Useful links

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• Personalize My Learning, Please | An Ethical Island An infograpic, by Mia MacMeekin, that explains the whats and hows of personalized learning in three easy steps: 1. A short, succinct definition of what personalized learning is. 2. The different ways to go about creating a personalized learning experience. 3. Some interesting examples of personalized learning are featured.

• PBL- Let the Class Solve World Problems | An Ethical Island Learn more about problem based learning, This great infographic from Mia MacMeekin offers some interesting ideas and insights on how to implement the principles of problem based learning in your classroom.

• 30 Search Engines Perfect For Student Researchers | Edudemic Online-Research-Methods. Infographic. It offers a range of research platforms to use with students. Instead of just using Google and Wikipedia, students can try out some other specific search engines to look for specific information. The infographic could also be used to assist in teaching students about how to evaluate websites and assess the credibility of web content.

• How To Become A Better Online Researcher | Edudemic A few suggestions about how you can obtain the best search results possible when doing a simple web search.

• Instead of Chart for ELA (iPad Tips) – ThingLink A useful guide for teachers. The apps icon are linked to the appropriate site for for downloading.

• The Lieutenant – Reading Guide – Book Club Discussion Questions – LitLovers Includes summary, author bio, book review, discussion questions and link to full version.

• The Lieutenant: Readers’ Notes | Kate Grenville From the author’s website.

• 8 Steps for Students to Remove Their Digital Footprints ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “One of the essential parts of the digital citizenship I have been long talking about in this blog is about digital footprints. Students need to know that whatever they do or create online leaves behind a trail or digital breadcrumbs that others can trace. This “others” can be anyone from prospective employers, to college admission boards, anything you do online should be vetted by a critical lens and if “you don’t want your parents to know about it then better not do it”.” There are also a few things you can do to limit some damage.

• What’s your digital footprint? | Smore A useful discussion about online identities.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Places to Find and Download Public Domain Video Footage

• What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship | Edutopia “Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) offers and explanation of her two essential approaches in the digital citizenship curriculum that she teaches: proactive knowledge and experiential knowledge.” Nicely explainedned.

• Innovations in Education – From Technology Integration to Learning… by Design A very well thought out table that contain some useful comments by Nancy White. It is useful because it moves from the technology use to integration to learning by design. Very interesting model and something worth considering.

• The Best Language Learning Apps For 2015 A nice annotated list here. Although those listed in the post are linked to the iOS versions they are also available from google app store when I checked . (We would not need #5 and #9 so did not check these.)

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• A Fabulous Flow Chart on How Students Should Use Images from The Web ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ” When using images and pictures from the web, students need to learn how to properly give credit to their owners. The graphic here is a great flow chart created byddd to help teachers teach their students about how to properly credit images they use”

• The Teacher’s Guide To Digital Citizenship | Edudemic “Microsoft has a new (free) curriculum that’s all about digital citizenship, intellectual property rights, and creative content. It offers cross-curricular classroom activities that align with the AASL and ISTE national academic standards. So far, more than 6,500 people have registered to use the curriculum. No matter how you feel about Microsoft, this free offering is worth checking out. You’ll have to register an account but after that it’s easy to find, select, download, and implement some of the objectives presented.”

• NoGeekLeftBehind.com » Download – Digital Citizenship Toolkit – 27 Documents “Computer lessons that are learned the hard way (through first-hand experience) are very painful. But these days those lessons can cost you a lot more than lost time – you can lose your identity or the safety of the ones you care about. Microsoft has released a series of 27 documents to help.”

• Free Technology for Teachers: Free Digital Citizenship Lesson Plans for Middle School Students “Post list links to digital citizenship lessons that are part of Google’s Good to Know site. The Good to Know is a great site on which you can find good and clear explanations of web basics. “

• 13 Ways You Can Use Flickr In The Classroom This image sets down many ideas of how Flickr might be used in a classroom. Many could also apply to other image sites such as Picasa and Google’s images. Both of these offer apps for both iOS and Android. All also allow you to search by cc license.

• A Great Tool for Students to Create Their Own Android Apps ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning There are many students who have ideas and expertise. This offers a way for students to extend their knowledge and be very engaged in their learning.

• A Mobile Learning Decision Path for Instructional Designers tasked with developing #mLearning [Download] | The mLearning Revolution Blog “The Mobile Learning Decision Path (MLDP) is a new tool for stakeholders who are considering a mobile learning development project. Adayana, Inc. created this guide for the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative to help instructional designers plan and implement mobile performance support and to repurpose existing learning content for the mobile platform. The DoD’s Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) funded the project.”

• 50 Educators Worth Following in Twitter ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “These are basically educators and teachers who have been actively tweeting in ISTE13.”

• The Student’s Guide To Proper Social Media Etiquette | Edudemic Good advice (and simply put) on Social Media Etiquette

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• Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration An article on integrating technology into the classroom. It offers a good overview of new Web2.0 tools. Have a look at how math teachers & students use Voicethread to creat “how to” presentations

• Home – My English images Offers a collection of drawings demonstrating words, phrases, and parts of speech. The drawings are intended to provide visual aids for students that are beginning to learn English. The images are organized into collections for conversation, grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. In addition to the images teachers can find worksheets and games on My English Images.   

• Tools For The Classroom Howie Diblasi tools for the classroom Digital Tools for the 21st Century-Keynotes/workshops and seminars led by Dr. Howie DiBlasi. 

• Phreetings (Photo + Greetings) Great e-card service that pulls in flickr images and adds your greeting

• Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians) Article that discusses the relevance of twitter for libraries and gives examples of how some libraries are using it.

