Useful sites (weekly)

  by  ecastro 

• How Well Are Schools Teaching Cyber Safety and Ethics? | MindShift Written after some proposed legislation in California that would change how social networking websites handle privacy and security — not just for minors online but for all Internet users. Several commenters responded that, when it comes to children online, it should be up to parents, not legislators, to handle these sorts of matters.     

• 6 Technologies That Will Change Education — THE Journal Several potentially innovative technologies that are either already here or are on the way in K-12 education    

• Procrastination Flowchart: http://www.ehdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/flowchart2.png The Procrastination Flowchart. An interesting actualization of procrastination dynamics in social media and its intricate relationships   

• Google Search Tricks by Tony Vincent on Prezi Nice and simple presentation (on Prezi) about getting the most from Google searches. Created by @tonyvincent   

• All About Creative Commons And Copyright By Steven W. Anderson: My Copyright, Fair Use and Creative Commons Livebinder. Offers many resources on the topic   

• Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming app – SpiderScribe Spider Scribe is an online mind map creation service. Spider Scribe can be used individually or be used collaboratively. On Spider Scribe users can add images, maps, calendars, text notes, and uploaded text files to their mind maps. Users can connect the elements on their mind maps or let them each stand on their own  

• Book Week 2011 – Mrs Mac’s Library Very useful collection of book week sites, lists of authors as well as ideas relating to the CBCA shortlist for 2011  

• Live Chat Software – Live Help and Support Software HelpOnClick This web service lets you easily add a live chat to your website through an embeddable HTML code. You can customize the chat interface to a great degree. For instance you can decide whether to pop up the chat dialog immediately after somebody visits your website or after a few seconds have passed by. New chat notifications to you are delivered through a desktop client. 

• Junkyard Jumbotron If you have a very large image and you want to cut it up and show it on many different displays, now you can with Junkyard Jumbotron. It is a browser-based app that lets you join multiple screens (smartphones, tablets, laptops) into one big combined visual display.  

• More than just searching the web Sandhurst ict conferences – 2011 Google apps  

• Team Crossword: Work on Crosswords with your Friends! Tool created by Microsoft FUSE labs, is a way to group-solve crossword puzzles (though you can play individually too). Connect your Facebook account, log in and get started with any of the crossword puzzles listed on the site. You can also invite your friends to play the same crossword.     

• Smithsonian Libraries: Smithsonian Libraries Converts Digital Publications for E-Readers The Libraries working in a continuing partnership with Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, have converted select publications from the Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series to digital formats for use on Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers. The new electronic formats will bring unprecedented access to a vast research collection. These scholarly publications are offered at no cost, without taking up valuable physical space or facing the threat of becoming out of print.     

• 10 ways for teachers to collaborate… « What Ed Said A simple psot about ’21st century skills’ of collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity and how teachers can model them in their own situations. tags: teachers PLN communication collaboration 

• ABCs of Web Literacy: Interactive Tutorial UPenn’s tutorial on evaluating information on the web. The tutorial involves textual explanations of concepts and links to website examples. It goed into the area in depth and is geared towards a college students. However there is quite a lot that could be used by other audiences.   

• Evaluating information: crap, information | Glogster EDU – 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students A great little glog that summarises website evaluation   

• A Model of Learning Objectives ”A Model of Learning Objectives based on A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives*”  

• Top 10 Sites for Creating a Wiki by David Kapuler A list of top ten favorite sites for creating a wiki. Education wikis are among the most popular wikis. The creation of a wiki allows not only allows users to engage with 21st century technology, but also helps increase technology literacy.    

• Human Body Maps | 3D Models of the Human Anatomy | Healthline Healthline Body Maps provides interactive three dimensional models for learning about human anatomy. Body Maps has male and female models. The models have eight layer views, from skin to skeletal, that you can select. You can hold your mouse pointer over any part of the model to view a body part’s name and then zoom to more detailed information.     

• Parent Advice – Internet Safety for High School Kids Tips – Common Sense Media This is a good Internet safety website, presented by Common Sense Media, that gives advice for both parents and high school students on how to be safe on the internet. There are several links to other internet safety resources. The information is grade specific. They tackle social networking issues and look at spaces such as Myspace and Facebook reminding young people how important it is so not give up their important information on these socials sites. This site also contains results of some research done in the field.   

