CATE edtech bookmarks

February/March 2009 issue of Innovate has Marc Prensky recasting his "digital native/digital immigrant" notion as "digital wisdom" - check it out

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

This would be a great project for us to contribute some of our "free" time

on making thinking visible

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

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.

Second Life: Shakespeare Company

Rubric: on collaboration

Language Arts / Study Skills: (free) vocabulary learning toolset tracks progress, weeds out words you already know, creates mp3 files of word lists, and has a program for students to earn cash rewards on a pre-paid debit cards as they study

Language Learning: (free) blending self-paced lessons, web 2.0 community, and interactive tools

Math: SpeedCrunch is a fast, high precision and powerful desktop calculator * history and results on a scrollable display * up to 50 decimal precisions * unlimited variable storage * intelligent automatic completion * fully usable from the keyboard * more than 50 built-in math functions * optional virtual keypad to be used with a mouse * on-the-fly and selection calculation * customizable appearance * syntax highlighting and parentheses matching

Math: enter a math problem and have Mathway solve it for you!

Biology: play Foldit and help scientists solve major challenges while you solve puzzles

Chemistry: a small illustrated periodic table of the elements

Chemistry: Dynamic Periodic Table of the Elements

look at all of these educational resources in Second life!

Second Life Education (SLED) shared Google Calendar

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

filesharing up to 2GB

the TinCan Youth Media home - from the Spokane area

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.