Useful links

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• http://e-language.wikispaces.com/m-learning Presentation wiki of Elanguage conference in Australia. Nicky Hockly and Mark Pegrum
• MentorMob – Learn What You Want, Teach What You Love – MentorMob
• 5 Mobile Photographers Capturing the World With Android Via @mashable “Five photographers who use their Android devices — exclusively or in addition to other cameras — to shoot, edit and share beautiful photos, and they offered some advice for those looking to enter the field.”
• The 25 Best Pinterest Boards in EdTech – Online Universities “Blogs and Twitter aren’t the only social tools out there that can help you keep up with the latest and greatest developments in educational technology. Pinterest is rapidly becoming a favorite tool of educators all over the nation, and many have amassed some pretty great collections of edtech-related pins that teachers and students alike can use to explore new ways to learn, share, teach, and grow. While it would be nearly impossible to highlight every edtech pinboard out there, we’ve shared some of the boards we think stand out among the crowd here. Many are maintained by major educational websites, key figures in edtech, and well-known bloggers, but others were created by teachers just like you who simply want to share resources and tips with others in education.”
• Education Rethink: 13 Ways to Engage Reluctant Writers John Spencer offers a few thoughts on how to engage reluctant writers:
• Flavorwire » 10 Literary Authors Who Illustrated Their Own Work “A few literary authors who created illustrations for their works, whether published or unpublished. Though The Hobbit is arguably a book for children (and The Lord of the Rings trilogy even more arguably so), it gets a pass as a classic, and for the rest of this list we’ve been committed to leaving out children’s literature, picture books, and graphic novels — because that’s just too easy. Click through to see our list of ten literary authors who illustrated their own works “
• 8 Unique Online Presentation Tools for Students| The Committed Sardine 8 different online tools that may help students share what they have learnt and create interesting and appropriate presentations – from zooming presentations to animations to timelines.
• How To Integrate Education Technology With Scaffolding
• How An Amsterdam School Uses Facebook Timeline In History Classes “Students at Het 4e Gymnasium Amsterdam have had their history class infused into their digital lives…The students have built Facebook Timelines for four history subjects:..Historical events were represented by uploading a variety of media including audio, video, photos, maps, and historic documents.”
• The 6 P’s for Education « My Island View  @tomwhitby “Dell Computer has sponsored four education Think Tanks over the last year, or so, and I have been fortunate to participate in three of them…Each of the groups is given four to six general topics of concern in education to discuss for about forty-five minutes to an hour. Since the members are all invited guests, they are usually intelligent, passionate, and well-versed in aspects of education specific to their profession….Progress is being stymied by the 6 “P’s”. By this I am not referring to the military expression “Proper Planning Prevents P*ss Poor Performance”. I am talking about Poverty, Profit, Politics, Parents, Professional development, and Priorities preventing progress in Public Education.”
• Reconceptualising the School Library as Collaborative Makerspace | Services to Schools “It is essential that school leaders apply the same spirit of innovation and future focus to the re-imagination of their school library environments as they do to other aspects of both their built and virtual school environment. Library as creative collaborative makerspace is an exciting, transformative idea that warrants exploration.”
• Flavorwire » Vintage Photographs From Inside 10 Famous Libraries
• 4 Social Media Goals Every Library Should Measure | iLibrarian
• Tablets, laptops and mobiles in the classroom: top tips from teachers | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional Tablets, laptops and mobiles aren’t there to replace traditional teaching tools, but designed to complement them. Our panel of education experts share advice on using one to one devices in schools

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Useful links (Weekly)

  by  gcouros 

• Canada | BiS A number of Canadian public libraries are pioneering a new service delivery model, which emphasizes collaborative service development and delivery, with library staff and the communities the library serves. Through this community-led service framework, library staff work with communities to understand their needs and deliver services that meet those needs, often devoting significant time outside the library walls. This article highlights two Canadian urban libraries which have embraced the community-led service approach, in order to remain relevant in our ever-changing environment.

• Mobile Apps: Implications for Libraries « Dysart & Jones From the NYPL’s “Engaging Communitities, Promoting Learning” conferenceon the current state of mobile, and encouraged them to consider the implications for libraries.

• On Pinterest | What I Learned Today… Blog post from @nengard. Pinterest (& other social media tools) & fair use. Pinterest does one thing and does that one thing very well – it’s an image sharing/bookmarking tool.

