Useful Links (weekly)

• Home | Youth Voices A meeting place where students share, distribute and discuss their digital work online.

• Visual Design for Instructional Multimedia Ideas for visual design for instructional multimedia

• Neil Gaiman’s Journal The talented author of Coraline, The Graveyard Book and other great books comments on the things that interest him, and I find it interesting.

• ScreenToaster – Free online screen recorder: create screencasts, tutorials and reviews in a few clicks once you register you can use it anywhere/anytime to make screencasts / tutorials / demos. Record your screen in one click and add subtitles! Share videos on the Internet in Flash Embed them on blogs/webpages or send them by email.

• Europeana – Homepage A searchable collection of images, videos, audio, and documents from a variety of European museums, libraries, universities, and governments. Still in beta format.

• It Died A listing of what internet services and companies are no longer available (or soon will be) for our use

• Main Page – K-3D K-3D is a 3D modeling, animation, and rendering system featuring a robust, object-oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists, and is designed to generate motion-picture-quality animation.

• quikmaps.com :: maps for the masses A very easy to use tool that gives you the ability to “draw” lines on your map between various markers. You can also write a general description on your map. Next you are given an embed code as well as a unique url address. You don’t have to register to use it. “Doodle on Google”

• Oddee.com – A Blog on Oddities: the odd, bizarre and strange things of our world! A blog that finds all things weird and wonderful .

• vloud vloud is a free audio tool for you to upload quiet mp3s, and get louder ones back

• Photojojo » The Perpetual Photo Wall Calendar A simple idea that would be a great student project, from finding/creating the images to puting them together into something they can use.

• Double-Tongued Dictionary Double-Tongued Dictionary: A growing lexicon of fringe English, focusing on slang, jargon, new words, and more. A good resource if studying urban language but the site does contain advertisements that woud not be suitable for most schools.

• http://mediaeducationlab.com/pdf/CodeofBestPracticesinFairUse.pdf Code of best practices in fairuse for media literacy education. Hoping to clear up the confusion over the “fair use” of digital materials in teaching and learning, a panel of university professors has developed a “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education.” “The document clarifies how fair use applies to the most common situations where media-literacy educators make use of copyrighted materials in their work, and it offers guidance for instructors so they can make more informed judgments about using these materials.”

• CJOnline / The Topeka Capital-Journal – Anti-bullying plans and policies for area schools

• How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic – ReadWriteWeb Step-by-step instructions, with screen shots, for the process we use when we want to get smart about a new field in a hurry, by using the top blogs in that field.

• Lesson Writer LessonWriter creates lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English language skills from any reading passage. LessonWriter analyzes text for vocabulary, grammar and usage, pronunciation, and word roots and stems.

• Shakespeare Searched. ”This search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. Search results by topic, work, and character to make it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for. From something as simple as identifying the speaker of a particular quote to discovering underlying thematic elements across works, Shakespeare Searched has you covered. This website is not a replacement for a copy of the text. It provides no analysis or footnotes. It is meant to supplement a traditional reading of a work.”

• Behold | Search High Quality Flickr Images A very easy way to find photographs on Flickr

• SoundJay.com – Free Sound Effects Free sound effects web site. You are allowed to use the sounds on our website free of charge and royalty free in your projects but you are NOT allowed to post the sounds on any web site for others to download, link directly to individual sound files, or sell the sounds to anyone else

• How To Behave on Twitter : Scalable Intimacy Some reasonable guidelines for using Twitter.

• 52 Teachers, 52 Lessons Project

• Master Storytellers | Video channel on TED.com Nowhere has the timeless power of narrative been more apparent than at TED: here, storytellers both professional and provisional use the personal tale to entertain, educate and inspire to action.

• opensourceresources » home 

• Yuan.CC Maps Offers a way to let you mashup a variety of sources to geotag photos.

• Responsible Text Messaging Tips | Common Sense Media Some interesting information about teens and text messaging. May be a useful resource to share with parents as it offers advice and tips

• Flyr – Flickr Geotagged Photo Search You can use this little search engine to find geotagged photos. There are great applications for geotagging in schools

• CATHOLIC GOOGLE – Catholic Search Engine powered by Google - A Catholic Search Engine powered by Google

• Tame The Web » Blog Archive » Ten Trends & Technologies for 2009 Michael Stephen’s “Welcome to the 2009″ version of TTW’s annual look at the trends and technologies that I believe will impact what we do in libraries and information centers.

• Photography Assignment Generator (beta) D’arcy Norman’s contribution to the 2009/365 Flickr group. “This is a simple automated utility to generate random photographic assignments from a list of nouns, adjectives and colours.It could also be used for writing prompts.

• News | Open Source Schools

• Main Page – Teampedia This wiki is designed for a wide audience including: team leaders, trainers, teachers, managers, camp directors, counselors, and youth groups.

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

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