What I've Found on the Web This Week (weekly)

• Creative Commons

  A livebinders collection of creative commons resources. It's Awesome!

  tags: creativecommons livebinders

• Education Reform is Re-establishing, Redefining and Retooling : 2¢ Worth

  tags: education reform technology warlick blog

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Cut, Mix, & Mash YouTube Videos

  tags: technology youtube mashup videoediting

• Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com

  "Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning."

  tags: nytimes growingupdigital teens

• Teaching the Ten Steps to Better Web Research

  A slideshow demonstrating students' limited understanding of how to search the web, with links to articles and strategies for teaching students how to research the web.

  tags: research teaching sweetsearch wikipedia tools resources website-evaluation digital-literacy

• The Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot Cite or Rely On Wikipedia

  Includes important info anyone should know when using Wikipedia as a resource. Also contains info on how the site should be used.

  tags: wikipedia research education

• Worlds End, Worlds Begin: Living in a Story-Rich, Idea-Poor Universe

  Comments:
  
  Thought-provoking ideas regarding education, information "delivery," and the role of teacher. - Debby Smith
  
  Highlights and Sticky Notes:
  
  
  significance of the move from a time of information scarcity to a time of information superfluity.
  
  
  
  stories served, from the outset, as a primitive storage device
  
  
  writing is a prosthesis for memory,
  
  
  What we don't do naturally--and what we need teachers for--is to turn outward and become residents of a universe that does not revolve around the individual.

  tags: education youtube blog

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What I've Found on the Web This Week (weekly)

• Windows : Premium Laptops - BestBuy - Annotated

  tags: windows laptops

  • Entertain yourself with this laptop that features MediaSmart software for
    instant access to music and movies. The high-definition 14.5" LED BrightView
    display and Dolby Advanced Audio let you do it all with stunning visuals and
    immersive sound. One year of security software included

• CITE Journal - Language Arts

  tags: copyright journal language fairuse articles digitalcitizenship

• Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com

  tags: motivation dan_pink

• http://techhappy.wordpress.com/sites-for-kids-2/

  tags: resources games_ed teachers reading web2.0 technology lists

• Wordnik: All the Words

  tags: dictionary reference vocabulary words wordnik language

• Reactions to Some Tweeted Statistics : 2¢ Worth

• Freeplay Music, Broadcast Production Music Library, Free and Mp3 Music Downloads, See Usage Terms.

  tags: music audio mp3 podcast sound resources creativecommons podcasting

• Challenge Yourself to Blog

  The site of the student blogging challenge

  tags: bloggingchallenge blogging web2.0

• Sept. Students 2010 | Challenge Yourself to Blog

  a list of students who are registered for the student blogging challenge this fall

  tags: students blogging blog 2010 bloggingchallenge

• 20-free-screen-recording-tools-for-creating-tutorials-and-presentations/

  tags: screencapture screencasting tools web2.0 designbeep

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What I've Found on the Web This Week (weekly)

• Web 2.0 in the Classroom: Using Blogs to Promote Authentic Learning in the Classroom

  Resources for those educators wishing to learn more about blogging for themselves and/or their students.

  tags: blogging web2.0 education blog digital-writing

• http://digitalis.nwp.org/

  "The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. Read, discuss, and share ideas about teaching writing today"

  tags: writing digital nwp digitalstorytelling literacy

• http://grapholite.com/

  Grapholite features a drag and drop interface for creating flowcharts, organization charts, and more. You can create new diagrams from scratch or use the sample templates provided by Grapholite

  tags: diagramming mindmapping brainstorming grapholite tools

• Road To Grammar - Your Road to Better Grammar

  365 interactive grammar quizzes

  tags: grammar english interactive writing quizzes resources literacy

• Modules - Learning Telecollaboratively

  "Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0Tutorials and Resources for Teachers"

  tags: web2.0 learning teaching technology pd cliffmims resources

• https://sites.google.com/site/richardbyrnepdsite/

  "Technology alone is not going to rehabilitate our lesson plans. However, when used correctly technology can improve our lesson plans and in turn our students' learning experiences.The pages in the left-hand column will take you to free technology tools and resources that have been reviewed onFree Technology for Teachers."

  tags: resources tools teachers education pd richardbyrne web2.0

• Teaching with Technology

  An awesome wiki of an organized list of web 2.0 tools for educators.

  tags: technology web2.0 resources edtech teaching

• Using SchoolTube to View YouTube Videos

  tags: schooltube videos youtube howto

• Teaching students about Creative Commons and appropriate use of images | The Edublogger

  tags: teaching creativecommons edublogs resources edublogger blogging images fairuse

• Creative Commons Search

  A sites that allows for searching several search engines for creative commons multimedia...images, videos, music, media

  tags: creativecommons search copyright photos media reference blogging videos music

• Creating a Blogging Scope and Sequence | always learning - Annotated

  tags: blogging blog digitalclassroom digital-writing creating kimcofino

  • • Links with analysis and synthesis that articulate a deeper understanding or
      relationship to the content being linked and written with potential audience in
      mind. (Real blogging).
    • Extended analysis and synthesis over a longer period of time that builds on
      previous posts, links, and comments. (Complex blogging).

  • It’s not like blogging is something new anymore…

    
    

    Of course, this would be much easier if we had a scope and sequence for
    writing to begin with – just a standard format to follow that we could embed
    digital literacy skills into at each level (something like this). But, since we don’t have one already in
    place, I figure we can start with a basic overview for blogging. Considering I
    couldn’t find one to build on when I did a simple Google search, it seems like
    something that might be useful to more teachers than just us at YIS.

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DigiGogy: BLOG SLAM!

DigiGogy: BLOG SLAM!