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Daily DEN Diigo Links 03/01/2010 {By: Steve Sokoloski}

• PDFmyURL.com – Convert and save pdf from any webpage for free

  Tags: tools, pdf, convert

• WordItOut – Transform your text into word clouds!

  Tags: wordcloud, visualization, tools, worditout

• BrainyActs!!: About the Brain

  Welcome to BrainyActs!! – a moderated collection of video resources from the web to help understand, explain and demystify that most mysterious of organs.

  Tags: brain, brainyacts, about, images, classroom, video, education, technology, learning

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Daily DEN Diigo Links 02/28/2010 {By: Steve Sokoloski}

• Chemistry by Inquiry – complete guide and student sheets

  Tags: chemistry, k-8

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Daily DEN Diigo Links 02/27/2010 {By: Steve Sokoloski}

• iHistory Podcast Project

  “A secondary school project using podcasts and mp3 players to study australian history”

  Tags: Podcast, Audio, Social-Studies, Secondary, Inquiry-Based-Learning, PBL

• Census in Schools

  We are working on lesson plans, maps, teaching guides, and other informational materials to help teachers and students learn about the importance of the Census.Visit often to keep up with the latest information and materials available from Census in Schools and the 2010 Census

  Tags: census, education, socialstudies, math, data, statistics, schools

• SMART Measurement Wiki

  Lots of resources to use on an interactive whiteboard. Topics include, angles, length, money, perimeter-area, temperature, time, volume and weight.

  Tags: interactivewhiteboards, smartboardresources, smartboard, measurement, math, teachersfirst, resource, Games

• Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds – Kaiser Family Foundation

  Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time ‘media multitasking’ (using more than one medium at a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours.

  Tags: media, youth, media literacy, Kaiser, culture, classroom, web_2.0, learning, technology, education, video, images, mashups, research

• Overcoming Adversity | Opportunities for Special Needs Children

  “special needs, disability, power, change, success, video, challenges”

  Tags: special needs, disability, power, change, success, video, challenges

• Working for the Future- Special Education Students

  “special education, working, experience, learning, real life, future”

  Tags: special education, working, experience, learning, real life, future

• “This book’s gonna be a good book!” – Reading-Inspired Video

  Tags: reading, learning, video, ocoee middle school, song, fcat, fun

• 5 Content-Rich Activities and Resources for Black History Month

  Tags: online manipulatives, virtual manipulatives, Interactive Whiteboards, Lesson Development, Interactive Games, computers, Internet, classroom, computer, web-based activities, virtual field trips, website, civil rights, Black History Month, black history, content-rich

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Daily DEN Diigo Links 02/26/2010 {By: Steve Sokoloski}

• Online Interactice Maps

  Tags: interactivewhiteboards, smartboard, socialstudies, world, owl and mouse

• Fill Any PDF Form

  Tags: pdf, forms, Tools, editor, form, web2.0, Online

• MAKE technology on your time

  Tags: technology, science, scientists, interviews

• Maths Maps | edte.ch

  Tags: maps, math, googlemaps, Project_Based_Learning, projects

• Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators – Assessment Rubrics – Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

  Tags: wow, rubrics

• Classroom Audio Technology – Can You Hear Me Now?

  “special education, special needs, karaoke, Amplification Systems, Lightspeed”

  Tags: special education, special needs, karaoke, Amplification Systems, Lightspeed

• Nothing fishy about Gamequarium – Free Teacher Resources

  Tags: free teacher resources, classroom, interactive, lessons, story time, games, website

• Story Time | Everglades National Park | Fifth Grade

  Tags: reading software, reading comprehension, reading, language arts, fact and details, fifth grade, grade 5

• Best Books to Read with Your Toddler

  Tags: Language-Arts, Reading, Early-Childhood

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Daily DEN Diigo Links 02/25/2010 {By: Steve Sokoloski}

• Make a Movie With the Zimmer Twins

  Tags: Movies, flash, animation, digitalstorytelling, web2.0, multimedia, fun, entertainment

• Sumo Paint :: Online Image Editor :: Home

  Tags: paint, web2.0, graphics, image

• cellphonesintheclassroom – home

  Disruptive Technology: Cellphones in the Classroom

  Tags: cellphone, classroom, education, technology

• 3 Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology

  Tags: education, web2.0, socialmedia, teaching

• Flixtime – Video Slideshows made easy!

