Group Link Post 04/30/2012

• Geographical Association

  This is a great site to find all sorts of useful resources and information for teaching geography. There are pages of lesson plans, downloads, ideas and advice.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

  Tags: Geography, resources, teaching, lesson plan, ideas

• TUCUMAN TIC: ¿Qué podemos hacer con un blog?

  Tags: blog, tic, recursos

• Wibbitz – Text to Video

  Tags: recursos, presentacion

• Dashboard on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free

  Tags: Libray, digitalstorytelling, recording, podcasting

• Research Process Rubric

  Tags: middle school

• Powerful Learning eCourses | Powerful Learning Practice

  Tags: Libray, PD

• Portal Educativo PerúEduca – Estudiantes

  Tags: educativo, estudiantes, recursos

• Twitter in K-8 Classroom- Globally Connected Learning

  Tags: Libray, Twitter, K-8

• Infomous Explorer | Infomous

  A social search aggregator similar to http://www.instagrok.com/

  Tags: Libray, Grok, searchengine

• When does technology become school supplies? ~ ubermix Blog

  Tags: technology, school, supplies

• http://www.azk12.org/blog/2010/09/mobile-learning-using-tools-at-hand/

  tools for mobile learning

  Tags: 1:1

• Sociedad aumentada y aprendizaje #IBERTIC – Red de la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos

  Tags: reig, aprendizaje, sociedad, aumentada

• Delicious.com – Discover Yourself!

  Tags: resources

• Creating Innovators: Why America’s Education System Is Obsolete – Forbes

  Tags: education, innovation

• Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement | Edutopia

  Tags: education, student, engagement

• Electric Circuit Builder

  There is no better way of learning about circuits than to get out the wires and play. But this is a good resource that helps you teach about circuits and how to build them. Good as an introduction to the topic.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

  Tags: science, circuit, electricity

• Web Tools for Teachers by Type – LiveBinder

  well organized list of web 2.0 tools

  Tags: web2.0

• E.D. You » Kindergarteners Creating Screencasts

  Kindergarten students explore Mathematics using the ShowMe iOS app.

  Tags: Libray, screencast, iPad, apps

• What Is the Point of… Pinterest?

  Tags: pinterest

• When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End? | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

  Food for thought.

  Tags: opinion, wired, internet

• A moving film about the life of a school – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post

  “Too many films about school insist on showing the teaching and learning enterprise at its worst. Students are portrayed as at best troubled and often just rotten, teachers are stupid or mean; parents are arrogant or absent. “Monsieur Lazhar” doesn’t, and that is only part of what distinguishes this moving, intelligent Canadian film, which opens in the Washington D.C. region on Friday.”

  Tags: no_tag

• How to Improve your Social Media Safety | Her Campus

  Tags: safety, online_safety, privacy, social_media

• 601 Survey

  Tags: no_tag

• Portal Educativo PerúEduca – Educasitios

  Tags: educativo, estudiantes, recursos

• Portal Educativo PerúEduca – Pregúntale al Profe

  Tags: educativo, estudiantes, recursos

• Yes, Pix Me!

  A superb collaborative image collecting site. Just drag the image into the box and share the link.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images

  Tags: images, photos

• Inca

  A great resource for learning about the Inca through a well design series of games and activities.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History

  Tags: Inca, history

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Group links post 04/30/2012

• bubbabrain, K-12+, AP/IB, SAT Interactive vocabulary practice!

  Tags: Training, education, web2.0, tools, Technology, learning, resources

• Blog post Top 10 startup tools to make a killer presentation . If you enjoy reading leave your feed-back after article

  If you are a teacher or/ and a social media curator you will like to be a presenter and love this apps . If you enjoy reading leave your comments . 

