Useful links (Weekly)

  by  shareski 

• Storyboarding Nice and simple, visual tool to help junoir grades create storyboards

• Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand – Blog – Guide to Using Free Apps to Support Higher Order Thinking Skills Links to the apps used in the activities published an eBook titled Hot Apps 4 HOTS: A Guide to Using Free Apps to Support Higher Order Thinking Skills by Lisa Johnson and Yolanda Barker. The book includes nine step-by-step activities that focus on each level of Bloom’s taxonomy and includes loads of links to further resources.

• qwips.com (beta) An easy-to-use, free tool. Go to the main page and sign in using your Facebook or Twitter account. Once logged in you can click on record and start talking . You have up to 30 seconds of recording length so you may need to prepare a script. When your audio message is ready Qwips generates a URL for you so that you can use to share your messages. You can embed it on your blog or share it with others via email. You can also use your audio message as an image caption.

• Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand – Blog – Ways to Evaluate Educational Apps

• Moving at the Speed of Creativity – Technology Today Enhanced ePub eBook Post about using eBook Creator” on an iPad2 to create an eBook, and shared via Dropbox and a free Posterous blog

• Pottermore and OverDrive reach exclusive distribution agreement Post from No Shelf Required – Overdrive has entered into an exclusive worldwide distribution agreement with Pottermore.

• 10 Graphic Novels for the Literary Minded | LitReactor A post that offers “10 graphic novels for the literary minded, broken down by genre to give you a fighting chance at picking something you might enjoy. The usual suspects avoided – Maus, Watchmen, and the like, which are both excellent of course, but have also been recommended a million times before – in favor of some more recent offerings that you may or may not have heard about.”

• iPad As…. The apps organised in this post by what you want your students to do. A good list with results and advice in tabular format.

• UsefulCharts.com | Cool Charts & Timelines Offers a lot interesting charts as well as timelines about science, history, psychology, social studies and more. Could be usefull for lesson plans, study help, or quick reference.

• Wiki Summarizer . Wiki Summarizer is a site that allows you to search Wikipedia, have articles summarized by key points, and provides lists of articles that are related to your original search. Recently, Wiki Summarizer got a few nice upgrades that should prove to be useful. In an effort to make Wiki Summarizer more visually appealing and easier to navigate, Wiki Summarizer offers expandable webs of related articles. For example, I searched for “German Shepherd” and a web of related terms was created. Clicking on the “+” symbol next to each term opens a new element of the web. All parts of the web link to Wikipedia articles.

• Gooru Gooru is a new service (still carrying the Alpha label) that aims to provide teachers and students with an extensive collection of videos, interactive displays, documents, diagrams, and quizzes for learning about topics in math and science. As a Gooru member you have access to hundreds of resources according to subject areas such as chemistry, biology, ecology, algebra, calculus, and more. Within each subject area you can look for resources according to media type such as video, interactive display, slides, text, and lesson plans. When you find resources that you want to use, drag them to the resources folder within your account. Gooru also offers you the option to add resources to your folders even if you did not find them within Gooru.

• FreeFoto.com – Free Pictures – FreeFoto.com This is a collection of images developed by Ian Britton. FreeFoto offers a mix images that are available for free and for a licensing fee. Students can use the images on FreeFoto for free provided that they adhere to the student use guidelines. Visitors to FreeFoto can search for images by keyword or they can browse the galleries. The galleries are arranged by the locations of where the images were captured, by natural subject (sunsets, seasons), and many other subjects.

• usnationalarchives’s Channel – YouTube The U.S. National Archives YouTube channel offers a somewhat eclectic group of videos that include everything from old propaganda films like this one (also embedded below) to lectures from historians to short lessons about items in the National Archives.

• Kwiqpoll – Simple Web Polls This is a simple tool for quickly creating and posting polls. Go to the site, type a question and then type your answer choices. The poll you created can stay online for up to seven days. Kwiqpoll assigns a unique url to each of the polls created so you send that url to the students that you want to participate.

• Australian Curriculum Inquiry Sequence

• How Teachers Actually Feel About Education Technology [Infographic] | Edudemic ”This infographic shows some interesting stats, courtesy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation via Socrato.The graphs show that the vast majority of teachers (US) agree that technology helps in the learning process. The teachers they polled even agree that ANY multimedia can help in the process of learning. That includes magazines and newspapers.”

• Flamingnet Teen Book Reviews When you read a really great book, don’t you want to make sure everyone knows about it? That’s how Seth Cassel felt. That’s why he started FLAMINGNET, a site where teens can tell other teens what they think about the books they read. .

• How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google’s New Privacy Policy Takes Effect | Electronic Frontier Foundation On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future.  If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future. It is important to note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. More information at the end of this post.

• Adobe – tutorial : Edit storyboard style Excerpted from “Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide” by Antony Bolante. Before shooting any footage, filmmakers usually create a storyboard—a series of sketches that depicts each shot in the finished program. Planning each shot in a storyboard can save you enormous amounts of time, money, and energy in production. In postproduction, you can use a similar storyboarding technique to plan a rough cut and instantly assemble it into a sequence, again saving time and energy.

• Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling This site was created by the University of Huston. This website includes many ideas and practices, including tutorials, story boarding tips, and examples of stories, for educational and personal use of digital storytelling. It incorporates technology and other formats with storytelling.

• Top 100 Learning Game Resources | Upside Learning Blog Some useful links to the use of games in schools/education

• 10 Jaw-Droppingly Awesome Infographics on Education | Socrato Learning Analytics Blog A nice collection collection of infographics based around education

• ALA Presidential Task Force: Focus on School Libraries 2012 |

• Koalas to the Max dot Com

• Getting ready for iPad deployment: ten things I’d wish I’d known about last year « Darren Coxon This article draws on the experience one school had in implementing an iPad – 1 to 1 scheme When making the move towards using the mobile devices in the classroom, there were a number of practical considerations to bear in mind. They made some mistakes but learnt from them. The experience is shared in the hope that other schools can learn from both what has worked, and what hasn’t.

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