Useful sites (weekly)

• New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development – MacArthur Foundation ”Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value.”

• The Daily SuDoku A free daily sudoku puzzle with archive of previous days. You can work on-line or print it out.. Also choose a level of difficulty

• TESconnect, TES connect, education recruitment, teaching jobs, teacher jobs, teaching vacancy, teaching vacancies, school jobs, school vacancies, education, teacher, teaching resources, teacher training, education jobs, school teacher, jobs in teaching, p Teaching resources from The Times Educational Supplement web site (UK).

• Calendar – Australia – 2009 Set country, time and Date and you can quickly determine the dates for holidays in pretty much any country and any year.

• The National Strategies  Professional development (UK) interactive resource is full of good advice, lesson plans, starters, plenaries etc. It is produced on behalf of the UK government to support secondary teachers.

• BEST NEWS PHOTOS OF 2008: Editors’ Picks A good collection of some great photojournalism. 

• Trendrr – Track Compare Share Track a variety of data sources (eg social networks, blogs, video views) to discover trends that are happening in real time.

• Encyclopodia ebook-LibraryAllows you to nstall the Wikipedia on your ipod.

• Digital Classics An online book database focusing on the English classics. You need to give name and email but a well-presented source for free books.

• Google Librarian Central – Tools Posters/handouts to help teach your students and patrons how to use Google more effectively: posters, bookmarks, starter guides.. etc for many of the google tools.

• Convert pdf to word – Convert pdf to doc – Convert online pdf to word. This site allows you to convert online the pdf file to the word file for free.

• Flag Identifier – search An easy-to-use web tool for identifiying different flags. 

• Khan Academy Fantastic mathematics subject resource site

• eNotes eNotes features online study guides, lesson plans, and other reference material in a wide range of academic areas.

• Yahoo! Glue – all you need, all in one place. A simple-to-use digital page assembly where you find images, videos, articles, and put them all onto one page. Glue allows you to create topic pages and make all the information you want only one click away.

• ImageMagick: Convert, Edit, and Compose Images  Very text based and could be improved. You can use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

• 4ureaders This site for readers aged 11-16 was developed in 2002-3 with East Ayrshire Libraries with the support of various authorities. The site divides into three separate sections to appeal to different audiences within the age group. School and children’s librarians worked with young readers to help plan the content of the site.

• boysedhfs » Boys and literacy resources we ve used This wiki lists a lot of web sites that, although not specifically made for boys’ literacy needs, offer great activities that seem to be particularly good for encouraging boys to read.

• FlickrIn – Embed flickr photos with a nice effect Make your Flickr content stand out by creating tag-based collages. 

• 10+ Web Tools To Save Your Butt In School | MakeUseOf.com Some great web tools for students to use.

• Simple Spark – Web App Catalog Simple Spark is a directory of web applications. You can find and share many web applications.Well-maintained listings with reviews, etc. 

• Your Genius Find your inner genius.

• Confusing Words Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.

• Tagaroo » Make blogging better! 

• Digital Tattoo: what’s yours? Your digital reputation is an expression of yourself. It’s highly visible, and hard to remove. Explore how your online identity affects you, your friends, your school and your job – for better and for worse – and how to make informed choices.  

• Our Responsibilities as “Digital Citizens” | Mantz’s Mission. 

• oursignal.com OurSignal.com looks at currently popular items on the top social news sites and mashes it all together. The idea is to allow users (you especially) to get a rapid overview of what the latest breaking headlines are at the frontline of the intermatubes. The bigger the box, the more relative votes a story has. The warmer the color, the quicker the story is on the rise. Cooler colors denote negative velocity. Sources are refreshed every 15 minutes.

• A Picture’s Worth – Cassie Photographs with essays for each day of the year. 

• Langwitches » Digital Storytelling- Part VI VoiceThread A good how-to article for teachers telling them how to get started with Voice Thread to have a class create narratives around a given topic, in multimedia format; excellent screenshots explain how to use this application in detail.

• Central Desktop – Project collaboration, Team collaboration, Intranets, Wiki Software – Central Desktop A web-based collaboration tool for teams to manage projects, share information and communicate with others.

• Two utilities for taking simple screenshots in Windows – Download Squad A good screen capture utility.

• Twitter for Librarians: The Ultimate Guide | College@Home A good guide on using Twitter. Also has great general Twitter links.

• Voicethread for Educators – Voicethread for Educators A Ning group that is “Looking to create, build and keep resources for people using http://voicethread.com in their classrooms. “ 

• Smarter Surfing Starts Here An American ISP’s site that gives great info about teens and surfing. 

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