Jun 30
Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.
Jun 29
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create music, can loop and create music, free for teachers
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text to speech, good for esol - copy txt into and paste and it will read them the text.
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Vocaroo | Record and send voice emails
Vocaroo is a shiny new service for sending voice messages across the interwebs.
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DoInk.com | Draw, Animate, and Collaborate
Draw and animate online easily, collaborate with friends and other artists by reusing props.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.
Jun 28
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WebSlides - Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows…
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Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
- Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. - By Fred Delventhal
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Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
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Programs for Educators Tips for Teachers Development for Educators
Media and Education Common Sense Schools A Parent Media Education Program Common Sense Media helps you get smart about kids and media.
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A Ning site dedicated to K12 English teachers.
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Technology Integration in Education - Seamlessly integrating technology into the K-College classroom
- Great professional network of educators and professionals working to help integrate technology in education. - By Greg Limperis
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YouTube - Watch Movies on YouTube
Watch full videos on Youtube
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Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction - TheApple.com
Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction
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Kids Create — and Critique on — Social Networks | Edutopia
“Self-Directed Learning
When students are motivated to create work that they share online, it ignites an independent learning cycle driven by their ideas and energized by responses from peers.”
- Self-Directed Learning
“When students are motivated to create work that they share online, it ignites an independent learning cycle driven by their ideas and energized by responses from peers.” - By Sheri Edwards
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“With Web 2.0, there’s a strong impetus to make connections,” says University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow, who studies how people learn and teach with social networking. “It’s not just creating content. It’s creating content to share.”
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And once they share their creations, kids can access one of the richest parts of this learning cycle: the exchange that follows. “While the ability to publish and to share is powerful in and of itself, most of the learning occurs in the connections and conversation that occur after we publish,” argues education blogger Will Richardson (a member of The George Lucas Educational Foundation’s National Advisory Council).
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In this online exchange, students can learn from their peers and simultaneously practice important soft skills — namely, how to accept feedback and to usefully critique others” work.
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“I learn how to take in constructive criticism,” says thirteen-year-old Tiranne
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image quality, audio, editing, and content
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Using tools such as the social-network-creation site Ning, teachers can easily develop their own networks, Mosea says. “It is better to create your own,” he argues. “If a teacher creates his or her own network, students will post as if their teacher is watching them, and they’ll tend to be more safe.
“You can build social networks around the curriculum,” Mosea adds, “so you can use them as a teaching resource or another tool.” An online social network is another tool — but it’s a tool with an advantage: It wasn’t just imposed by teachers; the students have chosen it.
- Self-Directed Learning
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Studybeat - a great site for help with just about anything edu!
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Attention and distraction - elearnspace
Designing Choreographies for the “New Economy of Attention” is an interesting discussion of attention and distraction. You may not agree with their core argument - that we need to choreograph technologies that are under the control of learners (such as back channels) in a manner similar to how we organize more traditional classroom components - but the approach of blocking software and banning mobiles/laptops in classrooms is simply not sustainable. Today’s reality of connectedness is dramatically different from what existed even ten years ago. Banning is at best a short term solution that will isolate and agitate the very group education is expected to serve. The battle for control of information and interaction has already been won by “the individual”. Organizations, governments, and universities that have not yet recognized this may continue to limp along for a while…but their current stance is not tenable.
- Designing Choreographies for the “New Economy of Attention” is an interesting discussion of attention and distraction. You may not agree with their core argument - that we need to choreograph technologies that are under the control of learners (such as back channels) in a manner similar to how we organize more traditional classroom components - but the approach of blocking software and banning mobiles/laptops in classrooms is simply not sustainable. Today’s reality of connectedness is dramatically different from what existed even ten years ago. Banning is at best a short term solution that will isolate and agitate the very group education is expected to serve. The battle for control of information and interaction has already been won by “the individual”. Organizations, governments, and universities that have not yet recognized this may continue to limp along for a while…but their current stance is not tenable. - By Rob Jacklin
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100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teaching Students About Social Media | Teaching Degree.org
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Discovery Student Adventures, about to embark to China.
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book by my friend @jepecke http://ftcpublishing.com/
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Science in Action » Learning with the Funnies
Learning w/ the Funnies
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On the Deaths of Peter Pan & the Beauty Queen | Jimboland Jots
This week, Generation Xers faced an inevitable rite of passage: the death of two of their popular and iconic figures, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Fittingly, Twitter reported that nearly 1/3 of its tweets were about Michael Jackson’s death, and there are rumors that Google slowed down because of all of the searchers seeking news.
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iPhone 3G dangly earrings by picnicbybarbfeldman on Etsy
Just what you always wanted… iPhone earrings! Thanks @kathyshrock
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Discovery Educator Network group favorite links are here.
Jun 27
Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.
