Useful sites (weekly)

• Online Fundraising Pages | Personal Internet Fundraisers | Fund Raise Online for Charity | Crowdrise Crowdrise was created to help people who want to help other people. It is a charity social networking website that lets users send donations online for various fund-raising activities and advocacies.

• Film.FM – Watch Free Movies Online Online movie streaming service that stands out from the rest because of its super smooth user experience. While Film.fm doesn’t host any movies, it crawl the best sites for high-quality movies and bring them to you for a better viewing experience. If the movie at the original source is in 6 different parts, Film.fm will combine them for you so you don’t see a lag. Most of the movies are DivX based so the quality is much better than the FLV counterparts.

• Creative Commons Search A search tool allows you to search the web for Creative Commons licensed images 

• Digital Citizenship Education Downloadable teaching units around being a digital citizen. Designed for grades 8-10; adaptable for grades 6-12.

• iPad in Education: ISTE iPad in Education Workshop on ipad apps at iste2010. Offers links to other related sites. 

• Top 10 Sites for Creating Slide Shows by David Kapuler Slideshows are one of the most popular ways to integrate technology into education. Now that there are several free sites that let users create amazing. 10 are mentioned in this post.

• Interview about Behemoth – Scott Westerfeld Interview with Scott Westerfeld re his forthcoming novel Behemoth, sequel to Leviathan.

• Digital Tools for Teachers: Creating Characters A great listing of avatar generators for school use.

• Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles : eLearning Technology This blog post by Tony Karrer provides a list of links for ideas on using Twitter in an educational setting.

• David Levithan YA author’s webpage. It also links to his MySpace page so you can see what kids are saying about his books.

• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom Steven Anderson’s educational technology blog tools and resources for Web 2.0 classroom.

• Sync.in Handy for a presentation, workshop or a class. This is an online note taking program with a twist, everyone can contribute! You don’t need to invite people to it as you do with Google, you just give out the URL and as you are speaking, all can go to the webpage and add their notes. It then can be kept for future download by them or you.

• Scan Websites for Exploits, Malware and other Malicious Threats – URLVoid.com BETA While there are many tools to check your files for viruses, there are not many trusted sources to check whether a website has malware on it. You could visit the malware infected site and the malware could penetrate your computer without your antivirus or you knowing about it. This is a serious problem which URLVoid provides a solution to.

• critical-thinking – home Howard Rheingold and other noted educators trying to create a world-class resource for teaching critical thinking and Internet literacies. This collaborative project aims to collate material that will help young people and newcomers to the internet approach the information sources they find there with critical thinking.

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