25 websites featuring awesome virtual learning experiences.
The Top 100 Web Sites of 2009 - Undiscovered: Apps - Reviews by PC Magazine
“Our picks for the hottest Web sites and Web trends of the year, plus some old favorites to enjoy.”
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Using Google Docs in the Classroom
We’ve heard many ingenious ways that teachers have used Google Docs in the classroom. Here are just a few:
* Promote group collaboration and creativity by having your students record their group projects together in a single doc.
* Keep track of grades, attendance, or any other data you can think of using an easily accessible, always available spreadsheet.
* Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging students to write in a document shared with you. You can check up on their work at any time, provide insight and help using the comments feature, and understand better each students strengths.
* Create quizzes and tests using spreadsheets forms, your students’ timestamped answers will arrive neatly ordered in a spreadsheet.
* Encourage collaborative presentation skills by asking your students to work together on a shared presentation, then present it to the class.
* Collaborate on a document with fellow teachers to help you all track the status and success of students you share.
* Maintain, update and share lesson plans over time in a single document.
* Track and organize cumulative project data in a single spreadsheet, accessible to any collaborator at any time.
* Promote group collaboration and creativity by having your students record their group projects together in a single doc.
* Keep track of grades, attendance, or any other data you can think of using an easily accessible, always available spreadsheet.
* Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging students to write in a document shared with you. You can check up on their work at any time, provide insight and help using the comments feature, and understand better each students strengths.
* Create quizzes and tests using spreadsheets forms, your students’ timestamped answers will arrive neatly ordered in a spreadsheet.
* Encourage collaborative presentation skills by asking your students to work together on a shared presentation, then present it to the class.
* Collaborate on a document with fellow teachers to help you all track the status and success of students you share.
* Maintain, update and share lesson plans over time in a single document.
* Track and organize cumulative project data in a single spreadsheet, accessible to any collaborator at any time. - By Fred Delventhal
ZaidLearn: Use Bloom’s Taxonomy Wheel for Writing Learning Outcomes
Good to remember with any mention of Bloom that these are stages before goals. Mastery in one necessitates the next.
Bad teachers tend to shoot for the highest and overshoot the others. These are developmental stages that must be passed from one to the next.
Bad teachers tend to shoot for the highest and overshoot the others. These are developmental stages that must be passed from one to the next. - By Fred Delventhal
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These are my links for July 28th through July 29th:
Bad teachers tend to shoot for the highest and overshoot the others. These are developmental stages that must be passed from one to the next.
Google Master Plan | by UnderGoogle
Funny, funny picture of how Google will rule the earth!
Dangerously Irrelevant: Top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy school administrators
Here are my top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy principals and superintendents (in no particular order). These are the TED presentations that I think are most likely to interest, educate, and entertain administrators - from Scott McLeod’s blog: Dangerously Irrelevant
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NZ Interface Magazine | Eight habits of highly effective 21st century teachers
We hear a lot about the 21st century learner – but what about the 21st century teacher? Andrew Churches investigates what makes them succeed. What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a successful 21st century educator? Well, we know they are student-centric, holistic, and they’re teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know, too, that
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These are my links for July 24th through July 27th:
Thirty-Nine Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom
How to Get Free Wi-Fi at Airports that Charge for Internet Connections | Wise Bread
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From Wikipedia, A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes. Moreover, most current Japanese mobile phones can read this code with their camera.
Awesome site for researching Ancient Texas Natives- Kristine Rebstock
iConnect iLearn in the 21st Century - Partially Funded Through Project Connect
Kevin Honeycutt’s Web 2.0 Keychain from Alicia Thomas
DedicatedTeacher.com: Quality Educational Materials
downloadable books for use in your classroom (pdf format) The books are at a lower cost then they would be if you bought them in a teacher store, plus you get credit toward a future purchase - Kendra Harper
avatars.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Create your own avatar : NOTE: emailing it will not work. You need to take a screen shot of your avatar. - Katie Warren
ClassJump.com - free websites for teachers
Classjump provides teachers with websites free of charge, where multiple classes can be managed, documents and photos uploaded, and web 2.0 tools added easily - Carolyn Rains
Math activities
Quintura for Kids is a visual and intuitive search engine for children”>
Top News - High-tech cheating? Students see it differently
DEN Blog Network » Highlights from the Den National Institute
Contraption.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Fun Physics based puzzle game…Debbie Wrobel
Connect with science- real chat and use a 600,000 microscope. - Erin Prosser
Add quizzes and polls to your online webinar.
twitcam \ Stream Live on Twitter
Stream live and chat via Twitter. Archives, embeddable, saves video/audio and Twitter chat.
DEN National Institute 2009 - Great Links and Ideas
Published page from the NI Google Doc spreadsheet
From Danielle Abernethy, some great differentiation stategies.
Dazzboard: Online Media Manager - dazzboard.com
Dazzboard provides an open media distribution platform to help manage, sync, discover and distribute any type of media with all your portable devices, PC and favorite social networks.