• ALA President Molly Raphael releases report on e-book talks with e-book distributors | American Libraries Magazine A report, released by American Library Association (ALA) President Molly Raphael, regarding meetings with e-book distributors during the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference, March 13 – 17.

• What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you A tool to assist with find something you might like to read based on another book you have enjoyed. Not fool-proof but offers a starting point. Easy to use: “Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers’ favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.”

• APA Referencing Style Guide (6th edition) The University of Waikato Library’s APA reference style online guide 6th edition 2012. Includes up-to-date reference guides for images and figures

• Thanks to Amazon, Android Could Overtake iPad by 2016 | Gadget Lab | Wired.com Cheap Android tablets, namely from Amazon, could boost Android tablet sales numbers past the current dominating force known as the iPad, according to research firm IDC.

• Academic Literacy Academic Literacy is a resource site for Bachelor of Education students at the University of New England.

• Beginner’s Guide to Transliteracy « Libraries and Transliteracy

• 20 Ways Libraries Are Using Pinterest Right Now | Edudemic Good article with lots of great ideas/suggestions for using Pinterest

• Education Cartoons | Randy Glasbergen – Today’s Cartoon Cartoons About Education Topics by Randy Glasbergen.

• Survive and Thrive! An Advocacy Toolkit for School Librarians ”In order to better communicate to our community members what “21st century skills” are all about, we created a brand or “taglines” for the 21st century skills of the Colorado Academic Standards. On this site, you will find message templates (sample e-mails, letters, newsletter blurbs, brochures, and even videos) containing these taglines and targeting specific stakeholder audiences in order to promote school librarians as 21st century skills experts.”

• numberphile’s Channel – YouTube Numberphile is n interesting YouTube channel about fun number facts. There are currently thirty-three videos in the Numberphile collection. The videos cover things like 998,001 and its Mysterious Recurring Decimals, Pi and Bouncing Balls, and 1 and Prime Numbers.

• The Innovative Educator: Top 10 Technology Blogs for Education

• Kindle Authors Who Lend Books In Library See 26% Higher Sales – eBookNewser

• 20 free tools to evaluate social media | Articles Article by By Dirk Singer about free tools that are not for measurement, but instead evaluation. They will give you some form of meaningful data to use in reports

• Education Nation 2011: 7 Tips For Using Social Media in Your Classroom A post discussing how teachers can use social media (eg. social networks and microblogging platforms.) to meet students on their own turf and provide an engaging avenue to learning. Several lesson ideas are explored.

• At One School, iPods Help Improve Reading Scores — THE Journal ”After noticing an uptick in ELL and other students with below average reading scores at his school, Skip Johnson, principal at El Crystal Elementary in San Bruno, CA, created a forward-thinking reading program pairing iPods and print books that has helped to successfully boost reading comprehension scores among non proficient readers”

• How To Cite A Tweet In Academic Papers | Edudemic Post on edudemic about citing a tweet woith comments: “The Modern Language Association (MLA, yes that MLA format) just released its official usage for citing tweets in academic papers.”

• How Are Wikis Really Being Used in the K-12 Classroom? ”Social media usage at the K-12 level has exploded over recent years, with some 40% of teachers saying they use blogs or wikis in the classroom. But what does wiki usage in the K-12 classroom really look like? How are teachers and students using them? And are these online learning opportunities equitably distributed across different socioeconomic populations?”

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Social media edge july2010 – Helene Blowers, posted with vodpod

    I liked the above presentation, especially the E words.

This weeks interesting links are:

MyPaint MyPaint is a fast and easy graphics application for digital painters. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it. Comes with a large brush collection including charcoal and ink to emulate real media.  

CriticalPast.com: Search over 57000 videos and 7 million photos  CriticalPast provides thousands of hours of video and millions of still photos drawn largely from U.S. government agency sources. Clips from 1890 to 1990 included.  

WeGame, a free Fraps alternative – Record Games, Capture Games, Game Record, and much more!  WeGame lets you record your own video games and capture screen shots. You can even start making your own machinima. 

Java island gaming, tropical flash games paradise – Mario games – Sonic games  Java Island Gaming provides many java and flash games. Puzzles and strategy games included.