  Tags: #edtech20, project, Ahead, bringpad, cred, elearning, GlogsterEdu, present.me, presentations, Prezage, Prezi, reel, startup, thepitch, Vuvox, zohoshow

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Group Link Post 04/29/2012

• ViewAt

  View At is a 360 degree panoramic photo site with views from around the world. Upload your own panoramic photos and give out the link to share.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images

  Tags: panorama, photography, photos

• Dice Wars

  A fun dice game where you need to invade other areas by rolling a bigger number.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games

  Tags: dices, maths, strategy games

• JeopardyLabs

  Jeopardy is a popular quiz show and a great format to use in the classroom. This is an easy to use Jeopardy quiz creator. Make your quiz by choosing a password and filling in the boxes for categories, questions and answers. Your quiz is published online along with many others to browse through. Use the search box to find what you want.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

  Tags: jeopardy, games, quiz

• ScratchEd

  Tags: scratch, programming, education, collaboration, animation, MIT, edcampboston

• Wiki:Virtual Community/Social Media Stanford 2011 Course Wiki | Social Media CoLab

  Tags: social media, rheingold, blendedlearning, blended learning, education, syllabus, socialmedia

• Teacher Tools

  Tags: teacher tools, cybraryman, edcampboston

• Plancast

  Tags: planning, free, productivity

• It’s a memory thing – Tales of Things

  Tags: tagging, objects, qrcodes, web2.0

• 3DTin

  This is a superb 3D designing site. Make your designs with cubes and other basic shapes. Pan around, change colours and use templates. Get building now!
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

  Tags: design, 3d, modelling, model

• Make your own games

  7 ways to create your own educational games

  Tags: Games, Teaching Resources

• A Dynamic Floating Tag Cloud in Drupal, using Flash | Essential Technology – Web Design and Technology Support

  Tags: dynamic, floating, tag, cloud, drupal, using, flash, technology, web design, support

• iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Make your own iPad Stylus for less than 10 cents!

  make your own iPad stylus

  Tags: ipad, stylus, howto, tools, iLearn, edapp, #edcampco

• The Mobile Native: 5 Can’t Miss Mobile Learning Resources

  Tags: mobile learning, #edcampco, edtech, mobile native, blog

• Overview – GameSalad

  Create apps without coding using drag and drop. Free to download and use.

  Tags: programming, gaming

• kernelsoftruth [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage

  A web site built by the amazing students in a Social Studies Methods class at Bemidji State University to help teachers facilitate lessons on themes related to The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Lesson plans, materials, games, videos. A great tool for a teacher who wants to jigsaw student learning and is looking for accessible content.

  Tags: SocialStudies, environmental-issues, history, geography, economics, civics, food, literacy, games

• Do students need to learn lower-level factual and procedural knowledge before they can do higher-order thinking? | Dangerously Irrelevant

  Tags: bloomstaxonomy, thinking, professionaldevelopment, McLeod, #edcampco

• Social Media Guidelines | Edutopia

  Tags: SocialMedia, policies, aup

• Wollage

  A great site for making public or private online scrapbooks of images and text. It’s a lovely way to present a summary of a topic.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

  Tags: online publishing, scrapbook, web design, website

• Personalized Professional Development | Alluding to Grandeur

  Tags: teaching, edadmin, educoach, professional development, edcampboston

• 100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics – Best Colleges Online

  Tags: Twitter, resources

• Empowering Students with Digital Reading | District Administration Magazine

  Choosing e-reading resources

  Tags: Libray, reading, ebooks

• Visualizing Teacher Leadership — UCLA Center X

  Tags: teacher, leadership, ucla, infographic

• Alternatives to powerpoint – Edcamp Boston

  Tags: alternatives, powerpoint, edcampboston

• OneTaste Presents – SGB – YouTube

  Tags: youtube, SGB

• Engineering

  Tags: engineering, cybraryman, edcampboston

• YAMAHA’s Remote Lesson Demostration @ Winter NAMM 2012 – YouTube

  Shows a Yamaha piano that can be played from remote locations

  Tags: Music, distance learning, remote access, videos

• The power of Social Networking in Grade 6 with Edmodo

  Tags: social networking, edmodo

• Gmail – Living in Public: What Happens When You Throw Privacy Out the Window – rgesthuizen@gmail.com

  “I am an extremely private person. I don’t broadcast my location, I use privacy tools to keep advertisers from tracking me, and almost never give any app access to Facebook. Of course, a lot of people don’t have a problem with living publicly. I’ve always wondered what the benefits and downfalls of doing so are, so I decided to give it a three-week test run. Here’s how it went.”

