TechKnowledgey inTechgration

These are my links for May 13th through May 15th:

• Skim | Home – Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
• simple private real-time sharing and collaboration by drop.io – Free file-sharing and media-sharing service that enables users to take anything ranging from music, videos, documents, audio, and add them to a private, online space called a ‘drop’ to share with colleagues and clients through email, web, phone, fax, and more.
• Submit Podcasts – Submit podcasts to the following websites.
• Math is Fun – Maths Resources – The main content of the site is aimed at basic math skills. However you will find some more complex stuff, and some easier bits. Hopefully there should be something for everybody.
• ShareTabs – Share your links as tabs – Add a list of links to the form below and submit it to get a single link to them all, conveniently displayed in tabs.

These are my links for May 8th through May 12th:

• Welcome to PrintFriendly.com – Make any web page print friendly, only print the content you want and save paper.
• Hot Shot Business – Play the game that gives you a chance to open your own pet spa, skateboard factory, or comic shop. You choose what you’ll sell, and scour the headlines for …
• Welcome to LearningExpress Library! – Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library’s resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want?at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You’ll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you.
• Wallwisher – A quick way to post notes and share announcements
• Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers – a collection of recommended Web 2.0 sites for EFL ESL teachers.
• NFI Kids Count – Kids Count? is an innovative educational program that allows third- through fifth-grade students to understand concepts related to personal finances and realize the value of money.
• The Best Online Tools For Real-Time Collaboration | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… – Larry Ferlazzo’s review of real-time collaboration tools.
• digitalresearchtools / FrontPage – This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you’re looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool’s features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.
• MLA Formatting and Style Guide: Works Cited: Electronic Sources – The OWL at Purdue – From the OWL resource MLA Formatting and Style Guide-Works Cited: Electronic Sources
• How To Get Through A Semester With Your iPhone : iSmashPhone – The iPhone – your most portable computer – is an unbelievably helpful tool when it comes to educational organization, studying, note taking, staying connected with other students, data reference, and more.
• ETC @ NSC Interactive Whiteboard Links – Here are some links that can be powerful whole-group instructional tools when used on an interactive whiteboard. These are grouped by subject area and subdivided by grade band.
  These resources are provided FREE for all Georgia Educators and other educators worldwide by the Educational Technology Center housed at the National Science Center in Augusta, Georgia.

These are my links for May 7th:

• Learning Activities the Meet Michigan Educational Technology Standards – Please share your elementary lessons that meet various aspects of the Michigan Educational Technology Standards.

  This project is designed to help all Michigan teachers find and share ways they are meeting these standards. If you are from outside Michigan and would like to contribute to or use these ideas, please do so.

• Online University Reviews: 100 Most Inspiring and Innovative Blogs for Educators – Being a teacher is a difficult and often thankless job. Between lesson plans, unengaged students, and new emerging technologies, teachers need help now more than ever. By visiting the 100 blogs below, they will find answers to all their questions, as well as valuable teaching resources.
• Chatterous – group chat using the web, IM, email or phone –
• Mailinator – Let Them Eat Spam! – Temporary accounts are created when email arrives for them. First, you give out the mailinator email address you created, and then you check it. It’s that simple.
• Today’s Meet – Today’s Meet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.
• Times Spelling Bee – Times Spelling Bee – get a taste for the Spelling Bee Championship and practise your spelling with our interactive games” /><meta name=”keywords” content=”Spelling, Spelling Games, Spelling Bee, Spelling Tests, Spelling Activities, Spelling Bee Championship, Lexi” /><meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow” /><link rel=”stylesheet” href=”Content/Resources/Common/Css/base.css” type=”text/css” charset=”utf-8″ /><link rel=”stylesheet” href=”Content/Resources/Common/Css/main.css” type=”text/css” charset=”utf-8″ /><link rel=”stylesheet” href=”Content/Resources/Common/Css/nav.css” type=”text/css” charset=”utf-8″ /><link rel=”stylesheet” href=”Content/Resources/Common/Css/Common.css” type=”text/css” charset=”utf-8″ /><link rel=”stylesheet” href=”Content/Resources/Common/Css/Buttons.css” type=”text/css” charset=”utf-8″ /><link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”/favicon.ico
• AFRO-Americ@: Myths and Fables –
• 3-6 Student Interactives – Utah Education Network –
• Author Jan Brett’s Home Page – A Great Place for Ideas –
• It’s Fun to Read: All About Me –
• Learn To Read: Make a word –
• Stone Fox: Blog A Book –
• BookPALS Storyline Online –
• Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids –
• Reading Games | Word Level Index –
• Kids Stories, Songs, Games, Educational Activities for Children, Free! –
• MrsP.com Children’s Storybooks Online Library –
• K-2 ABC Interactives – UEN –
• K-2 Reading Interactives – UEN –
• N O G G I N: Shows: Pinky Dinky Doo –
• N O G G I N: Shows: Story Time –
• Mrs. Tenkely?s Computer Class – Class website
• VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus – VocabGrabber analyzes any text you’re interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the “Grab Vocabulary!” button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
• indispensibletools / FrontPage – The following list of ICT tools was crowd sourced from individual educationalists and not companies when the question ‘What Indispensible ICT tools do you use in education’ was asked and is not meant to be exhaustive in any way.
• Outlaw Design Blog » 30 Essential Twitter Tutorials for Newbies and Experts – a round up of some of the best Twitter related tutorials out there to help you out. This list includes tutorials on everything from how to change your Twitter background to how to use the Twitter API.