Welcome to ABookandAHug.com  ABookAndAHug.com is a resource for finding the right book for a child. The site provides reviews and categorisation of many popular book and series titles, organised by genre and by reading levels, starting with babies, young listeners, picture books, early readers and independent and higher level readers. browse by category, age, reading level, gender… Special section on books for boys and the Books Alive is a selection of author interviews.  

MAKING A BOOK TRAILER | Gabrielle Wang A blog post about Making a Book Trailer by Gabrielle Wang (Aust YA Author)  

Free Online Favicon Generator Tool  This lets you generate a favicon to go in the address bar of your website.  

A Bloggers’ Code of Ethics – CyberJournalist.net – Online News Association – Ethics and Credibility  Some great guidelines for bloggers. Useful ideas in relation to the ethical issues with technology. Voluntary but important from the cyber journalist Web site. This site posts a blogging code of ethics, which has become a huge ethical issue since the invention of blogging technology.  

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » iPads in Education  

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Web2.0 tools to inspire (slideshare)

I found this SlideShare presentation thanks to the post by Sue Tapp on her blog And another thing. It contains a lot of suggestions which are/could be very useful for classroom practices as well as interesting enough to encourage student use beyond the classroom. They include tools that cover areas such as:

• Brainstorming, mind mapping, creativity triggers, etc.
• Word processing, document and multimedia tools for sharing ideas and storytelling
• Social Networking (Facebook, Linkedin, Seesmic, Twitter)
• Other interesting things (Neat stuff)

Rather than me list them all, have a look at the slides.

Web 2.0 Tools to Inspire

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Useful Links (weekly)

• indispensibletools / FrontPage A list of ICT tools was crowd sourced from individual educationalists and not companies when the question ‘What Indispensible ICT tools do you use in education’ was asked and is not meant to be exhaustive in any way. 

• The Top 50 Australian blogs on writing – CopyWrite Fifty blogs by and for writers on the act of writing; copywriting, screenwriting, novels, poetry, anything that involves putting words in the right order to build a coherent and creative message. 

• 35 Beautiful Examples Of Rain Photography | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine This photography blog is great. It takes the theme of rain and captures the small details in a photograph. There are many really interesting photos that could be used as a stimulus for other work

• Public Domain Images Karen Whimsey Public Domain Images is a phenomenal public domain gem of clipart, diagrams, sketches, and more for the classroom. Supporting units: ancient civilizations, world religions, musical instruments, art, silhouettes, vintage fashion, fairy tales, folk tales, Native Americans, explorers, Civil War, geography, food, alphabet, Spanish, art, architecture, Shakespeare, plants, holidays. 

• tiltshiftmaker.com – Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures Use TiltShiftMaker to easily transform your standard photos into fun tilt-shift style miniature pictures.

• open thinking » 80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy Interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 80+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use. From Alec Couros

• Copyright and Fair Use ‎(Celebrate Oklahoma Voices)‎ Copyright and Fair Use Follow these guidelines when using media (photos and audio/music) in your projects: 1. Homegrown – Create your own 2. Creative Commons – Use media for which permission to re-use has been already granted 3. Fair Use – Use media in accordance with fair use provisions of copyright law for the US

• http://www.googletutor.com/2009/05/18/6-google-docs-features-to-make-collaboration-more-productive Google docs is by far one of the easiest and most full featured collaboration tools available online. To get the most out of your collaboration, you need to make your documents do more for you, and go beyond just sharing them. Here are the 6 features that help you collaborate better, and more effectively using Google Docs. 

• Chrome Experiments – Detail – Google Gravity Looking at “Gravity,” one could easily get a sense of how designers might enable users to create a drag-and-drop, cut-and-paste custom interface for any web page they want to upload. Users could also easily add content/widgets/paid apps. There are a lot of options that come to mind. 

• Everyone’s bookmarks for “Chrome Experiments – Detail – Google Gravity” on Delicious 

• Social Networking Slideshow for a recent presentation on social networking in K12. Some great resources and rationales for using web 2.0 environments in K-20 learning environments.

• FunnelBrain – Answers, Questions, Flashcards | AP Calculus, AP History, AP Psychology, AP Biology, AP Chemistry Elearning community. Students can create online accounts and can create and share study materials, flashcards (that can contain videos photos, audio, text and math equations, etc.). 

