Succeses, failures, and and lessons learned in forging a 21st Century middle school learning community.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
What I've Found on the Web This Week (weekly)
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tags: vimeo school video tutorials
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Welcome to Vimeo Video School
Vimeo Video School is a fun place for anyone to learn how to make better videos. Start by browsing our Vimeo Lessons, or find specific video tutorials created by other members.
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lino is a free sticky & canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser." -Alternative to Wallwisher - Cheska Lorena
Offers some project management tools that Wallwisher doesn't and lets you pan around your canvas. - Dianne Reestags: stickies web2.0 notes collaboration tools postit
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Network of classroom and student blogs organized to help promote the commenting on and sharing of student writing and learning. Gives educators a good audience of commentators for their students
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tags: google parents teachparentstech howto technology resources
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Top 10 sites for Creating Digital Magazines and Newspapers by David Kapuler
While creating digital magazines or newspapers can be done in a word processor, there are dedicated sites that elevate this art to a whole new level.
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Students: Win $10,000 with 100 words | tweentribune.com
"100 words could win you $100 – or $500 – with a 100-word essay about technology."
Saturday, December 11, 2010
What I've Found on the Web This Week (weekly)
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Free Technology for Teachers: 10 Ways to Create Comics Online
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Sequence of Inquiry Cycle | Digital Is ...
- I really like the sequence you presented. It will be helpful as
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Group Conversations Around Images, Documents, and Videos | Digital Is ...
- The first step is the play step. And I believe that play is an essential step for students learning new technologies. This step gives students free rein to explore the new tools without having "serious" work to accomplish. This stage allows for students' natural curiosity to take over and test the limits of the technology in a really low-risk setting. And I found out that when I skipped this step or moved through it too quickly, I noticed students will still want to play when I actually want them to do the serious work.
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Welcome to "Googlios" where free Google tools meet ePortfolios.
This site is intended to be a collection of resources for those interested in using ePortfolios in Education. -
Digital storytelling from soup to nuts
"many digital stories are personal narratives used for sharing with friends and family, others can be created to offer insight and knowledge about a cause, a topic or a memorable figure. Communicating a message through story can be a powerful way to educate, encourage thought and initiate change"
tags: storytelling digital digitalstorytelling writing digital-writing socialjustice critical-literacy
Saturday, December 4, 2010
What I've Found on the Web This Week (weekly)
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Tools and Resources Supporting Effective Search - CPS TechTalk
Google Certified Teacher Lucy Gray recently published the slides from her presentation Tools and Resources Supporting Effective Search. The slides offer some great tips about using many of Google's lesser-used search tools. View the presentation below
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A really simple site for creating comics
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Free Technology for Teachers: Animate Text with Wondersay
tags: technology wordsay animation blogs
- Wondersay is a simple tool for creating animated text displays. The animated text displays you create with Wondersay can be embedded into a blog post or wiki page.
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An East Oakland Odyssey--Literature Circles
A teacher made site as a literature circle resource
tags: litcircles resources
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DigiGogy: BLOG SLAM! (Another update to "Is Anybody Asking the Kids?")
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Welcome to Aviary--an image editor that can be embedded on a website
Aviary, a free image editing and sound editing service that I've featured on Free Technology for Teachers a number of times in the past, recently launched a free image editing tool that you can put into your own website. Aviary's HTML5 Photo Editor can be embedded into your own website.
tags: tools aviary web 2.0 design web2.0 audio images photos
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PHRAS.IN - Say this or say that?
tags: writing proofreading grammar phras
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Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Ways to Build Your Own Educational Games
There are hundreds of places to find educational games and quizzes on the Internet. That said, sometimes you still cannot find quite what you're looking for. In those cases you're better off creating your own games. Here are seven good tools you and your students can use for creating games.
tags: technology web2.0 tools blog games
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35+ Free online Image and Photo Editing Tools @ Techie Blogger
35+ Free online Image and Photo Editing
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Hate PowerPoint? Here Are 5 Web-based Alternatives
tags: powerpoint web2.0 tools resources