CamTweet: Share Live Video on Twitter - camtweet.com
CamTweet lets you share live video on Twitter. If you have a Twitter account then you already have a CamTweet account, just login to CamTweet with your Twitter username and password and you are all set.
Metaplace: Next-Generation Virtual World Platform - metaplace.com
Build a virtual apartment and put it on your website. Work with friends to make a huge MMORPG. Share your puzzle game with friends. The vision: to enable you build anything, and play everything, from anywhere.
5 TED Talks on Science That Will Blow Your Mind
Andrew Maynard is a scientist and emerging technology adviser. He blogs at 2020 Science and tweets as @2020science.
Some of the most entertaining, informative and mind-blowing science videos on the web come from TED – the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference. Challenged to give the “talk of their lives,” the world’s top scientists and science communicators have been dazzling audiences – many of whom are thought leaders, trend-setters and entertainers – for years now. Most of the best talks are now freely available on the internet, but sifting through hundreds of video clips to find the real gems can be hard going.
To make things easier, here are five of my favorite TED Talks on science. The selection rules were simple:
- Was I engaged within the first few seconds?
- Was I entertained, inspired and challenged?
- Would my kids understand the talk? and
- Together, do they tell a story?
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Park some Themes at Google | U Tech Tips
Google Documents just got more teeth — the introduction of themes makes creating a document online even easier.I’m a big fan of Google Documents, maybe t…
Make it an exciting new school year for your kids!
Docs (Integrating Google Tools 4 Teachers)
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Calendar app which lets you send colleagues/friends available dates for planning, parties, events and each person can choose which dates work for them.
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Last night we gave an introduction to hunts in Second Life. These hunts are great for several reasons:
Hunts usually work this way. You are given a starting point or slurl. There you find an information or notecard giver to get more info on the hunt. There may also be a group to join. This is where updates, changes and errors are posted so join it if you can. The group sometimes has a lot of chatter. This can either be helpful or annoying.
You will usually be looking for a particular shaped object. You will need to hunt and look around for that particular object till you find it. This can take a long time by yourself if the store or place is large. Best to team up and divide and conquer.
When you find the object click it or right click and buy it. They should be FREE. If it wants to charge you money then you have the wrong object. In the object will be the freebie(s) and a landmark to the next stop on the hunt. Some hunts are small with 5 or 6 freebies and others go well into the hundreds of freebies.
We looked primarily at the Just For The Guys Hunt that is going on right now across the grid from July 1 – July 31. We started with this page on the SLHunts blog http://slhunts.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/just-for-the-guys-hunt/ This tells us basic information about the hunt. What dates is it running. Where do we start. How many items are we looking for. What are you looking for.
We headed off to the KMadd Sim http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kmadd%20Enterprise/190/88/26 where the hunt is to start. We joined the group. Then started looking for the first fedora. The store was huge and we were running out of time. I searched for Just For The Guys Hunt hints and found this blog and found this http://huntlocations.blogspot.com/2009/06/just-for-men-hunt.html
Be sure not give away locations of the objects. You can give hints and if you are working with someone or a team use personal IM to tell but don’t use open chat as it ruins the fun for others.
A couple of other hunts we mentioned going on right now is the Cinderella’s Lost Slipper Hunt http://cinderellalostslipper.blogspot.com/
And the Slice Of Summer Hunt http://crystal.chiisana.net/SoS/index.php?instructions
You can keep track of all the hunts going on or upcoming on the SL Hunts blog.
Got a tip for hunting or have you found something good on a hunt? Share a picture on Flickr and then include a link in the comments.
This is cross posted on the DEN in Second Life Blog
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Shidonni World- virtual pets drawings come to life
Shidonni is an innovative startup, developing the next generation of creative ‘virtual’ worlds for kids.
Shidonni is providing a safe environment where kids and their parents can create imaginary worlds and animals, play games and interact with friends.
Shidonni is based on unique proprietary patented algorithms and using Microsoft Silverlight.
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These are my links for July 22nd:
It’s that easy to make free word search puzzles!
Eight Ways To Use School Wikis
The best way to explain this is to use examples of actual school wikis in use here in New York City:
DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms
A 6 way video chat program
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These are my links for July 21st:
Here are just a few of the benefits Profi.ly provides!
* Consolidate your profiles into a single identity!
* Easily distribute your profile information to friends! You only have one username to remember!!
* Claim, maintain and grow your personal brand. You’ve got a single identity accross all networks…
* No need to worry if your favorite username is taken on that new, hot network - you’ve already got the username you want!
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You become the predator, the hunter/huntress. You’re goal is to stalk your prey by using your eyes and your wits. You follow your prey clue after clue with each one comes a little reward but you want more. Team up to make it easier and more fun or go the hunt alone and rely on your own skills.
Join us on Wed., July 22 at 5 PM SLT (8PM Eastern) for the Predator/Prey workshop where you will learn about 3 hunts that are happening right now in Second Life. One hunt is just for the guys. Another hunt is for the ladies that fancy themselves a princess. The third hunt is for that perfect slice of summer.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/132/131/22
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