Useful Links (weekly)

• Eon, by Alison Goodman Interesting site to add to the narrative in the books

• Alison Goodman: author of Eon: Dragoneye Reborn and The Two Pearls of Wisdom The journal section of Alison’s site

• Ideabook.com Tutorials | Graphic file formats A tutorial about vector bitmap resolutions etc (Saxaphone image article) 

• TwitterFox – Firefox extension for Twitter This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar which notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.

• Wiki Alarm – Email monitoring & alerts for Wikipedia pages WikiAlarm is an online tool that lets you track Wikipedia edits on the pages that interest you and get email alerts whenever someone edits them. The site is easy to use and you can monitor unlimited number of pages.

• The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008 | EDUCAUSE 2008 ECAR research study is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 ECAR studies of students and information technology. The study is based on quantitative data from a spring 2008 survey of 27,317 freshmen and seniors at 90 four-year institutions and eight two-year nstitutions; student focus groups that included input from 75 students at four institutions; and analysis of qualitative data from 5,877 written responses to open-ended questions. In \naddition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2008 study also includes a special focus on student participation in social networking sites

• Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick This is an online noticeboard and comment making place – nice and visual. No login required..quick class activity! WITH video and pic embeds! 

• Dave Werner’s Portfolio 2006 Great portfolio and insights on design by Dave Warner

• Stykz – The first multi-platform stick figure animation program Stykz is frame-based, letting you to work on individual frames of your animation 

• Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

• Downloads – for The story of stuff Downloads from the Stry of stuff a 20 min animation on stuff, all the things we think we need!

• Best sites online to watch movies for free The best free online sites to watch movies 

• Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie Easy to use, make a movie in less than 5 minutes!

• The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education – Curtis J. Bonk A new book by CurtisBonk- that looks to extend our thinking about the use of technology for education.

• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard 20 min animation on stuff, all the things we think we need!

• Welcome to PrintFriendly.com Choose any website to print out in a friendly format.

• 15 questions… | Learning is Change. 

• Six to Start and Penguin Books launch We Tell Stories 

• Interactive Map – Conservation International Interesting multimedia world map highlighting environmental issues around the world — from Conservation International. 

• STS-125 – The Final Shuttle Mission to the Hubble Telescope NASA interactive on the mission to repair the Hubble telescope.

• Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history This is an interactive map from Good Magazine. Users can pick from a number of famous explorations (Lindbergh, Amelia Earheart, etc.) and trace it through images and simple text. It’s accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners. 

• Games | National Geographic Channel The games and interactives produced by the National Geographic Channel all together in the one place

• World Press Photo 2009 – The Sydney Morning Herald A selection of images from the 52nd annual World Press Photo Contest. Watch them in a slideshow put together by the Sydney Morning Herald.

• The seven secrets behind great teaching – Features – TES This is a reasonably short but thought-provoking article summarizing interviews with “15 award-winning teachers.”

• Samurai Kids Official Website Interesting site to support the book series

• FlickrSync FlickrSync is a freeware photo synchronization application for flickr users. It displays your local folders and your flickr sets and it can establish synchronization rules between them. This way you can manage all your photos locally and FlickrSync will keep them updated in flickr. Synchronization is only done one way: Your local folders or images are never changed; Everything is updated in flickr to match your local information.
  

• Participatory Learning A great slide set that

• Word Spy This Web site is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren’t “stunt words” or “sniglets,” but new terms that have appeared multiple times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other recorded sources.

• BookGlutton An online community for books. It is a free, online ePub reader with a focus on the social aspects of reading

• 50+ Ways To Create Digital Stories With Students | The Edublogger Creating stories using web tools is fun and engaging for student while also teaching them new skills. Best of all you can embed them in blog posts to grab readers; including something a bit different makes reading posts more interesting. Includes how to get a story idea, sample story board, sample stories and review of the tools.

• WiZiQ Free Online Teaching and E-Learning with Web Conferencing WiZiQ enables teachers and learners to collaborate through: Virtual Classes, Online Tests, Educational Content, and Contact Network.

• Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers by Nik Peachey From here you can find a collection of recommended Web 2.0 sites for teachers, esp EFL ESL teachers

• Glance – Desktop Sharing, Web Demos, Web Presentations with One Click | Glance Offers varous free options for cost-effective webinars and teleseminars by sharing the Desktop with others

• Stupeflix – Video creation made easy – Welcome A web service that turns your pictures, videos, and text into professional videos. With Stupeflix you can import as many pictures and videos as you want to mix them altogether with music and texts. Add one or many soundtracks to your video. Sync them to your pictures precisely or mix them together.

• social bookmarking for images on vi.sualize.us Looks like visual version of delicious, and unlike Found and Dropular you can add images yourself, also has a handy Firefox plug-in This is social bookmarking for images using vi.sualize.us – a showcase of visual content for inspiration or simply delight of the spectator based on people recommendations

• Through the Wild Web Woods – A game by the Council of Europe based on the Internet Literacy Handbook  Through the Wild Web Woods is an online game for teaching basic Internet safety in a fun and friendly fairy tale environment

• FriendOrFollow.com – Who’s not following you back? Who aren’t you following? Find out who you follow that doesn’t follow you back.

• Obama Twitter Word Map Tagcloud made of Obama’s head

• Yahoo! Media Player Yahoo! Media Player is an easy to use embedable mp3 player that can be used to play audio links on your website or personal profile webpage. Once you have added it to your site it automatically finds all audio links on the webpage and turns them into a playlist. It can even pick up your images and adds them as a cover art tags:

• Michael Horn: Disrupting Class, Web 2.0, and More – The Future of Education Michael Horn, co-author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, and the co-founder and Executive Director (Education) of Innosight Institute, a non-profit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector. We’ll discuss his book, Web 2.0, and more. 0

• Don Tapscott Talks About Education, Grown Up Digital, and the Net Gen Education Project – The Future of Education Don Tapscott is one of the world’s leading authorities on business strategy, with emphasis on how information technology changes business, government and society.

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