What's New on Shambles.NET

Kleosis Student Information System (SIS) project.

Kleosis is an open-source, community supported SIS that is fully integrated with Drupal and Moodle.

Handouts from (with permission) Kevin Mansell's Augmented Reality session at #21CLHK Conference in Hong Kong Feb 2012

30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use

Flipping the Classroom - 4th Grade STEM

Ms. Munafo from Hilburn Academy STEM Elementary School sends this message home to parents as she begins to flip the math content for her 4th grade students.

Aurasma : Augmented Reality Browser ... free App to download to iPhone or iPad

Algebra Courses at Wolfram Education Portal<br>

We are pleased to offer the best of all of our technologies to you here in the Wolfram Education Portal, organized by course. In the portal you'll find a dynamic textbook, lesson plans, widgets, interactive Demonstrations, and more built by Wolfram education experts.

The portal is currently in Beta, so feel free to explore the materials we've put together and provide feedback to help us improve the project.

PLEASE Let your Maths Colleagues know about this new resource .. also for Calculus

China & Chinese (Videos/PPoints) ... Chinese New Year is just starting ... these videos should be helpful if you are covering this topic in the classroom.

... also see the links on the Shambles websoite at http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/primary/CFestival/ 

We think authors and readers should decide which books get published. On the Unbound site, authors pitch their ideas directly to you.

If you like what you read, you can pledge your support to help make the book happen. Everyone who supports an author before they reach 100% of the funding target gets their name printed in every edition of that book.

All levels include a digital version and immediate access to the author's shed while they write the book, and supporters of projects that don't reach their target receive a full refund.

Technology and Computer Fun (Videos/PPoints)

This is one of the Blogs in the Shambles Forext of Theme Blogs.
Mainly for some fun and relaxation ... 

Minigroup
A lightweight workspace for communicating, sharing files, and getting things done.
Keep projects on track. Keep clients in the loop. Or just keep your teams on the same page. Choose Minigroup for your business, class, or organization.
From US$3 per year

Share : Powered by BitTorrent
Peer to Peer File Sharing Application
Send unlimited videos, photos and files to your friends – for free!
No more storage limits. No more fees. Just simple and free file sharing.
With no limits on sends, file size or quality, you can send HD videos, high-res photo collections, and other oversized files – with no fees.
Share is built on top of an innovative file-sharing technology already used by over 100 million people a month. Now your friends can download your biggest files without the endless wait.
You can choose exactly who gets access to the files you share. Set up groups to share with friends, family and co-workers, or just send a file to one person.
Now your friends can comment on the files you share in real-time. Sharing files becomes interactive, conversational and social.

TweetSheet : your Twitter activity as an instant INFOGRAPHICS
Vizify's TweetSheet showcases revealing details from your tweetstream, including: top followers, geographic impact, most-retweeted posts, and more.

Downloading Videos off the web ... 

Keepvid.com has (is?) my preferred website for downloading videos from YouTube ... but this website looks like it may well jump to the top  the list.

WebVideoFetcher.com is a free internet videos download application which allows you to convert nearly any audio or video URL from YouTube, MySpace, Google, Facebook and 100 more sites to common formats with absolutely no waiting time.

We support over 100+ sites for Video downloading and are constantly growing.

What a Librarian Looks Like
Challenging the Librarian Stereotype one Post at a Time

Download, search, and share Prezis from other educators in both University and K-12 areas. Upload your best prezis, and show how you use them!

How Computer Games Help Children Learn

Epistemic games are computer games that are essentially about learning to think in innovative ways. They’re designed to be pedagogical tools for the digital age where the player learns to think like professionals by playing a simulated game of such professions as management, engineering, journalism or urban planning.

Evernote for Educators
Their tagline: “Remember Everything.” It is a digital notebook that allows you to take text notes, clip web pages, upload images and files, and much more.
Easy, comprehensive intro to Evernote from Physics Teacher, Paramedic, EMS-Instructor and Ace Blogger, David Andrade.

Archive recording of the webinar ... eFACE (electronic Family and Community Engagement)
Joe Mazza is the Principal of Knapp Elementary School ... he talks about how the school is using technology to keep parents informed and to improve communication
A MUST listen-to if you are reviewing the partnerships between your school and home(parents).

Hoop.la : Social Network Platform  ... a Ning-Look-a-like but on steroids.
Not free though, US$29/month
With forums, blog, chat events, photos, videos, music uploads, files, calendar and dialogs (private messages), Hoop.la has virtually everything you need to create content, support conversations amongst your members, and build a true community.
Design also supports mobile 

Augmented Reality in Teaching and Learning

One of my favourite groups of educators ... Librarians and Library Staff.
This collection of videos and ppts is about them ... and about Libraries.

It is one in the collection ... Shambles Forest of Theme Blogs which I'm updating using Bloggers new design tools.  
There a also a section on Shambles.NET dedicated to Libraries and Information Literacy at  http://www.shambles.net/librarian and http://www.shambles.net/informationliteracy

Museum of Me: Visualize your Facebook network

So VERY CLEVER.

This website also has the potential to visualise your digital footprint in this particular social network ... which might be extended to a lesson with students or CPD with teachers investigating digital footprints and personal learning networks. [PLN]

Using Google Plus with Learners

DropboxAutomator (Free)
Create automatic actions in Dropbox ... e.g.
Everytime I put a photo in my automated Dropbox folder, it gets uploaded to Facebook - automatically!
Everytime someone puts a file in our shared Dropbox folder, I get a text message to my mobile - automatically!
... and lots more.

Social Media Aggregators

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