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These are my links for November 30th:

• Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship - Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship
• Learn new Vocabulary and expresions -
• Free Twitter Backgrounds - Twitter Themes -
• Notify me when it’s up! -
• The Clever Sheep: 14 Tools to Teach about Creative Commons - Besides providing access to hundreds of thousands of media works that can be used to augment the creative process, the Creative Commons offers a legitimate way for students to license their own creative works, be they audio, video, text or hybrid products.
• Openzap - A steady stream of links from cool people using social networks - What is Openzap? Discover and vote for photos // videos // live shows // comics // artists // presentations // how to // new stuff // Everything!

Here is a link to the music that was posted during the month of March 2008. Please let me know if you have any problems with the download.

366 Days of Music March Full Album

music, free music, podcast safe music, mp3, album,

#333 11-30-08.mp3

podcast safe music, music, free, free music, mp3

• Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)

  Tags: google, search, reference, cheatsheet, howto, guide, web, technology, education

• one word. so little time.

  Tags: education, writing, poetry, thinking, language, interesting, fun, literature

• ReadWriteThink: Student Materials

  Tags: literacy, writing, interactive, reading, resources, education, tools, technology, learning, classroom

• Cornell Notetaking Method Custom PDF Generator

  Tags: notetaking, productivity, notes, pdf, tools, education, learning

• What Should I Read Next?

  Enter a book, CD or DVD that you enjoyed and the site will analyse our database
  of real users’ preferences to suggest other books, CDs or DVDs that you might like.
  It’s a bit like browsing the shelves of thousands of friends at once!

  Tags: books, music, social, cd, film, recommendations, search, social_networking

• Learnenglish Kids home

  LearnEnglish Kids is for children who are learning English. Find games, songs, stories and lots of activities - and learn English too.

  Tags: english, languagearts, elementary, ell, esol, games, fun, songs, story, stories, writing

• Widgetbox

  World’s largest widget directory and gallery - web widgets for Facebook apps, Blogger, TypePad, MySpace, Wordpress and more — Make your own widgets for websites, blogs, wikis, and Google Sites.

  Tags: widgets, web2.0, widget, tools, blog, web, Google

• Podlinez - Podcasts On Any Phone

  Podlinez is a free service that lets you listen to podcasts on your phone.

  Enter the RSS feed URL for a podcast in the box above to get a phone number you can call to hear it, or browse our directory for a number to try. If your favorite podcast isn’t already in our directory, you can add it immediately and it’ll be available to call within minutes.

  Tags: podcast, mobile, audio, podcasting, podcasts, web2.0

• Foonz - Free Conference Calls and Group Calls

  It’s Easy.

  With foonz you can get a group of people on a call instantly or leave them all a message from your cell or home phone, anytime, without pre-planning.

  There are a million reasons to use foonz! Talk with a team or club, have a family call, or just find out what all your friends are up to!

  It’s easy to get started:

  1. Sign up with foonz.
  2. Add people to your foonz contact list.
  3. Dial your personal “foonz number”.

  You’ll then be prompted to start a free group call or leave a group message!

  Tags: conference, collaboration, groups, Phones, tools, mobile, voip, conferences

• Clipperz - online password manager

  Tags: security, password, tools, web2.0, passwords, encryption, manager, privacy

• educational-origami » Bloom’s and ICT tools

  It’s my experience that people forget that these are a learning process and not better over worse ways to teach.

  Tags: bloom, taxonomy, tech_integration, assessment, blooms, rubrics, techlearning, educationalorigami

  • Bloom’s and Revised Bloom’s give us a learning process.

• Protonotes: HTML prototyping collaboration tool.

  Tags: protonotes, collaboration, web2.0, annotation, tools, prototyping, notes, webapps

• web 2.0 Logo Creator Online. Design and Create Free Logos

  Tags: logo, web2.0, generator, logos, creator, webdesign, Graphics, technology

• Grade Level Chart of 21st Century Literacies Lessons

  Tags: 21stcenturyskills, literacies, lessons

• MoFuse: Create a Mobile Website, Mobile Site Builder, .mobi Compliant

  Tags: mobile, mofuse, blog, tools, webdesign, web, tool, website

• Welcome to Bubble Joy Video Greeting Cards

  Bubble Joy is a great new video greeting card service that allows you to send richly interactive and fun video greeting cards to all your friends and family.

  Tags: greeting, webcam, fun, cards, ecards, webcams, e-cards, video

  • from Meg Ormiston and a Tweet from Lori Abrahams - By Fred Delventhal

• Voicethread 4 Education » home

  The purpose of this wiki is to gather examples of how educators are using Voicethread in their classrooms (or for professional development) and to share those examples.

