TechKnowledgey inTechgration

These are my links for January 27th through January 31st:

• Netsafe NetBasics –
• Create Your Own Comic | Marvel Super Hero Squad | The Official Web Site –
• POPFAX – send fax by email
• WordSift – Visualize Text –
• Learning in Hand – iPod touch in Education –

These are my links for December 23rd through January 26th:

• Proloquo2Go: Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for iPhone and iPod touch –
• Keyboarding Games for Kids – Learning to Type Games for Kids –
• What is Authentic Assessment? (Authentic Assessment Toolbox) –
• Top iPhone Apps for Busy Teachers – HOME – Edgalaxy: Where Education and Technology Meet. –
• Movie clips and movie scenes at movieclips.com –
• Regulating Student Created Websites: Free Speech in Cyberspace – Summary: This article examines the application of First Amendment principles to web sites that were created by students.

These are my links for November 5th through November 29th:

• Big Huge Thesaurus: Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes (oh my!) – This site is based on source data from the Princeton University WordNet database, the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary, and suggestions from thousands of people on the internet just like you.
• smartmeasurement – home – Measurement websites that work well on a SMARTboard.
• The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave – Here you’ll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that’s evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes.
• ArtisanCam – Activities – Picture Book Maker – a super-simple, super-flexible, super-easy tool for creating ? picture books!
• WhenIsGood – Plan the time to have your meeting or event by co-ordinating availability with all the particpants using this fuss-free online tool.

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