Useful links

  by  tassattack 

• Europeana 1914-1918 – Explore stories It is a treasure trove of unique sources for anyone interested in WWI. Timely with the 100th anniversary upon us. The site offers access to digitized films from the period, institutional cultural heritage and official records alongside thousands of stories shared by the general public, illustrated with digital images of objects, letters, personal diaries, photographs, and other items from the period of the First World War.

• Teacher Resources for Learning about Copyright and Fair Use ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning  Post from Ed tech and Mobile Learning Blog. “It is important we teach our students to be good digital citizens. They need to understand how to properly credit sources and documents they grab from Internet, and it is not always straightforward. The University of Texas offers a course entitled “Copyright Crash Course” that outlines in a very clear and eloquent language the different things we all need to know about copyright.” Links are given to a few important sections.

• Legendary Lands: Umberto Eco on the Greatest Maps of Imaginary Places and Why They Appeal to Us | Brain Pickings “Celebrated Italian novelist, philosopher, essayist, literary critic, and list-lover Umberto Eco has had a long fascination with the symbolic and the metaphorical, extending all the way back to his vintage semiotic children’s books. Half a century later, he revisits the mesmerism of the metaphorical and the symbolic in The Book of Legendary Lands (public library) — an illustrated voyage into history’s greatest imaginary places, with all their fanciful inhabitants and odd customs, on scales as large as the mythic continent Atlantis and as small as the fictional location of Sherlock Holmes’s apartment.

• Inside The Most Interesting Man In The World’s Personal Library [31 Photos] | The Roosevelts  ” Jay Walker made a lot of money starting Priceline.com. He spent his money collecting. The collection, dubbed the Library of Human Imagination, has grown into something epic that rivals any museum on Earth. the 3,600 square foot, three story facility features multilevel tiers, “floating” platforms, connecting stairways, glass-paneled bridges, dynamic lighting and is bursting at the seams with artifacts of all types. A truly amazing collection that celebrates human endeavour and preserves it for future generations.

• Pullman: ‘every school should have a good library’ | The Bookseller A short piece in The Bookseller about a Radio 4 programme with Pullman’s who spoke out in defence of school libraries, saying it is “very important that every school, secondary or primary, should have a properly staffed, and properly equipped and properly furnished library.”

• Keep Students Safe Online Infographic | e-Learning Infographics

• Wepware :: Share your vision Wepware is a web app that allows you to capture any web page or part of it and then organize it into Pinterest-like boards. These boards can be easily published and shared on social media channels. The interesting thing about this tool is that it can capture dynamic information “boxes” that will continue to be updated even after you put them into your curated collections. These live dynamic information pieces can also be easily pasted on any web page and kept there as a live reference.

• Digital Citizenship Resources and Template – Google Drive From the Edmonto Public Schools, the information is meant to work as a guide for schools in the area of digital citizenship. The information can be altered the fit the specific needs of any school.  

• 27 Simple Ideas To Stimulate Creativity – Edudemic There are some simple but effective ideas here that should stimulate creativity. They are easy to incorporate into daily routines. The infographic is a useful image that you can use to help you think of new ways to approach things.

• Interactive: 100 years of drought in Australia – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) From ABC news site: “Use our interactive map to see 100 years of rainfall patterns across Australia, famously a land “of droughts and flooding rains”.

• 6 Technology-Based Poetry Ideas For Students That Think They Hate Poetry Some useful ideas explained by a classroom teacher about how to engage students using some of the available technologies to explore poetry.

• How to Take a Screenshot on a Chromebook and Annotate it!

• A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom | Edutopia “Social media is another tool that you can use to make your classroom more engaging, relevant and culturally diverse.” A great post with matter-of-fact delivery and links to relevant sources.

• How To Cite Social Media: MLA & APA Formats | TeachBytes Now you can officially cite social media sources in MLA and APA formats.

• 9 Things Every Student Should Be Able to Do with Google Drive ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Useful basic checklist for skill development.

• Online Poetry Resources | Edutopia A useful, annotated list of poetry resources.

