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First in a series of self-reflective notes on the experience of studying PBL and how it works with students and teachers. Some good templates and interesting reading.

How to annotate a book using note and post-it's.

This looks like a very useful application to make pdfs more interactive and useful as teaching tools: "Turn your vision into reality by creating your own version of an existing PDF or textbook. Give it a dynamic touch, jot down notes, add video/audio clips, and discuss materials with your readers within your interactive content. Use Active Textbook to learn, teach or simply share your documents online - it's easy! "

This video lesson plan encourages "thinking notes" that "require students to track their response to a text and engage in more thoughtful reading? " Good idea that can be readily adapted to ESL/EFL reading classes.

This is a nice demonstration of scaffolding, note-taking, and discussion for young adult / adult learners.

R. Stannard's ideads for using IWBs with language learners. He notes several areas where teachers can create games and activities to produce content for language learning.

Dvolver is a simple online cartoon movie maker (formerly Dfilm). Students select a background scene and add a type of scene, characters, costumes, music, etc., and write dialogue. The program then runs the scenario as an animated movie. Note: Some character costuming will be offensive to conservative students.

R. Stannard has created a tutorial for wallwisher.com, now called "Padlet" This tool is nice for creating a visually oriented board of notes where students can tell others what they are doing, for example, on a project; or to keep interesting photos and weblinks.

A social studies teacher shares American history images. May prove useful for content-based projects and the study of American culture. "American History Resource - The Denver Post Photo Blog "As a social studies teacher I am always looking for new resources to to bring into the classroom. We can no longer rely on notes and a text book as our primary learning tools. The internet has provided teachers with new resources and new opportunities to change the way history is taught and learned. Every month I come across new sources of photographs, documents, and videos that help to enhance the learning experience. One of my favorite recent discoveries has been the The Denver Post photo blog, or Plog as it is called. The Plog is a terrific resource of photographs and information about a wide variety of historical topics which I have covered here, here, and here in my other blog. From the Statue of Liberty, to the inauguration,then the Great Depression, and the Berlin Wall, the Denver Post's Photo Blog is one resource that I highly recommend you explore."

This is a very comprehensive list, with a few notes on each one to help you decide what RSS feed might suit you.

Evernote allows you to save notes, images, websites, et al., across all of your devices, search them easily and mash up to create a project or presentation. This site has many introductory videos and guides to help you get started and to use Evernote in the classroom.

"Mind mapping is a visual form of note taking that offers an overview of a topic and its complex information, allowing students to comprehend, create new ideas and build connections. Through the use of colors, images and words, mind mapping encourages students to begin with a central idea and expand outward to more in-depth sub-topics." Gives some tips on the pedagogy of using mind-maps and how to teach it to students.

A colorful diagram of all the learning theories with notes and references.

Great notes to help you get more from your iPad: create folders, use a split screen, search your apps, have a text read to your students, mirror content on an HD TV or connected to a projector, save a Web page to read later, find some good content creating apps.

Deals with technical problems of database and social structure in MUDS. From 1993 -- of historical interest.

"Short videos from YouTube and other sources can be quite helpful in introducing topics to students and or reinforcing concepts that you have taught. Watching the video can be enough for some students, it's better if we can call students' attention to specific sections of videos while they are watching them. " R. Byrne discusses helpful tools for commenting on video. These can be great for flipped/blended classrooms as discussion starters.

Offers 4 different tools than can help you and students with video and Web work: Scrible to annotate electronic texts lets students work collaboratively and teachers can use annotations for formative assessment and comments; VideoAnt lets you use video as texts to timestamp video for access later, type up notes in a sidebar, and share annotations; Kaizena Shortcut is a Google extension that allows detailed feedback, and can also be used for recordings; EDPuzzle lets teachers create lessons for instructional videos like Khan Academy and give feedback on students progress. These all sound worth a try.

Not only excellent video lectures, but extraordinary support, with transcripts, subtitles, quizzes with answer keys,lecture notes, labs, downloadable materials, and the opportunity to join a study group, etc., depending on the course. Over 2700 courses in science, humanities, engineering, architecture, etc. Also good for teachers preparing to teach ESP.

The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has made this useful list of educational tools. However there is no info or notes or suggestions for use. Most are already in our Diigo.

Great idea for presentations, whether yours or your students. You need to have a verifiable account and website where links will go, e.g., a blog. You then enable your YouTube account for external links. You can add annotations as speech bubble, note title, spotlight, or label. You control where it is inserted in the video.