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These are my links for October 30th:

• Domo Animate – Make your own Domo Animations and Slideshows with GoAnimate’s super easy to use tools. – Domo Animate, Powered by GoAnimate, is a way to easily create Domo animations and slideshows.
• Dynamic Periodic Table – Interactive Web 2.0 periodic table with dynamic layouts showing names, electrons, oxidation, trend visualization, orbitals, isotopes, search. Full descriptions.
• How to Address Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom | Edutopia – Tips and resources for putting MI theory into practice.
• Games For Educators – GamesForEducators – everything about games in education.
• Triptico | Word Magnets – Type your message and convert to Word Magnets
• ONLINE GRAPHS AND CHARTS | create and design your own graphs and charts online | GRAPH – Create online graphs and charts. Choose from different chart types, like: line and bar charts, pie charts, scatter graphs, XY graph and pie charts.
• Mathematics – Primary Maths lessons sites for kids and teacher resources
• remixtheclassroom – home – This wiki is created as a resource to teachers wanting to add remix and mash-up assignments to their classrooms. Why? Currently, our students treat the digital media as their personal palate. Ownership means little – sound, image and video are just bits they use for self-expression. Today’s youth like putting their thoughts out there digitally, and practice this outside of school with Myspace designs, music remixes and video mash-ups. They publish their work to Youtube constantly. If we can harness this passion for digital creation in the schoolroom, it can help our students learn more deeply while helping them harness.jpg develop critical communication skills for life in the 21st century

These are my links for October 16th through October 26th:

• cooltoolsforschools – home – This beauty of a site does a terrific job of categorizing and presenting many important, robust and usually FREE web 2.0 tools for classroom use. Maintained by Lenva Shearing, ICT PD Facilitator at Bucklands Beach Intermediate School in Auckland, New Zealand, Cool Tools for Schools is a visually pleasing, well organized, comprehensive directory of web 2.0 tools.
• eclocking – eclocking is a stopwatch that allows you to save, organize and analyze your timings. Please watch the screencast below for a brief introduction
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection – The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 20,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children’s, and manuscript maps.
• Project management, collaboration, and task software: Basecamp – Share files, meet deadlines, assign tasks, centralize feedback, make clients smile.
• PopScreen – Bookmark and share your favorite tv shows, movies, webcasts, news clips, music and viral videos from hundreds of online sources in one place. Give us a try it’s free!

These are my links for October 2nd through October 15th:

• 20 FREE Keyboarding Resources for the Classroom « Keyboarding Research – The Internet is an excellent place to find fun and cost-effective ways to improve your students? keyboarding skills. Resources that increase speed and accuracy are available for keyboarders at any level.
• VisualBlooms – home – For the record…this is an implementation point, a discussion starter. Those of us that provide staff development around instructional technology have identified a need to share more than just tools with teachers. To evaluate them based on Bloom’s Taxonomy is simply a way to connect the tools to those that would be identified with the Affective, Psychomotor, or Cognitive domains–specifically the Cognitive.
• Podcasting in Education | PoducateMe – Provides instruction for and discussion of how to podcast in education and beyond. Features a comprehensive guide to podcasting that?s free to read in its entirety online. Also includes podcast news, kits, and hardware and software recommendations.
• FFFBI Home – The Fin, Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation uses humor and storytelling to help kids ages 8-13 learn about places and cultures around the world. This is an important first step toward building their global literacy.
• NationMaster – World Statistics, Country Comparisons – Welcome to NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.
• Convert pdf to word – Convert pdf to doc – Convert online pdf to word – Convert .pdf to .doc files

Wolfram|Alpha is a newer search engine that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might.

Wolfram|Alpha is hosting a Homework Day live webinar where students and educators from across the country explore the power of using Wolfram|Alpha for school.

I received my invite to the Beta Google Wave. It offers many possibilities and this video highlights 3.5%.

Registration is now available for the “Day of Discovery: Tech or Treat Conference” at Harper Creek High School (map) from 8:30 am – 3:15 pm in Battle Creek, MI. Click here to register..

This event is jointly sponsored by the Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) SIGMM, SIGEE, SIGWEB and the Discovery Education Network (DEN), featuring MACUL’s Making it Happen award winner, Andy Mann. Choose virtual sessions from nationally known speakers and/or face-to-face sessions with experienced technology trainers. There is no cost for the conference. Lunch is provided. All teachers are welcome, although space is limited. SB-CEU’s available. Door prizes provided by Discovery Education and MACUL.

Virtual Sessions by Discovery Education’s National Speakers:
Can I Help You With That? The Student as Collaborator
Do You Have the Audacity to Podcast?
Thinking Outside the Slide
Putting the Bling in Your Builders
What on Earth is a Gloggle?
Be Nice and Share: Publishing Your Media-Infused Projects

In Person Hands-on Sessions: (subject to change)
The Best Open Source & Free Windows Applications
Google Earth: All Over the World and In your Backyard
Hands-on: Geocaching in the Classroom
Discovery Streaming in Action
Thinkfinity: Free Lesson Plans and Educational Resources
Podcasting: Supercharged Writers
Digital Storytelling: Make it Personal
Google Docs: Really, I can do that?
Get Connected with Social Bookmarking

Click here to register.

For more information, email Jim Stewart at: stewarj@charlottenet.org

These are my links for September 28th through October 1st:

• Welcome to A Maths Dictionary for Kids 2009 by Jenny Eather – Animated, interactive math dictionary with definitions of over 600 common math terms in simple language. Math glossary, examples, practice interactives, calculators and mathematical activities for kids. © Jenny Eather 2001-2009
• My Library Lessons –
• McGraw-Hill | Computer Literacy Lessons – Computer Literacy Lessons
• Technology and Education – Box of Tricks – These are some of the best free internet resources for education. This page is constantly updated
• Online Degree 100 Essential Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers – a list of 100 tools we think will encourage interactivity and engagement, motivate and empower your students, and create differentiation in their learning process.