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Image * After – currently 20460 free textures and images available
Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.
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coComment – Join the conversation
track your comments across web pages
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AERA SIG Communication of Research :: Ejournals in Education
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GeoGebra is a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. It received several international awards including the European and German educational software awards.
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Online Mind Mapping – MindMeister
Mind Mapping/brainstorming tool. Good academic rates for all features version–$15/year.
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alphaDictionary * The Most Often Misspelled Words in English
The Ultimate Language Resource on the Web.
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Interactive Whiteboard Resources
To get started pick a subject, then an age group from the menu on the left.
We’ve been working hard to feature the best educational resources which work well on interactive whiteboards in the classroom. The resources are organised by subject, age group and category to make them easy for you to find. We are constantly updating the web sites listed here to ensure that they are current.
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2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools
Welcome to this Wikipedia Selection. This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words).
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Welcome to this Wikipedia Selection.
This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial
selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and
useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles
(as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the
size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million
words).
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Where to Find Free Images and Visual for My Blog
Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important article, essay or news report is already a challenge for many. Imagine when the goal is not only to find good images, but also to find some that you could openly and freely use without needing to pay royalties or one-time publishing rights…
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Start with the Pyramid: Real-World Issues Motivate Students | Edutopia
Advocates also say that the availability of technology that can call up the knowledge of the world’s best thinkers with the click of a mouse, that can graph in two seconds what once took hours, and that can put scientific instrumentation in a pocket-sized computer further argues for moving away from century-old models of instruction.
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Internet Search Engines for Kids
Here you will find search forms for the major Internet search engines for kids.
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Copyright & Fair Use in Teaching Resources — Center for Social Media at American University
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Zemanta ia a Firefox add-on that scans your content as you construct blog posts and suggests links, photos, related articles, and automatic tags for your post. I tried it out for the first time today and it was super easy to use and, I think, it adds some nice time-saving functionality to your blogging engine.
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Video: Teaching With Twitter – Chronicle.com
David Parry, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, talks about using Twitter, a new messaging service, for his courses.
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via http://www.ncs-tech.org/?p=2041
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A fun magnetic poetry activity.
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Blocking and Filtering and Lockdowns, Oh, My!: The Internet-Security Overreaction | Edutopia
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GROU.PS :: connects obsessively!
Choose your template and pick all the modules that you want (wiki, blogs, photos, links etc).
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PBL Research Summary: Studies Validate Project-Based Learning | Edutopia
A growing body of academic research supports the use of project-based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores. Those benefits are enhanced when technology is used in a meaningful way in the projects.
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A.nnotate.com lets you easily give, collect and store detailed notes on documents and web pages.
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Retaggr – your online presence everywhere
Consolidate your online presence into an interactive online business card
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Retaggr – your online presence everywhere
Displaying Your Card
* Feature rich interactive card fits naturally into your blog
* Shown on retaggr enabled sites when you interact
* Included in your email signature and forum posts- From Steve Dembo’s post on cleaning up the sidebar. – By Fred Delventhal
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paste text, click submit, and get a unique URL address to share
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Engage Your Audience | Text The Mob
The easiest and most entertaining way to collect feedback from your audience:
Project polls or message boards on a large screen, have everyone send their input via their cell phones and see results instantly! -
Twittering, Not Frittering: Professional Development in 140 Characters | Edutopia
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50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business | chrisbrogan.com
Blog post on Twitte use ideas.
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Wiggio – Makes it easy to work in groups.
Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: – keep shared calendar (with text message reminders) – poll group in real-time – send mass text messages – store files in one common folder – setup group conference call – many others! When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio is the best FREE tool on the web to help you organize groups like: – Academic project groups – Clubs, organizations, committees – Fraternities and sororities – Housemates and dormmates – TA sections – Sports teams – Musical and dance groups
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techLEARNING.com | Education for the 21st Century: The Basics
Almost ten years into the 21st century, schools try to promote new ways of teaching and learning and then evaluate how well their efforts have led to results. New insights emerge from research and observation all the time.
This eBook is designed to detail some of the aspects needed for students to learn new things in new ways so they can live and work in a changing world. We hope you will find it valuable as you work towards improving education in the 21st century.
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Group bookmarks, open sharing (invited members can invite other members)
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Stumbling Blocks: Playing It Too Safe Will Make You Sorry | Edutopia
How teachers are working around overprotective content filters to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.
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21 (Million) Educational Apps for iPhone Learners | Ace Online Schools
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Terrific post about how to coordinate and manage a powerful presentation backchannel
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21 Online Student Tools to Help with Research, Communication, and Organization | Educhoices.org
This is a terrific list of online applications.
- I am compiling a list of great online research tools on http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/Research2.0. – By Jennifer Dorman
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Communication
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Research
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Organization
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WengoPhone – call, talk, chat and share for free with anyone
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Twenty Minutes for Tech » Blog Archive » Skype is a Valuable Educational Tool
A chat with professionals from Skype. We debunk some of the common misconceptions and fears about using Skype in the K12 environment. Hopefully this chat will help allay some of the Tech Director and Administrators’ fears from allowing Skype usage on K12 district networks.
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Some college professors and campus services are using Twitter simply because it is a mode of direct communication with students that is reliable and fast. Those who use the technology to communicate directly with students note that they can receive responses in minutes rather than the hours it would take using e-mail or blogs. Additionally, this kind of technology is now being integrated into course management systems.
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IncrediBots – Online Robot Physics Game!
Hey there! Get ready for all sorts of wacky, physical fun – okay, more mental than physical, but there are physics involved – from the comforts of your computer chair! This is IncrediBots, and you’ll be building, guiding, jumping, and doing all sorts of wonderful things with your very own robots, spawned from the depths of your creativity, in a wide-open, physics-based playground!
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sPaste is a tool to help you quickly and securely send small snippets of data around the web. We give you options and advice, you decide how much security you need. Simply give us the text you wish to send, some info to secure it, and we’ll give you a secure URL which you can provide who ever you wish to send the data to.
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Global Politics | Essential Guide | BBC World Service
I saw this bookmark on Vicki Davis’ blog. This is a terrific resources for all teachers to use to contextualize the 21st century and help students understand their place in this world.
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Code of Best Practices in Fair use for Media Literacy Education
Finally The End To Copyright Confusion Has Arrived
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Paste your blog URL and Tylealyzer will identify your Myers Briggs profile.
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Ever wanted to have all your favourite internet sites just one click away and displayed with cool images on your own personal webpage? Then check out MyClusta. Sign Up Now! Its fast and free and we wont share any information.
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Beyond Red and Blue: 7 Ways to View the Presidential Election Map: Scientific American Slideshow
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Visualize your social bookmarks and clipmarks
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Geography From Space – Online Quiz
2008 Geography Awareness Quiz Nov 16- 22
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Majority of Kids Are Computer Savvy
An overwhelming majority (89%) of all kids age 6-11 in the US spend at least some time doing online activities and – though many of their basic social activities haven’t changed much over the years – they have vastly different communication styles and preferences than older age groups, according to a study from Experian Consumer Research.
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This video is one of a wonderful collection of videos showing the 2008 Students on Ice Expedition. It’s a great opportunity for any young person interested in the environment and the icy regions of the world. One of my students was on this trip!!!
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Discovery Educator Network group favorite links are here.
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