  Tags: Voicethread, education, storytelling, digital_storytelling, writing, languagearts, wiki

• SpinandSpell.com

  via http://annemarie80.edublogs.org/

  Tags: spelling, smartboard, education, students, languagearts, elementary, iwb

• Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers

  Forvo is an online pronouncing dictionary. We want to have all the words that exist in the world pronounced and recorded, including names.

  Tags: language, pronunciation, dictionary, reference, audio, languages, words

• :: e-Learning for Kids ::

  Children from 5-12 build and improve basic skills with the best quality e-learning courseware.

  :: Parents and educators have a pre-screened source of articles, research, and related links.

  :: People in the business of education contribute their expertise.

  via Dianne Krause

  Tags: elearning, math, education, interactive, smartboard, languagearts, science

• Penny Postcards

  Old postcards from all 50 states.

  Tags: postcards, photos, history, SocialStudies

• TextFlow

  Parallel word processing

  Tags: textflow, collaboration, education, documents, technology

• 4Kids.org

  Fun interactive games for students to use. Both math and language arts.

  Tags: 4kids.org, resources, interactive, games, math, languagearts

• Marking work in Google Docs | ICT in my Classroom

  What is the best way to give feedback on a piece of work produced in Google Docs? What formatting tools are most appropriate to use when leaving comments? How do you organise 30 to 60 pieces of work handed in to you? How do children hand in work? What new possibilities does this process uncover?

  Tags: writing, feedback, googledocs, teaching, google, marking, ict, assessment, learning, education, technology, classroom

  • What is the best way to give feedback on a piece of work produced in Google Docs? What formatting tools are most appropriate to use when leaving comments? How do you organise 30 to 60 pieces of work handed in to you? How do children hand in work? What new possibilities does this process uncover?

• Home - PhotoFunia

  Fun photo generator. Put your face in picture.

  Tags: photos, fun, image, Tools, graphics, photoshop, specialeffects, photofunia, images

• Animasher - animate your photos

  This is a place where you make animations

  Tags: animation, digitalstorytelling, graphics, mashup, cartoon, generator, fun

• stinto | your chat - Disposable Chat Rooms

  stinto offers you a comfortable, yet also easy to use chat, which you can create with one click and which will be deleted after a longer period of inactivity.

  * Conferences with business partners
  * Planning for the evening with friends
  * Clanmeetings
  * Nice discussions
  * stinto is the right choice for every reason!

  Tags: chat, backchannel, chatrooms, disposable

  • Disposable chat rooms - By Fred Delventhal

• Karaokeparty.com - Free Online Karaoke Party Game

  Might be some great holiday entertainment here!

  Tags: karaoke, music, songs

• Melt Mail. Your temporary e-mail forwarding.

  Tags: forwarding, security, privacy, email

• Andrew Zuckerman: Wisdom

  Tags: wisdom, zuckerman, video, learning, education

• ReadWriteThink - Printing Press

  Create a Newspaper, Brochure, Booklet, or Flyer

  Tags: ReadWriteWeb, education, newspaper, brochure, flyer, booklet, creator, students

• tarpipe

  Automate your publishing
  Create publishing workflows that can be triggered by e-mail messages, instant messaging updates and third-party applications.

  Share content easily
  Use our share form to easily publish content on several social media destinations, including twitter, Jaiku, Pownce and FriendFeed.

  Tags: Web2.0, mashup, tarpipe, share, social, api, tools, evernote, for:edtechtalk

• Twuffer - Schedule Twitter tweets.

  Tags: twitter, tweets, twuffer, schedule, tools, filter, buffer

• Shmoop US History: Analysis Dates, People, Places, Cram Sheets

  Tags: shmoop, education, history, classroom, learning

• Live Mesh Beta

   

  With Live Mesh, you can synchronize files with all of your devices, so you always have the latest versions handy. Access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file.

  Working on one computer, but need a program from another? No problem. Use Live Mesh to connect to your other computer and access its desktop as if you were sitting right in front of it.

  Live Mesh is as easy as sync , share , and access .

  Tags: storage, sharing, sync, synchronization, files, filesharing, multiplatform, for:edtechtalk

  • Like DropBox but with 5gb of space. - By Fred Delventhal

• DoInk.com

  Enjoy, discuss, and create animations

  Tags: animation, doink, cartoons, education, technology, digital_storytelling, learning

• Deadline: Home

  Tags: deadline, calendar, reminders, web2.0, tools, date, productivity, education, technology

• zotero Quick Start Guide

  Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.

