Diigo bookmarks for today 02/06/2010

• learningscience.org

  a free and open leaning community for sharing newer and emerging tools to teach science

  Tags: learningscience, resources, tools, education, interactive, middleschool, elementary, technology

• 15 Interesting Ways to use Wallwisher in the Classroom

  Presentation covering 16 cool ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom.

  Tags: education, tool, presentation, edu_newapp

• Homepage - TimeToKnow

  Tags: Education, teaching, learning, timetoknow, pedagogy, 1:1

• 50 Brain Facts Every Educator Should Know | Associate Degree - Facts and Information

  Tags: Brain, educator, Memory, facts, Education, research, Should Know, learning, thinking, understanding

• Education Week's Digital Directions: Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning

  Tags: education, personalized, technology, tools, personalized learning, learning, teaching, directions, differentiatedinstruction

• Western States Black Research and Educational Center

  The Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum (MCLM) maintains the largest and most academically substantial, independently held collection of rare and out-of-print books, documents, films, music, photographs and memorabilia on African American history and culture in the United States.   MCLM's primary goal is to make the collection available to the public as a cultural compass to a more complete view of American history. 

  Tags: educational, western, history, african-american

• Star Readers- Story Time

  Tags: reading, classroom, story time, books, elementary students, education, readers

• Where are the savings in using GoogleApps? - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

  Doug Johnson estimates the savings moving to Google apps, Great post for those considering this.
  
  Doug says:
  
  "These are rough and admittedly optimistic estimates, but I think you can see the general trend. Even if only 50% of my estimated nearly $2M in savings is realized, that averages out to close to $200,000 per year. (Out of a $1.2M budget.) I am not suggesting reducing tech budgets by this amount, but I can sure think of a lot more interesting things (like kids' computers, a more robust wireless network, and more bandwidth) to spend tech dollars on.
  
  Yes, I need to pay $7 a year per administrative, possibily teacher, e-mail account for archiving and retrieval. Not bad, though, considering."

  Tags: google, cloudcomputing, education, costsavings, bestpractices, edu_trends

• TLC = Tech + Library + Classroom: Wallwisher

  Great overview from Tara about how she uses wallwisher. I haven't played with this new, cool tool but will. She says:
  
  "One of my favorite new tools that I shared with the group was Wallwisher. It's the whole 'get a sticky note, write your thoughts and stick it to the chart paper' activity but online. Brilliant! It's free, and I can keep the information archived each time I build a new wall. "

  Tags: education, learning, edu_newapp

• Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : What Are You Learning This Summer

  Computer science teachers planning this summer should look at this overview from Microsoft uber-blogger Alfred Thompson.

  Tags: education, learning, computerscience_teacher, computerscience, techintegrator

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