Clif's Notes on Instructional Design

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells..."

Wiki for lessons on the Smartboard and interactive white boards in general

Site with instructions on teaching the arts

New site (old one is closing in 2009) for standards and resources for elementary (primary) education in the UK. Also relevant for US education.

UK site that shows standards and suggests lessons for K through 6 classes

Create interactive flash based applications online Web service for rapidly building and sharing interactive flash based applications in the cloud without coding.

An Adobe Air application that allows you to take a set of images and stitch them together to create a panoramic image. The panoramic image you create can be rotated side to side, up and down, and zoomed in and out.

Microsoft® Popfly™ is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, Web pages, and applications.

Easily combine webpages, photos, presentation files, etc.so that you and your students can create interactive guided presentations and virtual tours.

Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides.

Skitch.com + Skitch = fast and fun image sharing

Blog devoted to exposing advertising gaffes from graphic designers who think that they can PhotoShop their way out of anything.

A condensed version of Dean's presentation on using PowerPoint effectively.

FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates and edits screenshots of web pages.

Tutorials to help you begin using Photoshop Express, Adobe's new FREE online version of Photoshop

Cheat sheet is a reference tool that provides simple, brief instructions for accomplishing a specific task. We have collated a set of best cheat sheets for web developers. It includes some of the popular programming language, e.g. jQuery, Mootools, Prototype, PHP, MySQL and etc

ScreenToaster is a free online screen recorder which allows you to Make screencasts, tutorials and demos. You can record your screen in one click without any downloads. It is compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. You can also share videos on the Internet in Flash, embed them on blogs/webpages or send them by email.

Share powerpoint presentations online, slideshows, slide shows, download presentations, widgets, MySpace codes