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"People have been using Poll Everywhere to make word clouds and tag clouds for years. Now, we've made it even easier with a simple two-step process for our favorite word cloud services: Wordle, Tagxedo, and Tagul. You'll find a new view called "Word cloud" on your Free Text Polls."

I wonder if this is filterable. Meaning, I wonder if this can be open with the rest being closed? At least it would be a start.

"In August, the FCC clarified an earlier ruling that led to widespread blocking of social media networks by school districts receiving discounted internet access through federal e-Rate dollars."

Not all of these sites will be open to you at school, but I thought it was an interesting collection of sites where you can quickly learn something new each day. Granted, it may not always be something you WANT to learn, but there y' have it. :)

Do your students have aggregators? Why not set up a tab to subscribe to these sites (those that have feeds) so they might stumble upon something new to learn each day.

A monthly post of daily anniversary's, birthdays, notable events with links to resources that might be useful to teachers and students. November, for example (as I post this): Aviation History Month; National American Indian Heritage Month; births of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, several presidents, authors, artists; Opening of the Berlin Wall (and, in a perverse sort of coincidence, Kristallnacht in Germany). ...

"To clear up some of the confusion around these comments and assertions, I went straight to the top: the Department of Education's Director of Education Technology, Karen Cator. Cator parsed the rules of the Childrens Internet Protection Act, and provided guidance for teachers on how to proceed when it comes to interpreting the rules. To that end, here are six surprising rules that educators, administrators, parents and students might not know about website filtering in schools."

The Teacher Challenge is made up of free 30 day professional development challenges where participants are stepped through weekly tasks that increase their skills while working together as part of a global community. The Challenge is open to anyone who wants to increase their skills - blogs will be used for reflecting your progress while learning and connecting with each other. We've observed success of any use of online technology is strongly related to the teacher's abilities. The greater we support and increase a teacher's skills, the better they are able to support their students use of web 2.0 technologies.

Great resources from the New Teacher Center - Statements for use with teachers: paraphrasing, clarifying, mediational, open suggestions, tagging, and non-judgmental.

Great resources from the New Teacher Center - Statements for use with teachers: paraphrasing, clarifying, mediational, open suggestions, tagging, and non-judgmental.

Syncdocs lets you "Go Google" by migrating all your files to Google's cloud. Simply select a folder on your PC, like "My Documents", Syncdocs copies it online and across all your computers, automatically. This folder is then kept in sync. Syncdocs integrates right into your desktop opening your files in Google Docs.

Open source photo booth software.  Basically a server for a webcam. Very simple and friendly.

"PowerPoint is a versatile application. You can use it for all sorts of things from presentations to online training programs. In previous posts I've shown you how to customize clip art and create your own graphics. Today's tip comes courtesy of blog reader, Daniel Albarrán. He sent me an email stating that once he understood the versatility of PowerPoint it opened his eyes to all sorts of possibilities-one of them being the ability to create illustrated characters"

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"Between 1981 and 1993, documentary producer Christopher Sykes shot three films and one TV series dedicated to the charismatic, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988). We have presented these documentaries here individually before (some several years ago), but never brought them together."

For the science teacher and inquisitive kid in all of us. One of the physics gods reaching out to we mere mortals!

The markets opened in the negative territory today. At present, both the indices are trading very flat with the Sensex down 11 points at 15959 and Nifty down by 3 points at 4775. Banking stocks were under selling pressure, falling nearly 0.5 per cent. Auto and FMCG stocks also traded lower.

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