Diigo bookmarks for today 05/09/2009

• Country Guides to Culture, Etiquette, Customs & more!

  CultureCrossing.net is an evolving database of cross-cultural information about every country in the world. This user-built guide allows people from all walks of life to share essential tips with each other about how to navigate our increasingly borderless world with savvy and sensitivity.

  Tags: culture, socialstudies, etiquette, education, travel, digitalcitizenship, all_teachers, curriculum, history

• Interactive Lessons

  Tons of great resources for teachers. Integration and technology use ideas galore!

  Tags: education, integration, web2.0, resources, interactive, lessons

• Diffen - Compare Anything. Diffen. Discern. Decide.

  Diffen allows the user to compare, contrast, and the find the difference, between any two things.

  Tags: contrast, writing, education, elementary, middleschool, h

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Diigo bookmarks for today 05/08/2009

• Lots of lovely teacher and elementary links here

  Tags: elementary, education

• Podcasts (Library of Congress)

  Did you know the Library provides podcasts of some of its presentations and online resources? Listen to book festival presentations, material on music and its impact on the brain and oral history interviews with African Americans who provide first-person accounts of the hardships of the slave plantations and of life during and after slavery. Download the audio recording and a transcript of the program to your iPod, other portable media player, or to your computer from the Library of Congress website. You may choose to automatically download this and subsequent episodes via a free subscription from the Library's podcast website or through Apple iTunes.

  Tags: podcasts, libraryofcongress, loc, history, socialstudies, education, classroom

• smarthistory

  Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.

  Tags: Art, arts, education, art history

• J.ot Down - simple internet notepad

  J.ot Down is a simple Internet-based notepad. Here are some simple instructions:
  
  1) Open j.otdown.com in your browser.
  2) Start typing.
  3) Pause for a moment (or hit "Save") and J.ot Down will save your note and give you a
  permanent link for it (as seen in your browsers location bar)
  4) Continue to edit your note or share it (or a read-only version) with your friends.
  5) Bookmark your note for later access or just start another one.

  Tags: education, notes, web2.0

• Create a Reset Button on Your Notebook Page? | TeqSmart: Blogging About SMART Boards, Resources, Lessons, Training, Games...

  Using page recorder to make a "reset" for your smartboard lessons

  Tags: SmartBoard, education, whiteboard, k-12, reset

• VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

  VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.

  Tags: vocabulary, education, words, text, list

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itsy bitsy spider

Last night around 3:00am, unable to sleep, my mind wandered. I really need to keep paper and pen near the bed because I had a couple of good ideas. Somehow I thought of the itsy bitsy spider song, sometimes called the teensy weensy spider. Then started to think of the water cycle, maybe because it was raining. It was then that the two things connected, the Itsy Bitsy Spider covers part of the water cycle, what it needs is other parts, so here it goes:

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.

Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.

Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain

And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.
Up went the water making lots of clouds
Water kept rising cooling in the clouds
The itsy bitsy spider continued up the spout.

then go back to the first verse, showing that it is indeed a cycle.
Maybe when I can't sleep I can figure out more verses

What do you think? Suggestions? Tell me to forget it?

A lazy post

My post from the Lazy Bloggers Post Generator:

Abject apologies I just climbed out from under my rock and realised I have not updated this since they let me out!... You would not believe the amount of people that are totally stalking me. Whenever will they invent electricity!.

I am lost in a sea of pseudo-olde-english with setting fire to people wearing Crocs, being distracted by the shiny, just generally being a terrible burden to various lawyers I met recently, my day starts with the dawn patrol from the second I am woken by murderous Teletubbies to I am begging my kid to go to sleep or so help me God that kid will be decorating my wall, 'Duct tape still life'. I am avoiding recapture. but this damned rock is heavy.

I swear on the bones of my ancestors I will make more of an effort to blog more often until the nice men in the white coats come back. I promise! Unless of course the pool with the cocktail bar is heated!.

Diigo bookmarks for today 05/04/2009

• westwood - Joy J

  Excellent efolio of work from Joy J in the 10th grade Introduction to Computer Science course. You can see an overview of the types of things done in this course and how Flat Classroom and NetGenEd were integrated into the curriculum as well as some videos. Joy is an excellent student and this portfolio with exception of a few tiny omissions is near perfect.

  Tags: education, learning, netgened, flatclassroom, bestpractices, technology

• Reflection - grownupdigital

  Another amazing reflection from Netgened, this student is simply phenomenal.

  Tags: education, learning, netgened, bestpractices

• westwood - Hope efolio

  Great efolio wiki from my ninth grader -- summarizes the year and accomplishments. (Videos will be added this week.)

  Tags: education, learning, efolio, technology, bestpractices

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Diigo bookmarks for today 05/03/2009

• Curriculum Services Canada

  Tags: curriculum, canada, resources, education, teaching, pedagogy

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Diigo bookmarks for today 05/02/2009

• Futurelab: Innovation in education (lovely resource)

  Futurelab is passionate about transforming the way people learn. Tapping into the huge potential offered by digital and other technologies, we develop innovative resources and practices that support new approaches to learning for the 21st century.

  Tags: innovation, education, teaching

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