Daily Links 01/16/2010

• School 2.0 - Learning Ecosystem

  tags: Leadership, SchoolReform, Schools

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FETC: Steve Dembo- Extreme Web 2.0 Makeover

Live Notes:

Crappy Graphs: http://crappygraphs.com/ (for when you fight Excel and Excel wins)

Let Me Google That For You: http://lmgtfy.com/ (Automatically types it in for you)

Blabberize: http://www.blabberize.com
Ed uses (not intended for Education but we are hijacking)

• class rules
• book reviews
• autobiographies
• current events
• science
• foreign language
• frog dissection video (telling what to take out!)
• can embed in your website
  
• have a triangle explain the Pythagorean theorem

Gmail- add "+word" to email and you can have emails come to your inbox. Use for this? If I need my students to register using an email, I can register them with mrhgaddis+sarah@gmail.com, mrhgaddis+mason@gmail.com, etc. (**This tidbit was worth my trip!!!!)

phone.io: http://drop.io/home/phone
podcasting, voicemail, conference calls from your phone, will provide an embed code, will allow subscription to iTunes as well (100 MB free- about 450 minutes)

FETC: Howie DiBlasi- Global Collaboration Tools

37 Free Software Programs to Make a Global Collaboration (live notes)

http://www.toolsfortheclassroom.com

http://www.drhowie.com

6.2 million teachers in US
71% are female
51% are over 50 years of age

Books/Reading:
Imaginary Workout (written by Imagineers at Disney)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (free download pdf)

Tools:
Tweak PS (http://www.windowsphotostory.com/tweakps/)- PhotoStory add on
*Participants are saying that PhotoStory will not work on Windows 7...hmm...
CILC- video conferencing; includes 50 state standards
Elluminate vRoom- free for 3 participants
Edheads- http://www.edheads.org- problem solving/creative thinking projects
Student Created Blog Policies (http://budtheteacher.com)
KeepVid- http://keepvid.com
Wonder wheel in Google
FactBites- http://www.factbites.com
Quintura- http://www.quintura.com/
Clusty- http://clusty.com
Cuil- http://www.cuil.com
Digital Vaults (Archives)- http://www.digitalvaults.org
Box.net- file sharing- http://www.box.net
Kerpoof (animation)
KinderSite Projects- http://www.kindersite.org
Jing- $15/year screencast can be put in mp4
Math Train TV- http://www.mathtrain.tv
English Cafe- http://www.englishcafe.com
Design Squad on PBS
Forge FX- http://www.forgefx.com
Inaugural Words 1789 to the present (Use of Wordle)
Voki- http://www.voki.com
Zee Maps- http://www.zeemaps.com
Kiva- http://www.kiva.org
Kids are Heros- http://www.kidsareheroes.com

Daily Links 01/09/2010

• 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching

  tags: Wikis

• Math Playground

  tags: Math, Interactive

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Daily Links 01/05/2010

• iGoogle

  tags: no_tag

• IXL Math

  tags: Elementary, Math, Interactive

• Carbonmade : Your online portfolio.

  tags: Portfolios, Web2.0

• News Update | The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

  tags: Cartoon, Images, Politics

• Hale Scrapbook

  tags: Cartoon, Images, Politics

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