Group Link Post 11/30/2011

• Home | wonderville

  Brilliant science website that includes interactive games, activities, comics and videos. Great animation in 3D.

  Tags: science, interactive, resources

• BBC Primary History – Vikings

  A superb history site from the BBC about the Vikings. Come and pillage it.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History

  Tags: history, vikings, BBC

• We Don’t Need Digital Textbooks, We Just Need Digital Education | Singularity Hub

  Tags: no_tag

• Password Checker: Using Strong Passwords | Microsoft Security

  Tags: resources, password, security, passwords, tools, checker, education

• Coursekit

  Tags: instructional_design, instructional_technology, cms

• LiveMinutes – Web Conferencing

  A brilliant, ‘must try’ web tool for group to text/voice chat, with a collaborative whiteboard, document viewer and more, all in real time. I’m really loving this tool at the moment for joint language lessons with my school’s Chinese partner school. No sign in require, however register for free for extra features.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

  Tags: collaboration, conferencing, meeting, document viewer, docs, VoIP, skype, video conference, whiteboard

• The A-Z Dictionary of Educational Twitter Hashtags | Edudemic

  Tags: twitter, hashtags, education, teaching, PLN, edtech, resources, social media

• AgeBased Guidelines for Kids’ Internet Use | Parade.com

  Tags: internet_safety, education, digitalcitizenship, computer, internet

• 5 Ways Higher Education Is Leveraging Mobile Tech

  Mobile technology is on the minds of higher education professionals more than ever before. At the recent HighEdWeb conference in Austin, the itinerary included several ways schools can use social media, blogs and mobile technologies to better captivate its student body .. As tomorrow’s grads become increasingly married to their mobile devices, here are five ways that mobile tech matters just as much as social technology in the higher ed space.

  Tags: mLearning, tertiary, eLearning, learning, socialmedia, edutech

• 6 Ways To Make Online Education More Inviting | Edudemic

  Tags: fbl, flexiblelearning, blended learning, edtech, learningdesign, education, elearning

• When Learning Becomes An Event | K12 Online Conference

  “When Learning Becomes An Event”

  Any McKiel’s K12Online Keynote in the Purposeful Play strand!

  Tags: learning, event, k12online, conference

• World Class – What is World Class?

  Tags: free, education, interactive, flat, global

• Truly random numbers

  Tags: numbers, quantum, physics, science, onde

• Re-enacting Historical Events on Twitter With RealTimeWWII – NYTimes.com

  Tags: Social Studies, Twitter, history

• Guess the letters & words

  A good flash-based ‘guess the letters’ game where players have one minute and three wrong guesses to figure out the words.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

  Tags: words, vocabulary, spelling, English, Literacy

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Group links post 11/30/2011

• Free Technology for Teachers: An Easy Way to Make Online Booklets

  Tags: booklets, technology, teachers

• Microsoft Announces Partnerships to Inspire and Support Educators Around the World: Educators from more than 70 countries gather at the Partners in Learning Global Forum to celebrate innovative uses of technology in the classroom.

  Tags: microsoft, partnerships, educators, learning, forum, technology, classroom

• Joomla Open Source Custom Application Development

  Joomla is a widely used open source content management system. It allows the website owners to manage and edit the website content easily. It does not require any technical knowledge to handle Joomla.

  Tags: Custom, Application, Development, Joomla, Open, Source, PHP, Training, Classes.Net

• Magics of ASP NET Development

  Looking at the changing needs in the market, Microsoft created a new framework named ASP.Net that helps in building dynamic web pages and applications. ASP is a development tool that helps in creating rich web pages and applications.

  Tags: Training, .NET, Ahmedabad.

• Learning Photoshop Basics for Free

  Adobe Photoshop, called simply Photoshop by most, is a leading graphics editor developed by Adobe Systems. It is used to create and manipulate images, both for personal and commercial use. Photoshop can be used in multiple operating systems, including Microsoft, Macintosh and Linux.