• ‘I Am Captain America’ Variants Salute True-Blue Heroes | Underwire | Wired.com ”A batch of “I Am Captain America” variant covers will give real-world heroes like farmers, cops and medical professionals a supersoldier makeover this summer. The Captain America-themed covers, by artists including Joe Quesada, Marko Djurdjevic and Ed McGuiness, will adorn various Marvel Comics starting in June.”  

• Langwitches Blog » ShowMe App for the iPad- Good Tutorial Designer App? A post about a beta version of an app tested by langwitch. This looks to be a good app for screen capturing, video recording and creating embed codes.  

• Kathy Schrock’s – Google Blooms Taxonomy The graphic is a clickable image map of tools that are shown into the Bloom’s model .  

• Search Home – Search Yale Digital Commons Yale Digital Commons has debuted with just under 260,000 images. The idea is to encompass the whole of the university’s collections in time.  

• Education Week’s Digital Directions: Study: Interactive Tools Matter More Than Teaching Methods A study by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, now a science adviser to President Barack Obama, suggests that how you teach is more important than who does the teaching.

• Web 2.0/Mobile AUP Guide Information and communications technologies (ICT) policies in schools have two dimensions. One is to ensure that students are protected from pernicious materials on the Internet. The other is to enable student access to the extensive resources on the Internet for learning and teaching. While these two dimensions are not intrinsically in conflict, in actuality, such can become the case. 

• LJ’s New Landmark Libraries Library Journal is proud to present its inaugural list of New Landmark Libraries. These ten public libraries, plus ten Honorable Mentions, will inspire and inform any building project. 

• AUP Driven by Vision not Protection | U Tech Tips A good blog post about developing an Acceptable Use Policy for Elementary Schools  

• School Acceptable Use Policy Release Form for publishing Students Pictures on the Web. Template to publish student work samples and pictures online.  

• GlobalProjects: iGlobal class projects: extending learning beyond the classroom walls Here are some Acceptable Use Policies from schools – Shelly S Terrell (ShellTerrell)

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Useful sites (weekly)

• Linguee – The web as a dictionary – German/English Linguee is part dictionary and part translation tool. Recently it has added Spanish, French and Portuguese comparisons with English and has plans to add Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Italian next year.

• School Principals and Social Networking in Education tags: school networking principals social networking social media education

• Inside the Brain: An Interactive Tour This highly interactive site describes the parts of the brain and their functions and how they are affected by Alzheimer’s disease. It provides detailed diagrams and solid descriptions for a variety of ages.

• M.T. Anderson Author M.T. Anderon’s site

• The Great War | PBS PBS provides a detailed look at World War I and its affect on the world at large. Content includes comprehensive interviews with expert historians, an interactive timeline, an interactive gallery complete with detailed maps, and commentary on the overarching effects

• Extreme Adventures site Justin Dath’s adventure packed series. Includes games puzzles and ifo about the books

• Stay Smart Online  “Stay Smart Online provides all Australian online users with information on the simple steps they can take to secure themselves online. This includes information and advice on how to secure your computer and your transactions online. This website contains a free alert service that provides easy to understand information on the latest cyber security threats and vulnerabilities, a free interactive education resource for primary and secondary school students, videos with useful tips on protecting your computer, a self assessment tool for small businesses, and information for parents.” Yehnay

• Bullying. No way! Bullying. No way! is developed and managed by all Australian education authorities for use by Australia’s Government, Catholic and Independent school communities.

• How a book becomes a cover – the Saltwater Vampires cover story part II | between the lines Part Two of 2 recent posts on Penguin’s Between the Lines site traceing the fascinating journey of a cover, in this instance Kirsty Eagar’s Saltwater Vampires. You can see the final product here, the outcome of a lengthy process with many drafts discarded before selecting this as the one.

• How a book becomes a cover – the Saltwater Vampires cover story by BTL crew member Davina | between the lines Part One of 2 recent posts on Penguin’s Between the Lines site traceing the fascinating journey of a cover, in this instance Kirsty Eagar’s Saltwater Vampires. You can see the final product here, the outcome of a lengthy process with many drafts discarded before selecting this as the one.

