Resources for teaching and learning
Lots of subject specific resources in a searchable database
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 10/01/2009
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/30/2009
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tour
The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/28/2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/27/2009
Learning in Hand by Tony Vincent - iPods, Netbooks, Podcasting, & Educational Technology
Great resource for using Tech in an class. Please also check out:
http://learninginhand.com/class/handoutsspring05/blog.pdf
for a link to a rubric for grading student blogs.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/26/2009
YacaPaca! - Management for Teachers and Students
With YacaPaca users can create quizzes, surveys, tests,and more. Discover modify and share assessments.Set work for the whole class with a few mouse clicks, and analyse with tools that improve your teaching.Jennifer Maddrell's research on Backchannels
Research shared by Dr. Leigh Zeitz on backchannel research.
Follow Teachers Online - Directory 2 on Twitter
Another cool list of teachers on Tweepml
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/24/2009
Picasa in education - Group | Diigo
We share resources for education in picasa. Compartimos recursos para la educación en Picasa. Compartim recursos educatius a Picasa.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/22/2009
Only2Clicks - speed dial to favorite web site and make it your start page
Visual bookmarking
Great points from Stephanie Sandifer on cheating - when she talked about how she cheats every day by using a copy of something from a coworker - I may have already linked to this but it is so powerful, I came back to it!
Here were my thoughts for Stephanie:
"I love how you say that you're "cheating every day." Certainly LEARNING is important, but to me, learning how to find answers and solve problems is the MOST important skill. Some teachers and I were discussing how some kids have book knowledge but fumble at doing science experiments! The practical knowledge eludes many that are good memorizers and what is a good education. To me, rote memorization precludes many from "feeling" educated (because of their poor grades) and makes many think they ARE educated (because of their great grades) when in fact we are indeed testing the wrong thing!
Great points here!"
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/21/2009
Create and share flashcards - ediscio.com
Online flashcard box that also lets you embed video / pictures into it.
Twiggit lets you take things you've submitted to digg and send them to twitter.
Digg Launches New Toolbar - Makes Digging and Sharing Easier
Information on the new Digg toolbar - just put digg.com/ in front of any URL or the diggbar bookmarklet mentioned in this post.
I really only report my super "hot" thoughts on digg but it is a cool tool that I've integrated w/ facebook.Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration
Excellent printable resource from Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers - this is one to print and share.
GissiSim.com | One Firefox plugin to end them all
An article about a new Firefox plug in called Ubiquity that is supposed to be particularly useful for people who have to translate quite a bit, but also adds custom programmability to ubiquity and your firefox web browser that allow you to close individual URLs, generate tiny urls, and all sorts of other things. WE'll see if this is the firefox plug in to end them all but I'll let you know. Meanwhile, if any of you have tested it, I'd love to hear from you.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/20/2009
Language Learning with Livemocha | Learn a Language Online - Free!
Not sure when this list was made, but it is a comprehensive list of education blogs by technorati authority (which I know many ignore now, but yet, it does give you a list.)
Quick Screencasting Using Quicktime X in Mac Snow Leopard
Tutorial of how to screencast with Quicktime X. Been hearing a lot of people on twitter going crazy over Quicktime X.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/19/2009
WebMath - Solve Your Math Problem
Webmath is a math-help web site that generates answers to specific math questions and problems, as entered by a user, at any particular moment. The math answers are generated and displayed real-time, at the moment a web user types in their math problem and clicks "solve." In addition to the answers, Webmath also shows the student how to arrive at the answer.
Informal Education - Exploring reflection and learning
"Here we look more closely at the process of working with others (or ourselves) to deepen learning. In particular, we explore: emancipating and enlarging experience, the nature of reflection, and learning from experience"
Educational Games, Worksheets & Homework Help for Kids, Parents and Teachers | Game Classroom
Game Classroom is an educational games website catering to the K-6 market. Game Classroom offers mathematics games and language arts games. Games can be found by selecting a grade level and then a subject area. Both the mathematics and language arts categories are subdivided into specific focus areas. Some of the games are unique to Game Classroom and some are games that are used on other sites.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/18/2009
Top 10 Back to School iPhone Apps Gallery
Excellent overview of the top 10 apps for students - if you're a student and actually allowed to use your iTouch at school for educational purposes, these are the apps to review.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/17/2009
Overview from the educators at CAST aligning the digiteen project with UDL guidelines. Digiteen is a project that uniquely allows for digital citizenship education in a project based learning format that also differentiates in powerful ways. Thank you so much for the people at CAST who provide so many great tools and also provide excellent resources for UDL.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/15/2009
Portaportal is a web based bookmarking utility that lets you store links to your favorite websites online. Now your bookmarks are no longer limited to any one machine.
Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter
Marvelous article about 7 ways to find teachers on twitter.
Spreadsheet with every Ted Talk ever given!
Atlantis Seekers - A Sea of Inspiration and Joyful Learning
Just joined Atlantis Seekers - a really cool network of educators who meet on most Monday nights in SEcond Life to learn headed up by uber-digital storytelling pioneer Bernajean Porter.
International Journal of Education and Development using ICT: Vol. 5, No. 3 (2009)
The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front)
This is Google's website that will make it easier for you to get your data out of Google. This is certainly an admirable thing for Google to do, but perhaps has practical applications as well - putting the onus of backup back on the users.
Proof: Learning Music Makes Children Smarter! | The Music Teachers Blog
Music makes students smarter - proof from the UK which has spurred them to add a comprehensive music program back into their schools.
No more Linux security bragging: botnet discovery worry - Computerworld Blogs
If you use Linux because it is worry free as related to viruses - don't be caught sleeping - an infected set of Linux botnets are distributing malware, experts have discovered.
ID Webcomic #1 – Working with SMEs on Content « The Usable Learning Blog
Great cartoon about how we make mistakes with designing instruction - and it is all in one cartoon. Beautiful!
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/14/2009
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/12/2009
VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, documents, and videos
The Story Starter provides writing prompts for more than 373 million stories.
instant story starters
Notable Sentences...for Imitation and Creation
sentences--add, use, create!
Literature Response Lesson Plans
Response to Literature lesson plans
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/11/2009
The exploring body image simulation from Ramapo Central School District by Peggy Sheehy.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/10/2009
Eduset - Online Classroom Communication
Another website for sharing information and making class pages.
The replacement for Jott (since they began charging) this is a good entry-level cell phone tool to share in workshops so people can decide if they "get it" before they "get it." Will be using with my students this week.
New Grants for High School Students | Planet Connect
Planet connect grants for students with ideas for how to fix environmental problems in their school or local community. A great way to promote action. (Hat tip to my friend Salim Al-Busaidi)
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/09/2009
“Share your tips” — and win BIG! | The Edublogger
Another blogging challenge which lets you win 12 months free edublogs supporter subscription. Just blog and share your tips.
It’s about to start – the student blogging challenge | Technology in our classroom
So, want to join in the challenge - looks like a lot of fun!
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/06/2009
The Value of United States Currency in Circulation
We look into how much paper currency and coin production is in circulation, and some interesting facts surrounding the U.S. Mint’s production.
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/05/2009
Business Educators - A list of great resources and contact information
One stop educational resources for Computer Education teachers.
If you're like me and having awful trouble in Firefox these days, my friend Luke suggested that I reset everything in Firefox - here is the information on how to do that.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Diigo bookmarks for today 09/04/2009
Sept 8 - Live event where President Obama will speak to Students
This just in my inbox:
"On September 8, 2009 at 12:00 p.m., Eastern Time (ET), President Barack Obama will deliver a national address to the students of America. (Please note that this is a change from the originally scheduled time.) During this special address, the president will speak directly to the nation’s children and youth about persisting and succeeding in school. The president will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning.
The U.S. Department of Education encourages students of all ages, teachers, and administrators to participate in this historic moment by watching the president deliver the address, which will be broadcast live on the White House Web site (http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/) and on C-SPAN at 12:00 p.m., ET. We also encourage educators to use this moment to help students get focused and inspired to begin the new academic year."
Take this chance to set up your school (particularly US public schools) to have President Obama encourage your kids to do well in school. It is very important. There is also a facebook discussion about this event.I Am What I Learn video competition for US students
Starting on Sept 8, the US dept of education will ask students to respond to the President's Back to school challenge to create videos, up to 2 minutes in length describing steps that they will take to improve their education.
This will be the website for the Iam what I learn website.Grades PreK-6 Lesson planning guide for Obama speech
This is the lesson planning guide for grades PreK-6th grade for the President's speech on September 8th.
Lesson Planning Information for US Presidential Speech to Students Grades 7-12
Here are the lesson planning guides for grades 7-12.
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