Filed Under (Daily Diigo Links) by Heather Hurley on 31-03-2009
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CO2 emissions, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time
A visual real-time simulation that displays the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, birth rates, and death rates of every country in the world.
Tags: environment, earth, visualization, science, maps, statistics, pollution
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38 Interesting ideas for IWB’s
Tags: Smartboard, iwb, whiteboard, interactive, resources, ideas
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Shahi – A visual dictionary | Blachan Lab
Tags: dictionary, visual, second language
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18 Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the Classroom – Google Docs
Tags: wordle, web2.0, education, resources, ‘web2.0, literacy, ideas
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Filed Under (Daily Diigo Links) by Heather Hurley on 30-03-2009
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The Sect of Homokaasu – The Rasterbator
Tags: tools, poster, graphics, photography, design, printing, resources
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Main Page – FreeMind – free mind mapping software
Tags: mindmap, software, mindmapping, tools, opensource
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Online Mind Mapping – MindMeister
Online Mind Mapping: MindMeister – free web-based collaborative mind mapping tool for brainstorming and project-managment
Tags: mindmap, web2.0, mindmapping, collaboration, tools, brainstorming
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Yaca Paca
Tags: quizzes, assessment, tests, teaching, web2.0, Tools
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Filed Under (Daily Diigo Links) by Heather Hurley on 29-03-2009
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OttoBib – Free Automatic Easy Bibliography Generator. Fast! MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian
Make a bibliography. It’s free, easy and OttoMatic.
Tags: tools, academic, bibliography, education, reference, citation, writing, research, citations
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Wize.com – Product Reviews From People like You
Wize reads millions of product reviews across the Web to bring the right products to you.
Tell us what you’re looking for, and we’ll do the rest.
Tags: shopping, product, ratings, research, review, aggregator, reference
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technologypd / Smartboards (Part 1)
SMART Board Training
Tags: smartboard, iwb, resources, smart, interactivewhiteboards
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State of the Art – Buying the Best Netbooks for the Least-Bad Compromises – NYTimes.com
A netbook is a laptop with a shrunken screen, an undersize keyboard and a processor that’s so slow, you’d have laughed at it in 2007. The netbooks’ crucial attractions are tiny dimensions, light weight and low cost, usually $350 to $500. Otherwise, they’re all about compromises.
Tags: netbooks, compromise, education, computers
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Filed Under (Daily Diigo Links) by Heather Hurley on 28-03-2009
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Filed Under (Daily Diigo Links) by Heather Hurley on 27-03-2009
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Create A Graph
Tags: math, graphs, graphing, tools, web2.0
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Learning Tools Directory
Tags: web2.0, tools, e-learning, learning, Resources, technology, elearning, education, directory, lists
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When every student has a laptop, why run computer labs? – Ars Technica
Tags: 1to1, computers, labs, students, one-to-one, laptops, budgets
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GoogleDocs new drawing feature
Tags: google, googledocs, drawing
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Filed Under (Daily Diigo Links) by Heather Hurley on 26-03-2009
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Welcome to Shelfari! Read, Share, Explore! – Shelfari
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Presentations ETC Homepage
Select from over 20,000 background slides for your next presentation. Most of the images are available in both 800×600 and 1024×768 sizes. Many of the backgrounds include transparent cutouts to layer over photographs. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 items in a single, non-commercial project without further permission.
Tags: backgrounds, themes, powerpoint, presentation, Keynote, graphics, Resources, templates, Presentations, Technology
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Filed Under (Daily Diigo Links) by Heather Hurley on 25-03-2009
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World Panoramic Photography – 360 Cities
Explore the world in panoramic photography. Travel with us, through 360 degree photos of places you know, and places where you have never been.
Tags: geography, photos, maps, photography, visualization, 360
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National Gallery of Art NGAkids Art Zone
Tags: collage, painting, interactive, art, create, creativity, paint, images
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http://www.pikikids.com
Tags: comics, cartoon, comic, education, web2.0, tools, pikikids, www.pikikids.com
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Story Starters | Scholastic.com
Ready to write? This Story Starter machine generates creative writing prompts. You never know how your story will start.
Tags: writing, elementary, scholastic.com, storystarter, teaching, tools, automatic story generator
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Ideas to Inspire!
Ideas for interactive and engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas. Contributed by teachers from all around the world.
Tags: inspire, technology, SMART, ideas
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101 Undiscovered Freebies: The List – PC World
Tags: freebies, webapps, undiscovered, freeware, software, Web2.0
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Digital Citizenship
Tags: citizenship, digital citizenship, statistics
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Education Week: Making Every Educator a Learning Educator
Tags: educator, professionaldevelopment, learning
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Effective professional learning is like a time-release capsule; its contents cannot be absorbed in a single day or week, but must be infused into the system over time to yield desired results in student achievement.
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The central office is critical to the success in these systems and others.
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Filed Under (Daily Diigo Links) by Heather Hurley on 25-03-2009
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101 Undiscovered Freebies: The List – PC World
tags: freebies, webapps, undiscovered, freeware, software, Web2.0
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http://www.pikikids.com
tags: comics, cartoon, comic, education, web2.0, tools, pikikids, www.pikikids.com
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Filed Under (Daily Diigo Links) by Heather Hurley on 24-03-2009
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Welcome to Absurd Math – Middle/High School
Tags: math, algebra, problemsolving, absurd
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Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Video Games
Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Video Games for Students and Teachers.
Tags: math, interactive, elementary, reading, education, technology
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Fantastic Flexible Foldables
Tags: mini books, foldables
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There’s Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
Tags: ipod, articles
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Makeup Photo! – Automatic online photo retouching
Make a person in your photo look like a model in a glossy magazine! Apply eye and skin makeup, whiten teeth, remove imperfections, and add a special touch to your photo with a dreamy soft focus effect. All enhancements are made automatically – just upload a photo and enjoy the magic change!
via Tim Childers
Tags: retouching, photography, photos, images
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Building successful teams a Catch-22 – Ars Technica
It’s one of the inevitabilities of modern corporate life: being stuck on a team that keeps discussing things you already know, unable to come to an agreement on how to measure progress, much less on how to make any
Tags: teams, crowd, progress, work
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How to Avoid Overreacting and Acting like a Juvenile – Dumb Little Man
Tags: overreacting, gettingalong, relationships, coworkers, work, friendships, friends
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Upload Files to Google Docs
Google Docs is one of the favorite free online services for creating and editing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. There are different ways to upload a file to Google docs service from your desktop like web upload or using an desktop uploader. So here are the easiest way to upload files to Google Docs.
Tags: docs, google, googledocs, uploader, files
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Filed Under (Daily Diigo Links) by Heather Hurley on 23-03-2009
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Bitstrips: Comic Builder
Tags: web2.0, tools, comics
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Diigo Educator Account – Diigo Help Center
Tags: Diigo, educator, education, tutorial, diigo
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WeboWord’s Entire Collection of Vocabulary – VISUAL!
WeboWord’s Entire Collection of Vocabulary
Tags: vocabulary, visual
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HETL.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Tags: emergingtechnologies, handbook
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Free Technology for Teachers: Math Links You Might Have Missed
Tags: math, links, free tech for teachers
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Techy Tips for not so techy teachers
Tags: technology, presentation, Techy, teaching, teachers
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Connections Academy “Information Text”
Tags: teach, information
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