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Twitter Groups – teachers ~ teachers Teacher group
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Joy’s Flatclassroom 2008 project video – Flat Classroom Project A video that interviews students who use itouch and the iphone devices. Asks what they think about them and the things they can do with these tools. If your students have itouches and iphones at school they are probably doing things you may not want. Should schools ban them or work on appropriate use and behaviour. Flat classroom project.
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Spark | CBC Radio | Your Homework: Make Wikipedia Better One teacher’s students worked together in small groups to research, edit and improve the quality of “Wikipedia articles that were either overly brief or lacking in credible information, with the aim of increasing the quality of Wikipedia’s coverage of East Asian religions.” Once the improved articles were completed and graded, Chris added the articles back into Wikipedia
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Education | Glogster The education version of Glogster (a great site for creating interactive posters, cards etc.) without some of the rubbish
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Commentary: How social media shared pain and rage of Mumbai – CNN.com
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New animation: Intellectual Property Rights in the Web 2.0 world : JISC Copyright issues are valid within the Web 2.0 world.This s a new animation that highlights how to ascertain copyright ownership and seek the correct permissions before reusing any audio, visual, textual or multimedia material found online.
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Coffee-Soft – make the most of your digital classroom CoFFEE – the new groupware application for digital iscussionsin a live classroom situation. It offers customisable tools, such as a threaded discussion forum, graphical concept mapping, voting and more. Open-source and free! Available in: English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch.
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Checkvist: collaborative online outliner and checklist An online collaborative outliner and task list manager. Extensive use of keyboard navigation and shortcuts allows to create an outline exactly with your typing speed. Write down your ideas fast using keyboard shortcuts, share your checklists with others and work together, copy and move tasks between checklists and get notified about changes.
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information, learning, technology and more: New Elluminate features
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The Teaching Palette The Teaching Palette is a blog authored by art educators for art educators. The goal is to provide a collaborative and resourceful forum where art specialists of all levels can explore professional topics that impact our subject area – from classroom management to tools and techniques to integrating music.
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befuddlr! Enables you to turn Flickr images into puzzles
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Booklist Online – Book Reviews – Home A free Web site (and a subscription database). The free site offers a generous selection of Booklist content—plus some Web-only features—and is updated daily or weekly.It features over 120,000 book reviews, as well as audiobook, video, and database reviews, and is the counterpart to Booklist magazine, published by the ALA
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Day 27 Thanksgiving Special: With a little help from my friends – Teach42 Good article about what makes a good blog and how to blog.
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History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research | Home A University of Richmond project tool is designed to provide a way for teachers in higher education to have their students share their writing about history with the world. The purpose is to develop a huge online database of stories about historical events.
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40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark [2] | MakeUseOf.com – Annotated
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40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark | MakeUseOf.com – Annotated Blog lists undiscovered webservices that are original, rather unique, unusual, useful, free, and must-be bookmarked type. You won’t find any collaboration, storage or ToDo service here.
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Shmoop Literature: Summary, Analysis, Themes, Characters, Paper Shmoop Literature is a literature, history and poetry website, written primarily by PHD and masters students at US Universties.
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Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers Forvo: word pronunciation dictionary. All the words in all the languages pronounced by native speakers
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podOmatic – Create, Find, Share Podcasts! A free podcasting service. Upload podcasts and embed them into any webpage. Also has a guide for creating podcsts. Subscribe to podcasts in iTunes.
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Educational Simulations Products Simulations that let you experience life as, for example, a peasant farmer in Bangladesh, a factory worker in Brazil, a policeman in Nigeria, a lawyer in the US, or a computer operator in Poland, among others
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Futurelab – Projects – Racing Academy Racing Academy is a racing videogame built on an advanced physics simulation engine. It is intended to support an online community of learners’ increased familiarity with engineering concepts, through racing and engineering realistic virtual models of cars.
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Futurelab – Projects Racing Academy is a racing videogame built on an advanced physics simulation engine. It is intended to support an online community of learners’ increased familiarity with engineering concepts, through racing and engineering realistic virtual models of cars.
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zaidlearn’s EduGames Bookmarks on Delicious ducational games are a great way for students of all ages to learn and retain information. The internet is full of sites that offer free access to games of all kinds, and there is no shortage of educational games that can be downloaded, or simply played right on your web browser. This post includes 10 sites, which will link you to a wide variety of free educational games.
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ElectroCity ElectroCity is a new online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It’s great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand.
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YouTube – What I Want For My Children The video was created by Heidi Hass Gable, a mother from the school parents group who comes at the topic of a child’s education from a family perspective.
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