  Tags: slideshows, slideshow, web2.0, flixtime, digitalstorytelling, animation, flash, Movies

• [Video] La battaglia di Acinello

  Guarda il nostro servizio sulla manifestazione contro la centrale a biomasse di Stigliano (Mt), svoltasi il 21 febbraio 2010 nella località Acinello, luogo dove un tempo il brigante Crocco vinse la sua battaglia. Una centrale della “Carlo Gavazzi Green Power Spa” da 40 Mw bio-macherata, un vero inceneritore che rischia di mettere in pericolo vocazioni agricole e turistiche dell’area, e la salute dei cittadini.

  Tags: ambiente, basilicata, biomasse, biomass, centrale, waste, inquinamento, inceneritore, poision, pollution, acinello, aliano, stigliano, briganti, olachannel, ola

• Technology Tools in a Special Education Classroom

  ” special education, classroom, SPED, projector, document camera, interactive whiteboard, technology tools”

  Tags: special education, classroom, SPED, projector, document camera, interactive whiteboard, technology tools

• Reading, Learning, and then Some!

  Tags: reading, teachers, learning, classroom, interactive, lessons, powerpoint, presentations, games, free teacher resources, educators

• The Rise Of Stonewall 2.0

  It is hard to be the one who is purposefully left out, to be excluded, to feel less than others, and relegated to some second tier of human citizenship. Americans get righteously – and rightly – upset about such things and lesbian and gay Americans …

  Tags: human rights, gay rights, equality, usa, america, united nations, universal declaration of human rights

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Daily DEN Diigo Links 02/24/2010 {By: Steve Sokoloski}

• 6918515.pdf (application/pdf Object)

  Tags: application, pdf, tools, digital storytelling, social_networking, technology, digital_storytelling, classroom, learning, education, PLN

• Exploratory and Collaborative Learning with Diigo

  Tags: reading, teachers, educators, technology in the classroom, teacher, educational tool, sharing, group, web-based activities internet collaboration communication Diigo, social, bookmarking

• Engrade – Keeping Parents Informed and Involved II

  Tags: free teacher resources, teachers, educators, teacher, educational tool, classroom, technology, websites, classrooms, online, parents, SchoolRack, home, communication, Engrade

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Daily DEN Diigo Links 02/23/2010 {By: Steve Sokoloski}

• AAAH

  Tags: history, africa, maps, Brown_University, education, technology, web_2.0, learning, classroom

• 60in60 – home

  Tags: web2.0, 60in60, resources, wiki, home, tools, Web, social_networking, DEN, classroom, learning, education, technology, web_2.0, PLN, PETE&C

• Go for the Gold in the Classroom

  Tags: math games, reading games, elementary, students, classroom, lessons, olympics, activities

• A Big Deal – E-newsletter for Educators

  Tags: educators, 21st century skills, educational technology, classrooms, resources, free resources

• Using Technology: Practical Applications by Jackie Gerstein on Prezi

  Tags: technology, web2.0, using, education, learning, classroom, DEN, prezi, PLN

• 60in60 – Web 2.0 Feb 2010

  60 in 60 Pete&C 2010

  Tags: web, web2.0, PETE&C, technology, education, digital_storytelling

• Just Google It? Developing Internet Search Skills – The Learning Network Blog – NYTimes.com

  Tags: google, search, internet

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Daily DEN Diigo Links 02/22/2010 {By: Steve Sokoloski}

• sing? at Science (and more) to Music

  Tags: sciencemusic, fizz

• yourschool | Index

  Tags: fizz, digitalstorytelling

• Edge-you-kay-shun

  Tags: fizz, digitalstorytelling

• gulfnews : Adapting classrooms to the 21st century

  Tags: classrooms

• Official: FBI probing Pa. school webcam spy case – Yahoo! News

  Tags: school

• Top10Web20 by Steve Dembo on Prezi

  Tags: top10web20

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Daily DEN Diigo Links 02/21/2010 {By: Steve Sokoloski}

• Judge Sides With Ferris Bueller of Facebook, Free Speech in Teacher Cyberbullying Case | Technomix | Fast Company

  Tags: cyber bullying, social_networking

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Daily DEN Diigo Links 02/20/2010 {By: Steve Sokoloski}

• WEF Risks 2010

  Wonderful visualization of global risks and their interconnectivity. Would be a great discussion or paper starter.

  Tags: risks, risk, 2010, socialstudies, global, causeeffect

• Connecting Classrooms- School and Educational Network

  Tags: educators, 21st century skills, technology, collaboration, classrooms, online, network, school, educational

• iCan. Using iPods for Special Needs Students.

  Tags: special education, classroom, ipod, sped, technology, elementary, vocabulary, reading

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