  Tags: zotero, bibliography, education, citation, research, Firefox, add-on, technology

• Most Common English Words Quiz

  Tags: words, vocabulary, quiz

• SUMO PAINT

  Tags: paint, graphics, images, painting, draw, drawing, education, free

• Dangerously Irrelevant: Teaching administrators about Wikipedia

  This is a great blog post to use to frame a discussion about the educational applications for Wikipedia and the importance of teaching media literacy.

  Tags: wikipedia, education, media_literacy, students, learning, technology

  • Our students deserve better training about how to navigate our new, complex, online information landscape. They don’t learn about information literacy, bias, media literacy, assessment of online validity, and other critical online skills by being denied access to that information. They don’t learn how to cite and use online resources appropriately if they can’t use those resources and learn from their mistakes because the materials are banned.

• In Case You Missed It: Assessments for Learning: a Briefing on Performance-Based Assessments :: The Forum for Education and Democracy

  ““Learning requires creating active patterns in the brain,” said Baker. “We’re working with people with functional MRIs as they learn particular things and it’s really different from taking multiple choice tests. It isn’t just our allegation. It turns out to be physiologically different.” Baker went on to describe how teachers scoring demonstrations could be taught to eliminate subjectivity and bias and how technology was making the use of performance-based assessments more cost effective.”

  Tags: education, PBL, Project_Based_Learning, research, study, learning, technology

• “Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project” (pdf)

  “New media allow for a degree of freedom and autonomy for youth that is less apparent in classroom setting. Youth respect one another’s authority online, and they are often more motivated to learn from peers than from adults. Their efforts are also largely self-directed, and the outcome emerges through exploration, in contrast to classroom learning that is oriented toward set, predefined goals.”

  Tags: youth, findings, MacArthur_Foundation, students, education, learning, technology, 21st_century_skills, 21stCentury, classroom

• Google Docs Templates

  Do you use Google Docs? If so, check out the Google Docs templates. The extensive gallary templates includes options for Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, and Forms.

  Tags: GoogleDocs, Google, Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms, templates, gallary, education, productivity, collaboration

• The Brian Shaler Blog / / Twitter Security Issue

  If you are a Twitter user this blog post is a MUST read!

  Tags: twitter, security, password, malicious, attack, privacy, education, technology, microblog

• National Day of Listening

  StoryCorps is declaring November 28, 2008 the first annual National Day of Listening.

  This holiday season, ask the people around you about their lives — it could be your grandmother, a teacher, or someone from the neighborhood. By listening to their stories, you will be telling them that they matter and they won’t ever be forgotten. It may be the most meaningful time you spend this year.

  Tags: education, NPR, StoryCorps

• Snack Tectonics

  Tags: tectonics, plate, science, education, interactive, lesson, activity

  • Student activity to demonstrate plate tectonics visually and interactively. - By Dean Mantz

• Kids’ Letters to President Obama ‎(kidsletterstopresidentobama‎)

  Kids’ Letters to President Obama

  Would you like to see your letter to President Barack Obama published in a book?

  If you are between the ages of 5 and 15, you can write a letter to President Obama that will be published in a book by Random House.

  The book is Kids’ Letters to President Obama, edited by Bill Adler.

  Tags: book, letters, writing, students, elementary, president, obama, classroom, publish

• GreatSummary - Summarize a Document

  GreatSummary can summarize text from web pages or text pasted from another document.

  Tags: summary, summarize, mainidea, filter, for:edtechtalk

• FeedVis: top 50 edublogs

  Tags: rss, feeds, blogs, education, bloggers, lists, top50

• ZunaVision

  With ZunaVision you can easily “embed” pictures, logos, and videos within your own videos.

  Tags: movies, editing, videos, embed, content, create

  • Very cool! You need to check this out. Take an editable clip and embed your school logo or something else into a film. - By Fred Delventhal

• YouTube - Networked Student

  Tags: video

Posted from Diigo. The rest of Discovery Educator Network group favorite links are here.

These are my links for November 29th:

• DRAWMINOS -
• Langwitches » Using the SmartBoard to create Personalized Stories -
• HOW TO: Convert Your Blog Into a Podcast on iTunes for Free - Easy 10-Step Setup Guide for Text-to-Speech Conversion for Blogs Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2008%2F11%2F28%2Fhow-to-convert-your-blog-into-a-podcast-on-itunes-for-free

#332 11-29-08.mp3

Technorati Tags: podcast safe music, music, free, free music, mp3

These are my links for November 28th:

• delizzy - del.icio.us Bookmarks Search Engine - del.izzy lets you search through all content, including title, description and page content, for all your bookmarks.
• Soundflavor | Music Videos | Online Music | Video Playlist | Friendster Playlist | Myspace, Facebook Playlists - Make, play, and share music video playlists on the web

  Soundflavor helps you make great music video playlists to play, share with friends, and post on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, blogs, and other websites, using our Video Jukebox?!

