Useful Links

• 14 Books To Read Before They Hit The Big Screen | Ocean 98.5 A list of some interesting books that are having movie versions made of them. They are recommended “Because 99% of the time, the books are better than the movies. Some of these film adaptations, though, look really promising”

• 7 Ways Teachers Use Social Media in the Classroom Some simple ideas that could be adapted for many classrooms

• 10 Specific Examples Of Emerging Educational Technologies The piece uses the 2013 Horizon Report as the basis for the discussion. There are many example given to illustrate how the technologies are already being used – across a variety of subject areas.

• Twitter For Learning: 7 Ideas For Using Hashtags In The Classroom Some good ideas on how to make good classroom use of Twitter by using the hashtag option.

• Rubrics for Teachers | www.rubrics4teachers.com Rubrics4Teachers is good especially if starting out on rubrics. It has a lot of free content with a focus is on already created rubrics, not make-your-own. It offers a lot of pre-made rubrics covering a variety of subjects that are available for use. You can search by subject matter or by term.

• 50 Fonts | Best Fonts for Wedding Invitations | Snippet & Ink Links to 50 of the authors favoutire fonts. Not free but good for ideas

• Teachers Stuck on Pinterest | Edutopia A reflection about how Pinterest has become a highly used tool by teachers. There are some good links to some other useful sites.

• Awesome Screenshot: Web App Reviews Awesome Screenshot is a Chrome extension that allows you to take pictures of your browser window and then edit and annotate the image with shapes and text. To use the extension you begin by taking a screenshot of the entire page, or the visible portion of the page, or just a selected area of the page. Next use the editing and markup tools to customise your work. Once you are done editing and annotating your image you have a number of options for saving the picture.

• PowToon, free business presentation software animated video maker and PowerPoint alternative PowToon is a free web app that lets you easily create presentations and animated videos, often with a cartoon look and feel.

• Eric Curts – YouTube Eric Curtis Youtube videos. Lots of good ideas and tips for using educational technologies.

• Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: google forms Since the beginning Google Forms has been continuously updated with one of the latest enabling users to embed pictures and images into forms. On this site Eric Curts has made available some tutorials that cover a wide range of tips and tricks on anything you need to know about Google Forms.

• Free Technology for Teachers: 43+ Alternatives to YouTube If you can’t access YouTube at school, those on this list may assist teachers (and students) find good some good alternatives

• 22 of our favorite banned books (and why they made someone’s list of forbidden reads) | Weldon Owen

  ” Throughout the years many books that have sought to highlight social problems, enlighten readers or provoke some thinking. Many of these have ultimately earned a spot on a banned books lists in various countries. Two examples: the Grapes of Wrath often taught in schools today – in 1939 the California state leaders were offended and subsequently took it off the reading list. and Animal Farm wasn’t widely acclaimed for over 45 years in the USSR.”

• 9 Web 2.0 Sites to Publish Student Work | Teach Amazing! 9 easy-to-use web 2.0 sites to publish, share and celebrate student work.

• ePub Bud – Publish, Convert, Store, and Download free children’s ebooks online for the iPad and nook color! Epubbud is another way students can have their work published. It allows you to convert any existing document into an e-book or create the book on the site itself. It converts the book to the epub format which is compatible with various readers and tablets. It is a fairly easy and efficient way to generate an epub format book even if the user interface is not as refined as some of the other publishing tools.FlipSnack | PDF to Flash page flip – flipping book software

• This publishing tool is very easy to use. You need the document you upload to be in PDF format. If you have a scanner in they school that scans into PDF, you can load it with the student work, create a PDF and convert it into a virtual book. Free and premium versions available. This can then be embedded into a blog etc.

• Self Publishing, Book Printing and Publishing Online – Lulu Lulu gives you the opportunity to upload a document and convert to epub format. The site contains photo book tools and you can add images and text to tell a story. Tools are also available for creating poetry books and digital portfolios.

• Mixbook | Education Program & Free Digital Storytelling Software for Educators A good tool for story creation that features some sophisticated editing tools perfect for middle or high school students. Students begin with story starters or a completely blank book. The site includes numerous templates and images to insure a professional looking book. Mixbook also offers accounts designed for teachers.

• Ten Things You Should Unlearn Before Starting to Teach Online Some interesting ideas about online education and m-learning.

• The University of Melbourne Library – Map Collection “Copyright. These outline maps are copyright University of Melbourne 2001. You may freely reproduce these maps for personal, research, educational, not monatery profit use. No other uses are permitted without written permission from the University of Melbourne. Additional Information. The maps are in GIF format, which is compatible with nearly all graphics and word processing software. Maps are provided in three sizes; which size is best for you will depend on what software you are using and how large you want the map to be in your completed document. To download a map simply right click it and save a copy to your computer. For example you might download a suitable outline map, insert the map into your Word document, and add a couple of annotations to the map showing the area of your reseach.”

• Experience World War I through a German officer’s photos by Dean Putney – Kickstarter A personal photo album of a German officer in World War I. The great-grandfather of the author trained as an architect and conscripted into the German Army directly from the classroom, Walter became an officer in the reserve artillery battalion and he took advantage of many unique opportunities to record his experience on film. He captured the haunting experience of building and living in the trenches, the sunlight pouring in through the broken windows of bombed churches, and the clouds through the wings of biplanes as an early aerial reconnaissance photographer. After moving to Los Angeles to work as an art director in films, Walter made this album. The story the book tells begins with a pack of young men playing at war and ends with their crushing realization of what war really means.

• Walter Koessler project Experience World War I through a German officer’s photos. “This Tumblr space will continue to post each page and my highlighted images in chronological order at Tumblr’s file upload limit. Those of you particularly excited about the project should check out the Kickstarter- there are great digital downloads, higher resolution images and a really gorgeous book of rare photos coming soon” “A personal photo album of a German officer in World War I. The great-grandfather of the author trained as an architect and conscripted into the German Army directly from the classroom, Walter became an officer in the reserve artillery battalion and he took advantage of many unique opportunities to record his experience on film. He captured the haunting experience of building and living in the trenches, the sunlight pouring in through the broken windows of bombed churches, and the clouds through the wings of biplanes as an early aerial reconnaissance photographer. After moving to Los Angeles to work as an art director in films, Walter made this album. The story the book tells begins with a pack of young men playing at war and ends with their crushing realization of what war really means”

• giving credit… | pia jane bijkerk A flowchart that attempts to set out, in simple terms, when and how you need to give credit for images you want to use.

• Making Inquiry Mobile – Apps for Inquiry Learning | resourcelinkbce

• Web App Reviews

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