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blogpost reviewing Meograph, a digital storytelling web tool linking maps, timelines, images/video, and narration.

Using a common definition of quality, EQuIP teams are learning how to use tools and processes to review the quality of materials (tasks, lesson, units, modules) that states will contribute for the purpose of receiving critical feedback for improvement.

Good ideas for quizzing/formative assessment activities, including Jeopardy Style games, Kahoot, Socrative, Classtools.net, and Tinypad

This is an amazing site for any educator with an Android device. See reviews about the best apps and tips on how to use them effectively in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

A useful maths multiplication tool where you can review times tables and complete drills. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

School library media Kids, an innovative new site packed with games and book trailers, is designed to provide a fun, interactive learning experience to get students motivated to learn on their own! They can choose from exceptional literacy-related resources such as author and book review websites as well as superb educational tools including reference works and search engines.

check out this site! A good one to add to your libguide!

Great tool for recording Skype calls even video m

This is a "field-book of tools and processes to help readers in all fields develop as researchers, writers, and agents of change." For more details and how to purchase: http://bit.ly/TYS2012. (Printing and distribution in Australia and Europe begins end of March.) Comments on the influence of this book's approach "I was able to get engaged in a project that I was able to actually use in work, which was extremely satisfying. The whole process encouraged me, and I felt very empowered as a change agent, which could be an exhilarating feeling." a healthcare professional and story-teller "I really had not been used to thinking about my own thinking, so learning to do that also helped me to slow down and start to look away from the career path that I had been taking for granted." a biologist-turned-web designer "I found that the experience helped me to accept feedback from other professionals. I am more comfortable with listening to why my own ideas might not work or need further evaluation. This even happens to the point where I find reasons now to seek out this kind of feedback." a teacher "I had viewed research as a process of collecting information into a sort of database and reviewing it effectively. I have now revised my notions to include a more broad understanding of interconnectedness between people and ideas. An important part of research is to keep relationships going." an adult educator "One of the most useful ideas was the use of dialogue, which helps to slow down the procedures used by the company. There's a tension between management's need to make quick decisions and desire to have real dialogue around proposed changes-changes to the internal company operational procedures as well as to evaluating the quality of what the company is doing with its publications." a teacher, currently working in publishing "I was asked to pay attention to what I actually could do instead of what I could not. This enabled me to (1) step back and let go of a huge technic

diigo还可以通过小组的书签,论坛,高亮,评论汇集(集中)他们的发现.你可以加入任何一个diigo小组，进行协作研究

Literature review for research on student boredom and teaching with Web 2.0 tools.

Who uses this and do you like it?

I used to use it, but being cloud-based it doesn't let me use it with my personal workflow offline (which does still happen). I also find it better to use separate tools for separate contexts of work because those tools will better within each context than netvibes, which is a jack of all trades and master of none.

Prezi slideshow app - in-class use example & review

Collection of review questions and materials for math, science, history and more.

Capterra is a great way for school tech people to learn about new software, as well as read and write reviews of Ed Tech software they use.

Fun collection of math and science lessons and videos. Aimed for younger students, but might be a fun review for others as well.

"In addition to the education channels or categories within the wider YouTube and Vimeo tools, there are some sites which have been specifically set up to share videos aimed at use in an educational setting (some adding further value to the videos with related resources):"

Phraseology is an iPad writing app that breaks the mold by integrating language analytics, visual organization of paragraphs, and a well-thought-out partnership with Terminology, a semantic dictionary/thesaurus app. This would be really useful for student writers because it does more than just provide a clean interface for writing, it gives them tools to improve their drafts.