Useful sites (weekly)

  by  ecastro 

• How Well Are Schools Teaching Cyber Safety and Ethics? | MindShift Written after some proposed legislation in California that would change how social networking websites handle privacy and security — not just for minors online but for all Internet users. Several commenters responded that, when it comes to children online, it should be up to parents, not legislators, to handle these sorts of matters.     

• 6 Technologies That Will Change Education — THE Journal Several potentially innovative technologies that are either already here or are on the way in K-12 education    

• Procrastination Flowchart: http://www.ehdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/flowchart2.png The Procrastination Flowchart. An interesting actualization of procrastination dynamics in social media and its intricate relationships   

• Google Search Tricks by Tony Vincent on Prezi Nice and simple presentation (on Prezi) about getting the most from Google searches. Created by @tonyvincent   

• All About Creative Commons And Copyright By Steven W. Anderson: My Copyright, Fair Use and Creative Commons Livebinder. Offers many resources on the topic   

• Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming app – SpiderScribe Spider Scribe is an online mind map creation service. Spider Scribe can be used individually or be used collaboratively. On Spider Scribe users can add images, maps, calendars, text notes, and uploaded text files to their mind maps. Users can connect the elements on their mind maps or let them each stand on their own  

• Book Week 2011 – Mrs Mac’s Library Very useful collection of book week sites, lists of authors as well as ideas relating to the CBCA shortlist for 2011  

• Live Chat Software – Live Help and Support Software HelpOnClick This web service lets you easily add a live chat to your website through an embeddable HTML code. You can customize the chat interface to a great degree. For instance you can decide whether to pop up the chat dialog immediately after somebody visits your website or after a few seconds have passed by. New chat notifications to you are delivered through a desktop client. 

• Junkyard Jumbotron If you have a very large image and you want to cut it up and show it on many different displays, now you can with Junkyard Jumbotron. It is a browser-based app that lets you join multiple screens (smartphones, tablets, laptops) into one big combined visual display.  

• More than just searching the web Sandhurst ict conferences – 2011 Google apps  

• Team Crossword: Work on Crosswords with your Friends! Tool created by Microsoft FUSE labs, is a way to group-solve crossword puzzles (though you can play individually too). Connect your Facebook account, log in and get started with any of the crossword puzzles listed on the site. You can also invite your friends to play the same crossword.     

• Smithsonian Libraries: Smithsonian Libraries Converts Digital Publications for E-Readers The Libraries working in a continuing partnership with Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, have converted select publications from the Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series to digital formats for use on Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers. The new electronic formats will bring unprecedented access to a vast research collection. These scholarly publications are offered at no cost, without taking up valuable physical space or facing the threat of becoming out of print.     

• 10 ways for teachers to collaborate… « What Ed Said A simple psot about ’21st century skills’ of collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity and how teachers can model them in their own situations. tags: teachers PLN communication collaboration 

• ABCs of Web Literacy: Interactive Tutorial UPenn’s tutorial on evaluating information on the web. The tutorial involves textual explanations of concepts and links to website examples. It goed into the area in depth and is geared towards a college students. However there is quite a lot that could be used by other audiences.   

• Evaluating information: crap, information | Glogster EDU – 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students A great little glog that summarises website evaluation   

• A Model of Learning Objectives ”A Model of Learning Objectives based on A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives*”  

• Top 10 Sites for Creating a Wiki by David Kapuler A list of top ten favorite sites for creating a wiki. Education wikis are among the most popular wikis. The creation of a wiki allows not only allows users to engage with 21st century technology, but also helps increase technology literacy.    

• Human Body Maps | 3D Models of the Human Anatomy | Healthline Healthline Body Maps provides interactive three dimensional models for learning about human anatomy. Body Maps has male and female models. The models have eight layer views, from skin to skeletal, that you can select. You can hold your mouse pointer over any part of the model to view a body part’s name and then zoom to more detailed information.     

• Parent Advice – Internet Safety for High School Kids Tips – Common Sense Media This is a good Internet safety website, presented by Common Sense Media, that gives advice for both parents and high school students on how to be safe on the internet. There are several links to other internet safety resources. The information is grade specific. They tackle social networking issues and look at spaces such as Myspace and Facebook reminding young people how important it is so not give up their important information on these socials sites. This site also contains results of some research done in the field.   

• ‘I Am Captain America’ Variants Salute True-Blue Heroes | Underwire | Wired.com ”A batch of “I Am Captain America” variant covers will give real-world heroes like farmers, cops and medical professionals a supersoldier makeover this summer. The Captain America-themed covers, by artists including Joe Quesada, Marko Djurdjevic and Ed McGuiness, will adorn various Marvel Comics starting in June.”  

• Langwitches Blog » ShowMe App for the iPad- Good Tutorial Designer App? A post about a beta version of an app tested by langwitch. This looks to be a good app for screen capturing, video recording and creating embed codes.  

• Kathy Schrock’s – Google Blooms Taxonomy The graphic is a clickable image map of tools that are shown into the Bloom’s model .  

• Search Home – Search Yale Digital Commons Yale Digital Commons has debuted with just under 260,000 images. The idea is to encompass the whole of the university’s collections in time.  

• Education Week’s Digital Directions: Study: Interactive Tools Matter More Than Teaching Methods A study by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, now a science adviser to President Barack Obama, suggests that how you teach is more important than who does the teaching.

• Web 2.0/Mobile AUP Guide Information and communications technologies (ICT) policies in schools have two dimensions. One is to ensure that students are protected from pernicious materials on the Internet. The other is to enable student access to the extensive resources on the Internet for learning and teaching. While these two dimensions are not intrinsically in conflict, in actuality, such can become the case. 

• LJ’s New Landmark Libraries Library Journal is proud to present its inaugural list of New Landmark Libraries. These ten public libraries, plus ten Honorable Mentions, will inspire and inform any building project. 

• AUP Driven by Vision not Protection | U Tech Tips A good blog post about developing an Acceptable Use Policy for Elementary Schools  

• School Acceptable Use Policy Release Form for publishing Students Pictures on the Web. Template to publish student work samples and pictures online.  

• GlobalProjects: iGlobal class projects: extending learning beyond the classroom walls Here are some Acceptable Use Policies from schools – Shelly S Terrell (ShellTerrell)

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