  Tags: Adobe, Photoshop, Web, Designing, Courses, Learning

• Special Education Online – SEO Training

  Online courses are already offered by most schools for those people who are very busy and cannot afford to attend normal classes in a university. Students receive almost the same learning due to resources found in the internet the school is providing them.

  Tags: Professional, SEO, Training, course.

• Internet Marketing Training Course – Work Online and Make Money

  Internet product marketing can be a very great industry, but it takes a lot of knowledge and skill. There are thousands and thousands of resources available to internet marketers that supposedly help you to work online and make money

  Tags: Internet, Marketing, Institute, in, Ahmedabad

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Proj Based Learning Group 11/30/2011

• What Makes Project Based Learning Effective? #Edchat #EngChat

  Tags: PBL, collaboration

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Group Link Post 11/29/2011

• Solar System Exploration: Planets

  Tags: PLANETS

• Reading Genres

  Great PDF descriptions of various literary genres.

  Tags: no_tag

• Free conversion – no download required – Zamzar

  Tags: media, education, videos, news, resources, conversion, converter, tools, file, web2.0, convert, software

• Ommwriter

  A writing program that blocks all other programs on the computer and uses a full screen so that concentration has a better chance of happening.

  Tags: phd, writing, ommwriter, software

• ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard for iPad on the iTunes App Store

  Tags: ipad, apps, education, whiteboard, screencast, ShowMe

• The Nerdy Teacher: What Makes Project Based Learning Effective? #Edchat #EngChat

  1. OWNERSHIP is key. For this project, the students were not listening to me on why Twain was or was not a racist, they were showing me and the rest of class what they thought. They were invested in winning their argument. They knew that their work was going to determine if he was guilty or not. Although I gave the assignment, the students were in charge the rest of the way. It was their project and they wanted to do it win. When students feel they own what they are doing, they will work harder. When the audience is larger, they want to impress everyone. These are not crazy ideas, they are the results of owning the work they are doing. OWNERSHIP is a major factor in the value of PBL.

  2. CREATIVITY is the another major part of the PBL and is closely linked with OWNERSHIP. Students were allowed to be creative in their work as a lawyer or witness. Witnesses needed to stay within character, but could add their own elements on the witness stand. Allowing the students to create gives them a bigger sense of OWNERSHIP.

  3. Another part of the PBL is the COLLABORATION. Students were working with each other trying to decide the best plan of attack. Witnesses would meet with their lawyers and discuss how the questions they were going to ask and how they should dress. The Jury worked on group projects researching the previous public opinions on Twain and his writing. Students were sharing ideas freely with one another. I had three sections of American Lit at the time, so I had three trails running. Lawyers would help others in the other classes and trash talk the opposing lawyers as well. It was all in good fun, but the collaboration had students working hard with one another to accomplish this goal.

  4. Depending on how you set up your project, CRITICAL THINKING, is also an important part of PBL. With my Twain Trail, students needed to think about both sides of the argument. Students needed to prepare their witnesses for potential cross-examination questions. They needed to anticipate problems each witness presented and be prepared to counter them. In a world were homework can be tedious and memorization rules supreme, PBL is a great way to get kids thinking critically.

  5. Lastly, Project Based Learning has to be FUN! It seems obvious, but I have seen many projects that are very tedious. They have kids go through the motions and leave very little room for FUN or CREATIVITY. Projects are a chance for students to break the regular routine of reading and writing in some classes. Most kids are excited to do a project because they finally see it as a chance to express themselves in a format other than a test or essay. The FUN comes from the freedom students feel. Working with their friends (COLLABORATION), taking charge of their learning (OWNERSHIP), solving real problems (CRITICAL THINKING) and allowing students to create (CREATIVITY) all lead to the students learning in a FUN environment.

  Tags: Edchat, Twitter, learning, project

• eduTechers Change the World Voting Starts Today!