• Phil Bradley’s weblog: The trojan horse of Getty ‘free’ images

• Developing digital literacies – Jisc infoNet “Digital literacy looks beyond functional IT skills to describe a richer set of digital behaviours, practices and identities. Digital literacies encompasses a range of other capabilities represented here in a seven elements model”

• Survey shows deep class divide in reading habits | Books | theguardian.com Data supporting many of the things we knew already. Sometimes things need to be repeated.

• The Unpretentious Librarian: Google Add-Ons Include EasyBib How to use the Google add-on – Easybib

• Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge – Mark Anderson’s Blog ” One teacher describes how he has been trying to apply the three (technology, Pedagogy and Content Knowledge) things in the model in order to bring about use of technology in lessons so that technology that doesn’t dictate and is at the heart of everything.” “Part of my methodology for thinking behind how it might fit in a classroom was to re-create the classic TPACK Venn model so that I could make sense of it in my own head. Reproduced below with kind permission of the publisher, © 2012 by tpack.org with the addition of the 7 different elements of TPACK is my version”

• Learning Never Stops: 50 websites that help make learning science fun A long, annotated list of science websites that one teacher has used in classroom situations.” Especially useful for the younger year levels.

• Minecraft – Where Everybody Knows Your Name » edurealms.com If you don’t know about Minecraft this is post offers a good place to start with videos, links to further reading and sites, including school sites to visit.

• ICTmagic – Cross Curricular A useful list of education technology that can be used for Cross Curricular activities. Each is commented on and link supplied. Many are primary but not all.

• Kicked Out of the Library | Pam Librarian The way NOT to go! All the things that a library in today’s world should not do.

• 10 changes a school library must consider in the digital era | eSchool News | eSchool News The changes listed are under the headings: 10. Update, 9. Spend, 8.  Evolve, 7. Replace, 6. Showcase, 5. Assess, 4. Divest, 3. Adapt, 2. Promote and 1. Track . The ideas are a good source for debte and the advice could adapted by most libraries.

• 11 Tips For Students To Manage Their Digital Footprints – Useful advice for everyone but we should be giving this information to our students if we are really preparing them for life beyond school.

• Digital Footprint Video | Common Sense Media A short, simple video created to make people aware of  how their digital footprint might be created.

• Google time-saving tips to improve student learning | eSchool News | eSchool News | 2 Some useful ideas that can be adapted by most teachers.

• Listen to 15 Literary Icons Reading Their Own Work – Flavorwire “A collection of 15 writers — some alive, some long gone — reading their own words (all fiction, with the exception of William Faulkner, whose Nobel Prize speech is included because it’s now often taught alongside his novels and stories, and Joan Didion’s memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking). ” Authors collected: Anne Sexton, David Foster Wallace, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, Frank O’Hara, James Baldwin, Jeffrey Eugenides, Joan Didion, Kurt Vonnegut, Marilynne Robinson, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Zadie Smith.

• 12 Most Common Things To Know About Creative Commons A good overview that could assist when explaining CC to students and teaching colleagues. It could help you create a simple summary (or even infographic) of important points.

• 20 Guiding Questions To Develop A Digital Literacy Plan – These questions offer a great starting point as you develop a digital literacy plan.

• 8 Types of Learning Events Every eLearning Course Must Have Infographic — e-Learning Feeds “A learning event is a simplified description of the student’s learning activity. There’s an infinite number of learning strategies, but only eight learning events. It isn’t necessary to use all the events in the creation of your course. The 8 Types of Learning Events Every eLearning Course Must Have Infographic presents a ‘palette’ of 8 specific ways that the eLearning designer can use to describe any point in the development of learning activities.” The infographic gives a simple visual of the 8.

• 27 Things Your Teacher Librarian Does | An Ethical Island Great promotional infographic – 27 Things Your Teacher Librarian For You! from blog by Mia MacMeekin (An Ethical Island)

• The World Today – Landmark case awards damages for Twitter defamation 05/03/2014 Understanding your social media responsibilities is important. Landmark case in NSW – libel case upheld for plaintiff

• Infograph Shows how Google Works | UKEdChat.com – Supporting the #UKEdChat Education Community An interesting infographc explaining how the search engine Google pulls information from the web. It is reasonable simple and would be a useful resource to use when trying to explain the process to students.

