Useful Links (weekly)

• GenoPal – Color Schemes A simple tool that allows you transfer the Color Mood from picture to graphics.

• Global Voices Online “Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online attempting to shine light on places and people other media often ignore”

• DailyLit: Read books online by daily email and RSS feed DailyLit lets you read entire books in short, customized installments sent to you by email or RSS.  

• Technology is Great, but Are We Forgetting to Live? – ReadWriteWeb 

• 50 Tools and Tricks to Revolutionize Your Notetaking | Distance Learning Net  “These 50 tools and tricks will revolutionize your note-taking by introducing you to techniques and websites that let you share ideas, store your thoughts directly on a web page and more”

• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/handy-tools-for-students/ 

• Extrema-Home Page Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information. Its flexibility, sophistication, and power allow you to easily develop your own commands and create highly customized graphs. 

• Enhancing Child safety and online technologies Report of The Internet Safety Technical Task Force who were comissioned to consider, on an accelerated timeline, the extent to which technologies can play a role in enhancing safety for minors in these online spaces. The Task Force was a collaborative effort among leaders from Internet service providers, social network sites, academia, education, child safety and public policy advocacy organizations, and technology development.  

• Worldometers – real time world statistics Worldometers provides real time statistics up into different areas: world population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health. 

• inSuggest – website and image recommendations 

• Home What Works Well is a UK site that offers case studies of best-practise examples of strategies used to improve teaching and learning

• Icerocket blog search A search engine that is a good tool for search blog materials as well as otther digital media. Can also be used to follow trends.  

• Collagr.com – Create your own collage that you can use in your myspace.com profile or desktop wallpaper  Create your own collage that you can use in your myspace.com profile or desktop wallpaper  

• Feelimage – Image search feeling words Image search across numerous image stores

• Literacy with ICT – IMYM Tutorials Wiki / Flickr Toys and More Wiki with a lot of information on classroom ICT and class wiki tools some great ideas for digitalstorytelling 

• educational-origami » home Educational Origami is a blog and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom. Its about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching 

• Main Page – Horizon Project workspace for the Horizon Project. The New Media Consortium’s Emerging Technologies Initiative focuses on expanding the boundaries of teaching, learning and creative expression by creatively applying new tools in new contexts.

• The NYPL Picture Collection Online Search or browse “more than 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923”. Images are in public domain, but be sure to read permissions and link/attribution requirements.  

• PicLits.com – Create a PicLit A tool to create a quick poster with drag and drop photos/text  

• Download DroPic! 0.2 – DroPic! – Reduce jpeg file sizes – Softpedia  

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