Jun 26
These are my links for June 23rd through June 26th:
- Programs for Educators Tips for Teachers Development for Educators -
- Discovery Education Feedback - Group | Diigo - New site feedback
- Watch Free Documentaries - SnagFilms - SnagFilms.com is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we?re also a platform that lets you ?snag? a film and put it anywhere on the web. With a library of over 550 films, and rapidly growing, you?re bound to find films that resonate with your interests. We make it easy for you to find a film that shines a light on a cause you care about. You can then open a virtual movie theater on any web site, so any one can watch your favorite SnagFilms for free.
Via Mr. Byrne
Jun 25
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from drop.io - this site sets up an online collaboration page
Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.
Jun 23
Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.
Jun 22
These are my links for June 22nd:
- Jenuine Tech.com — WELCOME -
- Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship - Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcitizenship.net%2FNine_Elements.html
- Posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email. - Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email.
- How to Use Alltop to Add Content to Your Website, Blog, and Feed Reader -
Jun 22
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Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
- Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. - By Fred Delventhal
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Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.
Jun 21
These are my links for June 19th through June 21st:
- Lifehacker - Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Mac Downloads - Lifehacker Pack 2009 -
- Lifehacker - Lifehacker’s Firefox Add-On Packs - Lifehacker add-on packs -
- Create your own printable magazines and eBooks | zinepal.com - Use zinepal.com to create your own magazines and eBooks. You can select content from blogs, Atom/RSS feeds and other websites. zinepal.com reformats the content into a printable PDF and an eBook for use with the Amazon Kindle and other eBook readers. Now you can take your content wherever you go. Read your zine during your commute, in the park or your favorite coffee shop. You can also e-mail it to your friends or just let them subscribe to your zine feed on zinepal.com.
Jun 21
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Presentation Zen: Learning from the art of comics
Applying the amplification-through-simplification concept from Scott McCloud’s book, Understanding Comics: The invisible Art
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Read, Click and Win with BookAdventure!
This could be a great parallel for AR. Maybe over the summer?
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Ask questions and get live answers from your friends and their friends by email or IM
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Shape Collage - Free Automatic Photo Collage Maker
Free, very interesting collage creation tool for all platforms.
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- Follow the timeline as the International Space Station is constructed. - By Dean Mantz
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Photo: free photo and free stock photo - Photoxpress
Collection of free stock photos for projects, presentations, etc. Almost 400k images to date.
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The nine tribes of the internet | Pew Internet & American Life Project
This talk explores the latest findings of the Pew Internet & American Life Project about broadband adoption and wireless connectivity and looks at why government agencies, associations, activists, and businesses should use varied digital strategies to serve the needs of different tribes of technology users.
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smub access - Lifehacker - LiberKey Installs 200+ Portable Applications - Portable Applications
Great selection of downloadable, free applications that might be useful for students, families, teachers, etc. if installed on thumb drives and given away.
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News Monitoring and World News Statistics - Geographical Media
Geographical Media is a news monitoring tool designed to make it easy to follow news and find statistics about the people, places and other things you are most interested in. We read thousands of news articles a day from news sources from all around the world and identify who, what and where they are about.
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kickfly: make virtual scenes with photos, music, and more
Creates 3D displays of images
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happy :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning
This is a great way to view how words relate. Excellent idea for Six Traits - Word Choice.
- This is a great way to view how words relate. Excellent idea for Six Traits - Word Choice. - By eva harvell
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Forty One Interesting Ways (and tips) to use your Interactive Whiteboard - Google Docs
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Educational Leadership:Revisiting Teacher Learning:A Framework for Learning to Teach
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Educational Leadership:Revisiting Teacher Learning:Brain-Friendly Learning for Teachers
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FRONTLINE: digital nation: video - education in the digital age | PBS
Worth a look!
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Discovery Educator Network group favorite links are here.
Jun 20
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Becta Emerging Technologies - The tribes of mobile gadgeteers
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has produced The Mobile Difference, a report into the gadget preferences and mobile lifestyles of groups within the US population. The report defines two sets of five cohorts.
Adults ‘Motivated by Mobility’ (39%):
Adults who are the ‘Stationary Media Majority’ (61%):
Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.
Jun 19
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Create your own printable magazines and eBooks | zinepal.com
Use zinepal.com to create your own magazines and eBooks. You can select content from blogs, Atom/RSS feeds and other websites. zinepal.com reformats the content into a printable PDF and an eBook for use with the Amazon Kindle and other eBook readers. Now you can take your content wherever you go. Read your zine during your commute, in the park or your favorite coffee shop. You can also e-mail it to your friends or just let them subscribe to your zine feed on zinepal.com.
- Use zinepal.com to create your own magazines and eBooks. You can select content from blogs, Atom/RSS feeds and other websites. zinepal.com reformats the content into a printable PDF and an eBook for use with the Amazon Kindle and other eBook readers. Now you can take your content wherever you go. Read your zine during your commute, in the park or your favorite coffee shop. You can also e-mail it to your friends or just let them subscribe to your zine feed on zinepal.com. - By Fred Delventhal
Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.
Jun 18
These are my links for June 17th through June 18th:
Jun 18
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How well do Netbooks work with Web apps? | Webware - CNET
via coolcatteacher
- via coolcatteacher - By Fred Delventhal
Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.
