Content Literacy

Sqworl is an online bookmarking tool that saves a screen capture of each page you bookmark. To help you organize your bookmarks, you can create multiple groups of bookmarks in your Sqworl account. Should you choose to share your bookmarks you can share one or all of your bookmarks groups via the unique urls Sqworl assigns to each group.

Some interesting wordle resources. 

The United States General Services Administration (GSA) and the White House Open Government Initiative are soliciting your feedback on a concept for next generation citizen consultation, namely a government-wide software tool and process to elicit expert public participation (working title "ExpertNet"). ExpertNet could: Enable government officials to circulate notice of opportunities to participate in public consultations to members of the public with expertise on a topic. Provide those volunteer experts with a mechanism to provide useful, relevant, and manageable feedback back to government officials. The proposed concept is intended to be complementary to two of the ways the Federal government currently obtains expertise to inform decision-making, namely by convening Federal Advisory Committees and announcing public comment opportunities in the Federal Register. We are looking for you to provide: Any refinements or suggestions you have to improve the process as described; Any issues (legal, policy, technical) raised by the features described; Any tools that you know of that perform the process described in that step; Any organizations (public or private) that have a similar platform in place.

Let's give students learning tasks that tell them, "You can be as smart as you want to be." Great article on changing the mindset of American mathematics students from smart kid.s are smart rather than smart kids work hard to be smart. 

Building an interactive museum to highlight patterns and structures all around. 

From NASA, what more do you need to know. Everything that humans have done to explore the solar system....

y version draws upon collections of photos specified by a tag in flickr. You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures.

The Wall Street Journal have created an impressive site that maps the New York, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago marathon routes. Each route includes Street View and elevation charts. It looks like it uses the everytrail api as a backbone. It's very cool. 

Great site for Google Map overlays. Very versatile and has lots of different overlays. 

Great set of ideas/resources for using QR codes. I tihnk QR codes have great potential for creation and sharing with mobile tools.  Create a podcast/screencast, put the QR code image on your worksheet/review sheet/unit plan and let students access the information as they need from their phone/smartphone/pad...  Marry print and digital, I love it!

Really interestingly designed discussion of ecofriendly or renewable energy (not necessarily the same thing). 

Vimeo Video School is a fun place for anyone to learn how to make better videos. Start by browsing our Vimeo Lessons, or find specific video tutorials created by other members.

Great starting point for a research project on the civil war. Start here, then introduce different states' declarations of cause. Great way of laying a foundation for the cause of the war before studying all of the generals, battles, and treaties. 

Don't know enough about the site to offer an opinion, but looks like it's worth sharing. 

Want to let students explore with real data then welcome to FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data), a database of 25,176 U.S. economic time series. With FRED® you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series. Students can explore data, create models & hypothesis, and test their models as the year progresses. If their models aren't working they can go back to their original data set and make changes based on what they've learned and see how those predictions work on new data. The best part is the variety of data that is available.  We plan to continually improve FRED® and encourage you to send feedback through our contact form.

Skype in the classroom (beta) Meet new people, discover new cultures and connect with classes from around the world, all without leaving the classroom.

citation site, free for educators and students at this time. Great tool for helping students learn how to cite websites effectively. Not APA style but does allow for capture of text, images and notetaking on websites and PDFs. 

for those of us who are too long winded for twitter. 

Takes the new Google Chrome browser, but is pretty cool. Look and touch all of the parts of the human body.