  Tags: gmail, google, privacy, advertising, tracking, geolocation, public, digitalcitizenship

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Group Link Post 04/28/2012

• Coexist-Documentary Film Outreach Project

  Tags: coexist, documentary, genocide, adam mazo

• Penny Conference 2012 | Skillshare

  interesting conference- introducing revised learning formats

  Tags: conference, dontgobacktoschool

• – Eight ways to create screencasts and slideshares

  Tags: javascript:diigolet.DlgBookmark.toggleTag(‘screencasts’, %200);

• – How to edit PDF forms without Adobe Acrobat

  Tags: pdf

• Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME Ideas | TIME.com

  Tags: struggle, information, Critical_Thinking, problem_solving, learning, education

• Soluciones solares: Videos explicativos sobre el sistema fotovoltaico aislado

  Tags: videos, energia, renovable, ecologia

• The More You Struggle with New Information the More Likely You Are to Learn It

  Tags: struggle, information, Critical_Thinking, problem_solving, learning

• Clicker Implementation Models — http://www.educause.edu — Readability

  Tags: clicker, teaching, educause, tools, review, resources

• Your Smarticles: Reticence Free Vocabular-Y!

  Tags: reading, vocabulary

• FV #33 – Now I Feel Insignificant, Thanks.

  Tags: math, science, visualization

• EducationOnAir

  Tags: google, educational technology

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Group links post 04/28/2012

• 24 Hour Locksmith

  Tags: 24, Hour, Locksmith

• Lesson Plan Search – Google in Education

  Tags: Plans, –, google, education, lesson plan, lessonplans, lesson

• PHP Application Development—Get Benefits of PHP

  PHP stands for hypertext preprocessor. It is server side script therefore it can generate dynamic pages. This dynamic page can increase the interactivity between users and web page owner and between users as well

  Tags: PHP, Certification, Courses, Development, Training.

• Dot-Net Application Development – Changing World of E-Commerce

  .NET is a new Internet and web based technology by Microsoft Inc, which deliver software as Web Services. This new framework works for web based applications that work on server centric computing model.

  Tags: Development, .Net, Programming, Training, ASP.NET, VB.NET

• How to Select a Web Design Course

  Since the introduction of internet, website development has come up as a profitable field. Many IT professionals have started enrolling for the various web design courses. These website development courses arm these professionals with the various aspects of the web development tools in this world of cut throat competition.

  Tags: Web, Design, Designers, Designing, Training, courses.

• Gain Search Engine Ranking Through Online SEO Training

  Any business website should have one purpose which is to be able to generate leads. It is the very reason why business owners chose to use this marketing strategy in order to get help in increasing numbers of viewers.

  Tags: Online, SEO, Training, Course, Search, Engine, Optimization, Training.

• Internet Marketing Training Courses

  Well, here we are. The holidays are here, the economy sucks. We have been living off of our savings and selling stocks and bonds for cash. Maybe you have received the dreaded letter telling you that if you miss one more mortgage payment you will have to let go of your house.

  Tags: Internet, Marketing, Training, Courses

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Proj Based Learning Group 04/28/2012

• Locksmith

  Tags: Locksmith

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Group Link Post 04/27/2012

• pechaflickr

  Tags: flickr, pechakucha, presentation_tools, presentations

• Apps For Kids | Video Reviews | Education | iPad Kids Safety Tips

  Tags: no_tag

• Animoto – Flat Classroom Project: Perspective Detectives

  very inspiring video from Cynthia Sandler graduate of the flat classroom project.

  Tags: flatclassroom

• Better Than A Van Gogh: NASA Visualizes All The World’s Ocean Currents | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

  Tags: nasa, ocean, visualization

• How the iPad Is Changing Education

  The iPad may only be two years old, but it’s already begun to change many things. Reading is one of them. Work is another. It is selling like crazy, but it will be some time before most of the people you know own a tablet.

  Tags: ipad, education, edtech, iPads

• 365 million iOS devices ‘in play,’ iPad taking off in education and government markets

  Tags: no_tag

• SVA Names For-Profit Schools with Revoked Charters – Student Veterans of America

  Tags: no_tag

• Study: Effective School Libraries Impact Entire Schools, Not Just Test Scores

  “An effective school library impacts more than student achievement—it also lifts a school’s entire educational climate, says a recent two-phase study by Rutgers University’s Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) on behalf of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL).”

  Tags: no_tag

• musify | easy mark-up for chord notation on the web

  Tags: sourceforge, free, music, chord, notation

• BYOT/BYOD Pearltree

  Pearltree I am putting together with resources covering variety of BYOD-related topics, including issues, implementation, classroom strategies, more.