  Upload your playlists from iTunes and Soundflavor will automatically convert them into video playlists.

  Make ?one-click? video playlists based on the ?sound? of any song or artist you know and love.

• Educational Origami - Powered By Bloglines -
• educational-origami » Bloom’s and ICT tools - It’s my experience that people forget that these are a learning process and not better over worse ways to teach. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fedorigami.wikispaces.com%2FBloom%2527s%2Band%2BICT%2Btools

#331 11-28-08.mp3

Technorati Tags: podcast safe music, music, free, free music, mp3

These are my links for November 27th:

• Live Mesh Beta - With Live Mesh, you can synchronize files with all of your devices, so you always have the latest versions handy. Access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file.

  Working on one computer, but need a program from another? No problem. Use Live Mesh to connect to your other computer and access its desktop as if you were sitting right in front of it.

  Live Mesh is as easy as sync , share , and access .

• tarpipe - Automate your publishing
  Create publishing workflows that can be triggered by e-mail messages, instant messaging updates and third-party applications.

  Share content easily
  Use our share form to easily publish content on several social media destinations, including twitter, Jaiku, Pownce and FriendFeed.

• Shmoop Literature: Summary, Analysis, Themes, Characters, Paper - Shmoop wants to help you become a better lover (of literature and history). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time.

  Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.

• Pipes: Twitter Friends - Show your Twitter friends on a map that can be easily added to your blog’s sidebar. There’s more information at http://www.mmmeeja.com/blog/social-networking/twitter-followers-map.html

  via @cnansen

• DearIE6 - So Long - So what’s this all about? Well we think IE6 has run its course, so do many others as you can see.
  This is a place for you to say your parting words to IE6, and bid it farewell goodbye.

  Wanna say goodbye? Great, simply follow DearIE6 and send your goodbye as a @DearIE6 reply… we’ll look after the rest

• Adjix - Shorten a long link
  Adjix is a way for people to create short links to Web sites, earn revenue, and track clicks.
• Wii in my Classroom | ICT in my Classroom -

I have put together an zip file of the all of the songs from February. Some of the songs may be repeated due to some of them being renamed by readers of the blog. Let me know if you have any problems with the download.

366 Days of Music February.zip

podcast safe music, music, free, free music, mp3

#330 11-27-08.mp3

podcast safe music, music, free, free music, mp3

These are my links for November 26th:

• DoInk.com | Home - DoInk is a place to enjoy art and animation, and make your own. Have a great idea, but can’t draw? No problem. Are you an amazing artist, and want to share your talent with the world? We love you. You can do both? There’s an audience here for you! So if you want to be entertained, learn something new, or create something fun, do it on DoInk.
• m o v i e l e n s - movie recommendations - Free, personalized, non-commercial, ad-free, great movie recommendations.
  Have questions? Take the MovieLens Tour for answers.
• Taste Kid | Find similar music (artists, bands), movies, books - I am Emmy and I currently live in Romania. Some call me TasteKid ^^

  Although I’m young, I’m very interested in music, movies and books. I’ve currently heard about over 20,000 bands, more than 20,000 movies and some 15,000 books.

  Recently, my developer, Andrei Oghin?, started a blog about me, called Taste Kid’s Journey.

• What Should I Read Next? - Enter a book, CD or DVD that you enjoyed and the site will analyse our database
  of real users’ preferences to suggest other books, CDs or DVDs that you might like.
  It’s a bit like browsing the shelves of thousands of friends at once!
• Sling.com - Enjoy full episodes and clips from your favorite television and online shows, from A to Z.
• Grade Level Chart of 21st Century Literacies Lessons - Lesson Grade Level Chart

  Which lessons are appropriate for your students?

  All schools are probably teaching many of the information literacy skills found in this body of lessons. Usually, individual teachers will tackle the process of plugging the gaps in their curriculum when an issue or opportunity arises. A sixth grade teacher may see the need to review note taking, while a high school teacher needs to re-introduce Boolean operators and review Citing Sources. Eventually, schools and districts will attempt to make sure the skills covered in these lessons are integrated into the K-12 curriculum.

  As a teacher, you can begin by looking at the chart below to see which lessons are appropriate for the age and abilities of the students you teach.