• A Principal’s Reflections: Global Connections Made Possible Through Technology Great use of technology giving students a global understanding of topic. Principal’s Reflections: simple but very effective.

• Prezi – Blog – The 5 Metrics You Need to Know to Give a Great Presentation These tips are simple pieces of advice to help you connect with an audience and get your message across. They are practical and should be keep in mind for most presentations and even teaching in the classroom.

• Innovations in Education – Student Curators: Powerful Learning A reflection on some powerful learning in the classroom. Some of the highlights, with examples of student work, and some amazing student feedback are described. It was a great way to develop learning skills and address research standards. It also exemplified personalized learning by some high motivated students.

• The Book Fairy-Goddess: Digital Citizenship A useful post that offers some ideas about re-enforcing good digital citizenship practises.

• Phil Bradley’s weblog: The trojan horse of Getty ‘free’ images

• Google Forms: how to create a quiz or a test that automatically grades itself in Google Docs–Internet–Tools & Tips for Multimedia Designers–Planet of the Web Useful tips from a classroom teacher. “Using forms in Google docs lets anyone create forms quickly and share those forms via email, embed them into a webpage or blog. If you are a teacher, you can create formulas that allow you to have these forms graded in minutes. The formula part is a bit challenging, so I wrote this article to talk about how I recently created a final for one of my classes.”

• Getty Images makes 35 million images free in fight against copyright infringement » British Journal of Photography “Getty Images has single-handedly redefined the entire photography market with the launch of a new embedding feature that will make more than 35 million images freely available to anyone for non-commercial usage” Be careful to read the small print though as there are other considerations apart from the initial image.

• Beg & Intermediate Google – Technology Integration This offers some great practical video tutorials on different Google services including: Gmail, G Calendar, GDrive, GDocs, GForms, GSpreadsheets, GPresentations,GDrawings, GSites. These tutorials are 30 minute screencasts of webinars.

• Scootle – Home Scootle is a website which is a way of locating any of the 8000 items/learning objects in the Learning Federation for K-12. It just makes it easier to locate, download and manage required items, and a means to access this bank of resources. You can manage the resources into folders of your own, and can give instructions and/or comments for each item. It provides a URL for students or other staff to access your bank of resources webpage.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Webinar Recording – Digital Storytelling With Comics  The recording of a webinar where Richard Byrne discussed how to create comic strips with Storyboard That and then how to use them in other services including WidBook and WeVideo.

• Kurt Vonnegut’s Shapes of Stories in infographic form – Boing Boing

• 15 Best Tech Creation Tools | graphite Blog These useful tools give students the right tools to narrate, animate, and dictate. The post will explains them to teachers by giving some examples of how to incorporate art and design lesson plans into their existing courses.

• 4 Great Rubrics to Develop Students Presentations and Speaking Skills ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning The 4 represent rubrics for different educational levels.

• 10 of The Best Bibliography and Citation Tools for Teachers and Student Researchers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning A good annotated list with a few tools new to me.

• 11 Tips For Students To Manage Their Digital Footprints – Useful advice for everyone but we should be giving this information to our students if we are really preparing them for life beyond school.

• Digital Footprint Video | Common Sense Media A short, simple video created to make people aware of  how their digital footprint might be created.

• Google time-saving tips to improve student learning | eSchool News | eSchool News | 2 Some useful ideas that can be adapted by most teachers.

• Listen to 15 Literary Icons Reading Their Own Work – Flavorwire ”A collection of 15 writers — some alive, some long gone — reading their own words (all fiction, with the exception of William Faulkner, whose Nobel Prize speech is included because it’s now often taught alongside his novels and stories, and Joan Didion’s memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking). ” Authors collected: Anne Sexton, David Foster Wallace, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, Frank O’Hara, James Baldwin, Jeffrey Eugenides, Joan Didion, Kurt Vonnegut, Marilynne Robinson, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Zadie Smith.

• 12 Most Common Things To Know About Creative Commons A good overview that could assist when explaining CC to students and teaching colleagues. It could help you create a simple summary (or even infographic) of important points.

