Insider recently published on article about the possibility of a Apple, Inc offering a netbook laptop at the $599 price point. The article cited many reasons why this would be a good step for Apple. More interestingly, the comments on this article were mostly negative. For example, commenter "ipodrulz" wrote: I would hate it if Apple released anything below 900$. It just makes the Apple brand look cheap, and crappy. And it allows all these other people to be carrying around a fruit logo when they shouldn't be. In the end Apple will just dilute their brand. Please Steve Jobs - don't do it! Understandably, Apple has a reputation for high quality products with a software package that is more robust than other vendors. The disadvantage is that it all comes with a higher price point. The higher price point negatively affects the education market. The school that I work in , and thousands more, are iMac based. Every teacher has an iMac on their desk and ou

Wordle in AVID

I think my two new favorite online tools are Animoto (still waiting for my education account) and Wordle . Yesterday, I posted about Animoto. Today, I'll give an example of Wordle. Basically, Wordle takes a bunch of text and puts it into a funky design. The more often a word appears in the text, the bigger it is in the Wordle. You can edit the font, colors, layout and language. You can paste or type text into Wordle, use a URL, or your del.icio.us account and you don't even have to sign up. Here's an example based on the URL learnteachtech.bl ogspot.com: Yesterday, in AVID class, I had the students brainstorm all the things that they could think of that related to college. Each group did a thinking map with "college" in the middle. I didn't really know what to do with it after that. Then, I saw a Wordle that was already on my wall. I realized that I could type these into a Wordle and print it out using the poster printer. Here's the Wordle fr

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