Nov 22 2009
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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Teachers using Twitter, social media sites to engage students
“Teachers are getting lesson plan ideas from far-flung colleagues via Twitter. Skype conversations are being hosted in classrooms. And students are being introduced to social media and being schooled on how it can benefit them professionally.”
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Backchanneling with Elementary School Students
A great blogpost about using “chat channels” with primary school students but for that matter with any students.
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PhotoPeach – free photo slideshows with music
storytellingTell better stories online using photos. You can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family in a natural way. This is done by allowing two-way commenting right at each photo in the show and automatically pausing so you have time to express yourself before continuing. It also supports zooming comments, sound-effect smilies, and music so you can elaborate on your story further.
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Writing lesson plans for teachers from the Expo Writing Resource Center
Sharpen your learners writing skills
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Safe Schools in a Web 2.0 World
“New research indicates educators view Web 2.0 technologies as a means to transform education and meet 21st century learning goals, but district leadership and support are critical to ensure safe and effective use”
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Southern African Geography Teachers Network
This is a google group e-mail network for Southern African teachers
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They’re bored because the material isn’t interesting (more than 80 percent), isn’t relevant (more than 40 percent), is too difficult (about one quarter), is too easy (about one third), or because they have no interaction with their teachers (about one third).
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Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages.
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| ShowDocument is a collaborative Web Meeting, Document Sharing
You can share documents, videos, write on a whiteboard (collaboratively) there is a text editor and a shared browser. Interesting.
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“we need to make sure that networks work FOR THE USERS, not the IT department.”
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Algodoo : 2D-simulation 2 explain our real world using physics
Algodoo is a 2D-simulation environment for creating interactive scenes in a playful, cartoony manner, making use of the physics that we use to explain our real world. Algodoo is designed to encourage young people’s own creativity, ability and motivation to construct knowledge. The synergy of science and art makes Algodoo as educational as it is entertaining. Algodoo applies a constructionistic learning paradigm – learning by designing, constructing and exploring physical systems.
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Ebook: Open Schooling in the 21st Century (COL)
The expansion of secondary education is now the world’s most pressing educational challenge. This carefully prepared and thoroughly researched book should inspire policy-makers and educational planners to explore how open schooling can expand secondary education cost-effectively in their jurisdictions.
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Foswiki free and open source enterprise collaboration platform
Foswiki is the free and open source enterprise collaboration platform
Foswiki is a wiki, so you and your team members can collaborate and edit pages directly in the web browser.For advanced collaboration, Foswiki lets you enter macros (similar to Excel) to automate pages and build entire applications from within your browser.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
I am always looking for new ways to create backchannels or online meeting spaces. So this following little tool, 
It is that time of the year again and I am sure nails are being bitten, hair are standing on end (in the case of parents and teachers), candles are being burnt on both ends and nerve endings are fragile.
