Elgg.org - Elgg, started in 2004, is an open source social engine which powers all kinds of social environments - from education and business to martial arts and rugby. If you are looking for a professional social intranet or want to run a site for your organisation, Elgg is a great choice.
Main Page - FreeReading - FreeReading is an open-source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open-source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade core or basal program.
techtoolsforreading - home - Technology Tools for Teaching Reading
and What Happens When Web 2.0 Meets Reading 2.0?
CivilWarSallie - home - Wow! 7th grader showing off her Civil War Web 2.0 project, give her an A
Adobe Buzzword online word processor from Acrobat.com - Adobe® Buzzword® is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser on Acrobat.com, so there’s no installation required. Getting started is free, so sign up now.
Capstone Program : PBS TeacherLine - PBS TeacherLine and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) have teamed up to create the PBS TeacherLine/ISTE Certificate of Proficiency Capstone Program.
Seeking Michigan on Vimeo - Seeking Michigan employs the latest web technologies and integrates a large content management application with Wordpress blogging software. Where appropriate, social media in used to enhance the user experience. We want to provide the user with historical content, and whenever possible, provide context for that content including a dedicated ?Teach? page that provide resources and content for K-12 educators.
Scoopler: Real-time search - Scoopler is a real-time search engine. We aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day
Home | TechTechBoom - What?s the mission? Simple, it?s a place to help teens to connect, be inspired, supported and motivated to pursue STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) academics and careers! We need more young minds wanting to fill our tech pipeline of the future.
Professional Development and Coaching Toolbox - This page contains descriptions and links to wonderful resources that can be used with teacher professional development and technology coaching.
(http://tinyurl.com/b7b5hv)
Fight the Testing Season Blues : Stager-to-Go - We are entering the cruelest part of the school year, standardized testing season. For those of you interested in introducing a bit of levity into your classroom without overtly protesting the tests, might I suggest the following books to read aloud to your students.
ieducation - home - This is a viral wiki created as part of the Birds of a Feather, Using iTouch and iPhones for Teaching and Learning, at NECC 2009 held on Monday, June 29, 2009
Posted on June 30, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
celledu - NECC 2009 - This wiki is dedicated to the integration of cellular technology into the classroom curriculum: Cell Phones (CP), Short Message Services (SMS), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and Direct Inward Dialing (DID).
kmlfactbook.org - a wonderful, easy-to-use, free GIS tool to help students see the ideas behind international statistics. This web-based tool allows users to project data sets from the CIA World Factbook or the WRI World Trends Index or even their own data onto 2d Google maps or a 3D Google Earth Globe.
Curriki - PodcastCollection - Podcasts can convey information about any subject. Therefore, any teacher can succeed. Students love to do this, and they enjoying sharing what they have learned with others. Give podcasting a try
Telling Their Stories - High school students at the Urban School of San Francisco conduct and film interviews with Bay Area Holocaust survivors in their homes. Students then transcribe each 2-plus hour interview, create hundreds of movie files associated with each transcript, and then post the full-text, full-video interviews on this public website as a service to a world-wide audience interested in Holocaust studies. See Project Descriptions for a more detailed overview of the course and project.
ScratchEd - a new site for teachers to create a community for those who use SCRATCH
The videos can be played simultaneously — the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.
TeachersFirst: The web resource by teachers, for teachers - eachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and safe classroom use of Web 2.0. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus.
S.O.S. for Information Literacy - S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy.
Google Squared - Fetch and organize facts from across the web. Google Squared automatically constructs a table of facts about any category you specify.
neccunplugged - home - NECC Unplugged is held during and as a part of the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC ) June 28th - July 1. It is three days of presentations where anyone can sign up to present, either on-site or virtually, and held on-site in it’s own “lounge” area and also hosted virtually in Elluminate
necclibrarytoolssmackdown - home - Teacher-librarian practitioners will share their ideas relating to effective practice in use of 2.0 tools to deliver the mission envisioned in our new standards document, a mission that resonates well with ISTE’s NETS*S.
K12 Online Conference 2009 - The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone.
JW Players | LongTail Video | Home of the JW Player - The JW FLV Player is the Internet?s most popular and flexible media player. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports RTMP, HTTP, live streaming, various playlists formats, a wide range of settings and an extensive javascript API.
CyberSafety Cafe - enjoy this BlackBoard web site and many resources to help you teach about Cyber Safety.
Top10Web20NECC - Steve Dembo presentation on top 10 Web 2.0 tools for teachers
JStew TwitterTeacher - Elementary Media/Technology Teacher, edtech, MACUL & Michigan DEN member
Welcome to SAFARI - a guided expedition through the information world. We hope that it will help you to feel more confident about finding, evaluating, and using information.
N-Computing Education K-12 - NComputing’s ultra low-cost desktops are so affordable that you can install twice as many workstations with your existing budget.
Intel Education: Assessing Projects - Assessing Projects helps teachers create assessments that address 21st century skills and provides strategies to make assessment an integral part of their teaching and help students understand content more deeply, think at higher levels, and become self-directed learners.
Posted on June 29, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
Read, Click and Win with BookAdventure! - Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they’ve read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning.
GeoEdu - You will find all the countries in the world, their dependencies, divisions, islands and all the oceans, seas and gulfs.
