May 24 2009
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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Lots of great resources here. Basically a collection ow web 2.0 , school 2.0 , internet safety stuff. Great
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10 tried and tested internet tools for teachers
using technology effectively has clear benefits for both teaching and learning and can help to improve motivation by engaging pupils in activities which, perhaps, step out of their ordinary school experience and which show them that it is possible to teach and learn about a subject using tools similar to those they use daily outside school. In other words, we have tried to use the types of tools with which they are often already familiar.
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80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy
A collecting of interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
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IT terminology – Information Technology terms in Afrikaans and English
This word list focuses on computer programming. Words are listed with the original English followed by the Afrikaans equivalent. Take note that most Delphi components are not translated and some concepts listed here are usually used to explain rather than substitute terms. For example Button to describe the button component in Delphi.
Hierdie woordelys fokus op rekenaarprogrammering. Woorde word gelys met die Engels gevolg deur die Afrikaanse ekwivalent. Neem kennis dat die meeste Delphi-komponente se name nie vertaal word nie en dat sommige van die konsepte hier gelys gebruik word vir verduideliking en nie om terme te vervang nie. Byvoorbeeld Button vir die knoppie komponent in Delphi.
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Afrikaans -’n wonnerlike bron van resources
Amazing afrikaans resource links
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The Connected Classroom – home
his site was created by Kristin Hokanson to show teachers ways that they can create a “Connected” Classroom for their students. It is growing into a collection of presentations surrounding the ideas of using technology and web 2.0 as tools to create constructivist learning experiences for all students. If you have a wikispaces account, use the discussion tab to discuss your thoughts about constructivism and using tools to connect your classroom with others.
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Wow love this: Fliggo – Create Your Own Video Site (Ideal for schools)
Here you can create your own video site for your school:
Sometimes you need a place where only you and your friends are allowed. Maybe you just want a place away from everybody else. Fliggo lets you do that and more. With Fliggo, you can control who can join, upload, comment, or put a password on your entire site. -
UN announces launch of world’s first tuition-free, online university
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“Writing, Technology and Teens” a Pew report
Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them.
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5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies
Well summarised!!!
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This principal gives valuable ideas about the pros and cons of homework. Will go and check up on the research about it….
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Creating a podcast allows students to share learning experiences. It provides them with a world-wide audience that makes learning meaningful and assessment authentic. Teachers can use the technology to provide additional and revision material to students to download and review at a time that suits them. The flexibility that such time-shifting offers makes podcasting a valuable educational tool.
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It used to be that a book was published first as a hardcover, then as a lower-cost paperback. With increasingly tech-savvy consumers demanding instantaneous access to content in various formats, that publishing protocol has in the last decade changed to one in which the book in codex form often remains the focus, but digital “extras” like audio excerpts and e-chapters act as enticements toward the purchase of the hard copy. More recently, a new phenomenon has emerged, one in which a title comes first in digital form and then—if at all—in physical form.
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50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom
Lots of ideas here….
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Lots of papers about e-learning
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Wikis in the Classroom : explantions and resources
Lots off links and resoruces here
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Solvr: Group Problem Solving App
Solvr is an interesting group problem solving tool which lets you collaboratively discuss problems and ideas over the net. The application provides platform where you can enter thoughts or problems and then invite others to add ideas on how to solve them. Each suggested idea will be presented as a separate branch. Everyone can easily vote on suggested ideas and even add a new problems to some ideas.
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Novelinks: Great resource for school about authors and reading
Novelinks is maintained by the Education section of the English Department at Brigham Young University. Our goal is to provide educators with quality teaching materials that will enhance classroom instruction for a wide variety of commonly taught novels in middle through secondary schools.
Novelinks includes online as well as printed references to biographical, historical and critical insights on authors and their works. We also offer reading strategies and units for specific novels under the heading reading resources.
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History Wiki – History Lending Library
This wiki is an example of a librarian using wikis to keep track of resources
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Managing your online reputation (Free e-book)
A FREE eBook to help college students keep their noses clean in the transparent world of the internet.
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Learning Tools Directory : Over 2,800 tools listed
This Directory contains over 2,800 (freeware/open source and commercial) tools for learning in two main sections:
1. for creating, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions
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Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders Through Innovative Technology – Free Webinar
Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders Through Innovative Technology – Free Webinar
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All My Faves | Kids – The Amusement Park of the Web
Visual list to tools for kids
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A visual overview of web 2.0 tools for education
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A story of the little office fart from my favourite cartoonist. Very sweet.
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Take typing speed test and practice typing online
Unlike much of the teaching typing software available out there, Keybr.com does not force you to type random characters over and over again; that is simply boring and contributes very little to your learning. Instead, Keybr.com generates readable random words using the phonetic rules of your native language. These words look almost natural, and often they really are. Typing sensible text is much easier than random letters, and it helps you to remember frequent key combinations. For example, it’s almost impossible for the letter ‘W’ to follow the ‘Z’ in English, and you will never type this combination in Keybr.com. Instead, you will type more common words, such as “the,” “that,” “with,” and so on. Keybr.com lets you introduce as few keys as possible to the lesson, adding more keys later when you feel that you are competent and fast enough on the current level. So, if you start with the keys from the Caps Lock row, then add keys form the Tab row, and then from the Shift row, you will eventually end up typing real text with capital letters and punctuation.
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The Twitter Book – A Sneak Preview
A great resource book with good ideas and how to’s:
What is Twitter? Why is it so popular? And how can its 140-character messages be a serious—and effective—way to boost your business? This book answers all of those questions and many more. A friendly, full-color guide, The Twitter Book is packed with helpful examples, solid advice, and clear explanations guaranteed to turn you into a Twitter power user.Co-written by two widely recognized Twitter experts, this book will help you:
• Connect with colleagues, customers, family, and friends
• Stand out on Twitter, whether you’re new to the service or already have experience
• Avoid common Twitter gaffes and pitfalls
• Use Twitter—and the best third-party tools that help you manage it—to build a critical professional communications channelIf you want to learn how to use Twitter like a pro, The Twitter Book will quickly get you up to speed.
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Issuu – A filesharing publication kind of tool- very cool
A very interesting new site that allows you to create a library of publications of all sorts. You can then embed it and it is very visual.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Maggie – You have surpassed yourself this time! What a set of resources! I don’t know where to start…
Thanks so much.
Fiona
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