Useful sites (weekly)

  by  lynetter 

•  HowStuffWorks “Top 5 Google Killers — That Didn’t” “Google is the world’s search engine leader. But that doesn’t mean every other company has given up on dethroning the king. See why so far no company has had what it takes.”

• BBC – Writersroom – Writing Resources Writing resources and tips for the screen, radio, theatre, magazines, etc from BBC

• BBC – Writersroom – Writing Tips Writing resources and tips for the screen, radio, theatre, magazines, etc from BBC

• EduKindle A blog that looks at using the kindle in academic arenas. It is designed to provide information and tools that will enhance the Kindle experience of anyone with an interest in teaching and learning with support from the Kindle.

• In Scholastic Study, Children Like Digital Reading – NYTimes.com NYTimes Article summary of research: “Many children want to read books on digital devices and would read for fun more frequently if they could obtain e-books. But even if they had that access, two-thirds of them would not want to give up their traditional print books. The report also suggested that many children displayed an alarmingly high level of trust in information available on the Internet: 39 percent of children ages 9 to 17 said the information they found online was “always correct.” “

• New Study on Reading in the Digital Age An article about research conducted in the USA, but has applications for Australia as well.. As expected, kids have embraced new technology faster than many adults, and are keen to read ebooks.

• The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education | Center for Social Media 

• Alone Appealing website for James Phelan’s Alone series

• The problem of the read-aloud – readerswithautism.com Read Alouds are a vital component of the literacy curriculum, yet many autistic children do not respond well to them. Advice on this issue is from the Readers with Autism blog. 

• Over, Under, and Beyond Words: Alternative Strategies for Observing Talk in Classrooms (E-GUIDE) conversation

• How To : Five Common Sense Social Networking Rules for Kids : ReputationDefender 

• BBC EARTH LIFE IS An amazing site from BBC Earth. The beautifully interactive site is full of images, video, and stories from BBC Earth’s most captivating documentaries. Each month features a different theme. The astonishing images and video capture life’s most colorful displays in nature. The search page is equally stunning, offering an on-screen widget that lets students adjust the pictures in the grid by filtering by hot/cold, slow/fast, sea/sky, or colour.

• Bloom’s Taxonomy Bloomin’ Tree from iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » A teacher created these for her classroom so that she could share Bloom’s with her kids in different ways that would make their classroom fun, but also give them a different way of viewing the information. Here she is sharing her Bloomin’ Tree. As she started making her Bloom’s re-imagines, students started coming to her with ideas of how to display the information. The tree was a student idea and the boy underneath is Lance, who made the suggestion.

• MathMovesU | making middle school math fun MathMovesU is an innovative approach to maths practice that shows students how maths is used in real life. As students explore the MathMovesU virtual world they will collect points by discovering maths and tracking solutions. This site encourages students to discover more, dig deeper and think critically about maths.

• The easiest way to download lossless YouTube to your computer – HOME – Edgalaxy: Where Education and Technology Meet. 

• Futurelab – Resources – Publications, reports & articles – Literature reviews – Serious Games in Education 

• Comic Master Comic Master that lets you create a graphic novel online that can be saved and printed. The interface is very intuitive and fun to use Using the Graphic Novel Creator, students can create their own multi-page graphic novels with interesting backgrounds, characters, props, and customized text.

• Researching and Writing Bestsellers – An Interview with Joseph Kanon | The New York Public Library 

• THOSE WHO DON’T BUILD MUST BURN (Featured Article) « The Burning Platform 

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