Useful sites (weekly)

• A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods  Ideas for different types of graphics – info only. Good way to come up with diagrams for presentations

• ISTE Unplugged – home Presentations from ISTE Unplugged at the recent ISTE (NECC) conference. Valuable assortment from the non-official component of conference .

• Read It Later: Save Your One Read Wonders Save pages to read later. Eliminate cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.

• Welcome to Literacyhead!  Literacy Head is a weekly e-publication about teaching literacy through the use of art work. Each week Literacy Head publishes lessons for teaching visuals-based reading, writing, and vocabulary lessons. To help students visualize the word and its definition. Literacy Head’s current weekly issues are free to view. Accessing the archives requires a Literacy Head membership. In other words, you can view each new issue each week for free, but archives access requires membership. 

• OurStory.com – Capture your stories, save them permanently.  Save Stories, Photos, and Videos on a Collaborative Timeline. A free tool for building a collaborative family history project over the internet, this timeline generator can adapt to fit a timeline of anything It goes beyond blogging to permanently capture life’s stories in words and photos. You can publish or share the stories privately with family and friends.  ta

• Rememble Rememble is a organises your digital bits and pieces. Thread together texts, photos, videos, sounds, scribbles, scans, notes, tweets. The website allows you to upload text, pictures, video, and audio clips from a PC or mobile phone (by texting the multimedia to Rememble’s number), then saves the information in a timeline. Users can collaborate with other users and share their Membles

• Zerofootprint: Footprint Calculator A clever and interactive

• Slimber.com – Online Drawing – Online Painting – Flash Drawing Application  Slimber.com is an online drawing application. It allows users to draw online, replay and save their drawings. Users can rate, comment and share drawings. The Most Rated drawings are rewarded by being featured on the home page 

• SignApp Now – Simple Sign Up Sheets. Create a Sign Up Sheet now. SignApp Now is a very easy way to create a sign-up sheet for keeping track of who’s coming to an event. You don’t need to register, people signing up don’t need to register. You just create a sign-up page, email the url, and wait for people to sign up.

• Conjugate Verbs |Conjugation English Verbs | Conjugated Verbs  Conjugation.com is an easy to use website that works by just typing the verb that you want to conjugate in any form. Any verb, regular or irregular. You then Click on “Conjugate,” and a new page is instantaneously displayed, with the verb shown in all of its forms, voices and tenses.

• ImageChef – Word Mosaic  Very similar to Wordle, but with more design options, Word Mosaicallows you to create word clouds from text you enter. Some nice features in Word Mosaic and it allows you to save your creation as a gif and/or share it via email – Twitter, Facebook and my Space. Note: frequently used words do not appear larger as with Wordle.

• How to Archive a Ning Site | Kevin’s Meandering Mind   Simple instructions with screen grabs.

• Educational Software | Teaching with Comics | Bitstrips for Schools   This site offers software that would allow students to create their own comic strips. Not free
• Here Be Dragons: An Introduction to Critical Thinking  “Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking. It is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution and public display. Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.”

• Personalized Assessment «Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech  Offers some good ideas on different approaches to assessment by giving students some choice in selecting assessment methods. Interesting thoughts here from Dean Shareski with great examples.

• Australian Inventions Comprehensive website about Australian inventions and inventors.

• Blio eReader An e-book reader supposed to launch in 2010. The software should be pc combatible. Offers features such as highlighting and annotating books, texts will be stored virtually so reader’s notations are available anywhere. Will also have read-aloud feature.
• World eBook Fair  Offers a subscription approach to world e-book library. From their site:  “Our goal is to provide free public access for a month up to 2 Million eBooks. During the rest of the year you may continue to download your selection of about 750,000 PDF eBooks by joining the World Public Library. Annual membership is only $8.95 (US) per year.”
• iPod Touch Project A great resource about how an Auckland school has trialled the introduction of iPod Touches in the classroom. 

• EduDemic » 41 New Ways Google Docs Makes Your Life Easier  A good post explaining tools for the new user and some useful tips and tools for the experienced user. 

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

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