Useful Links (weekly)

• CiteXplore ”CiteXplore combines literature search with text mining tools for biology. Search results are cross referenced to EBI applications based on publication identifiers. Links to full text versions are provided where available. “ 

• MapSkip – Places Have Stories! MapSkip makes the world a canvas for our stories and photos. It is an ancient human instinct to share our life stories with others, as the paintings and hand prints in stone-age caves show. And many of our stories are about places. Where we fell in love, had the dream vacation, took that great picture or, well, joined the rebellion. And then there are the many other places that anchor our lives – where we live, eat, work and have fun. 

• Letters of Note Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and even emails. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Updated weekdays

• Welcome to CellStories: a daily dose of awesome stories for your iPhone, iPod Touch, or other mobile device a daily story delivered straight to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or other mobile device Whether on a lunchbreak, riding the train, or simply kicking back on the couch with a post-work beer, why not read something awesome. Like today’s story, “Dear Diary” by Khanisha Foster. This isn’t another eBook store–this is something different, something simple: a new story, every day. Free and surprising, CellStories strives to bring you writing that’s unexpected. Like all good stories, some are true, some are not, and many fall in that wonderful grey area between.

• Where can I …. search effectively? | Tools 4 Tassie Teachers 

• Kids Connecting With Adults Online ” If you haven’t read the new MacArthur foundation report Living and Learning with new Media (http:// bit.ly/SooSe), which discusses how our kids are using social networks and tools to connect, you might want to consider it sooner rather than later. In a nutshell, the study found that kids are using online social technologies in impressive numbers to stay connected to the people they already know and, more importantly for us, to connect to other people around the globe they don’t know but with whom they share a passion or an interest. via Will Richardson

• AudioOwl – Free Audio Books – Download mp3 and iPod format today! 

• AudioOwl – History – Free audio Books – Download mp3 and iPod format today! 

• Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: A Taxonomy of Reflection: Critical Thinking For Students, Teachers, and Principals (Part I) 

• BBC News – Schools must embrace mobile technology 

• The Innovative Educator: Don’t be illTwitterate or aTextual Ideas for using Twitter with students ,

• Patrick Ness – Diary 

• VoiceThread – Group conversations around images, documents, and videos This is a secure VoiceThread network for students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms anywhere in the world. Group conversations around images, documents, and videos Messages can be text-based (computer keyboard, phone text), audio (computer mic, telephone call, upload), or video (computer webcam, upload) Can be used to put “instruction” online.

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Useful Links (weekly)

• Facebook Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable  Mashable has put together a new Guidebook to Facebook, similar to their Twitter Guidebook, with detailed instructions for how to do nearly everything on the social network including – Facebook 101: The Basics, Managing Your Facebook Wall, Using Facebook for Business, How to become a fan of Mashable, Using Facebook Applications, Facebook 305: Advanced Topics,
• Old Photos & Old Pictures: Historical Photos at V like Vintage “This is a photo library and search engine all in one. V like Vintage bridges the gap between analogue photography and digital technology – and invites all amateur photographers, collectors and anyone interested in history on a fascinating journey through time featuring the countless faces of history. For this purpose, V like Vintage addresses all those who own historic photographs.”

• Hints & Tips For Doing A 365 Day Photo Project @ Dawnstar Australis As 2009 draws to an end and 2010 gets ready to spring into being the question many photographers are asking themselves is: Do I want to do a 365 day photo project? Peter Carey recently provided an article to the Digital Photography School website on the many benefits of doing a photo365 project. Dawn thought she would add to this work by listing some of lessons she has learnt from doing the 365 Before Thirty Project so far.

• Classroom 2.0 LIVE! Classroom 2.0 LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other members of the community in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and sometimes even video. For the weekly Saturday show you click on the words ‘Welcome Video Screencast’ to view a short screencast about the website and tutorial on accessing our Elluminate sessions.  

• Teachers Report Assistant – FREE time saving utility for teachers The Teachers Report Assistant is a free source program that aim to make the reporting process easier and cut teachers’ reporting time down. It creates a report card that is easy to follow and easy to make adjustments and correct mistakes. It is only available for Microsoft operating systems.

• How to Setup a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in Windows – Step by Step Guide How to Setup a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in Windows – Step by Step Guide

• Online Book Collections & Libraries: LibraryThing, Shelfari, & Goodreads | In All Reality A post comparing the pros and cons of each of the above

• 7 Things You Should Know About… | EDUCAUSE The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI’s) 7 Things You Should Know About… series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes how they might be used.

• in education | exploring our connective educational landscape 

• 10 Must-Read eBooks for Social Media Lovers Christina Warren at Mashable has compiled a list of 10 Must-Read eBooks for Social Media Lovers. Each list entry includes a brief synopsis, cover art, and format details. The World According to Twitter by David Pogue looks interesting.

• 69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009 @ SmashingApps Those at Smashing Apps have put together a list of the 69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009.

• About | storyLines Open to contributions, this Australian blog was created to give support to high school literature programs. It features everything from book reviews to critiques on new Web 2.0 technology.

• CaptionTube: Home Create captions for your YouTube videos.The interface is very simple to use and it offers several alternatives for saving and exporting your captions. Captions can be done in owned or third party videos, and if you are not the owner it offers alternatives for publishing your captions in someone else’s creation.

• 9 Ways to Visualize Proportions – A Guide | FlowingData With all the visualization options out there, it can be hard to figure out what graph or chart suits your data best. This is a guide to make your decision easier for one particular type of data: proportions. 

• Home – Trove Trove is focused on Australia and Australians. It supplements what search engines provide with reliable information from Australia’s memory institutions. If you are researching in the fields of the social sciences, literature, local or family history, or need inspiration for your school assignment, then this is the tool for you.

• Web design | Create Free websites Web design with Wix.com Flash website builder. Choose your free web design from thousands of free Flash templates (Websites, Widgets, Newsletters, Banners, Flyers)

• YouTube – SafetyCenterVideos’s Channel 

• Featured Articles USDLA article. Content and technology are continually changing. This article reminds us that learners are also changing. For the past decade, faculty who won awards for teaching expressed concern that they could no longer hold the attention of their students. John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, hired 15 year olds to design future work environments and learning environments. He observed that the students did not conform to the traditional image of learners as permissive sponges. It requires us to rethink and redesign education for the Digital Age.

• Assorted Infotoons – a set on Flickr 

• Creating Resources / Resources & CPD / YHGfL – YHGfL 

• Cyberbullying / eSafety / YHGfL – YHGfL 

• How To Use An Apostrophe – The Oatmeal A simple (and comic) guide on when and when not to use an apostrophe.

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