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Revision with GoogleDocs – Google For Educators “Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You’ll also find a teacher’s guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.”
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Free Software To Make That Flip Video Experience Even Better! « 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning This post by 21centuryedtech focuses on a free piece of software that really does make integrating the Flip Video camera with Windows Movie Maker easy. Outside of that, it is a great video and audio transfer program that has a multitude of uses in student and teacher productions of movies and podcasts!
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What to consider before shortening links – O’Reilly Radar An interesting article about issues concering the growing prevalence of link-shortening services.
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iPads in Education: Grading what’s working and what’s not – iPads in Education iPads in Education: Grading and commenting on what’s working and what’s not
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SortFix Powered Search Blog Sort Fix graphically facilitates search and demonstrates thinking about search refinement. A behind-the- scenes algorithm scans results to identify and present significant keywords. Searchers can grab (or remove) these words from their search baskets to refine their searches and create better queries. A dictionary basket is available to compensate for new vocabulary.
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Chatzy – Free Private Chat Rooms A chat tool that is simple, clear, and doesn’t require any Java. It works across browsers and allows a reasonable amount of admin control and management.
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The computer ate my teacher! Technology and the new face of today’s classroom | Best Practices News | eSchoolNews.com tags: elearning technology eschool education resources edtech classroom learning interactive
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F for fail: ‘overcrowded, incoherent’ national curriculum panned SMH article: The NSW Board of Studies and teaching associations for science, maths, English and history have all raised serious concerns about the draft curriculum, saying it is inferior to existing NSW standards and should not go ahead in its present form.
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Globe Genie – Joe McMichael (@Lois Lindemann): Teleport around the globe with this excellent Google mashup (via @DanBowen)
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10/10/10 throughout the day « Flickr Blog •Flickr asked people to post photos on 10/10/10 to document what the world was doing on a day with such an interesting date.
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Minus This offers a very easy way to create a shareable online image gallery
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Main Page Thom Cochrane’s presentation at mLearn 2010. It shows small pieces in a loosely joined, Web 2.0, mobile-friendly approach to educational technology
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Delivr – Effortless sharing with a tricked-out, mobile-friendly URL. This tool offers an easy, mobile-friendly way to share stuff.
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End of the Nook? Amazon announces 14-day Kindle ebook lending | VentureBeat Amazon.com Inc. is going to allow the lending of e-books purchased from its Kindle Store. The online retailer announced the upcoming feature in a discussion forum for the Kindle on its website, saying that later in the year it will start letting Kindle users and people who use its free Kindle apps loan books to others for a two-week period. During the loan, the book’s owner will not be able to read the book, Amazon said. Only some Kindle books will be available for lending; Amazon said that the decision is up to the book’s publisher or rights holder. Barnes and Noble are planning similar provisions with the Nook.
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Printz Previews The students at the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Women’s University have created for many trailers for the Printz Award winners and Honor Books dating back to 2000.
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Phonecast live to the web from any phone, anywhere | ipadio | Talk to your World Ipadio is an extremely flexible tool. You can phone in by landline or mobile and your basic webpage is created instantaneously. If you’re concerned about sound quality over a telephone line there is also an MP3 upload option
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Personalized Signposts: Design your own Street Signs, Warning Labels – Digital Inspiration Here is a post about some useful online tools to create your own personalized messages on Traffic Signs or Street Symbols.
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DownloadTube Is a One-Click YouTube Conversion and Download Site Thanks to @Lifehacker “If you’re looking for a simple, one-click, solution for converting and downloading YouTube videos sans software, DownloadTube is a free tool for web-based YouTube file conversion. Copy the URL of the video you want to convert, visit DownloadTube and paste it in, then select which format you want. DownloadTube can convert YouTube videos into MPG, MOV, 3GP, MP4, convert it to an audio-only MP3 file, or grab the native FLV flash file for you. Click “Convert and Download” and the file is converted and saved to your computer.”
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The new era of workplace learning – Jane Hart This is the second of a two-part article that looks at the emerging trends in learning tools and workplace learning. In this part, Jane Hart, a Consultant from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies – www.C4LPT, looks at the future of workplace learning and the implications for Learning & Development.
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