Diigo bookmarks for today 07/02/2009

• Microsoft Education: Teacher and faculty resources, lesson plans, and free tools

  lots of stuff for teachers

  Tags: education, resources, microsoft

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Diigo bookmarks for today 06/30/2009

• iCyte - Home

  Tags: bookmarks, web2.0, education

• Dangerously Irrelevant: NECC - Edubloggercon, Web 2.0 Smackdown, Chicks That Click

  This is an excellent summary of the tools shared in Web 2.0 smackdown.

  Tags: education, learning, tools, web2smack, edu_newapp, edu_news

• projecthelp - Diigo Group

  Here are the procedures for how we use the Diigo group with the flat classroom projects - we've used this with flat classroom and we've used it with the digiteen projects and ad4dcss (advocates for digital citizenship, safety, and success)

  Tags: education, diigo, edu_newapp

• monarchbutterfliesproject - home

  Monarch Butterfly wiki project from Maria Knee's kindergarten classroom.

  Tags: education, learning, wiki, science

• Voices Of The World - votw-2008-9

  Voices of the world project. This is a project that kindergarten teacher Maria Knee participates with. It is a fascinating collaboration of students.

  Tags: education, wikis, wiki, all_teachers, bestpractices, technology, digitalcitizenship, elementary

• projecthelp - Citing Sources

  How to cite sources using the source citation code in wikispaces.

  Tags: education, learning, edu_news

• roosevelt3rd - home

  Roosevelt Elementary School 3rd grade wiki that has all types of projects.

  Tags: education, learning, elementary

• S. Dembo's NECC Presentation Prezi

  Tags: prezi, education, web_2.0, video, images

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NECC day 3

After all of that the SIGTC forum was good. Well received by all, I think. 

One of the best parts of NECC is meeting people in your PLN. By going to the 'Bloggers Cafe' you can see many of your virtual friends. Many of us have been using Plurk to make notes about sessions and keeping our peers outside of NECC abreast of what is going on.

Keynote address good last night. Now in the SIGTC business meeting, I am now the president-elect. I was going to resign from the board, but here I am.

Have a panel in a few hours, but will see the vendors before that.

Second Day NECC

Second day. Met with SIGTC leaders to discuss our forum this AM, now we are waiting outside of the room where the forum will be held. We will not be able to get in until about a half hour before hand, which is not good. We usually have a few hours in the room before hand, but there is a SIG leadership meeting in there now. Guess we could not have scheduled the rooms better? A couple of our people we need to meet with are in this meeting too. Bummer. Would be nice to have some cooperation between ISTE and our SIG. But this seems to be status quo. 

Edubloggercon was great. Posted many links onto my diigo page. Got to meet with a Diigo person yesterday, and we discussed some things that could be tweaked. Very nice and helpful. 

Got here Saturday at about 6 am yesterday, made it to my hotel at 3pm figured to take a nap, woke up at 10pm. guess that was a bit longer than I wanted. Well rested and ready to go.

Apparently the group that reviewed sessions for this years NECC, had my session listed in their top 3, not sure why I got turned down, that sure seems strange. Should I be paranoid? Sort of confusing, I have not be approved for my sessions, yet seem to be listed high every year, interesting, wonder who doesn't like me? 

Will post later on, need to do it from here, my hotel has plugin internet and I don't have a patch cable. So it goes

NECC '09

I leave tonight for what is one of the year's highlights, NECC. This year it will be in Washington DC.

My wonderful wife will not be with me this year, but will be next year in Denver for NECC '10.

Every year I learn more than I thought possible at NECC, not just from sessions, but from others. The sharing done in informal sessions is great, we meet people in our PLN that have been names attached to 140 character plurks or twitters. The big kick-off is edubloggercon on Saturday.

I hope to do a fair amount of blogging over the next few days, keeping myself and others aware of what is going on. There will be some Diigo links, but more blogging than normal. By the way, at the SIGTC forum on Sunday, I will be doing a mini session on Diigo. Also I will be on a panel on Monday about Tech leaders.

So follow this space, contact me, or see you at NECC

Diigo bookmarks for today 06/26/2009

• 100 Beer-Budget Tools for Students with Champagne Taste | Online College Reviews - College Ratings

  
  The wonder of the Internet makes it possible for just about anyone to access top-notch web apps and other tools that can make working and studying a breeze. Read on to learn about 100 free or extremely cheap tools that are great for students.
  
  

  Tags: Education, Student, Frugal, Money, Personal, Finance, Budgeting

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Diigo bookmarks for today 06/25/2009

• CZ:About - Citizendium

  The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an open wiki project aimed at creating an enormous, free, and reliable encyclopedia. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, feels that we can achieve this crucial improvement over Wikipedia through measures such as adding "gentle expert oversight" and requiring contributors to use their real names. We already have over 11,208 articles and hundreds of contributors.

  Tags: wiki, reference, education, all_teachers

• Technology Tools in the Classroom: Using Computers to Engage Your Students - List | Diigo

  Tags: education, technology, teaching, learning, presentation, school

• Kinetic City: Shape It Up

  Erosion Activity

  Tags: science, erosion, earth, interactive, education

• Download-a-Dinosaur

  Designs for easy-to-make paper dinosaurs that you can download from this site and print out on your printer. All that is needed is scissors and glue. Soon your office will be overrunning with raptors. How about triceratops with names on them as place settings at a kid's birthday party? Or a 30-minute crafts activity?

  Tags: dinosaurs, paper, kids, origami, education, elementary, middleschool

• Flash card and testing software on your Mac - Cram for Mac

  Create and study with flash cards and multiple-choice tests on your Mac.
  

  Tags: education, flashcards, questions, quiz

• 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teaching Students About Social Media | Teaching Degree.org

  Tags: socialnetworking, socialmedia, teaching, education

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