Jun 14 2009
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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YUDU is an ePublishing library and marketplace that lets you read, publish, buy, sell and share digital content. Find eBooks, magazines, and other documents as well as photos, music and podcasts and bookmarks and add them to your own library
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TeachPaperless: From the Horse’s Mouth: a Textbook Editor Responds
A textbook editor responds to the call to ‘Get Off Textbooks’.
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“Today our kids get their information from the internet, downloaded onto their iPods, and in Twitter feeds to their cell phones … So why are California’s public school students still forced to lug around antiquated, heavy, expensive textbooks?”
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Atomic Learning’s eBook on How to Flatten Your Classroom
An eBook From Atomic Learning: Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom
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Now that more and more classrooms are publishing student work for digital storytelling, podcasting, or through wikis and blogs it is becoming increasingly critical students follow the copyright and fair use guidelines. To help you and your students, I’ve created another freebie post – free images and sounds for student projects. Yes, there are multiple websites out there for public domain images and sounds, but I tried to pull those that are safe for student searching. You will find glorious photo landscapes, character illustrations of fairy tale characters, tornado sound effects, and more.
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Plagium is an innovative, fast, and easy-to-use means to check text against possible plagiarism or possible sources of origination. Simply enter text that you would like to analyze into the text box and let Plagium do the rest of the work. You can also check the contents of an entered URL for its sources
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Free Online Flashcards with Spaced Repetition
FlashcardDB makes it easy to create, study and share flashcards online
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Some pros and cons of online textbooks
In reply to the call to use online textbooks in schools
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Designed for use in the classroom, these online features and printable files (PDFs) help educators introduce to their students the richness and diversity of works in various collections of the Metropolitan Museum. Publications include a variety of illustrations and descriptions of selected works of art, historical and cultural background, classroom applications in the form of lesson plans and activities, and other useful material.
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Intersting ways to use ICT in your classroom
Get some ideas on how to use intertactive whiteboards, pocket videos, GIS and GPS, netbooks, google earth wordle, wikis, prezi, voicethread, webcams and twitter in the classroom.
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Ideas to Inspire – Inspiring Youtube videos to use in your classroom
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HSRC Press: Lots of great South African ebooks here
HSRC Press is South Africa’s open access publisher committed to the dissemination of high quality social science research based publications, in print and electronic form. The Press publishes the research output of the Human Science Research Council and externally authored works. A formal peer-review process guarantees the highest academic quality and the Press has a very active local and international marketing programme, in addition to collaborating with foreign publishers on specific titles.
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Using Nimbuzz Instant Messaging in the classroom
A detailed set of instructions of how to use nimbuzz in the classroom as well as why we should use it!
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Wordnik -more than a dictionary!
An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them
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Wiki:Participatory Media Lesson Plans
These are a series of small lesson plans (I call them “labs”) I’ve used as assignments for my students. These pages serve as more permanent reminders of what I show them during the face to face class meeting, as assignments, and as resource pages for further learning. Please feel free to add your own.
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The Museum of Online Museums (MoOM)
On the MoOM main page you, will find the current exhibitions. The main collection is in the center column, divided into three subsections. On the left you’ll find the five current featured exhibitions. The MoOM is updated continuously with major updates coming once each quarter.
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Reading: Friending your students – a researcher’s perspective
A great article on if it is a good idea to befriend your learners on social networks
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Free Ebook: Getting IT Right – Understanding IT better by G.Ram Kumar
“Getting IT Right” is for folks who have no clue about Information Technology and its ability in bettering our day-to-day lives. It introduces novices into the world of IT and helps in knowing what’s in store by becoming computer savvy. This book serves as a primer and makes the reader aware of what IT can do and how much can be accomplished by harnessing its power. Learning IT is not that tough as it is being made out. Mind you, without IT skills you are nowhere in today’s workplace. This book would help you form an idea what IT is all about and prepare you to pick up the rudiments of IT.
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Resources for Science Learning at The Franklin Institute
Lots and lots of good science respources
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The complete guide to learning a language
The author provides in-depth advice on learning a language, taking language courses and the benefits of learning a second language. In this book you will discover the various types of course available, examine your learning style, and find the type of course which best suits you.
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ManyBooks.net – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook Reader – Annotated
Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you’ll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 23,932 eBooks available here and they’re all free!
Why not read a Newbery Award winning book to a kid?Can’t decide what to read? Browse through some covers to see what strikes your fancy.
