Nov 15 2009
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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Digital School Library Leaves Book Stacks Behind
This school did away with a traditional library and opted for a complete digital experience for their learners.
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Resource wiki for presenters and change agents in schools
“The Moving Forward wiki houses a collection of resources to help presenters and change agents as they help move schools and universities forward into the 21st century. If you have a resource to add, please do so!”
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This site was specially written and organized to make Biology learning easier. More than 1800 questions and answers are available to help you study Biology in the easiest way possible.
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Elluminate workshops edu calender
These free online workshops/webinars with great educational topics are always great. Just wish I had more time!
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Tapped In Calendar of PD events
Always great things, talks and topics here. Check this calender regularly or add to yours. Very worthwile
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“Nearly six years ago, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills released its signature toolkit, the MILE Guide for 21st Century Skills: Milestones for Improving Learning and Education. Today, this toolkit has been revised and updated to reflect new realities and the P21 Framework for Education. “
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A Simple Guide To Set Up Your School On Facebook
“Creating a Facebook page for your school or college isn’t as simple as it is when you’re just creating a personal page. There are several pitfalls that I came across when doing so that Facebook simply hasn’t addressed, and the administration process involved in adding schools on Facebook is more complex than a normal profile.”
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Security in a web 2.0 world and beyond
“Learn how to stay ahead of malware, viruses and emerging threats while battling reduced budgets and resources. Attend this session to hear experts discuss the trends that will impact network security and child safety—Web 3.0, cloud computing and outsourcing—and how you can prepare for the future. Plus, technologists from top school districts including Duval County Schools and Denver Public Schools reveal how they successfully guard their students and networks from Internet-based threats. “
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A nice simple video on 21st century learning
Sometimes the ISTE, Partnership and ALA skills for the 21st Century are too complex and overwhelming… becoming just one more thing for teachers to do. Here, Littleton Public Schools has simplified the shift to just four simple categories…
Sometimes the ISTE, Partnership and ALA skills for the 21st Century are too complex and overwhelming… becoming just one more thing for teachers to do. Here, Littleton Public Schools has simplified the shift to just four simple categories… -
Scribblar.com – simple, effective online collaboration
Using Scribblar, users can collaborate on their own online whiteboard or “room” – featuring many of the tools familiar to users of Smart or Promethean boards – lines, text, shapes etc. You can upload your own images where you and others can edit it or comment on it.
In addition to the whiteboard – there is a chat box to communicate with other users, and there is also a voice chat option as well.
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Creative Commons Audio for your IWB
“Luckily there are many sites that now provide audio files under a creative commons licence. You can use these freely, as long as you attribute the original source. Sometimes you can even licence them to use commercially if you wish.”
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7 rules for ICT teachers, co-ordinators and leaders
Down to earth invaluable tips!!!
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Historical Moments You Can Relive
Got a love of history, some extra time, no money, and an internet connection? Then check out these best 101 moments in history on video to relive at no charge. There are historical videos on the presidents, famous speeches, breakthrough moments in space exploration, along with moving moments in culture, all found easily on YouTube.
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A great site on Evolution with multimedia
Teacher resources and more
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Twitter Education Virtual Conference
“Twitter Education Virtual Conference”
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Should laptops replace textbooks? A poll- go vote!
“The age of the textbook may be bowing out — or it may not” So far laptops are winning…. Some interesting comments on the topic as well. Go vote!
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A collection of PLN (personal learning networks) visualisations from around flickr. How do people see their PLN’s?
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Social Media in Learning examples
I agree with this list 100 %
- Centre for learning & performace technologies is a very social site which provide a mostly inforamtion about the technologies for appearing on the bases of the performance.
Premium White Pro – post by valriedeleon
- The Learning Technologies conference, now in its tenth year, attracts many of the world’s leading learning speakers, thinkers, visionaries and practitioners and over 350 conference delegates.
Ultimate Acai max – post by sharieoneal
- Centre for learning & performace technologies is a very social site which provide a mostly inforamtion about the technologies for appearing on the bases of the performance.
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epubBooks: FREE eBooks in the EPUB format for your iPhone, Sony Reader, and many other eReaders
EPubbooks.com provides a selection of high quality, free ePub eBooks, for everyone to read. It is devided into sections for easy reference: Books, authors, genres and ereaders. You will need an ebookreader to read them but just see the ereader page or if you use a Firefox browser you can download the extension and read it straight in your browser here: http://www.epubread.com/
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Africa Geographic digimag – Bringing Africa to the world
This is an absolutely amazing interactive magazine- I REALLY wouldn’t mind having all my magazines in this format. Interactive beautifully illustrated with photos, video snippets and scrolling info bars. Lovely. Could be great in the Geography class/library.
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Bloom’s Taxonomy Poster for Elementary Teachers
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Learning Tools Directory : Over 3,000 tools listed
All the social media tools are listed here- lots of which I have not played with yet…
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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