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Mental Notes: a deck of cards, each with a psychological principle applied to webdesign.

Supported Text: send docs, whiteboards, and handwritten notes to store, fax, email, or publish

send docs, whiteboards, and handwritten notes to store, fax, email, or publish

Postica: create & distribute notes, reminders and files with digital stickit notes

"Online Organizer - Plan * Organize * Share Add to-dos, notes, and images. Share it with your friends. Get things done - it's simple & free"

convert evernote voice notes to text that are searchable!

Best Educational Wikis of 2009 by Wikispaces: best-of examples of using wikis in the classroom (1) interact with schools around the world; (2) share classroom activities; (3) turn online class notes into end-of-year exams

Mind42: add notes, icons, and web links to mind maps and share

John Seely Brown: "Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown. Traditional educational methods may be smothering their innate drive to explore the world. Brown and like-minded colleagues are developing the underpinnings for a new 21st century pedagogy that broadens rather than narrows horizons. John Seely Brown, former chief scientist at Xerox, has morphed in recent years into the "Chief of Confusion," seeking "the right questions" in a range of fields, including education. He finds unusual sources for his questions: basketball and opera coaches, surfing and video game champions. He's gathered insights from unorthodox venues, and from more traditional classrooms, to paint quite a different picture of what learning might look like. The typical college lecture class frequently gathers many students together in a large room to be 'fed' knowledge, believes Brown. But studies show that "learning itself is socially constructed," and is most effective when students interact with and teach each other in manageable groups. Brown wants to open up "niche learning experiences" that draw on classic course material, but deepen it to be maximally enriching. In basketball and opera master classes, and in architecture labs, he has seen how individuals become acculturated in a "community of practice," learning to "be" rather than simply to "do." Whether performing, creating, or experimenting, students are critiqued, respond, offer their own criticism, and glean rich wisdom from a cyclical group experience. Brown says something "mysterious" may be taking place: "In deeply collective engagement in processes...you start to marinate in a problem space." Through communities of practice, students' minds "begin to gel up," even in the face of abstraction and unfamiliarity, and "all of a sudden, (the subject) starts to make se

WallWisher: an online notice board: Post-its online - no user registration needed, integrate images, music, video, pages - make announcements

iMinds: 8 minute podcasts for learning about important things (note: has an iphone app!)

A single example - and this is ALL you need - as to why the "Digital Natives" metaphor is a dangerous fallacy. We NEED teachers to learn critical thinking.

shared with Project Direct

Computer-Based Learning Strategies: "Notefish" - save info from the web into a single online page, organize, and share. Great for synthesizing information strategy.

Computer-Based Learning Strategies: "Notefish" - save info from the web into a single online page, organize, and share. Great for synthesizing information strategy.

Smart Notebooks to save, share and act on what's important to you Create notebooks for recipes, books, movies or anything else that matters to you, together with friends, family and co-workers. Save ideas and info from anywhere, access them whenever, and start getting more from life.