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- What is Pixton?Simply stated, Pixton is a social community where anyone can easily create, share, remix and publish their comic strip stories with people around the globe. If you find a great comic in French, you can instantly translate ...
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Animoto: Learning Made Fun
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- Animoto is a slick new web app that takes your pictures, mashes it with audio, and creates a music video that can be exported to YouTube or embedded in a variety of social networks or blog. Here’s an Animoto short video I create...
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OER Resource: Storynory
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- Storynory is an innovative podcast site that features free children’s stories for your iPod. You can choose from a wide variety of stories including: Charles Dickens, Christmas stories, and even some modern stories! But whatR...
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Digital Geography
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- Digital Geography is an UK-based website for teachers focused on using ICT and social software resources in the geography curriculum. Noel Jenkins, the brains behind Digital Geography, uses Google Earth and Flickr, along with his own ...
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OER Resource: LibriVox
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- The objective of the LibriVox project is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. LibriVox is a totally open source, free content, public domain project. Volunteers record chapters o...
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FlickrEDU: Flat Bobby
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- via Amber: “These are the adventures of Flat Bobby. Flat Bobby is a close cousin of Flat Stanley. Flat Bobby has been sent out to several people all around the world.If you would like to invite Flat Bobby into your home, please rea...
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- Here are some of the latest and greatest Flickr hacks created by members of the Flickr community for you to try in your classroom Delivr: “Digital postcards for the people by the people…just select an image from the mos...
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- Over the last couple weeks Twitter, the popular micro-blogging application, has been popping up all over the web. In addition to a slew of news coverage, there has also been an explosion of new Twitter apps created by the developer commu...
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Yahoo! Tools for Teachers
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- Yahoo! has a suite of services educators can use to support teaching and learning in the 21st century classroom.
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Education 2.0 Trends
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- Earlier this year, the New Media Consortium and the Educase Learning Initiative released The New Horizon Report, outlining which current and burgeoning technologies they feel will “impact education over the next five years.“The report in...
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- The OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement has helped some of the world’s best universities offer teaching, learning and research resources by publishing their faculty’s course materials online and making them available free of charge. Despit...
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- Creative Commons & ccLearnCreative Commons, an orgnisation that provides alternative copyright tools for use on web-based materials, recently announced the creation of a new initiative specifically designed for u...
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- Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) Open educational resources (OER) have received attention for their ability to serve as an equitable and accessible alternative to the rising costs and increased commercializ...
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Digital Literacy: Web Safety
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- I recently spoke at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Panel on Students and Cyberbullying held at the Cesar Chavez Elementary school in San Francisco. I was joined on the panel by Brian Marcus (ADL National Director of Internet Monitor...
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Social Media: Blinklist
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- The passionate crew over at MindValley have joined the social software party with a new web-based rapid bookmarking and knowledge-sharing tool named BlinkList. A curious name that accurately describes how quickly and easily you can manag...
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- “Perhaps our generation focused on information, but these kids focus on meaning—how does information take on meaning?” – John Seeley Brown In the 21st Century classroom, the student wants to control the how, what, an...
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Making mLearning Work
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- Making mLearning Work: Gen Y, Learning and Mobile Technologies Journal of Educational Technology Systems (JETS ) Volume 35 , Number 1 / 2006-2007 Making mLearning Work: Utilizing mobile technology for active exploration, collabo...
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- “The fates guide those who go willingly; those who do not, they drag” ~ Seneca Learning 3.0 will be about harnessing the ubiquity of the mobile phone/handheld device and using it as an educational tool. Given the fact that...
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- The use of mobile technologies in student learning environments is growing and represents the next great frontier for learning. Increasingly we will continue to see academic and corporate research invest, design, and launch new mobile ...
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Social Media: Podcasting 101
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- Real Life Classroom Podcasts Podcast Bangladesh: Listen to students and teachers at the International School Dhaka in Bangladesh explain how they use podcasts and blogs in their classroom to connect with each other as well as with ...
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Social Media: Yackpack
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- YackPack ( http://yackpack.com/ ) is helping educators realize the potential of Web 2.0 tools. The boundaries of the classroom are suddenly much wider when everyone can login wherever they have internet access. And with access 24/7 to th...
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- What is Creative Commons?Creative Commons is a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright. With legal barriers, we advocate for licensing of educational materials under interoperable terms, such as those provided...
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ccLearn & Creative Commons
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- What is ccLearn? ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). With legal barriers, we advocate...
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- The ManyVoices project, started by Washington D.C. Middle School teacher Mr. Mayo (http://mrmayo.org), is a collaborative story being written by 140 different middle school students across the globe using Twitter. This...
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Twitter Apps for Education
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- What is Twitter? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Get Started Newbie Gui...
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Social Media: Twitter 101
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- What is Twitter?Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Get Started Newbie Guide: ht...
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Flickr in the K-12 Classroom
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- In the past, students would cut pictures out of National Geographic, Life and other magazines to illustrate reports. Now thanks to Flickr, students and teachers have the ability to search a vast and growing photo archive, using tags, or ...
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Yahoo! Safe Search
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- Turn on SafeSearch. Yahoo!’s SafeSearch can be set to filter out explicit, adult-oriented images from search results. While SafeSearch filters out a large quantity of mature content, no filter is perfect, and Yahoo! cannot guarantee that...
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del.icio.us 101
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- Social Bookmarking: A del.icio.us way to share your knowledge, interests and passion del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to store, tag, manage and share bookmarks on the web, instea...
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del.icio.us + Flickr
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- What is del.icio.us? del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to store, tag, manage and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser. Since del.icio.us is web-based, you can get t...
