"What do you believe is needed to change in Education? Powerful Learning Practice believes in the power of educators and challenges you to re-envision what you do in your school and classroom this upcoming year."
Diigo is much more than a simple web annotation or social bookmarking tool. It is an online research and collaborative research tool that integrates tags, digital highlights, interactive sticky notes, captured snapshots, and group-based collaboration, allowing a whole new process of online information management, learning, and teaching in the 21st Century.
My Network
is a new Diigo social features that adds to the product's strength. My Network
creates a "content-centric social network," in which people are connected by
what they clip, tag, and highlight. Users will be able to collaborate
with other users based not on who is a friend to whom, but rather by who is
interested in what. My network delivers web content specifically tailored to a
user interests and shows users with similar interest. Participation in a larger
network is made possible with its community features that connects users with
people with common interests; thus, building global communities around topics
and knowledge, tags, and sites.
Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other Stuff (Diigo) is a powerful free social bookmarking website with annotating capabilities.
Diigo is much more than a simple web annotation or social bookmarking tool. It is an online research and collaborative research tool that integrates tags, digital highlights, interactive sticky notes, captured snapshots, and group-based collaboration, allowing a whole new process of online information management, learning, and teaching in the 21st Century.
This is a superb collaborative video editing suite. You and your class can invite each other as collaborators. It has a great range of tools and toys to make some great movies. Host your video on the site or export to YouTube or Vimeo.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams
Author and activist Michael Pollan is a passionate advocate for sustainable food. In his compelling talk at PopTech, he explores how our industrial food system is keeping us overly dependent on fossil fuels, destroying our environment, and making us sick. Breaking this cycle requires fundamentally changing our relationship to food - and eating more meals together. - awesome!
Video without the distractions
To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser's bookmarks bar. On any of the supported video pages, click the bookmark button to watch in peace.
You can then make short URLs too, to send the quietube version to your friends. Easy as.
Will Richardson gives us some things to think about in regards to the role leaders can play in change - modeling/supporting learning by being learners ourselves.