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The Quintessence of Ham - 10 views
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I'm trying to learn more about Zotero, and this professor, Sean Takats, suggests that he used it with a "research-intensive" class this semester:
"With their unprecedented collaborative functionality, Zotero groups promise to transform the way that instructors and students interact with sources, particularly in research-intensive classes. "
I wonder how it went.
TALL blog » Blog Archive » The Transition from the Co-Digital to the Post-Digital. - 4 views
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I like all of the definitions in this blog post. They sound connected to past research, yet new. I know I was feeling odd at the "Digital Is..." Conference, because I don't want to let the technology disappear into uses. It's better, I think to look for what we can get out of particular technologies. That's what we are doing now with Google's Wave.
"Alongside these discussions Frances Bell suggested the term Co-Digital as a better term to describe the process of "…seizing the opportunities presented by the newness of technologies to spot changes and then shape the development of the technology.""
As this paragraph suggests, we still need to look at "digital technologies" to see how we can exploit them for what we need.
Featured Videos | dotSUB - 7 views
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dotSub is another site beyond YouTube that makes available a wealth of video resources. This one is unusual in that it offers the facility for those who upload their videos to create subtitles in any language.
Mr. Picassohead - 16 views
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Mr Picassohead is a fun website. It allows users to create their own 'Picasso' by selecting different types of faces and facial features, colours and so on and dragging them onto a canvas. It is a great way to begin a unit of work on Picasso, Cubism or abstract art with students.
Twitterfall - 12 views
Free Photo Editing Programs - 6 views
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Sweet list of photo editing tools that are all free.
Free Powerpoint Twitter Tools - Social Media In Learning - 12 views
iwb4historyteachers / FrontPage - 9 views
Bookmark suggestions from inSuggest - 0 views
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This tool will analyze your online bookmarks and recommend other bookmarks that matches your taste. Provide your del.icio.us username to see Your personal suggestions.
The Education Professionals | Twitter for Teachers - 0 views
Try It | Digital Tools | Enquiring Minds - 0 views
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searchable, sortable, add-able database of tech tools for the classroom
The Differentiator - 0 views
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Great interactive tool for teachers to implement Bloom's taxonomy
The Teacher Tap: Professional Development Resources for Educators - 0 views
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Free, professional development resource that helps educators and librarians address common questions about the use of technology in teaching and learning by providing easy access to practical, online resources and activities.
Top 100 Tools for the Twittering Teacher | Best Colleges Online - 0 views
Five great online tools for art teachers - 0 views
TeachersFirst Edge - 0 views
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120 Safe Web 2.0 Resources for K-12 from TeachersFirst, with review and classroom tips
Writing Fun by Jenny Eather- helping kids write using text organizers. - 0 views
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Great resource for writing using text organizers
How to Use New-Media Tools in Your Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views
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In these brief video clips, educators and others from around the country give lessons about specific technology and social-media tools you can use with your students.
"The e-reader screen is used with a stylus that can underline or highlight text, take notes in the margin, pull up a blank piece of e-paper for solving math problems, or touch a link for a video of a chemical interaction that is then displayed on the LCD screen."
I've heard predictions that even more flexible devices will be developed this coming year.