  Tags: no_tag

• Wishbox: Get User Feedback with Annotated Screenshots

  Tags: feedback, screenshots, annotate

• Do ‘flipped classrooms’ get a pass or fail? – The Globe and Mail

  Tags: flipping, interviews, globe, mail

• Snapshot Culture – We live in a Snapshot Culture

  Tags: photoshare, resources, snapshot, culture

• Symphony of Science – ‘We Are All Connected’ (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) – YouTube

  Tags: science, connected, Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson, Nye

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Group links post 11/29/2011

• Top 10 #pln tools in 2011 used in #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project voted on @c4lpt

  I invite you also to comment and add your favorite tools in 2011  on our page :  on facebook   http://goo.gl/eTpsz and google plus http://goo.gl/VGoQO .                                                                               I invite you to join and collaborate in this free global  #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project 

  Tags: pln, socialmedia, curation, edchat, elearning, tlchat, #edtech20, web2.0, tools, project

• 4 PHP Frameworks A Developer Should Write PHP With!

  These days, more and more PHP programmers prefer to use the latest PHP because these latest tools offer a great way to enhance programming efficiency. Frameworks are set of tools

  Tags: PHP, courses, Ahmedabad, framework, development.

• Job Roles and Benefits OF MCSD .NET Certification

  Microsoft certified solution developer (MCSD .NET) can be said as the advanced as well as essential certification to the developers who are capable of developing as well as designing the enterprise solution with the help of Microsoft development technologies and tools as well as Microsoft .NET framework

  Tags: .Net, Training, Programming, course.

• Adobe Photoshop Courses – Different Ways to Master Photoshop Courses Faster

  When it comes to tutorials people will think that about someone showing them how to do stuffs. In today’s world there are different ways on how to deliver tutorials. The oldest form of tutorial is a classroom-type tutorial. But this method still works for Adobe courses

  Tags: Adobe, Photoshop, Courses, Web, designing, course.

• Equipped for Online Learning?

  Tags: Training, education, technology, learning, Web

• Online SEO Training

  SEO or search engine optimization is one of the key components for any business to become a success on the Internet. However, since the field of Internet marketing is still highly unknown to the masses, where can reputable online SEO training be found?

  Tags: SEO, Training, Advanced, course.

• Internet Marketing Training Courses & Business – Is it All Just a Lie?

  It is pretty difficult to surf the web nowadays without getting bombarded by some over-the-top advert for the latest ‘Killer, can’t fail to make a million overnight’ internet marketing product.

  Tags: Internet, Marketing, Course, Training

• Why PHP Is The Most Popular Web Programming Language?

  Nowadays, PHP is the most popular web programming language. Today the all most business websites are in utilize and built with the help of PHP languages. Therefore it is treated as a job portal; social networking sites for niches

  Tags: web, development.

• What is the Best Programming Language to Learn?

  There is no single “top” programming language. If you want to write programs like a pro, you want to study at least one high level language (probably C++ since it is currently the most general of the high level languages) and one database programming (such as SQL). You can not go wrong learning C++. With so numerous companies writing software in C++, many people with C++ programming experience can get a contract almost anyplace.

  Tags: .Net, Training, Programming, Course

• Learning Photoshop – Where To Find Photoshop Tutorials For Beginners

  If you’re a beginner at Photoshop as well as needing tutorials to help you along with editing your digital photos, then we now have compiled a complete checklist to make it easier for you newbies to begin understanding Photoshop.

  Tags: Web, Designing, Training, courses.

• SEO Training Courses Online

  Do you want your business online to be profitable and on top? To make this possible, what you need to have is SEO services or tools. SEO tools can help your site get a lot of traffic and be on top.

  Tags: Online, SEO, Training, course.

• Mobile Application Development Training – Learn How It Can Boost Your Career

  We are accessing Information via Mobile phone applications and it is set to surpass desktop web access within the next 5 years. By 2015, over 1 billion end users globally are predicted to access the web through their mobile device. But, many businesses,

  Tags: Learning, Program, Android, Mobile, Application, Development, Training

• How to Use Special Characters in Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, and Google Chat | PCWorld

  Tags: how to, special, characters, facebook, pcworld, chat, google, gmail

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Group Link Post 11/28/2011

• Traveler IQ Challenge

  A fun game where players must click on a city or place on a world map to score points.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

  Tags: Geography, maps, map, city

• QuickGrade | The easiest FREE grade calculator for teachers!

