Smokescreen is a cutting-edge game about life online. We all use Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and MSN to keep up with our mates - and we've all heard the stories about parties on Facebook being mobbed, or people getting stalked on MSN. The question is, what would you do if it happened to you?
Online library of picture books that kids can read independently or as a read along. Great for K-2. Books can be personalised with students names. Register for free if you want to save/share your books.
"The software that provides it, called AudioFeeds, announces Facebook updates such as friend requests with watery sounds like drips, bubbles and splashes. Bird calls are reserved for Twitter, while musical sounds such as a didgeridoo or wind chime alert you to news stories. It achieves the 3D effect by adjusting the phase, or timing, of the sounds delivered to your left and right earphones."
"Each weekday, we scour the Web for age-appropriate news stories that will interest tweens and teens and invite them to comment. All comments are moderated by their teachers before they are published."
This page contains a link to the Learning in the 21st Century: Taking It Mobile report.
"This report identifies key findings from the Speak Up 2009 trends report and from interviews with innovative educators who are leveraging mobile devices for learning. Their stories illustrate emerging trends, implementation considerations and strategies for implementing mobile learning initiatives."
"Using your Oyster Card and Bike Key, Chromaroma
lets you play the city as you travel. It tells you stories,
gives you points, and visualises your movements
on an interactive map of London."
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"Visualisation, RFID and gameifying your journey to work - Mudlark's latest toy hits all those development sweet spots"
A look at Chromaroma Using your Oyster Card and Bike Key, Chromaroma lets you play the city as you travel. It tells you stories, gives you points, and visualises your movements
on an interactive map of London.
The separation of work and home: When you're carrying an email-equipped computer in your pocket, it's not just your friends who can find you -- so can your boss. For kids born this year, the wall between office and home will be blurry indeed.
Books, magazines, and newspapers: Like video tape, words written on dead trees are on their way out. Sure, there may be books -- but for those born today, stores that exist solely to sell them will be as numerous as record stores are now.
Fax machines: Can you say "scan," ".pdf" and "email?"
One picture to a frame: Such a waste of wall/counter/desk space to have a separate frame around each picture. Eight gigabytes of pictures and/or video in a digital frame encompassing every person you've ever met and everything you've ever done -- now, that's efficient.
Encyclopedias: Imagine a time when you had to buy expensive books that were outdated before the ink was dry. This will be a nonsense term for babies born today.
Forgotten friends: Remember when an old friend would bring up someone you went to high school with, and you'd say, "Oh yeah, I forgot about them!" The next generation will automatically be in touch with everyone they've ever known even slightly via Facebook.
Yellow and White Pages: Why in the world would you need a 10-pound book just to find someone?
Talking to one person at a time: Remember when it was rude to be with one person while talking to another on the phone? Kids born today will just assume that you're supposed to use texting to maintain contact with five or six other people while pretending to pay attention to the person you happen to be physically next to.
Mail: What's left when you take the mail you receive today, then subtract the bills you could be paying online, the checks you could be having direct-deposited, and the junk mail you could be receiving as junk email? Answer: A bloated bureaucracy that loses billions of taxpayer dollars annually.
CDs: First records, then 8-track, then cassette, then CDs -- replacing your music collection used to be an expensive pastime. Now it's cheap(er) and as close as the nearest Internet connection.
Huffington Post recently put up a story called You're Out: 20 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade. It's a great retrospective on the technology leaps we've made since the new century began, and it got me thinking about the difference today's technology will make in the lives of tomorrow's
"A Community of Practice for teachers using edmodo. Work in Progress"
This Wikispace from teachers in NSW covers
About
Best Practices
edmodo and school safety
edmodo for Student Voice
Independent Schools
NSW DEC Topics
Parents
Resource List
School Directory
School Policy
School Subdomains
Selling edmodo
Teacher Stories
Teacher Topics
The edmodo FAQ
Use Edmodo - Primary School
Using Edmodo - General
Using Edmodo - High School
Using Edmodo - Special Needs
"Joliprint is a web and mobile app that saves web pages as PDF for reading later.
Joliprint gives everyone the ability to easily capture any article, story, news, blog post or web page whenever they want using whichever device or platform they find most convenient, and then to make all of that information easy to read."
Free tool for creating branching storyboards in HTML. Also suggested for planning lessons or slide presentations with feedback for scenarios. Really simple to use.
"According to a new infographic by Masters in Education, social media may actually help students get better grades. One of the most jaw-dropping figures featured in the image below is that 'heavy' social media users actually got better grades than 'light' social media users. While there is obviously more to this story than this boiled-down infographic, it is both entertaining and informative (just like all infogrpahics, no?)"
Pinky Dinky Doo harnesses the power of television, print, and interactive media to promote reading and imaginative storytelling. To achieve this, Pinky invites children to participate in funny and fantastic stories, games, and songs that support critical early literacy skills.