Wylio: another way to get free embeddable images

There are quite a lot of ways to search for images on the internet. I am always on the lookout for something that makes it as easy as possible for me and/or my students to obtain good CC images to illustrate my sites (wikis, blogs, etc). I have been using ImageCodr to find CC images for [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

50 Best Blogs for Education Leaders | Online Universities A post from On-line universities blog  The End of Education as We Know It The End of Education as We Know It is a good post about inspiring educators to incorporate technology in their classrooms. OneRiot.com – Realtime Search for the Realtime Web OneRiot is a search engine tht [...]

Tabbloid- bridging the gap to Web2.0

I have been occassionally emailing teachers FYI messages about important information on various blogs. I don’t do it regularily because I don’t always have the time to put things together and many individual emails can  be overwhelming or too much for the staff. So I have been looking at the tool called Tabbloid. I am [...]

It’s not about the technology

“It’s not about the technology. It’s about the community and shared learning.” — Clif Mims. I was talking to a fellow teacher today about students going into teacher courses at university. She spoke about a student buying exercise books for each of her different subject, not about the student using wikis, blogs or nings. The student [...]

Useful Links (weekly)

Home | Youth Voices A meeting place where students share, distribute and discuss their digital work online. Visual Design for Instructional Multimedia Ideas for visual design for instructional multimedia Neil Gaiman’s Journal The talented author of Coraline, The Graveyard Book and other great books comments on the things that interest him, and I find it interesting. ScreenToaster – [...]