• Survey and comparison of fantasy novel cover art, 2008/9 – Boing Boing

• Censorship in the classroom: Finding the right book | Eve’s Fan Garden One teacher’s account about choosing and using a book with a class although one parent had grave reservations about it and cme into the school to discuss it. Interesting process

• Interactive mystery story aimed at digitally savvy teens – Books, Arts & Entertainment – The Independent

• Charlie Higson’s top 10 horror books | Books | guardian.co.uk

• middlespot.com Middlespot is a visual search engine that lets you explore the results of your searches in a visual fashion. Sources available for search are: Web, Images, News, Amazon and Twitter. Middlespots allows you to create as many workpads as the search terms you want to explore. Results will be displayed inside a gallery where you can zoom and re-arrange elements.

• “The Hunger Games” vs. “Twilight” – Laura Miller – Salon.com Laura Miller discusses which young-adult crossover hit series has the most empowered heroine.

• Gapfillers The site is an E-learning site for advanced learners of English to improve English language skills. It offers resources you can use to develop and improve your English language skills for work,study or personal achievement!

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Useful sites (weekly)

• Thoora.com | Top stories, headlines, world reaction, breaking news Top stories, headlines, world reaction, breaking news -discover what the world is talking about; compiles blogs, twitter, etc.; broken into categories – has a sci/tech category

• Iconfinder | Download free icons Find free icons for project use, handouts and presentation.

• Footnote.com – The place for original historical documents online Footnote is an excellent site for finding and sharing historical (primary) documents. You can search by either keyword or via timeline which is essential for any historical site. You can then save and/or share original images of historical documents 

• Dipity Dipity lets you create interactive timelines that you can share with the world. You can share the latest news, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Twitter and more t

• OER Commons for New Zealand Schools – WikiEducator 

• Stage’D! Stage’d is a tool that helps students to tell digital stories in a new 3-d way. Students can create a stage full of characters and dialogue as if they are directing their own digital play. They can choose characters, costumes, animations, set design and provide characters with dialog. When the 3-d comic has been saved, it can be emailed or linked to with a unique url. The creators of Stage’d are constantly adding new features and options so check back often.

• Bringing them home – Downloads In 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (now the Australian Human Rights Commission) released its report Bringing them home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Following this, the Commission received extensive requests from teachers for information about the report. The documents on this site are in response to the requests 

• Naplan 2010 - NAPLAN  - Literacy – Sharing Images of Success From Queensland Uni  tag

• Overstream — Welcome Easily add subtitles to online videos.

• OllieBray.com: The Scottish Action Plan for Child Internet Safety and Responsible Use A blog post about the Action plan. The first UK Child Internet Safety Strategy was launched in December 2009 and Scotland also has a specific action plan to help address some of the issues Child Internet Safety and Responsible use in Scotland.

• Are schools in the dark on internet safety? – News – TES Connect Interesting for the comments this article solicted after many who were quoted/misquoted put into context their views

• Clarifications: Glow, VLEs, School filtering – Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education ”Whether through over-zealous editing, poor transferal of interview material from me, over compression of complex arguments or the fact that newspapers feel they can only put online what little will fit in the paper edition (and in the case of the TESS, put even less online than in the paper edition),”

• Instant Or Filtered? « If You Don’t Like Change… A case against internet filtering in school 

• How Glow will almost certainly shine. Eventually – Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education 

• Scotland’s Child Internet Safety Action Plan 

• VARK — A Guide to Learning Styles A guide to help me work out prefered learning styles. Tips for study.

• Revolver Maps – Free 3D Visitor Maps 

• Steve Hargadon: New Ning Plans: The Good, The Bad, and the Unknown  Steve Hargadon provides a summary of latest interview, etc on ning and new accounts. He speaks directly with Ning representative John McDonald in an attempts to arrive at common ground. Upshot is that Ning will not be free but might be affordable. 

• Don’t Believe the E-book Skeptics | The Committed Sardine 

• Teaching About the Web Includes Troublesome Parts – NYTimes.com Great article about teaching digital citizenship and ours schools’ responsibility to do this. 

• In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day. – ReadWriteThink The site includes: Lesson Plans, Student Interactives, Printouts, Guides tags

• Sketchcast – A new way to express yourself – Sketchcast.com Record a sketch with or without voice. Explain something, have fun, or create art. Then embed the sketch player in your blog or point people to your sketch channel.

