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"A suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools."

Publish and share multimedia lists online, including videos, documents and website. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

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This tutorial is designed so that you can learn how to use the tools of web 2.0 for your classes or for fun. * Each topic takes about a week to complete. * Each week you will will be introduced to at least one website [or 'tool'].( You may also get information about an aspect of digital citizenship. * Next, you have an activity to complete using the website. * The last, and most important thing you need to do is to post about what you learned on your blog. Topics: Digital Citizenship; Blogging; Avatars; Photos, Images, & Giving Credit; Finding Photos and Images; Good Manners and Commenting; Creating your own images; Creating Animations and Videos; Creating Documents and Presentations; Fun with Books & reading; Evaluating informational websites; Online Sharing

Now you can discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends

Thanks for sharing! This is really useful for me! :-D

Get Smart with Art @ the de Young Written to support the California State Content Standards in language arts, social studies and the visual arts, Get Smart with Art @ the de Young is an interdisciplinary curriculum package that uses art objects as primary documents, sparking investigations into the diverse cultures represented by the Museums' collections. In order to promote implementation, all historical texts are written at the intended grade level, thereby reducing the amount of teacher preparation required. In essence, Get Smart with Art @ the de Young is a readymade curriculum that simply requires the addition of inquisitive students. Using art objects as the foundation for each lesson, the guides develop visual literacy, historical knowledge, artistic expression, and expository writing skills.

Create a timeline including pictures, video, blogs, documents and even web pages.

via http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/04/20/yakitome-converts-text-to-speech/

A useful time saving resource which makes spoken mp3 files from Word documents, text files, PDFs, RSS feeds, webpages and more. Lots of different languages can be converted. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

Dat Binh Duong
Mua Ban Nha Dat
Dong Do Dai Pho
Can Ho Anh Tuan

Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe -- simply generate them in NoodleBib Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool.

CoSN Receives MacArthur Grant: Exploring Policy and Leadership Barriers to Effective Use of Web 2.0 in Schools
The $450,000 grant began July 1st and over the coming year CoSN will focus on the following key objectives:
1.Identify findings from existing empirical research relevant to the use of new media in schools and the barriers to their adoption and scalability.
2. Assess the awareness, understanding, and perspectives of U.S. educational leaders (superintendents, district curriculum and technology directors/CTOs) and policymaker's on the role, problems, and benefits of new media in schools within a participatory culture context.
3. Investigate and document the organizational and policy issues that are critical obstacles for the effective deployment of new media.
4. Develop a concise report of findings and construct an action plan for intervention.

Kindle users know they can e-mail documents as attachments to their Kindle account and Amazon will convert and upload them to the e-book reader for a 10-cent fee. Windows users aren't tied to the e-mail option, though, thanks to the Auto Kindle eBook Converter.

Amensty International, this site gives you the issues and concerns from around the world. Choose one topic from a country to research and find the UDHR violation. Write this in a word document to be presented in class.

NS2: Niche Social Network Sites NS2 is devoted to documenting the variety of online social network sites and services established to faciliate networking among communities with focused interests or purpose. NS2 is a companion blog to Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services and SciTechNet(sm):Science and Technology Networks.

21st Century Information Fluency Project Online Course Page: Lists 1 - 4 week courses in search skills and google docs

Excellent document on how to use twitter in education, good and bad points, from conference in Perth, April 8 09