  Tags: lists, byod, byot, cellphone, games, mp3, media, issues, implementation

• gopogo

  from tech crunch:  A New York-based startup called Gopogo is launching in beta today to address this problem, with a geo-location platform for recording, sharing and discovering connected experiences. The startup launches with $3 million in seed funding from an undisclosed private equity group and has been testing its model with more than 10K people in both NYC and Los Angeles. Gopogo users create “Strings,” what the team describes as sharable social objects that consist of any group of places that have relevance and context for the user

  Tags: social networking, travel

• Automate your Dropbox

  Tags: no_tag

• Flipping the Classroom — Breaking the Mold of Traditional Teaching | Scholastic.com

  Tags: flipped_classroom

• Mr.S Jeopardy Jeopardy Review Game

  Tags: jeopardy, games, online, review

• When Missoula was Young – Blog

  another great flat-classroom project by Cindy schultz.  Collaboration between high schoolers and 3rd graders about the history of famous people in their town from a child’s perspective.

  Tags: flat_classroom, collaboration, PBL, livebinders

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Group links post 04/27/2012

• It Makes Sense To Learn PHP If You Own A Website

  PHP is a free server-side web programming language that is used by millions of websites on the internet. PHP allows websites to be dynamic and provides a host of useful features thus providing website visitors with a better user experience.

  Tags: PHP, Training, Courses

• ASP NET Developers – A Complete Solution for Offshore ASP NET Web Application Development

  Today is the era of changing technology. An online business becomes the necessity of every large business organization as well as the small group of businesses. Every business, whether they are of little size or huge organization, they prefer to create their websites into well-featured ASP.NET programming language.

  Tags: .Net, Programming, Course, Training, ASP.NET, Developers, development, programmers.

• Learning Website Design Is Simple If You Use These Three Basics

  Learning Website Design is a simple process but like anything you have to find yourself in the right place in the right time. The right time has got to be now as the internet is growing exponentially and grasping the basic skills of web site design and hosting is a great investment in your education and future.

  Tags: Web, Designing, Training, Courses, Website, Design, Classes.Net

• SEO Training Courses – The Key to Higher Search Engine Rankings

  Why are SEO Training Courses so critical to the success of your online business? Well, it really all comes down to traffic. Without lots of targeted traffic to your website, you’re not going to make any sales no matter how great your products or services may be.

  Tags: Online, SEO, Training, Course, Training.

• How To Build An Android App

  There are a number of tools that you can use to create Android apps. When you are designing your app, you need to ensure that it is usable and of course very functional. If your apps do not have these features, it will never be successful in the app market.

  Tags: Android, Programming, Course, Training.

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Group Link Post 04/26/2012

• Hot Bookmarks | Diigo

  Tags: no_tag

• SmoothDraw – Sketch Paint & Cartoon

  Painting and digital free-hand drawing software that works great with tablets.

  Tags: freeware, software, tablet, drawing, painting, art

• T.I.E. | Technology Integration in Education.

  “Are you an educator who has no time to surf the internet for great resources that will help you integrate technology into your daily teaching? Have you ever wished that there could be one central starting point in your search for great edtech resources? ” Then T.I.E. is the site for you! Form or join a group, read a news feed, participate in an event, discuss or blog about a topic, watch or share a video, and so much more!

  Tags: technology, education, integration, resources, edtech, techintegration, ning, community, socialmedia, professionallearningcommunities, PLCs, networking, social, teachers

• Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and Web 2 Tools by pip cleaves on Prezi

  Tags: no_tag

• UJAM

  This is an amazing site for creating your own music and vocal tracks. It has a huge, high quality bank of sounds and instruments. There are template compositions for beginners and everything is editable so advance users can be in control of their creativity. A free signup is required.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts

  Tags: music, audio, web2.0, creativity, sound

• Scrapbooks – Smilebox

  Tags: no_tag

• 2010 Federal Regulations on State Approval of Out-of-State Providers | wcet.wiche.edu

  Tags: no_tag

• Trang HCM

  Thông tin trường

  Tags: no_tag

• Student Led Conferences – Teacher Resources

  Great resource full of documents and handouts regarding student led conferences. I’ve been trying to place a particular structure on my open house and this site has some awesome stuff.