• Get Lessons | Microsoft Mouse Mischief Makes available some lesson plans using Mouse Mischief. An interesting one for math teachers here but there is also one on apostrophes, colors (for ESL students) and a science one on carnivores, omnivores and herbivores. 

• Five Card Flickr You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures. When you are done, you the option to add a title and explanation, then you can save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom (she pay print it out and tape it to the fridge, or she may criticize your creativity, your mileage and mom may vary). Plus we offer the ability to tweet your story! via Langwitches  site

• Shakespeare Resources: Modern English Shakespeare Translations ”Our aim is to help students of all ages understand Shakespeare’s language. From translating full Shakespeare plays and short quotes and phrases in to modern English, to providing in depth articles on Shakespeare’s life and times, and Shakespeare essays, we’re here to help make Shakespeare easy and accessible.”

• Shakespeare & Early Middle English: Development Of Modern English This article from No Sweat Shakespeare discusses the shift from Middle to Early Modern English.

• Ren Faire: Elizabethan Accents A brief introduction to how people’s speech in Elizabethan England actually sounded, their vocabulary, and grammar. Includes a table for constructing Shakespearean insults.

• Elizabethan English Topics include sounds and sentences, puns and word-play, Shakespeare’s pronunciation, and prose and verse.

• Dictionary of Shakespeare, with Insults and Quotes A selective dictionary of Shakepearean words that have fallen out of use, or whose meanings have changed over the centuries

• CanvasMol Canvas Mol is a website that provides 3D, interactive, rotating models of simple and complex molecules. There are 46 models of relatively common molecules like glucose, fructose, and morphine. Each model can be altered to show or not show bonds, to show or not show individual atoms, and to rotate on the X,Y, or Z axis. Canvas Mol works best in Chrome or Opera, but can also be used in Firefox and Safari. 

• TitanPad Use this to create a public space for group collaboration on the fly. Might be a great tool to have on-line discussion with students, or a place for students to collaborate on an assignment. , 

• Life on the goldfields Virtual Exhibition State Library of Victoria 

• School libraries in Australia ,

• Quietly, school librarians still make impact | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | News: Education 

• Gutenberg 2.0 | Harvard Magazine May-Jun 2010 digital revolution, Harvard libraries“Throw it in the charles,” one scientist recently suggested as a fitting end for Widener Library’s collection. The remark was outrageous—especially at an institution whose very name honors a gift of books—but it was pointed. Increasingly, in the scientific disciplines, information ranging from online journals to databases must be recent to be relevant, so Widener’s

• :: e-Learning for Kids :: e-Learning For Kids is a great site with some wonderful interactive learning games that are engaging and fun. Students click on their grade and then a list of games divided into subjects comes up.

• Rhymes.net Rhymes.net is a simple search site that returns rhyming words to whatever you enter in the search field. The rhyming words are divided into syllables for ease of use and there is a list of photos of whichever word you search for. Even better, Rhymes.net automatically generates citations for bibliographies

• Convert PDF to Word (DOC) Online – 100% Free! A free beta version that allows you to convert pdf files to fully editable word documents. . You simple go to the site, upload your pdf, select either .doc or .rtf, enter your email and click convert. PDF to Word then emails you the word file upon completion. There is no sign up necessary and the turn-around time is approximately 10 minutes. 

• kwout | A brilliant way to quote Kwout is a great tool that allows you to take web clippings off of any website and it will keep the links hot.

• theunquietlibrarian – virtualbooks 

• Ebook Library – Home EBL is a radically innovative ebook library service that features a pay-per-view ebook lending service that integrates with library collection management and catalogue 

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Useful sites (weekly)

• Cyber Bullying | Cyber Friendly Website The CHPRC research investigating cyber bullying began in 2006 with young people and their parents and teachers. This research provided new insights into possible ways of dealing with the growing prevalence of cyber bullying and identified innovative school, home and community interventions. Currently the CHPRC has received funding to evaluate cyber bullying interventions for parents, students, student leaders and school staff designed to enhance and evaluate their capacity to deliver evidenced based programs to schools and families.