These are my links for May 6th:

• KIDO’Z – Safe,easy and fun internet for kids – The KIDO’Z Kid’s Web Environment is the safe, easy and fun way for young kids to surf their favorite sites, watch videos and play games.
• 42 Amazing Resources for Inspirational Typography : Speckyboy Design Magazine – the best typography sites, rich full of inspiration, tutorials, theories, free fonts, good practices? everything you could possibly need related to typography.
• Skitch.com Skitch = fast and fun screen capture and image sharing. – Skitch Web – The Internet camera – Snap, Draw, Share
• 21 Things for the 21st Century Educator – Home – The purpose of this course is to provide ?Just in Time? training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students, as well as the new MMC Online Experience requirement.
• Papershow – HOME – USB bluetooth pen for conducting live presentations

These are my links for May 4th through May 5th:

• Coloring pages. Free printable coloring book pictures and photos. – Free coloring pages and photos. On this site you can find educational coloring pictures and photos to print and download. Coloring sheets and coloring book pictures. Online coloring pages – Free coloring book pictures to print – Educational photos.
• Book Wink – Bookwink’s mission is to inspire kids to read. Through podcasting and web video, we hope to connect kids in Grades 3 through 8 with books that will make them excited about reading. The videos are approximately 3 minutes long and are updated monthly. Each video booktalk is about a different topic, and additional read-alikes can be found on the Bookwink website. You can look for books by subject, grade level, author or title.
• Max’s Toolbox – Max’s Toolbox 2007 is an early childhood interface to Microsoft® Office suitable for children in grades K through 5. The flexibility of the programs makes them suitable for teaching children of all capabilities.

  The suite of three products.MaxWrite for Microsoft® Word, MaxShow for PowerPoint®, and MaxCount for Excel.gives teachers a platform for incorporating technology across a wide range of subjects and lesson plans.

• Mrs. Sterling’s Word Pad – Here you will learn how to use a word processor to create documents for school or other projects. You?ll learn to format fonts, add images and some really cool effects.
• Photo Factory . PBS Parents | PBS – Put your child in a photo with a PBS KIDS character. Simply upload a photo of your child, select a cool frame and choose a character. That’s it!
• - Technibble – A Resource for Computer Repair Technicians – Technibble – Technibble.com is a free resource for computer technicians and others in the computer business. We offer free PC support where you can get technical advice immediately. We also offer articles about the computer repair business such as starting up your own computer repair business

These are my links for May 2nd through May 3rd:

• flipping typical – A way to explore the popular typefaces you have on your computer.
• LetterJames – Image personalization of photo calendars, photo albums and e-cards – Image generator
• Order in the Library v4.0 – Order books based on Dewey Decimal
• BBC – CBBC – Me and My Movie – BBC movie making site
• Visible Tweets ? Twitter Visualisations. Now with added prettiness! – Visualization of Twitter messages designed for showing in public spaces

What other things won’t they understand?

These are my links for April 30th through May 1st:

• Math For Kids – By KidsNumbers.com – Our innovative math skills development programs are research based, and really work. Best of all, like everything on the KidsKnowIt Network, they are 100% FREE. Use the free math games and math activities to review, and keep your math wits sharp, or use one of our math foundations programs to develop the basic brain skills that are required to succeed with math.
• Cable in the Classroom – CIC Magazine – May 2009 – Cable in the Classroom?s publications examine the challenges, opportunities, and implications of teaching and learning in today?s digital, multimedia, on-demand world. They offer thought-provoking articles, useful hands-on tips and tools, and spotlight the best cable and Web programs for children.
• TechTrekers –
• StoryTop Story Maker — The Online tool for storytelling – create multi-page stories,drag and drop clip art to illustrate your story, add text in dialog boxes, create storytelling clubs with your friends, share your stories with others
• Zorap – Zorap allows people to gather on web pages in real-time. You can see and hear up to 50 of your friends at the same time – you can also share media like music, photos, videos, or things from the web like youtube videos.
• Scientific Method Web Page – Using original video, clear audio, crisp text and snappy graphics, Dan shows and tells all about the Scientific Method, providing rich examples that make the complex seem simple. Because it?s web-based, kids can go at their own speed. Neat, well-designed interactive quizzes are included for each section.