Useful links (Weekly)

  by  heyjudegallery 

• E. B. White on the Role and Responsibility of the Writer | Brain Pickings The Paris Review interviews,in a 1969 conversation, in which the great George Plimpton and sidekick Frank H. Crowther interview E. B. White. White has previously voiced strong opinions on the free press and, of course, the architecture of language, but here he shares some timeless yet strikingly timely insights on the role and the responsibility of the writer:

• Free Kids Clip Art by Phillip Martin, Free Clip Art for Kids Free for non-profit use, and lots of educational clipart. I love his cartoonish and colourful style.

• The Best Fun Videos About Books & Reading | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… A list of f fun videos out there about books and reading by Larry Ferlazzo

• Children’s Literature Digital Resources Project The project digitised a selection of early Australian children’s literature, both popular and rare. Many of the items selected for digitisation were kindly supplied by the National Library of Australia, while others were from the library collections of the State Library Victoria, Monash University, The University of Queensland, Deakin University, and Queensland University of Technology.

• Jigsaw Planet – Online Jigsaw Puzzle Games Jigsaw Planet a tool that will allow you to upload your own photo, then choose to make it into between a 4 and 200 piece puzzle. You can select the shape of the pieces too, and there’s a very simple shape suitable for toddlers. Once you click create, you’re presented with a screen that shows your puzzle pieces scattered. Rearranging is a simple matter of clicking with your mouse and dragging them where you want them

• Libraries without walls A post discussing how libraries are adapting to the digital age.

• A Collaborative Guide to Best Digital Learning Practices for K-12 | DMLcentral A collaboratively written document produced in Bangkok, Thailand, at the March 28-31 teacher’s meeting of EARCOS, the East Asia Regional Council of Schools. The hope is that this guide will be useful to any teacher confronting the challenges of introducing new technologies into the K-12 classroom in meaningful, inventive, productive, creative, and connected ways.

• YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten Nominations Announced! | The Hub The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list where every title is nominated and voted on by teens. The 2012 nominations have been posted on the YALSA website so that teens across the country can read them all summer; voting will be happen over August and September, and the winners will be announced during Teen Read Week in October.

• How We Will Read: Clay Shirky This post is part of “How We Will Read,” an interview series exploring the future of books from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals.

• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Tools And Resources For Creating Infographics Talks about sites and tools used to visualize data and create “infographics.” The post discusses tools such as Wordle and Visual.ly, among others

• New from Pew: The Rise of e-Reading « NeverEndingSearch Post from joycevalenza. The Pew Internet & American Life Project released its new study, The Rise of e-Reading (Apr 2012) .Here are some of the key findings from the Summary of the report by researchers by Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden and Joanna Brenner, who surveyed of 2,986 Americans ages 16 and older between November and December 2011:

• Mezzmer Blog » How Animals See the World Chart that looks at the unique ways our animal friends see the world

• BBC – Primary History – Famous People – Charles Dickens

• Infographic: Information Literacy Issues « EasyBib Infographic created after asking some T/L’s what the think about the state of information literacy in schools

• Free Technology for Teachers: 10 Awesome Android Uses and Apps for Education

• The 21st century pedagogy teachers should be aware of From the ALCE international conference that was held in Sydney this year. Advancements in technology and particularly social networking technologies are changing the whole educational framework .- Interpersonal learning , personalized learning, second life learning , 3d learning, collaborative learning and virtual learning are just some of the few buzz words you would be hearing so often in today’s educational literature.

• Bullying. No Way! Australia’s safe and supportive school communities site that tries to office advice and resources to parents, teachers and students. This site was developed by all Australian education authorities, working together to create learning environments where every student and school community member is safe, supported, respected, valued – and free from bullying

• 11 Awesome Apps to Try on Your New Android Device Eleven free apps that you could use in education

• Teaching and Modeling Good Digital Citizenship | MindShift  :Somewhere between kids’ intuitive social savvy and their online behavior lies an opportunity for both parents and educators to teach responsible digital citizenship, and there are plenty of organizations dedicated to this task alone.” Post from Mind?shift blog discussing what teachers and parents can tap into.

• Digital Literacy and Citizenship Classroom Curriculum | Common Sense Media From Common Sense Media , this is a free digital citizenship curriculum, categorized by age. The curriculum includes both paper-based and digital activities and teaches online safety and Internet research skills in combination with ethics.

• Comparison of Citation Software at MIT – Overview of Citation Software at MIT: Managing Your References – Research Guides at MIT Libraries  Research Guides. Overview of Citation Software at MIT: Managing Your References. “Citation software (also called “bibliographic software,” “citation managers,” or “reference managers”) helps you to: import citations from your favourite databases and websites. Build and organize bibliographies. Format citations for papers. Take notes on articles and save them in your collection of citations. Save and organize PDFs, screenshots, graphs, images, and other files for your research.”

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Useful Links (weekly)

• ToonsTunes – Making music fun for kids! A site aimed to attract kids that allows kids to create music, using loops of their own voice or anything that comes through their pc microphone. A wonderful site to send your kids where they can explore creating their own music. 

• Musipedia: Musipedia Melody Search Engine Welcome to Musipedia! Inspired by, but not affiliated with Wikipedia, we are building a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Every entry can be edited by anybody. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour.

• placeSpotting.com | The online map game | solve Place Spotting – Challenging Geographic Riddles: a fun way to teach or reinforce geography lessons Place Spotting is a website of geographic riddles. It is based on the Google Earth platform. Users can create their own geographic riddles or try to solve riddles created by others. The search feature on the site lets users search for riddles based on level of difficulty, language, region, or creation date.

• Online Teaching Tips Tips and tricks for designing course content, facilitating and teaching online, developing learning objectives, assessment ideas, and tutorials for Blackboard. Online Teaching Tips was designed and developed, and is maintained by the Dallas Baptist University Online Education department.

• 5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With An Online School Calendar | School Calendars Made Simple 

• Vocab Quiz Maker | Scholastic Word Wizard | Scholastic.com A simple, but useful application – develop students understanding of vocabulary and grammar. It allows a teacher to generate a “mini-quiz” for any level.

• ‘Word up’ with fun, free and engaging vocabulary games – Digital Play 

• TrueTube Offers lots of resources to promote debate. Truetube explains itself as: “a free, website which uses real-life stories and issues to encourage teenagers to explore and debate the world of morality, ethics, politics and religion. TrueTube brings to life the Secondary Education subjects with short-form web-based video and multimedia technology. The site encourages teenagers to find their voice as they explore their own value systems and those of their peers around the corner and across the world.”

• Interactive Timelines 

• Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren’t Google Wave) – Collaboration – Lifehacker This is a useful list of collaboration tools online (and not part of the Google Wave) Have a look at some great ways to work collaboratively and each option has its own strengths. This post will get you started thinking about may be possible.

• Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) was established in 1986. The centre is a focus for research and curriculum development in Mathematics teaching and learning. By clicking into ‘Teacher Resources’ you can find some interesting activities and resource materials. There are also exercises with automatic correction.

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