Literacy with ICT

Leadertalk blog post by Dr. Scott Mcleod

Here is a list of some great file hosting sites that make uploading and sharing files a cakewalk - website

Many of today's students are most comfortable using laptops, instant messaging, chat rooms, and cell phones to connect to friends, family, and persons with knowledge or content they desire in local communities and around the globe. Given the speed at which change is occurring, we must listen to our students and act to meet them where they want to learn. By The Way, they do want us to listen. Watch and see….

Web site Quarkbase offers an organized and detailed overview of any web site, complete with summary, popularity, ownership, traffic information, and even recent blog posts and tweets about the site.w

There are three main educational goals for the game: * Teach players about how everyday residents of New Orleans acted heroically to help each other. This is a celebration of New Orleans residents and their culture. * Emphasize what are perhaps the two most important priorities in any disaster: communication and use of local resources, needs, and knowledge. The relief effort in Hurricane Katrina was severely hampered by the poor communication between government agencies and through most media outlets. Top down disaster management also led responders to ignore local resources and knowledge that could have saved many lives. Even in the aftermath, local needs and wishes are largely being ignored during rebuilding. * Draw attention to the continuing struggle in New Orleans as residents fight for housing in 2008. The city was destroyed by negligence, and, unfortunately, it is now being rebuilt without homes for many of its most loyal residents.

Games in Education video created by Mark Wagner and Michael Guerena of the Orange County (CA) Department of Education's Educational Technology group. They have given permission to post.

The Educational and Video Games industries may seem like completely different worlds, but they have one very important thing in common: They both share the same audience.

Kim COfino's blog post on the Collaboration cycle

Dictionary at lightning speed

Try online mind mapping together with your friends and colleagues - simply using your browser.

Explore satelite imagery

East Lothian Council Policy for the Responsible Use of ICT and Internet

Last year, we created a long list of great Web 2.0 tools that we thought would be helpful for college students.But given how fast things develop on the web, we thought we would revisit this topic again this year and look at some of the most useful Web 2.0 tools that have the potential to help students do better in school, collaborate with their fellow students, and save them time.

From ReadWriteWeb: We've recently engaged more seriously with Flickr and wanted to share some quick tips that we think will help you get more out of it, too.

Wikispaces now has the reference tag.