Useful Links (weekly)

• Adobe® BrowserLab Adobe BrowserLab is a browser compatibility service that provides designers exact renderings of their pages on leading browsers. Results are fast, with powerful tools to spot issues. You can learn more at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/browserlab/

• Demos | Publications Demos publishes a wide variety of pamphlets, reports, collections and papers. Everything we publish can be downloaded for free. You can find out about buying printed copies, subscriptions and copyright here .

• Strait Kcab – Free Font ”Download free Strait Kcab font from SearchFreeFonts.com. Available in True Type format for Windows and Mac. Preview Strait Kcab font by typing your own text, zoom in on characters, write comments, or add to favorites for later download.”

• Brain Games | Brain Teasers – Games for Kids and Adults by BrainGames360.com 

• Shareable: Cory Doctorow on the Shareable Future of Book Publishing In this PublishingPoint interview, Cory describes a new shareable book project he’s launching in which he serves as author, publisher, distributor and bookseller–and involves dozens of collaborators. “He also shares his thoughts about the ways in which traditional roles in publishing are becoming blurred,” says PublishingPoint. “And he touches on strategies that have made the popular on-line community Boing-Boing (where he serves as co-editor) so successful, including how he and his co-editors started Boing-Boing at almost no cost.” It’s a fascinating overview of state-of-the-art cultural production in the age of sharing. tag

• Jing training videos | Teacher Training Videos Free on-line training in using technology in teaching A tool that allows you to take a screen shot of what you are doing, add your voice to it and then upload it to the web as an instructional video for others to watch.

• Twitter Links @ Educators A good set of links to useful tips on using Twitter for teachers and groups to join or follow

• Home – Suzanne Collins Homepage of the “Hunger Games” author

• Welcome to the website of Simmone Howell Homepage of the Australian author of “Everything Beautiful”  

• Spike Magazine: Book Reviews, Interviews, Music, Art, Self Publishing, Travel and More SpikeMagazine.com is a website about books, culture and ideas. Spike has been online in various forms since 1996. Thanks to a small army of contributors over the last 11 years, Spike has hundreds of book reviews, interviews, music reviews and features with writers, artists and musicians.

• 15 Free Guides That Really Teach You USEFUL Stuff Initially available only for subscribers of the site, there are now multiple manuals released every month, for everyone to enjoy. After releasing 15 manuals and nearly half a million downloads we thought it was about time to look back and review what has been published so far. Enjoy! No sign up need, downloads are free, no strings attached.

• 7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave | EDUCAUSE Another in the series of two-page, simple explanations of new ideas and concepts as they relate to education (mostly college).

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that’s notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you’ll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that’s evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. 

• kuler Create custom color palettes for great presentations

• Publish Digital Magazines and More Online for Free | YUDU Yudu is a free library of digital content to read and explore. Find eBooks, magazines, and other documents as well as photos, music and podcasts and bookmarks and add them to your own library.

• Inkmesh – Find Ebooks Inkmesh is an ebook search engine that collects data from multiple websites to make it easier to find new and interesting ebooks. Choose your format and at the price that suits.

• Read.gov: Exquisite Corpse Adventure exclusive online story 

• Terabithia.com – The Official Site of Author Katherine Paterson Author homepage

• Ranger’s Apprentice Homepage All things connected to the series

• House of Legends (Random) House of Legends is a site devoted to the best fantasy and science fiction out there for young readers today.

• Michael Pryor Website Australian aYA uthor homepage

• School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history ‘books’? – USATODAY.com Article  about kindle and where it leaves libraries  

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

Interesting ways to use…. by Tom Barrett

Tom Barrett has been sharing his class ideas and tips about using various tools in GoogleDocs presentations for quite a while and I have been collecting them in my bookmarks. He has now put all of them together in his blog. The presentations are in easy to use in their Google docs format and he invites others to share ideas. They are worth looking at/using and, if you have some tips that have not been mentioned, think about contributing.

The latest one I found was Ten Interesting Ways* to Use Audio in your Classroom. We have been doing some work with audio and I recently listened to a discussion on music in the novel, so I am interested in exploring this area some more.

 The other presentations are listed below but don’t be surprised if the numbers have changed.

•  10 Interesting Ways To Use a Wiki in the Classroom
• 13 Interesting Ways To Use a Visualizer in the Classroom
• 27 Interesting Ways To Use Twitter in the Classroom
• 40 Interesting Ways To Use Wordle in the Classroom
• 40 Interesting Ways To Use Your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom
• 21 Interesting Ways To Use Google Docs in the Classroom
• 24 Interesting Ways To Use Google Earth in the Classroom
• 23 Interesting Ways To Use a Nintendo DS in the Classroom
• 34 Interesting Ways To Use Search Engines in the Classroom
• 42 Interesting Ways To Use Your Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom
• 5 Interesting Ways to Use Prezi in the Classroom
• 17 Interesting Ways to Use Voicethread in the Classroom

Still in the early stages are:

• 4 interesting ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom
• 3 interesting ways to support writing in the classroom
• 5 interesting ways to use an iPod touch in the classroom
• 4 interesting ways to use Nintendo Wii in the classroom
• and so far Zero interesting ways to use Google Wave in the classroom