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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 Rees -
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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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 18, 2010
What I've Found on the Web This Week (weekly)
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.
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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"
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
- 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
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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.
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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.
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35+ Free online Image and Photo Editing Tools @ Techie Blogger
35+ Free online Image and Photo Editing
Saturday, November 27, 2010
What I've Found on the Web This Week (weekly)
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A livebinders collection of creative commons resources. It's Awesome!
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Education Reform is Re-establishing, Redefining and Retooling : 2¢ Worth
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Cut, Mix, & Mash YouTube Videos
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
What I've Found on the Web This Week (weekly)
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Windows : Premium Laptops - BestBuy - Annotated
- 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
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Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com
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http://techhappy.wordpress.com/sites-for-kids-2/
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Freeplay Music, Broadcast Production Music Library, Free and Mp3 Music Downloads, See Usage Terms.
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The site of the student blogging challenge
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Sept. Students 2010 | Challenge Yourself to Blog
a list of students who are registered for the student blogging challenge this fall
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20-free-screen-recording-tools-for-creating-tutorials-and-presentations/
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
What I've Found on the Web This Week (weekly)
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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.
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"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"
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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
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Road To Grammar - Your Road to Better Grammar
365 interactive grammar quizzes
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Modules - Learning Telecollaboratively
"Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0Tutorials and Resources for Teachers"
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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."
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An awesome wiki of an organized list of web 2.0 tools for educators.
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Teaching students about Creative Commons and appropriate use of images | The Edublogger
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A sites that allows for searching several search engines for creative commons multimedia...images, videos, music, media
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Creating a Blogging Scope and Sequence | always learning - Annotated
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- 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).
- Links with analysis and synthesis that articulate a deeper understanding or
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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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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.