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Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads Enjoy free music without getting in trouble by downloading the legal MP3s many musicians provide as a way to promote themselves. By Michael David Crawford You don't need to worry about getting sued by the Recording Industry Assocation of America or arrested by the FBI if you download legal music. Many independent and unsigned musicians offer downloads of their music in hopes of attracting more fans. Here's some music from my friends Oliver Brown and Rick Walker's Loop.pooL as well as my own piano compositions.

SignApp Now is the dead simple way of creating sign up sheets. It's so simple you don't need to register to use it. Just create a sign up sheet and email its unique link (URL) to everyone you'd like to sign up. They just need to go to the link and sign up. They don't need to register too. It's that simple and easy.

Mike Fisher, an instructional coach and education consultant, has created an interesting wiki called Visual Blooms. Visual Blooms inserts web resources into the hierarchical categories of Bloom's Taxonomy. Web resources are placed into the categories of remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. For example, Delicious is placed in the remembering category while VoiceThread is placed in the creating category. Thanks to Beth Still for sharing the link to Visual Blooms on Twitter.

Whenever the "new blooms" gets mentioned I get the impression that people jump to the creation part as the immediate goal for any lesson. Those levels should always be stressed as developmental stages. Where as I understand how each of those tools fit neatly into the categories, I believe they are more powerful if you can guide the user through each of the developmental stages using one tool. Imagine teaching to remember using Voicethread. Continuing on through evaluating others Voicethreads. Then taking the students to create their own. It makes the pyramid more powerful. :-)

"Fresh from the oven and piping hot, SpicyNodes is limited only by your imagination. Entice visitors to explore and savor the experience of visiting your web site, add visualizations to your blog, create a mindmap or organizational chart, or encourage students to delve deeper."

Connections: A database of over two thousand works of children's literature and their connection to the Virginia Standards of Learning. Connections also includes links to primary sources in the Library of Congress American Memory Collection.

Connections: A database of over two thousand works of children's literature and their connection to the Virginia Standards of Learning. Connections also includes links to primary sources in the Library of Congress American Memory Collection.

Welcome to the Storyboard Generator. You can choose a script and create a storyboard. Try building your own storyboard using background location photographs. Once done, you can save and share your storyboard video with friends. Remember to register with Generator first if you would like to save your storyboard.

Here at Literacy Shed  we aim to provide exciting teaching ideas for the resources that we would love to use if only we had the time to find them.

The Applications You Need On The Devices You Want. Liberate your applications from the PC. Use Microsoft Office on any device and edit your documents in the cloud. Use rich web applications on mobile browsers. Device independence has never been this easy! Optimized Experience For iPad, Browser, Whatever. Tap, browse and use your applications the way that makes sense for you and your device. No complicated launchers to install, no remote desktops to connect to. Use them on iPad or just use a web browser. The choice is yours.

Wixie is the award winning online authoring tool students can use to construct knowledge and communicate ideas. Today's learners need a tool that is accessible whenever and wherever they are ready to learn! Students can use Wixie's paint tools, text options, clip art, and voice recording to develop online storybooks, curriculum projects, and so much more.

History Happens is a collection of music videos about characters from American history. Our goal is to inform and inspire young people that an individual can make a difference--as evidenced by the many acts of courage, endurance and passion that make up the American story. These music videos can be used as a platform for all kinds of innovative, multi-disciplinary, project-based teaching/learning experiences. To learn more about our programs, please feel free to contact us by telephone or email.

"What expectations do teachers need to come with? How do you support teachers going into 1:1? * Get rid of network Nazi's who don't have any business making curriculum decisions for teachers. (This comment received lots of applause!) * Invest in staff development. That includes instructional and technical support. * "Just in time training" available for teachers."

A website full of animated movies, interactive tutorials and instructional videos, all free for you to view and to embed in your website. Simply select an animated explanation and follow the instructions to integrate it in your site. via MakeUseOf.com

"To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser's bookmarks bar. On any of the supported video pages, click the bookmark button to watch in peace."

"At Learn it in 5, you'll learn what is Web 2.0, and strategies for using Web 2.0 technology in the digital classroom - all in 5 minutes or less. Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more."

These are nice, I got the reference from another group.

Now supports ePub books from the library!!!! "Download OverDrive Media Console v2.0 for Android or iPhone today! * Read Adobe® EPUB eBooks. * Find libraries using the new 'Get Books' feature. * Listen to MP3 Audiobooks. Choose OverDrive Media Console for your computer or mobile device… * Download content on your Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, or Windows Mobile device. * Play audiobooks on Mac & Windows (plus music & video on Windows). * Burn audio to CD on Windows & Mac. * Transfer titles from Windows & Mac to most devices."

A Google jockey is a participant in a presentation or class who surfs the Internet for terms, ideas, Web sites, or resources mentioned by the presenter or related to the topic. The jockey's searches are displayed simultaneously with the presentation, helping to clarify the main topic and extend learning opportunities. The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies. Each brief focuses on a single practice or technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. Use "7 Things You Should Know About..." briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues.

On this article we will talk about how to add a Virtual Earth map to your blogs using Windows Live Writer. Get the software from http://download.live.com/writer.

# Log in to any site from any browser anywhere # No need to install any plug-in or software # Log in to any web site with just one click # All data is strongly encrypted, privacy protected # Stop using Browser's password manager!

via http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/12/18/best-applications-for-annotating-websites/

Backboard automates the process of getting feedback and approval on all your projects-it can handle almost any type of file, but it's especially good with mixed graphical and text media. It only takes a minute to start a Backboard. Upload the file you would like feedback on, choose a security level, and select the email addresses of one or more reviewers. Each reviewer will receive a link to your file, where they can come and leave feedback on your document. Every kind of document can be annotated and marked up in the same way, so reviewers do not have to learn several commenting systems. Better yet, you can view all reviewers' feedback in the same place, so you'll never again find yourself merging several documents with different "tracked changes." via http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/12/18/best-applications-for-annotating-websites/

4 Steps to a Skype-tastic Video Conference 7 05 2007 We had our second video conference with our partner class in New Zealand last Thursday - and this time I remembered to take pictures! There were a few things we learned last time around that helped make this conference a little smoother: