Useful sites (weekly)

• Storyboard Depot : The eLearning Coach A collection of storyboard templates 

• Obsurvey A new survey tool that looks quite impressive at first glance. “Create a survey, collect responses, analyze results no ads, no cost, no limitations.” 

• Innovative school design is hard, but it doesn’t have to be. – By Ronald E. Bogle – Slate Magazine Creativity in designing schools. “When people talk about how hard it is to change our public schools, they’re usually referring to curriculum reform or employment contracts. But there’s another area where change is difficult: design. When a proposed school building doesn’t look exactly like what folks think a school should look like, officials freeze. ‘

• What should we do with tools to make them great? « Online Sapiens Some great ideas put together in this post

• Designing the Classroom of the Future | always learningConsidering that education may look very different in a reasonably short amount of time, that we’re going 1:1 in the next year, continuing to expand our online course offerings, and that the school is not too afraid of taking risks, I want to make sure we don’t just design a great classroom for today. I’m just not quite sure how to bring our classroom design into the present, while still being forward-thinking enough to take us into the future at the same time.

• Designing the Classroom of the Future | always learning 

• About the series | A 21st Century Education Film Series These films look specifically at the ways that the latest digital and mobile technologies can potentially transform the ways that young people communicate, collaborate, and learn. “The twelve first-person films that make up this series explore three related themes, each in its own way at the center of current debate about what works, and what’s needed, to help students succeed during school and in life.” 

• Image Forensics : Error Level Analysis Error level analysis seeks to prove that whether or not an image has been altered. It takes the image and shows differing error levels throughout it, strongly suggesting some form of digital manipulation. Areas to note are the lips and shirt, as well as the eyes. All are at significantly different error levels than their surroundings. Presumably, colours have been altered and areas brightened.

• The Reading Pile: November 8 « Good Comics for Kids 

• Borrowing ebooks beyond a library’s walls | Simon Barron | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Article in the Guardian by Simon Barron. It discusses the arguments put by the publishers about borrowing ebooks beyond a library’s walls and opinions baout why they wont work.

• Christie ‘exorcised’ herself of Poirot – News, Books – The Independent

• Interviews, Writers, Quotes, Fiction, Poetry – Paris Review Author interviews ranging through the decades, from the 50′s to the present from The Paris Review.

• National Novel Writing Month NaNoWriMo is an annual (November) novel writing project that brings together professional and amateur writers from all over the world.” Write a novel in a month with the nanowrimo website’s encouragment and structure.

• Supernatural stories. – Catalog ListingA list from the CMIS Resource Bank with 150 titles for a search of ‘Supernatural stories’.

• Ghosts – Fiction. – Catalog Listing A list of 86 titles from CMIS Resource Bank when a ‘Ghosts – Fiction’ search is made

• Neil Gaiman’s MouseCircus.com | Artists: Artist and Illustrator Biographies The official Neil Gaiman website for younger readers

• Finding your Character’s Voice « Ripping Ozzie Reads The VISION list has been discussing how writers find their character’s voice, so Ripping Ozzie Reads writers were asked for their insights

• welcome to seanwilliams.com  The official site Australian speculative fiction writer Sean Williams. 

• ipads changing our relationship with text « 

• The new era of workplace learning The new era of workplace learning – Jane Hart This is the second of a two-part article that looks at the emerging trends in learning tools and workplace learning. In this part, Jane Hart, a Social Business Consultant from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies – http://www.C4LPT – and a member of the Internet Time Alliance, looks at the future of workplace learning and the implications for Learning & Development. 

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