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

• Home - LucidChart - Online Collaborative Flow Chart Application - LucidChart is the missing link in online office productivity suites. LucidChart allows users to create, collaborate on, and publish attractive flowcharts and other diagrams from a web browser.
• dcshstech / FrontPage - Jen Wagner’s Middle School Class Wiki
• Apple - iPhone - Apps for Students - Download iPhone applications made for students. Available now on iTunes.
• Open Thinking Wiki - Collection of Web 2.0 tools
• Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources | Upside Learning Blog - I?ve spent an inordinately long time writing a whitepaper on mobile learning trying to expound our thoughts about it and how it might be used in the

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

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.

These are my links for September 25th through September 27th:

• Home (Google-ize Your Staff Development) - Google has a number of great applications that can assist you with the technology staff development efforts in your school and the best part about it, is that they are all free and easy to use.
• Teacher Tap: Public Domain, Copyright Free, Open Source, and Student Use Images and Media - This page provides links to some of the better copyright-free and public domain resources. The advice on this page is not a legal opinion. The ideas are intended for educators and librarians who wish to locate quality, copyright-friendly materials for educational, noncommercial, and nonprofit projects.
• iPod Literacy - While introduced as a hard drive based music player in 2001, the iPod has evolved into an essential tool for literacy in the 21st century. The availability of educational content is staggering. There are podcasts on everything from math to history to science to learning a foreign language.
• Domo Animate - Create animations - Domo Animate, Powered by GoAnimate, is a way to easily create Domo animations and slideshows.
• Reading Logs : Reading, Vocabulary - Reading Logs gives students a better way to track reading, create vocabulary cards and practice spelling. Learning material is uploaded by
  teachers and is accessed online by students in their class.

These are my links for September 18th through September 23rd:

• MP CHANGE - MpChance is a fun Japanese utility which lets you upload portrait-style photo and have it converted into 3D face. Converted image looks just like real face and reacts to your mouse movements and clicks. There is also an option to apply funny masks, hairstyles, beards and mustaches. Moreover it lets you take a snapshot of the face and save it onto your computer.
• Introduction to Copyright Law - This course is an introduction to copyright law and American law in general. Topics covered include: structure of federal law
• Excel Templates - Ways to use Excel with your students…
• Tagul - Gorgeous tag clouds - Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page
• JacketFlap.com - Children’s books, Teen books, Writers, Authors, Illustrators, Librarians, Agents, Editors, Publicists, Publishers, and Blogs - JacketFlap is the world’s most comprehensive children’s book resource and social networking web site for people in the children’s book industry. Over 4,200 published authors and illustrators are members, as well as many librarians, agents, editors, publicists, booksellers and publishers.
• 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home - Web 2.o tools to use with different learning styles

These are my links for September 13th through September 17th:

• Educational Games, Worksheets - Game Classroom is a one-stop destination for accessing educational games and homework help for Kindergarten through 6th grade students
• uquery.com - The Appstore Search Engine - uquery.com is a new search engine focused on the emerging market of iPhone
• Create text-to-speech (TTS) podcast from RSS feed for iPod, iPhone, MP3 player and mobile phone - Odiogo’s media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.
• WebMath - Solve Your Math Problem - WebMath is designed to help you solve your math problems. Composed of forms to fill-in and then returns analysis of a problem and, when possible, provides a step-by-step solution. Covers arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus and statistics.
• Free Math Games, Free Online Math Games, Maths Games, Math Games for Free, Printable Math Games, Free Kids Math Games - Find math skill building and reinforcing games and exercises for fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra, geometry and just about any math related topic. These FREE online math games and worksheets make learning math fun!
• The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham - Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one.

These are my links for September 2nd through September 12th:

• Ideas to Inspire - ‘Ideas to Inspire’ is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.
• KickLight.com - Video with a Kick - KickLight is an online service that allows video producers to add synchronized visual elements (?Kicks?) to their online videos. Wherever that video is ultimately sent or embedded, the Kicks go with it.
• Mini-Movies for Your SmartBoard - A SmartBoard mini-movie is a simple (most involve only a click of the mouse), interactive animation that teachers can download and add to their galleries. From there, the movies can be inserted into their SMART Notebook presentations. Each mini-movie is a dynamic Flash file, similar to the same files that are already included in SMART Notebook’s resources.
• Microsoft Education Labs - Think of Education Labs as your personal playground. It?s a place where you can tinker with all sorts of toys and gadgets, explore new possibilities, and chat with others about new ideas for the education sector.
• Flickr: Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP)’s Photostream - These unique videos could be the most addicting thing on the internet right now. By mounting cameras on a variety of animals — from armadilos to goats — video artist Sam Easterson gives us a unique view of the world from the animals’ perspectives.

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

• SparkleBox - 1000s FREE printable Early Years and KS1 teaching resources - phonics, posters, labels, signs, activities and more! - Pver 1000 signs and posters to hang in the classroom
• Teachable Moment - free lesson plans and topical activities for k - 12 - The classroom lessons on TeachableMoment.Org foster critical thinking on issues of the day and a positive classroom environment. Teachers are free to use these lessons in their classrooms.
• FRONTLINE: digital nation: learning: schools | PBS - How to educate children for the digital age.
• Lesson Plans: Journal Writing Ideas (Elementary, Reading/Writing) - Journal Writing Ideas for Elementary students
• 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching - Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They?re often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.