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New online game encourages students to learn about estuaries
The game occurs inside the ecosystem of an estuary on the West Coast of the United States. Following a young girl named Valerie, players interact with Oscar the sea otter and the fictional Claminator, a geoduck clam. To succeed, players must learn about the factors that produce healthy estuaries, food webs, and why estuaries are essential to both ocean life and humans. During the course of the game, students recycle and clean up trash, remove obstructions in waterways, replant the habitat to bring back food webs, and battle pollution monsters to restore Oscar’s home
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Laptops for Teachers innitiative: Kobus’s list of great posts
It now possible for teachers in South Africa to receive a subsidy to purchase a laptop. Full details my be found in a Government Gazette published on Friday, 8 May 2009. Teachers may have many questions about owning a laptop. This page serves as a point of reference to some of these questions.
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Educational Videos for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies and English
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21 Things for the 21st Century Educator – a course for teachers
The purpose of this course is to provide ”Just in Time” training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students, as well as the new MMC Online Experience requirement. Participants who fulfill all of the requirements have the opportunity to earn SBCEU’s. To learn more about the session, look under the tab “The 21 Things”. We hope you take advantage of this unique opportunity.
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A naths game to learn about fractions and percentages
The game aims to help children associate fractions with percentages. A cartoon Santa Clause introduces a snow scene with a group of identical parcels that contain either a fraction or a percentage. It is operated using the mouse, and the goal is to pair up matches, for example 1/3 and 33%, which pop out of the boxes. There are no instructions, but the game would be quite intuitive to children, though perhaps not to less inquisitive adults.
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A free eBook about Learning 2.0 – the blending of traditional learning approaches with the new tools of the social Web (blogs, wikis, social networks, etc.). It intended as a general introduction to how approaches to learning have evolved over time and what impact the new technologies dubbed “Web 2.0” are having. I have been told by many who have read it that it has also been a great tool for helping to educate others in their organization.
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When the principal takes the lead …
An empty computer room in a school is a disappointment. After investing time and money on technology one would expect the facility to be abuzz with excited voices of learners right throughout the day. Some principals find it a challenge to motivate their teachers to take learners into the computer room on a regular basis.
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Using cellphones to learn and save lives
Gadget-crazy pupils have a new learning tool – the cellphone. It has become more than a device to communicate with; it has been turned into a learning hub, with maths problems and literature now being made available on the social networking platform MXit.
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Creating a Simple Classroom Webpage using netvibes
A very cool idea of how to use netvibes.
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Book Search works just like web search that recommends books based on keywords and related books. When Google finds a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, they’ll link to it in your search results.
For some books and literature, Book Search allows users to browse online book content. Book search has also created reference pages for every book to allow users to quickly find relevant information such as book reviews, web references, maps and more.
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Scan Your Books And Search Them On Google
One of the most useful, if often-overlooked, features of Google Book Search is the ability to enter your own books and create a personal library which you can then search if Google has scanned those books. (And chances are it probably has). If you are trying to find a passage or a factoid you once read but can’t remember the book no matter how hard you wrack your brain, the ability to search your personal library can come in handy. Except who wants to enter each book one at a time?
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Kids’ Stories, Songs, Games, Educational Activities for Children
Speakaboos brings classic children’s entertainment into a digital world. Beloved characters and treasured stories are given new life through amazing celebrity performances, beautiful illustrations, and original music. At Speakaboos, children develop literacy skills while learning about technology in a safe and fun environment.
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Investigating Glubble family safe platform & searchengine
Glubble.com is an exciting new online resource that helps families safely enjoy the internet together. Part social network and part web browser/filter, Glubble provides your family with an online meeting place to post pictures and messages for each other, and allows parents to monitor and regulate young children’s internet use.
One of the cool things about Glubble is that it uses your existing web browser, but allows you to “lock” it for your kids so they can only access pre-approved websites. Glubble provides a list of suggested websites, and parents can pick and choose which ones they like, as well as suggest other sites they would like their kids to use.
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BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker – MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian – Free
The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It’s the easiest way to build a works cited page. And it’s free.
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Internet Safety for Families and Children
The Internet is a useful and important part of our daily lives. Many can’t
remember how we handled even the most mundane tasks without online
assistance. How did we even survive when we were kids?
However, along
with the good, there is bad. Children and teens (but not their parents!) are
very well versed in using the Internet, including web pages, blogs,
uploading and downloading information, music and photos, etc. They are also
trusting. This presentation will give an overview of the Internet and the
inherent dangers. Learn the realities and dangers of “virtual communities”
websites your kids frequent like Xanga.com, MySpace.com and FaceBook.com.
Learn about the persistence of information on the net and Google hacking.
Learn the differences between a wiki, blog, Instant Messaging, text
messaging, and chat. Learn the Internet slang, key warning signs, and tips
for Parents and Kids. This talk is for anyone who has a child, who knows a
child, or who ever was a child!
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