• 20 Guiding Questions To Develop A Digital Literacy Plan – These questions offer a great starting point as you develop a digital literacy plan.

• 8 Types of Learning Events Every eLearning Course Must Have Infographic — e-Learning Feeds ”A learning event is a simplified description of the student’s learning activity. There’s an infinite number of learning strategies, but only eight learning events. It isn’t necessary to use all the events in the creation of your course. The 8 Types of Learning Events Every eLearning Course Must Have Infographic presents a ‘palette’ of 8 specific ways that the eLearning designer can use to describe any point in the development of learning activities.” The infographic gives a simple visual of the 8.

• 27 Things Your Teacher Librarian Does | An Ethical Island Great promotional infographic – 27 Things Your Teacher Librarian For You! from blog by Mia MacMeekin (An Ethical Island)

• The World Today – Landmark case awards damages for Twitter defamation 05/03/2014 Understanding your social media responsibilities is important. Landmark case in NSW – libel case upheld for plaintiff

• Infograph Shows how Google Works | UKEdChat.com – Supporting the #UKEdChat Education Community An interesting infographc explaining how the search engine Google pulls information from the web. It is reasonable simple and would be a useful resource to use when trying to explain the process to students.

• A Principal’s Reflections: Global Connections Made Possible Through Technology Great use of technology giving students a global understanding of topic. Principal’s Reflections: simple but very effective.

• Prezi – Blog – The 5 Metrics You Need to Know to Give a Great Presentation These tips are simple pieces of advice to help you connect with an audience and get your message across. They are practical and should be keep in mind for most presentations and even teaching in the classroom.

• Innovations in Education – Student Curators: Powerful Learning A reflection on some powerful learning in the classroom. Some of the highlights, with examples of student work, and some amazing student feedback are described. It was a great way to develop learning skills and address research standards. It also exemplified personalized learning by some high motivated students.

• The Book Fairy-Goddess: Digital Citizenship A useful post that offers some ideas about re-enforcing good digital citizenship practises.

• Phil Bradley’s weblog: The trojan horse of Getty ‘free’ images

• Google Forms: how to create a quiz or a test that automatically grades itself in Google Docs–Internet–Tools & Tips for Multimedia Designers–Planet of the Web Useful tips from a classroom teacher. “Using forms in Google docs lets anyone create forms quickly and share those forms via email, embed them into a webpage or blog. If you are a teacher, you can create formulas that allow you to have these forms graded in minutes. The formula part is a bit challenging, so I wrote this article to talk about how I recently created a final for one of my classes.”

• Getty Images makes 35 million images free in fight against copyright infringement » British Journal of Photography ”Getty Images has single-handedly redefined the entire photography market with the launch of a new embedding feature that will make more than 35 million images freely available to anyone for non-commercial usage” Be careful to read the small print though as there are other considerations apart from the initial image.

• Beg & Intermediate Google – Technology Integration This offers some great practical video tutorials on different Google services including: Gmail, G Calendar, GDrive, GDocs, GForms, GSpreadsheets, GPresentations,GDrawings, GSites. These tutorials are 30 minute screencasts of webinars.

• Scootle – Home Scootle is a website which is a way of locating any of the 8000 items/learning objects in the Learning Federation for K-12. It just makes it easier to locate, download and manage required items, and a means to access this bank of resources. You can manage the resources into folders of your own, and can give instructions and/or comments for each item. It provides a URL for students or other staff to access your bank of resources webpage.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Webinar Recording – Digital Storytelling With Comics  The recording of a webinar where Richard Byrne discussed how to create comic strips with Storyboard That and then how to use them in other services including WidBook and WeVideo.

• Kurt Vonnegut’s Shapes of Stories in infographic form – Boing Boing

• 15 Best Tech Creation Tools | graphite Blog These useful tools give students the right tools to narrate, animate, and dictate. The post will explains them to teachers by giving some examples of how to incorporate art and design lesson plans into their existing courses.

• 4 Great Rubrics to Develop Students Presentations and Speaking Skills ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning The 4 represent rubrics for different educational levels.

• 10 of The Best Bibliography and Citation Tools for Teachers and Student Researchers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning A good annotated list with a few tools new to me.

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