Useful Links (weekly)

• How to Create Simple Digital Stories A summary of the digital storytelling process.Offers some step-by-step advice of the process and links to online tutorials and resources

• Video Cameras in the Classroom | Clif’s Notes Great ideas about different ways to use your flip video camera in the classroom

• LearnHub – Study Abroad, Test Prep, Career Counseling LearnHub is a network where members can create their own communities, share lessons, chat, create tests and tutor each other online at no cost. Schools create their own virtual classrooms where students complete assignments, play games and share photos and text. One of the great features of this site is that the site’s report generator allows teachers to track users’ progress. While the content is not as in-depth as Scitable’s, this is a good site for standardized test preparation and basic K-12 education exercises.

• Learn English at ESLvideo.com – Free Video Quiz: Feist – 1234 ESL Video allows language educators to create quizzes from virtually any video on the internet. From here they can embed their quizzes into their classroom sites or redirect students to the ESL Video domain. Teachers tailor their video quizzes to specific learning units or create simple vocabulary quizzes using YouTube videos

• At work – The Big Picture – Boston.com The Big Picture. Great photos: “People assembling, generating, and building items small and large, mundane and expensive, trivial and important.”

• JOLT – Journal of Online Learning and Teaching This case study describes the design and implementation of a foundations of educational technology course with the support of a web-based application known as Drupal. Drupal is a powerful free and open source web application framework in which one can use wikis, blogs, groups, and other tools to support the classroom learning experiences of students. In this course, distance masters students used these tools to build their own wiki-based knowledge base about the field of educational technology. 

• CO2 emissions, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time This is a stunning example of what ‘good design’ can bring to the understanding of statistical information. Good use of colour, layout and typographic information helps create a more engaging (and potentially more easily understood) reality. There are numerous uses for this; not least in playful and enjpyable learning. “A visual real-time simulation that displays the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, birth rates, and death rates of every country in the world.”

• Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers NECC – how to use blogs and IT tips

• Half an Hour: Standards for Pedagogically Relevant Learning Environments – Where Are we? Stephen Downes: standards for pedagogically relevant learning environments.Where are we? 

• Google For Educators – Web Search These Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions. 

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