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Cybersmart Detectives is an innovative online game that teaches children key internet safety messages in a safe environment. Children work online in real time liaising with community professionals to solve an internet-themed problem. The activity is based in the school environment, and brings together a number of agencies with an interest in promoting online safety for young people, including State and Federal Police, internet industry representatives and child welfare advocates.

"IEEE.tv is an award winning, internet based television network, made possible by the members of IEEE.IEEE.tv produces and delivers special-interest programming about technology and engineering for the benefit of IEEE's members and the general public.IEEE.tv can be launched from this page, and it is also accessible for members via myIEEE, the members-only portal."

"Create personalized children's stories instantly. Turn any time into story time. It's free. 1. Add the details about your children and family -- what do your kids call Mom? Dad? Grandma? 2. Tell us what kinds of stories your kids like. 3. Have new personalized stories based on your child's age and interests delivered to you automagically."

Encouraging and enabling the development of tools to facilitate the use of the DOI® System and DOI® names by end users is a priority of the International DOI Foundation. This page identifies tools that are in use and under development, with descriptions and links to their sources. More will be added as they become available. Other tools and projects offered by the Handle System developer community may also be of interest. We welcome your comments to contact@doi.org.

Really interesting collection of Web 2.0 tools

interesting.

Many educators just use the favorites menu on their computer either at work or home. But what about when we're at home and need to get to a site we saved at school? This is where social bookmarking comes in! Bookmarking favorite links on the internet is something that can make life easier for us as educators - it means that it's easy to find a really neat site later when looking for it. Putting SOCIAL in Bookmarking The social part of social bookmarking works like this: you can share your links that you've saved through a service like Diigo with anyone else who uses Diigo. You can also use Diigo to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark - this can be extremely useful for a team of teachers who like to share teaching resources. You can even search Diigo to find the many bookmarks that others have saved - it helps sort out the good sites, which is hard to do on most search engines. If a lot of other teachers have saved a link, you know it's at least popular. This article also addresses "What is tagging?" and "How do I use tags?"

Very interesting and resource rich visual search engine. It will even filter searches. 

Ramven has released Mobile Web Apps for informative and productivity. Our Mobile Web Apps include financial calculators, unit converters and many more categories. These Mobile Web Apps are light weight and support all major mobile, tablet, smart phone and desktop web browsers.

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center released new research from the Games and Learning Publishing Council initiative. They conducted a series of video case studies and a national survey, Teacher Attitudes about Digital Games in the Classroom, undertaken in collaboration with and support from BrainPOP®. Each video case study shows an individual teacher who integrates digital games into his or her curriculum in exciting and innovative ways. This video features Ginger Stevens, a 6th grade special-education teacher at Quest2Learn in New York City. This video case study shows how she utilizes the intentionally game-like environment of her school to maximize learning for students with special needs.   Talks about kids interacting with each other AND digital images projected onto the floor and connected to the computer. Essentially a floor-based white board

Visuwords Look up words, their meanings and association with other words or concepts. Tubechop Select and cut interesting parts of a Youtube video. Psykopaint Use this fun tool to introduce painting in your class. RESOURCES A biography study A sample lesson plan to explore biographies by means of role-plays.

A network to talk about the tools we use

I'm interested in the 25 Tools for Learning Professionals, but the link doesn't work.

List of Tech Tools for Educators

Great beginning of the school year ideas for use in your classroom.

#26 is a must see video from McGuffey School District using QR codes throughout the curriculum content areas.

Video commenting on webpages

Interesting way to leave video comments on web pages. Great way to prompt students??

Really interesting use of Second Life machinima used as backdrop for a school production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Innovative use of Second Life machinima as play backdrop for Lion Witch Wardrobe