Useful links (Weekly)

• What Making an E-Book Costs, Publisher Responds | Digital Book World

• Joint statement on accessibility & e-books Attempts to explain the different categories of book publishing and the variety of skills required in the publishing process. Covers many different careers within publishing

• Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement | Edutopia Heather Wolpert-Gawron (Blogger and English teacher) looks at her students’ answers to the question “What engages students?”

• AITSL Teacher Standards – Standards A handy reference for looking at levels of teaching standards for the Australian National Professional Standards for Teachers

• 52 Great Google Docs Secrets for Students – Online Colleges Tips to get the most out of google docs.

• The Entire Guide to Google Search Features for Teachers and Students Comprehensive guide to Google Searches

• David Jakes Presentation Resources – Towards a Framework for Visual Literacy Learning Wiki of presentation given at Learning 2008 Shanghai

• Feeed – The visual feed reader  Feeed is a simple and elegant web-service which allows you to easily create a visual magazine by aggregating any number of blogs or RSS feeds. You input the URL of your blog, Twitter channel, and any other site or feed you may want to include (up to 8) and Feeed will automatically aggregate and display all of the incoming content into a neat visual page.

• Open Font Library The Open Font Library is an online resource which hosts, organizes and offers quality professional typographic fonts for download and use

• Cruxbot – A web application to summarize web pages

• Re-designing spaces for learning | Connected Principals There has been a shift to collaborative learning. This has necessitated a lot of unlearning by the teachers, in order to build their new skills as collaborative designers of curriculum delivery. The trade-off for them has been the rapid decline in the required role of behavior manager, as this becomes a minor component of their daily function.

• The History Of Learning Tools [Infographic] | Edudemic It’s all about the history of education technology and it could be used to educate just about anyone on how far we’ve come in a short period of time. The infographic from CTU can be viewed below or downloaded as a PDF here

• Map Jigsaw Puzzles – National Geographic Online jigsaw puzzles based on different maps.

• Apps in Education: Monster List of iBook Tutorials ”There are numerous sites that are now offering Tutorials and how-to guides for creating ebooks in iBook Author. As teachers are now comfortable with the idea of creating their own e-textbooks more and more people are looking for resources to learn how to build touch enabled books that take full advantage of the iPad capabilities. Inserting video and high resolution photographs is one thing but how about inserting 3D manipulatives and models that are touch sensitive.”. This post offers is a list of some of the resources online.

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