Useful sites (weekly)

 
  by  Ron Houtman 

• The KYVL for Kids Research Portal – How to do research Home Base A great site with visual representations of the steps on of the research process along with great research organizers.   

• Collaborative annotation of images online | SpeakingImage This is an interesting image tool. Upload images and annotate. You can other embed media inside the annotations. Annotations pop up as you click or hover over the objects you add. You can embed the annotated image into webpage or blog. This could be a useful tool for teachers and students. Lots of scope for creativity with layers etc. You can share to a group and set editing permissions for public or restricted people/groups for collaboration purposes.  

• The official book website of Spud by John van de Ruit. 

• 11 Tips To Make Your YouTube Videos Go Viral | Video Camera School – Learn Video Marketing, Video SEO, Video Search Engine Optimization (VSEO), and Video Publishing   Ivan Walsh : “One small change to your video can have a huge impact downstream. So, don’t be afraid to experiment and see what work best. For example, changing the text of your video or the title may increase the click-thrus significantly. Look at how other power users submit videos to DIGG. Check out the writing style they use and also how they seed the videos on Twitter.”   

• Search Engines A basic guide this offers several search engines that can be used for writing papers and comparing information on websites.  

• E-Books, DRM and Universal Formats -Read an ebook week March 6-12 Digital strategist and writer Sara Rosso had an opportunity to do a one-on-one interview with Cory Doctorow. Here is and excerpt of that interview – E-books, DRM and Universal Formats.  

• Teach Yourself to Teach with Tech: The first 10 | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

• ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education Classtools is a tool for educators to make their own educational games, which can be shared via email or embedded in a web page. There are 15 easy-to-use templates, which make game creation easy. There’s also a selection of premade games, which teachers may use with their students 

• Lending e-books: Either a borrower or a lender be | The Economist  @theeconomist: Borrowing and lending: Two websites are offering new models on how to share e-books  

• Online book reviews are fantastic – trust me | Christina Martin | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 

• Digitally native or wise? « Another dot in the blogosphere?  

• teachingwithted / FrontPage A wiki created by Jackie Gerstein that shares videos along with lesson ideas connected to each one  

• Microsoft online safety research  

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

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