  Tags: no_tag

• MIT + K12

  Tags: mit, education, khanacademy, videos

• Digital Bloom’s Taxonomy – LiveBinder

  Tags: no_tag

• Juxtapost – All your favorite things, side-by-side.

  Web content collector and bookmark tool.   Pin your content.  No invitation necessary and you items can be private.

  Tags: no_tag

• Cookie – Learning Games for Kids

  A superb collection of cross curricular games, activities and other resources for younger children, including a great set of maths and English language games.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

  Tags: games, learning, maths, English, primary

• Ten education blogs worth following | eSchool News

  Tags: edu, blogs

• What Do Your Rules Say About You? | Edutopia

  Tags: classroom, teachers

• Google Documents for Teachers

  A free guide from Richard Byrne & Technology for Teachers. FreeTech4Teachers.com

  Tags: share, Google, collaborative, Google Docs

• Why Every Student Should Be In a 1:1 Classroom | Emerging Education Technology

  Tags: 1:1

• TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing

  Tags: TED, TEDEd, education, lessons, sharing

• Deep South Ed Tech: Teaching Channel: Short Video Inspiration

  Tags: teaching, inspiration, resources

• Flip this lesson! A new way to teach with video from TED-Ed

  Tags: flip, elearning

• Apple’s Monster Quarter in 4 Charts – Derek Thompson – Business – The Atlantic

  Tags: apple, charts

• TED-Ed | Tour

  Tags: videos, TEDTalks

• Lexile® at School

  “Lexile measures are powerful, versatile tools that educators can use to help their students grow as readers. When you use both Lexile reader measures and Lexile text measures, you can treat each student as an individual learner, rather than as below-grade, on-grade or above-grade. Site includes a “find a book” feature which allows you to search a book by title or author and find out the lexile level. There is a conversion chart on the site which will give you a guide to the approximate grade level equivalents as well.

  Here are some classroom ideas and applications to help you differentiate instruction for all readers in various situations.”

  Tags: levels, DIBELS, leveledreaders, grade, reading, differentiation, recommendations, books, text, comprehension, elementary, middleschool, highschool, bookselection, libraries, librarians, k-12

• Creative Educator – How Do You Know and Why is it Important?

  Tags: no_tag

• A new reason to love Dropbox

  Tags: dropbox, sharing, easy

• Writing Runway

  An aeroplane themed sentence jumbler resource. Write in a sentence for your students to arrange back into the correct.
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

  Tags: writing, sentences, English, flash

• Bear vs Bee

  A cute logic game where users must help a bear get honey. Play full screen at http://static.mathplayground.com/logicgames/bear_vs_bee.swf
  http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games

  Tags: logic, game, flash

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Group links post 04/26/2012

• Build a free personal website – Webnode

  Tags: website

• WeVideo Brings Collaborative Video Editing to Google Drive – SocialTimes

  Tags: google, collaborative, drive, collaboration, videoediting

• PHP Training – A Boost To Web Development Career In IT

  PHP Programmers are in demand. Saying this is no exaggeration. With the number of dynamic websites on the rise, the virtual marketplace is growing stupendously and expanding wider.

  Tags: PHP, programmers, programming, Training, courses.

• Hire ASP NET Developer For a Complete Web Development Solution at Affordable Cost

  ASP.NET is a scripting language and web application framework. ASP.NET Developers are in full demand because of their advantages in the website development. It is obvious that the demand for them is increasing which is higher than other.

  Tags: .Net, Programming, Course, Training, ASP.NET, Developer, Programmer

• How to Choose the Right Online Web Design Course

  A skillful Web Designers can lead to becoming a successful career if one ever decide to go further with their skills. Another option for becoming a Professional Web Designer is building site for client, such as big company or even small business.

  Tags: Web, Design, Class, Course, Designers, Designing, Institute, Training

• SEO Training Courses Help Bring Small Businesses to the Forefront

  It is never too late for anyone to take up one of the many SEO Training Courses offered as these courses will help you to improve your small business and will also help improve traffic to your site.

  Tags: Advanced, SEO, Training, Course, Training.

• The Importance of Internet Marketing Training

  The Internet has changed the way business is done. Ecommerce stores continue to see rapid growth as traditional brick and mortar stores bite the dust. It is true that the whole world is gradually making a shift towards buying & selling online.

  Tags: Internet, Marketing, Training, Courses

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