• Learnenglish Kids home - LearnEnglish Kids is for children who are learning English. Find games, songs, stories and lots of activities - and learn English too.
• keyboardr - Search multiple sites at once.
• Power Nap | NapSounds -

#329 11-26-08.mp3

Technorati Tags: podcast safe music, music, free, free music, mp3

National Day of Listening

Jennifer Dorman is such a great resource for websites. I just got this from one of her recent bookmarks.

StoryCorps is declaring November 28 National Day of Listening.

In a nutshell it’s all about listening to other people tell their stories. No matter who you spend the holiday with everyone has a story. Take some time to capture their story before it is lost forever.

I remember growing up that I would spend most of the time in the kitchen with my mom and her sisters. They would tell the best stories about the time they had growing up. I wish they had made recording as easy as it is today. I would have our personal family stories to listen to over and over again. Family members would be able to listen to our own “Running with Scissors” story or “Down the Clothes Chute” story and even “The Never-Ending Stuffing the Turkey” story.

So don’t let those stories get away from you. It is too easy when you think about it. Use your computer or your phone or your mp3 device to get those stories this Thanksgiving and each one annually from now on.

They have Do It Yourself guides along with question generators. There is also a teachers’ toolkit and a library toolkit.

Some tools to use might include:

VoiceThread
Gabcast
Gcast

On my iPhone I have at least 3 different voicerecording apps that were free.

Do you know of any other ways that will make it easy to capture these stories? Let us know in the comments.

Technorati Tags: NPR, learn, participate, listen, share, storycorps, storytelling, recording, podcast

These are my links for November 25th:

• National Day of Listening -
• GreatSummary - Summarize a Document - GreatSummary can summarize text from web pages or text pasted from another document.
• Deadline: Home - Deadline is the simplest calendar ever made. You write in plain English, and it will set up a reminder for you.

  Once your appointments have been entered, you can quickly search through them based on words or dates.

• one word. so little time. - simple. you’ll see one word at the top of the following page.

  you have sixty seconds to write about it.

  as soon as you click ‘go’ the page will load with the cursor in place.

  don’t think. just write.

• http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=110 -
• Safe Search Web. Google SafeSearch and other safe search engines for family. - SafeSearch Web features safe links for those who want to search the internet without the risk of inappropriate material being viewed. Enter your search term utilize Google SafeSearch.

  No search filter can replace parental supervision when it comes to children on the internet, but every little bit helps. You can also customize your computer settings to increase safe search filtering.

• Melt Mail. Your temporary e-mail forwarding. - Have you ever downloaded a software, where you have to register with your e-mail to receive the activation-code or the download-link?

  Have you ever registered to a forum with your real e-mail, just to post one question?

  There are a lot of such scenarios. And in each one, you give your real e-mail address and get tons of junk-mail as a thankyou.

• Podiobooks.com - Serialized audio books in podcast form - Free serialized audio books, delivered on your schedule
• Trade My Used DVDs like a Book Exchange Online or SWAP Video Games to get FREE CDs | PLUS reviews, ratings, news and more! | www.SwitchPlanet.com -
• mShopper? - Use your cell phone to find the lowest online prices for any in-store item in seconds.
• Kids’ Letters to President Obama ?(kidsletterstopresidentobama?) - Kids’ Letters to President Obama

  Would you like to see your letter to President Barack Obama published in a book?

  If you are between the ages of 5 and 15, you can write a letter to President Obama that will be published in a book by Random House.

  The book is Kids? Letters to President Obama, edited by Bill Adler.

• Foonz - Free Conference Calls and Group Calls - It’s Easy.

  With foonz you can get a group of people on a call instantly or leave them all a message from your cell or home phone, anytime, without pre-planning.

  There are a million reasons to use foonz! Talk with a team or club, have a family call, or just find out what all your friends are up to!

  It’s easy to get started:

  1. Sign up with foonz.
  2. Add people to your foonz contact list.
  3. Dial your personal ?foonz number?.

  You’ll then be prompted to start a free group call or leave a group message!

• Podlinez - Podcasts On Any Phone - Podlinez is a free service that lets you listen to podcasts on your phone.

  Enter the RSS feed URL for a podcast in the box above to get a phone number you can call to hear it, or browse our directory for a number to try. If your favorite podcast isn’t already in our directory, you can add it immediately and it’ll be available to call within minutes.

• 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts | Fonts | Smashing Magazine -
• Atomic Learning’s Tech Skills Assessment: Assess Student Tech Literacy - Movies -
• Top 100 budget-friendly Cyber Monday sites -