• The Most Important Computer-Using Educator in the World : Stager-to-Go Corrected some typos in my most recent blog post – http://bit.ly/cTa1dS – Most important edtech educator in the world #acec2010 – Gary Stager, Ph.D. (garystager) http://twitter.com/garystager/statuses/11912179040

• Zamzar – Free online file conversion Allows you to download youtube video’s and others with web-address. When ripping music / video from youtube you can create a wmv. or mp3 file

• November Learning Alan November’s Website. A good site that is on the cutting edge of technology. Some great lessons. Alan Novenberwas a keynote speaker ACEC 2010.

• Jenuine Tech.com — WELCOME A website for teachers created by a teacher who wants EVERYONE to bring fun back into teaching. You will always get useful (and fun ideas) to use with your classroom!

• Tagxedo – Creator Similar to Wordle, Tagxedo is a new style of word cloud generator

• Home – Wise Up To IT – Australian Government – Australian Communication and Media Authority While the internet can be a great tool for research, communication and entertainment there are also some risks. On Wise up to IT, four young people tell their stories about cyberbullying, online stalking, internet security and online grooming. Their stories explain what happened and how they dealt with the situation. The video clips prompt users to think about who they are really chatting to online, what personal information they are posting and whether or not their computer is protected from scams and spyware. Each clip is between two and four minutes and is accompanied by support material including a handout, lesson plan and a copy of the video script.

• Welcome to the Moon Project Site Moon Project. For students in grades 4-8 to join dozens of teachers and hundreds of students in this collaborative, global, science inquiry about the moon.

• ms1001tales2009 – home The 2009 site for the Middle School 1001 Flat Tales an international collaborative project for writing stories

• http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=38e9d6030b&height=550&width=470 Sylvia Martinez the keynote speaker at ACEC2010 Thursday, courtesy of John Pearce tags:

• RBG Melbourne – Home The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne’s mission is to advance knowledge, enjoyment and conservation of plants through excellence in biodiversity research and management, horticultural displays and educational programs. The website is very informative and provides information on gardening, research and conservation.

• The Best Ways To Find Other Classes For Joint Online Projects | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… An excellent blog post about global resources and ways to find global projects and collaborations

• grammarvideos – home Here is a great use of a Wiki for students and teachers: a compilation of videos about grammar. The concept is really simple : contributors to the wiki add embeds of videos from YouTube about grammar concepts. Videos currently included on the wiki include the passive voice, negative forms of “must” and “have to”, prepositions of place (at, on, in), who vs. whom, I vs. me, which vs. that, personal pronouns and many more.

• Shakespeare Insult Generator! (Playing With Plays) The “Shakespeare Insult Generator” by “Playing With Plays” is a very fun way to help your student discover Shakespearian English. The concept is very simple, you download a PDF document which contain three columns. All you have to do to create an insult is to choose one word from each of the three columns and here you go. It is a much better tool than using modern foul language! All the “instructions” are provided on the “Playing With Plays” website. 

• Science Movie Worksheets ”Showing science videos and the occasional Hollywood film in the classroom is an innovative way to demonstrate science concepts and expose common misconceptions while providing a thought provoking change of pace for students. “

• English Language (ESL) Learning Online – UsingEnglish.com This is an on-line resource for ESL teachers. A UK site set up eight years ago and now includes a wide variety of resources for both learners and teachers. Even though most of the content on the website is based on British English, some of the content was also developed by English contributors from the US, Canada and other English speaking countries. It includes References, Worksheets, Handouts, Lessons Plans, Articles, Tests, Quizzes, Essay Samples and many more.

• Resources for teachers A site that lists free resourses for teachers. It is categorized by different subjects including maths, science, technology, physical education, SS and special education. It provides links and descriptions of the ways the websites could be used in education.

• How to Access 30,000 FREE eBooks for the iPad | GilsMethod.com ”With over 30,000 free eBooks in the ePub format, Project Gutenberg will probably be one of the most frequented sites by iPad owners. The iPad natively supports various eBook formats, among those is the ePub format which is used by Project Gutenberg. Books range from classics like Iliad to more recent books by Mark Twain. The how-to below will show you where to get the ePub formatted eBooks and how to add them to your iTunes library so that you can enjoy them on your iPad.”

• Data in, Brilliance Out | Tableau Public Tableau Public is a free application that brings data to life. Create and share interactive charts and graphs, stunning maps, live dashboards and fun applications in minutes then publish anywhere on the web.

