Excellent compilation of chart and diagram construction tools. Some of the descriptions are challenging to understand, but the collection is outstanding and very helpful. -JL
Into the Driver's Seat
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This site has been doing a readers' poll of top tools for learning for 5 years. This is the 2011 list, released on Nov. 13, 2011. Responses were received from 531 people from around the world. I refer to this list often to find reliable tools to perform tasks I need to accomplish. -JL
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At Google X, a clandestine lab that many employees do not know exists, engineers and robotics experts are tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas that eventually might not seem so far-fetched.
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Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson is placing a large bet on a curriculum called Tools of the Mind that is adapted from Vygotsky’s work. It uses carefully guided play to stimulate what neuroscientists call “executive function”: a combination of memory, impulse control, persistence and flexibility that researchers say may be an even more powerful determinant of educational success than IQ.
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Voice over photos (talking photos) and slideshows on Facebook fan page.
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25 intelligently designed graphic organizers to facilitate thinking processes. Use our free online library of thinking guides. Print them out or fill in and complete your project on the exploratree website. Build up a personal portfolio of useful thinking guides. Change or customise them using images, text and shape.
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Yodio - Your Personal Audio Publishing Service. Audio record by phone. Narrate photos and share by email or embed on the web.
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A brief history of the textbook, from ancient texts to open-source digital downloads. Thanks to my friend Jeremy Agnoff for this suggestion. Very informative and excellent demonstration of the 2.0 tool Tiki-Toki. Great work done by Michael Peters at Framingham University.
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Media4Math provides free and premium media resources for algebra, geometry, and graphing calculators. Media4Math's resources include videos, PowerPoint presentations, Promethean Flipcharts, worksheets, and other media content.
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Steve Jobs will be remembered for ushering in fundamental changes in the way people interact with technology -- but also for the way he was able to explain these changes and make them easy to understand.
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From Donna Baumbach: Instantly add your real voice to the social conversation by voice-tagging photos, Tweets, emails, Facebook posts — anything! Click. Speak. Share. With QWiPS™ it's easy to create 30-second voice captions, voice comments, voice-overs, spoken stories or rants...in your voice! Tag a photo with a voice caption telling the story or inspiration behind the photo. Add authenticity, nuance and passion to any Tweet. Give context to videos by tagging then with a voice intro, voice over, or narration. Enliven static emails and email newsletters with a voice signature, voice content, voice tips.
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The hundreds of K-12 classroom lessons on TeachableMoment foster critical thinking on timely issues of the day and a positive classroom environment. Teachers are free to use these lessons in their classrooms. From the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility |
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Math educators will find a large number of useable interactive companion web sites for the teaching of math concepts and skills.
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I was reading Ray Tolley’s blog, eFolio in the UK and Europe, and really loved these videos which explain the benefits of maintaining an ePortfolio. What is an ePortfolio and how can an ePortfolio Distinguish you from others? Can you show and tell people how competent you are?
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Since she began ‘flipping’ lectures and homework assignments, high school science teacher Shelley Wright has noticed something: the number of students failing her course has dropped from the usual three to zero. Departmental exam scores are higher, too.
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Protagonize is an award-winning creative writing community of thousands of amateur and professional authors. Sign up for free, read, and get feedback on your writing! Collaborative writing site.
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Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends.
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Vocaroo is a shiny new service for sending voice messages across the interwebs. Record using your computer and save on Vocaroo's service. No limit to length of recording. Download or send recordings, which expire on Vocaroo after 6 months (members) or 1 month (non-members).
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Roxworthy wants both students and members of the general public to use the game as a way to understand how “Jim Crow and internment policies are rigid systems” and how “segregational systems could be programmed” much as software programs control how “movement is constrained by game engines.” However, because “each of the missions culminates in a performance,” students can also learn about “subverting systems” of segregation as they experience “sites of interracial code-switching, where they are transgressing laws in some ways.” Via JackieGerstein Ed.D., Kim Flintoff 
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April 16, 2017 6:14 PM
I absolutely love the idea of teaching history through video games. While this game may appear as too simple to the outside observer, it seems to do very well in helping people empathize with others who have been wronged in the past. A main argument brought forth in the article is that games like this won't appeal to kids, but if this were made a graded assignment in school I guarantee that kids would have a higher interest in this than in reading a textbook.
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iNACOL Standards Revision 2. Three sets of Standards: Online Teaching, Online Courses, Onlline Programs available for pdf download on this page.
On October 12, 2011, iNACOL released the National Standards for Quality Online Courses, version 2.
On October 20, 2011, iNACOL released the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching, version 2.
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) announces the release of ground-breaking quality standards for K-12 online learning titled, National Standards for Quality Online Programs.
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CiteThisForMe is a free online tool designed to help students prepare their whole bibliography or reference list using Harvard Referencing. Via Kathleen Cercone
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More kids than ever before are attending school from their living rooms, bedrooms and kitchens. The result: A radical rethinking of how education works.
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Available for free download from this site. Compilation of 87 projects, 10 additional resources, and 52 applications from 94 contributors around the world. Published in 2010. Lots of great ideas. - JL
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From Donna Baumbach: Surf the web together. One user enters the URL on the Channel page and then shares a unique link the site creates via Email, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Anyone who goes to the link will share the browsing experience and see other users' mouse movements on the screen and be able to chat and annotate the web while they browse together. |
