Useful Sites (weekly)

digiteen2008 » Virtual World Digital Citizenship for Middle Schoolers This documents students using Google lively to teach other students about digital citizenship.

Unobtrusive Collaboration in Google Docs | ICT in my Classroom  Tom Barrett shares about using google docs in his classes and live marking

Learning technology teacher development blog: Things You Can Do With Your WebCam 1 A [...]

Listening to books

I had a few days off work this week, on doctor’s orders. So I had time to read. I have always enjoyed reading. I regard myself as lucky that, in my job, I read a variety of texts from fiction to non-fiction, books, magazines, on-line/hardcopy. Reading, in whatever format, can illuminate your life. It can help [...]

Networked student

I found this thanks to CogDog. It is a simple, really easy to understand video about “connectivism”. Use it to promote network learning in school.
The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler’s high school students. [...]

Wikipedia in Simple English

I hadn’t noticed Simple English Wikipedia until last week. I think that is is a good idea for schools. I know a lot of our students use Wikipedia but the language is often too difficult, especially for the students in the lower levels, those that have specific literacy issues and our ESL (English as a Second [...]

Diigo: Why I use it.

I have been meaning to write a post about Diigo for a while. I have used a number of social bookmarking sites. I use Diigo and Delicious all the time and have also used Google bookmarks and to a lesser degree StumbleUpon and tried Furl for a while.
Delicious and Diigo are the two I used almost every day. I [...]

Having fun with images: RedKid.Net

I recently found out about some classroom activities using Flickr, via one of my Diigo groups.
Flickr: Tell A Story in 5 Frames – Kids was a site that showed how one teacher was using Flickr images as an inspiration for classroom writing/storytelling. Haiku 07 – a set on Flickrwhere Flickr was again used as an inspiration (or [...]

Europa Film Treasures

Screenshot from Les Kiriki – Acrobates Japonais – 1907 _ Europa Film Treasures

After LIFE/Googe archive more digitisation, another new source for archived collections. I was pleased to come across the Europa Film Treasures,  an archive of historical European films. The site has a focus on research and study and contains work from a number  of Europe’s most prestigious archives. It is part [...]

Searching for videos with VideoSurf

VideoSurf is a video search engine (still in beta format) . This is a new search engine that should be useful when trying to find video footage.
There is a good post on OmniVideo blog entitled Video search, are we there yet? that discusses how it works. Basically VideoSurf uses visual scanning technology to index videos. [...]

Useful Sites (weekly)

http://w3t.org/u/84kq Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008

Screenrights – copyright licences – Australia – faqs Screenrights offers advice here on its operations and the [...]

LIFE photo archive and Google

This is another great (archive) opportunity coming from LIFE and Google. LIFE magazine, and its subsequent book publications using archived photographs, has been providing a wonderful historical record for a long time. It is now easier than ever to use the the LIFE resources.They have now made available millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive. These stretch back from today to the 1750s. Most [...]