• 15 Stunning Examples of Data Visualization | Web Design Ledger “Data Visualization is a method of presenting information in a graphical form. Good data visualization should appear as if it is a work of art. This intrigues the viewer and draws them in so that they can further investigate the data and info that the graphic represents. In this post there are 15 stunning examples of Data Visualization that are true works of art. 

• The Carte Noire Readers Some excerpts from Penguin readers from three male readers–Dominic West, Greg Wise and Dan Stevens. Subtle advertising but useful for libraries

• Diigo in Education – Learning Telecollaboratively Clif Mims page about using Diigo from a class he taught.

• Wiki in Education – Learning Telecollaboratively Clif Mims page about wikis from a class he taught.

• Letterpop A good site for creating a newsletter/brochure. There are many templates. The only downside: they can’t be embedded into a website but you can print it as a .pdf then upload the image, or even e-mail it. 

• 50 Useful Mind-Mapping Tools for College Students | Associate Degree – Facts and Information A list of 50 useful mind-mapping tools that are designed to help you see your ideas more clearly, analyze and outline research papers, become more efficient when you study, and get inspired to be more creative in your work

• 50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning Interesting list of apps. for kids and education. The list is separated by categories, and each app is listed alphabetically under those categories. The links lead to reviews about the apps or to the businesses that created the apps. Most of these work on the iPod Touch as well. The Touch doesn’t have a built-in microphone, though so perhaps you can get microphones to work with them. 

• 45 Websites For Students To Create Original Artwork Online | art, creativity, student art | Making Teachers Nerdy The sites are labeled by grade level to help guide you to those that best suit your students. Ratings have been added to give teachers and students an idea of how much interactivity is available at each site.

• Cobocards » Study collaboratively flashcards and vocabulary online Useful web app which lets you create flash cards and use them for studying. These flash cards are interactive and can include both images and graphs. You may share them with friends, print out, edit and go back to previous versions. Additional features like posting comments on the cards, setting deadlines are also suported. 

• Web 2.0 Teaching Tools A teacher’s site, listing Web 2.0 sit and tools specifically for teaching. Ideas to enhance communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking.

• » Three Practical Ideas for Using Twitter in E-Learning The Rapid eLearning Blog Practical Ideas for Using Twitter in E-Learning. It offers some really practical advice and good ideas. ,

• Web 2.0 in School Libraries Lists links to numerous websites, blogs and wikis that discuss web 2.0 tools and uses in school libraries

• How to become Twitter Teacher(TT) in 23 steps or less ? | Kapil Bhatia Great post with a good collection of videos, tips and links outliniing how to get started with Twitter and using it in the classroom 

• 30 Twitter Tips for Teachers « So You Want To Teach? 30 tips for teachers who want to learn how to use Twitter to network, teach, and share information:

• LearniT-TeachiT Video tutorials and teacher resources. There ar project-based lesson plans provided online and in editable MS Word format. 

• http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash Physics concepts illustrated with flash animations. It contains a variety of topics, listed in alphabetical order.

• Web 2.0 Guru – Web 2.0 Resources A very comprehensive collection of web

• ALISON: Digital Literacy & IT Skills Free online courses 

• YouTube – オオカミとブタ。Stop motion with wolf and pig. A good example of a story told in stop-motion format

• YouTube – DEADLINE post-it stop motion A great example of stop-motion film made with post-it notes. 

• Are You Connected? tags: connected, ICT, primary, podcast

• Nota : Casual Collaboration Materials can be shared and edited simultaneously with group members — or anyone online. The work is never lost b/c it is auto-saved and immediately published. It is useful for group projects and hands-on instructions and you can incorporate student responses into your material as you develop it. It’s free of charge

• YouTube – The PEN Story A great stop motion video created with 9,600 prints and no added effects.  tags: stopmotion, animation, youtube, pen, Olympus, digital_storytelling

• VUVOX – slideshows, photo, video and music sharing, Myspace codes This tool gives you the power to create stories very quickly. You provide whatever content you have ie take pictures, video, audio and text. Then you mix it up, chse backgrounds, colors, textures that create the atmosphere you want. You can then share your work with the world tags: visualization, digital, audio, video, images, photos, presentations, digitalstorytelling, vuvox, slideshow, web2.0, tools, media

• Web 2.0 Teaching Tools: Top 5 Quiz Generators for Online Educators   

• Instructify » Blog Archive » Five great online tools for art teachers 

• Free teaching tools and resources for Teachers — Intel® Education 

• Information Literacy: Evaluating Information Part 1 – Trusting Websites NSW school library site with lessons for web evaluation and useful links.

• animoto – for education – features 

• Facebook – Learning Telecollaboratively Clif Mims page about using Facebook from a class he taught.

• Magid: It’s time to turn technology loose in the classroom – SiliconValley.com t

• Learning Spaces | EDUCAUSE 

• Using public pages as virtual libraries! « Tips for your startpage, best widgets & latest news about Netvibes 

• Meme: You own best posts of the past – NeverEndingSearch – Blog on School Library Journal 

• The Best Teacher Resources For Online Student Safety & Legal Issues | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… 

• Samorost 2 is a beautiful browser based flash puzzle game. The animation, illustration. sound and character development is amazing. A stand out in the genre of online games and puzzles. The basic level is also FREE, loads fast and invites exploration! It is so visually rich that it can easily be used to create a digital story or narrative well outside the computer screen. The art is engaging and contemporary in young children’s animation right now tags: flash, animation, samorost, adventure, design, resources, game

• GeekTonic: Games That Flickr Plays – 12 Cool Games That Use Flickr 

• Gizmoz. The world of animated avatars, widgets and user generated video clips tags: gizmoz, animation

• Classical Comics – Bringing the classics to life! Comics of Shakespeare plays, free downloads with multiple text options 

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