  Put away your EZ-graders, teachers, QuickGrade is the easiest grade calculator around! Use this tool to make grading stacks of tests a snap. Made with love and totally free to use!

  Tags: grading, grade, grade conversion tool, grade slider, Quick Grade

• Cool mod: iPhone as digital microscope | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

  Tags: iphone, microscope

• Slimber – Drawing & Painting Online

  A simple online drawing tool with just the essential tools. Great for younger learners. Download the end product to your computer.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design

  Tags: painting, draw, drawing, sketch

• HTwins.net – The Scale of the Universe

  Tags: galactic, cosmology, Physics, scale, science

• Free Technology for Teachers: Embed Plus – Clip & Annotate YouTube Videos

  edit videos

  Tags: free, tech

• BoomWriter – Home

  Boom Writer blends creative writing and social media technology to provide a competitive writing platform that is integrated into the national education curriculum. The goal is to give schools a platform for a more engaging creative writing process, give teachers a tool that focuses their students on creative writing techniques and all the students have fun in the process. With a slick and easy to use interface, Boom Writer is a worth while tool for writing in the classroom.

  Tags: writing, LA, collaboration

• Check Grammar, spelling and citation quickly and easily with Grammarly – StumbleUpon

  Proof reader and plagiarism checker

  Tags: plagarism, citation

• Open Course Library

  Tags: OER, opencourseware, Repository, open

• Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian | Plymoth Plantation

  “What really happened at the First Thanksgiving?
  Become a history detective and find out!
  In this fun, award-winning activity, kids take on the role of “history detectives” to investigate what really happened at the famous 1621 celebration. (Hint: It was a lot more than just a feast!) Along the way, they’ll read a letter written by an eyewitness to the event, learn about Wampanoag traditions of giving thanks, and visit Pilgrim Mary Allerton’s home. As a final activity, kids can design and print their own Thanksgiving exhibit panel.”

  Tags: history, interactive, holiday, resources, research

• Area/Perimeter Whiteboard Resource

  A beautifully made area/perimeter whiteboard resource. Move the corners around to change the numbers.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

  Tags: area, perimeter, Maths, numeracy, measure, shape and measure, shapes, iwb, whiteboard resources

• Mentoring Your Students in Social Media or Vice Versa | Getting Smart

  Tags: social media, facebook

• google1.gif 800×8,848 pixels

  Handy guide to search and research.

  Tags: Google, research, search

• The Two Faces of Anxiety – TIME

  Tags: no_tag

• Social networking sites and our lives | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

  Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project decided to examine social networking sites in a survey that explored people’s overall social networks and how use of these technologies is related to trust, tolerance, social support, and community and political engagement.

  The findings presented here paint a rich and complex picture of the role that digital technology plays in people’s social worlds. Wherever possible, we seek to disentangle whether people’s varying social behaviors and attitudes are related to the different ways they use social networking sites, or to other relevant demographic characteristics, such as age, gender and social class.

  Tags: social, pew, research, social networking, networking, internet

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Group links post 11/28/2011

• British Spelling

  To accommodate differences, Vocabulary and SpellingCity had added several lists of British spelling words and their corresponding US words.

  Tags: british, spelling

• My Languages: MORE PRACTICAL WAYS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION

  Tags: speaking, French, Spanish, pronunciation, TES

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Group Link Post 11/27/2011

• The Tech Commandments

  A Presenter at NYSCATE11, Adam Bellow lays out his ideas for the successful integration of technology into the existing educational system.

