Content Literacy

Another web 2.0 applications resource. Well organized, easy to use.

Easy tool to have students create connections between text and pictures. If the pictures from the site are used the issue of copyright won't be a problem. I like that it is incredibly easy to use.

Great opportunity to have students create some expression of their thinking about the topic, "What I wish for in the world". Google is getting some free pub, but what a great way of doing it!

Want a reason to have your students doodle, then this is for you. The best thing is that this lets them doodle around a positive theme. I hope you will share with your art teachers, world civ, or current issues teachers. Heck share with your environmental science teachers too. We can all use a little thinking about "What I wish for the world" in our classrooms.

"That's why we're here," she said. "So I can show you not only what's out there but also how other educators are using these resources to teach their students right now." That quote from the post says it all. It's not about technology but about how teachers and students are using it to enhance learning.

A simulation of the stock market. A great running application to use in algebra classes, as it allows students to use algebraic concepts to manage their portfolio. Not directly skill or concept related, but can utilize graphing, formula use (as simple as P/E ratio, to regression analysis, to derivatives). For those teachers who think a little outside the box. I would be glad to hear how others might envision using this in their classroom.

Use of an iPod for instructional purposes is cool, but for the work we are doing in Africa this kind of thinking becomes important. The iPod/iPhone can become a way for sharing/organizing/storing documents. Teachers can use the wireless component of the tool to share materials when they have opportunities to gather.

I think this post or article is incredibly flawed and lacks a lot of basis for the positions being advicated, but if you have a Diigo account, it is a great example of participatory nature of the internet. You can leave a note for other Diigo users. It would be a fantastic way for students to read something, include their notes, respond to each other, and discuss in class the next day.

The Cassirpeia Project is an effort to make science education videos available for free to anyone who wants them. Each video can act as a stand-alone content video or the underlying plot that threads through can be used to contribute to student engagement/learning.

Simple example of a blog post that has lots of power. This is the kind of blog post that I think we can do at CTL as an on-going piece of our work. It captures the ideas that we generate all the time, applies them to the work we are doing, provides a systemic way of producing new material that we can later turn into finished pieces of work. If we begin now, capturing these kinds of thoughts in a library, we can launch a CTL blog with a catalog of ideas that we can turn into posts. If the authors need some help clarifying/fine tuning that is where the system comes into play. By the way this is a fantastic post about the potential of something that is already in many students hands, but repackaged for use in an educational way. I imagine this as part of any distance network that we create, especially with Africa.

skills to solve equations, explanations of events from a Civil War Battle, aspects of an ecosystem, fill in the blank.

Internet trends/predictions from a cell/handheld perspective over the next decade from the Pew Internet Trust.

Need help developing writing prompts or just like interesting quotes. It won't write the prompts for you but it does help get you thinking.

Blackboard is finally taking their scholar function public. Bookmarking for research/instructional purposes i.e. Diigo and Delicious. Good funtionality- notes, highlighting, sharing, groups, tag clouds for classroom sharing. Blackboard kills me, they have huge market share and are just now realizing this would be a good tool, ug. Have to recognize it because so many colleges, high schools have access to it.

Different tutorials to help people learn how to use Diigo and utilize Diigo in the classroom/research/work. Made me realize I need to create more groups and share more specific examples of links with math teachers, etc.

Allows quick manipulation of a 3-D brain model with explanation of the different parts. You can look up parts of the brain or functions of the brain. If nothing else, it's interesting for an overview of brain function