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 great post about using webcams for learning/classroom activities.

• Blogging Rubric Blogging Rubric by Ryan Bretag is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License . Based on a work at docs.google.com . Blogging Rubric by Ryan Bretag is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.Based on a work at docs.google.com.

• How To: Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning | Edutopia How To: Use Social-Networking Technology for LearningWhy teachers should embrace networking, and how they can use it to improve education.by Fran SmithPrint Forward Share Comments(10) Comment RSS This how-to article is accompanied by the feature “My School, Meet MySpace: Social Networking at School

• The Sky’s the Limit: Kids’ Top Tools for the Classroom | Edutopia Article that looks at kids’ ideas for tech integration in the classroom

• ffwd | home tags: filesharing, aggregator, twitter, tv, socialmedia, youtube, web2.0, video, socialnetworking

• Podiobooks.com – Serialized audio books in podcast form Free serialized, audio books. Delivered as podcasts, you can subscribe, for free, to any book and start from chapter one.

• Flickrbits 157 applications tools and extensions) in the database, all of which utilise the Flickr API in some way.

• YouTube – Networked Student 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. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros’ Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their colleagues, parents, and students understand networked learning in the 21st century.

• bit.ly, a simple url shortener A simple URL shortener 

• IBM: Talking Web Will be Commonplace in 5 Years – ReadWriteWeb Every year IBM releases a “Next Five in Five” list, a list of innovations that “have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years”. 

• RedKid.Net tags: Education, resources, blog, internet, graphics, images, aggregator, generators, clipart, webtools, photos, redkid.net

• sunkencity.org: flickredit FlickrEdit is a Java Desktop application that allows you to display and edit your photos in a variety of ways. It also allows you to download/backup or upload your photos to and from Flickr. FlickrEdit is written in Java and it uses flickrj framework to access Flickr. 

• EasyBib: The Free Automatic Bibliography Maker – MLA and APA citations A citation tool that does all the MLA and APA formatting for you

• WePapers – The world’s biggest study-group A website created for study groups to facilitate sharing information. 

• English Vocabulary Quizzes Using Images Interactive multiple-choice quizzes, using images, for studying English vocabulary.  

• MySecureCyberspace: Children Online: Getting Younger and Continuing to Take Risks An article posted about the findings from a study by Rochester Institute of Technology

• Copyright code developed to guide teachers tags: web2.0, copyright, fairuse, teachers

• Haiku 07 – a set on Flickr  tags: flickr, haiku, classprojects, web2.0, eduflickr

• Flickr: Tell A Story in 5 Frames – Kids A great way to use Flickr as an inspiration for classroom writing

• EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing A useful tool that allows for real-time collaboration on a text document. Everyone can literally be on the same page. 

• ccLearn ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons dedicated to realizing the full potential of the internet to support open learning and open educational resources. 

• Marking work in Google Docs | ICT in my Classroom Techniques for teachers.What formatting tools are most appropriate to use when leaving comments? How do you organise 30 to 60 pieces of work handed in to you? How do children hand in work? What new possibilities does this process uncover?

• Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 Article about the relevance of writing a blog today,and compares blogs to other social media tools 

• HistoGrafica – Picture the Past Everyone can share and create this image repository of global, historical images/photographs, for use with Google Maps. 

• Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.