• 10 internet technologies that educators should be informed about (via TweetALink.com) There are many different tools and technologies available on the internet today, with many associated terms and concepts.This post examines what are the most important internet technologies for educators to be aware of, and informed about.There would be many different lists. This one is based on observations and experiences, and feedback from faculty at the author’s institution. 

• Home – Boys Forward Boys Education Support, Resources, Studies and Aids for Teachers, Parents, Educators and Families tags: boys, reading, homework, inquiry_learning

• John Green: Author of An Abundance of Katherines and Looking for Alaska John Green’s (author of An Abundance of Katherines, Looking for Alaska, and Paper Towns) official blog. Read his blog, learn famous last words or anagrams or view his You Tube videos.

• 21 Free And Useful Web Tools For Web Designers @ SmashingApps A good list that offers information on where you can find the simplest online web designer’s tools that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun.

• Facts About Dihydrogen Monoxide A site to show bogus information on the internet. DMHO=water. It teaches danger of believing everything you read on the web.

• Google Technology A humorous website for a hoax. It was the site from the opening session that Google created as a spoof about how it works. Good way to see how well students pay attention.

• Lesson Plans and Student Activity Sheets CyberSmart! original, nonsequential standards-based lesson plans and student activity sheets actively engage students in making good search decisions and in evaluating the resources they encounter online. 

• open thinking » 80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy Interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 80 videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use. From Alec Couros 

• Digital Voice Awards – Top Winners 2009 

• Tom’s Place – Carmen Sylva Regina Elisabeta, Queen Marie Regina Maria, Princess Ileana, Romania, English Concertina, Classics Illustrated, Chicago Interesting and varied ephemera. Particularly good for kids and classic book illustrations.Also included – Romanian historical material 

• Alternate reality game for education – ARGuing – Home ARGuing will build an educational methodology and teacher training guides and courses that can be used by teachers and teacher trainers to learn and understand how they can use the Internet, in a similar way to how their students are already using technology

• GET GRAPHIC: The World In Words and Pictures A site is dedicated to using graphic novels as an educational and recreational tool. There are links to information for teachers, parents, and librarians on the importance and application of graphic novels in the classroom.

• Classics Illustrated Comic Books An online source for comic versions of literature. This is an archive of some of classic stories told in a comic format. The artwork might seem a little dated, but that’s all part of the appeal! Titles include: War of the Worlds, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Christmas Carol, Frankenstein, All Quiet on the Western Front.

• Pipl – People Search Pipl’s query-engine helps you find deep web pages that cannot be found on regular search engines. Unlike a typical search-engine, Pipl is designed to retrieve information from the deep web, our robots are set to interact with searchable databases and extract facts, contact details and other relevant information from personal profiles, member directories, scientific publications, court records and numerous other deep-web sources.

• Fake internet resources – 180 Technology Tips #124 Post that offers technology tips as a reminder that not everything you see on the internet is real.

• The Empty Page Blog – The Empty Page Blog encourages networking, connection, and creativity through the art and business of writing. 

• Smashing Magazine 

• http://www.photovisi.com

• textorizer Textorizer is a program that allows you to make pictures formed with text t

• Introduction to Google Forms | Matt Silverman A brief tutorial on creating a Google form.. As recommended by Will Richardson, this is an excellent resource for anyone desiring to organize, collect, and analyze data — turning the data into information.

• Chartle.net – interactive charts online! This program lets users make simple, interactive charts and graphs that can be easily embedded in websites. 

• Can we use Twitter for educational activities? Twitter is the most popular microblogging application.Posts are limited to 140 text characters in length. With experience in using Web2.0 technologies in education, the authors are trying to provide arguments for using Twitter as microblogging platform / social network in education, underlining its advantages, but also possible bad points.

• http://www.noflyingnotights.com Bimonthly graphic novel reviews for teens and so much more! 

• artbomb.net Offers reviews, previews, and web graphic novels. 

• Comic Art Links Directory: Artists Links to hundreds of comics artist’s websites.

• Lambiek.Net comics+art A web database with biographical information on a great many comic artists.

• MoCCA – Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art 

• VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus VocabGrabber lets you automatically create lists of vocabulary from any text

• Webquests | Teaching English | British Council | BBC A 2004 article but still a good introduction

• 50 Tips, Tweaks and Hacks to Make the Most of Google Calendar | Virtual Hosting Blog  A good list of productivity tips and tricks using Google Calendar.

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