GeoEdu allows you to find out hundreds of data you are interested in or want to learn about, in just a few clicks.
SAS® Curriculum Pathways® | Overview - Fully funded by SAS and offered at no cost to US educators and students, SAS Curriculum Pathways is designed to enhance student achievement and teacher effectiveness by providing Web-based curriculum resources in all the core disciplines: English, math, science, social studies/history and Spanish, to educators and students in grades 8-14 in virtual schools, home schools, high schools and community colleges.
Posted on June 25, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
These are my links for June 17th through June 18th:
QlipBoard - Voice anything. Share anywhere. - QlipBoardTM is the simplest way to capture anything that you see on your computer with one click and then talk, write or draw on the images you have captured. With one more click, you can email or share these conversations through the web with your co-workers or friends. Use it at work or play and make communication creative and fun.
About: Next Vista for Learning - Next Vista works to make learning more engaging, with a focus on helping students start strong with any topic they study. Its central project is a free, online library of teacher- and student-made short videos for learners everywhere. Next Vista believes a strong four-minute video could save students days or weeks of frustration by providing a variety of presentations on the topics that give them trouble.
COVERITLIVE.COM - Home - CoveritLive has been used by thousands of writers to engage millions of readers around the world. It has been well received by traditional bloggers as well as those in mainstream media.
Posted on June 18, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
These are my links for June 12th through June 15th:
kickfly: make virtual scenes with photos, music, and more - kickfly is a Web service where you make 3D virtual scenes personalized with your photos, friends, and music - just with a couple mouse clicks.
It’s a unique and fun way to share your media.
Once you make your scene, post it on your MySpace or Facebook or any other Web page.
Ideas to Inspire - Inspiring Youtube videos to use in your classroom - The presentations on this site were originally inspired by Tom Barrett’s ‘Interesting Ways’ presentations. These Google Docs presentations were created by Tom, with lots of contributions from the fantastic teachers who read his blog and are part of his Twitter network.
scanR :: Scan, copy, and fax with your camera phone - scanR ?turns the stuff we have
to deal with in our daily lives?receipts, business cards, faxes, jottings on the back of napkins?into something digital. ? It?s practical. And it?s simple.?
Qipit - Copy and share documents - Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish!
Photo Gallery - Windows Live - With Photo Gallery, it’s a snap to get your photos and videos from your camera to your PC. Find your favorite photos and share them with friends and family. Make your great photos look even better, and create impressive panoramic photos too.
Stupeflix - Video creation made easy - Welcome - Stupeflix video generation is extremely fast. It operates the rendering of your video faster than real time, so you can see the result of your creation right away, and try lots of different options in a few minutes.
Home | ReadKiddoRead.com - Find great books for your children or the children you teach. The #1 bestselling author James Pattersons site guides you through titles, reviews, and exclusive content on the books children will love, and readies you when they ask for more.
Posted on June 15, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
subtangent.com - Maths - Games - These games are no longer directly accessible due to the excessive amount of bandwidth they consume. You are free to download them to use offline or to put them on your own web site.
Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser - Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart?s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
Livescribe Blog :: » Education Pencasts from the Livescribe Community - We?ve discovered educators and teachers ? who are using their Pulse smartpen to capture their class lessons, explanations, and lectures ? are embedding pencasts online for their students and readers to review and replay. Here are some sites with educational pencasts ranging from solving algebra problems to defining research process to explaining developmental psychology. Enjoy!
Posted on June 10, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
I Love That Teaching Idea! - Creative and effective teacher-created ideas to improve your teaching and experience as a teacher.
Yudu Library - Read and publish online for free from anywhere. Explore the Library to find magazines, newspapers, eBooks and more
Visuwords? online graphical dictionary and thesaurus - Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Web Resizer - Crop - Free online tool to optimize pictures for websites and email. Crop, resize, add a border and sharpen your images easily.
Posted on June 7, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
Ultimate Guide to Social Bookmarking - a very comprehensive collection of tutorials, advice, resources, tips and tools to help you use Delicious to enhance your marketing, research and other business objectives.
Create and Collaborate on Online Diagrams - Try it Free | Creately - Draw, share and collaborate on online diagrams, flowcharts, office and home network diagrams, mockups, user interface designs, wireframe, Class diagram, UML diagram, ER Diagram, process flow and online diagrams with Creately for Free - Online Diagramming
15 online photo editors compared | Webware - CNET - We take a look at more than a dozen different online photo editing tools to let you know what each is capable of. Read this blog post by Josh Lowensohn on Webware.
100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images | Virtual Hosting Blog - There are a number of sources for free images, and we?ve collected them here. So read on for 100 sources where you can find free stock images: and don?t worry ? they?re all legal! Most Popular - These resources are some of the most popular free stock image sites on the Web and with good reason. If you?re looking for some mainstream images, these are the first place to try.
pptPlex - pptPlex uses Plex technology to give you the power to zoom in and out of slide sections and move directly between slides that are not sequential in your presentation. Watch the videos below to see how pptPlex can help you organize and present information in a non-linear fashion. Test drive pptPlex and wow your audience with your next presentation.
35 Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom - Wordle is a toy for generating ?word clouds? from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. This Google Doc shows ways to use it with students.
Posted on June 3, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
