Group Link Post 08/08/2011
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Great ideas…
We are preparing our children for a future of frightening uncertainty, but astounding opportunity, and to prosper within that future, our children must become skilled, resourceful, and habitual learners — not just lifelong learners but adopting a learning lifestyle. -
PowerPoint Templates for Teachers – The Classroom
Premade and ready-to-go timesaving templates for activities in the classroom!
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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… – The Best Online Sources For Images
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Information about an amazing 3D recreation of ancient Rome through Google Earth.
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A great resource with lots of well made logic and maths puzzle for children.
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Make amazing mathematical patterns with this online version of Spirograph.
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Convert Web Page to PDF – #1 Web to PDF Converter
when creating prezi presentations, it’s critical to have great looking screenshots that look good when you zoom. This tool allows you to turn the screen into a pdf which will look good when you zoom in with Prezi.
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I Love PDF is a great resource which stitches together or splits apart PDF documents. Quick and easy to use.
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A great ready-made poster site. Download hundreds of educational and fun posters as PDFs.
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Dushare – Real-time P2P file transfers
An easy way to save and send files online in real time. Upload, share the link, download. That’s it.
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A vast collection of fabulous cross curricular worksheets and resources for young children.
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An easy to use online Image to text OCR converter. Produces the text in a unformatted txt file.
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A unique way of making music! Build an island town like in Sim City. Each object creates a sound as a car goes by. Great fun.
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Dragontape – Digistal Mixtapes
A site that boasts that it makes mix tapes for a digital age using music and video from sites like YouTube.
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A great sport themed maths game to help students learn about angles and how to measure them.
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Create Posters & magazine covers online
Make magazine covers and posters by uploading a photo to this site and setting the templates, images, fonts and text until it’s just right.
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Is Curation The Future of The Social Web?Scoop.it
Discussion about social media, filtering content and the art/skill of curation
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A seek looking online mindmapping tool. Save your mindmaps to your computer as tiny files.
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New Service From Harvard Aims to Replace Classroom Lectures
Eric Mazur’s (Harvard physics professor) new software to support his teaching methodology (the “flipped” classroom). Learning Catalytics. Intriguing!
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Ten common myths about teaching | Superintendent’s Center | eSchoolNews.com
Great summary of cliched myths about teachers.
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What makes a good diagnostic question? | Getting Results — The Questionmark Blog
“So suggests Dr. Dylan William in his excellent new book, Embedded Formative Assessment (published by Solution Tree Press, and recommended). A common use for diagnostic questions is to find out whether participants have understood your instruction – telling you whether you can go onto another topic or need to spend more time on this topic. And if participants get it wrong, you want to understand why they have done so in order to correct the misconception. Good diagnostic questions involve deep domain knowledge, as you have to understand why learners are likely to answer in a particular way”
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This is a good download file sharing app for your desktop, online or on your mobile. Drag files into the window to begin uploading, then just share the link. Easy!
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New English File – ESL lessons
A great series of differentiated English as a addition language lessons and interactive activities.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language
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