• BBC News – Children who use technology are ‘better writers’ Article summarizing recent finding that shows students using technology especially for writing have better core literacy skills. “Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills: – The National Literacy Trust.

• Blogs, Microblogs and other Distributed Web Content : Information Environment Team Advice about as practical as you can get: how to create a tag and how to check on how unique they are – for your project or event

• SimplytheBest Fonts fancy fonts A collection of the best free fancy fonts on the Web.

• Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious This site provides a simple bookmarking service.that allows you to automatically bookmark the URLs you tweet.

• 10 Digital Writing Opportunities You Probably Know and 10 You Probably Don’t | edte.ch Offers ideas on digital storytelling, literacy and  writing

• TwitterGadget: Auto-refreshing Twitter client TwitterGadget is a clean, robust, web 2.0 style client for Twitter.com, designed to submit and view status updates via your iGoogle homepage, Gmail account, or directly in your browser.

• 9 Sites to Create Cartoon of Yourself for Facebook and Twitter Profile Here are 9 websites that allows you to create a cartoon character of yourself. They are  free web services and applications which can create cartoon of yourself and you don’t have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations. Here you can find some of the best tools including Face your Manga, South Park and Meez ( A 3D Animated Avatar generator ) character generators.

• Real-Time Technology in Middle School Language Instruction — THE Journal Te challenge of teaching language well is one that is central to the K-12 experience. Web 2.0 provides some tools to help meet that challenge.

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Useful sites (weekly)

• Real-Time Technology in Middle School Language Instruction — THE Journal An Article: The challenge of teaching language well is one that is central to the K-12 experience. Web 2.0 provides some tools to help meet that challenge.

• TiltViewer Download   This is a free, customizable 3D Flash image viewing application. Can be used to navigate content in 3d.

• Jeopardy Online Jeopardy game creation – good for students to make up a topic review 

• 100 best first lines from novels A list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit for Contemporary Literature at Illinois State University:” 

• TPCK – Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge – TPCK This is a wiki page that explains TPACK, a model for professional development to implement 21st Century Skills in the classroom. It looks at the integration of technical knowledge, pedagogical knowledge & content knowledge.

• WritingFix: a Right-Brained Writing Prompt…Story Starters: Powerful Sentences Story Starters offers interesting sentences that can help students to start their writing. This tool comes up with random sentences to get students started. 

• ImaginationCubed is a multi-user drawing tool. You can use a pen, stamp,shapes, line or you can type. You can also change the color of the background.

• The complete text of Macbeth: Scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth 

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Search, Read, Study, Discuss. Searchable etext that offers resources,a study guide and discussion (with other readers)

• Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators – Assessment Rubrics – Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators A great guide for rubric related generators and/or sites for Web Page, General, Multimedia, Web 2.0, Articles about, Educators, Alternative, Portfolios, Graphic Organizers

• DigiTales – The Art of Telling Digital Stories Interactive page that allows you to customize your Digital Media rubrics for makring digital projects. 

• Blogging Rubric | Remote Access This provides a useful starting point for creating a marking criteria for blogs

• Celebrate Change: Let’s Make the Whole School a Library! School Library of Victoria conference blog : Celebrate change, lets make the whole school a library. Many great posts that that offer a rich array of ideas, resources, tools and techniques enabling us to adapt the role of the school library to take advantage of the innovative information landscape.

• The Alannah and Madeline Foundation: Cybersafety and Wellbeing Initiative 

• Google Squared Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web, for any topic you specify

• The Film Foundation Educational Program from the The Film Foundation The Story of Movies is an interdisciplinary curriculum introducing students to classic cinema and the cultural, historical and artistic significance of film. Has a film lesson library. Icludes lots of resources and a message from Martin Scorsese.

• Periodic Table http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/bpes_new/bpes_new_uk/STAGING/local_assets/downloads/secondary_resources/pt_preview_080409.jpg A periodic table which includes real-world applications for all the elements

• New York Times – Linked Open Data For the last 150 years, The New York Times has maintained one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. In 2009, we began to publish this vocabulary as linked open data.

• Collecta Real time results from social media

• Grogger | Crowdsource your Content Use a Grog – a ‘Group Blog’ – to publish the best content of an entire community of contributors. Increase the quality and quantity of your content. 

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