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Download videos from YouTube and other video sites without using a intermediate site just a plug in. Pretty cool technology

The Schools We Need Presentation I'm in St. Louis, post presentation, and I'm pretty pleased with how it went. It's not easy for me to figure out how to talk to audiences that aren't made up of educators, because the question is always what is the balance between the universal ideas and the deep entry into pedagogy. Judging from the reaction, folks seemed to think that I struck a good balance today. I had a lot of people come up and tell me that I really challenged them to re-think their ideas about school design, and that's thrilling to me. A few folks asked me about strategies to get educators and facilities folks talking more, which is also really exciting.

Wiki reference material.

This page has a LOT of my wiki resources on it. Presentations, videos, and the k12 online tutorial that is still pretty current.

This is a pretty nice aggregation site for how-to videos. Nice potential here, although I haven't dug too deeply into the content yet.

The starter version is free and it is pretty easy to use allows you to save and print pictures. A tablet or drawing table is not required. I got some nice results just with my notebook mouse pad.

Designed by researchers for researchers. This tool will allow you to organize your research online & offline. It automatically captures data for citation in MLA, APA, & Chicago. The aspects that they are working on will be amazing in relation to collaboration with other people.

firefox extension for compiling a complete works cited while researching on the internet.  pretty nifty tool - wish it worked on other browsers as well.

Great post by Ben Grey on his participation in Constructing Modern knowledge - he hits several things including the fact that many at the conference said that computer programming should be mandatory for all students and a presenter who said that the problem with today is that too many people have a voice. My comments from Ben's blog are below. Great conversations happening here! Programming - OK, on the programming thing, here are my thoughts. In our curriculum our objective is not as much a specific LANGUAGE. One year I may use HTML with Javascript, this past year I used LSL - what I want kids to know that when they encounter programming and coding that there are certain conventions. Some are case sensitive, some are not. How do you find out how to add to what you know about programming? Do you know where to go to find prewritten code? Can you hack it to make it work to do what you want it to do? We spend about a week - two weeks but I require they know how to handcode hyperlinks and images - they are just too important. But to take 12 weeks or 6 weeks to learn a whole language - yes maybe some value - but to me the value is HOW is the language constructed or built. What are the conventions and how do I educate myself if I am interested in pursuing. What comes out of this time is kids who say either "I never want to do that" or "this is really cool, I love coding." They are doing very simplistic work (although the LSL object languages were pretty advanced) but since we don't have a full course nor time in our curriculum, I do see this as an essential part of what I teach. I'm not teaching it for the language sake but for the sake of understanding the whole body of how languages work - we talk about the different languages and what they are used for as part of Intro to Computer science and have an immersive experience. To me, this is somewhat a comprimise between leaving it out entirely or forcing everyone to take 12 weeks of it. I

Any 2.1Certified citizen will tell you that this story seems pretty vanilla and is not too shocking except for the fact that, in this case, the school was the C.E.L.

OK, so lots of things are pretty cool about Google Buzz but I absolutely hate that my already full inbox is now full of Google Buzz stuff. I just want to keep it separate. From lifehacker, just filter out label:buzz to go somewhere else. Done!

Dear Parents, Sometimes, I get to witness some pretty exciting "Aha!" moments with the students. It's a thrill for me to be present as they have these experiences. I've just assumed they bring these moments home to you but I'm often surprised when I ask the students if they share what we are doing in class and too many of them respond with "I forgot" or "I was busy."

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Free Microsoft Office Add in for Moodle - you can save files directly from Word to Moodle. This is pretty cool.

This is a pretty cool feature if you work on specific websites for people. It tracks your time on each task. This would also be good to use with students for them to track and understand ACTUALLy how much time they are spending on task and how much off task!

Less than 15% of wikipedia editors are women. This isn't surprising to many of us. I used to be a pretty active editor on several topics myself but the constant arguments were not something I had time for. I have two teenagers for that.

new flashcard site - looks pretty extensive already. may try it out this weekend for my students' revision.

Excellent whiteboard software - not free but pretty amazing

Creates super easy html & text attribution that can be copied & pasted directly from a flickr page. Pretty dern sweet.

The online edition of David Wiley's 2002 book. Pretty long. Looks good, but will need some free time before I can sort through it all.

I'm pretty sure my students have learned more in this unit, than all of the other units I've ever taught. My students from last year keep asking why they didn't get to build a Holocaust museum. They feel a little ripped off.

pretty interesting youtube channel for items that are now obsolete.