CATE edtech bookmarks

Google Apps pros and cons

I love the jigsaw method - perfect for FlatWorld, Project-based Learning

good list of tech/geek things to pack when you travel

Digital Journalism Workspace

This European project is working on strategies to facilitate the transition from primary to secondary foreign language teaching. Partners from seven European countries are developing material for language classrooms and teacher training. On this website you can get information on the transition situation in different European countries, get insights into primary and secondary language classrooms, download teaching materials and exchange your views on the topic of continuity with other teachers, students and teacher trainers.

a scholarly article about Twitter to understand social networking

web3Dbooks are an opportunity for a research investigation for NCSeT

Open Education is the new, awesome IN thing... taking off with a vengeance in education... this is Tom Layton and YB and Global Teaching all over it!

this discussion by MIT's Henry Jenkins is a fabulous overview of the role Social Media played in the 2008 Presidential Campaign (and, by extrapolation) and how these technologies are shaping cultural and personal time. Very good!

CATE & SaLamander Project get links and quotes by J. Richter in this January 2009 issue article in THE Journal

Top 10 Forecasts for 2009 and beyond

look at all of these educational resources in Second life!

A diversity in education project by Spokane area digital youth project TinCan - a group who I'm looking to collaborate with through CATE when i make the jump to eastern Washington in 2010.

the TinCan Youth Media home - from the Spokane area

Second Life Education (SLED) shared Google Calendar

Second Life Education (SLED) shared Google Calendar second life in education (SLED) events calendar

Rubric: on collaboration

Second Life: Shakespeare Company

Introducing the Earworms Musical Brain Trainer Learn a new Language in Second Life, your Ipod, your iPhone or PC for the new year! 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music. The 70 minute Earworms SLCD's will play the tracks inworld - can be downloaded as mp3 files to your desktop, Ipod or Iphone and comes with full documentation on PDF files for you to print and read at your leisure. Come and sample Earworms for yourself inworld - visit us at and TP up to The Earworms Loft Earworms mbt puts the words and phrases you need not just on the tip of your tongue, but also transports them deep into your long-term memory. Simply by listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions a few times, the sound patterns are indelibly burned into your auditory cortex. You will have successfully learned the phrase and have the correct accent ringing in your ears. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing: While jogging, in the car, in the bath, doing the ironing…you can be learning a new language at the same time! earworms mbt© Rapid Languages is the first language course to get your toe tapping. You know the phenomena of those catchy tunes or earworms that you just can't get out of your head? Voulezvous coucher avec moi, ce soir? Well, earworms mbt© has put this phenomena to positive use. Gone are the days of learning pressure and frustration at not being able to remember, the experience of many on conventional language courses. In combination with music, the phrases you need are automatically anchored deep into your memory, ready for instant recall.

Community Building: using technology to help communities find and use their voices

Online Reading: discussion of supported text and the blurring of the meaning of "book"