  Tags: integration, Scribd, AdamBellow, eduTeacher, technology, edtech, education, research, commandments, web2.0, technology_integration, Teachnology, strategy

• Spore

  Learn about how creatures are put together by making your own with this cool, well made site.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

  Tags: avatar, design, biology, science

• Current position of the ISS

  Amaze your class by showing them the International Space Station in the sky. This site shows you when it is visable.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

  Tags: ISS, internation space station, space, Science

• FileLab Audio Editor

  A great child-friendly audio editor with a good range of easy to use effects and tools. Easy sign in with Facebook, Google or Yahoo accounts.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

  Tags: audio, audio editor, sound, music, mp3

• A Mosaic Time-Lapse Visualization of the Sky for an Entire Year | Brain Pickings

  Time lapse mosaic of the sky over San Francisco over 365 days. Mesmerising.

  Tags: visualization, mosaic, timelapse

• Climate Change Videos : Weather Underground

  “How do we know it’s not a natural cycle?” 

  Tags: climate change, videos, wunderground

• 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Science

  Science resources and lesson plans.

  Tags: science, resource, lessonplans

• British Spelling

  To accommodate differences, Vocabulary and SpellingCity had added several lists of British spelling words and their corresponding US words.

  Tags: british, spelling

• Standards Based Assessment w/ Bloom’s Taxonomy

  Looking for a new way to motivate your students who don’t like to do homework? Give standards based assessment a try….

  Tags: Blooms, Taxonomy, Standards, Based, Assessment, Math, Algebra, II

• NYT Opinion Page Room for Debate teaches students point of view | Where the Classroom Ends

  Persuasive writing, debate resource

  Tags: no_tag

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Group Link Post 11/26/2011

• Crayola Digi-Color

  Crayola’s online drawing canvas provides students with a blank canvas on which they can draw using virtual markers, crayons, pencils, and paints. Drawings cannot be saved online, but they can be printed. Pre-K Teachers looking for coloring pages can create their own or have students create their own using Crayola’s Create & Color tool. Create & Color provides templates for creating custom coloring pages. You can pick a background template and modify it by adding speech bubbles and pictures. Coloring pages cannot be saved online, but they can be printed.

  Tags: art

• JVC’s Science Fair Projects

  Tags: science, project, demonstrations

• My Susthouse – an interactive sustainability game

  A great environment sustainability flash resource. Build a eco house and locating resources.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

  Tags: sustainability, science, environment, energy, eco

• Physic Simulations

  Tags: ondes, science, physique, simulation, physic

• odosketch

  Odosketch is a free online sketchpad that, like many similar sites, provides a blank canvas on which you can create drawings from scratch. You can save your work to a free Odosketch account, share it online, or download it. Odosketch’s niche appears to be creating drawings with “charcoal pencil” effects. Odosketch is well suited to use on touch screen computers and interactive whiteboards

  Tags: art

• Drawing tool – DrawIsland

  Draw Island is a free online tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. Draw Island offers you your choice of four canvas sizes on which you can draw. Draw Island offers two canvas sizes for creating simple GIF animations. To use Draw Island just head to the site and select a drawing tool. You can draw free hand (or should I say free mouse?) or select pre-defined shapes to use in your images. When you’re done drawing just click the save button to download your drawing or animation

  Tags: art

• Realizing the Promise of Standards-Based Education – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

  Standards based schools.

  Tags: standards

• Can we really teach creativity? – San Rafael, CA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post

  Tags: education, teaching, creativity

• Technology and Education | Box of Tricks

  Tags: education, resources, technology

• i2Pinyin – Online Chinese Pinyin Input Method

  A useful online keyboard to input Chinese Pinyin, even when no other imput software.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Mandarin+%26+Chinese+culture

  Tags: Mandarin, Chinese, pinyin, keyboard

• Tumblr Player

  A great Tumblr widget to attach music tracks to your blog. Great for publishing class podcasts.http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

  Tags: tumblr, blog, music, music player

• 5 Simple Ways To Be A Thankful Principal | EdReach

  Tags: principal, leadership

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Group links post 11/26/2011

• 10 Free Wiki Software Platforms – Choose the Best One To Build You Wiki

  Tags: wiki, free, platforms

• Nik’s Learning Technology Blog: 10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses

  A list of online tools,  many new to me. 

  Tags: no_tag

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