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Presentations are important. They are a gifted opportunity, given to you by someone who hopes that you will educate and equip (and entertain!) the people who have gathered to participate. As such, I treat them as important opportunities, and I invite you to do the same, should you find yourself invited to speak in some form or another with people. I want you to succeed. It's my hope that some of what I share with you is useful, that you can pick it up, that you can take some of what I come up with here and run with it yourselves. I call this "giving your ideas handles." We'll do three things with this post: talk about the audience, share with you my most concise advice about presenting, and give you some further resources.

This event is for everyone - and there's something in it for everyone. As the date gets closer, the site will be FILLED with projects, lesson plans, resources, student documentaries, and much, much more. Just RSVP for more info. Dot-to-Dot will be hosted by IS 339 on June 9, 2009." /> This is a cached version of http://339dottodot.com. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.x   0

How to find out if an online school is properly accredited, and by whom.

Games, websites and videos reviewed by parents.

Hello and welcome to the VoiceThread 4 Education wiki. This wiki was started by Colette Cassinelli but because of contributors like YOU - it has grown to be comprehensive collection of VoiceThread examples from students and teachers of all ages and groups. The purpose of this wiki is to gather examples of how educators are using Voicethread in their classrooms (or for professional development) and to share those examples.

Wiki of technologies that can be integrated into literacy instruction. Constructed by graduate students at UNC Charlotte.

Student-centric learning and "globalizing" curriculum.

recommended by JAY

Thinkature brings the richness of in-person, visual communication to the web by placing instant messaging inside a visual workspace. Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new.

The biggest question about technology and schools in the 21st century is not so much "What can it do?" but, rather, "When will it get to do it?" We all know life will be much different by 2100. Will school? How close will we be to Edutopia?

A video for people who wonder why blogs are such a big deal. Made by the Common Craft folks.

Provides options to search by content type, date, Creative Commons License, and more.

The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative. Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared. As a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing. OER Commons has forged alliances with over 120 major content partners to provide a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access over 24,000 items, find and provide descriptive information about each resource, and retrieve the ones they need. By being "open," these resources are publicly available for all to use, and principally through Creative Commons licensing, many thousands are legally available for repurposing, modifying and improving.

Use drop.io to privately share your files and collaborate in real time by web, email, phone, mobile, and more.

With Thinkature, you can create a collaborative workspace and invite coworkers, friends, and colleagues to join you in just seconds. Once inside your workspace, you can communicate by chatting, drawing, creating cards, and adding content from around the Internet. It's all synchronous, too - no need to hit reload or get an editing lock.

Web 2.0 tools organized by Focus Area

new pedagogies for the digital age. slideshare by steve Wheeler University of plymouth

Microsoft investing millions to investigate innovative teaching practices using technology. "The primary focus of this research, which is being guided by outside advisors from the OECD, UNESCO, the World Bank, the International Society for Technology in Education and other organizations, is to assess teachers' adoption of innovative classroom teaching practices and the degree to which those practices provide students with personalized learning experiences."

EdTechLIVE's webcast interviews series by Steve Hargadon focus on K - 12 educational technology. Also see Classroom 2.0 LIVE Conversations for recorded "talk-casts."