Useful Links (weekly)

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•  Dear Speakers – James Duncan Davidson A good list of advice tips for presenters from a conference photographer (who has to watch them).

• Windows SteadyState Windows SteadyState, successor to the Shared Computer Toolkit, is designed to make life easier for people who set up and maintain shared computers. 

• Leximo | Free Online World Dictionary – Share your words with the world The multi-lingual user dictionary, Leximo, is a free online world dictionary that encourages you to search, add and share definitions in any language. 

• Macmillan reveals adventures of young Sherlock Holmes | Books | guardian.co.uk Article about a new series planned. To be wrtten in the style of the Young Bond series.

• Photovisi – Create a wallpaper collage and more from your photos! Create a wallpaper collage and more from your photos

•  Digital bites – a set on Flickr Ideas for using pictures with quotes or statistics. Good for use in presentations. 

• World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others | Edutopia Will Richardson’s article – How to teach when learning is everywhere. It is a good article about the ‘Collaborative Age’ and its associated technologies that are transforming our world and students, creating rich and powerful learning opportunities. The important skill in this age is meeting and vetting others. Teaching personal responsibility in sharing information and building trust.

• National archives# Take a virtual tour through the US National Archives. Browse the archives; make slideshows and presentations of things that interest you The site employs a tag-based interface to connect photos, letters, government documents and cultural artifacts all by topic. The National Archives (US) is a great respository of primary source material 

• MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages An on-line educational tool that enables students to create their own comic strips online. A motivating tool for digital storytelling 

• ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Comic Creator This site offers students tools to create cartoons on-line.

• otisarchives1′s photosets on Flickr This is an unoffical home for public domain photographs from the National Museum of Health & Medicine. 

• Interesting Snippets – a set on Flickr 

• Harry Potter’s World Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine ”the exhibition explores Harry Potter’s world, its roots in Renaissance science and the ethical questions that affected not only the wizards in J.K. Rowling’s books, but also the historical thinkers featured in the series. Exhibition panels feature the works of 15th- and 16th-century alchemists, naturalists and occultists, and explore the intersection between the Harry Potter novels an Renaissance thinkers, lore and practices.”

• Nineteen Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom – Google Docs Tom Barret’s document that is constantly updated by others.

• History of Photography, Photography Time Line, Photos – National Geographic This National Geographic site portrays an realistic timeline of the history of photography, starting with the very first imagine up to modern day photography. 

• cooltoolsforschools » home A great wiki site to find good resources

• On The Media: Transcript of “The Net’s Mid-Life Crisis” (March 13, 2009) The basic architecture of the Internet hasn’t changed since it was conceived 40 years ago. But what was once the playground of wonks is now the main staging area for the global economy and open to an array of security vulnerabilities. Brooke talks with Internet experts who ponder a vexing conundrum: adjustments that increase security simultaneously hamper innovation. 

• School Gate – Times Online – WBLG: How secondary schools stop kids, especially boys, being creative – by a top children’s author 

• Clip Art Gallery Book clip art All clip art, about English and Language Arts, in Discovery Education’s Clip Art Gallery created by Mark A. Hicks, illustrator. Teachers are allowed to download up to ten images if the follow the copyright directions.

• YouTube – GoogleEarthVideoHelp’s Channel  A number of video tutorials for many common tasks in Google Earth

• Official Google Docs Blog: New Templates: Embedding spreadsheets in your website ”Did you know that you can publish a spreadsheet and embed it in your website or blog? An embedded spreadsheet is a perfect way to display an event calendar, team checklist, or your favorite list of things. Publishing a spreadsheet is really flexible. You can choose which parts of the spreadsheet to share with the world: all sheets, certain sheets, even a range of cells. Any changes you (and other collaborators) make to the spreadsheet will be visible to your website visitors. To make this easier, we’ve recently added five spreadsheet templates to the templates gallery that have been formatted nicely for websites. “

• Home – Spinebreakers Penguin’s pioneering online book community for teenagers. Reading and book review site written by and for teenagers and run by teenagers themselves 

• Melvin Burgess sees his characters come to life on the internet review | Children’s Books – Times Online The bestselling teen author, Melvin Burgess, explains how he adapted his new book, Sara’s Face, for the internet. Watch the first video blog to accompany the book here authors

• XSketch – Word Sketch Game Online pictionary with text chat. A multi-player game that lets you draw pictures for other (real) people to guess, and for you to guess other (real) people’s drawings. An account required. 

• 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources Sharing with friends, to editing, printing, buying, selling, searching, remixing and free hosting photographs from the web, this is a list of the plethora of resources for users.

• 6 Totally Essential Photoshop Skills Even Your Mom Should Know | Maximum PC ”Whether you’ve just installed Photoshop for the first time or know your away around a the Tools toolbar, we put together a few of the most essential Photoshop skills to get you started on your photo editing endeavours. “

• Myths and Legends from E2BN This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. Use with students to create a comical myth or legend.

• Museum Box Homepage The site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box

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