Useful Links (weekly)

• The Digital Narrative – Find your story There are numerous ways to introduce digital storytelling into a classroom. Of course, writing and telling stories using digital media brings up a host of questions that relate to narrative and structure, how you approach a lesson and maneuver around technical problems

• FactCheckED.org ”Our aim is to help students learn to be smart consumers of these messages, not to accept them at face value; to dig for facts using the Internet, not to stop looking once they get to Wikipedia; and to weigh evidence logically, not to draw conclusions based on their own biases. “

• MyMoon The Lunar and Planetary Institute, a division of the Universities Space Research Association, was established during the Apollo missions to foster international collaboration and to serve as a repository for information gathered during the early years of the space program.

• eLearn: Best Practices Good blog post on prepping for a webinar. Could be useful in preparing for the latest training project

• Australian Flexible Learning Framework – The risky business of social media – August 2009 Social media tools are increasingly powerful & valuable for communicating, collaborating, retaining & harvesting knowledge. Despite widespread use, popularity of social media, & ability to facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration in workplace training, privacy issues & fears of misuse continue to deter many organisations from adopting these tools. 

• The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator – Create your own fun newspaper – fodey.com Make a newspaper clipping with your own headline and story. In example to surprise friends and coworkers, send a birthday greeting or to give your next blog entry a special look.  

• BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF Greate site for primary school students. Sudents select their body parts, create a crazy character and the site tells you the attributes of the parts to understand animals

• Screenr – Create screencasts and screen recordings the easy way Create screen recordings via a web-based tool. The videos can be played on the web or iPhone, so they are great for adding to your tweets. You must have Twitter account though and all screencasts are public. 

• VoiceThread – Group conversations around images, documents, and videos ”VoiceThread portal at nypl.voicethread.com where you can find and make copies of VoiceThreads created by the amazing staff of the New York Public Library. These Learning Modules include expert commentary explaining the background of the images and provide a starting point for further exploration and use of these source materials in the classroom.” 

• “09picturestories” : Flickr Images of words to be used in digital storytelling

• A Collection of Photo Effects – Online Photo Editor The Tuxpi site offers a bunch of easy, one-click web-based tools for adding borders, captions, reflections, and other types of effects to your digital photos. You can turn any image into a postage stamp, wanted poster, pop art collage, and more.

• Tombstone Generator If you are into a more black humour style, the tombstone generator might be interesting. It’s a quick and painless web form that adds your custom text to the headstone.

• Street Sign Generator From the same people who developed the Warning Label Generator above is a tool for making funny and inappropriate street signs. Once again this is a simple web form; simply choose one of four background styles, input the text you want displayed on the sign, and choose an optional suffix (Road, Lane, etc.).

• Parody Motivator Generator Annoyed by those superficial and unflaggingly insipid motivational posters we’re subjected to in dentists’ and corporate offices everywhere? Why not take a stance against mass-produced pseudo-solutions to important problems? With the Demotivators tool you can easily generate a realistic illustration of the trials and tribulations of Real Life. Just choose an image from your desktop to create a motivational parody from, customize your image settings, add a title and de-motivational text and you too can contribute to the better psychological health of us all.

• Warning Label Generator Advising people to the dangers of the situation has never been so easy. Simply pick a label style, a warning icon, and enter your desired text into a simple web form and voila, you’ve got a standup warning label. For a vertical sign-style warning image, check out the companion site Warning Sign Generator. 

• misterteacher.com: Goal for 2009-2010: Integrate iPods into the Subject Areas use the iPods in the following ways: Math Intervention: Math Enrichment: Science Enrichment: Social Studies Enrichment

• Six Word Stories Stories told in just six words. Brevity is a virtue. This is a collection of short short stories consisting of just six words. It was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s famous challenge. 

• Flickr: Single Word Single Word images – good for use in storytelling 

• The Digital Narrative – Find your story There are numerous ways to introduce digital storytelling into a classroom. Of course, writing and telling stories using digital media brings up a host of questions that relate to narrative and structure, how you approach a lesson and maneuver around technical problems. 

• Four Tips for Building Accountability – Rosabeth Moss Kanter – HarvardBusiness.org 

• A Classroom in your Pocket: iPods in Education Enhance curriculum, increase student achievement, and learn creative new ways to develop innovative lessons with the use of the iPod. The purpose of this slide presentation is to provide educators with exciting new skills to enable them to utilize iPods as tools for classroom instruction. Participants will learn how easily the iPod can be integrated into all content curriculum areas to engage students, increase achievement, and foster creative learning

• NASA – Black Hole Math 

• Sclipo: the social learning revolution Sclipo is a newly created social network designed specifically for those in education.

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: DiigoNotes: Podcasts Better Than Lectures 

• ABC’s of Web 2.0 | Best Syndication 

• Useful Links (weekly) | phrases.com 

• The Hound of Baskervilles Here you can read the story of The Hound of the Baskervilles. The site is at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – His Life, All His Works and More

• Random Word Generator 

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

Keeping your profiles in Sync. – AtomKeep

 

 

 

 

I, like a lot of people, am now joining/using quite a number of social sites.

Today I read about AtomKeep,which is a tool that attempts to rectify the problem of keeping all your profiles up-to-date. It supports a large number of sites (Twitter, Technorati, Facebook, Digg, Ning, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, YouTube and more) and they are adding more sites all the time. Partial support of MySpace started towards the end of last year. 

I really like idea that I can enter an update for my profile into AtomKeep and, when I use the “sync”, the data in my other profiles is updated at the same time. As a professional tool this is a good way to keep everything updated and accurate.

There is another thing that is possible. I find filling out profiles for new sites fairly boring and irritating. You know what sort of information you have to fill out: Name & Address, Contact, Education, User Image, Work, Professional Summary, etc.  Atomkeep offers a useful alternative to this because it can fill them out for you. Bonus I say!

Reading about the tool, it warns that, if you do choose the “sync” option, all sites will be changed, therefore if, for example, you have a different photo on different sites, they will all change to the new one, but I don’t think this is a major problem and of course it can be changed back again by you. So I’m going to give AtomKeep a try and  see how it works.