AKA Riptide Furse

These are my links for November 20th:

• The 7 Signs of a Leader - A Must Read - “Below are the 7 Signs of a Leader. How many of these do you believe you have? More importantly perhaps, do you look up to someone today that doesn’t have many of these traits? Are they really the person to look up to? The choices you make today and the people you surround yourself with will determine much of your path in life
• Make the Most of Firefox: 10 Top Jetpacks ? Web.AppStorm - “Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project that enables anyone who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create powerful Firefox add-ons. Our goal is to allow anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play.”
• Apple Learning Interchange - iPod touch. Touching student lives in the classroom. - “This exhibit is a collection of stories by some educators who have joined together to share in this vision. Using the techniques here, they have aimed to model these techniques to show what is possible. Please enjoy the exhibit and put it to good use. Together we can make mobile learning come to life and change the world of education one pocket and set of earbuds at a time!”
• freesound - “The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to

  * browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and more
  * up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
  * interact with fellow sound-artists!”

• Apple Learning Interchange - iPod touch. Touching student lives in the classroom.

  “This exhibit is a collection of stories by some educators who have joined together to share in this vision. Using the techniques here, they have aimed to model these techniques to show what is possible. Please enjoy the exhibit and put it to good use. Together we can make mobile learning come to life and change the world of education one pocket and set of earbuds at a time!”

  Tags: ipod, ipodtouch, ipod_touch, itouch, iphod, learning, education, classroom, teaching

  • - By Fred Delventhal

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

These are my links for November 18th through November 19th:

• Roundup: 15 Free Must-Install Programs for Your New PC -
• 100 Google Tricks for Teachers - “It’s Google’s world, we’re just teaching in it.”

  I still question just how useful list of 100 items really is. At some point doesn’t it just become an exercise in finding 100 things? - Riptide

• Discovery Box Homepage - via Jennifer Dormann

• Help w/ IWB and Doc Camera - The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution

  social networking site for smartboards

  Tags: networking, social_networking, resource

  • - By Sandy Munnell

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

• PhotoPeach - free photo slideshows with music

  Add audio, video and still images - doesn’t have the flair of Animoto, but pretty solid for the kinds of videos we do in social studies for public service announcements.

  Tags: tool, slideshow, photos, web2.0, presentation, photography

  • - By Sandy Munnell

• Discovery Box Homepage

  via Jennifer Dormann

  Tags: box, discovery, education, science, museumbox, collection

  • - By Fred Delventhal

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

These are my links for November 16th through November 17th:

• Seenly -
• YouTube - experiencere’s Channel -
• Google Docs (Google Workshops For Educators) - via Jackie Gerstein
• SMART Technologies ULC - Share Your Insights Video Contest - “Simply create a 1 to 3 minute video explaining why you enjoy using the SMART Board and SMART Notebook software and the impact they have had on you and your students. Enter your video into our contest and you could win SMART products.”

• Widgetbox › World’s best place to find and make web widgets

  fun widgets for your web pages

  Tags: tool, tools, widget, web, blogging

  • - By Sandy Munnell

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

• Wordle - educational uses

  Tags: wordle, classroom, education, learning, words, languagearts, visuals

• SMART Technologies ULC - Share Your Insights Video Contest

  “Simply create a 1 to 3 minute video explaining why you enjoy using the SMART Board and SMART Notebook software and the impact they have had on you and your students. Enter your video into our contest and you could win SMART products.”

  Tags: smart, iwb, education, interactivewhiteboards, teacher, teaching, contest, video, smartboard

  • - By Fred Delventhal

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

These are my links for November 14th through November 15th:

• FuntasticFace.com - How do you want to look today? -
• BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams - “In Denmark, the government has taken the bold step of allowing pupils full access to the internet during their final school year exams.”
• TopTen for Young Learners - All the Best! - Thanks @glovely

• TopTen for Young Learners - All the Best!

  Thanks @glovely

  Tags: web2.0, tools, technology, primary, education, learning, teaching

  • - By Fred Delventhal

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

These are my links for November 12th through November 13th:

• AudioComedy.net: Funny Answering Machine Messages -
• Funny answering machine messages - Austin powers - Spock - Monty Python - Star Trek - 911 - Captain Picard -
• Funny Answering Machine Messages -
• Stykz - The first multi-platform stick figure animation program - “Stykz is the first multi-platform stick figure animation program in the world (as far as we know!), and it is COMPLETELY FREE!”

• Online Survey Software, Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Enterprise Feedback Management, Employee Surv - Qualtrics

  Online Survey Software, Enterprise Survey Software for Enterprise Feedback Management and CRM solutions. Enables high-quality data collection, panel management and results analysis for Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Employee Surveys, etc. Perfect for market research or CRM solution (Customer Relationship Management) integration. Free trial and consultation. ##Home##

  Tags: diigo, survey, software, online

  • - By Heather Hurley

• Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick

  Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. Discussing a new idea? Taking notes? Giving feedback? Voicing opinion? Wishing a happy birthday? Now do all that easily with Wallwisher wall and some stickies.

  Tags: diigo, web2.0, Collaboration, stickies, noticeboard, wallwisher

  • - By Heather Hurley

• Tagul - Gorgeous tag clouds

  Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page

  Tags: diigo, visualization, wordle, Tagcloud, wordcloud, cloud, tagul

  • - By Heather Hurley

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

• gl·am - Link Group Service

  More than tinyurl.com, this site lets you create a list of links, create a tutorial for others to use, build website collections

  Tags: web2.0, tool, tools, url, bookmarking, link

  • - By Sandy Munnell

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.

These are my links for November 7th through November 9th:

• 50 Google Charts Tricks for Your Next Classroom Presentation - via Dean Mantz
• Google Voice Quick Reference Guide | Cool Geex -
• 10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com - “Enter technology. Technology can help bring some excitement and creativity to the traditional book report while still displaying students understanding of reading.”
• The Electric Educator: Google-Proof Questioning: A New Use for Bloom’s Taxonomy -

• 10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com

  “Enter technology. Technology can help bring some excitement and creativity to the traditional book report while still displaying students understanding of reading.”

  Tags: technology, bookreports, projects, education

  • - By Fred Delventhal

Posted from Diigo. The rest of APS ITCs group favorite links are here.