After all, kids can write all kinds of nonsense on a sheet of paper and spread it around school, as well; they've been doing that for generations. Yet, I don't see too many teachers wondering whether we should allow them to write.
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Maggie Verster
20 Free Stock Photo Sites for Your Social Media Images - 6 views
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Images free
21st Century Learning Design - 4 views
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21st Century Learning Design, formerly called 'LEAP21' is a global professional development program for teachers and schools to develop more innovative pedagogies that develop students skills for the 21st Century. The program is sponsored globally by Microsoft Partners in Learning and is supported in each country by a network of education partners."
5 Great Sites for Student Collaboration - 9 views
The 'little book of ICT ideas' - 14 views
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We love this document that Mark Anderson has produced for a training day at his school in North Somerset, UK. It succinctly provides the name of Web2.0 tools and gives you examples of how to use them. From our experience teachers did need quick, easy and fast ways to connect to new technology ideas. We think Mark achieves this very well!
High-Tech Teaching in a Low-Tech Classroom - 4 views
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As 21st-century teachers, we are expected to help students master the technological tools they will use in college and the workplace. But in many districts, the one-computer classroom is not extinct. So how can we do a lot with a little? How can we best use limited resources to support learning and familiarize students with technology?
Podcasting 101 introduction - 4 views
Animaps - Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free! - 7 views
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Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time. When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action!
A-Z Web tools: F - 8 views
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A lot of cool tools I have not heard of before!
Learn It In 5 - Home - 8 views
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"Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more."
Technology Integration in Education - Facilitating the Use of Technology in the Classroom - 7 views
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A great commmunity of teachers sharing their stories.
2010 Horizon Report - 3 views
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The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC's Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.
Response to a Criticism about Using Twitter in the Classroom - 5 views
Mr B's List: searchable database of IWB resources - 6 views
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Really cool searchable database of IWB resources by subject/grade/reading levels
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Really cool searchable database of IWB resources by subject/grade/reading levels
21st Century Skills Map for science - 0 views
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The Partnership advocates for the integration of 21st Century Skills into K-12 education so that students can advance their learning in core academic subjects.
Usability Report - E-learning Software for Math - 0 views
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Given that a large percentage of students have difficulty with math. The usability of a math e-learning tool is critical. The easier and more user friendly such an application is the more a student can forget about the e-learning tool and focus on learning the math content. Here is the usability report that was undertaken in the National E-Learning Lab at the National College of Ireland. This is a useful read for users of the Beta version along with Instructional Designers and Software Developers who are involved in similar projects.
RSC-Northwest e-Book Library - 0 views
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This library has great resource books and tutorials on anything from authoring of web based tests, to using audacity, to basic numeracy....a really fab selection of visually stimulating book like interfaces. You can download it as exe files (some gave me hassles and showed up as trojans but was fine or you can download the actual reader to view it with
Maggie Verster
I am an educational technologist and support teachers in ICT integration in South Africa. I also facilitate teacher professional development training, write m and e-learning material and oversee a few online PD teachers communities. Passionate about learning and sharing.