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Cool Online tools presented by Darcy Moore

Great list of bookmarks (cool UI) for High School teachers! Would love one for Middle School!

Great list of bookmarks (cool UI) for High School teachers! Would love one for Middle School!

Steve, this is great. It doesn't hurt that you've got the majority of the links listed on my resources wiki page. Thisi much cooler. I have to try it. Thanks.

Use the time-slider on Etherpad to see students' writing process. Very cool!

Cool tool that generates a word "cloud" around a word, concept.

Use this to publish student writing from blogs, could turn into a very cool project.

I'm on page 199 of 349 of Let the Great World Spin: "there's a high that you get when you're writing code. It's cool. It's easy to do. You forget your mom, your dad, everything. You've got the whole country onboard. This is America. You hit the frontier. You can go anywhere, Its about begin connected, access, gateways, like a whispering games where if you get one thing wrong you've got to go all the way back to the beginning."   quote from a teen hacker in the novel--it captures adolescence, hacking, learning, delight, beauty, everything: I want to remember this when I meet my new students in September

cool shortcuts for google addicts

Cool idea. I might look into this next week when I take my kids into the lab to wrap up the semester. Perhaps a twitter discussion on "What is truth?"

Some ideas, examples and resources on how to use blogs

very cool list: some conservative, some liberal, some fiction, some satire, some bio, some nonfiction

Create historical twitter character then tweet based on history research  Quote from Mark Rounds Web-Ed Tools Paper.li, "Participants choose a historical event, create Twitter accounts for individual characters, pore over primary source documents and think critically about the times, dates, and durations of events to create hundreds of Tweets as they might have been broadcast had Twitter existed before the 21st century. They then submit all those Tweets to the engineers at TwHistory, specifying a start date for their event, and then watch it unfold - over a day, a week, a month or more - reflecting the event's actual duration."