Useful Links (weekly)

• 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits This is a good site for anyone wanting to take fantastic portraits. It encourages some thinking outside the box and forgeting many of the conventions earned. Sometimes the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules. 

• TinEye Reverse Image Search Currently in Beta format, you can use the TinEye Search engine to find out where pictures are on the web. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. 

• ArtBabble | ArtBabble ”ArtBabble was conceived, initiated, designed, built, sculpted, programmed, shot, edited, painted and launched by a cross-departmental collection of individuals at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). It is intended to showcase video art content in high quality format from a variety of sources and perspectives. ArtBabble was created so others will join in spreading the world of art through video. “

• 12 Best Google Keywords for Finding Classroom Resources | Making Teachers Nerdy Great resource list of keywords to use with your search efforts when researching.

• Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: Grasping the nettle at Language World 09 A good list of web tool links and how to’s at end of post 

• 10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About | MakeUseOf.com (via TweetALink.com) Insight on some some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about instead of just searching and playing

• Home | Teacher Leaders Network The Center for Teaching Quality improves student learning by shaping policies through developing teacher leadership, building coalitions, and conducting practical research. Great network of mentor teachers in Alabama and other states in the US 

• Oddcast – PhotoFace Portrait editor that allows you to make a Voki like animation from your own image 

• StoryTop Story Maker — The Online tool for storytelling This website creates multi -page stories for kids. Students can drag and drop clip art. Also they can add text , and share their stories with their friends. This website is not the newest website, but it seems effective to get the basic concept onto the screen. 

• Digital Citizenship LIVE | the human network 

• Open Culture This site promotes free cultural & educational media like video, audio, and podcasts. 

• Digital Citizenship | the human network Looks at social connectivity and digital citizenship, with an emphasis on youth. It is a Mark Pesce essay on digital citizenship: “This paper outlines the basic features of this new world we are hurtling towards, pointing out the obvious rocks and shoals that we must avoid being thrown up against, collisions which could dash us to bits.”

• louisgray.com: Twitter Caps Following Limits, Denting Auto-Follow Services Silicon Valley Blog for early adopters, technology geeks, RSS addicts and Mac freaks.

• icloud – Your friends, files and digital life on any computer iCloud is a web site that turns your web browser into an online computer. The tool allows you to use your desktop wherever you go. Open http://icloud.com in your web browser, log in, and your very own desktop will emerge in seconds. The desktop is the starting point of your icloud experience. Here you’ll keep your most frequently used files and applications. To the right, you have a sidebar where you can keep small useful applications, e.g. clock, calendar, weather update etc. To the lower left you’ll find the start menu for easy access to all features in icloud.  

• Education 2.0 – The Edmodo Blog – Free Private Microblogging for Teachers & Students Edmodo is a free, private micoblogging service for teachers and students. Teachers can share notes, links, and files. Teachers can also send alerts, events, and assignments. Discusses Horizon report and the tools mentioned in the report include Twitter, Skype.

• Children’s Books Online – Read, Create & Share – BigUniverse.com This s an award-winning web community devoted to beautiful children’s picture books, online. It offers a “virtual bookshelf” that gives teachers a free resource to help build students’ background knowledge, vocabulary, and love of reading. Students can create their own picture books with just a few clicks or can read countless other books written by students 

• Everyone’s bookmarks for “Best Children’s Picture Books Online – BigUniverse.com” on Delicious 

• Explore Shakespeare with Google A good starting point guide (using Google Books) to research Shakespeare. Find and search all of Shakespeare’s plays by genre. (Note: Some print editions of the plays may not have entered the public domain everywhere in the world. Where the copyright status is in question, the publication will not appear in ‘Full View.’) 

• :: e-Learning for Kids :: An comprehensive collection of skill building and knowledge learning activities for kids ages 5-12. Includes: Math, Lang. Arts, Science, Computer Skills, Health and Life Skills, English Language 

• 50 great examples of infographics – FrancescoMugnai.com Showcases many great examples of the creative ways used to display information. 

• Google Similar Images A Google Labs search engine that tries to find similar images based on visual patterns.It allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words by clicking the “Similar images” link under an image to find other images that look like it. 

• STRETCH YOUR FACE – Deforma la tua faccia Allows you make comic pictures by distorting them with a stretch effect. It’s also very simple and straightforward to use. Upload a pic (maximum size – 2 MB) and then use your mouse to stretch the picture online it through its corners. You can share your creation with friends on social networks or embed it on your blog. 

• Twitter Mosaic: Make Art from Twitter (and then buy it!) Create a twitter mosaic available from http://sxoop.com/twitter/ 

• The Best Technology Platforms For Bloggers | Elance 

• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln – Awesome Stories 

• TITANIC – INSIDE AND OUT – Awesome Stories 

• Book Award Tragic 

• Newsero.com 

• Website Design, PHP Web development Advantages – Amazines.com Article Search Engine 

• Top stories | Teaching English | British Council | BBC 

• Fotonea.com – Collage made simple. How to create a collage online from your photos. 

• Share a Story – Shape a Future 

• Blogger Buster: How to add “Tweet This” links to your Blogger Template (with short URLs) 

• Quick Start Tips For New Flickr Users: Part III | The Edublogger Very good site from Sue Waters explaining tool that integrate with Flickr and have cool effects. Explains about manipulating your images, tagging, slideshows and Creative Commons (brief)

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