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Jeff Johnson

Timelines - 21 views

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    Wikipedia defines a timeline as a kind of graphic design showing a long bar labeled with dates alongside itself and (usually) events labeled on points where they would have happened. Here are some tools educators can use to create timelines.
Dianne Rees

Crayon Physics Deluxe - 21 views

  • a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects.
anonymous

27 Interesting Ways to Use QR Codes in the Classroom - "Google Docs" - 21 views

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

Powerful Learning Practice - 21 views

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    Here you'll find thoughts on change, learning, 21st Century teaching, and all the latest updates on Powerful Learning Practice and what we're doing.
Fred Delventhal

Netspeak -- Phrase Dictionary - 21 views

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    What is Netspeak? Netspeak helps you to improve your writing. When in doubt about how something is written, you can search for alternatives in Netspeak's phrase dictionary. The dictionary contains billions of phrases and how often they are used on the web. That way you can judge whether or not a phrase is common.
Lissa Davies

Cool Tools for Writing - Part IV « Ed Tech Ideas - 23 views

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    This is part IV in a series dedicated to free, online writing tools for kids. 
Fred Delventhal

Socrative Teacher - 21 views

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    Socrative is for interaction. You ask the questions. Your student responds with any laptop/handheld device. Try it for yourself by playing teacher on this device, and Student on a second computer/smartphone. Instructions: - Student: Open a second computer/smartphone and go to m.socrative.com - Student: Join the Room ###. - Teacher: ask a question out loud and press "Yes / No" button - Student: Respond Yes or No - Teacher: See the results on your screen You can run the Teacher Clicker from an Android phone, or any computer / smartphone by going to l.socrative.com.
Vahid Masrour

Google Plus: Is This the Social Tool Schools Have Been Waiting For? - 21 views

  • it may well be the granular level of privacy afforded by Google+ that is the key to making this a successful tool for schools
  • many schools and teachers have still been reluctant to "friend" students
  • that "always public" element of Twitter that makes many nervous
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  • it's also about sharing with the right people. Circles will allow what educational consultant Tom Barnett calls "targeted sharing," something that will be great for specific classes and topics
  • Skype has become an incredibly popular tool to bring in guests to a classroom via video chat -
  • teachers are already talking about the possibility of not just face-to-face video conversation but the potential for integration of whiteboards, screen-sharing, Google Docs, and other collaborative tools
  • Google + seems like the solution for someone like me who wants to use the web to have conversations about school topics with students and parents and yet not have students and parents have access to my personal posts.
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      Parents and students on different Circles. You know you want it!
Anne Bubnic

Best content in ISTE 2011 | Diigo Groups - 21 views

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    Twitter and backchanneling sessions only capture information for finite periods of time. This site will be used to store all of the great links and resources discovered through ISTE 2011 (Jun 26-29, 2011) so you can retrieve them at home. Please join with me and share your favorite links.
Cara Whitehead

Science Vocabulary - 21 views

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    Science vocabulary for all content areas and age levels (K-12)
Fred Delventhal

The Kid Should See This. - 21 views

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    The Kid Should See This. There's just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them... But we don't underestimate kids around here.
Allyssa Andersen

iPiccy - Online Picture Editor - 21 views

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    Good bye Picnik, hello Ipiccy!! You will love it!
Fred Delventhal

Picozu - sharing creativity - 17 views

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    Picozu Editor is a drawing and photo retouching application built on Javascript, HTML 5 and CSS3. Make sure you use a modern browser (Firefox 5, Safari 5, Chrome, Opera 10, Internet Explorer 9) if you want to play with it. The aim of Picozu is to support brushes, filters, dynamic windows, HSL, CYMK, layers, actions history, batch processing, primitives, curves (quadratic and bezier), complex polygons, texture rendering, cropping and many more.
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