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The day’s front pages of newspapers from around the world. Might be interesting to compare daily news or see what’s happening in another state or country.
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Imagine a different kind of writing assignment: have your students use digress.it to co-author their own critical edition of an essay or story, inside that essay or story.
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Educational Leadership:Teachers as Leaders:Ten Roles for Teacher Leaders
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Great site with specific suggestions for technology tools based on objectives.
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A text-to- speech app. Announcify reads out loud various kinds of information, like events or whole documents, for you.
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Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything
Kathy Schrock retired in 2011 and closed down her website Guide for Educators. Find many of those resources and more in this new website. It is chocked full of great resources for K-12 teachers
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itouchthefuture [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Apps for Every School Leader to Consider
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UbD_WhitePaper0312.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Understanding by Design – A simple guide to help with understanding.
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Creative Commons LIveBinder for many different links
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Interactive scale tool
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Resources and ideas for integrating technology into the curriculum through evaluative processes.
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Autism Spectrum Social Stories
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“Here we explore digital literacy and media literacy and their underlying aspects and principles.” Also info and resources on cyber security
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These video lectures are designed to explain concepts in U.S. History and a small but growing arsenal of World History ideas. Perfect for finals and state exams such as the NY US History Regents and World History Review.
Youtube EDU Guru
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Videos cover a variety of science topics.
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Dr. Jim Taylor: Kids 3.0: How to Raise Healthy Children in a Tech World
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The top 20 data visualisation tools | Feature | .net magazine
“Visual.ly”
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A Google Chrome extension that uses iSpeech’s human sounding text to speech (TTS) to let you select text from almost any website and make it talk.
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Seven Interesting and Different Slidedecks on #Gamification | Kapp Notes
9 deck slides about gamification. Very interesting and worthwhile
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What’s Worth Investing In? How to Decide What Technology You Need | MindShift
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The False Digital Imperative | Teaching Writing in a Digital Age
Opposing viewpoint on digital literacy. Important to hear other opinions to decide rationally.
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An ePortfolio idea from Scotland
We are beginning to dip our toes in the water in Ireland where e/digital Portfolios are concerned.
This is a blog post I wrote on a poster from Scotland on ePortfolios.
Scroll down and look at the individual elements of a portfolio – excellent!
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Next Silicon Valley: Map of emerging technology centers. – Slate Magazine
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10 Important Questions To Ask Before Using iPads in Class | MindShift
“When it comes to deciding how or whether to use iPads, schools typically focus on budget issues, apps, networking logistics, check-in and check-out procedures, school and district tech-use policies, hardware precautions, and aspects of classroom management.
But it’s also important to think about instructional use, and to that end, consider the following questions.”
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John Green Interview: ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author Talks Worst Book Ever, Where He Likes To Read
Oddly enough, John Green and I share the same worst book ever. Who knew?
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The space shuttle Endeavour made its final journey last weekend, traveling 12-miles from Los Angeles International Airport, through Inglewood, to the California Science Center in Exposition Park.
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Are books becoming an endangered species? (infographic) – EdTech Times
“Are books becoming an endangered species? (infographic)”
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Te(a)chTidbits – Inspiring Technology around Stonington Schools
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Email Is The New Pony Express–And It’s Time To Put It Down | Fast Company
We are past the age of email in a collaborative world. Note the AOL attempt to conflate Twitter. Pinterest, Gmail…
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Features lessons in science, biology, anatomy, physics and more. Listed as one of the ten YouTube EDU Gurus.
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Videos connecting art with history, science, math and more. Youtube Next EDU Guru
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Videos that cover a variety of science topics. Exploring the wonder of why. YoutTube Next EDU Guru
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Ed and Alan like to share their travel adventures so others may learn and have a laugh. Covers a variety of topics.
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A Google Chrome extension that reads the text on a page. Select text you want to read and listen to it. SpeakIt converts text into speech so you no longer need to read.
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“Helping students develop their journalistic skills to become school reporters”
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Buffet Busters — an education program that includes a teachers’ guide, along with four animated outbreak scenarios that blends problem solving and scientific analysis in a fun interactive way.
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Ryan Merkley: Online video — annotated, remixed and popped | Video on TED.com
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5 Things I Wish I Had Known Before I Became a Special Education Teacher | TeachHUB
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Can a Burst of UV Bust Hospital-Borne Infections? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
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in which i give a talk on the profession of teaching « Learning to Fold
Worth reading
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Mobile learning with location-aware, augmented-reality business games – Ako Aotearoa
This project included the development of a business game which was tested by students and teachers on two campuses. It contributed to improving the practicality and accessibility of mobile learning tools which can be used to improve engagement and achievement of undergraduate students in business and related disciplines.A working mobile-learning business game using location-aware augmented reality was developed to support teaching business-related concepts and skills. The open-source application is freely available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlearngame/. It provides a business game toolset that can be used by any tertiary provider without major investment in time or technology.
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trakAxPC Help Centre – Video Tutorials, Wiki and Forums for trakAxPC
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Diigo In Education group favorite links are here.
